The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1921-08-13
To the Editor cf The Observer:


To the Editor cf The Observer:
Also the road to "normalcy" Is a
toll road.
Agitation sounds like a cure" for
stagnation but Russia is learning bet
ter.
The news that Russian peasants
are reduced to rats for food will be
heard with envy by Chinese admirers
OF that delicacy.
But why isn't the continuance of
the emergency" tariff confession
that the emergency continues unmet?
Gov Smalrs decision to keep NOV
ing to stay out of the clutches of
those character assassins indicates
how delicate he thinks his character
is.
1t takes time for a world to recover
from a moral and economic earth
quake, a quake wide enough and un-
settling enough to rattle the founda-
tion stones of every commercial struc-
ture on the round globe.
There is always either a coal strike
or a coal famine on or impending.
And. strange as it may appear. the
consumer is usually blamed. He
doesn't buy his coal in the summer,
when he hasn't the money, hence the
miners are idle when they ought to
be at work. When cold weather ap-
proaches, the consumer hurries to
buy-and then miners go on a
strike" One great trouble with the
coal business the world over is that
the owners of coal mines seem to
think they have gold mines. They
want to get rich quick. The fact
that they seldom get rich at all
doesn't mean that there is no money
in owning a coal mine, but that there
is so much waste and bad manage
ment in the coal business that profits
are pulveri2ed and blown away. Why
not put bit more Intelligence and a
little less "concealment" into the coal
mining business? .,.., is,. . s.r
More than 100 mayors have en-
rolled as honorary chairmen of local
committees to aid Gen. Dawes. di-
rector of the L. S. Budget system, in
his crusade for economy, in govern
ment, the national budget committee
announces. Mounting tax rates will
assure them moral support at home.
More than 1000 noYdls' are written.
in year in America; written and
published. Ten are read. Two are
remembered for few years. One
survives a decade-onos ia "a decade.
The only way to Russias heart has
been found and it leads through her
stomach. 81 ... .a
The improvement in our banking
system has made it possible TO handle
strained business situations in this
new way. Russia will finally have to
be handled or managed by a commit
tee of her creditors or by representa-
tives appointed by the banks to which
she owes money because Russia has
no basic principle" as a government,
and will go to pieces of its own accord
unless she is saved by civilization, the
revival of industry, law and order,
and put back on peace-time basis,
and finally unites herself with the
League of Nations. .
As a result of charges by Gov.
Allen of Kansas. a complete investi-
cation of the Internal Revenue Blu
reau has been ordered by Commits
sioner Blair in search for alleged tax
leaks.
Man raises his eyes to the heavens
and reads in golden star dust the
glory of God! Everywhere we see
the triumph OF mind over brute force
and matter. The spirit of true de-
mocracy is finally entering into the
intimate structure of all earthly gov
ernments. Evil defeats itself and God
rules in the affairs Of men.
This would be a sorry world with.