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The Dalton Citizen PUBLISHED EVEBY THURSDAY. T. g. SHOPE ........ T S. SCcCAMY . . . . . . . . . . Editor Associate Editor Official Organ of the United States Circuit and District Courts, North-western division, Northern District of Georgia. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY. Terms of Subscription One Year . $1.50 Six Months >75 Three Months Payable in Advance Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at the Dalton, Ga., postoffice for transmission through the mails as fieoond-class matter. DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 19.21. The meddler’s itch is as bad as any other kind. According to the Athens News the hyphen slo gan is: “See Ainerica Curst.” The man who figures he can beat the train across generally gets beat into a pulp. A New Yorker is recommending dynamite for food. Must have in mind a “swell blow-out.” Excessive freight rates are one of the greatest causes of continuing business depression in this country. ' The Tifton Gazette says “the horrible possibility is dawning that George Harvey will develop into the Watson of the Harding administration.” Senator Pat Harrison says he sees victory for the democrats in 1924. It may be the senator has been using his beer and wine prescription too freely. - It is bad enough to be a Tom Watson man, but think of being both a koo-kluck and a Watson man —a sucker and a boob combined into one polluted whole. I \ November Eleventh. ' The President’s proclamation has asked cessation of endeavors for a period ,of fifteen minutes on Friday, November 11th, the third anniversary of the signing of the armistice. In every city and town impressive Armistice Day exetcises will be held, and through the hearts o fmen will surge a feel ing of joy as deep and profound as was expressed in the loud acclamation of the people on the mem orable, November 11,1918, when the news of dawn ing peace was heralded. 1918 brought the end of a warfare that had run the gamut of human atrocities, and three years hence finds a body of men, representative of all nations, convening to perpetuate the peace so dearly bought. We pray the memory of . these men is good, for in contrast with the impressions made by war’s ravages of men and of country the vision of world peace for all time will be more beautiful. The memory may be a tool in the hand of God to bring about everlasting peace. Friday the nation will in unity raise her voice in thanksgiving for the years of peace w.e have been permitted, and will ask for the world a future unmarred by war. It is the time most opportune to honor those who made the sacrifice of life, and their buddies who gave equally of courage, loyalty, and service until the crisis was passed. Their deeds are enshrined in the hearts of their fellow’s, and November 11th is a day that will live in history. The Rome Tribune-Herald likes the way the Cor- dele Dispatch handles public questions. So do we. Editor Charles Brown is a frank and fearless writer. Jesse Mercer’s statement that Fulton county was the wettest spot in Georgia seemed to have caused a flood qf press comments. Suppose they are try ing to drown Mercer out? George Harvey has busted loose again, and of course said the wrong thing at the wrong time and in the wrong place. He is the most undiplo matic diplomat running around loose. The Augusta Chronicle pertinently remarks that “the decline of the ku-klux klan will cause quite a slump in the night shirt market.” Its decline will also cause quite a slump in night-riding outrages. The supercilious antics of Tom Watson in the United State ssenate are not surprising to the people of Georgia. To the great majority'of them they are simply disgusting. During the war he was the slacker’s friend and idol. He took their money by the thousands to keep them out of the w r ar. He did all he could in his crazy way to help them evade as just a mil itary law as was ever passed. He fought the Red Cross, the sale of government securities, and did all that lay within his power to defeat the aims of the government. He proved himself a traitor to his country in one of its most distressful periods. His seditious pub lication was barred from the mails, and by law was forced to suspend publication. Men today are serving terms in the federal penitentiary for using Watson’s writings and speeches against the gov ernment, and yet this miserable wretch is occupy ing a seat in the United States senate, while his victims are in the penitentiary. He is now engaged in repeating in the senate his insane writings of a year or two ago. He says that soldiers in France were hung without trial. Down here in Georgia he has been the lynchers’ friend and the mob’s defender. He has all but confessed that he took part in the cowardly mur der of Leo Frank. Yet he is now appearing in the role of defender of negro rapists in France, who, he Claims, were hung without trial. And on what does he base his infamous charges against army officers? Nothing except the gossip of a few soldiers who went over to fight against their will, doubtless at heart being slackers of the Watson type. This class will furnish any kind of information that is wanted by its hero. He is its spokesman in the senate even as he was its spokesman before a trick of fate and an aggravated drunk'landed him where he is unfit to serve. He attempts to clinch his arguments by" exhibit ing some little kodak pictures of a gallows in France. Here is where the faithful boot-lickers of “Our Tom” doubtless threw up their wool hats and yelled, and some of them are still yelling, be cause there is a certain type of Watsonite that yells as long as Tom'lalks, and as he is unusually garrulous at this particular time there is, as a matter of course, a lot of yelling going on. There were two million'soldiers in France. They were made up of all classes of people—white, black and tan. There were included in this great num ber many undesirables, just as there are undesir ables in society—in the churches, in the schools, in the newspaper offices, even in the United States senate—in fact they are in all walks of life. There are criminals in all the professions and avocations. There were of course criminals in the army. Some unspeakable crimes were committed, and some le gal hangings occurred, and’ doubtless more ought to have. So a photograph of a gallows doesn’t prove anything or mean anything. Not satisfied with attacking the army officers, the senatorial muckraker must necessarily go fur ther and cast aspersions on the characters of the nurses, engaged in the most humanitarian work ever enlisting the sympathy of womankind. In this, too, he will find aid and comfort and help from the morally perverse of the profession, for in this noble profession, too, will occasionally be found the unclean and the unfit and the immoral. The senator (God save the mark!) trips to make it appear that army officers forced the nurses to become their courtesans! This is a seriouS charge, a criminal charge, if yoil please, and if may be yet that some manly brother of some good woman engaged in nursing back to life the stricken of this world will .make the contemptible cur swal low his words as well as his teeth. Watson is really unfit to have a seat in the sen ate, and should be forthwith expelled. He is not only a disgrace to Georgia, but he is a disgrace to the nation. Wonder why it is that the state of matri- i mony is always governed by a woman?— j Rome Tribune-Herald. Because that’s one state that she has had suffrage in si net: the year One. Probably women‘will-be governing in all states before long. Way down south in the land of cotton, the price is good but freight rates rotten.—Tom Sims. Way down south we sit and wait, because darned few of i us can pay the freight. Nations might bear one another’s burdens, but they prefer to bare one another’s sins.— Athens News. Isn’t it a fact that they much prefer to share one another’s sins? It is announced from Washington that the first beer permits are out, and rumor says the thirst is more than eqrial to the occasion.— Atlanta Constitution. Thirst will soon be known as the one outstand ing American disease. We shudder when we con template the fate of the overworked doctors. The fellow who pays less taxes, in propor tion to what he really owns, is the one who is always raising the most hell about taxes being high.—Greensboro- Herald-Journal. To. state it another way, is to say that it is the tax dodger who howls the longest and loudest about paying taxes. ’Tt takes all sorts of folks to make up the so- called human ruce, including the gent who really and truly believes that an army officer, even General Pershing himself, could hang or shoot ah American soldier without a court- martial and get away with it.—Macon Tele graph. « The Skunk who made ( the charges in the senate has a following who doesn’t do much of anything except to follow one stink after another without question or quibble. * A sick tree is as pitiful an object as a sick human. Dawson ha» many trees made ill by an insect scourge. Their appearance is tragic. If the ravages of the pest are not stayed by some .means the city seems doomed to lose a large proportion of its trees. It is a prob lem meriting individual and collective effort toward solution.—Dawson News. A sick tree is pitiful, and one which needs only attention to make it blossom again is doubly pitiful when neglected. Joyce Kilmer wrote: “Poems are writ by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.” And this truth should be so impressed upon the public that there shall be no lack of appreciation of the service and beauty of trees. The prophecy that Liberty bonds would increase in value as the years passed is proving true. But Automobiles and questionable stocks, for which “Liberties” are sometimes swapped, .seldom fail to depreciate. Two things we have felt were true have been substantiated by W. T. Hornady and Dr. Copeland. That Muscle Shoals is really Mussel Shoals and that cucumbers are not good food. Question three is now jn order. Robert Loveman is an omniverous newspaper reader, and one of his favorite columns is Johnny Spencer’s in the Macon Telegraph. Tuesday’s Tel egraph carried the Chicago Tribune’s column “A Line O’ Type or Two,” in place of Spencer’s “More Otherwise Than Wise.” Loveman read the col umn over carefully, laid the paper aside with a sort of-offish remark to the effect that “Spencer is weak today.” Dalton and Whitfield Are All Right. The new hotel is practically assured, and before long Dalton will have a hotel to which she can point with pride. Horace J. Smith is moving stead ily onward to the goal, and soon he will be able to announce that success has crowned his efforts. Dalton is by no means standing still. The new cheese factory is completed, and the creamery is in course of construction. The farmers of Whit field county are not going to starve themselves to death feeding boll weevils. They will- have markets for all milk and butter fats they care to produce. They will grow and market all kinds foodstuffs. Potato curing and storage houses have already been built Daltons next move must be for a passenger de pot, one in keepihg with the importance and growth of the town. The one we now have not only discredits Dalton in the eyes of the stranger, but it is a serious reflection on the railroads. It is a mere dingy little coop, inadequate and alto gether disproportionate to the growth and bus iness of the town. When the work on the new hotel gets under way, the proper presentation of Dalton’s claims should be pressed before the railroad commission. The results will be all that we need expect, be cause when the members of the commission see how Dalton is being imposed upon by the railroads they will not be long in granting relief. The Merchants Association, the Civitans, the Improvement League and all the other local civic bodies can be depended upon to do their full duty, and now is a good time to start the move ment for a new passenger depot. We must have it. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun thinks the senate ought to expel Tom Watson and be done with it. We are willing to admit he is unfit to be in the senate, but then the further away a polecat is the better for all concerned. A postmistress, instead of a postmaster, has been appointed at Rome. This is the first woman in Georgia to be in charge of a firstclass postoffice, and Romans are predicting excellent service under her guidance. The appointment of Daltpn’s post master seems to be a dark secret. Jack Patterson is expected next week to cov er the Morgan caunty fair for the Journal. Jack’s a cheerful cuss and gets the glad mitt on all sides in Madison.—Madison Madisonian. Jack’s all right, but he seems never to have thought about covering the Whitfield county fair, held last week. We are not going to get mad about it, but blamed if we don’t think Jack is awfully careless, or indifferent or something.—Dalton Citizen. The truth is, Shope, that we have too many invitations to butt in where we have not been invited. You should remember that we jour neyed dll the way to Dalton last fall to write up y the fair which had heen postponed with out anybody serving us notice. We really * wanted to visit the Whitfield county fair.— Jack L. Patterson, in Atlanta Journal. Jack, old fellow, you have us this time. You are not to blame, but we are going to see to it that you ‘are invited next year, and further that you are kept posted as to postponement, if there should be one. v ♦ ♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Our friend Jesse Mercer is stirring up the ani mals in Atlanta. He says Atlanta is the wettest town per capita in the state. They must all be drinking hootch down Atlanta way, because we happen to know, by hearsay, of some other very moist places within the confines of the grand' old commonwealth. Tom Watson, in the United States senate, is be coming a national nuisance, and it is our predic tion that if he doesn’t learn tojjehave himself bet ter he will never serve his term out. Taking the lies Of some Soldiers in France, belonging to the slacker contingent, but drafted into service, that ( soldiers were hanged in France without trial, he has made the charges in the senate. Now he is called on to prove them, the very thing he didn’t expect to have to do. And he can’t, but that will make no difference to the Watsonites. The fact that Tom repeats a lie makes it truth with them. ♦ v ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ There is not a man in Georgia who can beat Murphey Candler for chairman of the railroad commission.-—Commerce Observer. We don’t suppose there is one in Georgia with little enough sense to try it. No one can deny that Mr. Hardwick has made a Fair governor of late.—Augusta Chron icle. . i. - Mediocre statesmen can always cover a lot of ground, talk more than is necessary and b^ost expense accounts. However, it takes more than state tours to constitute a constructive adminis tration. ( The Disarmament Conference. By Gus Hall. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: In a few days a conference composed of rep resentatives from the principal nations of the world will meet in Washington. This conference was called by President Harding with the hope that an agreement could be reached by the vari ous governments which would result, at least, in the partial disarmament of the nations of the earth. I think this conference is foredoomed to failure. We have sot yet learned to think in terms of world democracy: Nationalism, race pride and distrust, are disintegrating forces that make im possible unity of action, even though such unity would give strong assurance of world peace. Beginning with the individual and working up ward through the various combinations of human society, in family, community, state and nation, there rises a spirit of tolerance, concession and compromise. We must have this to relieve the stress growing out of conflicting ideas and inter ests. Disruption would come in the family, the state, and the nation if this was not so. ^ And so it is with the nations. “America first, : “America for the Americans,” “America’s splendid isolation.” These expressions reveal the selfish ness of our people.; As long as we cling to such ideas we cannot hope for the confidence and co- dperation of other nations in any work we under take. Nationalism in America, in Japan, in France, in any other country, is an impossible barrier to any movement for world unity- of action for the limitation of governmental expense for war pur poses. • The nations of the earth can never come together in one great family until we change our way of thinking. As nations we must understand, trust, and love one another. No world agreement will endure unless it is solidly built on this founda tion. This conference will fail because we have not yet caught a vision of what the future holds for us. The coming power in the life of humanity will be a federation of the nations of the world, the power of one and all used at all times for the good of all. The idea of world democracy and cooperation is growing. It is spreading outward’ from the hearts of thinking men and women of the world. Some day it will obliterate all national barriers, dissolve all hatreds, and cover with a mantle of charity the war weary heart of humanity and we shall find peace at last. » No amount of criticism or misunderstanding will check this movement toward world coopera tion. It is a universal movement that had its be ginning in the agony of the great war. Men, great men, because of lack of vision will fight this new order of things and for their pains will be ground into powder. Systems, beliefs, customs, hoary with age are passing away never to return. And in spite of suspicion, misunderstanding and hatred the people of the earth will learn wisdom at last and stand shoulder to shoulder, and heart to heart in the world’s greatest spiritual battle for right eousness which will end in victory and universal and lasting peace. that it affects only spirits, vodka, brandy, etc., and not wine and beer. Russia is one of three nationsr now or formerly of first class, which tried absolute prohibition—of the less than one-half of 1 per cent character. The United States is another and> Tur key is- the third. Russia got its prohibition from one style of auto crat and continued it under ailother. Of the t<vo, the autocrat Nicholas was less bloody than the autocrat Lenine, He was feebler and murderous probably only because the czaristic system was murderous in repression. Lenin is strong but as emotionless as a machine gun. Turkey under Abdul the Damned was dry, as Turkey has been always since its conquering rise, and Russia under Lenin the Terrible has been dry, and pnder them both humanity as organized in nations has reached its coarsest, most ferocious, brutalized and hopeless form. Bone dry Turkey has the lowest code of morals ever known in any thing called a civilization. It has debased its women, permitted them only bodies and no souls, and has slaughtered helpless subjects with an al most holy zeal. All the time this degradation of the human emo tions and instincts has proceeded without any in centive from the maddening effects of spirits and without any mellowing from the effects of wine or beer. A bone dry nation has been the least useful, the least productive, the most cruel and the most useless which ever disgraced the earth under the name of a civilization. The Turks have been in what has been esteemed the garden spot of the world, the source of civili zation, of its arts and sciences, its religions ? arid wealth. They have not tilled the soil nor had an art. They have no literature and they have fash ioned no metals into woyks great or small. Their only instinct was to degrade and butcher, and their idea of immortality was a disorderly house. We may not agree as to why the Turks have been hirinan tarantulas, but we’ll agree on one thing. Drink did not do it. In that respect they are and have been as moral as Wayne Wheeler or W. J. Bryan. We’ll leave Russia to another para graph and consider the hardest drinking Asiatic race, while we are considering Asia. That is Japan. Japan has drink. It has saki and other rice and fruit distillations. It has beer. Many Japanese* mav be too poor to drink, but alcohol is a part of Japanese life. The Japanese are the greatest of Asiatics. They Lave aft, literature, ideals, which "do not conform to ours but which are ideals, in dustry which is not surpassed anywhere, devotion to duty and several religions which are tender, sympathetic and idyllic, and they have, what the Turks have not, character. The facts, we believe, must be conceded. The reader may write his own ticket and come to his own conclusions. Drink might have made the Turks worse. Prohibition might have made the Japanese better. We call the next case. Russia, considered besotted under the rule of the czar and vodka, was released from the latter by the former. Ivan did not then make his soul sodden in the vodka huts. His befogged brain, which never had anything in it but a fog, per ceived as clearly as it was possible for such a brain to perceive. What he perceived in life was nothing. He had a dream or two occasionally under vodka. Out from under vodka he had nothing. Nicholas, going to war, took 19,000,000 or 20,000,000 Ivans and put them in concentration camps, having arms for about 1,900,000 or 2,000,000. The great masses of Ivans, useless in war, milled around in their own inaction, no work, no vodka, no beer, nothing but the nothing which they were. Eventually they butchered Nicholas, accepted Lenin and with .him went headlong down into the pit, rolling over themselves in a senseles ferocity, killing the art and literature Russia had, destroy ing their productivity, making deserts out of their arable lands, piling up their filth and disease, bringing famine and pestilence upon themselves, losing territory and ports which they had gained as a spreading nation. Great Russia is a withered hag. At this point the wiseacres began to say: There goes the rotten wet Tribune again, playing the game of the liquor interests and trying to put this over in the guise of fact and speculation. The saloonkeepers, distillers and brewers think The Tribune is as dry as the Anti-Saloon league and the Anti-Saloon league thinks that The Tribune is another nanje for John Barleycorn. We think that if the saloonkeepers wait until the Tribune says they can reopen their places they’ll have to get the rent money out of something else than the sale of liquor for eternity. We do not intimate' that the United States, con stitutionally-dry, is headed towards either Abdul the Damned or Lenin the Terrible or that Amer icans are falling into the pit because they are not inflaming themselves with liquor, such of them as are not. But it is fair to speculate why two of the three nations which have denied the legality of nature’s long rule of fermentation are degraded and vile, worsted and outlawed and beaten down bv evils within and enemie swithout. The greatest intellectuals of the world, the French, are wine drinkers, the greatest Asiatics are wine and spirit drinkers, the greatest empire makers are spirit and ale drinkers, the nation of greatest artists, centuries considered, raises wine grapes on every other patch of ground and pushes its vines to the edge of the hot lava of Vesuvius, and the greatest concentrators of industry, com merce and national power, the Germans, are wine and beer drinkers. Verbum sap, or in vino veritas, or lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.— Chicago Tribune. It is Mussel, Not Muscle. “We don’t care much who buys Muscle Shoals, but we would like t6 know if the party who named it didn’t have mussel in mind and didn’t know how to- spell it,” says Mr. Spencer. , “We opine, and also suspect that mussel is right, hut time and usage have got in their work. Broth er Herring, of the Tifton Gazette, knows that mus sel is correct,” comments Editor Shope, of The Dalton Citizen. “The Musselites have it,” Mr. Spencer concludes. In this connection, the following from a corres pondent of the New York Tribune, may be of inter est as well as information: To the Editor of the Tribune: Sir: our editorial in today’s issue on the suc culent bivalve known as the mussel prompts me to call your attention to the fact that the name of the famous shoals jon the Tennessee river, known for more than a century as the Mussel Shoals, is being mistakenly remembered by’ many American newspapers, and I have a horrible fear that it is being miscalled by the United States government. In evfery reference that I have seen during the last six months to. the government’s nitrate plant its habitat has been given as M-ms-c-l-e Shoals. Geo graphical accuracy calls for the correction of this curious and also iriischievous little error. _ T W. T. HORNADY. New tork, Oct. 21, 1921. A look at the dictionary should settle the qries- tion. The error is one that could have been nipped at the start by a little attention. But it h&s now gone so far that the probability is, future genera tions -will never know that the shoals were named for a bivalve and not for a portion of the animal body. In perpetuating the misnomer, the usually reliable Associated Press is among the guilty. They even get the thing by our news editor and proof reader sometimes.—Tifton Gazette. ♦ EXCHANGE OPINION ♦ « 3 Something to Think About. This is bound to be an unpopulor editorial any way we put it, but a reader who does not mind temporarily substituting speculation for dogmatiz ing can friame his own opinion or conclusion whether or not he thinks we have one, which we have not Russia is reported to be relaxing prohibition so One Way to Finance the Bonus. Representative Brennan’s plan to finance a sol diers’ bonus by means of a percentage tax on beer and light winfes has the advantage of being the only imaginable method whereby the bonus might be carried without disastrous consequences to the treasury. It lies within the power of congress to exclude beer and wines of a limited alcoholic con tent from the category of intoxicating liquors pro hibited under the Eighteenth Amendment and to impose on the manufacture and sale whatever tax is necessary to iriake up for bonus appropria tions. Neither beer nor wine can properly be termed intoxicating. Even the original sponsors of the prohibition movement had no grudge against mild beverages. Prohibition was carried because of a very general grudge against hard liquor and the saloon; its net effect under present enforcement laws has been the elimination of practically everything to drink except hard liquor and the substitution of the bootlegger for the li censed bar: If beer and light wine were legalized, CHEERY LAYS for DREARY DAYS By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Poet —^ Come Back to the Cumberland Mountains Night! and the night birds are calling 8 ‘ Night! and the soft winds blow, Bringing back goledn memories, Memories 'of long ago; Dreams of a kiss at twilight, Just at the sun’s last ray, Borne on the Southern breezes, I hear a sweet voice say: Come back to the Cumberland mountains “ 111 J J l Come back to the ones that you love Back to the fair fertile valleys And to the green mountains above; Come back to the Cumberland mountains Back to the hearts that are true, Come back to wander, no never, Where someone is waiting for you.” Night! and the soft winds blowing, Night! and there comes to me Memories of love and twilight Down in old Tennessee; Dreams of a maid awaiting, While I am far away, And in my dreams I fancy I hear her dear voice say: Come back to the Cumberland mountains Come back to the ones that you love ’ Back to the fertile valleys ’ And the green mountains above; Come back to the Cumberland mountains Back to the hearts that are true, Conje back to the Cumberland mountains Where loved ones are waiting for you.”’ Hoggish. I’d rather he A poodle dog, Than be a man— And yet a hog. Sluggish River. A lazy life The river led; In fact, it rare- Ly left its bed. What She Does. Although her beds Neglected lay, Her face is made up Twice each day. —Canton Daily News. Although the pans Neglected are, She scours the country In her car. —Akron Times. Although the kids Are left to roam. She only spends Her nights at home. —Walton Tribunf She scalds less often Than she oughter, But keeps her husband In hot water. Scat! What would you do At “killing time” If you were served Some chit’lings prime? —Cedartown Standard. I’d hold my nose And take a leap A mile away To rest and weep. —Walton Tribune. Before by me It would be prized, ’Twould have to be De-o-dor-ized. Yes, But— He' hasn’t time to help his kid With his school work, oh, no; But yet you’ll find he has the time To see the picture show. Painful. , They ask what makes Chicago, Ill. But yet they ask in vain; I think, perhaps, the reason is It has a window pane. Verily So. " ™ an "B1 wear a collar high That chokes him half to death, I hen ndiculc the women’s style Till he is out of breath. Funny Thing. A funny thing you’ll often find Is frequently the case: A w oman can’t make up her mind, But can make up her face. Stung! He bought him some oil stock (The fee it was fat); But the oil well went flooey! So the poor boob lost that. Pluck. You will never make much headway In the little game of life, With its trials and its burdens, And its worries and its strife; You will never make much progress, If you just depend on “luck,” * , ° T r guy that dges the winning Is the guy that’s got the pluck. ^ou may.lick him, you max kick him. You may Yrowd him to the wall, But the man who makes the winning Doesn’t simply stand and squall; Fighting hard for all there’s in it, Old Dame Fortune he will buck, Driving on a mile a minute Is the fellow who has pluck. Then whatever you’re pursuing, Do not sit around and whine, But be ever up and doing, Though the going’s not so fine; For life s journey is not easy, And the road is filled with muck, And to make the journey, safely It will take a man with pluck. hard liquor and the bootlegger would disap] together. The main objection to a bonus for ex-solc has been financial. As Secretary Mellon has peatedly demonstrated, congress is already ta: every asset it can lay hands on, without b fBle.to keep up with the budget demands. Ui the Volstead act wine and beer are outlawed the country pays its tax on alcoholic bever direct to the bootlegging rings, at the same supporting an expensive and futile enforcer service. Surely the money might better go to veterans. But the greatest gain that might be real through Mr. Brennan’s bill is a restoration of ,9 r that has been crumbling bee of the disrespect in which Mr. Volstead’s 1< lauon is held. The corruption of the Vols law is rapidly spreading. The sooner the con is rid of it the better.—New York World. The low estate of the German mark d< strates that “a scrap of paper” also comes to roost.—Columbia Record. The politicians always manage to defeat * 'will of the people by sneaking in some sort codicil.—Columbia Record. J