The St. Joseph observer., 1922-09-09
To tho Editor Of The Observer:

To the Editor Of The Observer:
DR.. stephen Smith was the founder
a., and father Of our Public Health De-
/ partment" in this country.
More than $40, 100000 has been in
vested by St. Louisians In German
marks. The mark is now quoted at
"A cents a hundred.
Mlssouri's cash increased $964 in
year.
Ford's coal supply will last until
Sept. IS, at least, and there is still
time for about 10000 new flivvers to
come into the world.
1t is nice now and then to run across
a case where a fathers business and
a fathers methods are so attractive
to his boys that they 60 in with the
old man and make it family team.
1t speaks well for the head of the
firm that 1t can retain the respect
and cooperation Of the people who
probably know him best of all the
people in the world. It's an indorse-
ment hard to beat.
The japanese take their shoes off
when they go into a theater. The
Americans pay tip-top prices for
theater tickets and demand that ev-
! erything that's to be taken off be
taken off by the girls who are hired
by the producer with that under
/ standing.
Where there is smoke there's pretty
liable to be fire. Which makes us
think, with all the agitation now GO
ing on throughout the country against
the infamous Volstead act that n
modification will be in order before
long.
| Prohibition or no prohibition, is the
paramount political issue in this coun-
try today. Prohibition and the tariff
will overshadow all other political is
sues in the coming campaign. 1t is
against sound public policy, common
sense, reason and sound law to compel
or force the individual citizen or the
nation to do an impossible or an un-
reasonable thing.
The reasoning Of the law is the law
| for without reason there is no law.
| And 1t is for this very reasoning Of
the law that France will not dare to
invade Germany at the present time
and cOerce Germany (vi ct armis) TO
do an impossible thing. The inter
national bankers might suggest a So
luton Of the problem, but even the
bankers themselves cannot rule or
govern the world and its economic
condition.
If all the farmers now on the farm
were to farm intelligently and indus
triously for one year they could go
fishing the next year and stlll none OF
us would starve.
The worlds hundreds of millions,
long troubled by the Irish question,
will be completely baffled by the MUIR
der of Michael Collins than whom
there was no more loyal son Of Ire
land.
4 candidate for Congress in the
state Of Washington recently attacked
Demothenes and stirred up hornets
nest among the Greeks. He would
have been little more timely If he
had centered his remarks on Senator
Newberry instead.
II everybody could equal the ef-
fic!oncy Of Miss Nina f. Holmes, of
the Detroit post office, who has Just
made a record by sorting 2O,C1O let
ters in day, it might be possible 70
cut down postal rates.
Secretary Hughes might take the
tip and write a letter defending Dem
osthencs.
| Five hundred persons led by two
dozen robed and masked Ku-Klux
/ Klansmen marched into Chicago
| church on a Sundey and put $1,000 in
the contribution box It was an i'm
/ pertinent proceeding. The Ku Klux
Klan not only usgrps the powers Of
tho courts and the regular constituted
authorities Of the law, but 1t usurps
| the constitution Of the United States
itself in the matter of religious free
dom and worship. This organization,
like the A. 2. A. which flourished in
this country some years ago, will fin
ally disband and go TO pieces Of its
own accord because it has no true,
correct, just and sound American
basic principle or public policy nor
is it founded upon the grand and en-
during principles of justice and truth.
The origin Of Freemasonry is un-
known, but it is very ancient, It has
been traced to the knights Templars
to the Crusaders, and others. 1t Is
said that the workmen upon Solomon's
Temple were Masons and that Mason
ry was the original trade union or pro-
tective association for workmen, each
workman by signs being able TO prove
that he had reached a certain stage OF