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1. Naw Union Patiener Station.
2. Continued improvement of lb No-
braaka Highwaye, including the pave
ment with a Brick Surface of Main
Thoroughfare leading into Omaha.
3. A abort, low-rate Waterway from the
Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. - Home Rale Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Fate of Section 15-A.
Robert Marion LaFolicttc may be relied upon
to explode a bomb at any time he thinks the
country needs a shock. Too frequently he makes
mountain out of a mole hill, and almost as
often his' detonator makes all the noise and the
, main explosion is merely a fizzle. Until the issue
is determined nc must wait to see whether his
present sensation has in it any of the elements he
pretends to discover. Ostensibly, he is working
for the benefit of the farmer, although really he
is espousing the cause of a single group of farm
ers. The unfortunate fact is that agriculture as
- an industry is no better organized or repre
sented than any of the other great industrial di
visions, and in some respects not so well as oth
ers, pivisioiof sentiment and diversity of opin
ion is more marked, perhaps, among the men
who manage the farms than it is in any other
class.-
. Section 15-A of the Esch-Cummins act,
against which Senator LaFollete is directing his
fire, will partially expire by limitation in March,
and may be wiped out entirely. It ought to be.
As a matter , of fact, the strongest argument
against the section, with its provisions for guar
anteed returns, was made by Judge Robert S.
Lovett, head of the Union Pacific, who showed
the fallacy of tying the strong roads to the weak,
that the latter might obtain sustenance to which
they had no claim. However, the ordinary ob
server will not worry so much about this as over
the broader aspects of the case.
Just now the government is assisting the
farmers to tide over a time of serious depression.
Many of them arc being saved from actually los-
. ing all their possessions by the intervention of
the War Finance corporation. . If it is right and
just as -well as expedient to do this, why may
not a financially embarrassed railroad approach
the government with a similar request for as-
; sislance? It is being done, but the time is not
far ahead when each tub will have to stand on
its own bottom once more.
-" "Priming the pump," as the present process
of loaning government funds to sustain crippled
industries is called, can not go on indefinitely.
The necessity is a hang-over from the reckless
administration of the democratic party', whose
statesmen adopted the fallacy of price fixing and
price control, the most dangerous experiment
on which the government ever embarked. Sec
tion 15-A is but an extension of the agreement
i made when the roads were taken over four years
ago; it is only a modification of the wicked cost
plus system applied by the government in its
dealings with contractors of all kinds during the .
war. When it is repealed, as it should be, the
business of running a railroad will be back on
its own. In the meantime, there is no betrayal
of the farmer in a consultation with the heads of
great industries, except that as a citizen the
farmer is certain to suffer along with the rest -when
any monopolistic combination aspires to
' take tribute from all.
Corn-Tassel Currency . Abroad.
Once before we heard in discussions of the
monetary question about mankind being crucified.-
' Then upon a cross of gold, now, accord
ing to Francis V. Hirst, noted English economist,
mankind is being crucified upon a cross of paper.
; While the statesmen of the world met -in
Washington to discuss the limitation of arma
ments, the printing presses of the new countries
and the old kingdom's- of Europe were turning
out billions of dollars-of paper money, worfuiess
except for the fiat of the . government which
issued them. Nothing in the shape of metal re
'strves or natural resources backs up this ever
running spring of paper money. Even in their
homeland the beautifully engraved but practically
valueless currency is depreciated to such an ex
lent that, with the quotations of several being
given in thousandths of a cent, the governments
are being hard put to devise means of continuing.
Mr. Hirst, who recently spoke in Lincoln, re
lated many interesting stones of the effect of
the depreciated currencjv Russian 10,000-rouble
notes are being given away in London with the
purchase of a $35 suit of clothes. He also spoke
of the devastating effect upon the economic life
of the world which such a situation has caused.
Xot only is the whole world being cheated by the
issuance of these corn-tassel currencies, but the
o-orernmenta are rTetraudinc- their Own nationals
on a gigarttic scale.
. The governments of a Balkaniied Europe
which can pay neither the interest on their debts
Vr any part of their principal seem to invite
isaster by their policy of wildcat financing. The
l-eparation for wars Mr. Hirst blamed in part
this situation. Bat, above all, he criticized a
nation which allows the rulers of the various
i ions to escape the payments of their debts by
issuance of inconvertible currency, which
l-des them to continue their wasteful and
activities.
his question will be one of the most pressing
which will face the economic conference which
are being planned. As long at the governments
hate the free ue of printing proses for creating
their support, they are going to be put to 'it to
muddle through.
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Judicial Reform Once More.
Some words ol sage advice from the chief
justice of the supreme court of the United States
deserve attention. Mr. Tai't has noted, as any
oberver might, the tendency to resort to the
federal courts more and more for the settlement
of nutters that are subject for litigation. Two
reasons may be ascribed for this. One Ss the
growth of interstate commerce, which brings into
contact residents of separated states, either of
whom may prefer the federal trial court to that
ofjiis own or his opponent's state. This condi
tion permits transfer to federal courts of many
cases that might well be adjudicated muler state
administration, having an advantage only in that
it avoids the divergence of state laws or prac
tices. A more dangerous trend indicated by the
condition the chief justice refers to is the steadily
increasing substitution of federal for state au
thority in matters that arc subject to regulation
by statute. This is not a suddenly reached con
clusion, for it has been noted by publicists these
many months, and particularly since the birth
of the Wilsonian policy of inviting the states to
conic to Washington to secure things they ought
to provide for themselves. The road aid law
was the first noteworthy manifestation of this
encroachment of federal on state power; not
power alone, but responsibility. Steadily this has
been extended, the latest addition to the swelling
load of federal control imposed on the sovereign
states being the Shepard-Towner maternity law.
Out of it all proceeds a gradual weakening of
state and enhancement of federal prestige. Power
and authority is being centralized, the states
parting with their birthright for a mess of pot
tage disguised as federal aid for local enter
prises. Additional judges are imperatively needed
for the transaction of the present business in the
United States trial courts, and as they come
more and more of the litigation of the land will
pass under their control, until the state court
will fall into a minor and perhaps negligible po
sition. However, if we are going to have a na
tion, it may be well to spell it with the biggest
possible "N."
Security for Small Savers.
The saver of small sums is perpetually per
plexed as to the disposition of his accumulations,
seeking always for the highest possible return
consistent with absolute safety. While the sav
ings banks and the building and'loan associations
offer attractive inducements to these, a great
many prefer to trust the federal government,
feeling that it is in the long run the only safe
place to leave the money not needed for im
mediate use. For the accommodation of these
the postal savings bank was instituted. It has
been of great service to many, but has not met
its opportunity, because of the undue safeguards
with which it was surrounded, and the paucity
of return made to the depositor. Postmaster
General Hays called attention to the fact that
in this regard the United States government had
been one of the most flagrant of profiteers. Was"
savings stamps provided a very satisfactory
method of investment for the small savers who
could not purchase Liberty bonds or Victory
notes. Sale of these securities is not to be dis
continued, but they will be replaced by an even
more attractive form of 'security, that of the
treasury certificate, which will be available in
denominations as low as $50. The rate of inter
est is high, the money goes directly into gov
ernment service, and the end of safe investment
with ample guaranty for the principal is served
as nearly perfectly as anything can be. As the
people become acquainted with the treasury cer
tificate, the flow of money from source to user
and return will be greatly facilitated.
A Gold Star of Peace.
Peace seldom brings forth the same en
thusiasm for the ideals of an advancing civiliza
tion as does war. This is doubly a pity, because
the same spirit of devotion to human progress
cbuld do so much more in a constructive -way
during peace than during conflict.
A hero of peace has died in Mexico, yet no
one can conceive of making a public ceremony
over his bones. He was Dr. Howard B. Cross,
a scientist who had gone into the Mexican jun
gle to study the yellow fever, and died of it. His
laboratory at Vera Cruz was supported by the
Rockefeller institute, and no doubt will be con
ducted by. another physician who will step for
ward as did Dr. Cross, a volunteer on dangerous
service.
Human nature is naturally pugnacious. The .
struggle ot nation against nation and army
against army as an outlet for these instincts can
be and must be supplanted by new forms of con
test. A foot ball game or almost any other
sporting event calls up similar emotions to. those
of battle. So also may the fight against disease,
against misery, ignorance, poverty and deprav
ity be made one day to hold all the thrilling and
dramatic appeal that today is found mainly in
warfare.
It is to be wished that more public interest
might be turned to such splendid sacrifices as
this of Dr. Cross; that young men and women
would have impressed upon their minds the
splendor of a life of service, and tefc accent the
great truth that the struggle for existence is not
now that of man against man, but of man against
unfavorable conditions of nature.
A speaker on business efficiency claims that
S5 per cent of possible' saes are lost through the
inefficiency of clerks Yet it is to be doubted if
aynone ever gives up buying an article he needs
or wants merely because the first clerk he comes
to is incompetent. That is. to say, only so much
is available to be spent, and any efficiency which
induces customers to buy more than they needed
or could pay for could hardly be called by that
name.
Colombia is reported to have ratified the
treaty with the United States, by which it gets
$25,000,000 for its shadowy claims on Panama.
That is one expense that might be charged to
good nature on part of our government
Colonel House is now descanting on the
mistakes the Washington conference is making.
He is well posted on the topic, his Paris ex
perience qualifying him to speak with authority.
About this time of year folks used to hunt for
the water wagon. Now they are running from it
"Big Jim" McDonald deserves everything the
community can do for him.
Reasons for the Submarine
Its Service as a Weapon of ,
Defense Justifies Existence.
(From the Boston Transcript.)
Americans will be the first to appreciate the
force of the plea lor the abolition of the sub
marine which Lord Lee of Fareham has just
presented to the Washington conference. That
plea rested on a double foundation. In (lie first
place, the chief of the British admiralty argued
tor the elimination of the submarine on the
grounds that its retention as an instrument of
naval Warfare might at any moment put in
jeopardy the national life of the British Isles
through cutting off the food supply upon which
the very continuance of that lite depends. The
trade routes of the empire, in short, must always
remain vulnerable to submarine attack, even from
an enemy weak in every other element of of
tensive warfare. In the second place, argued
Lord Lee, considerations of humanity alone
should cause the powers now assembled in con
ference at Washington to bar. lor all time, the
use of that naval weapon which, in the hands of
German sailors, caused the massacre on the high
seas of 20.000 or more noncombatants.
Without question, Lord Lee has made out a
strong case against the use of tinder-seas craft
in future warfare. From the British point of
view it is unanswerable, Y et other countries,
notably France, Italy and Japan, arc pleading
with as much force for the retention of the sub
marine as an accepted wepon of naval warfare.
In the present instance, Great Britain stands vir
tually alone; other countries, with one voice, are
united in its defense. The submarine, they point
out, is par excellence the defensive weapon of
the lesser powers against attack iy sea at tne
hands of their more powertui neighbors, it is
weapon of which small and poor countries can
avail themselves, and in the case of those na
tions which have overseas possessions, the sub
marine is invaluable in assuring the defense of
their out! vine oossessions.
Such considerations apply ' with especial
strength to the United States, and it is these
considerations which have impelled the members
of the American delegation Secretary Hughes,
Senator Lodge, Senator Underwood and Air.
Root to oppose the British in their request for
the elimination of tindcrscas cratt. ihe united
States has a coast line, many thousands of miles
in extent, in the defense of which a fleet of sub
marines is as valuable as several squadrons of
superdreadnoughts. Our insular possessions are
peculiarly exposed to attack by sea, and here
aeain an adequate fleet of sciegoing submarines,
with a sufficiently wide cruising radius, is indis-
nensable. We have a merchant marine steadily
growing in size and in value, and in the policing
of our trade routes the submarine has a wide
sphere of usefulness. The Monroe doctrine,
moreover, puts upon our navy heavy obligations,
and in meeting these obligations, and in pro
tecting South and Central America from foreign
aggression, the underseas boat will be a weapon
of tremendous value.
Clearly the submarine has come to stay, and
the naval powers of the world must continue to
maintain a quota of submarines as long as they
maintain naval establishments. But a curb must
be put upon submarine warfare, in order that
mankind may never again witness the horrors
that characterized Germany's under-sea cam
paign, in which women ana children and other
noncombatants went to their deaths by the thou
sands. The powers must ptt a curb on such
warfare along the lines recommended by the
American government. As intimated in a recent
Washington dispatch to the Transcript, the
American government is ready to recom
mend that the five naval powers repre
sented at Washington shall agree by treaty to
outlaw unlimited submarine warfare on com
merce, and shall agree that submarines be com
pelled to obey the same rules as surface vessels
with respect to the rules of visit and search; and
that they ( shall furthermore agree by treaty to
hmtt the submarine tonnage to an amount no
larger than is necessary for the defensive needs
of the small as well as the larger powers.
Ihe enforcement of such restrictions, as the
American government is prepared to recommend
will'do much to "humanize" submarine warfare
should another war occur. The objections to-
the submarine are of the same nature as those
directed agains the airplane. Abuses in the use
of both have occurred. The bombing airplane
has destroyed the lives of thousands of helpless
noncombatants in the last war, and uiiless the
powers of the world agree to prohibit the bomb
ing of cities, another conflict would witness the
slaughter of many thousands more. Yet the air
plane, like the submarine, has a legitimate use in
the defensive armament of all powers, both large
ancLsmall. This fact the Washington conference
cairnot fail to realize.
When War Is Not Sin
It is a fact that the churches do not dare to
teach that all and every war is sin, but the rea
son why they do not dare is simply because it
is not true. Churches everywhere and
unanimously do teach that the man or men, the
nation or people, by whom war is begun, com
mit the most heinous sin conceivable in human
imagination. But they also must always teach
so long as the danger of such wicked war re
mains to menr.ee the world that the sin next
to that in shame is for honorable men to be such
cowards that they will not give themselves, life
and all, to dtfeat and punish such unjust wars by
means of just and righteous war.
The churches are in little danger of blessing
the wicked kind of war. But if they listened to
such voices as this of The- Churchman, they
might on some unhappy occasion be in danger
of crucif'ing their Lord afresh by refusing to
bear His cross for the redemption of the inno
cent, prostrate beneath the foot of the oppressor.
Let us not then permit vague and labyrinthine
sentiment to lead us away from the leesson that
the American churches learned right well when
Germany rose against the liberties of mankind
that the sword of the Lord and Gideon still
avails to smite the arrogant to the ground and
clear a path for the coming of the kingdom of
heaven on earth.
American Christianity is for disarmament
mightily, persistently, indubitably for it. But it
has won the right to be for disarmament because
by the power of God it helped so magnificently
to disarm the militant evil of the world's latest
anti-Christ the German kaiser. Continent
(Prebyterian.)
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS.
Quotient cencernlng hygiene, aanita
tlaa ana1 ereveatnta et diaeeae, eub.
milted te Or. Event ay reader el
Ihe Bea, will he anevered aereenelly
aubject e eeoper limitation, where
etaaieed, eddieeeed envelope It an.
cleead. Or, Event w 'I net make
aliagnetil or ereecrlhe for Individual
di.ea.ee. Aeeroee letters la care el
The Baa.
Copyright, 1C1, by Dr. W. A. Emit
ON FEEDING BABIES.
A lady once wrote me, ami not ho
long ago, that she would throw her
baby In the river before she would
feed It a more liberal diet, as recom
mended by me.
I hope the lady did not throw her
baby in the river.
Indeed, I not only hope that she
decided to keep It, but that she also
decided to have aome more balnea,
und that one of them Is old enoiiKh
to profit by the results of a clinical
trial of tho question that lias been
carried out for a period of seven
years in a Stockholm baby hospital.
The theory of the experiment was
that, Just as breast milk la neces
sary for baby welfare In the first
two quarters of the flrat year of life,
so breads, cereals, vegetables and
fruits are necessary In the last quar
ter of that year.
With some of the babies under
experiment the mixed feeding began
at 6 months of rk. With others it
was not begun until later, but In all
it was fully under way at 9 months.
The babies were fed five times in
the 24 hours. Tho only milk they
received was from 10 to 18 ounces
a day, and that was cooked in with
the other foods. So milk was given
us a beverage, to be taken from a
bottle or cup.
The diet of these 9 to 12 months
old bablea was selected from the
following: Porridge groats, rye meal
porridge, gcuel, beef tea, fruit Juice,
soups, cocoa, scrambled egKS,
minced meats, minced nsh, rufks,
vegetables and potato pureon, stewed
fruits and potatoes, carrots, cauli
flower and spinach.
Some of the formulas were: Por
ridge Groats Water, 500, milk,
sfiO; 10 per cent cream, 150;
groats, 60.
Hye Meal Porridge water, 1,000;
rye meal, 120.
Gruel Water, 350; milk, 650;
sugar, 15; powdered rusk, 60.
Keef Tea Ueer tea with mashed
vegetables, 1,000: sugar, 10;
groats. 60.-
Fruit Juice Soups Fruit soup,
1,000; sugar, 40;, potato flour, 10;
groats, 60.
Cocoa Water, 70; milk, 250;
sugar, 40; cocoa, 30.
Pulp of stewed apple with 4 to 6
per cent sugar.
Pulp of stewed pear with 1 to 3
per cent sugar.
Pulp of plums with 5 to per
cent sugar.
Our friends or Scandinavian
descent will know.about these foods.
Others will want to substitute
kindred articles better known and
more readily available in this
country.
The observations made by Dr. I.
Jundell covered the rate of growth,
general health and freedom from in
fections of these babies under trial
compared with babies fed on more?
restricted diet.
He concludes that some babies
thrive much better when fed this
way. As to whether it is a better
routine diet for any and all, babies,
he expresses no opinion.
That It is a safe diet, he is cer
tain.
Grease Those Cold Feet.
Mrs. J. M. C. C. writes: "Will you
kindly tell me how to prevent chil
blains? As 1 have to be out In the
bad weather a great deal, my feet
freeze immediately."
REPLY.
AVear loose, warm stockings and
loose, warm, waterproof shoes.
Grease your feet well and fre
quently.
When the soldiers in the trenches
in Flanders could do no better they
pulled open the shoe top and poured
fish oil down the inside of the shoe.
Majfoo It Is Gout.
A Reader writes: VI. Why do the
finger joints enlarge and at the same
time have little bumps on them, the
joir.ts being quite painful at times?
Z. is there any cure?' Was told
by a New York doctor there was
not.
'3. If it is kidney trouble, how. is
the best way to handle the case?"
REPLY.
l.vThis may be due to gout. How
ever, the probability is that it is a
variety of arthritis which most peo
ple over 70 years of age have. That
variety is due to a very mild, very
slowly progressive and comparative
ly harmless Infection.
2. If it is due to gout, eat and
drink like a poor man. If it is the
other kind, it is not worth while
trying to do anything.
i. It is not kidney trouble.
Trachoma Is Contagious.
P. K. writes: "For the last eight
years-1 have been troubled with a
disease called trachoma, and have
been doctoring for some time, but
do not seem to get any cure. Kind
ly advise me if it is possible to get
this permanently cured."
REPLY.
It is possible to cure trachoma. It
may be Tiecessary to scrape the
granulations and to apply strong
solutions. This should be. done by
some one experienced in treating
trachoma. The disease is conta
gious. '
American History in the Schools.
The board of education of New York has re
ceived repeated complaints that the text books
in American history in use in the schools are
pro-British or anti-British. A committee has
gone over four text books against which objec
tions were made and has made recommendations,
which are not made public, doubtless because
the committee does not want a new shower of
objections, founded more upon racial prejudice
than upon the desire to ge the facts straight for
the minds of pupils.
The rule for writing American history for
schools and colleges and for the reading of pa
triotic Americans and unreconciled aliens is sim
ple, although it is not always easy to follow.
The rule is to tell the truth, without unfair em
phasis or exaggeration. Syracuse Post-Standard.
An Answer to Anxious Ones. t
A contemporary anxiously inquires what has
happened to Col. George Harvey, who has made
no speeches for several days. To which it may
be replied that when necessity arises Colonel
Harvey will be found on the job with a rattling
good speech on whatever subject may require
his attention. Milwaukee Sentinel.
Must Protect Ears.
"W. E. A. writes: "Will you tell
me if there has yet been found any
remedy for inner ear diseases, such
as otosclerosis and Meniere's disease,
which are supposed to begin in
childhood or early youth?
"Are there are preventive meas
ures that can be taken by children
whose mother, uncle, aunt and sev
eral first cousins are deaf from these
inner ear diseases?" -
. ' REPLY.
I know of nothing. People who
ave an inherited tendency that way
should protect their ears well.
CENTER SHOTS.
"Tempestuous emotions, beauty,
bestiality, fine writing, unrefined
situations," a critic writes of a cer
tain new novel. The line of buyers
forms on the right. Don't shove.
Nashville Tennessean.
Marshal Foch. American observ
ers have discovered, is never tardy.
Now the school teachers can put
added ardor into their descriptions
of his achievements. Worcester
Gazette.
It is rumored that the ex-kaiser
will remarry. Perhaps he will add
"kale" to the three "Ks" on which
he once insisted. Indianapolis Star.
No cigar-shaped blimp will ever
go as high as cigars have. Detroit
News.
Kismet
Give 'era trousers and suspenders and any
thing else that will satisfy the national woman's
party. Might's well clear the slate of all de
mands, for we'll have to do it sooner or later.
God bless 'eml Cincinnati Enquirer.
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'An Oklahoma man hj een his
wile for the first time in 10 years.
frhe must be a movie fan. Chatta
nooga News.
The minister who says women's
freedom in dress Is sanctioned by
the Bible probably took his tent
from "Re-relations." Pittsburgh
l'ress.
(The He altera He ealumna freely la Ha
renuVre xbn rare M oWiwa l nubile
uunlkm. II reiimla that lei Ire. h
-eoaanably Brief, no aaer SuO Hard.. II
aim Inal.la that the name of Ihe rll.e
arromienr eneh 1-tter, axil neeMrilv
foe puhllrallnn, hat that the edlle may
know with nhum be w dealing. The lte
lea ant pretend te) idirae or aeeent
towa ne nifntna etprre-ed by cerrv
ponilenla In Ihe Itler Itoi.)
What lleally In Wrong.
York. Nb Iec. 82. To the
Kdltor of The Bee: What must we
do to bo saved T There is so much
wrong everywhere and ao many doc
tors each with a different dope and
theirs the only cure for what alls
iin that we are reminded of an old
proverb which runa: "When the
doctors disagree dismiss the whole
bunch."
Many of the Ills that some aay
all us are not there, and some that
dx all us are not the result of the
tEures given, but the remedies
offered would be worse than tho
(iisentie.
Ttre cry. "What is the nutter with
business?"
Is answered in a trinity of ways,
some say it is stagnntion caused by
high freight ratea; some say it's
high wages, ete., etc.
Some say the only remedy is nn
International hanking system, with
tho United States furnishing the
rnpltal and credit for the rest of
the world to do bualness with;
others, that we should rancel the
nllled war debts ao the others could
buy of us, and "the great pacifist"
says the only way to. Insure peace
is to cancel thone war debts. Of all
HC-ft stuff that is sure the limit.
Ho they can prepare for the next
war with a notion that they can
Htay another one. with us furnlsh
irg the money and part of the boys,
then let them annex territory and
people lo half that of the United
States and we get nothing but a
vote of thanks after we forgave
them another war debt. It looks to
a mere layman aa though it would
be not only better business, but
wafer for them and lis to say with
all kindness, but with tho firmness
of the everlaKtlng bills that we ex
pect full and complete payment of
what we loaned them. I think that
would have quite an influence to
keep them from going at it again.
Then the cry of high taxes is only
partly to blame, but what caused
the taxes to be so high; the war
paused nearly all the increase, and
dollar paid in the wi.ne In Uk"
fc-ora io I lie state ana tne tuner t
i-cniB goes for local rkpenara. Now,
why In the name of reason hae
they not cut down Ihe taa at home,
ao we could are bow they would
reduce thoae of tho elate lut the
mi Ik In the pumpkin romvs from Ihe
done for office, and la veil aa a
bait (a catch votes with. Hut you
know what IWuuin bald, and I hey
win one mm la wny tney nn.
FltANKI.l.N rot'K.
Spots Unchanged
(rYoni lh riilladclpliltt Ixnlger.)
Purine the Mat few days we event
to have had an epldrmiu of ears pea
rroiu prl.cn by notorious criminal,
The whole country has eome to
know and talk about tlieae episodes
been una most of them were accom
panied by acts of bloodshed and vio
lence. In Chicago a uunman sen
fenced to be hungrd In a few dnys
broke, in broad day light, from the
exercise pen of the county prison
with four others, scaled the prUnn
wans, ana nude away in a seized
automobile, leaving a trait of
wounded and battered prison
guards In hla woke. At Marquette,
audi., a group or convicts took ad
vantage of the ditrknens Incidental
to a moving-picture exhibition in
tho reformatory to precipitate an
attack on the warden. The con
victa had stolen knives from tht
prison kitchen. The onVlnla had no
weapons, since a rule whose origin
Ih left in obscurity forbade hem l
be armed within' the walls of the in
stitution. The outcome was that
the warden was stubbed nlno times.
he deputy warden bndiy beatet.
and the son of the latter, visiting at
the inntitutlnn, was stabbed in the
lungs and is likely to die.
These incidents, com In? as items
of one day's news in climax to a
series of similar events, suiteest at
least one Idea with unescapnble em
phasis. That is that in every prison
there are violent criminals who will
not stop at endangering the life of
anyone who gets in their way when
they are on a rumpage. They have,
In other words, remained unregen
erate. That is an idea we ore threat
ening to lose sight of nowadays. A
number of us have somehow got
ourselves twisted around Into the
eoneeption that a man in prison Is
it victim of society who Is more to
bo pitied than cenmired. Under this
conception, more flattering to their
hearts than to their heads, these
excellent people bestir themselves to
mnke his lot more comfortable in
prison than it would be if he were
out in the world making an honest
a great deal of that costs could and ! living. As a mutter of fact, how
would have been saved could we ever, the great majority of men in
have been allowed an auditing board I prison are there because they tried
during the war. instead of the cost ' to cheat or injure their fellow man
plus plan and many other things and were found out. They deserve
that lacked proper control. So that , a decent environment, but they do
A liussiathPlottcd
Crime
the debts are large and the taxes
are therefore necessarily large and
will be for years to come regardless
of who is at the helm unless they
repudiate the debt. But to stop the
mouths that have nothing above
them and nothing below but the
thirst for the loaves and fishes to be
picked up along the ofHce route
ought to require nothing more than
to point out the trimming down of
the former administrations plans
by a billion and a half for the first
year and the pruning of the pay
roll of the thousands of surplus
not deserve coddling. Welfare sys
tems and "honor" organizations In
prisons that recognize that fact may
be. doubtless re, good enough in
their way. If they offer an oppor
tunity for improvement to that per
centage of the prisoners which is
rabble of rivalling itself of the op
portunity they are performing a
valuable function. The day in which
a convict need be sentimentalized
over Just because he is a convict,
however, has not yet come. It is to
be noted that in both the instances
n.cntioned above the prisoners took
help. And when it comes to state . advantage of conditions created
matters, there is the wail of woerwhen the usual discipline of the in-
proviue
about the high taxes, some claiming
it is extravagance, others it is the
code law that causes it. Now the
new party gets up and yells for
sweeping reductions in' state ex
penses. Now, why did they not tell
just where and how they would do
it, whether they would begin by
half feeding the inmates of state in
stitutions or cut the coal- supply or
where. They complain of all these
things costing them so much more
then formerly, but the state is no
different jfrom a family in that re
spect. And yet only 15 cents out of every
stitution was relaxed to
them iwith recreation and relief.
The Floor Held.
"Did your watch stop when it
.dropped on the floor?" asked one
man of his friend.
"Sure," was the answer. "Did you
think it would go through?"
Western Christian Advocate.
(I'rtmi Iho Waaltlngoin Mar.,
Kver since Hfplanibtfr 1. iKO,
whan a bomb was eipluileil in Walt
street cguemc many deaths and
much destruction tf properly,
era re h baa been prosecuted forlhuxa
guilty (if thla atrocious crime. Many
i lure have been followed and sev
eral at rents have been made, but
mull now no definite results have
hern dhtained. Until the announce,
merit that lias JunI come from War
saw of the arrest there of a man
tor complicity in the outrage It hue
seemed liopeleaa to expect a solu
tion. Iiug ago the theory ot an ac
lilcnt.il enplimlon wna discarded on
the around that there wua no con
ceivable ream m for the exiatence of
a large quantity of high explosive at
that particular point. The affair
bore unmistakable evidence of a de
liberately plunned crime.
The man -nrrretet! nt Waraaw, it
la said, haa confessed to having been
a member of a group acting under
instructions of the third interna
tlonale at Moscow, which had prom
ised 130.000 to be divided among
four or live persons. Thla money,
Ihe dispatch states, was received by
New York rtunniunlHts from Russia.
In on respect the confession, a re
ported from Warsaw, is not clear.
Thla is the statement that one of
the persons Impllcnted was a woman
who had for several (lays been
watching front a window opposite
the oltlce of J. P. Morgan to observe
his movements and to give a signal
to the planters of the bomb, which
wna intended to destroy him. Mr.
Morgan was in London at the time
of the explosion, anil must conse
quently have been absent from New
1 ork for at least a week prior to
the exploalon.
It Is. of course, to be hoped that
all of those connected with the out-
rase will be caught. If this man la
telling the truth it should be pos
sible to round up his associates, un
less perhaps they are now in Russia,
where they cannot be renched st
present. Announcement of the ar
rest of I.lndenfeld and his confession
suggests that steps have been taken
to capture these others, unless the
rtatement is premature. The nat
ural result of a proclamation of
Tilndenfeld's exposure of the crime
find of his associates in it would be
lo drive them Into hiding.
Association of the Russian com
munist center with the crime is not
fiurprlslng. It has been known foV
it long time that from that center
lias come much of the radical propa
ganda that has been active in the
Vnlted States. Most of the trouble-
nome radicals in this country are
known to be identified with groups
that are in turn affiliated with the
third Internationale. While the so
viet government has no direct of
ficial connection with that center,
the association is known to be close.
The third Internationale, in short, is
the missionary agency of the soviet.
Or li perha'lv may be stated thus,
that the soviet is the Russian politi
cal manifestation of the third Inter
nationale. Whichever may be cause
s.nd which effect, these two are
linked in vile identification, as this
crime of September, 1S20, the truth
of which is now coming- to light, has
shown.
Doesn't Need Any Help.
A smart woman may be able to
make a fool of any man, lSut more
often she doesn't. Philadelphia
Inquirer.
She Could Use Him. ,
"Rastus." said the Judge sternly,
"you're plain no-account and shift
less, and for this fight I'm going to
send you away for a year at hard
labor."
"Please, jedge," interrupted Mrs.
Rastus from the rear of tho court
room, "will yo' honah Jes' kinder
split dat sentence? Don't send him
away from home, but let dat hard
labor stand." The American Le
gion Weekly.
Why the Hen Cackles.
liens cackle after laying eggs be-;
cause they know the price we pay.
Harrisburg Patriot.
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