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Show i The aviation killings get more tfrc-Hj tfrc-Hj quent and moro queer. ' ' McEeynolds reversed and com-mended'-' is about the way ifc sizes up. The Eastern journalist who advises those who quarrel with fashion legisla-tion legisla-tion to consult Plato, probably thinks he is a Parisian modiste. The bumptious Briton who say6 that Andrew Caruefiio is feeble-minded would do well not to risk any money on his opinion in a financial deal with him. Senator Poindexter's bill for an in-dustrial in-dustrial army, provides for an "indus-trial "indus-trial general" at $3000 a year, with quarters and rations. Anything to in-crease in-crease the pie! HI The man who advertises for a wife II who will obey him evidently wants to HH invest in a gold briek. Why doesn't WM he advertiso for something he is likely WM to get a wife who will promise to obey The idea of revising the currencj' HI laws was supposed to be to separate the HH Government from the banking busi-WM busi-WM ness; but currency reform as proposed seems to be to separate the banks from MR their reserves. Chief Murphy beats Governor Sulzer HI and Col. Roosevelt combined on the H direct primary bill in Now York, de-HH de-HH feating it easily. They went out and H talked to the people; he stayed at home H and issued quiet orders. ' v H Tn view of official recklessness in re- H gard to the Diggs-Caminetti case in H California, some administration organs H are eagerly calling for the dropping of H the offensive term "white slave" in H connection with -that traffic. How the H mixture of politics with vice does make H evil things seem common! H An Eastern contemporary asks "Why H does tho man who wants a front seat H in the theater always prefer a back H pew in a church.?" Evidently with an H eve on "baldhead row.?? But what H evidence is there that occupants of HI these front seats have any preference HI at all in church pews, or occupy them? HH Tho excesses committed in Durango HI by the Mexican rebels arc a direct in- Hfl vitatiori almost compulsory in its na- HB ture for intervention to stop the atro- HI cities. The suicide of fort' women on HI account, of abusive treatment indicates H the existence of a condition of honor H unspeakable, such as is hard for hu- Hl inanity to allow in this day and age. Accounts from the Gettysburg field H suggest unpreparedness and an ineffic- H iency for which some one should cer- H tainly be held to account, and the blame H fixed. There had been ample time for HI preparation, and ample means were H available; and now to find no shelter H Tcady, in spite of the assurances that H there were ample tents in place, is a H shocking scandal. Tho report, that the H eteraus are leaving as rapidly as spe- H rial trains can be made up to take them H awav is the severest comment tliat could H possibly bo mado on the discouraging conditions they find. H Secretary Daniels is a very sound- H thinking gentleman when he says of H the red flag: "The flag that symbol-H symbol-H tees no feeling of loyalty, no love of H country, no call for pence and order, H but which is unfurled in token of an-H an-H tagonism to our guiding principles, has H no place on our free soil. America is H still the refuge of tho oppressed, but H the grant of asylum does not give im-H im-H munity to hostile demonstrations by an organized conspiracy bent on over-throwing over-throwing the government and the flag under whose protecting folds they -were H privileged to foregather. If we find that we have taken a reptile into our j bosom, a sense of danger should prompt us to cast it out." Portland Oregonian: "Secretary of Agriculture Houston has made a good Hj beginning at putting lifo into tho pure-Hl pure-Hl foot) law by applying it to meat, as -was its obvious intent. Now let him re-store re-store authority to tho crippled bureau j of chemistry and take it away from the Hj solicitor or his department, who has 1 usurped power to decide whether adul-tcrators adul-tcrators shall be prosecuted. Let him 1 depose the illegal licmscn referee board and root out the experts who hac nullified the law. He has had ample time to do all these things, but he has kept the department much as Secretary Wilson left it. Asauranco that Jjiefoodwe .now consume is nure is as necessary as increased production of food. Mr, Houston has had nearly four months to do theso things, but 'has done none of thorn." |