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Show f THE CITIZEN 6 put into a modern highway for building or widening is an econinvestment. omy and a dividend-payin- g The United States highway system is the best in the world. BRAINS The Jefferson County Union, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, i says : Here are two interesting paragraphs from The Things MUST DEVELOP MINES that are Caesars, by Guy Morrison Walker : 1 Social economists claim there is only one source on A mine is like a grain field; however rich the soil, it is wealth Labor. Political economists insist that in addition t worthless until it is developed and the product milled and mar- Labor Land and Capital must be classified as additional' keted. Mining is a more courageous venture than almost any sources of wealth. But they both deny the economic value o other line of industry; for it requires a heavy capital that which is the greatest of all in the production of wealth j Brains. it can pay at all. Mining is not a luxury ; it is as necessary as food, clothing Capital would generally be idle and waste away if it were or transportation. The metal mines of the West have over- not for the brains of some thinker who finds a better way to use it than it is being used. And Labor would often be idle if if come obstacles which would have discouraged the average industrial leader. As virtually all industry depends on mining for were not for this same thinker who devises, invents and creates its existence, it is essential that our people take an intelligent undreamed-o- f opportunities for Labor. By holding before Cap interest in this great basic industry and see that it has proper ital the greater profits and rewards in a new venture, the Think-treatment in tax and elgislative matters. er secures the support of Capital, which Labor would not be able to secure for itself. UNIVERSAL FUEL . invest-mentvbefo- re ; ; I I t j ; Architects are beginning to realize the folly of constructing buildings around the one central idea of a fire, and a great chimney. It is becoming more clear that the cellar that is used as a storage place for fuel and ashes is a wasteful extravagance instead of a livable part of the house. Each day develops the truth that our homes are not properly insulated, and that we give practically no thought whatever to effects of humidity in artificial heating. Add to all this the hundreds of millions of dollars of damage done property and health by smoke, and the tens of millions of dollars of waste through when coal is burned in its destruction of valuable raw state, and we see that gas is the logical universal heating fuel for both home and industry. by-produ- cts I ; j I I j s i ! j American justice has again been made the laughing stock of the world by the release of George Kemus from the Lima State hospital in Columbus, Ohio. A man notoriously adver-- ! tised to the world as the bootleg king of America murdered his wife, was acquitted on the ground of insanity and commit- ted to a hospital for the criminally insane. After spending a few weeks in the hospital he has been adjudged absolutely sane and released without paying any penalty whatsoever. Surely justice has again been defeated. Why shouldnt the world laugh! The next Eucharistic Congress will meet in September ir Sydney, Australia. Roman Catholics from all parts of the work will gather there to take part in the exercises. After all, its a good thing the Democrats and Republicans dont agree on everything. If they did agree, what fun woulc there be in the campaign! If every candidate should get as many delegates as claimec for him by his managers, there wouldnt be an auditorium big 1 enough in the world to hold all of em. Bishops of the Church of England are having a hard time in putting out a prayer book which will be satisfying to all. Nq doubt they have in mind the proverb, By their works ye slial know them. f LEGAL SYSTEM. There is a definite national need for law simplification, par ticularly in criminal statutes. At present there is so much lega chaos attached to criminal cases that, justice is delayed, or defeated. So rapid has been our civic, state and national growth that laws effective and valuable a comparatively few years ago arq now entirely impractical. Yet little effort is made to correct When Tony Strabers automobile and a Grand Trunk train got involved in an argument over the right of way in Chicago last Saturday, Tony lost his temper. He surveyed the twisted wreckage of wliat was once his automobile and told the engi-- j neer that he was a blanketv blank blank well, you know. The engineer lost his temper also because as he said Tony should have looked where he was going, and should not have bumped into his engine. Further more, lie was going to report the cir-- j cumstances to his manager. He did and a few days later Tony received the following letter from the Grand Trunk Railroad: Enclosed please find bill for $20.18 for damage to our locoThis is probably the first bill a railroad motive, No. 6038. company ever rendered a motorist for damages to an engine. There is a moral to this true story: Dont try to run under or over any railroad companys engine. Let it have the right of here or herewTay or you might get a bill for damages-eith- The legal system of the British Empire is more accurate and immediate, with the result that a high percentage of crim-- i inals are caught and convicted, and crime is discouraged. A simple, but complete criminal code that is unhampered by legal loopholes will do more to discourage crime than a thouj laws and ordinances which merely restrict the sand law abiding citizen, to the safety and advantage of the crook, j No one objects to curbing the criminal, but there is the objection to continually bearing down harder on honest man or woman. .France is building thirty submarines and expects to have Leon Trotsky told an American newspaper man that there is no democracy in the United States. We dare him to say that er after. i Bootleggers and drunkards continue to drive automobiles and kill our citizens. When will our judges bar the reckless drunken sots from our highways? them. anti-revolv- er wide-sprea- d a fleet of one hundred within two years. Another reason of to Pat Harrison. course why thi pacifists should insist on reducing our own navy. Policemen in Washington object to wives when walking with their husbands or sitting on park benches to wearing short; skirts. How about the single girls or unaccompanied ladies, Bandits will doubtless think it is a pretty tough job to rob a small town bank in Arizona, after wliat occurred at Clarkdale officer! Thursday. ? 'Si |