The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-04
NEW YORK'S ACTION
STARTS VOLCANOES
SMOKING
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
~ ovERNoR SMITH signs the Mullen-Gage repeal act
" and volcanoes Immediately start to smoke.
Correspondents foresee prohibition the next great
campaign ISSUE
wall and drys uluate The whole continent proceeds
gather nosegays and bad eggs for the at Albany
Critics and admirers respectively endow him with horns
and laurel wreahs and all because New York. exercising
vested and sovereign right decided withdraw oponay
rendered aid from purely Federal task.
The morality of the debatableits Legality not
Enforcement is national responsibility.
The Empire State doesn't resist Constitutional authority
by refusing to assist with its funds and officers in
work which citizens already taxed by
Central Government.
Washington is notified to do its job provided for
in the Eighteenth Amendment.
The Arkansas editor who claims that sumpter has again
been fired upon overshoots the Revulsion Of sen
ment is far from rebellion.
BrOwnipg Introduces little Bertha"
T1HE Browning gun, which sprinkles death garden
hose spray water is miniature cannon Of seven
mile range, shooting pound-and-a-haR shells at the
rate Of 100 per minute
This Little Bertha can be fired any angle and
for aeropanes, warships and infantry.
One hundred years ago any ambition backed by dozen
such weapons would have been invincible.
decade from now, with civilization at the mercy Of
synthetic thunderbolts and fftyon flying bombs guided
sling-shot or bows and arrows.
All bending wits engines Of annihilation
they aim to wipe them from the map.
In the SteLDpOts Of Possibility.
DIsARMAMENT agreements cannot anticipate the heish
vctors may strip the conquered of navies and
arsenas but wherever there's brain lathe and labora
tory tables be turned overnight
War utterly without conscience scruple. Ruthless
increases with enlightenment
Science is both Jeky and Hyde and time alone may de-
termne whether its fiendish ingenuities offset by
Napoleon rides again, his field marshals viii be
chemistry and engineering We're just learning how kill
They Dearly LoUe King.
A HARMED by recent Fascist outbreaks in Paris the
Chamber of Deputies always that aristocrats and
mitarists have chung to the hope OF restored mon
archy suddenly drops indulgen attitude toward their
activities and orders the dissolution OF all antrepubhcan
societies.
Poincare taking chances As noted in these columns
France has long been ripe for royalist The hour
merely lacks a bold enough man.
Latin countries dearly love king. Under his skim the
average Frenchman inclined to Bourbon Bonaparte
vctons.
Democracy is still trial yonder and half centurys
the Ruhr doesn soon produce satisfactory ndemntes
it's quite apt to furnish crown
Yarn for In,nginatiOn's Loom.
ICrION entymoogists nicroscopicay observing
II Of social insects didn't hear San Quentin gates clang
shut Clara Phillips Jean ValJean and Ulysses don
interest modern novelists.
So the bizarre adventures of the period will prob
ably unnoted except by reports and prison
records If only Victor Hugo were here.
When before did imagination have like hank OF plot
for it's knitting needsH Count the srandslove jealousy
murder Imprisonment, Jail delivery furtve wanderings
through the underworld and exotic lands Then recapture
and expation
Screen serials maintain their thrills for weeks incom
parable materials Carmen and Manon infinitely less
dramatic characters.
Here's ibretto stuff for Mascagni or Leoncavano
We Always Overlook the Obvious.
A Englshman indicted for carrying an unlicensed
"A nsol flourishes contrapton of painted cardboard
and steel tubing holds the courtroom a. O"S @ leaps
to freedom. .-., - -,
Fear is easily guided Terror first strikes at the eyes,
frightened men VIGOROUSLY lose control Of their
Half our breads won't stand examination
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