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LLOYD GF.ORGE'S WARNING TO FRANCE.
Is France to do this thing? Is the world to be
kept in constant turmoil until another great war
results?
The breakdown of the latest international con
ference at London reveals French policy to be op
posed to the calm judgment of the rest of Europe
and bent on enforcing its own will on the continent.
Premier Poincare has demanded the passage of the
Rhine and the occupation of the industrial valley of
the Ruhr before granting any postponement of
German reparation payments. And here in Amer
ica former Premier Clemenceau has been begging
for a treaty by which America would pledge mili
tary and diplomatic aid to enforce the Treaty of
Versailles to the full. The suggestion that Amer
ica cancel the debt of Fiance in the event any con
cession is made to Germany is just so much added
to the confusion.
David Lloyd George, freed from the restraint
which surrounded him as prime minister of Great
Britain, is now endeavoring to clear up the inter
national muddle by taking the people into hie private
confidence. In declaring the continuance of the
present French attitude means another war, he
states what many have felt to be a fact, although
they have not been able to speak with as much au
thority as he.
Ostensibly France desires two things—repara
tions and security from attack. Lloyd George, in
his remarkable article published in The Omaha
Sunday Bee, asserts that a third aim, perhaps grow
ing out of the other two, is the annexation of Ger
man territory clear up to the Rhine.
What he charges is that the strong French
pressure which was exerted at the peace conference
to extend the boundary of France clear to the river
still exists and is growing stronger. Clemenceau,
who teas then premier, was induced to drop the
plan for annexation or for a Rhineland buffer state
in return for a promise by President Wilson and
Lloyd George of a joint treaty by which American
and British troops would be sent to beat hack any
new German aggression. The League of Nations
pact did not satisfy the French, but they required
this additional bond.
The main complaint of Clemenceau, on his tour
of America, is that the United States and Great
Jlrit«n failed to ratify this triangular agreement.
He expresses the belief that these nations should
assist France in tarrying out the Treaty of Ver
sailles down to the last penny and the last dot of
an i.
The plain fact is that the Treaty of Versailles
is not enforceable. Lloyd George intimates as much
when he writes:
"The most moderate and insidious form this tle
rtemund took was a proposal that the German prov
inces on the left bank of the Khine should remain
in French occupation until the treaty had been ful
filled.
■ "That meant forever.
"The reparations, alone—skilfully handled by
the Qual (J’Orsay—would preclude the possibility of
ever witnessing the fulfillment of the treaty.
When a man who sat in the peace conference
confesses that some of the provisions of the treaty
are not possible of being carried out, what are the
people to think? Clearly, for the peace of the
world, the Treaty of Versailles must be rewritten.
Lloyd George knocks the pretence of French
statesmanship into a cooked hat by showing that
several times he made the offer on the part of
Great Britain to give guaranteed against German
aggression. This was designed to offset the desire
for territorial annexation clear up the European sit
jation. His view is thus expressed:
"There are men In Germany who rreach revenge.
They must be warned tliat such a step will alienate
the same allies side by aide inflicting punishment
on the peace breakers.
"There are men in France who counsel annexa
tion of territories populated by another race.
They must be warned that such a step will alienate
the sympathies of Britain and America and that
when the inevitable war of liberation comes, the
*5 mpathles of America and Britain will be openly
ranged on the side of those who are fighting for
national freedom.
"The time lias conn- for saying these things,
and If they are not said in high plares, humanity
will one day call those who occupy those places to
the reckoning."
Here is the voice of sanity. If France sows the
seeds of war by a policy of imperialism, it can not
expect any assistance; if it adopts a policy de
signed to encourage international good will and
foregoes its pound of flesh it can count on the
support of the world against any uncalled for at
tack.
America went to war to crusn the spirit in Ger
many that now appears to he rising in France. As
Premier Poincare interprets the Treaty of Ver
sailles, French military occupation of the Rhine
country is authorized until Germany executes the
treaty in full, which means forever, inasmuch as
the terms can not he met; and there is even doubt
as to whether it was not drawn with this in view.
The increasing French debt, the unabated burden
ot' militarism and the falling exchange value of the
franc should warn them of the peril which they
have created. Lloyd George advises Clemenceau
to tell his own countrymen these facts instead of at
tempting to lecture either America or Britain.
Some one must tell them or the red scourge of war
will again sweep Europe.
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Only $25,000 is proposed in the rivers and har
bors bill for the improvement of the Missouri river
between Kansas City and Sioux City. Yet the river
work farther down is to be carried on, with a total
appropriation of $1,500,000. Omaha may yet find
itaelf not so far from water as it now seems.
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Ten thousand curious persons jammed the street
in front of a house where a murder had been com
mitted in New York, if you want to know how rare
a thing murder ia in Gotham.
01’ Bill White aeems not a bit backwards about
expressing his contempt lor at least one judge and
one governor.
“Billion Dollar” day was nothing at the Treasury
when McAdoo was at the throttle.
SOUTHWARD TO TIDE-WATER.
Now and then some one inquires, “In what
why aie the farmers of this state concerned in the
Panama car.al?” The answer is easy—they’ are
paying for it.. Directly and indirectly, the Panama
canal affects the .price of everything a Nebraska
farmer sells and the cost of everything he buys.
His easiest way out of this is to find some method
of getting his own stuff to market by a shorter,
cheaper route, and thereby save for himself part
of what now goes to pay for transportation.
The Omaha Chamber of Commerce now has an
emissary visiting the Shipping board, asking that
greater facilities be given to Gulf ports, that Ne
braska grain may reach tide-water there. A saving
in rail haul of 500 to 600 miles is thus possible, and
the advantage is clear; whether it can be made
available is not so clear.
Some twenty-five years ago Aruthur Stillwell set
about to organize the "Port Arthur’’ route, with
Omaha for its northern terminus. He had his line
working, when the money market was suddenly
closed to him, and his system of railroads fell to
pieces. The Kansas City Southern, however, was
saved from the wreckage, but under control of the
east and west lines. About the same time the
Illinois Central passed into Harriman's group, and
the Colorado & Southern was the only railroad
running north and south that was not owned or
directed by the lines running east and west. It,
too, has gone over, and the whole situation is domi
nated by groups whose chief interest in to have west
ern farm products move to the Atlantic seaboard.
One way out of this is river transportation.
The Missouri river will serve from Omaha nine or
ten months in each year, and if put to work would
be a determining factor in the transportation sit
uation so far as the output of the greatest grain
producing states in the union are concerned. When
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri
send their surplus to market over an all-water
route from Pierre to New Orleans, the hammer
lock of the “Granger" railroads on the grain fields
will be loosened, and the farmer will note the dif
ference.
ALSO CHAMPION GIRL CANNERS.
Hawkeyes can add another stanza to their song
In addition to the tall corn, which is, after all, merely
a metaphor, and in no sense the exclusive posses
sion of Iowa, they also grow girls who can can.
One day recently we quoted Freeman Conaway’s
lyric tribute to these same Hawkeye maidens,
••.whose laughing eyes
Would make a lover's paradise."
These same maidens know other ways of appeal
ing to the admiration of mere man. Adopting the
dictum, “Feed the brute,” they chn also make a
frying pan laugh, a preserve kettle do such mar
melous things as would puzzle even a fairy god
mother to achieve, and when it comes to pies—
well, there is where they shine.
Consequently, when it came to winning the
three months’ tour of Europe, offered by the Na
tional Live Stock exposition at Chicago as a prize
in the national canning competition, the Iowa girls
just began to map out the route and get their
dresses ready.
Yes, they had opposition, and m team front
Colorado and another from Connecticut were
named as alternate winners. But Buelah Rodgers
and Katherine Bolibaugh of Eddyville will make
the trip, for their work as canners led all the rest.
If you want to know where Eddyville is, it is where
the Iowa Central crosses the Des Moines river. It
was a town long before the railroad was built, and
has a long and interesting history, dating back to
the days before the civil war.
Now’ it has a greater claim to fame, ^distinction
brought to it by a pair of girls who know how to
prepare fruits, vegetables and the like so they will
keep for future use. And the Wappello county fair
will also take on new importance, because these girls
have rivals at home, and all of them know how to
do their stuff.
It wasn’t exactly a Christmas gift that the Great
Western Sugar company prepared for the stockings
of the North Platte valley beet growers, but the
bonus payment will not be looked upon askance be
cause of that one little fact.
Revenue bureau proposes to extend its tax ad
visory system, and very likely will find the old, old
question waiting, not how much but how to get it.
Turkey finds dealing with the Allies more to ba
desired than trifling with the soviets, which is an
other proof of the quality of Ismet Pasha s mind.
The Arizona desert country would be a good
place to stage the next war, if there has to be one.
Japan has just emerged from another shakeup—
by an earthquake this time.
Russia is to revive by evolution; well, it went to
pieces in revolution.
China's Christian General
-Thomas Meloy. in Asia.
General Feng is a man of extreme simplicity. He
hates displays of all kinds, except possibly military, lie
wears a plain gray, rather frayed uniform, the only in
signia of which are shoulder straps with the three gold
stars of a lieutenant general. He carries with him
on all occasions a big, black, worn Bible, much of the
text of which he lias learned by heart. His only other
book 13 a treatise on military tactics. tYben he com
mands. those about him jump.
In spite of his stern life philosophy, General Feng
likes little Jokes. His delight in playing pranks was
evident this summer even in the Bible classes he held
for his officers. The meeting place was the temple of
Ta Yu, who Invented the water wheel and the dikes
and who was a successful ruler about 2000 B. C. or a
little earlier. The temple is supposed to date back to
some time in this obscure antiquity and looks it. The
gods are in need of repair, and the once proud priepts
have been relegated to a small outbuilding nearby. When
the temple is not being used for the expounding of the
Scriptures, it is cavalry headquarters, and we who
i were the general s honored guests were quartered there.
[ The services and teachings were conducted by Chinese
I ministers and Y. M. C. A. men gathered from various
| parts of £hlna. They began each morning at 5:30. The
i first day General Feng appeared promptly as usual at
I a quarter to 5. Kvery one except the honored guests
was already up and standing at at-entlon. The general
i ascended the platform and, winking to a friend near by,
! announced solemnly that he had misplaced his Bible
somewhere in the temple. He valued that particular
Bible highlj-. He would give twenty watermelons to
the man who could find It. A search began, and the
Bible was discovered under a blanket where the general
had hidden It. The finding of the Bible was loudly ap
plauded. Next the general suddenly noticed that he
had misplaced his belt, which was a very dear one given
to him by a lady. A new search was started and a new
reward of twenty watermelons offered the finder. Amid
much applause, the belt was also located and then the
services began with a serious discussion of Gideon and
his work. The general hugely enjoyed his little game.
Though no one doubted that the belt and the Bible had
been purposely hidden and the general was aware that
every one knew he was only pretending, the joke was
much relished for its humor. Also it was a graceful
means of providing watermelons for the meetings, and
in steaming Honan, where there is no Ice except for the
favored minority, a watermelon Is appreciated.
“From State and Nation”
—rEditorials from other newspapers—
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What .Are the Facta About Sugar'.’
From the Scottsbluff 8tar*Hqrftld.
The crankadcs eat on tha ed»» of the
moon
And wistfully gszed o'or the »•*
To where the gazockue waa singing e
tune
To the air of "Fol-diddle-dol-dee.'’
Gentle reader, can you make any
sense out of that? Yes? No?
1 Then try this:
In the issue of November 11, of
"Facts About Sugar,” the official or
gan of the sugar manufacturers, that
publication printed an article In which
was set forth in glowing terms the
success of the beet sugar industry for
the season of 1922, the avidity in
which the issue of new shares of
Great Western Sugar company stock
"par value $25,” were being gobbled
up at a price of $79, and incidentally
said: "Estimates place the prottts
(Great Western's) for this season at
around $11,000,000, on the assumption
that the sugar output will amount to
6,000,000 bags or more, and that earn
ings will not be less than $2 per bag,"
and so on.
In the issue of November "5, of
"Facts About Sugar,” In an editorial
it la stated that the beet sugar cam
paign is one of the most disappoint
ing in the history of the industry, and
only appears good because the two
preceding seasons were w orse. It
also states that none of the beet sugar
companies is paying dividends on its
common stock, and continues in so
gloomy a vein that the casual reader
wonders why the Great Western
doesn’t close its factories right now
and thus Halt the tragic slide toward
complete financial oblivion.
Now what do you know about tlyit?
Most beet growers are certainly
gluttons when It comes to take finan
cial punishment year after year, but
that does not necessarily interfere
with their Intelligence, when allowed \
to do their own thinking. Therefore,
the following is the apparent concen
sus of opinion:
Article of November 11—For use
for the purpose of increasing stock
sales.
Aticle of November 25—For use in
holding down any untoward expecta
tion on the part of beet growers that
their returns will be unduly large this
year because of the $11,000,000 made
by the Great Western.
But for the sake of appearances, as
well as a slight degree of humanitar
ian interest, "Facts About Sugar"
should have separated the publication
dates a tritie more. It should have
given the farmers time to forget the
millions of profit by the company be
fore reminding them that such
was not for them, and that this had
been a tough old season. Seasons
vary on the stock market, but O.
how monotonously alike they ore, to
tho man who raises the beets which
go to make the sugar which makes
$25 shares sell for $79.
"Facts About Sugar."
What are the facts about sugar?
Love Letteis, Ancient and Modern.
From St. L.oula Globe-Democrat.
If the archaeologists are correct In
thinking that one of the cuneiform
inscriptions found in the ruins of
Babylon Is "the oldest love letter ex
tant,” It will have to be admitted
that the ancient lover was far less
fervid than the modern. Tho one
found at Babylon reads: “I write this
to inquire after thy health. Let me
know how it goes with thee. T am
now settled in Babylon, hut I am in
great anxiety because I have not seen
thee. Send news when thou wilt
come, that I may rejoice at It. Come
in the month of Arokhsanma. Mayest
thou, for my sake, live forever."
In the Babylonian calendar, Arokh
samna was the equivalent of Novem
ber and December in modern calen
dars.^ good season for love-making.
But the Babylonian must have shown
more evidence of passion to have led
the archaeologists to call this a love
letter, and they admit that parts of
the inscription are not included. The
omitted parts may have been written
In private code, with a view to a pos
uible later court appearance. Some
modern insincere lovers so often neg
lect this prudent precaution that
their letters, frequently read in courts
and printed in newspapers, must
convince even those swearing by “the
good old times" that the translated
part of the Babylonian missive, when
compared with a number which have
been dragged out within the present
year, “is as moonlight unto sunlight
and as water unto wine ”
Nor is it possible even to believe
that the modern writer of love letters,
whose letters do not get into court
or Into print, does not. put more of
fervor into his love letters than this
Babylonian did. Some tribute to the.
beauty and other admirable qualities
of his chosen one must surely be
made, even hy the dullest who feel
the consuming flame, and who. lack
ing eloquence and originality, will fall
hack on “Kosc is red and violet's
blue: sugar's sweet and so are you."
Old stuff and poor stuff, but breath
ing more of love than the deciphered
part of the Babylonian love letter
does. If Babylon was as cold and
chaste as tho deciphered part of this
inscription would indicate, then the
writer was an exception proving a
rule, or Ezekiel'# and Jeremiah s pen
pictures of the town were gross exag
gerations.
Commercial or Moral?
From tho Buffalo Express.
Agitation in Great Britain to liar
American films leads one to believe
that commercial rivalry, moro than
the question of morals, is responsible
for the movement. British critics
roast photoplays from here on the
ground that there are too many
crime and marital woe plots, that they
[endanger the morals of little children
who attend the picture palaces and
that they give an erroneous opinion
of America.
At the same time British authors
are sending us novel after novel
packed with marriage failures and
Wood-thirsty detective yarns. It
might bo argued that little children,
! although they attend the movies, do
! not read these hook*, save the Adven
' tures of Sherlock Holmes which al
| most every child reads, hut if little
children are not the readers hig chil
dren are and it is such simple-minded
creatures that are more likely to be
affected by pornography than the
tots.
While much might tic said against
tho production of plays and novels
reeking with life's woes, such regret
table incidents happen every day and
the film fan or book reader is cer
tain to come across them sooner or
later. As for the attack on American
films. It is difficult to see wherein tho
American offends more than the Brit
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When We Pull Together.
From ths Chappell (Neb.) Register.
Maybe the reasons we don't set
more needed improvements in our
cities is that too many of us are quick
to jump at the conclusion that It is
going to benefit (he other fellow more
than it will him or that it will serve
to enhance the value of property In
wli.oh he is not interested.
No matter what part of the town
wo may live in, we are 1 enefited by
the improvement of any street or al
ley or sidewalk in any other part of
town. It may not mean actual dol
lars and cents benefit. But a chuck
hole filled here or a bad piece of pav
ing repaired there makes a better
town, and the latter the town the
more valuable our own property be
comes. If a street light is needed in
a distant part of town from that in
which we live it is an improvement
deserving of our support, whether we
ever see it lighted or not. Maybe
some one in that very part of town
needs that particular light to enable
him to get down town and transact
business. And maybe the dollars he
spends when lie gets down town will
lie handed to someone in the town in
payment of a debt owed by the man
he spent it with.
There is no man living who can fig
ure the value of town improvement be
cause improvements benefits work
around in a wide circle, and value
comes from so many sources that we
are unable to trace them all. The
sensible thing is to understand that
every improvement makes for a bet
ter town, and that if we confined our
improvements to favored sections we
would quickly have a citizenship so
dissatisfied that the town would fall
into a rut from which it would never
climb. Put your shoulder to the wheel
every time a public Improvement is
launched. You'll be helping yourself
by helping the town. And when you
need something in your own square
you'll find vour neighbor more will
ing to help you get it.
Novels of 1922 "Not 80 Gn<fH."
William Lyon Phelps in Scribner's Maga
zine.
The year 1922 has not been so goon
a year for novels as 1920 and 1921
Although the first half of the book Is
I he author's host, as a whole "This
Freedom” is inferior to "If Winter
Comes;” Booth Tarklngton must
know as well as anybody that "Gentle
Julia" is not to be compared with
"Alice Adams;" Edith Wharton's "The
Glimpses of the Moon” looks almost
cheap when placed by "The Age of
Innocence;” Mrs. Burnett’s "Robin"
is a disappointing sequel to "The
Head of the House of Coombe."
Wells’ "The Secret Places of the
Heart” is negligible; Marshall’s "Big
Peter" will not please the lovers of
i be Clinton family.
The best American novel of the
year is "Adrienne Toner.” by Anne
Douglas Sedgwick.
I am glad to see that at last Eng
land Is waking up to the fact that .
they have an important novelist in
Archibald Marshall, whose works
have been widely appreciated in
America for the last seven years. In
-he August Mercury there is an in
teresting essay on his stories, with
in inquiry as to the reason for Amer
ica's more cordial recognition of them?
For the Wise and Thrifty.
From tho Hartford Courant.
Something like $600,000,000 worth
of vtar savings stamps are due for
payment the first of next January,
and those who own them may receive
the face value, which means that their
investment has earned each year since
191S about 1 per cent compound in
terest.
The government is prepared to pay
cash or to give the holders of tho
stamps a chance to continue their in
vestment in a safe government se
curity by exchanging them for treas
ury savings certificates, which ftre is
sued in denominations of $23, $100 and
$1,000 maturity value and sold for
$20.50, $82 and $820, respectively. It
is announced that holders of war sav
ings stamps can get them at these
prices upon application through their
own banks or the postofllces. Kx
changes will lie made as of January
1, 1023, upon application presented
between November 15, 1022, and Janu
ary 15, 1023. Immediate payment
will he made in cash of any difference
due the holder of war savings stamps
if he takes tho largest possible
amount of treasury certificates on the
exchange.
It is a splendid opportunity for the
person of modest means to save
money and to Invest In the safest
possible way. Like the Liberty bonds,
they are the best there to invest in
the safest possible way.
The head Level.
Pretty soon a mark will be worth
a ruble and Germany and Russia can
resume* commercial relations.—Life.
“Let’s see-; what great moral prin
ciple is violated when Heinie persists
In manufacturing it for less?—Balti
more Sun.
SUGGESTIONS.
I have often hoard the story of a maid
divinely fair,
I have often longed my vision to por
tray,
I have seen Home mortal, angels ns I
journey here and there,
And I have a perfect picture laid away.
Tis a ment.pl picture sleeping In ethereal
repose;
It shall sleep throughout the weary
year.* of life.
I can never more describe It—for the good
IiOrd only knows
What a blessing I'd he given by my
wife.
To yo dreamers I would venture to sug
ge«t that, you be free:
Tf vou ha\ti a dream of beauty let It
di».
Hide tt. in* the garret of your fidiiig
memory,
On you might be melancholy by and
by.
—ROBERT WORTHINGTON DAVIE.
Fifth Avenue runt
uptown into billions;
Sixth Avenue pours
down into poverty.
Read Irvin Cobb’s
vivid picture of New
York’s two worlds—
One Block from Fifth
Avenue; a stonj of a
girl from Back Homs
in JANUARY
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Thanks From the I'otutp Country.
Alliance, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: The members of
the Alliance Chamber of Commerce,
at the regular weekly noon luncheon
held in the rooms of the chamber on
November 7, 1S*7L', unanimously
adopted the following resolution:
Whereas, The Omaha Chamber of
Commerce, realizing the serious sit
uation confronting the potato growers
of the state of Nebraska, who have on
their farms and stored in their potato
cellars and pits several million bush
els of excellent, marketable potatoes
for which they are unable to tlnd a
market, and for widen the price b Ing
paid is less than the cost of produc
tion, has lent Its aid and assistance
to these growers by starting a "Buy
Potatoes Now Campaign," and,
Whereas The agricultural bureau
of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce
is actively engaged in the distribution
of a large number of posters urging
the people of this territory to "Buy
Potatoes Now" and store them for
the winter, and,
Whereas, The newspapers of Oma
ha and the larger organizations of
that city have joined, wholeheartedly,
in the movement, which is of gnat
help and assistance to the potato
growers of the state and of ttox Butte
county in particular, this county
being the largest potato producing
county in the state: therefore, be it
Resolved, That we extend to the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the
Omaha dally newspapers and to the
other organizations which have lent
their support, our heartfelt and sin
cere thanks for their Interest and as
sistance.
ALLIANCE CHAMBER OK COM
MERCE, by True Miller, president.
To Tide Over Western Farmers.
Kimball. Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee. We have had two
inches of moisture here in Kimball
county, enough to put the soil and
the wheat in good condition till late
In the spring, but the fainting and
the mercantile interests of the coun
try are hard hit hope as well as else
where. Something is necessary be
fore there can he much of a revival.
There must he tome easy money put
into circulation where the farmers
and the merchants can have access
to it to tide them over till good crops
and good prices can be realized. It
is not only necessary to have that
kind of legislation immediately, but
it is alHo Incumbent on those who con
trol the bulk of the circulating me
dium to see that It finds its way into
the channels of trade.
No other country has greater pos
sibilities than this. We get plenty
of moisture if properly conserved to
mature any kind of a crop any year.
But if you put a man in a hole with
a heavy weight ov»-r his head he will
lie there a long time. He will finally
get out, but the operation will bo
painful. E. A. KtTNZ.
Respect for "Dry” I.a«s.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The Oma
ha Bee: The recent editorial in The
Omaha Bee on the prohibition law
i nforc rnent quoting in part Bishop
Hhayler's comments struck me as
being very timely, and yet the general
press seemingly takes delight in too
frequently printing such cartoons ns
tho one enclosed herewith, from an
other paper of this city. The sug
gestion of this sort of a picture is
highly pleasing to the bootlegger and
his kind, and even the casual ob
server is led to think that the en
forcement is a sort of a joke. Thin
''advertising,’’ and it is a directed kind
of an advertisement, certainly pro
motes talk unfavorable to law en
forcement, and it is to be regretted
that the syndicate handling lies
Moines Ding's stuff encourages him
to express his talent along such
lines.
The real newspapers of today, I be
lieve, are just as large a factor in
the moulding of public opinion as they
ever were, and for that reason can do
great good or harm to any cause. By
constantly holding up to seeming
ships
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ridicule the prohibition laws of the
land, tiie general public and even po
lice powers (which in our own city
you and I know needs no such en
couragement) are led to feel that the
law is unwise and h nee not entitled
to receive the support of all good citi
zens and, as has been said, the con
tempt for one law* lends to a lack of
proper respect for all other similar
laws, and this, carried to extreme,
would surely spell disaster for us all.
I. for one, desire to encourage the
sentiments of your editorial along the
lines of respect for laws, and whil
some of yur people feel that a "crime
has beeii committed against nature,"
(their own human nature, if you
p.taso), we should have in mind the
rising generation and endeavor to ,
save them from the sad experience of
former days. W. C.
Still, "His Name Is Writ In Water."
One retiring congressman whose
name will certainly not he forgotten
is Andrew J. Volstead of Minnesota.
—Detroit Free Press.
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India’s method of Judging a man by
his caste is about ns int« 11 trout as our
method of judging him by bis cash.—
.San Francisco Chronical.
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