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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. MONDAY. MARCH 29, 1920. 20 this case lid not Involve criminal responsibility, it MR.

DAVIS ON WAR WASTES. SI LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded JOZKP1I PULITZER Dee. 12. lS'i. Pullished by the Pulitzer PuWshlng Twelfth and Olive streets.

embodies the rule equally applied to esses of that character, and accords with the rule enunciated by English courts. Tuns, in the English case of Keightly Dnght Daris outlined an excellent platform in an excellent address at Cape Girardeau in furtherance or nis candidacy for imted btates Senator. vs. Hell, Justice Wilies said: .1 1 i i ne utTiurtru lor iree si'eecii asu against, auio' rauc I practices in government perpetuated from the war reriod. He is for a budget system, for the repeal of! rOST-DlSPA TCII CIRCVLA 770-V Average for February, 1929: UiH a' i) ii yiiii' 21S.S5S Euen unscientific revenue-raising as the excess profits tax, for equal rights for women, generous treatment i for ex-service men, fair instrumentalities for adjust- i I hope I may never have to determine that difficult question.

How far the orders of a superior of Seer are a justification? Were I compelled to determine that difflculi question I should probably hold that the orders are an aOsoiute Juntiflcatlon in time of actual war all events, as against enemies or foreigners and, I should think, even with regard to English-born subjects of the crown, unless the orders were such as could not legally be given. 1 believe the better opinion is that an officer or soldier acting; under th orders of his superior not being necessarily or manifestly illegal would be justified by his orders. There is this to be said, also, with respect to war law as expounded by the German General Staff: It embodied many doctrines of terrorism which few-ether states recognized as lawful. As an eminent commentator wrote in 1912, the putting into effect of Ing labor controversies, against the saloon, but also against the "principles underlying the eighteenth i amendment" and the Volstead act. However, certain Bevere criticisms of war policy deprived the speech of some of the force it might otherwise have had.

Undoubtedly war extravagance merits criticism, but does it merit the kind of crjti- cism Mr. Davis embodied in his remarks? Mr. Davis spoke of a billion dollars being spent for shells, and the failure of more than 1700 shells to niU POST-DISPATCH PLATFORM Vnorr that my retirement make no difference la its cardinal principles, Uiat It will always flglit for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demt-cogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppte privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to tle public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically Independent: never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty. joseph fuletzer. April 10, arrive in time for use in Flanders.

Also he spoke of another billion spent on airpjanes, with the result i thes doctrines would arouse the reprobation of the that only 213 observation planes and no fighting civilized world. Yet the German soldier was assured planes arrived in France in time for use. He said of lteir lawfulness. we expended $1,209,000,009 for artillery, and only Mm LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 133 American-made guns reached the front.

But if the war had continued longer, would not these expenditures have given results of great value? Criticism, not of the appropriating power, but of those who executed its mandates for moving too deliberately, may be justified in some cases, but it must be remembered that a common pool was made of some allied resources. All could not have gone on drawing from that pool indefinitely. Had the war lasted another six months, the preparations we made at vast expense would have availed mightily for its replenishment and the material for its replenishment would have been admirable material, not Inferior, hastily-made stuff. Would Mr. Davis, in ignorance of when the war EEFUNUrNO THE LIBERTY BONDS, Senator Freylinghuysen has introduced in the Senate a bill intended to unify and stabilize the market price of Government bonds, through refunding the Liberty loan issues.

His proposal contemplates an authorized refunding issue of $30,000,000,000, 50-year, 3 1-2 per cent bonds, exempt from all except estate and inheritance taxes, with a five-year term for the exchange privilege. The Liberty loan issues were put out at interest rates ranging from 3 1-2 to 4 3-4 per cent, and it is assumed by the author of the new measure that the tax-exempt provision of the proposed refunding bonds will keep them at par and readily induce holders of the original bonds to accept the benefit of the higher market price in of higher interest rates. Thus, would end, have dared to dq differently, had he been invested with the responsibility for our policy? Is argued, holders of the Second Liberty -is, bow he fair now in his criticism? Quoted aroutd $S9, will promptly avail themselves There is enough war waste to denounce without de- of an point advance in accepting new tax-exempt nouncing waste which was rendered waste because Pr cent bonds. Meantime, it is pointed out, the of the unexpected close of the fighting. Did not the Government would save in interest charges not less close make enormous savings possible, compared than 1-2 of 1 per cent, or approximately $130,000,000 ith the scope of a program which everyone admits annually.

would have been necessary had peace not While there are undoubted advantages in unifying Would Mr. Davis have had the war go on merely to the public debt and stabilizing the price of Govern- Fanning and the Trades. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. In your editorial entitled "Bricklayers and Formers," last evening you take 000.000,000 of farm products and divide by 7.000,000 farmers and get the income of 13750. $25,000,000,000 is the value of farm products on the market, jsot the farm; deduct transportation, commission charges and you have net income of farmer.

You are led to believe the farmer gets $2,263 for his wheat, while Government dockage, transportation, cuts this down to Jl.St average price on Missouri farms. You forgot the farmers' wives and children (very few farmers are bachelors) und you took it for granted all farms are nnc-mmi farms. Where are your farm hands? Add this to the 7.000,000 farmers you mention and that will raise your number quite a bit. In comparison the bricklayer's or carpenter's wife never works beside him at liis trade or puts in overtime like the farmers' wife. The tradesmen's children never work with him only for wages.

The farm children are discriminated against in the child labor law, which makes an exception of agricultural pursuits. Consider what the tradesmen draw for over-Time. Hardly a day passes a farmer doesn't put In over eight hours. Then you fail to mention Investment and time spent learning the farmer's occupation. Any graduate of a recognized nehool of agriculture In the United States has spent as much time and money (perhaps more) than a doctor or lawyer.

He who learns by. experience pays much Count Interest on total Investment, of wages for farmers' wives and children and farm hands, unavoidable losses. on, innitinno TVtrtct Tin et ii tvp dent obi i ion a r.nmhiir r.r .1 had authorized? by the rreylinghuysen bill. Is it wise as a matter of principle to add of tax-exempt Fed- ftu'i uad Atr eral tlir i r.r.n a 1 Gov. Lowden denies the charge made by Senator I empt state acd municipal obligations? Will not the Borah that the Lowden campaign management, like tendency be farther to divert capital from productive that of Gen.

Wood, was "trying to control the Re-j investment at a time when it is none too plentiful? publican convention by the use of money." In proof! There is also to be considered the relation a savins i 'i: ft rm I he offers to submit to Senator Borah personally, or $130,000,000 in interest would bear to the loss the to any committee the Senator may designate, a com- Government would sustain in foregoing the taxes now i plete and detailed statement of his campaign finances, received from holders of the Liberty Bonds. This can the expenditures, the contributions, and the names of De readily computed by the Treasury Department, the contributors with their several amounts. The Senator Frelinghuysen may be much too sanguine THE POLITICAL Lowden offer, however, is conditioned on the other 111 tfae assumption that a $30,000,000,000 3 1-2 per cent candidates making similar returns. refunding issue would remain at par, in This condition, it seems to us. is unfortunate and view the present market price of the First Liberty unnecessarv.

It is unfortunate in that it serves cent tax-exempt bonds, which is in the JUST A MINUTE Written for the POST-DISPATCH by Clark McAdams transportation and commission charge s. information which, because of the Borah ar-! neighborhood of $37. If a refunding issue were ex- crtluct this from total value of farm prod- v. v. a.a empt as to estate and fnlritar.

tve iJ The MIRROR of PUBLIC OPINION This column is designed to reproauce without bias the latest comment by the leading publicist, nexespapers and periodicals on the questions of the day. nt I raiEnillrUL SHUUIU UC uui licuij jiiuuuv.ru. i-3 uu v. aiau ii nuuiU nets and Senator Capper's statenier riiv wi be eagerly taken and command a very high price, but necessarr because, by submitting this audit of his not seem strong enough. A HAYSEED.

own campaign, regardless of what others might do, Eureka, Mo. Mr. Lowden would compel his contestants to do thet SENATOR NEWBERRY'S CONVICTION. same thing or suffer seriously in public esteem. The Illinois Governor's response to the Borah challenge should have been unconditional.

FVorn the Xs Tori Tims. COXVICTIXG Senator Newberry and in giv- ins him the maximum sentence, the Court at there again a erious principle would be involved. Liberty Bonds are unquestionably low. but they are just a3 unquestionably cheap. They will not remain where they are for very long.

The wise investor Is now taking advantage of an opportunity to get them at bargain prlres, an opportunity which may never; present itself again. From Col. Proctor's remarks it may be inferred i that Gen. Wood's canvass is 99 44-100 pure. TEAGIC BTTNGLrNTJ AT EXECUTIONS, Adam Jackson, a negro, 39 years of age, was hanged Friday at Toplir Bluff, Mo.

It was the first execu-' i Average Profit, $3.42. To th Editor of.tii In your issue of March 26 you published a letter from one of your readers attacking the high-grade employment agencies. This party seems to have quite ft disgruntled feelinr. He speaks of us hB profiteering. He probably does not realize the cost In giving services of this nature.

He states that It is worth something for a person to secure a good position, but not as much as 33 1-3 to 50 per ent of the first month's salnry. For general information, might state THE BESPONSIEIUTY OF SUBOEDINATES. Minister of Defense Noske, discussing the forthcoming trials of Germans accused of violations of the laws of war, expresses the view that responsibility, if any, EhouM rest with superiors who may have issued unlawful orders, rather than upon subordinates who executed them. Such a polity in the German MR. AXTWIXE'S OPIXIOX.

Grand Rapids has also indicted a law. That ae raising of large sums of money for honest and legitimate campaign purposes has been a custom for years everybody knows. It Is regrettable and deserves condemnation, not because there Is aiy guilt or crime In it. but because it has been shown over and over again to a foolish waste of mone3" and because vampjiigns can be and have been conducted much better without it. Now it is EXATOIi WILLIAMS thinks we shall be long time realizing -what repudiation the peace treaty by the Senate has cost trials would at least have the effect of reducing the An amusing feature of the Lodge lectures last week was the Wellston lineup in the foyer.

Everybody we have banished to Wellston was out there distributing some sort of leaflet when we went in, and Sir Oliver took the precaution to remind us that none of it had anything to do with liini. He was. indeed, giving a very limited entertainment in with those advertised in some of the leaflets. While he ranged nowhere definitely, being restrained by scientific training from making too free use of the known stars and planets, one of the lectures announced in the foyer promised "A Journey to Other Worlds, Including a Trip to the Sun." Sir Oliver seemed to feel that the spirit world of which he was talking lies about us; but there was nothing local or commonplace about the leaflets which he scarcely felt like sponsoring, since no place we know of was too remote for them, even there and back. The audience keenly appreciated the humnr of this situation, in which what we are doing locally seemed to make Sir Oliver look like piker.

It laughed with relish when he announced that he had nothing whatever to do with the distribution of folders illustrated with pictures of the Sphinx, the planets all bound together by some sort of ethereal cord, and comets curving and bursting in space with the grace and brilliancy of rockets. It was rather good, we thought. If not altogether scientifle. We had no objection In the world to his dissociation of himself from which he could and probably did do without the leasx prejudice to It as a really creditable index to what home talent Is doing In his line. Gen.

Wood has also captured Xew Mexico, but we are going to be fair to him and not say how he did it. both our own country and the world, but I imagine it is already beginning to dawn upon us." Mr. Antwine said. "The thing about it that hurts, so it seems to me. is that the morale of civilization has been impaired by our too close scrutiny of the treaty mat our pront on eacn position that we nuniber of defendants.

Hon the county in 14 years. When the man was I duHng the last months of 1910 Th question of the absolute duty of first cast down from the platform, the rope broke was J3.4I. Considering the volume of u'ull' dJl1 business tv do. this is a very fmitill per- a subordinate in the military to carry out all law- he fell to the floor. He had to be reconducted to the tAiitngo and in order to maintain high-j ul orders of his superior, leaving the inference, at platform for a second frightful ordeal with a stouter trade service we cannot afford to charge i ieast, that unlawful orders arc not binding.

But the noose. made a crime, but only a. law-made crime. participant in it feels any moral guilt or frharr'. i Xo one Iokcs his standing or is shunned by his as-! tociates for it.

If it were morally wrong and 'crime per se. most of our Presidents would hae hsd to go to Leavenworth. Crimes that are only such by statute never affect the consciences either i cf the so-called criminals or "he people. for the purpose of justifying repudiation of it. It.

C. GltEEX. question immediately arises, who is to judge on this The State may shrink from insisting that at least 'That is. we always meant to repudiate it: point The subordinate is certainly in a difficult some of its citizens must have a perfected technique but we made our reason for so doing seem to be in the treaty itself, whereas it was reallv out position when called on to obey an order which, he in putting other men to death, but if the restored ca deems illegal, with the alternatives of personal re-i ital penalty is to continue a permanent policy in Mis-! IN IRELAND. I zora nrvej-'i Appreciates the Y.

Tt F.d.tor c.f th In connection with this housing proposition for working women, allow a -rorklng girl (who has livefl for over three years at the Y. W. Annex) to express her opinion. In the first place, it Is ridiculous for any working girl to even infer that it souii, better technique Is something it ought to insist on. Infliction of death by order of the courts should not to be intrusted to the bungling of officials from the nature of things, must be unskilled In apply- i sponsibility if he obey, or disgrace and punishment if he disobey.

Our courts, while declaring that sound public policy requires that a subordinate execute an illegal order at his peril, have nevertheless shown a dlspo- lng the means of death. St Louis City would have no sition to place, as far as possible, responsibility for i advantage over Poplar Bluff in the command of a violations of the laws of war upon the superior who hangman of proficiency. It is more than 14 years Initiates them rather than upon the subordinate. As since there has been an execution in, this citv. THE home rule bill might well be -called an Irish partition bill.

It provides not only for the division of Ireland, but for the subdivision of Ulster. That Is of course logical, in a way. The majority in Ireland wants to be set off from Great Er.taln: and the majority in Ulster wants to be set off from the rest of Ireland: and he majority in three Ulster counties wants to be set off from the rest of Ulster: and so on. Great is the law of self-determination Perhaps some day we shell hear that Sir Edward Carson wants to be et off from the earth! Hut we sh.ill be greatly, though cf course agreeably, surprised if the arrangement Is accepted by the majority of Irishmen; and side. The world cannot be expected to know this, and it therefore despairs of peace by any such Idealistic means as seemed possible before the political fight began in the Senate.

"This la the thing that Is hurting the world as well as Its conception of us. The thing has failed very largely, and it ha? failed where It most needed to succeed. The world has a league of nations, for instance; but It has no international community with a spiritual leader. It has power, possibly all it needs; but it has not exactly the thing we would have given it that is We are not suspected of evil. "Xo importance attaches to respects in which the treaty is faulty.

Exactly th same bust-up could have occurred at our own constitutional convention, since we were cot agreed that the Constitution was perfect. The thing there was the spirit, which made possible agreement That give us the Union, exactly as the absence of it unon this occasion has cost us the thing Which trie -v. SOLILOQUY VPOX A THRESHOLD. Is compulsory to accept hospitalltv of the Y. W.

C. A. I have lived thre long enough to hnow that it was a privilege ami have that great satisfaction of being safe. There are plenty of other places in St. Louis where a girl can come in any hour fhe but any Christian home must maintain certain rules In order that it my hold a standard, and any mother1 would feel more satisfied to know her' trirl was in a Christian homo in St.

Louis. There are people who are alwav TURNED it all from my heart, and yet to night was said iu the case of McCaU. vs. McDowell: Kcept in a plain case of excels of authority, where at first blush it i apparent and palpable to the commonest understanding the order is Illegal. 1 cannot but think Ut the law should excuse the military subordinate when acting in obedience to the f-rdors of his commanfler.

This was a case in which one Mi Call waa arrested In Sn Francisco by the order of Gen. McDowell, and 'It comes again. Perhaps the light, If criminals are to be executed, there should be a central point, preferably the penitentiary, for the performance of the duty, where appliances of the proper sort may be maintained and where the availability of efficiency experts in life taking will not be inter-! rupted by frequent rotation in county offices. If this change is made the State may wisely con-! elder whether the old common-law method of inflict-1 lag capital punishment by the noose should not also be changed. Electric currents of potency have a The cruel light, of the more cruel moon Upon thj roses, or perhaps the tune At the cafe I do not know.

Except, what I buried long ago Returns, and haunting and sweet As the insence at night from flowers. Those hours! ready to knock, but if you would only held in prison by Capt. Douglass, as the result of ex-come and visit the building where I have pres of rejoicing upon hearing of the assaseina- mere if, in case it Is accepted, it does not result i In intolerable friction between the two parts info I ivMch the island is to be divided. That Sir Ed-j ward Carson and his followers have decided to accept it will scarcely commend it to the favor of Sinn Fein. Meantime it is to be remembered tht a home rule bill, which was then acceptable lo the majority of Irishmen, was f.illy enacted Ju-i before the war; that it is sMIl on the statute book.

unrepealed; and that if it it not repealed or re-; placed with another it will automatically go Into force at the end of the war if ever there is an nd of the war! The fjet tl.ut it has not already i gone Into effect seems to indicate that there some hitch or uncertainty ovr the cndir.jr of th- war, over there as wU as here. Can it be thit home rule is waiting for America's ratification the treaty and entrance into the league cf natiot s. -yj, horn ti0D Lincoln- The (iltrkt wa5 not URder neatness and quickness that commend themselves in ee to It thet they grt it." i0me and McDowell's order waa clearly unlawful. destroying life. At least, with the chair there is I can truthfully ay thst I am thank- Though both Gen.

McDowell and Capt Donglass were! no danger of such tragic scenes as that at Poplar ful to have staid at the for I have seed, the former alone was held responsible. While; Bluff, due to the breaking of th rope na a real second mother In Mrs. If. Hardin In every sense of the word. THE GREATEK EVIL? But give us a better hou.

We de- I EDITOHIAL SPARKS, ervt it Villa captures and hold? the Americans until they 1 MAIIAXDT. teU hlm tn. He ll get fooled if he ever Do you remember how hand met hand? (Fear not to think. We understand All that could happen no more: There flows between your ehore And mine, a river of fire We could not cross, should we desire.) Aye, how our eyes wer innocent and frank. And how eagerly we drank At founts celestially pure.

I wonder if they could cure This most terrible thirst. With which my latter days are cursed? And the evenings, when the moon was bright. And east enchanted shadows, as tontSt captures Col. House. Toledo Blade.

Mrs. I notice that your husband doesn't smoke. Is it because you object to the habit? Mrs. Oh. dear no! If I objected he'd smoke.

London Answers. LEONARD WOOD, WALTER l.IFPMANN" In tfcs of Leonard Wood are baaked The trees bent downward, whispering, did they 1 "T1 nE i vttxA 'j iiiuvil IlfieUR. "The Senate kicked the whole thing in-o a. cocked hat something any of the nations could have done something any of them perhaps had as good cause to do. Thev would not do it: the Senate did.

The cost was great but the Senate said the treaty had blowholes in which everyone knew, and took the heart out of earth. Senator Williams feels strorglv about th's So shall most of us when we realize what has happened. We won't do that until we have witnessed the consequences of abandoning the wond afrer leading it to a place from which It could easily fall off." A Boston woman whose illness puzzled doctors wss found to have a five-inch surgeon's clamp her abdomen, the souvenir of an operation performed so many year aso that no record of it remain. This reminds one of the precau-on taken by the man who was to b-unstitch-d a second time in order that the surgeon might recover some implement left Inside hm. He said: "Doc.

1 wish this tim vou would simply button me up hi case something Cise in your outfit should turn up missing. Sign at a fruit store, Xewstead avenue: Oranges SOc a dozen suit Sweet, possibly? Sir: Paae add this one from Morgan street to your collection of orthographical oddities: Xo Eeggers Aloud Yea, but who Ls "Lcggera" down Just now to faci.itate the acram.b.e ror delegates. Rut they are ther. They are ene Traffic Rule for PotlcAtrian. Tf r.lftor Of 11.

re.t-Pli.patrh. Wouldn't it be a gre.it thing to tench ur chool children the etiquette of the fidewalk and to Bend the older folks to school to learn the fust principles spoilt walking the streets of a city? St. Louis eems to be swarming with people who walk on the wrong tide of the street, eontinuauy knocking against the people HOlng In the opposite direction, crossing Jn front of one without warning of any kind, nearly knocking you down. Then taere are the men and women who eeem to Juet idling on the etreeU. nowhere "Xow for next winter supplyf one thing st a time, please, it seems to be still a matter of getting In tli is winter's supply of coal.

Boston Transcript. gleg of ambition and domination greater. I be-lieve. than any that have appeared in American political life within our generation. They are energies that a military career of a spasmodic kind haa whetted but not satisfied or organized.

The energies of Leonard Wood are fiercer than hts Intellectual equipment can employ or control. The Intemperatene of his speech and recklessness his manner are the visible signa cf a nervous y- Harry: Old Miserly worked hard and long, but he finally succeeded in amusing a fortune. Hugh: Yes; he now has enough money to pay his doctor bills the remainder of hta life. New York Post. a and nothing to o.

retarding busy' not fsee, even I have half forgot:) Ah. I must close these doors, I must wake Somehow I must Manage to break This spell, or break the heart I thought urbreakabie. (To part Forever!) I must go inside. And up the stairs steep and wide. Do you remember them? You carried ma Up them once.

We laughed with glee Because you were so st-ong, and I so weak. And all suddenly we could not speak When we had readied the door. I turn from that forever more. Well, tonight I have glanced Back, as a. traveler who haa chanced Upon an oasis, turns and frees Beyond ihe sar.d.

the flowers and trees Grow dim and dimmer, till they seem But a mirage. i9 than a dream! JULIA CLOPTOX CEESAP. tern overatralned by long-frustration and ineom- "Here's what is wrong with you you keep your- elf awake worrying. Remember the old 'Don't take your troubles to bed with Midi the doctor. "Oh.

I don't, doc I sleep on a cot." Vashvil'e Tennesseearu nUinesa men at every step. Lot but not )est. the silly. 1 6-17-year-old factory glrl going four abreast up Olive or Loeutt at a slow w. net caring who is Jn beck of them and trying to pass Our etreete ere the laughing stock of Xew Torkers and Chieegoens.

who etand lb4 eta re end can only wotidrr at the ointry town antics of our -downtown-f VICTIM. pte exercise. The energies of Wood are pent; 1 when they issue they follow the patterns of bis experience, which are to force, to ship or shoot, to act as the conqueror does among Inferior peoples. There Is In the character of Wood. There instead the titn's and r.

i manticiat'a unestainess in an apoplet tic soul. Th looks superficially like rer.sth, aad is easy nS. taken for it. "A Reed shaken In the The panacea will te applicable If the Senator of that name appears! In Oeorgia comins directly from the Senate. fca-vannah Xe.

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