The Nevada County picayune., 1922-01-12

Slaughter plays hy urchtnS in school. We have seen so much of crime on the screen and have been taught for so long to admire bragadociO and the arts employed ny the criminal, that crime makes a peculiar appeal tO the popular mind From press reports we learn that Ardmore has called on the Governor of Oklahoma for assistance in preserving order Ministers have been served with notice 10 leave the city. Undesirable citizens forging the name of tine ku Klux kian, have sent anonymous letters containing violent threats
 But even with all this, nothing SD unusual has appened,-nothing which has not in some form been going on for a number of years. Are we now reaping the harvest from the seeds of political knayery, stupidity, ignorance and moral indifference which we have sown broadcast for some generations: We have learned certainly that there is no moral value to war, and that it is frightful price to pay for the many dangers which beset Us on every hand. The normal mind has developed such an appetency for thrills and eX- fled by the bomb-thr0werS and 1awleSs riots which fill our cities, or the moonshine battles of our Still-infested districts, not even the savage cruelty of red handed Murder as he stalks through our streets. Our sensibilitieS have become so henumbed that it takes a super thrill to make a thrill at all. Just a year ago we said in these columns
 The trouble with Us has been that we have heard the bombs that have killed Il handful of innocent victims. We have seen the strikes that brought desolation to homes and wrecked iu- dustry. We have been shocked hy the guns across the square and observed the ambulance in it's hurting rush 10 gather up the victims of Sim Fein riots or anarchistic displays. but we have failed to hear the bombs that have killed their thousands and wreck ed their millions in tragedy not SD audible. We have failed to sense the trcmor from the volcanic outbur,t of striking. of profteering of grabbing and deceiving. and general hell-raising in the industrial and political lie of this country.
 Unprecedented eXtrayagmcc and indifference to governing principles in our domestic and commercial life have furnished n most fertile field for the agitator and the charlatan. Science and art, statesmanship and diplomacy have served them. too often blindly and stupidly, through physical environ ment, mandates of court, protcctorateS or spheres of influence. Contending
 
 systems of business have been So en- groSsd with their own affairs during this generation, and have been SD over whclmed and dumb-fomded hY com floods of oratory. dead eats of vimpcration, and veuomous mass of propaganda, that they have lost sight of the subtle tactics of the yari- ouS enemies to higher form of social and political existence
 But perhaps most effective of all influences among Us in the propagation of crime has been the ruthless hand ot war The duty of cooperation be tween the government and the govern cd for the study of the conditions. the causes and the prevention of crime was never more imperative than il is E. NJ. in Candid Opinion.
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