The People's Defender

Thursday, January 18, 1923

The Volstead Act is certainly full of thrills.

Day by day in every way the Turk is getting both sassy and gay.

The peace dove may just as well refold its wings and take another nap.

Over here our retired statesmen face chautauqua audiences. Over in Greece they face firing squads.

First there was too much Greece in the Near East problem; now there is a troublesome supply of oil.

Store prices are getting awfully proud. In fact, they are about the most stuck-up things we have to deal with.

There is no question but what the coal dealers run in a cold deck against the ultimate consumer in this game of freeze-out.

That concert of nations holding forth at Lausanne appears to have the Near East program running over with jazz numbers.

It begins to look very much like Republican leaders were laying their plans to make another presidential campaign on promises.

We have about come to the conclusion that the Irish question will never be settled finally until we have one Englishman and one Irishman.

Does the farm bloc have congress? A hayseed congress any worse than the garden we've been having.

In mathematics, the dimensions appear to be more cancellation than of problems.

There are two things that government seeds won't do. They won't grow vegetables in the garden nor they won't grow statesmen in congress.

How nice it would be if we could "Germanize" our revenue collector into accepting a series of moratoriums instead of the prescribed four cash installments on our 1922 tax reparations.

Administration editors still are rejoicing over the fact that the United States stayed out of the League of Nations.

Let's see who are the other "outs" we are associated with?

Oh, yes-Turkey, Mexico, Germany and Russia. Nice bunch of pals.

It is said that in England they are thinking of using wind as a source of power. The United States beat 'em to it. Over here it's the main reliance of our political managers.

In every campaign they use batteries of wind-jammers to produce the big noise and speed up their respective candidates.