Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — FARM FOR PETTY OFFENDERS. [ARTICLE]

FARM FOR PETTY OFFENDERS.

’ Petty offenders in Los Angeles will hereafter contribute their mite toward reducing the itost of living. The city has adopted for them the slogan of ••back to the land." Los Angeles has bought a suburban farm, and petty offenders will there work out their saltation instead of lying idly and unJjrofltably in the city jail. There are •everal good points about this plan. It ought to relieve the taxpayer from giving support to worthless Idlers. At the Mme time it will probably put a curb upon the inclination now manifested fey the hobo class to seek cheap food •nd lodging at the expense of the city through the committing of some petty Offense. Should each offender of this bort be required to work his way, he might decide to embrace free instead <of forced labor. The suburban farm, too, will probably do something for the petty offender, especially If his trouble is due to some phase of alcoholism. Fresh air and sanitary surroundings with healthful activity might serve as a kind of liquor cure, •ays St. Paul Dispatch. Who knows but it might be a means of training agricultural labor so much needed in rural communities? 1 Two big steamers that ply between New York and Boston have given what is regarded as a thorough test of the efficacy of oil as fuel, and the revolt seems to be accepted as conclusive in favor of oil as against coal. It la announced that coal will be no longer used on these vessels, and it is believed the gain in cleanliness, convenience and in other respects will be marked. This decision, added to the •rowing preference for oil fuel in our own and other navies, may indicate a complete revolution in the method of generating steam on ships.

Americans, Britons and Frenchmen are taking the lead in aeroplane work. For a long time Britons seemed hopelessly in the rear, but Captain Rolls’ feat in flying across the channel and back has restored John Bull’s selfrespect Now Rochester fondly hopes that Rolls’ flight will inspire Doctor Greene with a determination to fly from Rochester to Toronto this month. If Doctor Grene performs this feat, he will make the record for long flight across water, and so bring new laurels |o America. The fact that the r.ew battleship Florida had to be launched with propeller and rudder in place, and a large part of her armor plating boltec to her lower sides, because the drydock at Brooklyn 1- too short to receive her for work below the water line, calls at- 1 tention to a problem that uas been troubling navy builders who are bent < keeping up with the procession. Big ships must have docks to match or there will be double trouble when Injuries are suffered below light wa- j termark. Now that one educational institution has demonstrated that a cigar can be made to afford a continuous , smoke for one hour and twenty-five minutes, another Should institute sci- 1 entitle tests of the maximum duration of a schooner of beer. Thus original research will bring light into the great Issues of every-day life. Aeronaut Farman's disaster naar Chalons sur Marne, France, where his aeroplane plant and dirigible balloon sheds were blown away by a tornado, was a demonstration of the power of the main element with which aeronauts have to contend, when it is aroused and comes on with the proper twist A Pennsylvania mail carrier delivered to himself a letter announcing that he had been left a fortune. Much as they may try, the other mail carriers can hardly imitate him in this. Supervision of the . of drugs and chemicals will yet reach a ;:oint where the toadstool is the cnly resource of men who insist on taking risks of selfpoisoning.

The flying machine experts can evidently beat an average express train. In fair weather, over any distance up to ,125 miles, or perhaps 150 miles, or even 175. That Harvard student who lives on one dollar a week may subsist by looking at the cheaper cuts through a microscope. A Pennsylvania judge decides that • woman Is not compelled to live with Iter mother-in-law. When some court decides that about a man, we shall begin to hftve equality of the -exes. Noah Carpenter of Connecticut .Insists that he has . rheumatism in his wooden leg. Mr. Carpenter should make himself a new one. There are women who can boll cabbage for-dinner and still retain the re•pact of their neighbors.