The Washington times., 1921-04-08

the Pacific Islands and Japan, you
know that this country has walked
mp to the fact that it is a nation,
not a British colony.
An old card expert and gambler
was mysteriously murdered. Now
Q confession. A mamie may be
lying to amuse himself-says that
he and another killed Elwell, at
the request of a woman, who
agreed to pay each of them $4,000.
1t the story be true, and the wom-
m identified, it will be one more
extraordinary case in the history
of crime.
One of two motives must have
Inspired such a crime and taking
such gigantic risk, jealousy or
fear.
What could rich woman, prob
ably much younger than the man
she ordered killed, fear from that
man? What could inspire fear
% deadly as to suggest murder?
And how could ouch man, old,
bald, growing feeble, including
more than a dozen little wigs
among his assets, inspire jealousy
to the point of murder? These
questions will be asked, but they
are foolish. Jealousy and fear have
power to magnify everything.
AS to hiring one man to kill
another man, in our civilization,
there is no difficulty about that.
That well-known politician. Con-
gressman, assemblyman, and New
York political boss, "Big Tim"
Sullivan, reminded by this writer
that his law against carrying
weapons appeared to violate the
United States Constitution, said:
Eyes, l know, but for fifty dollars
! can hire a man to kill anybody
in New York, and that ought to
be stopped"
That strange product of legal
education, Judge Landis, of Chi
cago, treated leniently an under
paid bank clerk who had stolen
money. Landis said the greater
guilt was with the bank under
paying a man and tempting him
with vast sums. Somebody want
ed to impeach him for that.
Now, a thousand win want to
impeach him. For Judge Landis.
after one hours nominal inpris-
onment, dismisses q mail clerk
who worked honestly for twenty
years, then stole a doll from the
mails. That wasn't the worst Of
it, dearly beloved. Judge Landis
compelled a lawyer named
Schwartz to give back to the clerk
one thousand dollars that the
clerk had paid "for legal protec-
ton"
We are used to judges that
hand out hundreds of thousands.
even billions, to other lawyers
when rich clients turn up. But the
Judge that makes a lawyer give
thousand dollars back to a poor
man is a novelty.
In addition to an American
policy in foreign affairs, it seems
that the country is to have an
energetic policy rim the office Of
the Attorney General. Mr.. Daugh-
erty advises those that need the
advice-by that he means the
profiteers-"to take notice of the
new day and the new way"
He warns them that if they neg
lect the advice they vii. 1ind
themselves in prison. He mentions
particularly those that have con-
spired to increase the price OF
building, so that hundreds of thou
sands are without homes.
1t is indeed "New Day and a
New Way" if the profiteer is to
hear anything more serious than
nice moralizing.
In London yesterday somebody
paid $1,000 for a manuscript, In
pTVSC ny oiCiiSy' oHCicy pIooC
was no better than that of mil
lion others, and his manuscript, Of
course, was worth nothing-as
valueless as a last years birds
nest. The main thing is that he
who paid $1,000 for a Shelley man.
uscript would probably get up and
walk out if anybody started to
read Shelley's lode to the West
Wind"
Three men, Slavin, Devin, and
Dogherty, of Dromore, County Ty-
rome, taken from their homes in
the night, are found dead outside
their village. This is "reprisal"
for attack on British Imperial
forces. Some Englishmen are wise
enough to know that it Is not
"good business" Individual mur-
ders, that might be understood,
il not condoned, when committed
by individuals, look ugly when
committed by q great power.
To seize defenseless men in the
night and murder them does not
look we'll, under any circumstances,