Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-12-15
Meanderings
By Robert x. Williams

A cleanup of dope" doctors is
now under way in Chicago. 1t is said
that IS physicians of that city are un-
der indictment for furnishing snow
and other drugs to victims, and have
grown rich. One physician had six
hundred patients" who visited him
two or three times a week. The rev.
enue is said to be enormous and the
physical suffering of the victims terri
bly, appalling. When respectable gov
ernments, such as England, profits by
traffic to the extent of $300,000,-
000 a year in China, what can you
expect of other peoples who see moth
ing but the profit?
Breaking the habit is easy, under
proper guidance, and if the manufac-
ture and distribution of these civiliza-
ton destroyers was stopped for a year,
marked physical change would oc-
cur. However, like everything made
for profit, there is no hope except thru
education and a realization of the
truth of the education.
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Baltimore college girls do not want
parental subsidies when they marry
They say that the wage system should
be so arranged that the protectors they
secure should be able to earn $40 a
week. Responsibility cannot be pre-
served on less than that, it is averred.
Alas, how many disrespectables there
are!
True to the predictions of old-time
economists, aggregations of capital
are getting together. The Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company, the Inland
Steel Company, and the Steel and Tube
Company of America are going to
merge. They find it cheaper to work
together than to foolishly compete.
In presenting and outlining the new
Consumers, Bureau Of Davenport, Ia,
President Joe Langford Of the Ad.
Club, said that the old methods of
doing business were gone. A new era
had arrived and the older, individual
system of cut-throat lying competition
was gone never to return. The neces-
sity of being absolutely truthful in ads
has been borne home to several doz-
en- big cities of the U. S., and wig
lance committees" consumers bu-
reaus" .and civic bodies" have been
developed, whose time is consumed in
the public from unscrupu-
lous advertisers and raw merchandise
ing. The consumers bureau is for the
purpose of hearing complaints and re-
ceiving suggestions with view of aid
ing the merchant as we'll as protecting
the public from overcharge.
y s. = 3
Entangling alliances such as Wash
ington warned America against more
than l40 years ago, is discarded these
days. America is now dominant
world figure and there are few ma
tons which she hasn't something to
say to as to their policy. 1t has added
a burden upon the people. without
question. and whether it will rebound
to the credit Of the U. S. is problem
atical. How effective an alliance of
nations or association of nations rath-
er than a league of nations will be
made patent before the conference at
is over. Already the teeth
of Italy are shown against France and
they are both Latin countries. What
sort of an alliance can be made with
with their different colors,
aims and degrees of advancement
seems to US to be a problem for the
next ten thousand years to solve. So
far, autonomy has proved to be the
best form. Ireland has been fighting
for it 700 years.
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AL. Sessions, editor of the Pacific
Coast Co-operator, 236 Commercial
Street, San Francisco, sent us an APP
plication blank to join the Universal
Cooperative brotherhood" The pur-
pose is mutual and protective. 1t aims
to take care of the sick and unemploy-
ed members, and strikes me as a fine
thing. Anyone who believes in coop
Grafton is eligible. and who doesn't be-
heve in it? Cooperation makes great
production possible-this is patent to
everyone.