Weekly journal-miner., 1912-12-11
PUT ON THE BRAKESi

Ere tnc threatening comes 100 ldtc. They whistle to the brakeman,
 In tone that thrills and shakes. Across the hills and valleys.
 @. man. put on the brakcsp"
 And when we look around us m the grca, cities. we arc reminded that we ought Co put on the brakes. It is an awful pace the city people live nowadays, one that burns the candle of life at both cnds--a pace that kills.
 Lavish expenditure. excitement and sensa,ionalism seem to be driving them on in a mad rush and scramble for empty baubles and the froth of life. and in the resistleSs tide they sweep onward to more and more dis sipation, laxity of morals. crime. em- bczzlcmcn,, suicides and an insane whirl to obtain which they seem to pause at absolutely nothing
 The headlines in the daily papers tell the tale Crime of every color excitmcnt. scnsa,ionalism. dissipation and an endless array of evils follow The women seem to have the fever in their blood as we'll as the men and arc going at pace that can have but one result, and that sorrowfui one. Of course these are the ex- tremes and not the rule or the av- craze, but these extremes arc getting to be as numerous as the sands upon the seashore.
 Down brakes! Back upl Take an invoice of yourself and make . new start-and slower one.
 Look over today's papers and note the big red ink headlines. A thou sand women in New York in every walk of life. from the lowest to the highest tearing each others clothes half off crowding into court room for seats of vantage where they can hear and relish portrayal of the nastiness of a lot of moral degen- crates whose lives and ways would bring the blush of shame to any re- speetable face. Why do they do it.? Why do the newspapers print pages of it every day. and why do the pco- pie turn to these pages before any other part of the paper'
 Why does a Chicago shop girl of fer in the public prints 10 sell her soul and body to the highest bidder? Why does Kansas City stenograph- CT offer to sell kisses to any buyer at $S each1 Both claim that work is he'll" and that women are con stantly insulted in their walks of life. They probably lie, and would not get insulted if they took down their signs. The trouble is that they want to go pace they cannot af- ford. Judging from the published reports and what we can see on the streets of any big city. an alarm ing lot of women are stark raving crazy over the question of rich cloth es. fine raiment. purple and linen The men are no better, in fact, worse. Look at that recent expose mp in Portlandl Seems like too bis a percentage of them no longer prac- tice manhood, bravery and noble ness of character in themselves or 
 encourage chastity in women, with shame be it said.
 How comes it that Shakespearean plays draw poor houses, while Olga Nc,hersole arrives in the big cities in her special private car, fitted up as a palace and rolling her all over the United States while she lolls back on soft divans, sips champagne and blazes like million freilies with her diamonds and other jewels, Where does she get all this wealth and luxury' Who puts up for all those jewels tha, Gaby Dcslys passed through the custom house last week,