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Show it is necessary to sentence any of these able-bodied delinquents, the opportunity opportu-nity for improving the roads of the various states should not be lost. Let I not a single loafer escape. NEW YORK'S NEW LAW. Governor Whitman of New York has signed the antiloafing bill passed by the legislature, and the measure has become be-come one of the laws of the state. Such legislation was put upon the statute books of Maryland and New Jersey some time ago, and many of the loafers of the latter state crossed the line and sought refuge in New York. Now they will be compelled to go to work or move on to some other commonwealth where their presence will not be tolerated at a time when all patriotic citizens within with-in certain ages are either in "the army, engaged in war work or at least supporting sup-porting themselves. The police of New York City began taking a census of Idrers as soon as the law was passed, and if the work is well done many thousand parasites will soon be pounding pound-ing stone or making an honest living at some kind of labor that counts. Incidentally, In-cidentally, a large number of draft-dodgers draft-dodgers will be rounded up and inducted in-ducted into the army without ceremony. cere-mony. Thousands of such fellows have disappeared since registering, and the most of them can be found in the slums of the large centers of population or beating their way on freight trains. Next winter, when most of the state legislatures will be in session, we expect ex-pect the example of Maryland, New Jersey and New York to be generally followed, and until the end of the war, at least, the chronic loafer will be almost, if not entirely, abolished. If |