The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-02-11
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We haven't learned anything about
Influenza" says DR.. William II. Park
| Of the New York Health Department
/ only that the invisible, unidentified
organism which causes it can pass
/ through stone wall. The expert
ments on tho monkeys have shown
concluslvely that If one is 'vaccinat-
ed" 1t cannot contract pneumonia
when "inoculated" with tho germ,
but that in the absence OF vaccina-
tion, incubation proves fatal in a
majority OF cases. Experiments on
humans would bring the same re-
suits. Somebody in chemical and
medical science and experimentation
will surely develop vaccine" which
will prove to be specific curative
romedy against the influenza germ or
"rmc."
A man in New York is going to
marry his mother-in-law. what have
the professional tokcstcrs to say 20
that?
We were promised as one OF the
blessings OF prohibition that it would
reduce taxes. Where is the reduction?
A Chicago dccto~ says "angcr and
sorrow drives away appetite"
House cleaning is quietly going on
In Wall street An important an
uouncemcnt will be made concerning
some. OF tho Stock Exchange activities
in this direction Several serious evils
are now being probed by the authori-
ties who are sincerely anxious to re-
move all just grounds for criticism.
The drumming out Of the Stock Ex-
change of two members found guilty
OF dishonorablc practice is only be-
ginning
II is difficult to please everybody.
A mar who tries is id fool.
It is now dead sure that the "fee
system" will be abolished in Virginia
and all officials put on stated salaries.
This is not a political issue. II is a
business proposition purely in the in
tcrcst of the citizen who is sovereign"
In the Commonwealth.
The inspection OF income tax re-
turns are now permitted to be made
by any stockholder of record owning
1 per cent or more Of the shares OF
the outstanding stock Of the corpora
tion. That is right. just, proper and
wise.
Wei, the foreign policy of the
rnitod States was the Monroe doc
trine and the Golden Rule. and Con-
Cress never was consulted about eth
cr.
An American gets up, takes his grip
and off he goes. An Engllshman picks
up whatever he has and looks around
to sec whether he's left anything. A
Scotsman picks up all his belongings
and then looks around TO see whether
anybody else has left something. 1t
breaks a Scotchmans heart to leave
oven the train.
The good old parlor game of find
the thimble" is nothing compared
with Congresses new diversion Of find
ing the money for the soldiers bonus.
Criticism Of the Senate is often de-
precated, yet its own members are
often It's severest critics Senator
Edge of New Jersey says it is such
suspicious and Jealous body that It
won't trust even the president Of the
Unitod states now in office.
Tho Harding administration has
discovered that contrary TO popular
belief there is absolutely no "run" in
rofunding.
No man has the right to insist uron
state "inaction' I'm the face OF a dis
grace TO civilization such as lynching
is. IF the state can stop lynchmg.
thcn the state must do it. If the state
docs not do it. the federal govern
mcut viii 60 it, and is bound to do it
under the Dyer bill
Now comes the news that neither
the railroad carriers nor their en-
ployc5 have tho moral right to dis
continue railway operation to enforce
the demands Of either upon the other.
Senator James a. Reed OF Missouri
declared in the Senate "if all the poll
ticians Of the earth and the devils OF
he'll were to ratify the Newberry
case they could not cleanse it OF its
stain" It seems that Newberry is
unclean and needs cleansing. In St.
Louis they have for sale what is
known as a Dutch Cleanser" war
ranted to kill and clean out and ex-
terminate all dTt
In law an instrument under seal
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