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Show Washington Current Comment In June 1910, twelve years ago, wns signed the treaty of peace which ended the World War. Judging from the bickerings that have taken place since, as to who was to come out on top in the matter mat-ter of reparations and war debt payments. U might better have been called a treaty of fleece. A critic of higher education says a whole page in a sentence, when he remarks that colleges not infrequently infre-quently take a man to pieces and forget some of the parts when they put him together again. The statement that Federal authorities au-thorities are about to make a staggering stag-gering announcement relative to the future of the beer traffic, may Indicate good news either for the wets or for the drys. .' Lindbergh's boy is a year old. There is nothing unusual in that. It had to happen. His chief claim to notoriety lies In the fact that he has carried the Lindbergh name for a year, without being given a medal or a college degree, China has ruled out "Alice In Wonderland" because In It, rabbits nnd other beasts are made to talk, such a thing being considered an insult to the- human race. If bears can he made to say anything worse than most of the chatter that human hu-man lieings produce, the Chinese are right. Divers in search of five million dollars on a ship sunk off the French coast, have brought up a coper pipe worth a hundred dollars. dol-lars. It is well not to despise tbe day of small things, especially when on so uncertain a quest as the search for lost money. ,A pipe In the hand is worth two pipe dreums in the sea. |