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SIDE BY. SIDE
The Christian Science Monitor printed
recently on one of its front pages a picture
showing the flags of the United States and
Canada flying side by side on the summit of
the White Pass, marking the boundary line
between Alaska and BrTish Columbia (Can
ada). Not a soldier was to be seen, not a
gun. The picture was the perfect presenta
tion of a monumental piece of evidence in
favor of the theory that nations that dare
to live in peace may live in peace—evidence
which is consistently ignored by spouting
cynics who shudder before all adventures in
faith.
If everybody in America is making illi
cjt moonshine how come this surplus corn
crop that the farmers are worrying about?
With five murderers put to death in
one day in various parts of the country the
government makes a record jn law enforce
ment that should—but won’t—have a most
salutary effect.
NO DANGER
A professor predicts that in another
thousand years there won’t be standing
room on this earth for the increased pop
ulation. Don’t worry!—by that time the
Florida realtors will have discovered Alas
ka—“Seward’s Folly.”
SEWARD’S FOLLY
Alaska has already contributed hand
somely to the fish supply of the nation; now
re*ndeer meat from its great herds is to be
brought to the ta.bles of the multitude.
What would the critics of “Seward’s Fol
ly” have said if they had known the iceberg
he was supposed to have purchased would
one day feed dwellers throughout the entire
world?
Personal liberty may be “a blot on the
nation” but it must be admitted that at the
rate we're going in another two years you'll
need the Lick observatory telescope to see it.
THRASHING OLD STRAW
There is no disposition in the country to
keep the Philippines a part of the republic
against the will of the majority, provided it
can be definitely demonstrated that they can
keep afloat if cut loose- But to argue that j
they possess the right to secede and form a
separate government is to thrash over again
straw like that which burst into flame dur
ing the thrashing two generations ago, caus
ing the conflagration known as the civ’L
war.
M. Peret is now convinced that the!
franc can’t be stabilized until the war debts
are. funded. Some people who are deaf to
logic and reason can be pretty quickly con
vinced by practical demonstration.
With President Coolidge coming out
for farm relief legislation the prospect of
Congress coming out of Washington by
July goes glimmering. j
FEDERAL RETIREMENT
Prospects for the passage of a liberal
*zed Federal employes’ retirement law ap
pears much brighter after Senator Stan
field of Oregon, chairman of the Senate civil
service committee, reported favorably a hill
not materially different from that which
was originally drafted. Virtually the only
change made in the bill as reported and that
which the committee favored in the first in
stance is in the setting of age limits, the
committee having fixed the age of retire
ment for executive employes at 65 years in
stead of making retirement optional with
employes after 30 years' service regardless
of age. The age of retirement for mail
clerks was left at 62 as at present instead of
lowering it to 60 as was proposed.
In its present form the Stanfield ML is
; much the same as that passed 1 y the Sen
ate last year and which died in the House.
The Senate bill will now take its place on
■ the calendar, and Senator Stanfield and o:h
! er friends of the clerks are confident it will
I pass, perhaps witltn two weeks. Inasmuch
! as the chances are Congress will not be a Me
to adjourn before the middle of May or the
| first of June, liberalized retirement legisia
: tion appears to be on the high road to enact
j ment.
Sir Esme Howard predicts that one day
| to be judge of the International Supreme
j Court will be considered as the highest of
human honors but it’ll be a sorry day for
America, indeed, when H*s Honor outranks
the President of the United States.
House wives complain that eggs seem
to be small these days Xo doubt, the hens
are giving soM support to President Cool
idge’s program of national economy.
RAILROAD MERGERS
Railroad mergers are^ftot su much in
the public eye as they were a few months
ago, but there are ind cations that a good
deal is going on beneath the surface to expe
dite the business of co: solidation.
Amendment in sor e important particu
lars of the Cummins bid, which would brine
; about compulsory mergers, fits in with the
| belief that pending negotiations between
railroad executives may accomplish more
than effort by Congress to force the situs-;
tion. The per*od in which the roads are per
mitted to work out their own scheme of
consolidation, has been extended from three
to five years, thus meeting the objections
that the bill sought to bring about mergers
in t ooshort a time in view of the enormous
interests involved and the difficult problems
to be solved. The recapture clause has been
materially changed, and other amendments
in the original bill add to its flexibility and
seem to invite more earnest effort on the
part of the roads to carry out the purpose
sought.
This proposed treaty with Engfead
whereby Britain % to agree to prohibit the
exportation of liquor to rum row sounds as
if maybe Uncle Sam might have to pay to©
stiff a price.
If European newspapers do not cease
poking fun at America the thing we ought
to do is to stop sending them the Congres
sional Record.
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
Tuxedos and full evening dress of hor
izon blue, browns and other shades are pre
dicted by Dennis Bradley,, Bond street ar
biter of men’s fashions. By the time the
tailors get through w th us well probably
look like blooming birds of Paradise.
An insurance statistitican reports that it
costs $6,167 to rear a girl, and $6,077 to rear
a boy to the age of IS years—but doesn\
tell us whether the expenditure should be
classed as an investment or as a speculation.
Fellows, we may as well give up. We
are licked. We thought there might be a
chance for us yet, but yesterday we saw a
girl strike a match with her thumb nail to
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