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DISARMING THE C1TZEN
Down in California recently a girl killed her
mother because the latter reprimanded her for at
tending roadhouse jazz dances. Whereupon the
intelligent coroner's jury returned a verdict of ad
vocating the suppression of the sale of revol
vers. This is in line with the verdict returned in
south Florida several years ago, when a negro kill
ed a white man with an axe The jury recom
mended the sale of axes to negroes should he dis
continued. The auto today is one of our most con
venient accessories to bank bandits and hold-ups,
yet one never sees its abolition advocated. Many
murders are committed over women, but that is no
sign the race should be killed off. Many persons
eat their way into an early grave, yet their teeth
are not pulled. Considerable sentiment lias been
expressed over the land in regard to persons owning
and carrying revolvers, and at the present time a
bill is before congress forbidding the shipment of
these arms. All of which is duck soup for the
criminal, who could proceed about his robberies un
molested and unafraid. The bandit who knows his
victim is prepared shies off from him. When the
James boys entered Xorthfield, Minn., many years
ago, they found so warm a reception that they were
speedily driven off and the Younger boys captured,
by the fact that every citizen had a weapon handy.
In the Blue Cut robbery by the same gang, station
agent Bridges put up so lively a resistance with a
single action Colts that they were driven off with
out securing any spoils. It is true the criminal
carries a gun, and that he often uses it. But to
disarm the citizen would be to place him absolutely
at his mercy, where none would be needed, a piece of
gas pipe being as effectual. Every citizen in a
bandit infested country should be armed, and should
be taught to use them. olicemen have killed more
innocent spectators by promiscuous revolver firing
than have crooks, blit they are not advocating dis
armament.
By all means take away the only chance a citi
zen has of resisting a thug, and see if the crime
wave lessens.
SIREN IS IIAXDY FOR HOUSEWIFE
Fire Chief Lanning, who fingers the keyboard
on the city's siren, playing sancous melodies at
noontime, has a job that is no sinecure. Besides
looking out for fires, keeping up the fireball, shov
eling snow and keeping the sewers unstopped, Mar
tin is compelled to stand by at eight bells on the
starboard watch and inform the good housewife that
her husband is coming home hungry. Being on the
job has given the fire chief a proficiency in playing
the siren that causes even Flanagan’s pup to wail
and moan. However, the siren is a great conveni
ence as well as a nuisance. Sometime it will blow
without warning and some hand is going to drop
something on his foot in his anxiety to quit work.
The recent cold snap has set a new mark for
conversation in local pool halls. Never in the
history of the oldest inhabitant has it been cold for
so long a period of duration, and never has the wind
blown so cold and so long at a time. At Windy, a
heavenly spot on the government railroad, named
after one of our former railroad executives, a heavy
gale was blowing Sunday, with the mercury frozen
at 54 below. If you do not think this is cold ask
grandpap. At Fairbanks the postoffice closed
down and a heavy fog hung over the land. The
moonshiner packed his wares in sawdust and sold
it in chunks. Even the mein of a heavy creditor
was not so frosty as the air in the interior mertopo
lis. The malamutes crawled into the snowbanks
and the electric street lights froze solid. Sixty
eight below zero is not a comfortable climate to do
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ONE SHOW 8:00 P. M.
BETTY COMPSON
and Conway Tearle
IN HERBERT BRENON’S
“The Rustle of Silk”
A SEVEN REEL FEATURE JUST SUITED TO THE POWERFUL ACTING
OF THESE TWO STARS
AND AN EXTRA GOOD TWO REEL PATHE COMEDY
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A QUIET STREET”
one’s daily dozen in, and by tho time the residents
thaw out it will be far along toward spring. But
one blessing attended the freeze-up. The oldtimer
can not tell how cold it was in ’98.
Musicians of Eastern States are trying to legis
late jazz out of existence. It will be pretty hard
to legislate anything out of use that sends the de
licious shivers up one’s spine when the BB saxo
phone breaks loose. Classical music, like Worth
gowns, is a necessity to some persons, but for a gen
uine foot-patting, shimmy-shaking, tangoing tune
give us jazz. Jazz is the frosting on-the cake, the
lemon with the oyster. It tickles all palates and
levels all castes. The stately dowager and the adol
escent flapper can caper to its weird harmonics with
equal vigor. It is the rejuvenator of the age. The
grandma and grandpa of seventy are equally frisky
when the band begins to play, and anything that
can cause a one-legged man to shimmy is good for
the human race.
BCRBANK, NATURE AND SWEETER
SWEET CORN.
Isaak Walton wrote that “God might have made
a better berry than the strawberry, but God never
did.” Tt might be said that nature has produced
| the sweetest sweeta corn that can be produced, but
Luther Burbank has proved that it is not so. With
the benefiicent aid of nature, Burbank has presented
to the world as a Christmas present a new table
corn that is declared to be sweeter, hardier and more
productive than any variety heretofore known. Be
sides, thefamous Californian—again with the assist
ance of Moth Nature—has perfected a new variety
of high quality wheat that has taken a wonderful
hold throughout the wheat growing nations of the
world. During the present year he perfected two new
varieties of flowers—the gladiolus and the zinna—
both of which are said to possess more delicate color
tints and shades of much larger than the older var
ieties. Burbank is popularly referred to as a plant
wizard. The appelation is not wide of the mark.
Yet he is merely demonstrating repeatedly the old
adage that God helps those who help themselves.
Possibly he will upset Issak Walton’s assertion re
garding the strawberry before he is through.
There is a new cure for a divorce evil. Let the
scientists frame the mariage laws and legislators will
not have to worry about the divorce laws, says an
eastern professor. It looks as if we were in for an
other siege of eugenics.
A British savant asserts that modern civiliza
tion is changing men’s faces—for the better. Civi
lization need not worry until it has made them two
faced.
A woman on board a steamship in the Atlantic
last week contributed to the heroism of the crew
by playing a ukulele while the sailors battled with
fire on board. Fortunately for those on board the
liner, it was not a saxophone.
Breaks World Record
For Rolling Stogies
MANCHESTER, N. H., Jan. 23 —
What is believed to be a new world’s
cigarmaking record has been estab
lished at the R. G. Sullivan factory
by Oscar Van Wymersch, who rolled
some 4,500 cigars in a week. As yet
no other cigarmaker can be found
who ever rolled that number in forty
eight hours, the average cigarmaker
rolling about 2,000.
In setting the new record, Van
Wymersch bettered the factory’s day
production record when he rolled 784
cigars. The previous record of 764
was held by Rober Wills,another wiz
ard cigarmaker at the same institu
tion.
There are two kinds of parents:
[ good ones and the kind that expect
i their children to be a help to them.
FOUR BELOW THIS MORNING
Local weather observers reported
four degrees below this morning at 8
o’clock. George Long has joined the
crowd around the pool hall stoves,
a sure indication the weather has
moderated.
Once there was a small boy who
did not have a secret ambition to be
a pirate.
Nothing else makes time pass so
quickly as a ninety day note.
There is no fool like an old fool,
but the one of 16 is a close second.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—Game birds of
j many species bred on the 50,000-acre
j hunting preserve of the Pacific Coast
! Sportsmen’s Club, in California, will
| be used to stock wild coverts in every
; state in the Union, according to an
| nouncement here by Frederick Sims,
j chairman of the board of organization.
“The preserve will breed 250,000
; wild fowl annually,” said Mr. Sims.
| “The varieties will be ring-neck phea
j sant, quail, wild - turkey. Hungarian
| partridge, oscillated wild turkey of
j Central America, prairie chicken and
tinamou of South America. Ten per
| cent of all fowls raised will be dis
1 tributed thru national societies.”
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Yes! no autos
today!
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