St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 20

I ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCIf. AViaXg DECEMBER 3, 1920. severe a punishment as if he'd' This is almost as MEXICO'S NEW ORDER. "Watchful waiting" regard to Mexico has been Btolen a dieh of macaroni.

I ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded bu JOSEPH PULITZER Dec. 1. ISIS. Published by the ISiliiztr l'ulllthinq Ttceljth ana Olive Streets.

Hie butt of many ironic Jests and the object of as- sault, but the policy haa worked welL Conditions in Mexico are greatly Improved since the i success of the anti-Carranza revolution, under pro- POST-DISPATCH CIRCULATION Ten Months' Areraae. 1020: $514,000,000 IN STATE ROAD BONDS. Missouri was but one of nine states whose people voted on a highway issue on Nov. 2. The result In Florida, Montana, 'Washington and New Mexico was not as gratifying as here, for they declined to approve road bonds aggregating J57.000.000 for the four states.

But In addition to the $00,000,000 In bonds voted by Missouri. Minnesota voted $73,000,000 worth, West Vir- S-vnday Averaoe. Tj8jonai iresldent Huerta. and with the Inauguration DAILY AXD SUXDAY AVEKAOE. MM vrtnA no.

OL veil. THE I0 I'LiAT- I ttar Vi Mexican TILE IKf -IKSVATCII i 1 11 1 a. urrn nuu i ii. i border, but new and better relations between the Unit- glnia $50,000,000 worth. Colorado $5,000,000 worttt ana ed States and Mexico.

The Mexicans seem to have Idaho $2 000.000 worth making a 000. In the previous two years, 12 otner states una reached the mind that makes for order instead of tur- authorized ft total of $272,800,000 In road bonds, the bulence and that will support orderly government and I amounts ranging from $1,000,000 In Nevada to 000.000 In California, $30,000,000 In Pennsylvania ana I Teh-n tw1 ICrt.OOO.OOO In Illinois. An encouraging the reign of law. i Of course, the new President has yet to be tested, but his professions are fair, his program promises good I'liAT-IOKM. I know that my retirement will make no difference- ii its cardinal principle, tliat It will always ftght 'or progress and reform, never tolerate Injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong any party, always oppose privileged c-la4srs and public plunderers, never lack sjmpeUhy with tli poor, always remain leot-ed to the public welfare, never satisfied Willi merely printing news, always be drastically Independent; never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

JOSEPH prUTZER. April 10, 1907. thing is that one of these 12 states Is Alabama, which voted $25,000,000 In bonds to begin the work of grid-ironing the South with fine highways', one of the South's greatest needs. foreign relations, and, what Is of the utmost im portance, progress in social Justice. His attitude is the fairest of any of the leaders who have come to The amounts voted in the last election, plus the a I a a ..4 -a.

a aw A 4 ATYr the top Bince Madero. and the experience ot turmoil, amounts votea in elections uuuu8 io i. i.i.i nhft CtTiCi nnthnrized for roads V. rn ntlnnara oetlvltlea OHl frlft nil Wltn I v.tt Tvmv4nrl nf naat And trk he eTDPnried UUI Gb UJ li uiuu v. inHn nimllar brief neriod of the future.

In ad the United States and other Governments has been salutary with the people. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. YR. H0N0Ry. THIS MAN.

WAS' Jj- SHOOTING SSK dition, Virginia has taken the preliminaries to an Issue of $30,000,000 in road bonds, bo that the gross total la considerably in excess of Malt a billion dollars, not including expenditures Jay counties and other subdivisions. Assuming that each $1. in state money will be matched by $1 In Federal money, a fund of more than a billion dollars will be available, "to be ppent under virtually the same conditions and at virtually the same time. An obvious reflection is one of delight that such a mileage of good roads is about to come into being. Nothing like this has ever before been known In.

a determined, practicable program for an admirable system of highways on a truly national scale. But another Idea, not as welcome and perhaps less apparent, obtrudes- itself. What will, be the effect on the securities market of so great an amount of bonds offered within the course of a romparatlvely few months? A large percentage of the vast sum will be spent on road-making materials and concrete mixers and other machinery. Just at a time when a great revival in other construction operations is to be exr pected, to meet the present shortage in business and Secretary Colby's Demand. To the Kdltor of the Post-Dispatch.

In an Associated Press dispatch, which ppearcd Jn the Post-Dispatch a short time ago, I see that Secretary Colby takes the stand that the United Ftates has the right to participate in the division of commerce, of alien countries under the Jurisdiction of the League, as the result of the war, upon the same basis as the nations comprising the League, though- the United States is not now, and far as can be seen, does not intend to Ucoms a member unless it can have very thing its own way. Suppose that ther American nations, and also the European nations, now members of the League had refused to Join because they could not have their own way or because borne of the requirements of the League did not 6Uit them, would there now be it League of Nations? The question answers Itself. Both the American and European b-lecting nations became members of the The working out of the Mexican problem by the Mexicans and the restoration of that country to 6table conditions and good international standing will be an unmixed blessing to this hemisphere. It will justify the Wilson policy of patient endurance of trying conditions and noninterference. It has been sustained under difficulties and against severe criticism, but It has proved his wisdom and the generous patience and.

good intent of the United States towards the republic of the South. V(e are strong enough to smile at taunts of weakness in bearing much from a turbulent but weak neighbor. We reap the benefits of peace through a magnanimous policy. If, on the other hand, we had gained peace through war, we would have added to the cost of war the enmities and costly problems of pacification and reconstruction. The end of a policy of Interference could not be- foreseen.

We, as well as our neighbors, have learned a valuable lesson from the Mexican situation. The beginning of the new order in Mexico Is in harmony with the new order of Justice, liberty and peaceful co-operation -in the world. League with the hope, and expectancy of being able to make changes in the covenant of the League after their entrance, -vhich Is made possible by provisions in the covenant. Xow cornea the United States, not a member of the League of Xations, but a rank outsider, and that residential housing of all sorts. What will be the effect on the materials market and the machinery nfarket? We have come to a time when a substantial fall In the price of all building material should be recorded.

Will the unusual demand from the construction of tens of thousands of miles of roads tend to keep prices at their present high' level or give an excuse for forcing them still higher? not from necessity, but on account of Loyal Democrats will hardly be expected to help lift the mortgage of $1,500,000 on the recent Republican victory. They've already done enough for the G. O. P. a -r The officials of states with ambitious road pro- I grams may confer with benefit and agree upon a CLEANING UP THE GUNMEN.

common policy of protection or the taxpayers. If BEFUSTNO A MILLION DOIXASS. A young chap living out Boston way has refused an one state begins bidding against another for mate-inheritance of $1,000,000, on the ground that he cannot! rlala ah machinery, prices are certain to be ex- inye cussidness, demanding, like a stick-up man, at the point of a gun a division the spoils-. True, the United States participated in the late unpleasantness helped make-possible the spoils, but n. deserted the gang before a divy was and now has the nerve to expect to Khare in the swag.

What immense gall! I wonder if Sec-tetary Colby'thlnks that the nations comprising the League are foolish enough to to such a asinine demand. Mex-lea and Russian ought to put In claims, a.Iso. could do so Just as consistent- ly as the United 'states, and in all prob-Hbility, their claims would receive the ame consideration as those of the United tatates, will, CAVEAT. The MIRROR of PUBLIC OPINION JUST A MINUTE Written for the POST-DISPATCH ly Clark ortitant and the possible maximum in new roads will be thereby reduced. Illinois has already begun the expenditure ot Its $60,000,000.

Examination might show that It has already had a valuable and instructive experience, especially In things to be avoided. Save the Symphony, St. Louis! a rAYMEXT. WOMAN blind. I mortgaged my tomorrow For triumphs my tomorrow! I accept money he did not earn.

His decision is approved by his wife, herself the daughter of wealthy parents, who announces that she also will refuse to inherit when her parental estate comes to be probated. That there is something admirable in this decision cannot be denied. That it will be warmly and widely commended by persons who, in similar circumstances, would make no such apparently heroic choice, does not have to be asserted. Yet the wisdom of the renunciation, and, Indeed, its courage may, perhaps, be Questioned. The estate, after certain legal processes, will revert to the State, where it will be used according to the lights of our genius for public administration.

How effectual that use will be may not be adjudged, but, with the, data available, only the dwellers in Utopia will imagine that the money will be as competently UNITED RAILWAYS ECONOMY. By reducing the size of Its transfers the United! Railways will save $10,000 a year' on its paper bills, i according to General Manager Perkins. There will be i a substantial 6aving, too, in printing bills, it Is said. The change, It Is frankly explained. Is made in the Interest of economy.

The public will accept thei Changing School Honrs. To the Editor of the Foat-DIapatrh. I think it Jfcvery unwise move to chunge the high-school hours (as noted by pavers) to be voted on at the next meeting of the Board of Education. Let the railways conipany put on enough cars to accommodate its patrons. Dismissing at a later hour gives no time for athletics, music lessons, dancing schools, shopping, eta Pupils must have tome recreation and many must have practice periods after school, as well as other duties.

Let those who are opposed to any change voice their sentiments before it is too late. A MOTHER. explanation wjth pleasure and will entertain hope for further efforts In the same direction. To be sure, an item of $10,000 in a budget like that of the United Railways is almost negligible, yet it Is VLTltAXS' 1XTERXATIOXAL- 9 rnm tho Survjr. NOWHERE does one expect to find nationalist stnriment in a more than among those who have fought and bled for the motherland.

Nevertheless, an Ex-SorVice Men'a lPterr national, composed not only of men who have fought in the allied" armies Including als. those of former enemy nations, has recently come intc being. Americans are, of course, not included; for. their country is etill at war. and they could not in any event have obtained passports to attend a conference like that held at Geneva, which was attended by British.

French. Austral-Ian, Russia. Italian. Belgian, German. Rumanian and Swiss ex-service men.

Henri Barbussc presided. The purpose of the conference and tho ojr-gttnization that resulted from It was that tr brotherhood not In spite but because of the fact that ita members have for five years lain In opposite trenches as deadly enemies. The conference at Geneva was not representative cf labor and socialist organization, but most of the speakers v.iced ciallst sentiments, or at least sentiments which ono has Income accustomed to as sccleto with socialist programs. Thus, the first lesolutlcn adopted was one pledging the in embers of th? conference to work for a worldwide cooperative commonwealth. The Italian delegates went so far as to oppose all resolution considering pacifist activity without a preilmlnarj' revolutionary cliansrc of government, while the British delegates led the more moderate majority In demanding immediate -measures whii-Ji would mako more remote the possibility war, auch aH a'-olitifn of secret diplomacy, abolition of armaments, pi motion of Esperanto aa an in--tei national language, and peace.

TAXES! TAXES! John Bull can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory taxes! taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, c'r covers the back, or la placed under the foot; taxes upon every thing which is pleasant, to see, hear, feel, aniell or taste; taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion; taxes on every thing ojt earth, and the waters under the earth; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home; taxes on yie raw material; taxes on every fresh value that is added to It by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates -the Judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride at bed board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The school boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road; and the, dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed. which has paid 22 per cent, makes his will on an 8-pound stamp and expires in the arm's of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to d0th. His whole property is then Immediately taxed from to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble, and he is then gathered to his fathers to be taxed no more.

In addition to all this, the habit of dealing with large sums will make the Government avaricious and profuse; and the system itself will infallibly generate the vermin of spies In such Items of saving or waste that a management I Is efficient or the reverse. The management of this great enterprise, prior to the receivership, was dis-! tinguiehed in a way, but economy was not found in I its quotidian or nocturnal vocabulary. I The U. It. progresses.

managed by the State as it would be in ordinarily capable private hands. The young heir who will have none of this money has come into a heritage "which he cannot renounce. In greater or less measure he has Inherited the Qualities and of character without which fortunes are rarely made and handed down. He is the heir of all his As such, tne presumption is that he might do something worth while with his million dollars. If his talents are Industrial, for example, he might put this money Into the service of Coffee Prices.

th Editor of the Rejilying to a letter published on No-vnber ICth. under the title of "Coffee and signed by "Curious," we. the representative coffee roaster of St. Louis, desire to take exception and pre-Kent the situation in its true light for the benefit" of your readers. Dare roan, unkind.

Foreclose? Xo more I'll borrow On what, now. could I borrow?) Gainst time and fate? Can I outwit such powers. Such overwhelming powers? Early the call and late; "With triumphs pay hours! Tes, pay your debt wth hours!" Oh. man so blind, Tou can't close on tomorrow Bright, Just beyond, tomorrow! Your pay, you'll lind. Is my today, of sorrow: My lowly, day of sorrow.

BETH HEWLETT. a Xo. 41144: I know you will enjoy this one: Nebraska. 3533 Front room for gentleman with or without breakfast. On Cass avenue: St.

Louis l.ast Repairing Co. Where is our first repairing company? On Chouteau avenue: repair' shop. and similar repairs. There may be similar repairs, but we will -wager there are no similar repair bills. I beg to report the apostrophe in trouble again on Twenty-second street, near Howardt Manufacture's of Brass Type.

Seen on North Eighth, I think, near Blddle Cheap Charley's Cash Grocery. employing labor under generous conditions and thus The report that Mr. Harding's Cabinet will be made up exclusively of Republicans indicates that we're In for another partisan administration. Senator Spencer is reported as saying that no law' Coffee roaster- throughout the United be fln impomnt factor the bundlng of homeg com MatM nrw lin rl oil down with Iflrsrft ntoc.k.4 high-priced coffee. Within the lustiniunity progress and the occasional development of CO days the bottom hss dropped out of) an extraordinary man or woman whose art or science can limit campaign expenditures.

That used to be Senator Newberry's impression. o-e-e the coffee market and ronees are now i niient beautify or enrich life. And that, we submit, is a better use of money than turning it over to the padded payrolls of politics. -mere are many tnings a man mignt do with a BRITAIN AM Till. MOIIAM.MI Jl.W S.

W. Harr'-ycn Atlantic Monthly. Harding's plurality over Cox In Illinois was 850.083, which still leaves Missouri, comparatively, a Gibraltar of Democracy. Illinois ought to make some money out of its bumper apple crop with apples in St. Louis' worth about as much as pigeon-blood rubies.

-e million uonars oes.iaes living a nie or idle ease, as the young Botonian puts it. In refusing it he evades those responsibilities, but he cannot evade the responsibility of such evasion. Will the metaphysician ritifii are hated by Moham THE Br mcdun?" medans in liitiia. in Arama. in j-crsiu.

in discern a slackerlsh tint on the young man's halo? Vein quoted in the newspapers at ne-j Jialf their original costs to their present wner. As a general rule, the wholesale coffee roaster is selling coffee at replacement value, taking his los cheerfully nd passing the benefit down to the retail Vw not fail to take into consideration the increased Of doing business over jire-war-. times, tabulation tf which we herewith enclose; thin must be added to ihe selling price and in turn must be paid for by the consumer. The retal grocer who has a stock of high-priced coffee is not inclined to sell muu at a loss. He will reduce his price only when he is in a position to buy at leplacetnent.

X. It. A. SECRETARY. Signor Ponzl, founder and proprietor of the get The Democratic party that finished the Missouri campaign with a deficit of $31,000 is requested to send ia his check.

rich-quick classic. In which the public lost millions. has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, Egypt, and in Central Asia. They ought not to bi, for the Mohammedan communities in every one these countries have benefited enormously by what Great I'ritain has done for them. It it not because of any discreditable actions or unwlso policy that they are hated.

Great F-ritala's work In Egypt and India Is perhaps the finest exampla, of constructive statemanshiV that the world hti ever seen. -She Is hated because people who att the proudest In the world cannot endure bem ruled over by those of an alien stock ar.d an alien faith. TJeing ruled over politically is bad enough, but a subtle attempt to rule over them reliKio'is'y rn this sort of camouflaged way Ij worse; indeed. It is intolerable. 'The enterprise has gained for Great Rritaln increased hatred on the part of Mohammedans everywhere.

EDITORIAL SPARKS. nrrs uai his turkey. and Informers, and a still more pestllvnt race of political tools and retainers of the meanest and most odious description, while prodigious patronage which the collecting of this did revenue will throw into the hands of government will Invest It with po vast 4n Influence and hold such means and temptations to corruption as all the virtue and public spirit, even of Republicans, will be unable to resist. Every ise Jonathan should remember" this. SIDXEr SMITH.

No. Sign a Chinese slop. Chinatown. San Francisco: Freph eggs for rale; no rotten eggs ex- changed or money refunded. There Is Chinese honesty for you.

Another no In Chinatown: Fresh buttermilk manufactured while you wait Tou would think they could not do business at all In competition with the Americana and the Japs, but tht-y do. Maybe honesty ia going to prove the best policy In the end. another role Many a campaign cigar learns Christmas. Chicago Dally News. A gutter differs from a Jackpot in that it can be opened with one spade.

Buffalo Express. More About Candy Prices. the Editor of the rot-ripUh. My friend who signed himself "Candy Man." and undertook to fool ua Into behvving that prices candy have been educed. I am afraid did not get very (Car, Champ Clark's "houn dawg" seems to have received the wor-st kicking around of its eventful career.

Pittsburg Dispatch: Wolt until PruiUnt.olKt Ironllni, n. V.r, rmuing jons lor women who are the only support or their husbands. Detroit Xews. Lenine Is quoted as hoping for raw material from the United. States.

Surely we sent him some In that shipload of deportees. Pittsburg Tlmes-Gaxette. A storekeeper's sign: Fresh Eggs from Brothers Farm, S5c doz. FTCsh Eggs from 3d St. 73c dox.

Good Storage eggs. COcdox. Some of those 'dern" 3rd st. chickens, I suppose. McDAXIELS.

a WIIT TAXES ARE HIGH. (Clin Coantr. Tsni. lUreril.) It le wander that tkla roantryt troubled, tat-ridden and allroand la hell of a mHt, II ere are few "knots' that Just now rami to mind. If I would take more time tne' llat jrauld be Inerenaed fourfold.

A half duiea salaried, rerawoe offlr ere go 1 OV mile bust an a S'-O oeitflt. A "porla.l" rrveooe aaent nmM a ma ml eo oioat joar prlrllego a If yen bad any Trlrtlee taiea. aAa aadltar emes from Naabvllle. Meraahla or Ifoaolala and "rherka two ofnrere at the eoart bone aad leaves the alb ore for the Caantr mrt to look alter. A oat her fellow vawt dowa the 'pike" la his Periaa to see If the eaontry amerrbanf has el bot-Ilea of raeeUae aad If bo haa six I'.

S. etarap la put a ene. Aa "aleohol and wtao mi cameo to ba drnaaUt to aeo if Is It name "short oa hie regie-trallon. And another "aarratie nan romoe along ta eeo altout the pareaorV-. Aad another aao eameo a few da later ta eherk bo" an the anorpbfno.

tiilnm, ate. And I he Mo-boreo ranatry merchant gets a qneetlonalro ahoat hla etark of patent tnedlrlaee that It woald putile a 1'hlladelphla (ar ulakl lawyer to flit oat. And ee on ad tnflnliam. ad naaean and add aas tarn Ira or any other darn tblna yon care to. bnt It le all oo.

and tbea some. aad. I repeat, la aU sincerity, that le an wonder that the "roTraent get trneeed oat (3A leap yenrel la the ralender rear fram tape od ta IUImimim. aad frees Ta.Imer Ja the rt Ulrrnea V-Va Ihia, ArUoaa. WAR'S AITKRLVrH.

AR 1 orror. only those can euray know AMF.RICAX RAIIJtOADS. r-nrn the New Tork THERE Is scarcely a. branch of the raUroad business whose unit costs are not Up 100 to 200 percent. The wages that are 100 per cent higher are only part of the new railway burden.

These interesting faats, drawn from the Railway Age. which speaks with exact knowledge, sufflciently witness what is the matter with the They are being starved and urn unable to perform gtod service. The public authorities are XiOt fair They are still under the dominion of the archaic assumption that the railroads are Immensely profitable. The word "conliscation" is not a pleasant one to use, yet there is the equivalent con. fk-catlon.

Of course. r.ot, in tht end, pay the confijH ators. They will get no more ervir-e than they pay f.r. What the present railroad owners row have ii.jv be taken a war. but Who know the smell rancid, t-tfg-' nant blood; That Baltimore cat which saved 10 lives ought to be credited with 19.

since It saved all of its own. 1 Kansas City Journal. nd, if anything, confirmed what 1 said, lie did not undertake to tell us what kind of candy had been reduced nor what percentage of reduction had taken place, und no doubt there are good reasons for it. To more fully satisfy ourselves we took a trip through the candy district, from Pine street north to the market. Including the 10-ceru stores, and we uttnd two kinds of randy -elling at less JUan 40c a pounfV and that was the vhool mixed." at s3e.

and some peanut t.srs. at 30e. Everything else was from 4Cq to tl.SO per pound. These same prices -hae been maintained for more than a eux. Now.

Mr. Candy how much has UKr fallen in -that time? We found a bo containing li pieces of mixed "gum dropa" selling at 25c. and they were Hew much for the box? Wo maintain that candy prlcea are on vrofltecr basis and we are still on the The consumer, reading of falling prices. Is beginning to believe the reduction applies to everything except what he wants to buy. -Baltimore American.

Who saw the creeping loathsomeness of death Alone In Carkness. cold, and greajty mud. With sweiiing flags and bugles' stirring notes. We sent them forth to face the writhing thing. Strange, nervous, sullen, ruthless youths returned.

Who sllf nt bear the horror that they bring. He will n.jt speak of what he aw and heard: It is to him a black, unwholesome pain. He numbed his soul with noise and drink and lust. That he mlsV.t kill, and ar.d 3 -r-. i Infants' rattles are athletic equipment, according! to an official Oeclxlon In Michigan.

Why not musical Instruments? Greensboro News. other in-es-tors. eeeins l.o-.v the bone of thetr predce sors hav leer. win not invest The cost to the. public vu't ir the gain I of Illegitimate f-eUuie.

Yet. move! Inherited ii.ea. rgar.tsat.or.s Ah are s'uriJly teactlon-ary nrd a re up an cUr. cr. It Kansas City that the patro of the movies shoot the villain when he ftranglrs the heroine.

Something good in the way rf poets and dramatists huftr strike." WILL 17. STICK. rhould come from Kansas City. Chicago News. Crook Eagle.

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