The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

Georges Clemenceau attempts to
startle US with the news that the
Germans are already preparing for
another war. The gentleman has
gone about things in a childlike
way, if he really wanted to create
CONSERVATION in this country. If
he had only raucously yelped that
the French are already preparing to
pay off that money we loaned to
them, many of US would have been
SO completely thrown off our men,
tai balance that we would have
ducked for the cyclone cave.
Georges may be all that is claimed
for him as a war premier, but he
does not seem to realize that we
are all fed up on this rough stuff,
in the way of propaganda. Can it
be that we stand, in the eyes of
those mavericks across the pond,
as very ordinary easy suckers?
According to a reader in the
wet" movement, statistics issued
by the census bureau show an in
crease in the number of prisoners
in state and federal pens since
national prohibition went into eff
feet; and to his mind that goes to
prove that the Volstead law has
not been a deterrent to crime. The
thought occurs to US, however,
that there may be a great many
more bootleggers in Jail than we
had surmised, judging solely from
the focks that we have seen at
large.
The Roumanian delegation at
Washington Is making marked pro-
gress in negotiating the refunding
of its debt to this country. Of
course, there is no disposition to
question the intent of the other
debtor nations to settle their &C.
counts but it is a matter for COM
ment that one of the little Balkan
states should be the first to take
steps to that end.
A San Diego sap has just con-
fessed that he bent a perfectly
good piece of gas pipe over the
conk Of a brother, from the effects
of which the latter passed on, for
the sum of $3.50. Why he re-
quired the odd money change, to
the amount Of fifty cents, he has
not, as yet, explained. He is, very
likely, Of puritanic Yankee strain.
1t is probable that he was offered
an even thirty-seven bucks to make
dent in the bean Of the deceased |;
but his inherent Yankee character
istics impelled him to ask for more
than offered.
A neighbor up in Washington
has just blown his noodle off with
shotgun, after having hacked his
wife to death with an axe. Any
man who would deliberately mess
things up in such a manner as
that should have been resuscitated
and made to tidy up the premises.
It is impossible to condone such
slovenliness.
A church 4revivalist is making the
men-folk in his congregations
whistle the tunes and he leads them
in rehearsals until he is satisfied
they are putting their hearts, as
well as their mouths, into it. We
shall feel aggreieved If we do not
later on learn that the whistling-
hymn hims let him whistle for his.
Recognition of the soviet govern
ment is to be one of the policies
Of the radical element in the next
congress. Imagine President Hard
ing receiving a soviet ambassador
on terms Of equality at the White
House! There would be no diff
,ulty in appointing the American
representative at Moscow. Bill Hay
wood is already on the ground.
Elko people, according to the
free Press, are not in the best Of
humor at this time, because some
depraved miscreant is poisoning
some of the towns most valuable
dogs. Some Of the bereaved owners
have raised quite a neat sum, which
they are offering as a reward for
evidence that will lead to the ar
rest and conviction Of the scoun-
drel. There is something organically
wrong with a man who does not
love dog and anyone who will en-
gage in their indiscriminate slaugh-
ter should be put out of misery.
President Harding has just made
that which the Democrats will un-
doubtedly acclaim as cheap poll
teal play, resorted to for no other