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A Question That Invites an Ans ver and Forces
Exposition of a Record '1 liat Fittingly Replies
EDITOR NEWS-TIMES:
Everybody knows you arc strong for the 18th amendment. You appear
equally strong for the League of Nations. If you had to surrender one or the
other, which would you prefer? CLERGYMAN.
nv nin HDiTori.
THE ar.srr Is easy, it won't be nce?sry to
rurrender cither ono unless you elect a
republican president and a republican con
presi In which case It may b ne"5iry to surrender
both. Democratic politicians who are "dry," ar
"dry from principle, despite, party expediencies, and
th democratic party, as proved by tho vote In
eongr-M, tho Indiana legislature, and wherever
liquor hi.s been an lsue outside, perhaps, occasion
al cities. hat proven Itself better than fifty-fifty on
ih "dry" fide. Republican politician, on the other
hand. ar not "dry" from principle, but from party
expediency and that applies, we sometimes fear,
even to the republican clergy, proven by the fact
that they r.ver recognize anything "wet" in their
party, though It be as limp as a dish-rap. but screen
it. denly It, and vot for It regardless. They are,
"dry" only as against democrats "wet" or "dry."
This was proven locally by the manner In which
"dry" republicans, even tho clergy, became bed
fellows with th liquor Interests in support of Dr.
Franklin 11. Carson for mayor followed by their
Fweet-Fcrnted silence as to tho moral rottenness,
gambling, prostitution and bootlegging, that per
meates the community under the Carson regime.
Were it a democratic mayor they would be thunder
ing it from their pulpits with all the dogmatic
.-insurance of a. Negro preacher chasing the devil.
Hob Jones, it is true, temporarily awakened them
for a fortnight, but the strain upon their partisan
ship was too great, and It has all long since been
forgotten, sweetly forgotten.
Debates In republican caucus over the 15th amend
ment in congress, are as indicative as the nose on
nur face that it Is there, that republican support
of that addition to the constitution, was considered
purely from tho standpoint of party expediency, and
.carcely from any moral, social or economic consid
erations whatever. Samo with war prohibition;
fame with the Volstead act. The riuestlon consid
ered was whether passage would lose the rerub
llcans more of the liquor vote than it would lose
tho democrats. In sufficient power, and with a
president In the "White House, acting always "by
and with tho consent of the senate" a "rubber
stamp" president, wet as a saturated sponge
addenda, all that would be necessary would be the
assurance frcm the liquor forces of future political
support, and not only the Volstead act, but the lSth
amendment, would go to the junk-heap like wild
lire. There are plenty of "dry" republicans, attached to
congress, and yet to be attached, "dry" only for
party expediency, who would Just as soon be "wet"
and would be. at a snap of the finger also for
party expediency. Warren Gamaliel Harding is ono
of them; James Ell Watson is one of them; Andrew
Jackson Hlckcy Is one of them. All that is neces
sary I cr tho liquor Interests to surrender uncon
ditionally to republican party surport, and wc
üonietlmes wonder If even the republican elergv
wouldn't soon be singing their praises. quite as the
author of the letter that heads this comment, either
in ignorance or kr.avishncss, thought to throw i
"smoke screen" about, or sound the praises of War
ren Gamaliel Harding.
We would optimistic In the extreme to antici
pate a democratic congress as the result of the
coming lection, the "wet" half of which could
amend or multllate the Volstead act. or repeal tho
!th amendment, without republican help and
that they would probably never get, in sufilcient
magnitude to make it effective, ur'ess there were
a ileal with the liquor force that guaranteed the
republicans future liquor support. On the other
hand, a republican congress, under Warren G. Hard
ing, ready to deal fo- the liquor vote, could with
tho aid of the "wet" democrats put over. a prohibi
tion nullifying program and do it easily.
Warren Gamaliel Harding's record on "wet" and
"dry" issues Is as despicable in behalf of the "wets"
.is the Congressional Record could possibly make
it. ha James Middleton Cox beat a thousandat
'east thirty. ways. In a speech in tho senate,
August l, m:, apologizing for hi vote favorable
the lth amendment, and admitting it forced
t(
by the republican caucus, and essential to "regu
larity." S. n Hardin? said:
"I am not a prohibitionist. Mr. President, and
r.cer pr. tended to be. I do not claim to be a,
temperance man. I do r.ot approach this ques
tion fr. m a moral viewpoint, becansv I am un
able to see it as a great moral question." (C. H.
Pago 6 4 S .
It was purely a matter cf party expediency with
him; evpectir.g it would prent the republican party
more politlc.i'iy, than it would the democrats, where
upon h? ambles on:
-I do rot thirk the prohibition amendment
wil bo iftective. You cannot make a law
strenger than the public sentiment that sees to
its f r.forcemer.t. I have watched the progress of
this question from the conflict In the hamlet to
the municipality, to th county, the state, and
the nation, ar.d freely express my doubts
a to Its practicability."
Yet he was willing to vote for It. for party ex
pediency, to be "regular" fallowing a pirty caucus,
ftnd his vcte on the l$th amendment, and to pass
the Volstead act ever the president's veto of course,
he wouldn't miss that chance to vote against tho
president. is the enly two votes out of thirty-two
prohibition tejts during his Incumbency, that h
ever cast on the side of the "drys." The other 30
times h voted w ith the "wets" in surf ort of every
ragging, crlpp'.inc, rftening. weakening amend
ment, to any kind of till that came up in which the
liquor interests were affected.
Fen. Harding didn't vote for war prohibition; he
didn't vcte for the Volstead act. except to pass it
over the presld-tit's veto, and that quite undoubtedly
mere to take a crack at trie president than to pass
th til! thinking it would add a new and popular
etrIn to the G. O. I "Gott Strafe Wilson" anthem
of hate. He was the author of the "wet" limitation
put In the 18th amendment, requiring ratification
within tlx years; harmless, of course, as the thing
turned out, but still indicative of his hope that the
states would be slow enough In ratifying, that tho
amendment would fall beyond the limitation.
Space forbids recitation of all the "wet" measures
that Hen. Harding voted for, and "dry" measures
that he has voted against; 30 to two. with the odds
favorable to the "wets." If you want to losk it up,
pee Congressional Record (Jan. 1, 1917, to Oct. ?J,
1319). pages 1066. 1208, 1457, 2190, 2131. 2194, 2259,
33.15-6, 751, 4780, 4792, 5661. 56G3, 5664, 5666 anl
7633 tne latter of which was that crack at Prcs't
Wilson over the Volstead law, which he. himself,
had dodged voting for in the first Instance.
And then anticipating that our clerical friend, by
his quizz, hoped to do a little campaigning for Mr.
Harding, particularly appealing to the women, th
senator's suffrage record may be of Mnterc-rt. Ac
cording to his own words (June 24, 1915), he was
"utterly Indifferent to the question," and 'A took two
years, to Dec. 10, 1917, to reach the conclusion that
believing "In political parties, and government
through political parties," he would wait until the
party to which he belonged, should "in its confer
ence make a declaration." He managed for four
years to hide behind the fact that Ohio had or.ee
voted on a state suffrage amendment and defeated
It, and Faid he would have to be guided by his
state action, but by June, 1919, when the republican
bandwagon came along having "In its conference
made a declaration," he decided things had
"changed since their vote was cast" in Ohio, and
sprung this:
"I need not tell you of my Interest In the
consummation of suffrage. I voted for It In
the senate and a vote records a senator's purpose
quite as faithfully as anything he can do."
Wonderfully for suffrage, all of a sudden party
expediency again demanding it, but If a senator's
"vote records a senator's purpose" so faithfully as
to suffrage, why not his votes on the subject of pro
hibition? You can't find a two-faced, party-bound,
politically Irresponsible record anywhere, chargeab'p
against Gov. James M. Cox. He was a leader for
suffrage In Ohio, urging it upon his party and
people, and as a law enforcement governor, he has
been the best that Ohio ever had. The Ohio Anti
Faloon league, in bedfellowship with the liquor ln
tersts, defeated him for reelection after his first
term; well simply because the Anti-Saloon league
everywhere Is never anything but an "aid society"
of the republicans, and, because the liquor men
didn't want law enforcement.
The samo type of combination of liquor interests
and church folk elected Frank IJartlette Willis gov
ernor of Ohio In 1914, as gave us our worthy Frank
lin R. Carson for mayor of South Bend, and along
with him our superabundance of gambling hells,
bawdy houses and bootlegging establishments. Ohio,
too, tired of her "Christian" governor's winking at
law violations, and in 1916 Gov. Cox was ushered
back Into ofhco with a thud that was sickening to
the hypocrites. He was reelected in 1918, and, de
spite the fact that he was given a republican as
sembly, which might seem to indicate that re
publicans a. well as democrats rather admire him
in the Ruckeye state.
Rut anyhow, the liquor issue is not a presidential
issue in this campaign. The senate ogliarchy in
charge of the g. o. p. platform committee and tho
nominations managed to lose their alleged "dry"
plank somewhere between the Congress hotel and
the Coliseum. and the democrats never pretended
to have one; refusing to walk Into the Bryan republican-set
trap, and was that much the less hypo
critically wise to say the least. Accordingly neither
candidate has a "wet" or "dry" plank to run on. and
with Gov. Cox's record standing up fully as well
as Sen. Harding's, on that point, no one save an
ignoramus of a religio-polltlcal demagogus will
attempt to raise the Issue as between them. It
can be raised for no other purpose than through
Ignorance, or an attempt to throw up a "smoke
screen" to shield the real issues the campaign
for instance, the League of Nations issue, which
seems to be our correspondent's principal worry.
Which would the writer prefer to surrender; the
lSth amendment or the League of Nations? "We
are not Rolng to surrender either. The American
people are r.ot fool3. They are. going to elect ti
democratic president and a democratic congress.
Resides we couldn't surrender the League If wc
would. It Is a going concern, doing good work
despite American absence; functioning much hotter
than rrohlbition is, particularly in cities with repub
lican mayors, such as the combination of church
and saloon gave ixs in South Rend. and we some
times wonder if It isn't pretty near as important
to preserve the peace cf the world, and banish the
scourge of war. as it is to merely make it easy as
possible for some men to remain sober who might
Otherwise find it necessary to climb up onto some
reform pedestal in order to kep out of a gutter.
o
Some chefs say It won't do to print menui In
English because there arc some French culinary
terms for which there are no English equivalents.
Any dishes that can't be expressed In plain United
Sta:s, Americans can get along very well without.
The republicans, mayhap, are gonna stop.kickin
that league aroun', merely contenting themselves
with cutting off its tail, trimming Its ears and
changing its license tag.
o
Science declares men arc animals, and some men
proceed to prove it by making monkeys of them
sc'.v o
Vegetarians are men who erocke the cigars of
today.
SHORT FURROWS
By the Noted
Indiana Humorist
KIN HU
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CONSUMER f Arps'l i M ' nOP
-TRYING "TO I ACROiS.JTNJ j
SUGAR
Th' Homo Brewin' Circle met yis
terday evenln in th cellar o" Mrs.
Lib Mopps an' after bottlin an' cap
pin' eighty-nine pints an' transactin
other business o' th' organization th'
bubject o' sugar naturally come up
an' a number o bitter an' illumin
atin' speeches wuz made. Mrs. Til
ford Moots told hew vital sugar wuz
t' th' health an' character o' th peo
ple. She said: "Ther's many in
stances where senility has been
staved off fer days at a time by th
liberal eatin' o sugar. Th' germ o'
youth is in sugar. It's as necessary
in character buildln' as it is in a
rhubarb pie. Jest think o' anythin
as vital as sugar is bein' doled out
by a few favored dealers f ther close,
personal friends f th exclusion o'
th' general run o people. After days
o' weary' trampin', Mrs. Em Rash
wuz successful in gittin' a pound o'
sugar thro a friend o her husband's
who knowed a warm personal friend
o' a feller who's brother-in-law-owned
a grocery. Th' President is
blamed for not buyin' th' Cuban
sutrar cron. Whv haint he blamed
fer not buyin' th' p'tater crop an' j
th' clothin' output an' forty other
things that are bein' manipulated.
It's all protiteerln pure an' simple.
Ther's plenty o' sugar. Jest as ther s
plenty o' p'taters." Miss Maine
Moon said: "Th supar gougers'Il
clean up six hundred million dollars
this year. Th income tax returns
show what per cent th producers o'
suf,ar are makin'. Wilson or no Wil
son. You might as well blame Wil
son fer h?y sellin' at forty-eight dol
lars a ttm. Candy makers an' soft
drink manufacturers have plenty o'
sugar. It's th home brewers that
aro sufferein. Ever' where ou look
you see pop stacked up an great
stocks o' candy. Bakers have plenty,
too. Ever' time th' newspapers talk
gloomily about th' sugar situation
th' wealthy hustle off an' buy up all
ther is loose. But why git excited
over sugar any more'n everythin"
elte? People are payin' three prices
fer autos an labor an' clothes an'
squeal 'cause sugar's high. Most
grocers are like a feller with a
couple c extra circus tickets an'
can't decide who t' give 'em to. They
want t' sell ther sugar wher it'll do
"em th' most good. Unless th' Vol
stead act is amended I think our
club should raise its own sugar
cane."
"Th' sugar situation Is extremely
puzzlln'." declared Miss Fawn Eip
pincut. "It resembles th' whisky
situation in so many respects that I
am distrustful o' ever'thing I read
in th' papers o' an' explanatory char
acter. That ther's sugar an' plenty
of it, I'm sure. All other things are j
high, th good Lord knows, but we I
kin see them an' feel them. We kin I
buy them, too. if we've got th' price, j
But sugar an' whisky mystify me. i
We hear ther's no whisky an' then j
run on to a quart. We hear ther's I
no sugar an we sec canay an pop
on ever' hand. I shall put up no
rhrrHes or strnwhrrrirs. If I cet
my raisin' wine in shape. I'll feel that !
I'll bo doin' well. Sugar is like
whisky somebuddy's holdln' it till
th' right feller comes along."
Training Youth
By Election Is
Doomed to Fail
By Ljlc V. Fremont.
It may be conceded that there is
room tor great differences of opinion
touching the moüt effective teaching
methods. Very few persons will at
tempt to deny that the school teach
er of the present day will help to
form tho government of 75 year
from now through tho intelligence
and etneiency of .the plan of instruct
ing youth that is adopted and car
ried out. Relieving that, we won
der what sort of citizenship and gov
ernment this country would have 7i
years hence were some of the con
clusions of Dr. David Snedden of the
Teachers' College, Columbia univer
sity, adopted.
Dr. Sneddcn atserts that "the time
is coming when compulsory oral
reading, oral spelling and oral arith
metic will be a thing of the past for
the pupil who Is beyond the third
grade: after that these subjects will
be elective." This followed a state
ment that "the student of the futui
will have to be ablo to spell only
2. ."00 words, all that are necessary
to complete a vocabulary in the
present day"
Twenty-five hundred may be
enough, but no matter what the
number decided upon as the minim
um requirement, the student should
"know" them. If he can get them
beforo entering the fourth grade,
well and good. So with the other
studies mentioned. What we ec o!
the boys and girls coming out of tho
public schools, out of high schools
and colleges even, does not impress
confidence that by present methods
they get more training than is necea-
E.rv for them.
Further, wo have been of the
opinion that teaching was something
more than helping children to know
what they might inquire about. Tho
old-fashioned idea, which ought to
die verv hard, is that teaching is in
struction in those things which ex
perience has proved that pupils
should knew about for their own and
society's welfare. Could we have
educated people if the school chil
dren's studies were made elective?
Or discipline, submission to author
ity, which are not unimportant to
the traininc of youth for the duties
and obligations of citizenship? Too
much freedom mlcht be regretted
by th country. The public schools
must teach their charges how to use
freedom. It cannot be done on a
go-as-you-please scheme.
German Commercialism
is Back at Old Tricks
MRS. SOLOMON SAYS-
By Helen Rowland
Being Confessions of Wife 700th.
My Daughter, not all the Tempta
tions of Woman have been pictured
in the movies, and not all the Vil
lains have appeared upon the screen.
For the subtler ones go softly, and
aro exceedingly insidious.
Now, behold, there dwelt a dam
sel on the west tide, who was call
ed "Nice Girl." which is to say,
"du 11 -but-quite-regular."
Lo, her hair was always marcell
ed, and her smilo worked automati
cally; her clothes were "Just right,"
and her favorite color was pink.
She loved Ethel Barrymore, was
"crazy" about golf, doted on Doug
las Fairbanks, and was "passion
ately fond" of maple fudge, Mischa
Elman, old mahogany and May
Sinclair.
Yea. unto her, a "Thesaurus" was
an extinct animal, and a dictionary
merely something to stand on when
talking at the telephone.
And all her days were pleasant
and placid, and her dancing part
ners and her flirtations sufficient to
make life interesting.
And those who came near her
were strangely soothed and comfort
ed. For Marriage was her Mecca, and
she had never been troubled with a
"Mission," nor with a pang of artis
tic temperament.
Now, it came to pairs, that a vil
lain espied her, and was smitten
with an evil desire to wreck her hap
piness. For, behold, he wooed her with
afternoon tea, and serpentine flat
teries, saying:
"Why dost thou hide thy light un
der a bushel of commonplaceness?
"Yea, why hast thou never sought
to 'express thyself?
"For lo, thou hast Personality
such a 'bright mind!' "
And the scales fell from the dam
sel's eyes and she was bitten!
And, traightway, she hastened
unto a barber shop, and was 'bob
bed." And thereafter she appeared, ar
rayed in garments which seenvd to
have been designed in a bad tem
per, and donned in a wind storm.
And, wheresoever she read a
"clever thing," she learned it by
heart, and quoted it from beginning
to the er.d. Lo, when men called
upon her, sho read them passages
from the poets, and spake fervently
of "complexes," and "automatic
writing," and her Soul!
And they fled from her in con
fusion, and returned no more.
But her women friends were
stricken with wonder, and said:
"For heaven's eake!"
And. it came to pass, that the
damsel was cast out amongst the
Free Verse poets, where there are
no ellgibles, and no Marrying Men.
And she- ended her days in a job
and a studio Hat!
Verily, verily, nothing more cruel,
nothing more tragic, nothing more
terrible can happen to a "Nice- Girl."
than to be told that t-he posM-ssoth a
"Bright Mind!"
For these were the words of the
Serpent, when he offered the Apple
unto Eve.
And the Woman fell for it.
And look at her, now!
Teaching Pupils
''Health Chores"
Now In Schools
The Man Who Understands Women
As A Woman Thinkcth
(By Harrlman Clews.
The Huns are not a whit more
honest in peace than they were in
diplomacy and in war. They are
again using deception in trade, and
tho United States and England are
the sufferers from their commer
cial duplicity.
Ofitcial advices received at Wash
ington declare that Germany is
dumping its surplus of inferior
goods in America and in Great
Britain and accompanying the
dumping with deceptive tactics.
German exports of this character to
th United States are marked
"mad" in England," whi'e the stuff
sent to England is inscribed "made
in tlv United States" Thus both
American and English products get
a black eye, and Germany gets the
money.
Such tactics naturally discredit
the manufacturers of this country
in England, and also the manufac
turers of Great Britain in America.
The market for the. real products
of these countries is injured, while
Germany gets rid of goods which It
would be difficult to place on the
properly Inscribed with
of the originating coun-
market If
the name
try.
It Is a
despicable trick
which
ouirht to nice: with failure. There
should be some way cf circumvent
ing this scheme of the Huns.
He la coming to tell us the Truth
about women!
"The-Man-Who-Un der stand s
Women or thinks he does!
The Prophet of the Feminine!
The man, who has written reams
and reams about nothing;
That is. about nothing but the
ruffled, be-ruft'led, and easily ruffled
Sex!
The man who has laid bare souls,
exposed our secrets, turned the
light on our little weaknesses, and
petty sins.
Torn the vein from cur hidden
desires, and pointed out our pet fol
lies with a scintillating pn!
Hail W. L. George, the Intrepid
The unsuspecting Daniel," blithely
secking the lion's den!
Oh joy! He will tell u all about
ourselves from a masculine per
spective. He will tell us "why a woman
does things"
Why she alights from a street
car backward, frigns a check upside
down, begins a novel at the last
chapter, moistens her lips when she
is speaking to a r.ico man over the
telephone.
Marries a man, whom she
wouldn't think cf wetting her time
fiirting with;
Skilfully leads a man to the
threshhold of love, and then calmly
:ihut;i the door in his face;
Is indignant if a man tries to kiss
her :r.d disappointed If he doesn't;
And spends her whole life strug
gling struggling to get a husband,
struggling to get along with cne.
or struggling to get rid of one!
Perhaps he will even try to ex
plain that cryptic thing, "a woman's
reason"
Or at least, will admit that a wom
an always hns a reason If she can
only think what it is!
He will Insult our Intellects and
flatter our charms, in the same
breath. (Unless he Insul us. we
shall b awfully disappointed!
He will bestow a pat on our head3
with one velvet-gloved hand.
And a blow in the polar-pfcxus of
our vanity, with the other.
He will bl-sect our brains and
dissect our emotions.
Tie us in knots and "Houdini" us
out of them.
Feed us bitter truths in sugar
coated pellets and sweet flatteries
in the lemon-sauce of tire.
He will Co us up brown!
And w ha.t will we women do to
him V
Ignore him, snub htm, annihilate
him?
We will not!
We'll tumble over each other in
our mad rush to hear him.
We'll light to get him. for our
clubs, feed him into a comatose
state, and x'.atter him Into an opiurn
dream!
What do we car- whrU a man fays
about us, so that lie ta'k- to us about
ourselves?
It's s'.cii a delightful change for
a married woman, anyhow!
And besides, it's so Haltering to be
taken furiously!
(At least seriously enough to be
made a. life-study and a sourc- of
income!)
Let's go!
There won't be a man in the place
to distract us.
Because, ovpry man believes in Iiis
heart of hearts, that he, alone is
"The-Man-Who-Un derstands-Wonien!"
A woman can endure a man's
cruel deception; but telling her th
cruel truth is hitting her below tW
vanity-be.:.
By Mario Athorson.
The schools am c rrying physical
culture into the country. According
to one ambitious rural program, "the
teachers will endeavor ao make au
tomatic the daily performance of
health chores."
Shades of our farmer-fathers!
Memories ef our childhood! Ali,
those "automatic health chores."' of
yor e!
Willie would climb i;do his clothes
at daybreak, bring in a p. til of wuter
from the well, chop in annfu! of
wood and start a lire: in the kite lion
Kove lor mother to make breakfast.
While she was doing it he would go
out and water and feed the hortes
and milk the cows. Alter breakfast
he would gather some vegetaMes
from the garden, do a few errands
and then run along lo school, win re
it felt good Just to lei i. ble to sit.
When he got back in Ihe afternoon
he would work in the garden and
churn the butter and maybe h lj
a bit with tho wishing, and then
when the men came home from tho
f.elds, he would help unharness the
horses, and water an i feed their and
bed them down, and tarry in tome
more waor for mother, an sp!:t
some- kindling, and catch and kill a
chicken or two. and fed the pUs
and it:- chickens anl take st me
things to the neighb . and fit h s
supper, and then, if there was no
thing . lso to do, he could FO to bed.
And Susde oh. she would help
mother get the breakfast, and wait
on the men folks, and then eat b.rr
own breakfast and wipe the dishs
and run along to school, and when
she gt back she would sweep and
dust and make beds .and prepare
vegetables for supper and wait on
the men folks and wipe the dishes
and feed the chickens and set the
table for breakfast and help mother
with tho sewing. And on Situr
d;.ys of course there was always
lonie real work, and when th ve w if
nothing r'.se doing in partirulir.
there was tanning or apple-butter
making or takintr ran- -f the thresh
ers or some other diversion.
"Health chores." indeed! Ar.d the
r resent generation h is to have them
taught in hool, like an arithmetic
:,i;on. The nation must b dnK n-eating.
HIGH REXTS CAUSING
RETURN TO THE FARM
By Markham Thurston)
Ther" is a growing V.e'.ie f that high
rents and the general hisch cost of
livinir in the eities may r.ot. be an
unmixed evil after ail. Th'-y may
have tho eff. ' t of -.Musing many
persons to return to the f irms and
disc otir.igir.g many oth'is who p!au
to move to town. And if th-re n
any r-ne Unrig that will help to !t:::
conditions to normal it is .t re-urn
to the land.
Many farmers are inclined to
magnify the opportunities of living
in the itie? through comparison
the high wages paid in industry with
returns from work on th farm
They fail to take into account the
high rent. and the fart that th v
consumers
te
d
A lot of people appear to live i. 1
this country, just :n order to haw .
the right t r''ire It and cu. it
names and :. lot r.t peop! appear
to keep on Ii t w itii evh other for ; rural dlv.rict-, attracted by the !u
the sam1? roasor..
1 't-O'Pli
ducers.
t f course the costs of opn'in a
farm hav greatly increased i:i r -cent
ypir.s; but while thse costs
aro greater, the cost of living !:.
urban communities ha.- aIco in-
reased. a.- any farmer who move
to town wil! soon discov e-r.
Mueh 'f the increase in populi
tion of our cities, as annound !
the census bureau, mny be crej.t.l
to th" influx of persons fr"m th
The rerccrd
'love that
makes tl.- world ,m 'rourd appears
o h?-e d- rertsed In prop, rtion to
the percentage of ald-hol in the
th-ngs that used to .-tart it grdng thAt
way.
of employment at good wnt-' s Those
who look longingly to the city f-..r
reüef from agricultural werk should
not fail to take into account th--certainty
that rents and tro other
items of living will offset to a
extent any adar.tai;s the r;;i
have gained by quitting the- farm.
Hope For Russi(t
In Her Weakness
Not Her Strength
iBy Arthur II. Rr;i.
Fit nu::y dadr Kt:?:a w:h
her vast pop-station ccr.5t:tue d .
constant ourre of apprf her; r.
the nations ,f j;,;r, ,?. i;-.-.;i - 1---sir-
fi r a warm w.it r p rt a r.- th
means vi-.e nicht take to .t 'air-, it
caused a fear f. '--.-V wA ,,- j , '
ev.ry head of government.
ItussM dif at. I Turkey ;n 1 5 7 7 - 7 i.
it was a cone, rt of powers th.it pre
vtrted her from reap::'-? the fr :;t.
f'f her military v!;to:y '.cm-;.--- it
would give b.- r predominance th
w as difturbir g.
Ore-at Hritatn fear! f-r Inlio
though ainn s-t i:,s ,pr.il '.e V irr.- : -wouM
needs t-e surnv-unted b- f .
Russii could really thrm'-r.
country. Ir. fact, every gr at rv;.;
of Kurope kept its eyes i.n !;;'- i
because It was believed she h.vi '"
strength to acconip i.-h anythir: g s:.
might undertake. It was hr r
rnous man-power that const; :
the menace. Her upward f -e'"".000
cf people was thcul.t ;
bo an Inevhaust ih!e r -rv ir f r - : -1
which to draw itiength for h-r
armlt s.
It 1". as hern shown, however. ".1". i '.
mu.-h of the far th tt ltus-s. 1 ; -spired
was groundless. Jap i:,
ears ago demonstrated th it 4
had we.a k m sses that supped her vi
tality. Her failure ;:: the Ii.; t
was another illustration that s
was mueh Ifss to be ftared a ri
enemy th tn. had been rusp t--I
Kussii had ar.d, still has the : . t u -po'.vt
r. She has a bund ir.t !e
veloped tes'.urc s. But man-po-.v .
without capability in gutdmee
wi'ho-.t js i-rop. r f -tc.-. K u- i
UM put m.uiy ni n in the : . 1.
but nun not properly ,u;pp d. v-n:tio-.d
,,nd ration- d ate ::.e tte--. . .
'orruption m h r go rr. w t
wrought the ruin cf her a u lb
authorities lacked h.on.-r. Tl. y en
riched th. tns. Iv- s at the ep f
their country's life.
Russia r.e, 1 m-wr hue 1 e. j
feared had th' m- who dr-adcd I'.r
por looked bereit!) til' surface.
They sho-iM have seen thV s;,.-
lacked in trar.sporTati- n. she lacke 1
the d'!o..d r.sourcs that rr-i'.-li
a nainn to prosecute a sure. - f - j 3
war, h. r authorities lacked b.c.n.
She h.ol ootenti.al force. 1 ut tlLL
eieiicy in directing tnat I"re m
wanting. That Ilussli t-d.iy :.i
fleeing before the w, : r-ve a ry sol
diers ef I'oland .h"-.s thit Ru ii
has mt improved ur.i.-r the tu! f
the bo?die istS. Its g V r r Tl . " t
heads are- still of the urtv'-rupuloi;
type that led the lu.-slan irmi '
defeat in other conflicts.
That out o.' the hundred and od 1
millions The bolshevi.-t.s are able to
put in the tie Id 00 greater arm'.-0
shows that they r pr-.-. nt n -t hr
aspirations cf the real Russ: m p o-
pb . Were the- heart f Russ.a wi'h
tlo- bolshe i-t like the l'es stand
for th ir national restoration
Russ.ans would be aM to eve r
wh Tft! Roland by no re numbei-
without making great Use- of th.- im
plements r.f war. Rmsta ,s a nv..i
tary power Is still weak b ca u.-e- !vi
is net capably led in a cans- : 1
which she has r.o zea!.
Yet Russia pi' ss s prteni. il
force that we.uld be we'd-nigh irr
sif t:ue were hrr millions, unified in
a. cause and capably and hon .'".-
directed. If the time ever
when Russia secures an fi- :
honest, upright and uit a gov
ernment, if it rises to :h- ;-l
where jtS people ( njoy the b'. ' -.:)g-!
of a just government under law. :t
it progresses to the p "-in wh.ejc
population is lilted ut i f ; i
ignorance, if its r eso-,:re s are !
veloped in keeping with, twenti h
century jirepr ss. t!.rn may Ru.i
be ftarteJ by any nati"n or io.t!;,;..,i
that arouses her anger. It ;- tr-.-that
her disorder d state is now a
menace and a great (:. , hut .1 :. n
ace slight onipar. d 'Aitli what It
would be did the linbh' v)'! r-pi-sep.t
me.re than a snail !:,:::i-r:b'
of the- nisiin p ;d .
It is well, iii'ii !. for n .t ;
that the b''ishe is'.s are h :.:- app. I
by Russ.an ir. rtn s.'. W re th-.-lacked
by the rr.tir' nia r. - pow . r of
the world would
1 . a r 1 : .
I is w.
that the ram ;:;flt;. t that :-
niled to neutralize the- power !
Russia in the wars in wh: !: -l" ' -gag'd
operate new b s.y the
re ss ef li.-iriM rous b" rr.;: -.s the .r
recognize.! as -.-ntial'y Ru- -.f :.
Russia's we-akn d -p!t ';.! r ::
hers may prf'e :ii- s if ' y ' r'.il-iza'ion.
lrOMAXS PARTY Wf T
FIGHT TO SAVE FIGHT
( By Mary Wins?--:, )
Th.- suffrage p. cht !..;s e?e t . d t
r.e-.v phase. Now thit ti.e wo;.-., n
have wop, they are s'art.r.g t
over the v.ctory. Ii l" a uu . 1
what they shall do -Aith :..ir
power.
There are thrc V.':r.' t j ; '-.-a'.-.
"'n- 1 that a s ; ar.i-'- wo-. v. -
fiarty be '-rga r. iz.i d. ui'h a -lis;-.-: '
feminist pintfe.rm and at; 1. bit-The-
econd is that a s'ror. g ..-.r.
organi.atlori b- maintain -1. ' ' "
operat- as a p dtlMl par'; , b .- 1
exert i's mtlu'-i.c on : :. ; i- .- ',
. . Y- .....
agams' v. om-n. Th
t he.
v.-on; in
it' rage orr
ti-at ha- row sue , p. "
imni'-diate aim sh.all e a-e- .
.and thr- j -.;.! ers r?'- c
with the- -xi-t ir. g ; arti. a: ' w--here-after
'e a ' e. . n 1 pi is :. t
reforms within the?- p.trtie-
The la-t of th ; i-- - : '
ore d. appare r.tly. bv r. : '
?h- ("nl"p i ;.; u:"f r : lr . b r- 1
a !.- on.! ends ;ts-lf :.' "o .;-i-'e
r-s- 1 --Mii-rs. i- ale- an '. f -. 1
It has tho ad a r.i.a-' ' '. 1 1
a? w -ll as p..liti-
Tlo- s- iffr.g'.st r. rc - n . 1 1 "
:a m.ed
1 1 5
vit thv
rr. :-.t i ger
i!i.;r- ;r, it :zen.r--p. an . ' - ".
t. , rlir.; irate- th e old x -a r.f a
i-.fM'i of w r ku r. g sr. u.-i. r t
shi-uld'-r with the trey v.;;
if.fitir.g nx ar.MC'::;' ' :". a r.
form tl.-it ir.a' ' w-.r.-e f.. a. a
the old It v-U'.l i" ':''-. i" iio'.t
colb-. i .-;- or .par:'
th.- nir. t. nth ' :
ing s. a j.ernia' -f..
an-1 !raw;nr a.--;::.-' t:
bit t'-rr.e .-
:rt. p
' 1 :-.9
ut r -.- n. k
ti !"t-'f t
What a s l-e . e f ''u.
i'.r.ed man h ?. h.s r." put-ivn
en being po.-r but h--:.es;?
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