Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1927, Page 3

* MEMOIRS OF UNCLE JOE CANNON © As CHAPTER XXXV. AN you picture, Busbey,” demanded Uncle Joe ener- getically, “what the world was when I was born? Fools say life is harder, that it is more exacting and requires greater energy. Does it take more energy to sit in your chair and talk through the tele phone than to walk a dozen blocks? If those who bemoan the good old times were to wake up tomorrow and | find themselves in my boyhood days, they would think they were buck in &n age of barbarism. been done for mankind in thos 90 years should be blotted out, it would deprive probably one-half of the peo ple of their occupations. It would ex- tinguish all the electric lights and take away the work of engineers and men | engaged with them in handling this | great and mysterious power wrested | from nature; it would silence all our telephones and the click of the tele- graph; it would stop the sewing ma- chines; it would still the song of the | reaper and the mower, and send men | to the back-breaking drudgery of the | sickle, the scythe and the cradle; it | ‘would close the great asylums for our | wunfortunates, it would rob humanity of some of the greatest discoveries for the subjugation of disease. Achievements in 90 Years. #] congratulate myself that in these | 90 years 1 have seen a greater ad- wvancement in civilization than did all the men from the days of Moses to the days of Washington, and that 1 have lived among the men who took the lead in this progress. Invention ‘has guarded the lives of the worke: and taken from them, as much as pos- sible, the dangers incidental to their occupations. The air brake, the pneu- matic coupler and other similar de- vices have lessened the danger to life and limb in transportation; inspec- tions, proper supervision and a hun- dred inventions have made more en- | durable the life and health of the miner, the factory employe and the public at large. . “At the same time we have a| broader conception of the duty we owe | o our feliow man. We no longer turn | our back on suffering and disease. We | try to cure, to care for, to ameliorate | “the condition of the sick and the un-| fortunate. We know that every child | is entitled to an education and a fair | chance in life. Cunning and knavery | we condemn. Laws may be imperfect, | but we endeavor to administer them with impartiality. Crime to Wail About Failure. “We have abolished slavery and imprisonment for debt, reduced the number of capital crimes, improved prisons and softened the treatment of criminals, and in everything con- cerning man become more humane and considerate. We have taken women and little children under our especial protection and tried to pro- tect them from brutal exploitation. As I look back on the years that have passed since 1 first saw the light down in the mountains of North Carolina, I am thankful my life has been cast in pleasant places, and man has been constantly striving to reach higher ideals. For that reason to me it is a crime to wail about our failure, to ac- | cept the absurd ideas of a few malli- cious theorists and to have doubts about the present and future of our country. “We. have become more tolerant in everything and reached a higher ethical standard. If we have erred at all and allowed our tolerance to become too catholic it has been in the gentleness with which we have treated the preacher of pessimism, the man who tried to go back to the days of ignorance and array man against man and class against class. That is the one crime against our civilization that ought not to be condoned. “Curious, isn't it?” said Mr. Can- non breaking off from his main theme as he had a habit of doing, “how the development of our country and the growth. of cities have confounded the ‘wise. ‘Cairo, Ill, in 1850 was the ‘great city of the West' in prophecy and in the speculations of Eastern capitalists. Situated at ‘the most im- portant confluence of rivers in the ‘world’ and at the center of the Ameri- can Republic, at the southern terminus of the Illinois Central, it was expected, as the entrepot between the Northern and Southern markets, to dominate commercially the Ohio, Wabash, Ten- nessee and Cumberland Valleys as well as the great Northwest, becoming, a great inland emporium, the Jarg- city in the world. In 1850, how- ever, Cairo had 242 inhabitants, liv- ing largely in whart boats and small temporary shanties, waiting for the marshy bottom lands to be reclaimed from the overflow of the rivers. Cites Dickens’ Caricatures. “It was about that time that Charles Dickens visited the United | States and afterward wrote ‘Martin | Chuzzlewit.” We thought he was un-| kind in his pictures of some features of American life and enthusiasm, but possibly Dickens did not draw his caricatures beyond the pictures which we tried to draw as honest prophecie: Cairo is now a prosperous city, but it | is not the commercial center of the | world and probably never will be, and ! Dickens’ pictures are as amusing to Americans as they were to English- men over 80 years ago. “It amuses me to hear constantly ©of the general moral and mental shake up that has followed the World War as if it were something new and un- heard of and portented the birth of a | new world. The decade after the| World War locks to me pretty much like the decade aftcr the War of Seces- sion, the decade which I was first elected to Congre: There were over 10 years of ‘reform’ which shook up the virtues as well as the vices of the people. Nothing right and nobody was safe from the reformers, soctally, religiously and politically. The whole countr, hderwent an emotional FURNTTUR etering at yonr home Adcreas Box > UPHOL- estimates furn 542, Star offiee T WALKS STEPS, sAST CONCRETE CO.. N 500 Glenwood Cemetery will be held in the ball- Toom of the City Club. 1320 G street n.w. on Monday evening. June 6. 1927, at 7:43 p.m. All Jot owners are earnestly reauested 10 be present. BOARD_OF_TRUSTEES, CHARLES W. MORRIS. President. WILLIAM E. WISE. Secretary. WANTED—A RETURN LOAD OF FURNI- ture from New York. Philadeiohia or Balti- more SMITH'S TRANSFER AND STOR- AGE COMPANY. : 1~ WILL debts WM. J._ROG “than’ my 6 Wisconsia ave. n. If all that had | S heaval. It is what war always does; it makes people hysterical and tem- porarily throws them off their balance. “The churches furnished the est agitation for change and against change, with heresy trials, denomina- | tional divisions and scandals. The Presbyterian Church brought to trial for heresy Prof. David Swing. one of | its most influential theological teach- ers, charged with having delivered a lecture in a Unitarian chapel ‘and| thereby aided to promulgate heres: for having used ‘unwarrantable lan- guage with regard to Penelope and | Socrates’; because he had eulogized John Stuart Mill, ‘a well. known atheist,” and had departed from lhcl vital points of Calvinism. Prof. Swing was acquitted, but he left the Presby terian Church and organized an inde- pendent church in Central Music Hall and became the best known and most popular preacher in the West. Other Schisms Discussed. “The Methodists in that same period expelled for heresy Dr. Thomas, one of their most prominent preachers, and he too organized an independent church which divided with that of Prof. Swing the popularity and patronage of the people of Chicago for many vyears. The Episcopal Church developed a schism of the Re- sulted in the organization of the Re- formed Episcopal Church. Dr. Chaney of Chicago led that revolt. The Deecher trial in- Brooklyn received more attention from the press of the country than any political movement and added to the religious ferment. Then came the great Moody and Sankey revival in Chicago which at- tracted the notice of the whole coun- tr: Spiritualism assumed extravagant Told to L. WHITE BUSBEY, His Coniidential Secretary for Many Years. | We thought he was unkind in his pictures of some features of American life. | forms. Free love was a popular doc- trine expounded by celebrated and eloquent advocates; today they don't call it free love, they call it ‘flaming | youth' or ‘living one’s own life’; and think it something new. State social- ism or Marxism first made its ap rance; so did anarchism and nihil- Labor disturbances were of un- edented violence, culminating in the civil war in Pennsylvania in 1877 after the riotous reign of the secret society called the Molly Maguires. Our Irish fellow-citizens made war on Eng. | land from our shores, and embroiled | us with Canada. Strife in Various Sections. “Radical reform parties started up, notably the Grangers and the Green- backers. The South was again prac- ly at war, this time a war between the Ku Klux Klan and the negroes with their white sympathizers, and riots and even pitched battles were common there. “We had a revival of temperance agitation with women's crusades against the saloons, praying in the street or going in and adopting the methods of Carrie Nation with her hatchet, smashing everything they could find in the saloon. We had the Irish fighting the Germans, there was an attempt made to revive the old spirit of Knownothingism. The mix- up ‘was general. Oh, yes, the old world was dead and a new one was being born. Only it wasn't. The coun- try sobered up 10 or 12 years after the War, had a bad headache, and went back to business, So I manage to keep pretty calm when I am told that the old world is dead since the World War and a new one is about to be born. The time limit of 10 years hasn’t expired yet."” (Copyright.” 1927.) COOLIDGE BACKERS HAVE LITTLE FEAR OF “ANTI” LEAGUE (Continued from First Pags) served. Taxation has'been reduced and economy faithfully practiced without impairing efficiency. The people are prosperous as never before and there is more comfort and happi- ness among them than ever befor: No one can deny these facts. Why should the people risk a change? If they want a change, they want it for the better and they are not going to vote for a change unless they are sure it will be for the better. What party or candidate can give better as. surance for the future than the party and candidate that have been so su cessful in the past? None. cction Held Baseless. “What effect will the third-term ob- jection have? In my judgment prac. tically none. It is a baseless reflec. tion upon our people to suggest that it would lead to monarchy and despotism. Our people are too intel- ligent; they a-e too well versed in self-government; they have too long governed themselves in a manner that is the envy as well as the inspiration of all peoples to warrant the belief that there is any danger of monarchy or despotism in this country. The people have made and unmade admin- rations; they will continue to do 0. To suggest otherwise is to re. flect upon their intelligence and their capacity. “You say it would established tradition or law? Not at all. Washington did not decline a third term because he thought it would be dangerous to the Republic, but because he was tired of the duties and responsibilities of the public service and he wanted some years of leisure and freedom from 1 . sponsibility. ~ Jefferson alone of -1l our Presidents declared against a third term, and yet he had no fear of an autocracy. ‘Our Presidents have not sought third terms hecause the service is 80 arduous that two terms have been all they cared to undertake. “Grant was not averse 1o a third term, but he was not given the nomination by his party, but not 1. cause of the third term principle, “Roosevelt had practically terms, although only one 3 He not deterred by any tradition or unwritten law. He earnestly sought another nomination by his party and when it was refused h, {as the candidate of a third part he had been nominated by the Re- publican party, there would have been no third party and he swou'd have been elected. As it was he o ceived more votes than his Repub- lican opponent who had served ) one term. | people ever came to passing upon this question und they pretty clearly in: dicated that they attached no impor- tance to it. olate a long- an unwritten two s elective. Institutions Not in Danger. “The people of this country can be trusted to select their President. If they want a man two terms or three terms, no one need fear for stability of our institutions, the pr lervation of our liberties or - the {supremacy of the Republic. Our peo- ple have passed the experimental age in selt government. An admin- ation they do not like will go out at the end of four years and the mor This was the nearest the | the | pugning their capacity to govern themselves will not Bet very far. A man who makes good for five years in this high office can be safely trusted to make good for four years more."” A belated answer to the question- naire sent by The Star to the mem- bers of the Republican national com- mittee asking whether the so-called third-term issue would be effective against the renomination and re. election of Mr. Coolidge and whether he was the logical candidate of the Republican party next year has come from the Philippine Islands. Crossfield Expresses View. A. 8. Crossfield, the Republican national committeeman for the Philip- Dines, writing under date of May 4, says: “Another term of office for Pre: dent Coolidge would not constitute ‘third term’ as that expression is ordinarily understood for the reason that the expression is generally understood as applying to a third term for which elected. “I believe that the ‘third term issue’ might present a serious obsta- cle to the nomination or even to the election of President Coolidge, for the reason that there is an inherent objection in the public mind to the continuance or perpetuation in office of any one. Because of this law, 1 am opposed to a second continued elective term of any President to that office, though recognizing the ad. visability under possible conditisns which might arise for the electton of a President for even a third or fourth term. Owing to lack of knowledge of actual existing condi- tions in the United States, I am un- able to determine whether President Coolidge is the logleal candidate of the Republican party for President in 1928, though I am an earnest sd. herent personally of the ideas of government advanced and promal- gated by him, and if no equal to or better presents himself, I shall b2 in favor of his nomination.’ {tion for recognition of flood control | | hundreds of delegates who answered | A FLOOD GONFEREES TURNTO COOLIDGE Appointment of Presidential Parley Urged at Chi- cago Session. By the Assoc CHICAGO, ted Pre June —Recommenda- national responsibi immedi- | ate Federal reliet for sufferers in the | present Mississippi River flood and for the appeintment of a presidential conference on flood control will be placed before President Coolidge at his earliest convenience. The last official act of the executive committee of the flood-control com- ference, which ended a three-day ses- | sion here today, was authorization for | its ex-officio chaivman, Mayor William | Hale Thompson of Chicago, to go to Washington and place before the President the conclusions finally em- bodied in resolutions passed today without a dissenting voice among the 1,800 who shouted their votes. Roy O. West of Chicago, secretary of the Republican national committee, was requested and agreed to write to President Coolidge tonight to ascertain the earliest date upon which he would receive Mayor Thompson and as many of his fellow members of the executive committee as could make the trip to the Capital. Early Action Indicated. The interest of the President in the flood-control problem was described as so great by leaders recently in touch with him, including his of War, Dwight Davis; Nicholas Leng- worth, Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives, and Senator Pat Harri- son of Mississippl, that an immediate response was anticipated. It was believed by the conference leaders that President Coolidge would wish to receive immediately the for- mal notification of the virtually na tional sentiment expressed b; 2 the the call of Mayor Thompson, Mayor O'Keefe of New Orleans and J. Miller of St. Louis to meet 2 uss ways and means of coping with the recurring violence of the Father of Waters. The only demand made upon the President in the adoption of the resolutions was that he call a con- ference of the best minds of the Nation as recognized in the fields of engineering, conservation, geolog) finance, agriculture and other fi terests for the purpose of formulating, in conjunction with governmental agencies, a permanent flood con- trol program which would embrace the Nation, Extra Session Talk Dodged. There was ho effort to dictate to the Chief ecutive as to the advisability of calling an extra session, and his name and administration were men- tioned only in connection with praise for him personally and his two Secretaries, Davis and Herbert Hoover, as well as for the Army engineers. Immediate and effective relief for the flood sufferers through the agen- cies of existing Federal groups was urged, and the Seventieth Congress was urged to make its business “to energetically undertake and carry to a speedy conclusion comprehen- sive and effective measures for per- manent flood control of the Mississippi River and all its tributaries. So that its generalized recommenda- tions might be pushed, the conference was organized upon a permanent basis, with Mayor Thompson at the head and the other three mayors who co-operated with him as ex-officio members of an executive committee, including one representative from States in the Mississippi Valley. Motion by Paine. The motion which will send Mr. Thompson and possibly others of the committee_to Washington was made by Mayor Rowlette Paine of Memphis, Tenn., who completed the quartet of mayors heading the permanent organization. ‘While the conference or its resolu- tions committee heard and compiled more than 500 proposals for solution of the enigma which has persisted since the first levees sought to re- strain the mighty Mississippi early in the eighteenth century, the resolutions studiously refrained from committing the conferees to any set program. FLOOD CREDIT ORGANIZED. Papers of Incorporation Are Filed in Delaware. DOVER, Del., June 4 (#).—Declar- ing its purpose is to rehabilitate the flood-stricken area in the South, the Flood Credits Corporation ‘oday filed articles for incorporation. The capi- tal stock will be $2,000,000, with an issue of 20,000 shares. The petition stated the corporation would finance banks, trust companies and other agencies in the Mississippl flood section now financially with- ered from the catastrophe, und gen- | erally promote the rebuilding of the water-swept zone. The articles stated the concern would “subscribe for, pur- chase and acquire shares of capital | stock and evidence of indebtness of the Arkansas Farm Credit Co., corporation organized under the laws of that State; the Louisiana Farm Credit to be organized under the laws of Louisiana or elsewhere, and the Mississippi Rehabilitation Corpo- ration, organized under the laws of Delaware,” The papers were filed by Corporation Trust Co. of America. the Chaplain Resigns. The President has accepted the res ignation of Chaplain Dudley R. Tie ney at Fort Davls, Panama Canal Zone, and that of Second Lieut. Virgil R. Pogue, Coast Artillery rps at Fort Randolph, Panama Canal Zone, both effective June 2 Officials Find Baths in Flooded _ Area Hard to Get| By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, La., June 4.— the hardest thing to ob- tain in the flood sections. There is plenty of water, but nowhere for one to hathe, especially if he hap- pens to be a member of Cong: When the congressional party reached here after an inspection tour through flooded areas, it was | met by a reception committee anxious to provide any entertain- ment the members might want. The committeemen were amazed he congressional party in- n delaying the program ve get a bath.” Newspaper men who have toured s area with various parties have suffered along with others, but, being less important and met by { no reception committees, hied them- | selves to hotels to rent bathtubs | before returning to their quarters | on the train. Big Tiger Moth Family. autocratic it is the more emph will they say *“go.” upon distrust of their capacity wiil g0 very far with the people. The party that seeks their support by im- No issue bas4\ | Belonging to a large family, there ¢ interesting species of tiger scattered over the world, says jthe Nature Magazine. In this cou: jtry something like 120 different kinds are recorded. MT. VERNON STEAMER Charles Macalester Leaves 7th St. Wharf Daily 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Round Trip, 85¢ Admission, 25c Cafe and Lunch Counter on Steamer ¢, Vernon not open on Sundays For Immediate SALE 3717 Fulton St. N.W. EMI-DETACHED HO! ARAGE Inspection by Appointment Real Estate Dept. 728 15th St. N.W. Main 4815 EASTERN SELF-GOVERNMENT ON TRIAL IN CENTRAL ASIA By the Associated Press. BOKHARA, Uzbekistan Soviet Re public, June 4.—One of the most in- teresting experiments in self-govern- ment in backward countries is going on in central Asia In this vast region, known before the bolshevik revolution as Turkestan, which formed an integral part of the Russian empire, the Soviet govern ment has set up numerous autonomous Soviet republics. All the scattered comens, Kalmuc ghizes, Tadjiks medan racial tribes of Tur Bashkirs, Kir and other. Moham elements inhabiting Turkestan's 1,500,000 square miles now have their own governments, which, while they are obviously direct ly controlled by the central govern- ment at Moscow, give the untutored millions of Moslem peasants a surpris- ing degree of independence. This is particularly true in matters of purely local or sectional importance, where the natives .enjoy wide latitude of action. The whole area resembles a zreat patch-quilt, with Poltoratsk, Samar- kand and Tashkent as the center. The principal republics are Uzbekistan, Kirghistan, Turkmenistan and Tad: jikistan, which include the former Emirate of Bokhara, the Khanate Khiva, and the Transcaspian govern- ment. The citizens of the Turkmenistan republic are largely Turcomens and Yomouds, the majority of whom are nomads, who live in small felt tents of semicircular construction. Al though Mohammedans, they give great freedom to their women. The natives speak only a smattering of Russian. Further to the east is the capital of the new Uzbekistan Soviet republic. Until the czarist oc- cupation, the Uzbeks were for turies the dominant tribe in Transcaspian region. The Uzbeks, are a reserved, proud and unsubmis- sive race, number about 2,000,000 and are noted for their honesty and dili- sence. To the south lies the Tadjikistan epublic, inhabited largely by Tad- jiks, who are believed to be lineal de- scendants of the Irarians. The capital at Dushambe, has no railroad connec- tion with any other part of estan. Camels, horses and oxen are the usual means of transportation. Wijthin 12 hours of Samarkand lies Tashkgnt, the former administrative center of Turkestan. From Tashkent ay turns north, running into NEW FLOOD THREAT SEEN BY HOOVER ON REACHING WEST, READY FOR ACTION (Continued from First Page.) amarkand, show up well with her crops in the area previously under water. Cotton has been planted in the muddy fields, and some of it already has a good stand. “This State has not needed outside financial help for its agriculture, such as that required in Arkansas, Missis- sippl and Louislana. In the latter States special farm loan corporations have heen set up to aid the destitute farmers after the Red Cross has started them on their way to self- support. Here the situation wa handled by local banks and capital- ists.” Cheering News. Secretary Hoover brought back to the flood area the cheering news that Northern business interests have matched $1.750,000 subscribed by Arkan: Mis ppl and Louisiana financier and that $3,500,000 aggre- gate capital of the tri-State farm loan organizations will assure the lower valley of credit facilities of $14,000,- 000. The intermediate credit banks, he explained, will extend farm credit on a basis of 4 to 1, providing an available loan fund of four times the special farm loan capital -subscribed by the North and South. Mr. Hoover will leave St. Louls to- morrow night for Little Rock, Ark., where the governor's rehabilitation commission will discuss with him the crop conditions in that State. . From Little Rock he will proceed down the river to points in M ppi and Louisfana, in furtherance of the re- construction_progr: s, FRAME BRICK STUCCO METAL BLOCK UPERIOR GARAGES as LOW as $150.00 . $5.00 in cost PHONE MAIN 9427 ! QUTONEBRAKE 12 ST.NW. THE SCOTT G. owing to its perfect combus- tion, gets MORE HEAT out of the gas and_uses it for a GREATER VARIETY OF PURPOSES. Heats Water Like a Coal Range Bakes With Waste Heat Makes No Carbon Monoxide See this Wonder Range dem- onstrated at our new store— 1811 Seventh St. N.W. Gl Turk- | - @SAMARKAND 7 '*’AQH/:_/‘- : the forn orig! catt Wwoo By ¢ cc of of air, Li ing abou appl Rap| | the poisi Li la b | ther | appl! A woni tion thei N the | or 02 L new tio acro! no imm!| men| vide cust cern onl heen of indus temperature. | cury enfo code of honor n is no | this because every Stats officer from | to the governor must ake the same oath. At the | must work are : ! WITHOIL CENTRAL ASIA &~ endless steppes and de: ns the new Kazakstan is Kzyl Orda, forr 'he inhabitants ‘ghiz, who are in. Engaged almost le breeding and 1 constitutes their en sheep en Skin Temporarily, fessor Declares. he Associated Press. DRVALLIS, Oreg. poison oak among regon Agricultural ncces ully treated wi by Dr. F. E. Howland, 1 chemistry. quid air is made b; ordinary atmosphere a When the sub: it 300 degrees below ied to the affected id evaporation sur June the on oak. quid air will solidify rub or any vegetable ma rittle mass. Dr. e is no ¢ ied directly to the skin. zero, Howland nger using it if it is sert that republic merly Pe largely longolian tirely in Aising. LIQUID AR DECLARED | Rapid Evaporation Tends to Dead- Pro- 4 ses tudent Colleg. th liquid professor v coinpres: t a ance is it s portions. tends to dea ‘ace of the flesh tempor topping the irritation caused by the arily, bes tt mer- into says DUELISTS BARRED. Hold Office. USTIN, Tex., June 4 nen duelists? Texas asks by permitting women religibility es. 0 duelist or practitionel discrimination against constable same time State obtained votes by special favor. New Labor Treaty. 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The chisel was necessary because the “book” is a series of clay tablets, about the size of a pocket notehook, each incased in a baked clay sheath, which had to be chipped away by the sharp tool. Dating from a period between 2000 ind 2500 B. C., the book, says the sopular Science magazine, is part of the records of the little known Hit- tite empire and explains hitherto | bafing mysteries of ancient civiliza- | tion. | The tablets were dug up in'the ruins of the Hittite capital, near Angora, Turkey, with other letters and docu ments, all inscribed on sun-baked clay ind filed away just as a modern busi- ness firm keeps its records. The writing was done while the clay was soft. When a tablet was to be sent any distance, powder was sprinkled over the wet, cla nvelope.” The | owder prevented sticking and the re- | cipient broke off the clay wrapper | with a thin chisel. The text, as Dr. Lutz found it under ilho clay envelopes, was in the cunei- | form or wedge-shaped characters of ancient writings. Once natives of the country known as Hattl, now modern | Turkey, the Hittites are disclosed by Dr. utz’s translation as a sort of “missing link” between Babylonian and Greek culture. Such Biblical tales as those of Moses, Saul and David, as well as the legends of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the origins of which have long been a mystery, are re- vealed by the tablets to have come down to us from the Babylonians and Chaldeans through the Hittites. Invisible Rays Solve Crime. Criminals who alter documents with any ink that contains iron can be de- tected by ultra-violet rays, according to Prof.” Bruning, Berlin _scientist. in the Popular Science Monthly. Postal thieves who open letters and_reseal them are branded guilty by the rays; one kind of mucilage, for in- stances, glows with a fluorescent light | under the rays, while another does not. Artificial pearls, however skillfully made, are revealed as false, as are imi- tation diamonds. The finest genuine diamonds shine with a magnificent | purple light under rays of the ultra- violet lamp. What! No Summer? I Should Worry! My Car Is Protected ~inst the Weather! v f v L BEST-BIL1 GARAGES PER All Steel & MONTH Wood Frame WASHINGTON CONSTRUCTION CO. 200 K St. N.E. Lincoln 10100. 1600 A each floor. quickly. Large Lots—Inspect Today | airplane THRILL HUNTERS KILLED IN PLANE Three Impetuous Youths Lose Lives When Craft Falls and Burns Up. | By the Ascociated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., June 4.—The impetuosity and inexperience of youth, eager for a thrill, was blamed for the tragedy near here today which snuffed out the lives of three | Fort Worth young men. Marvin Johnson, 2 21, and Harry Cozby, °1, were burned to death when the airplane in which they were riding went into a tail spin at a height of about 600 feet and plunged to earth, bursting into flames as the gasoline tank exploded. Johnson, who was piloting the plane, had been a student of flying under George Bischof, owner of the plane, for several months; had taken pa sengers aloft a number of times, but could not be termed experienced, Bischof said. Wright and Cozby were friends of Johnson. Bischof said he warned Johnson, who had done repair work on the plane during the morning, not to fly the machine and had even removed some of the engine parts, which evi- dently had heen replaced to make the plane fly. ; Kearney Wright, Stinger Short but Impressive. Special Dispatch to The Star. MANHATT Kans., June 4.—A bee's stinger is hirty-second of an inch in length, but it makes & rong impression when properly. ap- ied, says a bulletin of the Kansas State Agricuitural College. 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