Judge — September 9, 1922 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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EDITORIAL Fuel for Thought PT HAPPENS that beneath the country of ours is stored half the world’s supply of coal. be sure only half of 1 per cent, of it is anthracite, the hallowed soil of this free kind we crave for our cellars (there must have been a geologic don th but nevertheless it is all coal; it burns, and it heats and cooks and turns the wheels of industry and commerce. And there is enough of it to last us for thou- sands of years, using it freely. Yet we are facing u country th friction of its constant passe commission that is to dig to the bottom of our coal problem ean let us know the fe Even this will not fill our bins, but it will feed us with hope that at last the veil behind which the mine profiteer and the © been struggling to our cost has been ripped job somewhere) The onl. hot this winter is th thing in this buck, from the prospective coal famine. promises to by unless the ts soon and recommend a real solution. labor agitator apart and that never again shall we have to freeze in the midst of fuel. Such a hope has calorie value, What Sceretary Hughes believes: 1. That Harding's election. insured the United States into the League of Nations 2. That Senator Newberry did not buy his seat. entrance of the at On the Q. T 2 wishes fo impart a secret, the secret. of how to not foreign promises, ina manner the the wherewithal to pay in real money, people will welcome. not oppose, the ex-service men their bonus. Sh! Sh! It is a secret known only to the House and Senate in Washington, to the President and his to the officials of The American Legion and to poli- itors, bootleggers and others of the intelligentsia — members of the Cabinet, ticians, e¢ so profound a secret that even among themselves they rarely mention it and rather than divulge it to the publie they con- sistently support the notion that no such solution exists. Sh! Sh! sh! would provide the Government with a source of revenue worth, on a careful estimate, from $600,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 a year. Sh! Sh! Sh! Sh! by countless of our worthiest manufacture, but the treasury YU ne ‘le S Sam has been ridden out of convivial To legalize light wines and beer in this country and beer are being drunk to-day tizens, as the result of wholesale gets not the slightest The wine home benefit from it. company on 4 Sh! Sh! Sh their own would inte the opportunity to buy it, even zens now compelled to make though the price mcluded a substantial tax—and the ex-service man would shout, Amen! To get his bonus and his beer at the GOSH! same time, Congratulations HE most sensible of the provisions of the new tariff I measure, as it emerges froma debauched and demoralized Senat President: authority—all \ better bill would provisions, is that which gives the too limited authority —to alter its rates. have been one which eliminated all oth The President in using this authority will be guided by the Tariff Board, the most gorgeously fragrant legislative chapters in our history timidly and haltin, the ideal ules based on scientifie investigation and computa- recommendations of the Thus through one of we approach, however tariff sche tion, A case of rare flower from ripe fertilizer. If this provision survives the serutiny of the of the Americ . for two years, at urably up to the President. Jepce does not but he wishes to congratulate the him greet with ribald yells of glee ators who see in this grant of power an As if he had not of thosefunetions! House con- ferrees the fate least. will bem envy him his responsibility American consumer. Le the wails of those Se adonment of the funetions of Congress. suffered sufficientlyalready from the exercise ry Car's throne, Cyril is hardly the name wed pick for the next ruler of Russia, “an consum ttt “T's an Hl Wind,” Ete. HE Germans are busy teaching us two things—that a printing press is not a good substitute for a mint, and that As the mark drops, the gliders soar. The not cause and effect, but both are due, in part at least, to the terms of the Versailles Treaty, the endless tobogganing of the mark. of to reparation ids. the miraculous glider flights to that clause which ically deprives Germany of airplanes. » away the perambulator and the baby learns to walk; Heutzen, the Han- n student, remains two uninterrupted hours in the air with no more than human motive power, balancing back and forth at will over the Rhon Valley field un altitude of more than 600 feet. His performance sounds like tion of those delightful flying dreams that most of us have had at one time or another and hoped we might repeat. It is an answer that makes the challenge of the Allies look a little foolish, In France, where the first) international experimental best. flights so far have lasted only a few minutes. ‘The rest of the world, you sce, still has the conventional airplane. Perhaps, if the much maligned ty had never been written, no one at all, at least man does not need a motor to fly. two are course, away the motor-driven pkine and congress of gliders is in session, the Versailles Tre of the present generation, would have persevered in the intensive study of air currents and the dangerous and discouraging experiments with gilders to the point already reached by the Germans in the hills of Thuringia. There’s something to be 1 for that document after all. Will's Way TLL HAYS, inundated by the countless suggestions \ V nd criticisms on the subject of the movies that have been pouring in upon him from every quarter, has instituted a complete system of flood control. As his main dam he has aged for a General Committee of One Hundred, representing as uplift. organizations. ‘The torrent forming from the overflow of this body will be guided carefully against a dam Committee of Twenty, chosen from the General Committee, ostensibly for geogrd to permit of frequent meetings. Thence in re manageable volume it will be led to an Executi to act for the two committees mentioned above; an executive, or liaison, officer, who shall m between the committees and the irrepressible Will, reeling from one to the A masterpiece of organization! A true engineering achievement in the harnessing of uplift! It seems a fact that where there’s a Will there’s a spillway. many national reasons, luced and more Committee, and finally to ntain contact other. comicbooks.com