The St. Joseph observer., 1922-11-11
RFTTER;S PUNGENTS
Paragraphs That Touch Interestingly
Features of the Day.
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partmcnt of health to the Washing
ton health authorities. The detailed
report shows STA cases Of the disease
down-state; scarlet fever, ESQ cases
smallpox, 30; typhoid fever, 32; men
ingitls, .; poliomyclitis, 13; inflenza,
10; pneumonia, $50. and whooplng
cough, 179.
The Eighteenth amendment extends
its prohibition to the "manufacture.
sale or transportation OF Intoxicating
liquors within all territory subject to
the Jurisdiction Of the United States.
Where the amendment specifics "all"
territory Congress in its enforcement
legislation substituted "all but" the
governments canal and railroad
across the Panama isthmus. This
fact that an important bearing on
the Laughcrty threc-mile limit ruling
and Judge Learned Hands decision
sustaining IT. It tends To confirm the
sounduess Of that interpretation" Of
the NoIstctd act. But Il also points a
way out Of the disastrous mess which
a fanatical prohibition has got us
into with foreign shipping and al OF
our international relations. If Con-
Ercss can exempt the Panama canal
from the operations OF the 18th
amendment as 10 tn" transportation
Of liquor it can obviously exempt the
threc-milc limit all around the Amer
lean coast How much further Con-
gress might go with It's exemptions
may be a question. But that it can
go this lcngth is evident. And II a
congress dominated" by the Anti
Saloon League can be so anxious to
save to the country its traffic and
revenue from the canal as to lift the
prohibition amendment from it, even
a congress similarly dominated may
for far woiEhtier reasons Of the same
kind lift the amendment from the
thrce-mile limit. The plaintiff steam
ship lines against the Daugherty rul-
ing are preparing to appeal from
Judge Learned Hands ruling to the
United States supreme court. If the
decision IS sustained President Hard
ing Will be I'm duty bound to press the
matter for congressional action. The
Panama canal is as much territory
subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States as the ocean waters
within three miles Of its shores. The
Nolstead act in express terms pro-
vides that its prohibitions shall not
apply to liquor in transit through the
Panama canal or on the Panama rail
road" Now we do not want TO be
chOked off in discussing or testing
the Volstead act, Notwithstanding the
fact that this law or act has been de-
clared constitutional" by the United
states supreme court. In my humble
opinion there are clauses" in the
Nolstoad law which are clearly "un-
constitutional" At any rate. the Vol
stead act lies" IN so far than as say
ing that liquor which contains moro
than onc-half Of one per cent aIco-
holic content Is Intoxicating" liquor
per Sc for beverage purposes under the
eighteenth amendment.
The United States will have an
observer" at the Near East peace
conference, but he Will have nothing
to say.
ON his first Job John d. Rockefeller
worked three months and earned So.
on his last job he didn't work at all
and earned fifty millions.
Have women souls?" asks Ambas-
sador Harvey. Come, come, Colonel.
Have heart. Science is placing us
on higher plane than we ever
dreamed Of, and to ask 'Is the ends'
is only to glimpse the morning finger
indicating the way to greater things.
At last our knowledge Of the Milky
Way has been extended to greater
limits-that are really not limits at
all for science only halts temporarily
on the sky-trail OF systems OF stars
whose almost inconceivable distances
are enough TO take the breath away.
In as much as the settlement Of the
Irish Free state" was one Of the out
standing achievements Of Lloyd