Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

nous as they formerly were famous.
There Is history for this statement.
Then what IL to he done for the lad
who wears name that has become Of
fensive In the ears of the people? In
directly he Is bound to pay penalty
for the sins of another There can be
no objection to using the name Of one
who has won glory and died. but to
copy the names of the living Is, mt
best. n hazard. 1t Is certainly due to
babies that their names shall never be
q handicap. They have hard enough
time getting through life ut best.
Unto nll railroad engineers the red
petticoat f. sacred thing. Upon
scores Of occasions red petticoats have
been the means of saving trains from
being wrecked. Invariably the woman
who discovers washout or a col.
lapsed bridge or an obstruction on the
track wears a red petticOat. There
may be a psychological explanation Of
this remarkable fact, but whether
there Is or not. the brave woman al.
ways manages during the one minute
and twenty.seven seconds that must
elapse before the arrival Of the light.
ming express to get her red petticoat
of ana wave 1t frantically. thus warn.
ing the engineer and enabling him to
stop the train on the very brink Of de-
structiOn. TO all railroad men red Is a
sign Of danger. Perhaps this il he.
cause what might have been the first
railroad disaster was prevented by the
waving Of n red petticoat. Now 1t Is
unfortunate that red petticoats have
been causing trouble for railroad men
nt Wilmington Del. Italian women
have been In the habit Of picking up
coal along the tracks In that city, and
because the winds tOyed with their
skirts, thereby exposing their rcd petit.
coats. 1t has frequently happened that
engineers OH through express trains,
seeing what they supposed to he dan
ger signals. have thrown on their
brakes, thereby hinging passengers
into ignominiOus heaps ana causing
wild panics In the cars. The result
has been an order strictly prohibiting
women who wear red petticOats from
picking coal along the tracks of the
Pennsylvania railroad. This order will
undoubtedly work many hardships. but
there seems TO be no help for the ltal-
ian ladies of Wilmington. The red
pettlcOat's standing as danger signal
must not be impaired
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Secretary bike, OF the National
League for the Protection of the Fam
lily. has supplied Il new summary of
the reasons for uniformity of divorce
laws throughout all the States, and
uniformity is TO he gained, he con.
tends, by concerted action of the sew
cral States, not by national legislation.
Congress cannot pass divorce law I'M
I'll the federal constitution has been
amended, and amendment 10 the fed.
crnl constitution Is next 10 the impossl-
BILE. Nearly - years ago n committee
of the American Bar Association de-
clArcd that constitutional amend
mcnt was out Of the question, The
late Prof. Thny"r, of the Harvard Law
school, used 10 say that this country
would never get another constitutional
amendment on any question, so great
are the difficulties in the way. Ger
tainly some great crisis must arise
which will arouse the feeling of the
people, more than any mere moral
question ever can, before another
amendment can he secured. Through
out the South there Is unalterable op-
position 10 any further transfer of
power from the States to thc national
government 1t may also be added that
there Is less need In the South of laws
10 restrict divorces than In any other
part of the country. Besides, there ap-
pears no good rea son why the national
government should do for the States
what the States can, If they will, bet
ter do for themselves. The States have
no difficulty in getting together on uni
form laws relating to money affairs
so it would seem there Is no insuper-
able obstacle TO their getting together
on II vital question of morals. Since
the several States can agree to pro-
tect the banks. the way IL open to an
agreement to protect the homes. The
courts of Delaware, according to Mr.
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