The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-10
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TODAY-An amendment has been proposed in Kansas to hold sherffs and other law enforcement officers responsible for suppression of "mobs," " which in that State can consist of as few as three persons, writes Doug las G. TinsIey.
 KANSAS CITY, Kan. March 1O.- l The life of a sheriff and other law enforcement officers in Kansas will be a sad affair if an amendment to the famous Kansas, "mob' law is passed by the Legislature. For some years Kansas has had a law on It's statute books which makes a mob ,'out of any three persons who gather together and perform an unlaWful act. Under this law the county or municipality in which said unlawful act occurs is liable in damages to the person injured.
 Now comes a Legislator who an nounces that the law is all right, so far as it goes, but that it doesn't go far enough. It seems that the original Legislators, imbued with measure of forgetfulness, or else prompted by humanitarian feelings, neglected to place sheriffs on the same plane with criminals when drafting the law. Not so with the aforesaid Legislator. He wants more teeth" in the law.
 To that end he has introduced an amendment to the law which pro- yides a felony sentence for any persons convicted of participating in mob actions, and it would permit the conviction on felony charges Of peace officers who fail to suppress mobs. Under this amendment to the statute any sheriff, mayor, police man or other officer could be sent to the penitentiary for a term of not more than five years, if he is con- victed of failing to suppress any mob
 Should the amendment become law, Kansas may be treated to the spectacle of a sheriff and his pris- oner not only going to the penl- tentiary handcuffed together, but upon arrival both officer and prison CT being assigned to cells in the same institution.
 l Those who have been accustomed to treat with reverence the histories of the United States and to thrill at the glowing accounts of the feats of American arms in our various wars will receive a rude shock from the statement of General Hansen E Ely, commandment of Fort Leaven' worth. that "the histories used in the public schools gloss over de- fleets in American war history and contain a pack of lies"
 | Advocating support of the National
 Defense Act, General Ely says, i've
 lost three or four times as much in blood and dead men and foul times as much in money as we should have in the World War. Keep ou1
 months shut in the next war ant let other nations do the boasting We thought we could furnish better lairplane within a few months thar
 our Allies could, who had been al
 war for four years. And that's
 where some of the twenty-four bill
 lion dollars in war debts went. We
 had to buy at high prices because
 we didn't know where to buy.
 General Pershing didn't want tc
 put unprepared men in battle in
 March and April 1918, when Marsha
 Foch demanded men. But he said
 Take what I've got And they did put them in. AS result, we paid
 three or four times more in blood and men than we should have, and the money cost was four times greater than it should have been.
 Theodore Roosevelt advocated pre- paredness and said that sometimes situation may arise where a resort to arms may save us from dishonor."