Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1931, Page 93

THE SUNDAY “I really have no recollection of anything that hap- pened from the time I went to work for Mr. Soapie until I left his employ.” (Just a lovely witness for the defense losing her remembrance of dates and figures on the witness stand.) An international investigation has to be gone about pretty sotto voce. Lord Liveranlights is ostensibly here on a mission of good will, to cement the Old World and the New with friendly sentiments, as it were. Just the same, he is going to find out, if possible, why so much money is on this side of the Atlantic and what seems to keep it from starting for foreign parts. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—JUNE 21, 1931. The Public Investigation This vacationist is none other than Peabody McGill Perry, author, who conducts ex- haustive investigations into the lives of national heroes from the pages of history. In his latest tome, a debunked life of Paul Revere, he shows pretty conclusively that Paul was suf- fering from a mixture of psychological ailments and was of the maniac depressive type, hampered by a parent com- plex and narcissism. By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1931, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) The eighteenth amendment calls for a lot of public investigation from time to time, and occasionally a popular night club hostess is invited to tell what she knows, which is not much use, because she has never seen or heard of liquor being sold at the Boop a Doop Club, and if anything stronger than milk has been found it must have been brought in by a patron of the club. A public prosecutor posing for a news photo under stimulus of a bank investiga- tion. A pose like this is supposed to give a feeling of confidence to the reading public. And here we have a political investigator who has engi- neered no less than an investi- gation into business depression and has found that the present hard times are just an idea in the public mind. hat the country needs,” says he, more buying and selling, more friendly spirit between capital and labor, more happy co- operation.” These four members of the local intelligentsia are a snappy little group of inquiring educators who are about to start for Russia to conduct an investigation of the Soviet government. Every so often some one investigates Russia and comes back with the news that everything is_either just dandy or just terrible. A, top to bottom, this art panel comprises a judge, a policeman, a school commis- sioner, a banker and a beer racketeer. None of them is worrying much about things, and the public forgets easily. An investigator from the Internal Revenue collector’s office en route to investigate some one’s income tax return. Welcome as flowers in May he'll be. Anybody who is anybody is being poked and prodded and investigated on graft charges these days. Rcading from