Evening star., 1922-12-22
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Ia.plenty Of such work for the present
adults.
God. give u men! A time like this demands
stfons mirds. great hearts. true faith asd
1t is not Just TO the gold star moth
ers. and TO other mothers who offered
their boys to fight in a right cause,
that the organized women of the
thirty-eight countries should claim 20
stand for the womanhood of the
| world. There are no greater male
heroes than there are heroines
Whether Whittier'se Barbara Fritchie
was a person or type of woman
| hood. let her represent the spirit OF
patriotism.
After the recent conference of gov
ernors. called by President Harding
| to consider how best to enforce tho
! volstead law through both state and
federal action. Commissioner Haynes.
! commenting upon the result OF the
| conference. said:
There was a preponderance OF
/ opinion that an earnest official ap-
peal for reverence OF the law and g.
| cordial support of law enforcement
! would combine TO cure the worst
conditions reported"
| note Of the situation when he de-
clared that the great danger was IN
! the growing disrespect for law. II Is
| no longer debatable whether one Law
is good or bad. If it is law. It must
be enforced until II ceases to be law
| Anything else means anarchy.
When is a mad race through the
traffic-crowded streets justifable? Per
| haps II may be granted that a fire
alarm calls for speed of the engines.
lest great conhagration, with possible
loss OF many lives. may ensue. Then
there should be sirens or other signals
far ahead Of the onconing catapult of
1 engines and trucks to give warning 10
| clear the streets. Until the last five
, or six years 1t has been practicable
for q orse-drawn engine and hook
| and ladder wagon to warn away oh
structfons by the sounding Of gongs
| on the moving vehicles of the fire de-
partment. Great changes have conc
recently. in the overcrowding of the
| streets and in the use Of motor driven
vehicles Of the FIRE department. bur
keeping pace as TO the means Of clear
ing the thoroughfares far enough ahead
! of the engines
There should be scmc system devised
whereby an operator. knowing the loca-
| tion Of the alarm, could electrically and
from center station. sound sirens
! all along the probable route of the
speeding engines. Traff1c police are al
nearly every corner, hut their atter-
! ti6n is not attracted to the danger until
Better clear several possible routes o.
danger than let one remain obstructed
until the crash comes. with its attendant
| injuries and deaths.
is guilty Of all the injuries which re-
| suit from his prank" He is a con-
| structive murderer If his false alarm
/ results in fatal accident. just as
he would be il he careIessly or AZ "a
| Joke" threw a load Of stone from a
roof into a crowded street. Hurting
| a fire department needlessly throrgh
a crowded city is no joke: il is
| dastardly crime. and as often as II
| results in a fatality the false ALA
:; should he tried for murder. No blame
] attaches to the fremen. for they take
their own lives in their hands in try
| ing to do their duty. which is to get
! to the fire as quickly as possible.
| &
Only words Of commendation be-
long to the policemen who have
rushed through the streets in pursuit
| Of bootleggers. but Supt. Sullivan is
right In warning the officers that l.
would be better to 'let the fugitive
escape. and trust to nabbing him
later. than to imperil life by too
| violent chase through crowded
streets. The traffic condition brings
new problems into both fire and police
| work. Again siren. which could be
set to giving alarm several blocks
ahead, TO be sounded at any corner
/ by the pursuing policeman. might be
successful in calling upon ofiicere
ahead Of the fugitive TO set q net
| for him as he arrives.
! The Lenroot- farm credits
bill proposes to enlarge the powers of
| the farm loan banks SO that they can
meet the needs OF farmers for crop
| loans, etc. That is sound credit. The
Norris bill proposes that the govern
ment set up its own bank. with
| 500. 100000 capital out of the public
Treasury. and that the government
! farm bank shall in some way md
| means to lend where the Farm Land
Bank would not consi6er the basie
1 of credit safe. More than that, tho
Norris project is that the sovernment
shall actually buy the farm crops
ship them In government owned rail
| roads and government owned ships.
| and sell TO consumers 1T home and
abroad. The government would thus
| become the one great middienan for
all the agriculture of America, its
I salaries. like the salaries paid to rail
road officials during the war, while
the government ran the railroads.
| would range around $40. 900 to $4,000
! a year. and its efficiency would be-
like that of Russia