Evening star., 1923-03-19
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

For while the rabble, with its thumbworr
creeds,
Its great professions and it's little deeds.
Mingle Ia selfish strife. 10, Freedom wceps,
Wrong rules the world, and waiting Justice
sleeps.
A United States SENATOR lawyer
accepts q fee to serve as attorney
to secure the pardon for tried and
convicted traitors" serving sentences
for disloyalty in time of war. Their
crimes, say American Legionnaires
were in words more damnable than
any deeds they could have possibly
accomplished. The senator's legal
learning, they declare, is of no value
whatever toward gaining pardons, for
the pardons sought are not based on
terms of the law, else would he 90
to the courts, but his prestige Is
hired, in the hope that IT will inhu.
generosity toward men who did all
they could to undermine the nations
defense and endanger the nations
defenders.
And the news comes from the De
partment OF Justice that about nifty
of such convicts will be recommended
for unconditional pardon.
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1t is the same Department of JUS
tice to which only last week Gov
Blaine Of Wisconsin appealed for ac-
tion in the interest, not of traitors
but Of the nations defenders, who
through the upheavaI of conditions
| through the stress OF nerves tried by
trench and battle, air raids, disease
and shell shock and long drawn un-
employment, committed offenses
against civil or military laws, anc
are nov suffering terms OF impris9n,
ment, in some cases so severe that
4 the fate Of the traitors is mild II
comparison. Military sentences are
| usually more drastic than those o1
civil courts.
Gov Blaine had discovered in the
Wisconsin penitentiary some Of these
| men whom all America had lauded a!
| heroes in 1918, now dying from dis
eases growing out of the war and tho
| imprisonment. He asked the Attor-
Dey General to order. q survey to be
made OF all military prisoners, So
\ ton might be discovered and the
merits OF their cases be reviewed, a:
had been done with the "politica
prisoners" The Attorney General re-
piled that the proposal was "imprac-
| ticable."
No United States senator is en-.
ployed to use his prestige for thu
cause of mercy to the veterans anG
their release at the same time thai
the so-called political prisoners" are
| turned loose. The legionnaires ask
Would il not be simple justice tc
| release at least five heroes with eaSt
traitor?" Why. they insist, is there
so much time to find out the reasons
| for turning out fifty of the one class
| of prisoners and no time TO discover
! the dying condition, a s Gov. Blaine
certifies, of many Of the incarcerateo
| soldiers?
Wrong rules the world, and wait
| ing Justice sleeps"
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The women spent S75,000,0o0 las
year on artificial bushes. but tht
men spent more than four times thai
, much on smokes and "chaws." which
| did no more good than the rouge ant
| powder. The pot can't call the kettle
| black, nor can the smoke find faul
\ with the red fire of cheeks.
Maybe the rouged cheeks are sim
other pests, for it is announced sci
entlfcally that red light scares away
all such torments. 4 pink globe Sor
the porch light is as good a safe
guard against mosquitoes and gnats
as q wire screen. Now that men nc
longer redden their noses. let th. ,tht
ladies give protection, even II II does
cost s75,ooo.oO0 year. 1t is worth it.
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The Americans who are not just as
ardent wishers for world peace as are