The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-23

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patches herein are also reserved.
According to Washington, d.. c.
news dispatches, the vets and drys
are in a death grip in the nation
That may sound new, but it isn't new
They have been in a death grip pretty
near ever since we can remember an6
will probably remain in a death grill
as long as the national liquor inter.
ests can see a ray Of hope. The
scrap used to be one-sided, with the
liquor interests on the top. A few
years ago, however, the dries sue
ceeded in %pinning the shoulders OF
the vets to the mat, taking away from
booze it's legal status entirely. The
wet interests, it seems, are going to
put up a scrap for a modification OF
the Volstead law, with the idea of
legitimatizing light wine and beer,
and have hopes, which will prob
ably prove vain, of electing enough
congressman to put over a modifica-
ton of the law.
BETTER EMPLOYMENT CONDI-
TIONS.
The latest report Of the United
States Employment Service is very
hopeful, and it expresses the belief
that early spring will witness a large
revival of industrial activity. With
the starting of highway and other
construction jobs and the renewal of
farm operations, a great body of
idle men should be put to work, and
their improved earning power will
start up many idle wheels.
With SO many conditions presaging
expansion of trade, some prudent
business men should look out lest
they suffer by their caution. 1t hap
pens on all business booms, hat a
lot of people do not get the benefit
of renewed activity. They had no
faith that it would come, and they
failed to get ready for it.
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TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION
{" There are two sides to every ques-
ton, although some people are never
able to see or even consider but n
until the shoe begins to pinch.
Not very long ago a certain Snoho-
mish man came along with a choice
-,
bit of scandal that he thought would
look juicy in print. We did not print
it, but pointed out to him how many
innocent people would suffer if we
made a mention of it. A few days
afterward the editor of the Tribune
met the male gossip and he indig-
nantly demanded this news be pub
lished, regardless of who it hit.
1t was only last week when this
same mans family became involved
in an unsavory mess. Did he rush
into our office and ask us to print it?
He did not. He busted right into the
back office, not stopping in the front
office as is the custom, with a heart
rending plea for complete suppress
sion of the facts, "for the sake of his
wife and daughter"
The woods are full of them.-Sno-
(Wash.) Tribune.
SUICIDE AND CIVILIZATIONS
UNSETTLEDNESS.
The showing of suicides in the
States in 1921 made more
than 20, 900 ~self-murders, % per cent
than in 1920, and prolonged the
record scored through the war
and it's consequences. The Spectator,
however, an American journal of in
surance, supplies grounds for assur-
ance as to the future. 1t intimates
hat the suicides of 1920 were the
on record, being only 1873 to
he 100, 900 persons, whereas the
known rate is 21.5 to the
.00, 900 in 1908. The percentage in
1921, therefore, was not nearly so
enormous as it appeared.
Business failures were numerous in
9OS and in 1915, when the suicide
ates ran high, and war had nothing
0 do with it.
In normal times the record Of
uicide remains strangely uniform.
annually there is slow increase in
number, but the proportion of
ges, employments and both sexes :
maintained regularly. This fact !,
auses the theory that suicide is not h
an act of the will alone. The
mes have for at least seven years d
cen out of joint, and the whole {
rorld has been afflicted with spirit >,
al distemper. The restoration of :
loral health is the sole force that q
function effectively against sui f
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