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The World As It Is.
'' More than two years have elapsed since the
;J.eague of Nations became an active, concrete
topic for discussion; more than a year since it
was finally and definitely rejected by the senate
v0f, the United States. Its friends in America,
-fcowever, look forward with more or less of hope
to the-day when the United States will, to quote
Hamilton Holt's words, become a member in
J , "its own peculiar way." Mr. Holt, by the way, can
see nothing of a super-government in the As
sembly and Council, because of their impotence,
and expresses the hope that the Harding plan
may be a solution. We feel very confident
that Mr. Harding's association of nations will
fall far short of the requisite set by the league
champions for the reasoa that it, too, will lack
the power of enforcing decisions. More than
' ever' may be noted a reluctance on part of na
tions to resign control over their own affairs.
; Of thirty-three that have signed the agreement
for the international court, established under
the league, only seven have accepted the proto
col . providing for compulsory jurisdiction.
When the conference called by the president
assembles it will have a distinct advantage
over the gathering at Paris, in that all the
world now is pretty well advised as to what
can not be accomplished. At Paris the business
was the winding up of a great war; victors had
gathered to announce terms to the vanquished;
.the best of motives did not wholly control the
counsels of those who framed the treaty. One
great idealist sat at the table, surrounded by a
group whose eyes were fastened on certain
points of national advantage. All subscribed
to the doctrine of perpetual, peace and amity,
to be-achieved through the application of the
Golden Rule, but the United States only sought
nc advantage, no indemnity, no reparation,
-aaiMrely peace.and a future secure from war.
At the Washington conference the. specter
of Vengeance will not sit at the head of the
table; experience has shown that the whole cost
jof the war can not be shifted to the losing side.
Many things that bulked big at Paris have
dwindled even in the perspective of two years, and
we now realize that much of the animating;
spirit of that gathering has been dissipated by
second thought. Another meeting of the As
sembly 6f the League of Nations will ensue be
fore the delegates meet at Washington, and
that, too, will serve to clear the way of some
dreams and make the practical consideration of
world peace more easy of approach.
. . The men who will sit down at Washington
. will be no less devoted to the, abstract ideal of
t world peace than those who met at Paris, but
they will be less hampered in their consults
tions because they know now that nations are
. . not yet ready to surrender their identiity to
'achieve that ideal. Disarmament is a practical
; question,, holding in its scope more than merely
;! matters of military detail. Agreement on any
of its points is an approach to final settlement.
Therefore, the Washington conference, in its
, world-wide possibilities, transcends that which
met at Paris. When the Assembly gathers
again "at Geneva in September, it will be to dis-
cuss abstractions, while the Harding council
will deal with the world as it is, in hope of find
; ing a path leading to what might be,.
., The Disappearing Carriage,
f Who bought the 244,900 carriages which
were .manufactured in the United States in
1919? Occasionally one sees one of these vehi
- cles behind a spanking team on a country road,
: and once in a while a decrepit specimen of the
buggymakers art penetrates into the heart of
:he city. But the only place where shiny new
.'vehicles are noted is 'at a horse show. Large
' though the output reported by the census office
is, yet it represents a halving of the number of
carriages produced in 1914, five years before.
' Wagons came nearer to holding their own,
. 413,600 of them having been sold, but even this
! Is a falling off of 150,000 in half a decade. And
only 36,400 sleighs were contributed to the
pleasure of winter days.: . .
Thejjresent year' probably will see further
. decreases in output from the carriage and wagon
.works. Yet one does not hear any public com
plaint on the part of the manufacturers. They
have turned their plants to- other uses, and for
every employe turned off the automobile Indus
try has hired two. When Uncle Sam took the
pledge and the saloons closed down, consider
, able agitation was heard for indemnifying the
liquor trade for its losses, but here is another
industry evidently on the way to extinction,
without a 'word being raised in its behalf.
? . Pawing Jobs Around
r 'Alt navy yards" and shore stations, it is an
nounced, are to go'em a five-day week. Private
industrial plants in some instances are likewise
running'' on shortened time. Voices rise here
and there to suggest that in order to remedy
unemployment it might be wise to install a 36
hour .week in some lines. It will be re
membered vthat the miners almost two years
ago proposed a plan of this sort as a way out
of the three or four-month period in which they
had no work, although in the rush season they
had. tor put in overtime, By one system now in
use "iS the east half the working force is given
employment one week and the remainder the
next.
Vast experiments are going on, and what the
eventual result is to be no man can tell. If, as
we are being told, Americans normally produce
more than they can consume, and if foreign
markets are to remain inactive, limitation of
working hours conceivably might come to pass.
Certainly one-half the population can not ex
pect to have all the jobs and support the other
half by their charity or taxes.
Sims' Charges Sustained.
A' majority report to the senate from the
committee that inquired into the merits of the
controversy between Admiral Sims and the late
Secretary of. Navy Josephus Daniels finds that
the charges made by the admiral are well
founded. ' These include the assertion made by
the indignant naval commander, who was sent
to England with the parting admonition that he
should not let the British pull the wool over
his eyes, for "we would as soon fight them as
anybody," that delay at Washington cost half
a million lives and $15,000,000,000. Also the
charge that recommendations made by him after
he had reached the war arena were held up,
some for weeks, some for a year, yet all finally
acted upon, the delay, however, in each instance
being vexatious and costly.
'A minority report finds all the other way
around, and gives the former secretary of the
navy a clear bill. This, however, is a purely
partisan view, something that , supporters of
Mr. Daniels will not hesitate, to say in regard
to the action of the majority of the committee.
It does bear out much that was said in criticism
of the conduct of our share of the war at the
time. When complaint was made that time
was being lost, Newton D. Baker replied that
the war was 3,000 miles away. The action of
the navy at that time was as mysterious and un
certain as the army's.
Sims made his charges knowing the conse
quences of failure to make good when called
upon to establish them. The situation is one
that will not admit of whitewash. Action by
the senate may not settle the controversy, but
it will do much to decide in the minds of many
Americans as to whether the government moved
as wisely or as expeditiously as it might in the
critical early hours of 1917.
Rail and Water Transportation.
Were it only the" farmer who is adversely
affected by the existing railroad freight rates,
the case would be bad enough, but the burden
is irksome to others as well. A news telegram
from Pittsburgh says: "
Statements of leading steel manufacturers
here, that unless the Ohio and Allegheny
river improvements were completed and the
Lake Erie and Ohio River canal constructed
it would be necessary to move most local fur
naces to the Great Lakes or the Atlantic
coast, have jiajt received striking confirmation,
says Pittsburgh First The United States
Steel corporation a few days ago shipped
6,000 tons of steel from Mobile to Alaska en
tirely, by water because of the high rail rates.
Last week the first shipment of wheat was
, made from Duluth to New York on inland
waterways the Great Lakes, the New York.1
Barge canal and the Hudson river.
The importance of developing inland water
ways t to provide ; a r cheaper method, vf of
transporting bulky commodities is admitted.
Only when this is achieved will the producer be
freed from a condition that is becoming more
and more oppressive. So far as the railroads
are concerned, they must prepare to meet the
future on a different basis. Methods of opera
tion will have to be revised, economies' sug
gested in management during the war must be
adapted to produce the saving expected, be
cause present charges for service are too great
to be permanently sustained. -
That the public is willing the railroads should
prosper has been well proven, but that pros
perity should not be achieved at the expense
of ruin for others. Somewhere the reasonable
relation between service and charges should be
established, but at present rates are sadly out
of proportion and business suffers accordingly.
Don't Revive 3-Cent Postage.
The Postoffice department, under the admin
istration of Will Hays, is rcndering'.services sat
isfactory to the public. The good impression
should not be dispelled by Increasing letter post
age to 3 cents. Yet such a plan has been sug
gested by congressmen seeking ways in which
to revise the federal revenue system.
This is not to be confused with the decision
of Postmaster General Hays to charge 25 cents
instead of 10 cents for special delivery letters.
This latter increase is justified on the basis of
actual cost. Instances have occurred where mail
came through the ordinary channels more quick-,
ly than by special delivery, and by increasing
the fee, more prompt service can be afforded, and
in the country, the telephone will be used to
apprise addressees. :
As things now stand, under 2-cent letter mail,
the Postoffice department is practically on a self
supporting basis. To increase its charges 50
per cent undoubtedly would create a surplus
which could be turned into the national treas
ury. Profit, however, is not the design of the
postal system, and it ought not to be perverted
merely out of the desire to shift taxation.
If Henry Ford leases the government water
power plants in Alabama and makes a success of
what has been a failure, why not turn, the rail
roads over to him or let him collect the taxes
and run the government?
. ;V
In revising taxes it is to be hoped congress
wilt drop the transportation taxes. These bring
in $300,000,000 a year, but they add just that
much burden -on shippers who are already bowed
down with freight rates.
Only eight people were hurt In auto crashes
hereabouts on Sunday. Yet none of these would
have been injured if the drivers had ' all been
careful. . " .
Secretary Mellon need not worry over the
appearance of the money if he will just arrange
to give each all he wants.
Just because General Sawyer has taken up
horseback riding Is no reason for calling him a
horse doctor.
Mr. Hoover may find out that most of the
savers of the United States already own homes.
The "wobblies" seem bent on filling the jails
the dry laws emptied.
Old J. Pluvius is on the side of King Corn.
"Truth in Fabric" Bill
Two Views of the Measure
Offered for Public Information.
(From the New York Times.)
To the Editor of the New York Times:
Let me say a few words at this time in re
arard to the "Truth in Fabric" bill.
This bill in my estimation is more important
than most people realize, and had this bill been
passed six years ago the government would have
been greatly handicapped in making war neces
saries if the quantities upon quantities of re
worked wool were not used.
Should this bill be passed, it would immedi
ately discourage the by-product industry and
make the cost of wool in clothing manufacture
almost prohibitive. .
I personally know of fabrics that have been
made of by-products which were better and
more suitable for wear than that product those
particular "virgin wool experts" ever made.
Certain by-products, which are used in sweet
ening, such as slubbing waste and similar stocks,
could not be used if the "Truth in Fabric" bill
becomes a law, because it is labeled a by
product by this bill and would not be con
sidered Virgin wool.
Noils and garneted stock are also -of great
value, especially in the manufacture of under
garments or any clothing which goes next to
the body. To place this valuable stock under
the "Truth in Fabric" bill, Australian wool,
under prohibitive prices, would have to be used
as a substitute.
With conditions as they are today, fine wool
underwear would have to be sold for twice the
price it is commanding because of the scarcity
of the proper wools for its manufacture; also
on account of this bill making the proper raw
stock for this garment undesirable in the eyes
of the publiic who do not understand its manu
facture.
If a census were to be taken of every woolen
mil you would find that at least 90 per cent of
them use by-products. -
There are millions upon millions of by
products which would go to waste annually to
help pile on the extravagance and waste which
we must now stop, and would burden the ulti
mate consumer and greatly increase the cost of
living. B. HARRISON COHAN.
Boston, July 9,
To the Editor of the New York Times::
The object of the "Truth in Fabric" bill is
to compel the manufacturers of woolen cloth
to so mark their goods that the consumer will
know whether he is buvinar oure virein wool
previously unused, or whether he is buying what
is called, somewhat deceptively, "all wool,"
which may contain a high percentage of shoddy
or reworked wool. The origin of such reworked
wool is always doubtful. It has either been
usCd in garments or in some other woolen goods
previous to being reworked. Tattered remnants
of old clothes are gathered up, reworked, and
sold over again as many as eight times, always
under the unconvincing title of "all wool."
Truth-in-fabnc legislation is based on the
well established principle upon which the food
and drugs act is based. It is certainly of great
importance to consumers to know what they
are buying, whether it is butter or oleomar
garine, or what the composition of foods in
packages really is, and it is of equal importance
to know whether the clothes we buy are made
of pure virgin wool, or how much, if any, shoddy
they contain.
Farmers I have talked with on the matter
have no desire for class legislation. In any case,
they Jcnow they never could get it, even if they
wanted it. Farmers are taking a large view of
these questions, and it seems to them quite
proper to state their views as farmers on ques
tions relating to finance, taxation and other leg
islative matters without presuming for one mo
ment that theirs will be. the only viewpoint con
sidered. K. D. SCOTT, .
. Warren County Farm Bureau Manager.
Warrensburg. N. Y July 2, 1921.
Pie for Patriots
New England once was called the pie belt
Today the United States" the pie belt. There
is also the individual pie belt which every man.
wears every summer as a- sustainer of his in
dispensables. He lets it out two holes in the
season when the esculent fruits and flour are
brought into succulous association.
The American pie is slander proof. There
may be those to say that the philosophers and.
poets of New England would have lived longer
and have written better if they had not eaten
pie for breakfast, dinner and supper, but no
proof can be adduced in support of the saying.
It is the weakest of assumptions. Comparison
of the intellectual merits of New England pie
eaters and nonpie eaters is impossible, because
every man and woman in New England who
ever wrote anything worth while worked on a
basis of pie three times a day.
Recently there has been an attempt in the
land's more glittering inns to substitute French
pastry for American pie. The pastry is peddled
about upon a board and displayed to the eye
with all its gummy trappings. It depends for
patronage upon the kind of customers one of
whom is said to. be born every minute. Even
the timid who yield to the arrogant-eyed im
portunities of the board bearer, and even those
who supply the statistics for the one-every-sixty-seconds
birth rate, never go twice to the
trap. ..
It takes more than glucose, saccharine and
plaster of paris to draw the patriot away from
pie, the delectable of all right-thinking, right
living Americans. Chicago Evening Post
Francis Marions Grave
Writing from St. Stephens to the County
Record of Kingstree Mrs. D. D. McKenzie tells
of a visit which she has just paid to the old
homestead and grave of Gen. Francis Marion,
South Carolina's great partisan leader in the
War of the Revolution. The condition of the
family cemetery in which Generat Marion is
buried filled Mrs. McKenzie with Humiliation
that one to whom South Carolina owes so much
should lie today amid the neglect she there wit
nessed. "The tombs have fallen," she says,
"some of them smashed to pieces and no signs
of neatness, care or attention in the old ceme
terynothing but weeds, briars, bushes and
trees growing over and around General Marion's
resting place." At the general's old home, some
of the rooms are still in good repair, but others
have fallen in.
Francis Marion was not only a wonderful
military leader whose part in the revolutionary
struggle has been immortalized in American his
tory, but he was one of the best and wisest men
of his day. His name and fame are perpetuated
all over America in the towns which have been
called after him. Is South Carolina so poor
that the grave where lies his dust should be left
to grow up in weeds? Charleston News and
Courier.
Japan on Disarmament
Advancing to the stage of the postal card
vote, Japan took one on disarmament, 94 per
cent voting "aye." But what's a postal card
between nations whose natural and inevitable re
lations must be those of enmity? Japan can
still serve as an ogre justifying huge army and
navy bills at Washington. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Women Coming With a Rush.
Since the signing of the armistice a half mil
lion women have come into this country. Dear
born Independent
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Country Children Do.
You never see children playing horse any
more. St Louis Globe Democrat -
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Quastkma cencarnlng hyflcne, sanita
tion and pravantioa el diaaats, aub-'
mlttad to Dr. Evaaa bjr raadara af
Tha Baa, will ba anawarad paraonally,
aubjact to proper limitation, whara a
stamped, addrcaaed envelops la en
closed. Dr. Evana will not make
diet nosia or prescribe for individual
diseasss. Address lettera In care of
Tha Bea.
Copyright. 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evana.
DEATH LOVES A FAT MAN.
The old saw "nobody loves a fat
man" cannot withstand scientific In
vestlgatlon.
Death loves the fat man.
The insurance companies will. reel
orr yards of figures to prove It.
Diabetes loves the fat man and
Joslln proves it by a string of fig
ures.
A study of the weight for height
and age for 1,000 cases of diabetes
under his observation, proves that
when a person begins to put on ex
cessive weight he starts for diabetes.
If he gets wise to the place he is
neaded ror and changes his habits,
eiits less and exercises more, he may
never arrive at the goal, or some
other malady may catch him before
he gets there, but that . does not
alter the fact that fat men and
women are on the way. :
. Joslin was not disposed to split
flairs so he counted all persons be
tween 5 per cent ; below and 5 per
cent ftbov weight as being in the
normal weight class. Of the 1,000
only 169 wero'in this class. There
were a few underweights 107 of
them. Of these 54 were under 30.
For some reason or other weight
doesn't seem- to he an important
factor in diabetes of the aged. How
ever, closer studies of diabeteB In
relation to weight in children are
being made, especially diabetes In
persons who were fat boys , and fat
girls.
All the remainder of tha 1,000,
that Is, 734, were overweight. Why
70 of the number were more than
70 per cent overweight.- For in
stance, a woman . who should have
weighed 140 pounds was found to
weigh 238 and .to be a diabetic.
Consider the pounds of candy, pie,
sugar, ice cream, bread and pota
toes eaten tip ' to make that 23S
pounds, a good -part fat.-and the
strain it must have put on the or
gans which convert . sugar and
starch into fat and energy.
Is the Habit of
Reading Lost?
A long time ago Von Urden said
oil fat naftnnB ahnulf? ' Kava thftjy
urine examined periodically for sug- together the statement that "rd-
From the Baltimore Aarrtcaa.)
At the convention of the National
Education association at Dea Moines
Ella F. Chamberlain, a librarian
made a. statement which la startling,
if true. She asserted as the result
of her own personal experience that
today neither the average teacher
nor the average pupil la a reader of
books and that for everybody read
ing at home is rapidly becoming a
lost art. If this statement as it
stands . represents - her deliberate
Judgment, it surely needs a good
deal of qualification. The exact
number of readers of books either
now .or In any previous generation
with which a r-omparlson can be
made will never be known. All that
can be said is that probably it has
always been a small proportion of
the whole population and there
seems no ground for saying that the
proportion is any smaller now than
it tised to be in "the good old times."
The newspaper and the widely
circulated mncazine have become
the library of large masses of people
nd- may have tended to displace
too1s. But even if they have, they
have attracted, many thousands of
readers -who would certainly not
have had the inclination, and per
haps not the ability, to read books.
After making this allowance, there
still remains the question, who is
it that reads the books published in
ever-Increasing' quantities T
Many people do their reading
chiefly in books obtained rrom n
brarles. but there Is a large book
buying public, the number of which,
If not as large as it might oe, ap
pears by all recent accounts to be on
the increase, jfubiisners, dooksbi
lers and other people who ought to
know say that during the last year
people have been buying more books
and better books, which in most
cases must be for use and not merely
for. display as -furniture. At the
moment the high , cost of books
makes them a prohibitive, luxury
for rhany who ordinarily would be
regular- buyers. There is also
among the enormously large propor
tion of people who earn their living
in business and manufacturing con
cerns a considerable sale for books
dealing with business and manufac
turlng methods and developments,
which are not usually to be found In
libraries and must be bought by the
people who wish to study them. Al
ar. He said that many who found
no sugar in their urine and who
were disposed to think themselves
out of danger would find .that they
had an excessive amount of sugar
in the blood if they also had a blood
sugar test made.
Joslln took up a number of causes
of diabetes and showed how they
operated by bringing- about obesity.
There was diabetes in husband and
wife. Easy! They got fat together
because they ate. at the same table.
Diabetes in Jews? Easy! What
other group likes so well to eat?
Fat? No need to answer.
Diabetes among the rich? Again
easy! Heredity? "Unusual ex
posure to an obetlc environment,"
to quote our Boston friend. .
Among metal workers?. Do they
not tend to become -fat? Arh'bng
convalescents? Are they not over
fed?
Age? The ages in which obesity
is greatest are those in which there
la most diabetes, in, apes 60 to 7 0
there are ' more ' cases of ovefWeight
and more cases of diabetes. :
In Joslin's test no person over 50
years of age and 20 per cent urider
, weight ;. developed, idiabete 8. As a
rule- a person gets all -the weight" he
needs at the age of SO. ' He- hag
enough to protect himself against
consumption. Joslin's opinion' is that
all the weight we put on above that,
proper for height and sex at age of
30, is a definite liability" and ' ut of
It diabetes may develop. " -
The moral is: . "Exercise more
insr at home is fast becoming a lost
art," while it has a percentage of
truth in it, is far from being the
whple truth.
: Where to Expect Progress,
Modern men, when they change
locations, inquire first about the tax
rate in the communities tney are
attracted to. Everywhere they find
sufficient school houses, churches,
and sufficient moral standards. The
first question they ask is: "What is
voUr tax rate?" E. W. Howe's
Monthly.
W'hat's the Answer?
Musings of a non-expert: We
must sell abroad if we desire pros
perity, they tell us. If we sell abroad
we shall have to produce merchan
dise cheaper than the people abroad
can produce it themselves. Are we
doing It? St Louis Globe-Democrat.
At Ijenst That
:if.JJoyd George comes' to Wash
ington for the conference he will be
sure at least of a pleasant sea. voy
nge and a certain amount of space
in: the American press. Boston
Trankeript.''. ' ,.-.,---.--'--"
and eat less and thus escape obesity
and her daughter diabetes."
. If you have hot sufficient self
control for all the year perhaps you
have -enough to last' through the hot
weather. Try it during the dog days
anyhow. ,.
Wit of Statesmen
(BobeH A. ftlmoa. In the Maw York
., Erenlng Poet.)
Charles Evana Hughes' under
graduate essays in satire may have
helped to-fit him for his present
post, but the roster of our high of
ficials, past and present, reveals few
one-time college wits. A glance
through a collection of old campus
comics shows many contributors
who have since become celebrities
but the political celebrities are al
most nonexistent. Perhaps there Is
something .In the atmosphere of
Brown university that turns literary
seniors Into secretaries of state, for
John Hay, who preceded Mr.
Hughes at Brown and in the State
department, indulged In humorous
verse with no little sueress.
Apparently, John Hay did ' not
make his debut in the pages of an
undergraduate publication, for these
oddities were "scarce in his ballad
days. - - However his verses "Jim
Bludso" and his "Little Breeches"
were composed long before their au
thor became anational figure, and
even today they are better known
to the majority than . Hay's contri
buttons to our foreign policies. After
Mr. Hay became a distinguished
statesman, many persona attributed
"Little Breeohes" to Bret Harte, oe
cause it seemed Impossible for a
dignified diplomat to hav written
a poem with so Informal a title. The
confusion amused Bret Harte. who
once told a lady, who Insisted on
complimenting him ' on "Little
Breeches," that she had put the
breeches on the wrong man.
Theodore Roosevelt was at one
time editor ot the Harvard Advocate,
but that was before the Advocate
issued burlesques of the . Atlantic
Monthly. T. R. was one of the lead
ers of Ills class, but he seems to
have refrained from any manifesta
tions of published hilarity.' It is
rather startling to see his name
signed to a piece in the June 25,
1880. Lampoon but the contribu
tion was only a primly-worded an
nouncement from a class day com
mittee of which Roosevelt was . a
member.
Although Woodrow Wilson's repu
tation as a wag is private rather
than public, there are bits of charm
ing satire in Mere Literature, which
he published a quarter ot a
century ago. It is possible, that some
ef these essays may have appeared
originally in Princeton Journals, al
though some good Prlncetcnlnn may
be able to furnish proof to the Con
trary. It Is said that Mr. Wilson s
favorite form of humor is the
limerick, and some years ago the
following verse was ascribed to him
apocryphally, perhayj; .
For beauty I am not a star;
Titers are others mora handsome by
far, ' -
But my fare, I dont mind it
For I am behind It j
It's the people in front that I Jar.
There have been other writers of
lia-ht verse in the presidential Chair.
although it Is surprising to find that
the only accompnsnea one was jonn
Quincy Adams. However formidable
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- John Brogaa's Home.
Corley. Ia July 16. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: It is hard to get
do or explain by his quotation of
figures and confession of Ignorance
as to when Brogan's homo will be
paid for. Teople generally get their
homes paid for when they deliver
the cash for them. When they can
not deliver the cash probably Jerry
would like the state to do so. Prob
ably Jerry would. like the state to
deliver the cash for a homo for him.
Brogan bought a home worth IS.
S00 on a capital of $1,000. He lived
rent free on the place for 18 months,
paying $30 a month and $110 addi
tional. Thus he had the use of over
$2,000 of the seller's money for 18
months, which would be worth,
about $250; $3,500 plus $250
amounts to $3,740. He paid $1,650,
leaving a balance of $2,150. The.
difference between that, and whnt
his books show he owes is $12S.
.probably taxes and Insurance
lnrgo city like Omaha for 18 monl
would amount to $126. What
Is wrong with Brognn'B ease. If he
is out of work and has a sick wife
and five children by all means give
him work, give him money and give
him a home without his paying for
it if you can find someone who haa
already paid for their home to hand
over the necessary spondullx. Jerry
la talking to hear himself talk or
he is one of those ginks who want
something for nothing. Well, if he
hollers loud enough the state might
give him and his friends a home in
the poorhouse. some day where he
can converse wit la Others who. want
ed homes without paving for them.
ONE WHO HAS NO HOME YET.
in
onlhl
theft
and unbending Adams may hav
seemed In his later years, he could
write verses which would have won
him a niche in almost any of our
contemporary "columns." Here is
a stanza, from his paraphrase of
"Integer . Vitae." which he made
over into a variation of "Sally
Our Alley;"
Else wherefore was It, Thursday lent.
While strolllna; down the valley.
Defenceless, muBlns. as I passed
A ransonet to Sally,
A wolf, with mouth-protrudlnr snout.
Forth from the thicket hounded.
I clapped my hand and raised a shout.
He heard, and fled, confounded.
Benjamin Franklin was a satirist
in his own college the printer'
galley. But here the list seems to
come to an end. We have a constant
stream of foreign ministers who
were once literary men and no end
Of literary ' men . who once enjoyed
political favor, but Mr. Hughes ap
pears to be tha only avowed college
wit who has managed to make an
Impression In political life.- Per
haps potential statesmen are al
ready serious in college. Or per
haps we have been overlooking a
source of material for the diplo
matic service by not reading regular
ly, the college comics.
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