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fact that the Republicans hav
not decreased federal taxes is
airi'.y dismissed: and the fact
thai they did not increase them
by nearly two and a half billions
is set up as striking proof of
economy. And thi9 is Hit for
ward, not as an example of the
humor of extravagance, but as a,
serious argument for voting the
Republican ticket next fall. ;
We are inclined to think, in .
pessimistic moment, that nation- j
A politics in the United States j
has sunk to a lower plane than it'
had ever reached before. The j
idea that the national headquar
ters of the two great parties are
capable of putting out, in all I
seriousness, such ineffable bunk i
as has recently been emitted ;
from Republican and Democratic j
headquarters is depressing in the
extreme, the chairman or one
the rate of ten cents per i.i.b. l''n 1 0f the national committees thinks
must accompany article in ail ewe. ex- j
a regular ac- '-
Uiaile lor teas muni is ai.aiuc, uini .iv
important possible issues are
good roads and better schools.
. jvi0A??li AfjP3 serauj, jwAjrqja n. a
a littl" -si'iJe; trSen I call- "Mrs. R. W. Hackett was J eliminate ail sucIT
daughter, or for the women who
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Friday, August 13,1920
The community needs a
hotel.
The headquarters of the opposi
tion candidate resorts, for its
good lode, to Joe Miller s Joke Look. ,
What choice has even the most
superficial thinker between these
Thpv don't seem to be able to! two? W'e are seeing here the
sk;k lorsuuic - . . nM was eliminate all such testimony if service."
ix.1 in onntVvor iliWtOr. WhO find- aort'inrr. n ...k.'.L -.'!-J a. .....
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certificate that 1 was not able " .. " " B . ; Suffrage Convention. Chicago. Wake up and fijrht Suffrage in
tTSrvHm 'the jury". The poor ! Prted b' Jer that aj The Nat.onal Suffrage Program j February. 1820. rage 64. ' order to protect Southern Worn
man's wife cannot afford to pay IfT . y "l, be.en I I provide 1 Men of the South, do you like : en from havirg jury duty forced
rwo doctor's bills to ape the j J"" whl1 H women be subject to jury j this prospect for your wife, your j upon them.
Hiwcrrahle dutv whieVuffr?jr-: Pn 8 Jury I " ' 1 ' - - - ...... - - - -x ..
iats have forced upon her.'rso she .' " ,,nicn thp suffrage states
is obliged to serve. , are srv.ng oi, juries in murder
An article from the Spores-1 Cfcs- commercialized vice cases,
man Review of Spokane, j and whiskey cases.
Washington, a suffrage State : A court official of many years
tells how the jury law works experience states that his ob
thera: " v;servation of crimiHal trials has
"While the law is so stern that shown that at almost every term
it refuses a mother permission to of court language is used and in
go to her baby while she is doing cidents recited from the witness
ury duty, there is nothing to j stand that grate on the sensibili
prevent a baby goinn to its ; ties of all refined men present. !
mother, at least that i how the Profanity, obscenity and the de-1
law was interpreted in the court j tailed narration of the immoral
of Judge William Huneke, when acts and doings of the lowest
baby Margaret Hackett went to j type of humanity are brought
the courthouse for her dinner. out in all. their revolting naked
"Father rushed Margaret, j ness. A suffragist naively
age three months, In nn automo- j argued that if women were on
bile to the courthouse. Mother the juries all this would be "cut
gave baby her 6 o'clock meal, lout!" This is childish. It is a
and father and infant retired, ! fact that it is not cut out in the
subject to ln;rry eaHs during the; suffrage 3ta.te. Most judges
night. jure refined men and would
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get the war out of Warsaw.
Funny how long both parties
survived without woman suffrage.
That front
rather warm,
Harding?
porch is getting
isn't it. Brother
Where now are the earnest and
enthusiastic patriots of the over
alls club?
Somehow the country doesn't
seem to get as excited over
politics as it used.
The last word in optimism
Parley Parker Christensen's
campaign manager.
' Little more than a hundred
days to hard weather -and that
coal supply not yet in?
The solons of North Carolina
and Tennessee stfn to have lit
tle disposition to race.
Czechoslovakia is neutral in
the Russian-Polish war. Evi
dently Czechoslovakia knows
what's good for her health.
Poland is still far from being
beaten in Foch's opinion we un
derstand this view is not shared
by the Poles or the Bolshevists.
first fruits of the fatal policy of
leaving our politics in the hands
of "practical" politicians, men
whose first thought is for the
spoils of victory. For these
false steps were not accidental;
on the contrary, they reflect
faithfully the type of mind that
predominates in our public affairs
at this moment. The candidates, i
thank God, both rise somewhat !
above this plane; but unfor
tunately in electing either of;
them we must elect also the men j
who surround him to places of
power.
They talk, and with reason, of
the pettiness of Wilson's cabinet;
but the members of the cabinet
are intellectual giants compared
with these. Greensboro Daily
News.
"Cox Speech Pleases Demo
caat3" head line. As tickled
over it, doubtless, as the Repub
licans are over the orations of
Harding.
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ANTHONY AMENDMENT j
Suffragist leaders are careful ;
never to mention to their audien-1
ces in the East or in the South
the subject of jury duty for :
women. When questioned1
about it, one of them replied:'
"Oh, that can be arranged very'
pleasantly." Let us see how it-1
is arranged in the States where I
women vote.
For many weeks of the Spring
of 1917 a big I. W. W. murder!
trial was in progress in Seattle.
Six of the jurors were women.'
Mrs. Sarah J. Timmer was juror i
No. 11. She had received word;
before she entered the box that j
"her children had contracted!
the measles." Calling the jury;
in, Judge Donald said to Mrs. !
Timmer: j
"Mrs. Timmer, I have been in
formed that you are worried
about your children. I'm
powerless to let you go home,
see or ask Ouija.
1 am not red but slightly pink,
Little I do but think and think,
What a glorious world tvvould
be
Iftthey just elect dear Parley P. but both sides agree that I mav
communicate to you any word
From th 3 mass of conflicting i your family physician desires to
reports coming from Raleigh on convey. Don't let your attention
thesuffrage situation down there, be attracted to anything but the
it looks like we will either have trial. We'll keep you advised
to wait and see what we shall and you will have no cause to
worry. Remember, no news is
good news."
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
March 8, 1917.)
It must be a grand and
glorious feeling for a woman to
be drawn as a juror on a murder
case, likely to last two months,
when the children of her family
have contracted the measles!
A month later . the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer said: "The
confinement imposed on juries'
in murder trials is beginning to j
tell on most of the members of J
the Tracy jury, especially the;
women jurors, the majority of
whom have families. During
the last month numerous stipula
tions have been arranged be
tween attorneys for both sides,
allowing children of the jurors
to see their parents for a few
minutes in the presence of
witnesses. The defense attor
neys estimate that it will be
nearly two weeks yet before
they are through submitting
evidence."
WOMEN OF WEALTH MANAGE TO
ESCAPE JURY DUTY
One of them told an eastern
friend how she did it She said:
"I was determined I would not
serve on that jury, so I got a
doctor to give me something
which would make me violently
BUNK
As well as we can figure it out
now, the two national campaign
headquarters are all even in the
percentage column cf the foolish
ness league. Chairman White's
error for the Drmocrats, when he
declared that Mr. Cox, in this
mo3t fearful hour of the country,
is running for President on a
platform of good roads and bet
ter schools, is balanced by the
statistical genius of Harding's
headquarters, who figures that
the Republicans have saved the
.country $2,400,000,000 because
they did not appropriate all that
was asked for.
"Pinsv," ran the schoolboy's
essay, "have saved thousands of
lives by not being swallowed."
The schoolboy's essay is one of
our standard national jokes, a
typical example of American
humor. But wherein does its
logic differ essentially from that
of the Republican statistician?
The clamorous departments ask
ed for $2,400,000,000 more than
was appropriate; therefore the
Republicans have saved $2,400,
000,000. In other words, because
they were not more extravagant
than they were, they are entitled
to be called economical The
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