The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-04
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CJa.. fy4scious Duel. Hox., pdch Torture? No Lrrvard Race Line. MoI Knickers.
 y ARTHUR BRISBANE

fs4 oAN0 IT yOa AAEat 6Aea ANA6 words, spreading your legs apart. lunging and parryings 1t Is all right. You are a gentleman and the duel Is une affaire d'honneur. But if you fight duel with short knives in stead of long swords. you are ruf- tfian and go to jail.
 They have just sentenced French criminal "apaches" for a short knife duel about a woman. One was killed. The other and witnesses went to sail. Even in the French republic and in lighting there Is class coll sciousness." as our socialist friends would call 1t.
 A judge discussing crime wave advocates floggins "hold-up" men. They remind you that such flog- ging of highwaymen produces excel lent results in Canada, England and our state of Delaware. No doubt severe flogging would inttmidate highwaymen. frightening them. as prison does not frighten them. The average hold-up man is understood, underfed. small brained and coward ly. and would look upon the whip whom applied with deadly fear. He would be even more frightened of other tortures, burning. the rack or thumb screw.
 The question Is not what would &xsn i-h WIT htft what ishment should a race calling itself civilized inflicty
 Tortures that would frighten orim- inals would do more harm than good to civilization, and in the end pro- duce more criminals.
 A misguided person. speaking for Harvard. says membership Is becom- ing too big, which causes talk about the proportion of Jews at the col Iege." Dean Greenough corrects the bIunder by announcing that there will be no discrimination at Harvard against Jews or any other oitizena. It's a good announcement. ought 10 stand. And there is 3 simple way to make 1t stand. Deprive college or other concerns, including the Young Mems Christian association. of tax exemption on its real estate the mo- nent 1t is convicted of race or re- iigious discrimination. That would discourage nonsense.
 
 Mir. swnnton, virtuous mayor of Traverse City. has ordered police to lock up girls or women appearing in knickerbockers. Hie explanation is ..The morals of the present genera ton of boys are being assailed. and I won't let them be tempted by im- moral dress.-
 Young women wearing knickerbocis- CTS display lses. straight or bent. from the knee down. Young mon wearing kniclxerbocksrs do the same. Why are 1z inches of female leg bad for boys morals and tho same length of boy's lsg hArnslsss. as regards girls morals-
 Knickerbockers ars ths most moral costume that women can wear. The skirt was invented for the harsm. where they didnx want morals--or knicke<tockers.
 rhe wonderfua Mttls sw4ss nstion. efficient. dsnocrstic, honest, 70 well prepared for defense that no one darss attack, now faces . yearly den- cit of 100. .0oo. 900 francs. That Is 2o.ooo.ooo of our money. at par. and they take 1t seriously. Here It wouldn't bs worth mentioning. We are good spsnders and the people very docils tax payerz.
 4 mn on t<lsl for se1isng Ax1se oil stocks told hta victims. we are al- most certain to find lake of Eold. sioo.occ.ooe would bs cheap for our hoidings.- etc.
 The man told the truth For Eve" meant himself and his crowd, and whoever goes after the foolish Amer ican investors in the right way h ab- solutely certain to find . lake of gold. It is lake that never dries up. Mii- Hons spend their lives In hard work and slow saving. at any moment ready to exchange the work and say ings for the iying promises of some scoundrsl. And no amount of warn ing or sxposurs seems to change 1t.
 Education of the people will be the only rsmsdy. and perhaps on the whole the present system is part of a providsntial plan Experience is the best sduoation. He wos loses his savinss goes on working. which 1 is better for him and the country. probably. than the few ysars of idle ness that he has promised himself. Federal Narcotic