Show II I Timely T Topics o ics I SOVEREIGN PANAMA One reason retson why few Americans have regarded the dispute and threatened war between Costa Rica and Panama as anything but a a. Joke is s t that at they have haveS have thought of ot the republic of ot Panama as as- mostly a joke To them the idea of that puppet nation having any will of oC its Us own as against the United States has seemed our government used grave language about about- her sovereign rights and her beIng being being be be- ing entitled to be admitted to the sisterhood of ot nations But But at the time it was generally felt that President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay must have chuckled to each other as as they discoursed eloquently of oC lanaman sovereignty a I of ot so Int International law however hoever is international law and anda I a a. treaty is a treat treaty Under both of oC them the republic 0 of Panama has a recognized dignity which she the may assert a as loftily as if she were the oldest and and biggest nation on earth So that when President I Porras Porras- telegraphs to President Harding that Panama is pained and humiliated by the peremptory note from Crom our state department the thing cannot be passed off ore with a smile smile smile-at at t least not with an official smile The grandeur of ot national sovereignty so which we taught Panama In 1903 she apparently will now execute and may mary even en better our Instruction 2 ew ew York Times President Harding t says ays he stands for an America of homes Illuminated with hope and happiness Now ow if he will show us how to do It Jt th there re will be a a. big bigI sa saving In our electric lI light ht bills New New ew Orleans States I That New ew York Judge who refused to have ha a a. blonde blonder girl sit on a Jury should be consistent and see to It that I r there are no blonde defendants Syracuse S Herald I I. I We Ve suppose the reason they call em ru rum rings is because there is no end to em Dayton em Dayton News |