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ALBANY. OREGON. TUESDAY. MARCH Id
JUSTICE STILL AWAITS
It is to be hoped that the citizens of Centralia will de
mand the prosecution of the I. w. w. members responsible
for the Armistice day massacres on"a new charge based upon
the killine of Arthur Mcbl fresh, should another jury fai
to render justice there are two more murders which can be
charged to the same men, those of Dale Hubbard and Ben
Casagranda. .
It is inconceivable that four juries of 12 men each can be
found who .will so patently violate the juror's oath to render
a verdict in accordance with the testimony submitted and
the instructions of the court.
The verdict at Montesano was a blow at Americanism.
It was an aborted finding of a body of men too cowardly to.
face an issue squarely.
The case was clear cut. It was either murder or self-
defense. In one case all should have been acquitted. In the
other all should have been convicted. The verdict was a
compromise uncalled for and to a sane mind unthinkable.
The men of The American Legion throughout the na
tion will await with patience, another trial. They will hesi
tate to believe that a secoRd body of jurors will reach a con
clusion that amounts to so palpable a miscarriage of justice
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LAKOR ARMIES
According to Lincoln Eyre, a correspondent who recent
ly made a hrst-hand study of Kussian conditions for the
New York World, the Russian Bolshevist army created bv
Trotzky under such disadvantageous conditions is now the
most effective military force in the world. Having over
come practically all resistance in the field, this army is being
turned to a task probably unpeesedented in military history.
The fighting men are made soldiers of industry. Already
three armies, numbering nearly half a million men, fresh
from victorious campaigns, have been ordered into indus
trial work
They will be obliged to toil, as they fought, under strict
military discipline. Any man who refuses will be shot. It
Is Trotzky's idea, and the Soviets are said to have given their
final approval. ? Eventually the whole army may be utilized
in this way, in" factories, on the railroads and if necessary,
on farms.
It is an instructive exhibition of Socialist discipline,
and one which many an American Socialist learns of with
misgivings. " There is probably no reason why a Socialist
government, or any government for that matter, should not
draft citizens for industrial, work just as it drafts them for
war provided the majority of citizens acquiesce. Such ac
tion seems consistent, at any rate, with the Socialist idea,
which makes the State supreme in . all things, taking little ac
count of individual preference. But it would be interesting
to know how the Russians, naturally so eager for personal
liberty, feel about it.
It would be still more interesting to learn how it appeals
to our own illuminated Bolshevists who have been so zeal-
ously preaching Russia s superiority to America in the mat
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ter of freedom. How would American citizens like to work
at the point of a gun, as many hours a day and as mandays
a week as the man with the gun might decree?
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Fashion advices from Paris say the Parisian women are
going to wear their skirts longer. We draw a long sigh of
relief, for at the rate at which skirts were being abbrevi
ated here, we began to fear that they would not be wocn very
mucn longer anywnere - 7
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One congressional reformer predicts an income tax
LI...I. ...L L . . . .
oiaiiK wnicn taxpayers can understand, yes, and some
other reformer predicted that the world was coming to an
end on tne l tn ot last December and now look !
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Some business men justify their profiteering bv explain
ing that they have to make extra profits to pay their excess
pronts tax.
Comments of the
State Press j
Like an Elephant
A weary contemporary who has
jusi fillet! out his income tax blank
remarks that while March l'.UO
came in like a Iamb .March vi'll
will come in like an elephant. di
et t-Time.
slcadcrs with a cargo of tl.VI.OIK) tuns
Hid collected JSlll.IKH) in tolls. At
tifh a rntr the canal wuultl rani a
liout two-thirds of lis yearly com to
the government. r.ugenc liunrd.
Not Only Germany
Not only Germany, but all of r.u-
rope is on the verge of anarchy and
unless famine is relieved and indus
try mail? possible we may expect
numerous revolutions and a reversion
to the barbarism that followed the
thirty years war and overwhelmed
the civilization of Central Europe.
Meanwhile the callous indifference
to the faie of Europe exhibited by
the United States and its senate sur
passes belief. Small wonder America
s becoming hated as the blood profi
teer-amonir nations, intent only upon
rrofits and the shirking of responsi
bility. Capitol Journal.
Editors Pass Low Grade i
Senator Reed says there arc not i
fifty editors in thf country who could
ret a ratine of 15. per cent in an ex
amination on the league of nations. 1
Funny, but we have much the same !
feeling about senators. Orcgonian. !
Ides of March
The significance of the Ides of
March will be appreciated by the
taxpayers whose income tax return
is not yet in. Eugene Regester.
Give the Canal Time
The Panama canal reports the best
business in its history during Decem
ber, according to The Nation's Busi
ness. It passed 2R1 ocean hroinir
Three Alternatives
The secrelary logically recommends
three alternatives in connection with
our naval development; the expendi
ture of a nominal amount of the navy
if wr join the league, the appropria
tion of a larger sum of anion on the
matter is deferred anil the prepara
tion for colossal expenditures in build
ing up the navy if this country de
cides to keep out of the league.
EaNt Oregonian.
Native Poetry
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DREAMS AND REALITY
(By Guy Kitch Phelps)
A sweet-faced dream came walking by,
So frail 'twould seem a .passing sigh
Might waft her from the rose-grown
way
In which she walked, but old and gray
There trudged another at her side:
The gargoyle called the dream his
bride.
And if she laughed or if she wept.
Or if she smiled or if she slept;
Or woke fro niout her heavenly lyre
A liquid, melting, maddening fire.
Or spun a rainbow cloth of gold
Which clothed the Grecian ba-ds of
old.
The griztled. Monster mocked and
' jeered
At every beautious thing she reared,
And every shape of beauty bright
He mared and broke with main and
might.
And spread her golden gul with blight
'Wouldat know how such a pair
could mate
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'Wouldst know how such s thing
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The dream was what our dreams
create,
The monster was Hcallty.
I TODAY'S EVENTS t
Turailay, March HI, lOUO
The North Dakota primary to be
held today will be the first direct
vole for the presidential nominations.
Peoria will be the meeting place
today of the biennial district enliven
tion of the United Mine Workers of
Illinois.
Representatives of the live stock
industry throughout the Southwest
will gather ni Houston twluy fur the
minimi convention of the Cattle Rais
ers' Association of Texas.
Went To Salem
John Net ley, of the llousur Urotliers
store, made a business trip to Salmi
tmlay.
lluys Ten Acre farm-.
J. G. Jackson, of East Albany, has
bought the leu acre farm in East
Albany from Mr. Ilontrager and will
move on to the tame in the near
future. The place is well Improved
and will bo used ss a dairy place.
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