The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-06-04
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If about one-third of the energy
| that is being expended to evade tnt
Yolstead act was put into the busl
ness of forming league to prevent
wars and settle the business of the
world we should soon have civlllza.
ton safe for democracy and a better
country to live IN.
We are all more or less familiar
with the efforts of various ones tC
concoct home brews and distlll JOY
water with a kick in it but Bur
lington, Colorado, man has an en-
Iireiy new idea.
This man claims to have develop
ed a yeast which he inserts into hall
grown watermelon by means of plug
Eging it after which he seals the cut
with grating wax and adhesive tape
and lets nature begin work. The
Yeast acts on the natural sugar OF
the melon and develops alcohol IN
the tissues. Thus an edible growth,
swith the much desired kick Is pro-
auced.
We foresee an enormous move
ment of watermelons from Colorado
this summer.
8 The recent divorce in Nevada of
Mary Pickford, the famous moving
picture actress, from her husband,
Owen Moore, also an actor of note,
and her immediate re-marrlage to
Douglas Fairbanks, likewise nation
al favorite in the movies, has caused
agitation IN that state for an amend
nlent to its somewhat lax divorce
laws
At present, six months residence
within the state is, sufficient to OBJ
tain a divorce under their laws. No
interlocutory decree is issued. The
final decree is granted. This mas
made the state a mecca Tor mis-
mated couples from all over the Unl-
ted States. Reno, the Capital city,
has become standing vaudeville
joke.
sIn the matter Of divorces the uni
ted States leads ali the Christian ma
ti5ns. Our record is only exceeded
bN one other nationy Japan. Of the
forty-eight states IN the union only
one has no divorce law. The STATE
of South Carolina grants no divorces;
Of the great cities of the United
States Los Angeles mas more diVof-
ces in proportion TO population tnah
any other. New Orleans has fewer.
In our opinion, the legislators OF
Nevada, and for that matter, any
other state, are on the wrong trail
when they seek to cure the divorce
evil BY making divorce more dllhcuiC.
We need uniform marriage laws IN
the United States that will make
marriage more difficult. The business
of getting married is now too easy:
The impulsive marriage must be COM
batted if the divorce is TO be lessen
ed. Unhappily, a national law govern
ing marriage is not probable since
such legislation would interfere
with state rights.
That a daily newspaper In one OF
our great cities cannot prosper ana
continue publication without dissem-
mating news of society scandal, muir
ders, etc, has been proven by the
failure of a paper IN Chicago pledged
to omit such news from its columns.
This paper was launched under the
auspices of the various churches and
in its notice of discontinuance IN It's
closing edition the editor states that
lack of support was the cause OF It's
failure.
The nauseating news published IN
some of the larger dailies is indeed
somewhat of reflection on the de-
praved appetites of our people Tor
sordid happenings. The Hamon mof-
der trial in Oklahoma and the case
of Stokes, in New York, are notable
among the recent items OF this class.
We do not believe, however, with
some Of the aiarmlstS that this GRAY
ing after the worst type of news Is
indicative of a degeneraJIng race.
The greater majority of Americans
are safe and sane and viii survive
our present saturnalla Of .neWspa-
per scandal. We find some satlsIac-
tion in the fact that virtue IS not
yet so rare that it must be featured
in double columns on the front page.
AS long as Virtuous items are so IN
the majority that they must be con-
sidered so common as to merit no
mention, or when mentioned to be
accorded smaller space CI the inside
pages, the country Is safe.
Big Bill" Haywood, one of the
leaders of the Industrial Workers OF
the World and under indictment III
this country for obstructHg tbs
draft law and otherwise hlnuerng
the government war activities, has
forfeited a $4,000 bond and escap-
ct to Soviet Russia from whence, Il
is said, he will be the directing gen
ius of a Bolshevist propaganda II
the UnlCed States.
That there is already vicious pro
paganda at work in this country u
further the aims of the Communists
for world dominion cannot be denied
Good Americans everywhere mus
be on the watchou6 for TINS class o.
lteraturet and DO all they can u
Supnracs if T., industrial t.auEprS n