The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1921-08-13
RITTER'S PUNGENTS
Important
Features of the Day.

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out true lover3 and the pure in heart.
When it comes TO true love, it's in
st. Joseph.
Plain speaking generally leads to
good understanding.
Dawes won't allow Congress to in
crease appr6prk tons, so it retaliates
by increasing the number of Con-
gressmen by twenty-five. Dawes is
remarkable man. but no one mortal
can save Il faster than Congress can
spend it. If Gen. Dawes shows Con-
gress the way to "economize" and
shows us that he has shown the way,
he will be doing a big job.
Illinois is having the sort of hu-
initiating experience which a state
deserves II IL becomes a "Bigbillocra-
cy," and now If Gov. Small would
just rob g. bank" we'd be sure he is
headed fer the movies.
One of the saddest cases recorded
in long time IS that of a man who
worked in a church and was ignorant
of the fact that it also housed going
moonshine still.
Ireland has 80 counties. James
Craig of Ulster represents seven of
these, or 1,5S1,696 people. about SO
per cent of the population of the
island. Earmonn de Valera represents
most of the south of 25 counties,
about Ga per cent of the population.
The last report of the census of Ire
land in 1911 shows a total population
of 4.39O.219.
Exports to Europe fell off nearly
$500, 900, 900, while those to South
America increasoI more than $3O,-'
100000 during the fiscal year ending
June 80, last. as compared with the
previous year. If we are to prosper
we must trade with the world, and to
trade with the world we must become
partner in world affairs.
We armed, equipped and trained
100000 American toys and sent
half of. them across the sea to fight
a war to end all wsrs-and today. we
are spending. mOre. money preparing
for future Ways than we ever spent
before.
And TO our American farmers we
say; Pay tribute through a tariff;
we don't giysa continental whether
you get q lhInS. Price for your prod
,Hcts or not,iog We've got most Of the
standard p14pfy petal of the world
in our Possession, and If our farmers
are to sell their surplus foodstuffs at
all they must sell them in exchange
for what their customers make, but
we are building tariff wall around
our country and saying to our former
customers who have no money be.
cause we've grabbed it all, PAY cash
or go hungry (;
Two hundred and fifty pockets are
picked in Chicago, Illinois. every day,
and 24S of these are hip pockets in
the trousers. Men who carry their
money in the inside breast pocket Of
the coat do not have their pockets
picked.
John SHELTON Williams, former
comptroller of the currency, before a
joint congressional commission at
tacks the policies OF the Federal Re-
serve Board for having displayed un-
due favoritism in lending money to
New York banking groups while
Southern and Western borrowers
we're unduly curtailed. There is alb
solute ground for complaints of dis
elimination by farmers generally" he
added.
Taxation Is an interesting study,
but painful process. but it is gen.
orally accepted that taxation discom-
forts should be distributed, as far as
may be. SO as to rub as lightly as
| possible at all points Of contact. II
is against this principle that the pro-
posal to tax tobacco and movies now
pending at washington offends most