The St. Joseph observer., 1922-09-30
RITTER,S PUNGENTS
,ragraphs Touch Interestingly All OF the Imports
Features of the Day.

e Imnortant News

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ratified an agreement with Chile.
The constitutional guarantees of a
free press and free citizenship have
made the United States the most en-
lightened nation in the world.
Lloyd George is the only statesman
in the world who can scalp an enemy
and make people think he is burying
the hatchet.
our guess is that the Turks will
conquer Europe about like the Boil
sheviks overturned the world.
Railroad" or Rough and Ready"
Brewster has been in St. Louis re-
Gently trying to find out il possible
how he can defeat Senator James A.
Reed for the United States senate.
Well, he simply can't do it, and he
might as well go back home.
I have always advocated govern
mont ownership Of all the coal mines
in this country. But If such man as
Henry Ford should "gobble up" most
of the coal mines in this country it
might be a blessing instead of a curse
to the country. who knows?
In national politics the dirt farm
er" has a sharp eye for pay dirt.
You can't get ahead of the Yankee
no sooner does Germany invent an
airplane that flies without motors
than Congress comes back with
soldier bonus that pays real money
without cash
The Los Angeles Chamber Of Com
merce has established a special de-
partment for industrial music. An in
dividual of average means finds that
home ownership is a mutual relation
ship. The man owns his home and
the home owns the man, and each
serves the other 365 days a year.
If the United States Labor board
could decide what is a living wage
and satisfy wage earners it would rate
as the greatest of governmental agen-
cics, in the eyes of labor.
La Follette's latest triumph in his
home state indicates that he has put
both the Republican and the Demo-
consin.
Second Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Henderson predicts that within a
year mail carrying airplanes will en-
able a man dropping a letter in the
New York post office TO have 1t de-
livered in San Francisco the next day.
The Centennial of the Monroe Doc
trine will be December 8, 1928
The first shipments OF anthracite
coal TO reach New York since the
strike was settled arrived billed at
$3.50 a ton at the mines, exactly one
dollar a ton more than the price on
April l last, when the strike began.
Bellevue Hospital of New York has
introduced in that great institution
music for the benefit Of crippled chill
dren on the theory that there is
melody" for every "malady."
The German government before and
during the war stimulated the growth
Of potatoes in order 10 provide a re-
tion Of alcohol. This oversupply has
now been thrown on the British mar
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without heavy duties, and it has been
sold for what it will fetch.
Analysis Of the air breathed by
/ criminal is the newest aid to the
/ French police in identifying malofac-
/ tors. They scientifically examine the
| air in the room in which he operated,
then examine the man, and reach a
/ definite answer to the question wheth-
CT he breathed in that room at a par
/ ticular time. If by chance the man
expectoratcd while at work he can be
traced as surely as If he had left his
calling card.
Each man or woman has his or her
distinctive heat" and this is why
bloodhounds are able to trace by
smell, so the police say. Here is a
clause in the Democratic party plat
form Of Missouri directly aimed at
the Ku Klux Klan and similar intol-
Grant organizations masquerading as
100 per cent Americans. It is not
possible to mistake the target OF the
following paragraph; Civil and re-
ligious liberty are not only guaranteed
by the constitution, but are the very
essence of American freedom. We
denounce all efforts whether by
groups, societies or individuals, to
prescribe aany part Of our people on
account Of race or religion" This Is
revitalzing Democratic doctrine.
GEORGE A. RITTER.
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