The St. Joseph observer., 1921-11-26
RITTER'S PUNGENTS
Interestingly Important News
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o the Editor of The Observer:

The public is hoping to get the
truth, nothing but the truth, and as
nearly the whole truth as possible,
about the Washington conference
Notwithstanding the number Of nov
elists who have been assigned to
"covor" it,
Britannia may rule the waves, but
America is willing to waive the whole
works.
Recent straw vote Of the Liberty
Alliance in New York shows 247,692
for beer and 4,95s opposed to it.
win President Harding now sign or
veto the anti-beer bill recently passed
| by Congress? This arbitrary, unjust
and unreasonable class legislation is
clearly unconstitutional and should be
tested in the courts because it is an
extension and transcends the scope Of
the 18th amendment itsclf-to say
nothing about the fundamental, pro-
fessional and necessary scientific med
ical rights of physicians, or doctors
to prescribe beer for their sick pa
tients on the grounds Of public policy.
necessity and public health.
General Wood in the Philippines
declares he is going to try to make
the income equal the outgo. That is
what the states has been doing this
year.
Uncle Sam can afford to scrap his
battleships and when he needs more
he has the men the money and the
materials.
The League of Nations is organizing
an international court of justice. -
As soon as it begins to function it will
be busy and the 30 yez" of its sheriff
will be as welcome a note as was ever
uttered in this troubled world.
Perhaps there will be less negli-
gence in preventing mob attacks on
iails and less lynchings, if the county
has to pay damages for them, and
pecuniary considerations may work a
reform which moral suaslon has fail
ed to accomplish.
! Tho proposal for an international
or world reserve bank" contains pos
sbilities which might well furnish the
| key necessary for the solution of the
| international financial collapse. The
| world reserve bank" is to be pat
termed after our federal reserve bank
| system, to serve the various countries
Of the world. And finally receiving
! its charter from the League Of Ma
tions and tying up one country with
| another in strong financial bonds,
such a bank might serve to aid In pre-
venting wars.
Lloyd George says the Washington
disarmament conference is like a
rainbow in the sky" He ought to
/ know.
Europe's goods will have to be ad-
mitted or the European debts viii
have to be cancelled. We can't col.
lect unelss Europe can sell. Impress
this on Mr.. Fordney.
We trust the navy didn't fail in {
dead faint at Secretary Hughes PRO
posal."
And from new Germany come
echoing across the Atlantic TO tn,
disarmament conference, ME wieder
Krieg." And they shall beat swort
into plowsharcs and battleships int
junk, and our chlldrens children shall
some day gaze upon the submarine II
the museums as old relics Of babar
ism.
Henry Ford says, "I will buy tn
navies Of the world at junk prices an
turn them into agricultural machiner
and automobiles if the United State
will agree to disarm on the sea-"
The public schools have more to d
with determining the future OF tn
nations and of mankind than an
other organization. 1t Is the onl
4 movement that is utterly 100 per Ger
4 democratic.
Z Kansans declare they will burn cor
( instead Of coal this winter. Too bat
Thrifty Kentucky farmers will fee
some Of the corn, grind some of
make mash Of little Of 1t, parch a b
: of it, say nothing, and saw wood.
There is no danger Of the 1st
n amendment being repealed" 1t wi
be staunchly defended by larl
number of prohibitionists and twi'
as many "bootleggers."
As an issue in a political (munic
4 paD campaign for the mayoralty
: New York City, "a five cent street CT
e fare and home rule" won out.
Bonus Bill Collins" an AmericS
& Legionnaire, says in his certain lette
in parts to the Post Dispatch, "V
never did and never will claim tn
n we fought TO save the souls OF peop'