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BUREAUCRACY DIGS ITS GRAVE
It is a truism that a situation must grow worse
before it becomes better, and it is only when the situation
complained of begins to tread upon toes hitherto untram
pled that one may hope for spontaniety of action that will
remove the cause for complaint. That this cause is be
coming more general throughout the United States is
evident from the following from the Seattle Star:
Slowly but surely bureaucracy is digging its grave in the Pacific
Northwest. The sjpirit of States rights, long slumbering, is being revived
by a public which is becoming tired of being regulated by agents of poli
ticians living 3,000 miles away.
People are weary of the continual strife stirred up in Northwest cities
by political agents who flout the Constitution and break up all the laws of
decency to “enforce” prohibition. Seattle1 knows their work; Everett has
been thrown into turmoil by their activities; Spokane has been split
and disrupted by secret agents owning no master but themselves.
Boise may be next; or Tacoma; or Portland. No city knows when
it may be swooped down upon; its citizens pilloried; its officials accused
in secret hearings before packed juries; its government exploded from the
inside by rumors and inunedo.
This is no way to run a democratic government. This city and this
State are capable of enforcing their own laws without uninvited interfer
ence from law-breaking agents wearing government badges. It is high
time that a halt wasi called to the system of hand-picking juries, bulldoz
ing judges, slugging citizens, abuse of the right of anyone to be safe
in his own home and the privilege, assumed by the bureaucrats, of wreck
ing anyone’s reputation merely on hearsay.
There is already a well-defined revolt against this assumption of di
vine power on the part of bureaucrats. If things go on as they have been
going on the time will come when bureaucracy will crash and then,
once again cities and States will have the right to call their souls
their own.
While Alaska was the only sufferer from the blight
of bureaucracy and conservation little heed was paid by
the populous States of the Union to her voice. Now that
the Federal government has allocated to itself the power
to nullify the common law as such men as Governor John
Winthrop interpreted it in its primary application to the
American colonies in 1632, it is only a question of time
when the public conscience is aroused and will sweep the
slate clean, demanding a reversion to the principle which
allows freedom to be interpreted in terms of self-expres
sion rather than by divine right of bureaucracy.
It's about time the Bureau on denatured English gets
busy in Washington. Discussing the water question, two
Arizona Senators said that State would be darned or they
wouldn’t allow the reclamation bureau to dam California,
and. that California had too many darned rivers already.
Which caused Senator Hiram Johnson to rise and! thunder
“Let Arizona be darned if she wants to, but the undamed
Colorado river is overflowing the dam levees.” After
an all night session Johnson said Arizona might be darned
for all he cared; he was going home and take a nap. .
. When it comes to imobile resources in Alaska like
timber, coal, oil, etc., the government locks them up for
posterity. It’s different with the herring—he has the
seven seas to make his getaway.
The General Federation of Woman’s Clubs has asked
that improvement be made in speaking English. Bridge
players who talk like a package of firecrackers or a bun
dle of loose axe-handles will take notice.
Wonder if our friends still appreciate those Christ
mas presents we bought for them on the installment plan.
Seventy-one years at sea was the
record of Alfred Rouxel, dean of
French seamen who died at the age
of 83 year®.
(Motor tourists bought 11,400 jars
of home made apple jelly from one
orchard near Bowdoiaham, Me., last
summer.
Santa Fe, N. M., lias an. average
of about 70 thunderstorms a year.
A cypress tree standing in a
churchyard near Milta, Mexico, is
Prince Feisal, son of the King of
the Hedjaz, recently viewed London
from an airplane ;
WINS DESIGNATION IS
CflAGK CAVALRT OUTFIT
WASHINGGTON, Feb. 25. (/P)—
Troop F, Third Cavalry, stationed at
Fort Myer, Va., and commanded by
Captain Jess G. Boykin, is for the
current year at least, the crack
mounted outfit of the United States
Army.
In recognition of its proficiency
in all phases of cavalry service, de
termined through a series of practi
cal tests, it haas been given the first
award of a trophy donated by L. E.
Goodrich of Miami, Fla.
LIGHTING DEVISED TO
REPLACE M1EQUIIS
LONDON, Feb. 25. (JP)—Mannequines
will no longer be needed at big stores
to display frocks if a new invention
comes into universal use. Mrs. Sub
urbia and Lady Mayfair will be able to
try on the frocks themselves while
still wearing their fur coats.
The scheme is something between a
ghost mannequin and electricity. The
would-be purchaser enters a small
room and stands in front of a full
length mirror. Her body is made to
“fade out” by special lighting, leav
ing the head in the mirror. Then a
headless model dressed in a particu
lar dress “comes through” and fits ex
actly under the head of the purchaser.
If this means is successful several
gowns could be tried on without the
removal of any out-door garment or
the use of a mannequin.
LYING CHILDREN NOW
LONDON, Feb. 25. (^—Fibbing
children should not be despised, says
Dr. Alice Hutchinson, because when
a child tells a lie it has a reason for
doing so.
“Instead of turning away askance
when a child fibs, let us rather find
out what...prompted the action, and
then we can frequently lead the
child to unburden itself as to why it
has told a falsehood. Self-preser
vation is the commonest reason,” Dr.
Hutchinson said at Bedford College
for women in an address.
MEN DO HOUSEWORK IN
NEW MOSLEM REPUBLIC
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan Soviet
Republic, Feb. 25. {#*)—Samarkand
“the Golden”, as both natives and
foreigners are fond of calling the
new capital of the first Mohamme
dan Republic, is a paradise for
women and a haven of rest for men.
The women do little else than at
tend to their toilet and dress, burn
ish their nails, dye their hair with
henna, pay social visits, sip tea and
gossip. Ordinary household duties
are considered beneath their Mos
lem dignity.
The men, polite and gallant, do
whatever light housekeeping there is
and even look after the children.
After their labors are finished they
retire to the bazaars, where they sit,
drink their sugarless, watery-like
tea and chatter.
Mr. Keller, a former saw-mill man
□f Seldovta, was a returning passen
ger on the Admiral Watson. He
operate® a small cannery In Seldovia.
Vanilla and Chocolate Ice
Dream at the Candy Cottage.
LIBERTY
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Bebe Daniels
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‘THE CROWDED HOUR’
This is rich in everything that goes to make up a fine
play
LAUGHS TEARS SHIVERS
The “Booful Bebe” at her best
A selfish, scheming, passionate girl and what hap
pens to her. Mostly comedy, with enough patho to
set it off
And there’s a two-reel comedy with NEAL BURNS
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