Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-06
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WALL Street Tiger Hunt.
ITO Pay EngIand'S Debt.
Chinese Bird and Beetle.
lyncning and Law.
By Arthur Brisbane

|lynehing and Law. |
BY Arthur Brisbane
Not everybody can go tiger shoot.
g, but anybody can play the
arket." Those that were specu.
ting yesterday and the day before
I've not much 20 learn about ex-
tement from the professional Ii
Pr hunter. To have drop of
Fty-eight points spring at YOU
ON the ticker is as exciting as to
hve a striped, well.camouhased
Past leap out from the jungle.
1.-THE tiger hunter, sitting in a
bowdah' on the back OF 1al Gle
lant. is safer than the Wall Street
&eculator perehed on the top Of a
Nall bank account.
Newspapers tell that some men.
GENTLY speculating, have killed
emselyes. The newspaper line is
financial Reverses. Why viii
Ban endure cancer. divorce. dis
PACE, rheumatism, Riggs disease,
digestion. family troubles and
Il cling 10 lie. but when he loses
bney blow out his brains? The
swer is that ordinary troubles
I've been endured for thousands Of
lars, men are hardened to them.
financial worry is new. and
e brain does not stand il.
Don't envy the man who max
3 money in the stock market.
watch ticker with a banker on
IT right. a broker on your left
rise than being chained in the
ID the chasm in front Of you is
1leys, more uncertain and much
bre unsafe.
The Statst. solemn British fnan-
j publication. has a scheme TO
y of the debt of England.
The interest on that debt, FIVE
|pdred million pounds. hangs like
lmilestone around the nations
ok. The scheme is TO make the
urch Of England. to which the
pg belongs, sell its property and
J. the debt.
rhe Church property includes
Westminster Abbey, and it is ac-
,lly 81 gestcd that the Abbey be
up at auction and sold to the
hest bidder. with all the inter-
ing graves in it.
This would not be entirely new,
in days when Queen Elizabeth
. 81 little girl. before her mother,
,r Anne Boleyn. was beheaded,
father. Henry VIII, of the many
YES, easily persuaded himself to
hfscate the property OF the
tholic monasteries. whose enor-
us we<h went to the Crown.
prosperity of the Church OF
gland is based largely on Hen
decision to be head Of the
urch as well as of the kingdom.
now Church of England property
4 ould be used to pay the king
n's debts, that would be carry
on the policy OF the forCefui
nry.
"A piece Of news from the Aericui-
raj Department Will interest Chi
In New Jersey the Japanese
yEtle has been destroying crops.
Snerican birds did not like the
Retle, would not eat It. The hg-
cultural Department discovers that
Chinese pheasant will eat all
h Japanese beetles he can set. and
LAT beetle problems seems 70 be
lived,
In China, where the japanese bee
q is devouring the. Chinese bird,
j. will be interesting news and
Emulate the hope that America will
me over to prevent the Japanese
petite fnishirs the Cbiuase bird.
CSilver having crossed the magic
to l line, silver dollar is act
lilly worth more Tran gold dol
=. L would pay to take new sill
br coins, melt them and sell the
over.
In France. where tho value OF a
janc is cut in half by exchange
btes, silver coins are rapidly dis.
|ppearnig into the melting pot ami
ke only small change is the cop
Pr sou or double sou.
IA Judge at Helena, Arkansas
|hntences to death eleven negroes
|bnvicted OF murder in the first
egree in a recent outbreak. At
bout the same time. mob at
title Rock. Arkansas, takes from
fficers and burns alive negro
ccused of killing a sheriff The
he lynching does much 10 weaken
aspect for law 2 shown N The
even convictions.
kLAW is tina one hing that the
wless fear. When The public be
Inns lynching pushing law aside,
wlessness becomes he fashion
nd the public suffers.
This country could learn much
bout law enforcement from Eng
nd. There, the murderer is always
Ianged, there is no dUrbt about it.
he he proved guilty. Murders
re few, compared with our conn
! " and lynchings practically I'M