The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-11-18
IN THE EYE OF THE CAMERA
By K. O'Daksr

Following a national health sur
vey made by the National Life In
surance company, that organization
states: Prohibition is making
American men fat, cutting down the
average span of life, and piling ad-
ditional work upon the housewives. 4"
Unfortunately, this news was given
to the public too late to save those
poor souls who think they are liv-
ing in the state of California.
A Vermont convict has just fallen
heir to $12,000,000 with an indie
terminate sentence of two to three
years yet to serve. II that bird
isn't out within thirty days, you
can bet every blessed cent that you
have, or ever expect to have, that
Justice sure is blind as a bat and
also deaf as a post.
Oregon voted at last weeks cleo
ton for compulsory public school ed
ucation, doing away with the Catho-
lie parochial schools, up to eighth
grade students. The law was vigrous-
ly opposed by the Catholics and
Jews, but strenuously supported by
members of the Ku Klux Khan and
the passage of the law is accredited
as victory won by the Khan, who
openly fought for the law, which
does away with secular primary
education in the state Of Oregon.
woman to grace supreme
BENCH" reads a headline, which pre-
faces a news item telling Of the
election of a woman, in the state of
Ohio, as an associate justice Of the
supreme court Of that state. As far
as records show. she is the first
woman in the world to hold a posi-
ton of that kind. Justice has long
been characterized as a blind old
dame, and it is peculiarly fitting
that woman be elevated to a posi-
ton that will enable US to determine
wether or not we have been labor
ing under a false assumption.
A committee in charge Of funds
being raised for the boy scouts, in
st. Louis, No., has just refused q
Ku Klux Khan donation Of $4,000.
We have no comment to make re-
garding the committee, nor the
Khan, but we do direct the atten-
ton of the latter to the fact that il
they have any further trouble about
giving the $4,000 away, we stand
ready to relieve them Of annoyance
and the $4,000.
The booze-head who is inclined to
delude himself with the thought that
this country is going to put the
skids under the Volstead law, be-
cause certain avowedly wet candi-
dates were elected last week, should
take pause and reflect upon the vote
cast by Californians, who have, for
the first time in the history Of the
state, voted to make that common
wealth 'bone dry" This means
that the bootleggers are going to
have to cope with the minions of
The state and Uncle Sam, who are
going to work in unison. II they
fail of making a veritable Sahara
Of California it will be due to moth
:ng more than official corruption.
Most of US will watch, with a GER
tain degree Of concern, the results
attained in California and il she is
unable to make prohibition effective,
it will be high time for US to con-
clude that the voting of the state
"bone dry" was a measure that met
with the approval of bootleggers
and prohibitionists, alike, but with
widely variant objects in view. And
too, most of US will automatically
conclude that the sentiment of the
people, as a whole, is against prohi-
bition; and whenever the time comes
that we are able to assure ourselves
Of this, beyond a reasonable doubt
steps must be taken to emasculate
the law Of that which may BE-
deemed its intolerant features.
We have noticed that as a rul,
the girl who has a voice that ca
climb higher than a cats back, with
out any trouble, and is also skille
in the manipulation of the ivor.
keys Of a piano, is awkward as tn,
dickens about pairing potatoes, ant
aside from being able to cook hard
boiled eggs is a frost in the kitchen
Certain rail union leaders figure
that it takes about $4,000 per yea,
| to constitute a Giving wage" 81
they ask the Railroad Labod Boart
to establish wages on that basis. Il
adopted, this would raise the ex
penses Of the railroads $3,000,000,
900 year. Now suppose the farm
ara oct toOether and figure how