The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-28
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
BY /. C. McCUMBER

Judge w. c. Harris, who is also
president of the Kansas State Bar
Association, states that the major
ity OF crimes today are committed by
boys under 21-seventy-five per cent
by youths under 25 He blames the
home environments of the boys. That
is his opinion. And in the majority
of cases passed upon by some 2x4
judges, in the finality, when carried
to the court of last resort, his opinion
kisn't worth tinker's damn. If the
judge had stated that the boys gather
their deviltry from their elders and
men who dearly love to parade in the
white light of publicity, he would have
shot his batting average into the 900
percentage. All boy of today needs
do is pick up almost any newspaper
and see where some lawyer, minister,
banker, business man, or great politi-
cal leader has given him crime mark
to shoot at When the average young
man reads that big business can fitch
three and four hundred per cent, yes,
5000 per cent, from the people under
the guise of business, or that men
who aspire to high political office are
found guilty in the courts for
"wrongfully converting money to
their own uses" it is not to be Won
dered at that the boys, who are really
good imitators, choose those self-same
lawyers, bankers, and business men
as their guide. Yes, the Kansas
judge is probably trying to pave the
way to put over another anti-strike
law and wants the votes of the sob
sisters.
1t was during the time of Mark
Hanna and William Mckinley that the
trusts began to grow into the octo-
puses Of today President Roosevelt
came into office and tried to use the
"big stick" with Frank Kellogg, So
called trust buster, now acting as am
bassador to the court of ST. James,
after having his political block knock
ed off by the great common people
of Minnesota. In despotism it was
tuning the pulpits, but today that
process is too slow. And for some
years in the United States the popu
lar pastime with those who want and
take Tin large lots), newspapers are
bought and sold like butter or soap.
Why newspaper? oh, well, prop
erly creased it is a molder of public
opinion. The late Jim Hill, of en-
pire builder fame, started many news
papers to enable him to get what he
wanted, and after that-he killed the
newspapers.
Coal companies and coal miners
complain that the home owner and
the home consumer does not stock up
in the spring when his coal bin is
empty. Thus, there is a slowing down
of production, the coal miner works a
day or two week and perhaps not
at all, Only a few years ago the coal
companies chopped the price of coal
almost in two in the spring to the
end that coal would move and the
coal carrying railroads could take care
of the traffic. With the government
telling the roads they must charge
as much for hauling coal when no.
body is buying and no more when
everybody is buying, seems to keep the
price of coal at the peak price the
year around ! have put anthracite
in my. cellar at $3.50 per ton in the
fall, and paid $11 for She same coal
in the spring when winter dragged
along to summer. Those days are
gone. We now have hold-up the
year around.
Wall street, in its latest commun-
ique, informs US that the Henry Ford
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