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Show THE WEATHER S The weather is the most talked of, most abused, most praised, most 'strangely deceptive, and yet the most constant and unvarying thing in our tvery-day lives. The weather furnishes a means of beginning a conversation, conversa-tion, an excuse for not getting up mornings, a reason for travel, an alibi for poor business, a boon to the farmer, a benefit to the consumer, a difficulty for aviation, a job for government employes, and fortune for coal and ice dealers, an opportunity for circuses and chautauquas, a paradise for lovers, a cause for rheumatism, a subject for editorials, and another reason for radios, closed cars and fur coats. We don't have the winters we used to have," is a familiar expression. The fact remains that we do have the winters we used to have; and the summers, too. The apparent difference between now and then is psychological.' psycho-logical.' When we were children the beautiful snow impressed us more and we waded deeper into it; the rain beat down harder became we were out ' in it more; the thunder clapped louder because we understood it less and it terrified us more. Uesides all this, the mind of youth takes deep impressions, impres-sions, mingles them with imagination builds snw crystals in the joy of life which KC receives as a crusty reality. Hut to facts. An eminent authority says that there is pretty general agreement that within historic times progressive changes of climate have not occurred, In parts of the United States temperature and rainfall records have been kept for more than one hundred years. Taking New York City and New Orleans as examples, he state's that in a century of time at New York and in eighty-seven eighty-seven years at New Orleans, the yearly means have not varied more than five or six degrees, although it is shown that rainfalls show a much greater variation. As in the story of the man who traveled extensively, but "always looking look-ing climate witTi him," and never quite could find a suitable one, weather agreeableness is largely a matter of acclimation and mental attitude. Much as we like to dream of sunny isles and palm-bedecked avenues, the Almighty never intended that all of us should walk around in bathing suits, or spend all of our time frolicking after rabbits in snow shoes. So long as we are sober, industrious, happy, thrifty, co-operative and conscientious, we ought to take the weather for better cr for worse, though the doing of this is a virtue mankind has been slow to adopt. JAZZMANIA Sixteen-year-old Dorothy Kllingson, of San Francisco, is accused of slaying her mother in cold blood, all on account of "jazzmania." Her father announces that no alienists will be called to tell the oncoming jury what jazzniania means and all about it; but the more humble among us may form our own ideas. Whatever may be the outcome and there will be an outcome, as there is to all sub-normal acts it is to be hoped that judgment will be withheld until the situation is presented in true light according to law and evidence. One trouble about the recent Chicago incident was that there were too many judges on the imaginary bench of public opinion; had we not better say, ' too many pre-judges? Letters poured in from all parts of the world telling what ought and ought not to be done. It is bewildering, annoying, and next to criminal itself to taunt or confuse the constituted authorities in any particular par-ticular case, who are bound as in the case of judges tw make decisions ' solely in accordance with facts adduced from the witness chair. Right or wrong, it is the real American way. We remember in the try.ng years of the World War about everyone had some private notion as to what shou d be done with the Kaiser. At least one newspaper conducted a correspondents suggestion contest on the subject. As a matter of fact, noth.ng ever was done to the human that was the Kaiser; it was his title-h.s sovereignty. that was defeated. ., , . . , . In the Ellingson case, let the American people profit if they will by the exemplary lesson that so-called jazz life brings to the surface, but let us HAVE MORE LAW AND LESS MORBIDITY in the solution of the problems with which it brings us to face. |