The Washington times., 1921-02-16
Today
lmpeaching Judge Lands.
Not So Easy.
Flowing Up a Chief.
Iyphus, Talking Sickness.
BY ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright isii.)

Two distinguished statesmen,
members OF Congress, are trying
10 impeach Judge Lands, OF Chi
cago.
Senator Dial, OF South Carolina,
wants Lands impeached because
ne released without bail a nine
teen-year-old bank clerk that stole
$4,000, and refunded the money.
Judge Lands said the blame
rested on the bank that allowed q
boy In his teens to handle millions
In money and paid him only $50
month,
Senator Dial, who owns banks
and mills and other things, and
mas for them soft spot in his
heart and pocket, accuses Lands
OF spreading "the most Bolshevist
doctrines l ever heard"
Senator Dial may be excited
about 1t, but the people won't be.
They will say that the banker who
gave boy $50 a month and let
him handle millions was at least
an ass, II not a criminal.
In the House of Represents
uves. Mr.. Welty, from Ohio. wants
Judge Lands impeached because
he consented to act as arbitrator
OF baseball for $42, 500 a year. The
Attorney General has decided that
Judge Lands had a right to take
the job, and that settles that
matter.
Tho public ought to pay Fed
eral judges enough to let them
live decently. But it doesn't, and
nobody but Mr.. Welty would OBJ
Ject to Judge Lands accepting
pay about which everybody is in
formed, for work that Is harm
less.
When the people see certain
judges one hundred per cent per-
= fect, in their decision for street
car trusts and other corporations,
they wish that some statesman
would get excited about that.
The foolish proceedings against
Judge Lands will do good, for
they will stir him up to energetic
plain speaking, which is his spe-
cialty.
Near Morristown, in Tennessee,
Roy Hale, farmer, plowed up the
skeleton Of an Indian chief of the
Snakeheads.
The chief held a pipe in his fin
ger bones and had a dog clasped
In his skeleton arms, his favorite
dog evidently buried with him, to
help him hunt in a better world.
And the chief had in his jaw
bones twenty perfect teeth, not a
hole in the enamel.
I; In the second part of Faust"
you read about the Emperor's law
that gave to the farmer all treas
ure that he, might turn up with
his plow. The idea was to en-
courage deep blowing and more
fertile suff. All buried treasure
below the depth of the plow be-
longed to the Emperor.
Here, in the second century Of
the United States, the farmer
still gets what his plow turns up,
seven-cent cotton, or thirty-cent
corn. The rest, including the
profitable coal deeper down, goes
to those that do no plowing and
take little risk, the emperors of
finance.
We smile at the snakehead chief,
holding in it's arms the skeleton of
a dog and clinging to the pumice
stone pipe. But our chieftains of
today, if they were in death as in
life, would be found, skeletonized
later on, holding a bundle of mil
dewed bonds or gold certificates
against the breastbone, and what's
the difference? The Indians dog
would be useful in the happy
hunting ground that he expected
to find. But the modern chiefs
money would be useless in any
heaven ever invented by anybody.
Three have diol of typhus in
New York. The are two other
cases in that city and twenty
seven cases have been removed
from ships to Holman Island.
Typhus is spread from one hu-
man body to another by vermin,
body lice, and in no other way.
Once it becomes widespread, it
is a disease against which cleanli-
ness will not protect you. A man
brushing against you in the
crowded car may transfer the
death-carrying vermin to your
body.
The disease can be kept out with
absolute certainty. Heat destroys
the vermin without destroying
clothing. Disinfecting baths and
other treatment cleanses the
bodies of immigrants.
Germany has avoided any typhus
epidemic, with the danger con-
stantly on her Russian border,
and with hundreds OF thousands
of Russian prisoners on her soil.
The Government Of the United
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