Evening star., 1923-07-11

II merely revealed a lack of loyalty
Among the benefits of the dry law,
Mr.. Wheeler cites "the lowered NOR
tailty rate, equivalent to the saving
OF 100000 lives In the first three
years; the - per cent reduction In
the number of charity cases due to
liquor, the 20 per cent cut in deaths
from alcoholism, the decrease in Of
! fenses of minors and women, the
diversion of immense sums once
spent in liquor to legitimate busi-
ness channels, adding millions of
dollars monthly to our savings. to
the amount paid in insurance premiums
and TO the volume Of our retail trade"
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The Chief Justice stands with Presi-
dent Harding in demanding that
| every resource of the government
be used in the enforcement of the
prohibition law. because it is law.
He does not seek to keep open
argument as to the merits or de-
| merits of prohibition?
There have been many who attrib-
uted the increase of unrest to the
reaction of millions of war veterans.
put they have been troubled by the
| stubborn fact that il was not the
former soldiers who were conspicu-
Gus In the lawic6sness. The Il. W.
W.s and slackers, generally, have
Deen more prominent in disturbances
FACED the bitter realities OF the
struggle.
Senator Oscar w. Underwood has
returned from visit to Europe and
the near east. He visited Palestine,
where he says, he stood in the
doorway of Christ's tomb" He adds.
DO not any lon,<r doubt its au-
thenticity. 1t is a cubed receptacle
OF six or eight feet. within the Church
OF the Holy Sepulchre. The doorway
Is about 212 feet wide and feet high.
l had to stoop to it.
christianity means two things"
adds Senator Underwood: To love
years OF Christianity many of us have
learned to love God as individuals.
TO love our families and our friends
and some of our neighbors, but we
have not learned to love the world.
We have taken only a step. Never
thefess, l am one who believes the
time of no more war will come.
Christianity is young yet"
Ihere is not much room in the def
milton or christianity quoted by Mr..
Underwood for rabid discussion of
evolution or so-called Fundamental
ISM, which worries many good
people: He sums it all up with
Christ's own summary. Love of God
and love of eighbor'--mankind.
Mr.. Underwood's description of the
John: And he STOPPING down and
looking in
In Lincoln's campaign for the presi-
dency Mr.. Seward spoke from the
capital steps of ST. Paul. Mimi, and
in the course of flight of eloquent
prophecy. he referred to the develop
ment Of the future United States. He
said he had speculated as TO where
would be the ultimate capital of the
country and. after surveying the en-
tire continent, he had come to the
, and permanent capital would be To-
Gated not far from where he then
stood
At that time Minnesota was an In
dian wild. st. Paul was a village,
Minneapolis did not exist, except as
a ferry near a fort. AIaska-"Sew-
ards Folly"-had scarcely been heard
OF, and nobody dreamed of buying that
Strip OF the arctic"
Today, the President Of the United
States, in Alaska, is as far beyond
st. Paul as Florida is south of IL, and
he Is still in the United States. viii
sc" dfu . pTCpHeCy continue TO seem
as preposterous as 1t did when it was
uttered sixty-three years ago?
With st. Paul as the center, and a
radius reaching TO the arctic circle.
circumference described by that
radius would Just touch the Cana
dian Alaska boundary. near Sitka and
the klondiEe the arctic circle at the
head of Hudson bay. Nova Scotia,
Florida's southern cape, the Rio
Grande. the California and British
q in aI1 "a
continent except Alaska. From that
great circle. to the westernmost of
the Aleutisn Islands, that radius must
be doubled in length; it Is as far out
side that first continental circle to
the last of the Aleutian Islands as 1t
is from the arctic to St. Paul. Yet
we are not advocating the removal
of the capital to the ''center'-Sew-
ards location, mot far from ST
auI'-much less to the center Of
that far-fiung battle line" from
Florida TO the last of the Aleutians
(Copyright, 1923 by p V Collinsl