The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
IN THE EYE OF THE CAMERA
By X. o'Daksr

In its attempt to impeach At
torney General Daugherty it is
said that the American Federation
of Labor will release a bombshell.
Most certainly it will prove dis
committing If by some inadvertence
the enemies of Daugherty get hold
of boomerang instead of bomb.
And they may do that very thing!
The secretary Of the World
League Against Alcoholism-most
assuredly not a booze-head-has
just declared: ITO stop liquor
smuggling across the internationally
boundary lines will require a great
er navy than the government now
possesses and a greater standing
army than any country possessed
in peace, SO long as countries on
the other side of the border are
not in sympathy with our national
prohibition policy" The answer?
Well, we are frittering away a lot
Of money without any reason for
assuming that we will ever arrive
at the desired end.
Hitchcock of Nebraska, who led
the fight in the senate for the
League of Nations, was defeated,
although the Democratic candidate
for the governorship in the same
state was elected by an enormous
majority. Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
who led the fight against the
league, was reelected. The league
could not have been an issue in
Massachusetts,, however, for both
the Republican and the Democratic
candidates were against the league.
Among the league opponents who
have come back with strong APP
proving votes are Hiram johnson
of California, and LaFollette of
Wisconsin. Bue even more impress
sive is the return of Reed of Mis-
souri,, who was a leader on the
Democratic side in the fight against
the league. Reed won in the
Democratic primaries over the op-
position of Wilson, and again in the
general election after Wilson had
denounced him as a man without a
party.
The British Embassy took formal
exceptions to the declaration OF
former Premier Clemerfceau that
Great Britain secured the guaran-
tee of national safety by letting
the surrendered German feet sink
in the Scapa Flow" Georges, il
appears, is one Of those sort OF
birds that talks too much for his
own good.
Down in Arkansas a native, three
months ago poor man, is now
rolling in wealth as the result of
the discovery Of oil on his land
md he has decided to donate suf-
icient money to build two churches
It the town named Smackover.
The man may not be a trouble
breeder, but to start up two
;hurches in a community content to
,bide in a town bearing that sug-
FESTIVE appellation most assuredly
S not a sensible thing to do.
A San Francisco man got drunk
md caved the head of his wife in
With a hammer, and then put her
to rest in a trunk. He is under
arres and bids fair to be one
snocker who will get everything
that is coming to him. Why is il
that a man will never learn that
it does not pay to be a knocker?
According to the financial col.
umns of the daily papers, the lead
ing gum and candy and tobacco
companies are paying dividends OF
from 8 to IL per cent on Their
stock and vastly more on the value
of their property. The railroad,
are paying about three per cent
on the value of their property
Yet the whole country is clamorini
for a cut in freight rates. Doe
this mean that the country want.
It's financiers to sell out the raj
roads and go into the candy an.
tobacco business. 1t might be we
for the country to do a little think
ing before it proceeds to wrec'
the railroads.
Brain-work is the handspring o.
business and industry. Tear thi
handspring out as Russia did ant
production must fail. Try sub
stitutes for it, and there will still
be failure. There is no substitute
and, what is more to the point
there never will be. It's brain
work that keeps the whole bushes
and industrial world a-moving, ever
when hand-work is not contribut
ing its part to processes and opera
tions, for brains then find the auto