The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-12
in THE EYE OF THE CAMERA
By K. O'Daker

An Iowa murder has just adj
mitted that to plainly and con-
vincingly show a woman that he
loved her he shot the top of her
husbands head off his shoulders.
The woman in the case is on trial
for the killing, too, and it may be
that the jury will decide that the
pair shall wend ther way together
to an unknown land. The deceased
has long start of them, however,
and there is no reason for him
letting the pair overtake him; and
if they should he ought to profit
from past experience and take no
chances with them, as it is quite
clear that they do not like him.
The Lausanne conference is a
repetition of the chickering's that
featured the meets at Genoa and
The Hague. Great Britain, France,
and Turkey are at loggerheads on
control of the straits, exploitation
of the oil fields, and the. "open
door, in Turkey. Apparently the
British and French are determined
to secure oil concessions, while
Turkey and the American observers
are insisting upon equal rights for
all nations in the oil developments.
The Turks say that they are being
virtually blackmailed by the Euro
pean governments into securing
political, freedom for the price of
oil concessions, and they much pre-
fer to have American capital enter
their country because they know
that Americans have no political
designs.
For "gettin' hit" by an automobile
an Ohio pedestrian was hailed into
court and fined, and the driver
turned loose. The time approaches
when it is going to be necessary for
the duck afoot to carry a pistol
pocket filled with nitroglycerine, so
that the fiivver driver will attack at
the peril of scattering tin and in
testines from Reno to San Fran
cisco.
At its final session, closing a ten
days convention, the National
Grange of Kansas went on record
with resolutions opposing the ship
subsidy bill. Kansas has long been
a prohibition state and it is not
natural to expect those people to
countenance giving aid to anything
connected with a schooner, beer or
otherwise.
Confiscation is forbidden by the
constitution, yet the radicals who
were recently elected to congress
propose to enact transportation laws
which will make future cuts in the
incomes of railroads not now earn
ing enough to cover their expenses.
After them the deluge.
We are now paying S50,000,000
a year deficit in the operation of
merchant ships by the government
and there are lot of people who
throw fit when the Republican
administration proposes to cut the
expense to $30,0O0,OO0 by paying
a subsidy to private operators. Now
what do you think of that?
Constitutional prohibition has been
adopted by the nation. 1t is the
supreme law of the land. In plain
speaking, there are conditions re-
lating to it's enforcement which
SAVIOR of nationwide scandal. 1t
is the most demoralizing factor in
our public life. The day is I'M
likely to come when the Eighteenth
Amendment will be repealed. If
the statutory provisions for its en-
forcement are contrary to deliberate
public opinion, which l do not be-
i've, the rigorous and literal en-
forcement will concentrate public
sttention on any requisite modifca-
ion. Such a course conforms with
he law and saves the humiliation of
he government and the humiliation
Of our people before the world, and
challenges the destructive forces en-
gagged in widespread violation, Off
cial corruption and individual de-
ation.-President Harding.
Former President Wilson writes
Senator Caraway of Arkansas that
Democrats must clear our minds
and purify our hearts" in prepara-
ton for the 1924 campaign. 1t is
well that the warning is given thus
early. The Democratic party needs
lot of Qualification and purifca-
ton before it will again be fit for
popular support. The elimination
of radicalism, internationalism, So
-cialism and all other isms that now