The Washington herald., 1919-03-11

TUESDAY, MARCH H. 1919.
The Crime Wave in Cities
puzzng that with the of the churches of
the history country our ending of war that had
the of moral appeals there should be
of violence and of stratagem than ever before.
What is the explanation?
In Philadelphia there is an
epidemic of highway robbery In the former city there has been
Wild holding up trolley cars by bandits who
after gathering their plumber fled automobiles
the local police seemed incapable OF handling
army military police help not done
until thugs only robbed Pennsylvania Station
stripped him and there "hodup the corridors the
City Hall Even female member of the family high police
e victim of hghwayman and burglary snahng and
bacackng became that there demand for
death penalty in cases where the obbe armed with deadly
weapon.
Students of history nothing in this
Such manifestation follows
of the Galveston In
Galveston martial law had be declared check the loo In
San Francisco the
Nothing eataelysmic know
We do appreciate in full the changes wrought and the depths
which stirred The
merged the of the useful The army
drafted somehow into the body OF er disappeared
from city Crooks found profit pleasure
lives The unparalleled unprecedented
made deness something that could b explained
Now In the docaton of labor hun
dreds OF thousands of have been
who shf before and have been provdnt period
high been left swing of
of horror besaity violence told connection
has infamed period of plenty
feeling perhaps that society something they
have had they determine o get
Considering the profound uheava the world has undergone
crime is not might be expected 1t nothing
that Europe where armed bodies piagng
plundering
1t will subside.
that soils the hands very seldom soils the
We made everything except the next Con-
In
OF Gott
mans goes the only vacant
place on the premisss
enduring foundation for any league to pre-
serve peace is the ruins Of Germany.
The complaint the new income tax law is that it
has teeth that discourage lodging.
The official explanation of the league plan is that its success is
assured if nations will resolve fight
league failed to provide adequate punish
uent for member who sssses the umpire
respects ideaism but thinks it might be we'll
to adjust the present before adjusting the future.
We greatest merchant marine and
its future is bright except for England and Congress
perhaps first in which one side arrived at def
mite goal Of which it ignorant the beginning
Any form of government would be good enough if officials
could that habit of looking singular
The plan to restrict German activity in the air is
in the right direction but what about restricting activity
. in hot air?
the reason the Kaiser sconed the
plan of compulsory arbitration because some
of his pet doctrines.
We wondering appointment of Hapgood as
Ambassador to Denmark belsted reward for his undertaking
a recognition of his reform
.
International righteousness consist apporoning
the theory that the strongest deserve because they
the trouble il disappointed.
All this howl about paying share of
minds of the who hired objected
paying school for only one child
The Eternal Woman
EDMUND
0, the world lure
For the light foot,
To wander the highways and hedges
To tread all alone