The Milwaukee Leader

REMUS IS FREED BY OHIO COURT
"The present social order is a ridiculous mechanism, in which portions of the whole are in conflict and acting against the whole."—Charles Fourier.

Vol. 17 No. 167.

FINDINGS BY OSCAR AMERINGER

California leads the country in suicides and earthquakes, sunshine and scenarios. The statistics prove the first and the realtors the last. In all these California heads the list and Los Angeles leads California. More corner lots, earthly and heavenly, are sold in Los Angeles in one week than in Arizona in a century, this despite the fact that Arizona has more sunshine and no earthquakes.

This is probably because Los Angeles means Lost Angels, and lost angels are bound to get back to heaven somehow, by scenarios, if they can, by suicide, if they cannot.

"Warm climate for cold cash or credit," is the beginning, middle and end of the Lost Angels' songs. From Arthur Brisbane to Iowa John they all sing it, buy it and sell it. If they cannot find any prospects anywhere else, they will trade it with each other and point with pride to the "enormous values created" by their endless energy. Wind is piled on wind, water is injected into water, and we pay for the grapefruit, c. o. d.

We pay for the grapefruit. We stabilize the climate. And the way we do it is through the generosity of the railroads, many of whose magnates own acres and acres of California climate.

This does not mean to say that they are acting on self-interest when their railroads haul a carload of California fruit—after it crosses the Rockies—anywhere in the United States at a flat freight rate. Whether it goes to Kansas City or Kalamazoo, New Orleans or New York, the rate is the same.

This may look like the railroads subsidizing their sunshine to the cost of us alien orchardists and ultimate consumers. but what of it? How could our magnates, whether of sunshine or electricity, earn their exactions if we or Uncle Sam or somebody did not subsidize their benefactions? Manifestly it would be impossible.

Therefore, young man, go west and don't stop until you are a suicide or a sunshiner. You'll win either way you take it. You can't lose. One way or another, all Lost Angels end up in Paradise.

Gandhi insists that "Speed isn't the only thing in life." But progress is progress, I don't care who says it isn't.

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, not a single one of the would-be-elected-president-were-they-with-us-today—not a one of them "believed in the Bible from kiver to kiver." All of them were rebels, disloyalists. All of them violated the Eighteenth Amendment.

If they were here, Al Smith wouldn't be the only ineligible on account of his religion. And that don't prove progress, I don't know what can.

"It is the highest privilege of a newspaper to be at all times purveyor of truth, and whatever stands in the way of its successful pursuit of that calling is inimical to the public welfare," Charles H. Dennis, editor of The Chicago Daily News, said in an address today at the dedication of the Victor Fremont Lawson Tower of the Chicago theological seminary.

Bravo. Ein gutes wort am rechten ort, meaning, "a good word in the right place."