Evening star., 1923-02-08

for defense quite az reprehensibls.
Laws against gun-tottng have been
pronounced by Chief Burns. head or
of Justice. to be bunk" because
they will be ignored by crooks OF all
kinds, and whatever effect they will
have will be to diuarm honest men
berry or murder. A head Of house
hold who does not provide himself
with means of repelling robbers IL
almost criminally careless as to his
obligation to protect his family.
Utah has. put one over on Mary
land. This has no reference to the
number Of wives. nor anything like
that 1t means that 1t gives diplo-
matio recognition TO the District OF
Columbia, without waiting for Presi-
dent Harding to recognize Mexico or
Maryland to accept treaty OF reel
procity with the District. District
license tag Is good for it's face in
Utah, but IT can't save its face in
Maryland. Let's all go to Utah and
boycott the little state east of Wash
ington, until IL comes into the Union
and is reconstructed.
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It Is comforting to reflect that the
prediction of DIR. Wade j. Frost Of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital that the in
fuenza is to be 'panemic' in about
twenty-five years after the epidemic
of 1918. is going to be simply .
frost" Long before 1s43 there will
be discovered a cure for that dread
| disease. since DR.. Flexner Of the Rookie
feller Institute has isolated tho germ.
why woTy?"
When the early settlers found
Indians going through winters with
out clothing they wondered how the
| redskins could stand the cold
'Umph! Injun all facet was the
| explanation.
Now comes a civilized Injun, with
a civilized name. James I. Coffey,
| from the state 80 close to the north
| pole that it is called the North Star
| state, and Coffey wants his hot So
| he Is suing his landlord in Washing
| ton for heavy damages for not keep
| ing his apartment as warm and coZy
as a Minnesota forest in January.
Besides, he Is suing for $500 damages
| because his landlord turned OF the
electric lights in daytimeA It Is
hard for modern effete civilization 70
keep up with Lo.
| u y y
There could hardly be a more giar-
ing Illustration Of national ineff
cheney than the situation this last fall
resulting in the wastage of 10000
600 bushels of potatoes which our
farmers had raised and then found 10
be Improbable to market. Thousands
of bushels were not even dug. 1t IS
folly to say that the farmers ought
| to do this or not do that. when the
means OF distribution so utterly COL
| lapse that millions of bushels or food
waste while millions of people
starve. Even the potatoes that were
| sent to market often paid the farm
| ers only 90 cents a bushel, which Is
| far less than the cost of raising them.
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| The Department of Agriculture now
sends out information by radio. daily.
as to market conditions, but though
all farmers might listen in and know
that the world was starving for what
| they are letting rot, it would do no
good, unless the farmers would or
ganiZe cooperative associations
| which would be national in their
| scope and as efficient in meeting
| emergency conditions as is the Red
CTOsSS hSsSOCldllOlI It's ItlItl WI n.
No government can ever function in
such nationwide marketing, unless
1t first destroy individual enterprise
and substitute socialism We stand
aghast at any suggestion of a soviet
government-especia after looking
upon RuSSia'S failure, but when shall
we find inefficiency of distribution
| handled except through unity Of ac-
| tion, possible only through national
| corporation This Is far from advo-
eating any compulsory laws curtailing
personal liberty, however.