The Washington herald., 1910-06-09
By THE oBsERvANr PHILOSOPHER


over in New York they're happy be-
cause Mayor Gaynor has signed what is
popularity known as the jag law" It
provides for the establishment OF a COM
mission to deal with inebriates. and a
hospital and an Industrial home TO be
used by the commissionsto break topers
of the habit OF getting "sOuses."
The mayor doesn't think that the new
law will do much toward correcting
drunkenness, and he gives rather naive
reason. He says:
THE substitution of light beers for
strong drinks has done much TO do away
with drunkenness. It might also be men
toned that the general Introduction of
machinery, and especially electricity, has
done much to require total abstinence
from intoxicating drinks, for only sober
and alert men are fit for these employ
ments."
Here is another advantage that is to
come from the age that is about due,
when all the work In the world viii be
done by machinery. II will be a strange
age. for, as Charlie CASTOR used TO say,
What's the use of a man working in a
town that's voted dry-what can he
spend his money for. anyway"
One Of the hardest things that have ever
been said about Col Roosevelt was
sprung on him by the chancellor of
Cambridge University when he presented
the colonel with his degree. For greater
solemnity on this suspicious occasion. the
is. except Col. Roosevelts part-and the
chancellor had to. hustle around 10 find
out how to render the Rough Riders
in the vulgate But he finally got Il,
and referred 10 the regiment the colonel
commanded in Cuba as equities volun-
tarios durum in arms genus" 1t sounds
like pretty rough language 10 use to an
American ex-President. but the lion
hunter stood it without blinking an eye
lash.
Talk about foolish questions. A con-
tributor to The Washington Herald asks.
What has become of Thomas W. Law
SOM"
In these days OF trouble and turmoil
in the divorce colony at Reno. there are
still many women who could say with
Mrs. Glenn Curtiss: Il would rather have
a real live husband than be the widow
OF the man who attempted TO fly from
New York to Chicago"
Whatever else they may say about
President Taft they can't deny that he
is a perfectly good lawyer. and on one
point nearly every one viii agree with
him-that is when he declares. by infer
ence-for he doesn't use much slang-that
the lawyers have got things into a deuce
OF q pickle.
Charlie CASTOR says that he IS dead
against the Board OF Trade or the Cham
Der Of Commerce offering any money re-
ward for the aviator who flies from New
York to Washington. He declares that
any man ought to be glad to get to such
a city as this any way he can.
DO not be aggrieved over the fact that
the salaries of the opera singers are TO
be cut next season. Cut them as you
may, 1t will be a long time before they
get down TO the European level and, any
how, If opera singers won't save their
money let them sign the petition for a
contributory retirement fund.
The best proof that Judson Harmon
stands for the masses as a Democratic
candidate for President is the strenuous
support John r. Mclean is. giving him.
No. Champ Clark did not inspire this
thought
One cannot readily see the force of the
petition signed by the senior class at
Yale. asking for the pardon of Morse,
the bank wrecker. Morse was tried fair
~ at a great expense TO the state; fairly
convicted and sentenced without rancor.
Since he has been sent to prison many
hundreds of poor devils who. perhaps
sorely tempted, have ventured 10 steal
have also been sent TO prison, but neither
Yale nor Harvard nor any other institu-
ton of learning is interested in getting
them pardoned. The probability is that
the young men of Yale, President Tafts
son among the number, who signed this
petition knew or cared very little about
what they were signing, They were ask
ed 10 sign and did so. and If any one
OF them was asked TO give a sane and
logical reason why he affixed his sig
nature, he would be unable to DO so. II
may be, OF course, that the spectacle 1T
man of large affairs. big mind. ana
good antecedents in common prison