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Show foreign people, to maintain an adequate ade-quate Army and Navy." Calvin Coolide. "The second best bulldog gets a red ribbon in a dog show and a licking in a fight. The second best navy also gets a licking in a fight." f " 'Speak softly and carry a big stick;, you will go far.' If the American Ameri-can nation will speak softly and keep, at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." Theodore Roosevelt. BANNING OF FIREARMS. ! Former Commissioner Whalen of , i New York wants legislation to prohibit pro-hibit the sale of firearms, on the theory the-ory that criminals would thereby be ' unable to get them. This brings up an old question, in which there is room for argument on both sides, but we doubt that a no-gun law would .help much. ' The trouble is that the professional crook would find a way, through smuggling, bribery or other unlawful j means, to get his gun anyway. Even if all firearms were required to be registered it would take another army of inspectors to keep track of them, ; besides, every criminal would provide himself with a good-sized arsenal before be-fore the law could be put into effect. Maybe the object sought by Mr. Whalen could be accomplished the other way arounl by making it compulsory com-pulsory for everybody to carry a gun after sundown. Then the crooks would have a less advantage. |