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POISONOUS DRINK
By Walt Mason
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The “jake” described as ging
ery, that’s sold for 40 cents, has
done unmeasured injury to
countless locoed gents. They
drink the stuff from chalices in
some sequestered den, and then
they have paralysis, and never
walk again. Man takes a drink
cf aconite, disguised as colic
sure, then lies upon his back o’
night, with pains he can’t en
dure. Upon his pallet pillowy he
lies and groans all day, and
thinks of bayous billowy, whose
waters do not slay .He thinks
about the water main whose
contents used to cheer such men
as Alan Quatermain, and Robert
J. Elsmere. The water’s always
drinkable, and who would pass
it up for poisons most unthink
able, served in a dirty cup? Thq
water of a cataract man drinks
without pain, and always, by
that latter act, he shows that he
is sane. The beaker you are fing
ering invites you to the hearse;
it means death that’s lingering,
despair, and all things worse.
The men who are dispensing it,
and grinning in the act—and
doubtless they are sensing it—
are murderers in fact. They poi
son with impunity the young,
the strong, the fair, and then
they have immunity from the
electric chair. I take the stal
wart attitude—though I may be
a chump—that we should show
our gratitude to those who boost
the pump.
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“ALIEN RADICALS”
In its closing hours, Congress
has been considering another
bill aimed at alien radicals; and
ar is so often the case these
measures, it is a thoroughly in
defensible one. The bill in ques
tion would make adherence to
communism automatic grounds
for deportation for any alien. It
is so loosely drawn that under it
any foreign college professor ex
plaining the principles of Marx
in the classroom might be de
ported. Membership in any or
ganization affiliated, however
indirectly, with the Communist
International would also be
grounds for deportation, re
gardless of the fact that organi
zations, like individuals, are
quite capable of changing their
minds. While expulsion from the
country awaits the Communist
who proposes to overthrow a
government by force, there is a
specific exemption for the alien
who plans to overthrow a Com
munist government anywhere
by force. In short, this bad bill
displays at its worst the nar
rowness, prejudice and un
Americanism which so often
mark the attitude of the De
partment of Labor in its deal
ings with foreigners.—The New
Republic.
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PROFITS FOR
GASBAG OWNERS
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It will warm the cockles of
your heart, we know, to learn
that in these days of “economy”
congress recently passed a bill to
hand from $7,000,000 to $10,000,
000 a year to an airship company
for trundling a dirigible back
and forth across the Pacific.
All the airship company has
to do is carry one letter, and it
will get $35 a mile. A round trip
to the Orient will net it $350,000!
Its entire operating cost for the
trip couldn’t possibly be more
than one-tenth of that amount. |
The ship itself would cost only
$5,000,000—and so the lucky
owners would make double the
cost price every year. Thej
wouldn’t have to carry a singl«
passenger to pile up enormous
profits—all paid from taxes.
We already ladle out million!
to steamship concerns at rates
varying from $12 to $35 a mile
We pay huge subsidies to private
concerns for flying the airmail
Now we’re starting in to guar
antee big profits for the gasbag
owners.
Sweat on, Taxpayer; sweat on1
—Seattle Star.
And there is no “Subsidy” foi
the Soldiers of the World War.
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SENATOR NORRIS ON REPEAI
“Outright repeal of the eight
eenth amendment would take
several years. I have been a pro.
hibitionist and I believe in il
now as much as ever, but I can’1
get away from the fact that il
hasn’t been satisfactory.
“I am not sure but that we
have tried it long enough to be
sure it won’t be satisfactory, bul
I don’t want to leave it wiefe
open.
“It may be that modificatioi:
of the Volstead act will be a
necessary experiment that we
will have to try, which I think
we can do under the constitu
tion. If we are going to try an
other experiment we could give
a different definition to intoxi
cating liquor by increasing the
alcoholic content. That will en
,able congress to tax any bever
age with an alcoholic content
that comes below that definition
r Feel The Way
“I have been thinking serious
ly of the problem for six months
But no matter how much I have
believed in prohibition, I can’t
close my eyes to the fact that
the country seems to be the oth
er way and that enforcement
seems to be a failure. I don’t
Know tnat tms will be any bet
ter. We will have to feel our wav
and follow some of the sugges
tions of the Wickersham com
mission. I don’t want to be a
crank about it, but I have been
terribly disappointed in the way
the law has worked out.
“I am not sure but that it is
the best way out and incidental
ly* it would bring in new revenue
and that appeals to me.”
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THE HONEST REPUBLICANS
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One feature of the Republican
Convention deserves unstinted
praise. It was honest. The coun
| try now knows exactly what the
jparty is and stands for; and if
’the voters proceed to reelect Mr.
Hoover, it is their own fault.
They can’t say they weren’t
warned.—The New Republic.
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TWO NATIONS
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“Two nations; between whom
there is no intercourse and no
sympathy; who are as ignorant
of each other’s habits, thoughts
and feelings, as if they were
dwellers in different zones, or
inhabitants of different planets;
who are formed by a different
breeding, are fed by a different
food, are ordered by different
manners and are not governed
by the same laws.the Rich
and the Poor.”—Disraeli.
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BLAMES SCHOOLS FOR
FILLING OF PRISONS
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Warden Lewis E. Lawes of
Sing Sing prison, declared that
the failure of American educa
tion methods to mold character
is filling juvenile homes, reform
atories and penitentiaries.
Speaking before the conven
tion of the national education
association, Lawes credited the
school system with having re
duced illiteracy to a minimum,
■ but maintained that “its insist
ence on scholastics has left no
room, for character training.”
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WAS W. J. BRYAN RIGHT
By J. R. Little (“Sourdough”)
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One’s memory goes back to
the exciting days of 1896 when
William Jennings Byran thrilled
the world with his famous
speech in Chicago, and started
the United States throbbing with
an agigitated discussion of mon
ey. Mr. Byran, to his last breath
maintained that he was right;
that what was needed to bring
good times was more money in
j circulation. This he proposed to
bring about by the free coinage
cf silver which was to be placed
in a relationship to gold at a
ratio of sixteen to one. Mr.
■ Bryan always insisted that the
great influx of gold followed
shortly after the heated cam
, paign between himself and Mc
Kinley as a vindication of his
claim that more money in cir
; dilation would mean better
times. '
Today the average man is out
of money. He has no work to do
by which to earn more money.
He cannot borrow any money;
he cannot sell, except at a sac
rifice, any of his property in or
der to obtain money. A condition
jsuch as exists today is indeed
i sufficient cause for our harking
buck to the days of free silver
and dwell once more upon Mr.
Bryan’s argument for more
money. Even the most severe of
Mr. Bryan’s critics have said
frankly that Mr. Bryan was in
the right more often than in the
wrong. Maybe the fact is he was
right in the silver contention.
There is not a person who has
been broke or on the verge of it
who has not experienced the
electrical thrill following the
earning of a few dollars. The
feel of money in his pocket
thrilled him through and
through and put new hope, new
aspiration, new vigor in him. He
could put on a new suit, touch
up his person, and face the
world a new man. What a bless
ing it would be if every man out
of work and broke today could
but experience a feeling of this
kind even for a few weeks.
! The whole thought force of
the country would be switched
| ever night into a mighty, dyna
mic expression of faith in our
J country, and all it takes is con
jfidence to restore us again to
| our normal selves—bring us
back to the good old American
spirit of achievement.
Today, the gold standard is
tottering, and it is scarcely ne
cessary to reiterate what is al
ready known. But for emphasis,
let me remind you that Great
Britain and a few other coun
tries have already abandoned
the gold standard. The United
States and France hold control
of the gold supply, but so far as
the United States is concerned,
the gold supply is entirely in
adequate for our own use at
home.
Many of our leading states
men are looking favorably upon
bringing back silver and raising
again the question of bi-metal
ism. Is it not possible to revive
at. this time an interest in Mr.
Bryan’s contentions? We have
idle silver mines ready to pro
duce. The mines are ready, with
a little brushing up of machin
ery and pumping out of water,
to go right ahead producing.
This would give immediate work
to thousands of men. it would
'put more money into circulation.
More money, as I have stated
would stimulate the confidence
of men. Confidence would start
the wheels of mills, factories,
whirling. Confidence would put!
money into our pockets and
start us buying again. Don’t
you think, dear people, that we
have touched the vital spot ini
our present-day conditions? j
A PRIZE EDITORIAL I
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Editor’s note—The following
editorial, written by R. D.
Soule, columnist for the Mil- !
bank (S.D.) Herald-Advance,
was awarded the gold make
up rule at the recent News
paper day at South Dakota
State college, Brookings, for I
the best editorial of the year. 1
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Here we stand, perched on the
brink of a brand new year. Be
fore us lie 365 unsullied days to
do with what we will. All that
the last will and testament of
old Father Time contained was
the legacy of hours, minutes,
days and weeks. Precious gifts,
those, if we are not afraid to use
them to the best advantage.
Not as individuals, not as
states, not as a nation have we
been solely cowards the past
year, but taking us as a whole
there has been little to recom
mend us for hero awards for the
manner in which we have utiliz
ed the past twelve months that
came to us just as clean and
promising a year ago as the new
year comes to us tomorrow.
Collectively we harbored the
idea that it couldn’t be undone.
No one man or even no group of |
men could have done a great |
deal to improve the lot of all of i
us, but with the dawn of 19311
came the opportunity to do j
things for our nation and the!
world. We passed up the oppor- 1
tunity, and just as surely will we
pass the one offered with the
advent ot 1932 unless we can1
change our attitude from cowed I
pessimism to smiling optimism. — I
I Herald-Advance. S. D.
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DEPRESSION FORCES OUT
MILLIONS OF AUTOS
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One million less automobiles
will be in operation this summer
and autumn than during the
same period last year, according
to an estimate made this year
by the Federal Oil Conservation
Board.
The Board figures this will
mean a reduction of 22,389,000
barrels of motor fuel uced dur
ing the last 9 months of 1932,
and depression is the cause of ii
all, declares the board.
THEY SHOULD BE SATISFIED
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The last consignment of a
shipment of almost one million
paper boxes arrived at the Na
keen plant of the Naket Packing
Company recently on a boat of
the Alaska Steamship Company
from Seattle. The entire ship
ment is believed to be the largest
consignment of boxes to one
canner received at Alyaskan
ports this year.
Four ships carried it to the
Waterfall, Hidden Inlet, Union
Bay and Nakeen plants of the
packing concern. The boxes will
be filled with salmon and the
other products of the company
and re-shipped to American
ports. This type of solid fibre
containers has continued to re
place heavier materials for ship
ping, exporters report.
The boxes were made by Ro
bert Gaylord, Inc., of St. Louis,
Mo., In transit from Oakland,
Calif., on a coastwise steamer
the cargo was divided into four
lots at Seattle, and transferred
from one boat to several others
for the trip to the four Alaskan
ports. Maneuvers involved in the
transfer on Puget Sound are
said to have attracted attention
up and down the Pacific coast
The last consignment left Seat
tle May 26.
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The stage is all set for the
battle of ballots—Hoover versu
Roosevelt. The riders on the
band wagon are looking for ar
easy place to light.
White women still marry pro
hibition snoopers, says an Ore
gonian correspondent. And blinc
pigs are everywhere, out-num
bering all the open saloons o
the good old days.
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