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Show THE CITIZEN OBSERVATION PLANE "'Ii 'VI ole, llllllfllltltHH1Hlt1lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllulllllullllllulllul1 IIIIIUIIHIWmWIIIIHHIIII A crank is a person with Inquiry About Vihdis And Cranks Pcli ite have heard a man called a liar ould'e clock," but not until now have tnreard a mountain called a crank tiie dial. Which is to introduce prreighty pun that Senator Dial has $d Judge Kenesaw Mountain theLy - Lan-cran- k. M ' clnator Thomas of Colorado is to fei. The following colloquy se oc-- . ugurrod in the senate the other day (baa Senator Dial attacked Judge othijgs&s for expressing sympathy for a teller accused of stealing. know anything , onllrboes the senate ideg Judge Landis?" inquired r$homas, bursting with a desire to Sena-Pra- m Jf UlAU. s, I know something about him," enator Dial. he senator probably knows that the most conspicuous crank now g such a high position," said r Thomas. ats what I was going to say, Senator Dial. TV rk hear Judge Landis in his own C3se. He states that Francis J. , the bank clerk who stole $96,- only nineteen years of age; e handled a million dollars a for the bank and was given the cent compensation of a little f;than $3 a day; that he was the support of his mother and four fw OCager brothers and a sister. Then Judge Landis, with the i ess of a professional baseball fijisnt this one over the home plate: lIfjin all my sixteen years of ser-Ice on the bench 1 have accomplish- a nothing else I have performed the jrculean task of dragging Senator ial from what appeared to be an air- expert- - d j' tlis ght obscurity." iThink of saying that about the Senator Dial of of , by the, jiy, thereof is he of? But who has ? I 9t heard of the famous senator, who, p. man who; as everybody knows inan who, who fa-wu- s- feut we were discussing cranks. ? Landis can be described by Judge k finite adjectives, nouns and other ,,k m rt; of plain speaking, we have no Q ynner of doubt, but we respectfully for we are addressing the famous ter Dial and the even more fa-aus Senator Thomas of Colorado press the opinion that Judge Landis iwt a crank, if we understand the s.Tra!arlBht- i a crochet or mental twist; one possessed by a hobby; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one of over en-- , thusiastic or perverted judgment in respect to a particular matter; a monomaniac. You can tell a crank by the fact that usually he is out of tune with his neighbors, his friends or popular sentiments. He is so different that he is regarded as fantastic, impracticable and a bore. He seldom strikes a popular note. But Senator Landis is forever striking the popular note. He was such a "good sport" that, in spite of his judgeship, he was invited to take charge of organized baseball and rescue it from the pit into which it had fallen because of bad sports. Coming down to the case in hand, has not Judge Landis struck a popular chord? When he spoke in Chicago to defend his course he was vigorously applauded. Evidently his auditors did not consider him a crank. They were in full sympathy with him. They believed something was wrong with bankers who would pay such a small wage to an employe entrusted with the handling. of a million dollars a month. The view may not be in accord with the principles of justice, but it is the popular view and has nothing to do with cranks. You may ask what it avails the ed- itor to prove that Judge Landis is not a crank, but something else. If he is wrong, he is wrong, whether he is a crank, a demagogue, a saint or a philosopher, a scholar or a gentleman. But is he wrong? He has not freed Carey. In fact, he saps he is going'to punish him in some way, but that he Is going to show him mercy. In our own city we recently had an example of the bank employe who is given the handling of large sums of money and steals. Conkling was paid a good salary, enough to support himself and his family modestly, but he Rtole. He had served the bank for many years and was held to be above suspicion. Which proves that some bank employes will steal whether they are well or ill treated. Judge Landis was right in publicly condemning the bankers for paying such a small salary to one they entrusted with such Important duties. If 9 he was worth only ninety dollars a month because he waB a boy ot ini mature judgment or unsettled principles then he should not have had the handling of a million dollars a month. Had he been paid $200 or $250 a month he might have stolen, but his employers would have escaped just judicial censure and he would have been punished with the severity which Judge Landis is accustomed to display toward those whose crimes show no extenuating cir- cumstances. Making A Monkey Of Old Age M borrow youth of the monkey or the goat? The skeptic is eager to turn time backward because he sees only nothingness in the future. He grasps at the past because the future holds out for him no rays of eternal hope. The only fountain of youth is the soul itself. The only way to be young is to remain young in thought. It is in that sense that virtue is its own reward, for only by virtue can our mem- -' ories be worth having. When a man despairs he has found that he cannot live alone with his memory. I i i b i i : f ' i It is true that some men are younger at sixty than others at thirty. We All Paris, we read, is interested in the attempt of a Russian doctor to give back youth to an aged English ac- tor by using the gland of a monkey. This is not the first attempt to make a monkey out of an actor. Usually the actor himself can do it better than anyone else. Jn the nineteenth century the pundits tried to make monkeys out of the whole human race and succeeded only in making monkeys out of themselves. Every little while comes along a scientist of the Voronoff type who thinks he has discovered a means of marching senility back through the years to the freshness of youth. Thdre was, for example. Dr. Brown-Sequarwho thought that he could make the aged man gambol like a gazelle by ind jecting sundry selections of a goat into him. Even if the doctors succeed in making the body young again they cannot restore youth, for a part of old age is memory. There is no getting away from the fact that man is made up of a body and a soul. Even the utter materialist admits that the personality survives as a unity and does not fall away with the hair that leaves a bald pate or with the molecules that vanish and give place to others. How can a monkey gland make the memory young again? It is true that in the transforming crucible of memory even the dross of youth is touched with gold. We live over our youth in memory, but always memory is there to remind us that we are passing into the sere and yellow leaf. Age that rids itself of the world, the flesh and the devil Is released from a slavery in which youth is fettered. When Cicero grew old he thanked the gods that he had been released from that tyranny. It was the literary output of his old age that gave him an immortal youth among men. If there is a real immortality yond the grave what does it profit to often hear it said that a man remains i young by avoiding worry, but the truth is that he avoids the occasion of worry. He has avoided vice and disease and has kept the roots of his being young with clean living, high thoughts and good deeds. i i i I f LA BELLE DAME 8ANS MERCI. (If Keats had written it with an eye to subsequent movie production.) I met a lady on the plains Bonanza Barneys only child. She aimed two bullets at my heart. But both went wild. I roped her when she hit the trail, And though she scratched and fought and cried, I said, I sorter reckon now Youll be my bride. I set her on my pacing hoss, I stopped her shrieks with kisses ten. And struck In old Cheyenne. for the church hot-foote- d And as I whispered of the time When she would be my lady wife. She cut the thongs that bound her wrists She used her knife. She said, "Me be your lady wife d Well, I guess not, you pie-face- stiff' And then she threw me from the hoss and off a cliff. And that is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering Bonanzas daughter was too rough For me, by jing' James J. Montague in N. Y. World. i J. R. 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