Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1931, Page 8

" el THE EVENIN With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY......August 11, 19831 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: ad Pennsylvanis Ave, n Building. London, Rate by Carrier Within the vity. 3 ening Star. . 45¢ per month rening and ar, vnen 4 17 2% g0c per month The l‘l!n‘llsulnd und: Al "md.y Bl’l;erfl . 65¢ ner':n:mh Totlection’ made at the end of each me ntl Orders may be sent in by mall or telephone SNAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. undays} Member of the Associated Press. The Ascoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the vse for republication of ail news dis- Patehes credited to it er not othcrwise cred & per and slso the local news publ All rights of publication of spec o reserved. —— — in this pe hed herein 1 dispatches herein are a The Third Degree. Police inquisition in the treatment of | prisoners suspected of crime is the sub-| ject of a special inquiry by the Crimes | Commission and now reported upon at| Jength by the particular investigators and the commission itself. The com- | mission recommends the consideration | Jlife cf the man. - (G STAR | bl for conviction would have meant| a sentence of seven years. Detectives have been watching for him, yet, ac- cording to information at police head- cuarte:s, he has been in the metropoli- tan district throughout this period. and | for the last six months has been wa ing two distinct wars simultaneously one in the Bronx and one in Harlem. Yet he has not been caught. Here is a criminal career covering only ten years, but more than half the Eerly correctional treatment had no effect. Repeated de- tentions were valueless. Ths boy was headed straight for gangdom and noth- ing could keep him from it. There are those who hold that coercional methods, because inflective in some like this, are worthless and perhaps are even provocative of the misbehavior | that makes the crook and gangster a | menace to soct:ty. What is to be done? | Let the boy go free without any at-| tempt to restrain him? Surw: he will | not become the law-abiding eitizen in | a crime-inducing environment such as | that of Gr:ater New York. Coll will probably be captured, or will b> ki'led In some affray before the police find him. He is now an outlaw, hope- less of any escape save through his own desperat: means of defense. There are | scores, hundrads, like him in greater or less degree of criminality in this coun- try today, men who are under the shadow of the law and certain to dic by | violence or on the scaffold. Cuba’s Critical Hour. Throughout the past vear and 2 half of crisis and turbulence in Latin Amer- | inst nces | | | |if certain natural by Congress of & new code of criminal | oo Cuba has not escaped the con- procedure, to be used largely by the | iooious effects of the revolutionary epi- | States, and suggests the possibility of | gemic. The ingredients for a violent a constitutional amendment if neces- | ouerturn of the Havana government are | sary to stop fllegal and brutal “third-| present in plenty. To date the strong | degree” methods by the police. This is by no means a new indict-| ment of police methods.” Nor is it the more convincingly presented than on former occasions, when, on a smaller scale, the practices of law-enforcement officers have been brought under ques- | tion and condemned. It is simply a| more sweeping denunciation, with a| wider range of illustrative instances, | many of which, it may be judged from | the two of local nature, are so old as| to serve no useful purpose in the| present citation. H Undeniably persons suspected of crime | have been cruelly treated in many of | the cities of this country—perhaps in! all of them, probably in all of the States. This method, known as the third degree, is a relic of barbarism and of fiendishly inhuman practices employed in inquisitions of the Middle Ages. 1t s violative of the natural and the legal rights of the accused. It is| {a decree branding “the enemies of the hand, not to say the strong-arm | methods, of President Machado has dodged the rod which his embittered political foes have long had in pickle | for him. This week, not for the first | time, events have crowded to a climax Havana dispatches, confirmed by ad- vices to the State Department from Ambassador Guggenheim, report that Machado has the situation in hand. But the history of Latin American revolutions is always kaleidoscapic. Yesterday President Machado, acting on authority granted him by Congress, | again suspended constitutional guaran- tees throughout Cuba, as the revolu- tionary movement against his govern- ment gained in momentum. He signed i present social system” as outspoken foes of “the public peace” and acknowl- edging that certain elements of the re- public’s armed forces are now “in frank revolutionary attitude.” In the two contrary to the law which assumes the | o0 (AT L e greatest prisoner to be innocent until proved|ynrect “military supervisors” with dic- gullty. It has probably led to mis-|isiorial powers were appointed. They carriages of justice in the foreing of | iy ryle over the Havana region and canfessions from innocent persons,| oyer the Province of Pinar del Rio, in THE EVENING ST B ——— e ) e —————————————— making good wine.” And in so doing, the salesman transgressed. The funda- mental precaution that must be observed in selling wine bricks or wine concentrate is not to say, in words that are written or spcken, what will happen mitted to take their course. One may warn the purchaser to add a certain chemical to prevent other chemical changes. One may even send an agent | to superintend the work of nature that takes place within a keg, and to bottle the products under such rames as Port or Muscatelle cr Burgundy. But one must be careful of what one says. The widospread criticism of the new ndustry of furnishing grape concentrate for win> is founced on no real appre- h nsion of the incbriety that could or would result. The criticism results from the unpleasant picture of Uncle Sam attempting to wipé out, with his right | hand, the presence of all strong drink in Amcrican homes, and with his left hand s loan, to the companies that have devised | a 1ogal method of s-nding that strong drink into American homes. The in- consistency of the whole thing is sug- gestive of a hypocsisy repugnant to all sense of honesty and sincerity. The Wickersham Commission went out of its y to condemn it, and wets and drys alike are joined in condemning it. No industry in America, no national customs, should survive through loop- hols in the laws. The growth is un- healthy, gathering to it parasites and | fungi that cause more harm than the growth itsclf. If United States belicve that light win<s should b2 permitted, let them say so. If not, say that, and so plainly that there will be no doubts about it in anybody’s mind .- A paragraph is going the rounds of the exchangs to the effect that Ben- jamin Franklin was nct only the mod- ern Ajax who defled the lightning, but a new Orpheus who inventéd the mouth organ or harmonica. Inventive genius. though bold in magnificent projects does not hesitate to interest itself in what ordinary mentality would regard | as trivial detail. - Moscow knows how to guished visitors. In developing treat distin- the five-year plan the Soviet has paid par- | ticular attention to the arts of sales- manship. - A stranded Wild West show proves | the mistake of contradicting Horace Greeley's advice and coming East to grow up with the country. ——— = When the Lindbergh baby is old enough to talk plainly it will probably demand a crib with wings and a motor. | " SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Seeing the U. S. processes are per- | ipping hard cash, as a Federal | the people of the| i Are you a gutter-grabber, automobile | style? { “The latest fad cf the road involves | the right arm and hand. Wh:t to do with these has always been a problem to the motor car pas- | scnger who sits on tne right of the | ariver. Whether to Test the hand gently on ! the window frame, or ercok the elbow cut bodily—those have been the ques- Lions. season a sizable pertion of the c scems to have solved it | by an amezing procedure. Nctco cars as they go along, and you | will discover that the man on the right has managed scmething new. * ox ok ox He places his right elbow on the sill, and, reaching out and up, seizes the top with his right hand. It 15 a rather awkward position, which impresses the beholder as being uncom- fortablz, and he finds it to be, in mcst cases, when he tries it cut for himself, as he invariably does, sooner or later. That is how such things spread. There i3 not one person in a thousand whese length of arm from finger tips to elbow is precicely right for such a gut- ter_grabbing. What these posers seize, of course, is the tiny gutter which runs along the extreme side of the top. Why they want to is the mystery. * ok x % We put this question to several motor | enthusiasts recently, withcut results, un- til we struck one gentleman who of- fered the following solution: By hoisting their arm in the air, these riders are emulating chickens, which in hot weather hold their wings out from their bodies. Ccol air, rushing down the rider's sleeve, gets a good circulation all over by this procedure. TUESDAY, 'AUGUST 11 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. this new practice, but a day's observa- |tion will show that nine-tenths of its practitioners arc men. No doubt the show-off tendency is more developed among men. Do you Te- call the pickaninnies, with their shiny eyes and white teeth, who often dance on the streets or at railroad stations? These are nlmos: invariably’ boys. The other sex. young or old. is not so given to making bids for public at- tention. In many cases where the op- posite seems to be true it will be dis- covered that they have been egged on by men. P ‘The desire for public praise has had a tremendous growth throughout the world, despite the 2.000 vears of Chris- tianity, which has taught humility and selflessnes Never in the history of the world has publicity been such & power. As in the elder days many men were willing to sell their s-uls to the devil, so_today many would do anything for publicity. The right sort of publicity remains, as it always has been, without a peer for the good and advancement of man- kind. Meanwhile mankind has sought out many inventions. as St. Paul so well said. among which may be named tree perching. marathon preaching, ete. And now the very latest—hanging onto the top of a car with the right hand. No doubt this practice will spread until nipped in the bud by killing frosts Soon the riders in the left and right rear seats will shoot out srms, and au- tomobiles on all roads will take on the appearance of octopuses out for a stroll * % x % This Summer seems singularly free from freakiness; that is why we take pleasure in presenting, for the first time to public notice, this interesting gutter- This, at least, is the only explanation with any sense to it at all. { Our personal guess is that this atti- | tude is the result of the show-off spirit mankind. | grabbing stunt. | " A sporadic attempt at marathon I'called, left auditors panting early in | preaching, as long-windedness has been | | in | For a quarter of a century the man on the right has played an inconspicu- ous_ role. He has been foreed to sit sedately while the man &t the wheel received | the glances of the populace and all of Jthe jibs of the traffic cops | " Good or bad, the griver got it all. 1o Tne right-hand man has rebelled at act He has evolved a way of making him- self seen and noted. He has become tired of the boys and girls in the rumble seat taking the eye of the pedestrian. He wants to be seen of men and he believes he has struck on a really smart way at last of securing that long-craved attention. Really, the gesture is a magnificent one. What could be simpler or at the | same time easfer? All one has to do is to rest the elbow on the bottom frame of the door, with glass down, reach up and out and seize the gutter. This latter is a neat, automobile-sized affair. a masterpiece of d=signing. which | attracts no attention to itself, but does nob'e duty in a rain, spilling the water to front and rear. | the Spring, but since then this form of sport has dwindled by the wayside Tree sitting and the like have at- tracted remarkably little attention. Perhaps the large number of ccess- ful airplane flights, to and fro and around, have rendered tomfoolery rather insipid. Automobile gutter-grabbing, at any rate, is having the road almost to itself. If you want to attract a little atten- tion, it i -fire and does nobody any harm. That is an asset. What honest man wants to attract attention to himself at the expense or cost of others? b Gutter-grabbing, however. harms no one and evidently coes the grabber a great deal of good. if one may judge from the self-satisfied smirk which wreaths his countenance After all these years of self-efface- ment he, at last, has managed to rig up & method toeattract attention to himself without. at the same time, tak- ing any away from anybody else. ‘The thing is a masterpiece. If the gutter-grabber doesn't get his whole arm torn out at the socket, he will receive the plaudits of mankind. But_nothing. as the wise man said, succeeds like success If the gutter-grabber wants to be really successful, he must be on the | watch and able to retract his arm when necessary. Wild drivers _have done much worse than yank off arms. Let us never forget that. * ok * % Now the gutter has a new funetion searecly intended by its designers. Now it serves 25 a sort of grip. One might think, offhand, that women would be the most addicted to NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G M. WE_ARE ALASKANS. By Mary Lee Davis, author of “Alaska, the Great Bear's Cub.” ete. Tllustrs W. A. Wilde Co. Energy, enthusiasm and a theme. Running along with these a passion for information, full, accurate and perti- { nent, both current and historic. A keen sense, also, of the picturesque effects of lluision, mystic and classic. An organ- izing mind that shapes its efforts into units of admirably co-ordinated parts. The purpose of decidedly practical point. Mary Lee Davis, given over to | writing on the subject of Alaska. Living there for years, Mrs. Davis d. Bost for its proper uncovering and seiting out in the light of current acquaintance nd common understanding. Three | books within as many vears testify to this writer's good intent and genuine activity in behalf of the land of her adoption. “Uncle Sam’s Attic,” “Alas- ka, the Great Bear’s Cub' “We Are Alaskans” sum the titles of sheer lure Iinto whick, the full subject rounds. Facts, historic and current; climate and | soil; natural resources; racial content, native and alien; stages of opening and development: outlook upon an im- mediately fruitful future. Such the { sum of these Mary Lee Davis books on | Alaska. Current general information upon the | subject is meager, hardly a handful Russia overlapping this up-corner of the New World, “Seward’s Folly,” the purchase of Alaska by this country swathed in furs, munching Fur trade and fishing indus- try, both vague in outline. Gold dis- covery and the Klondike rush. That is the sum of common knowledge on the subject. Or was, until this capable and plucky woman set up a kinder- garten class to the wide world for pri- mary lessons on the great subject of the mighty subarctic domain. The first two of Mrs. Davis’ books on Alaska establish and describe permanencies of the region as are set by climate, natural products, tribal rec- ords and early encroachments from Asia. These, with a keenly practical forecast of the economic promise of Alaska to the United States, of which it is now a part, of promise to itself as well. The third book, the one in hand. suggests a_patterned embroidery work- ed into the original weave, showing intimecies of native Alaskan life by way of this striking racial personality or that one. By way of this masterful outlander pushing in and setting heavy foot down in the midst of this sub- arctic existence, changing it in some slight fashion. Leaving clear footprint for the next rough intruder till, grad- ually, the original design takes on new direction and color and effect. Alaska is learning and is conforming. A book of people, of customs em- bodled in sturdy characters. Old rites are preserved through cherished em- blems, curlous and grotesque, reminders of anclent magic and mystery. A kind- Iy and simple race, these natives, open to friendliness, open to the queer cus toms of the great people coming mor and more frecly into their zone of liv ing. In graphic fashion and without | straining the point too much, Mrs. Davis likens Alaska in this, its pioneer , stage. to New England itself awa in 1620 and thereabout, when it, too, was a ploneer community. Rough at that, with enough black sheep to such appears to have taken the country up | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS This is a special department devoted to the handling of inquiries. You have at your disposal an extensive iz~ tion in Washington to serve you in any :|capacity that relates to information. Write vour question, your name and your address clearly and inclose 2 cents {in coin or stamps for r¢ . Send The Washington Star, Information Bu- réau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. | Q What is the official name for the game calied “contract 0. D. o | A. “Contract bridge” is the official name. Q. What is a motorcade?—F. H ! A. A motorcade is a word that has been coined to signify a procession of motor cars. Q Do the States support the Federal Government financially?—T. N. A. The States do not support the Federal Government. ‘The Federal Government levies its own taxes for its | support. How should rattan, grass and furniture be cleaned?—N. E. Use a stiff brush or vacuum | cleaner to take out the dust. Then wash with thick lukewarm soapsuds containing a little borax. using a scrub- ibing brush. Rinse thoroughly and set in the sun to dr Q. Who is Adolf Hitler>—B. N. A. Adolf Hitler is the leader of the German Pascist movement or the Na- tional Socialists, as the members of the organization term themselves. He | of ‘Austrian origin, the son of a railw: employe in Lower Ausiria. He was & house painter when he arrived at Munich in 1912. Here he joined the German Army as a private, later being promoted to sergeant. His political proclivities were first manifested in Q. | witlow A BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. \ . Aristotle. Ptolemy. Coper- | nicus, Galiieo, Kepler, Newion and | Binstein. i SO ‘Tqiwmkunomzmmr— | 'A. It is in New Hampshire, The Old Man of the Mountain gazes across | Pranconia Notch, high above Profile Lake, in the White Mountains. | - | _Q_In what year did Geraldine Par- rar first appear in grand opera in this -5 | country?- A. Farrar made her Amerfean debut in 1906. ! Q When and where were sclssors first used?—H. % : R A. It was formerly believed that scissors were invented in Venice in the sixteenth century, but records show that ymplements similar to our modern scissors were in use very much earlier than this period. In the remains of Pompeli shears were found made of | iron and steel, as well as bronze. Scis- dors also were in use in various Ori- ental countries from a very early | period. It is stated that\those manu- factured in Europe were copled from | the Persian. The Oriental s were | very much ornamented and frequently in the form of a bird, the biade form- mg the beak. Q. Why is kerosene so called?—H. B. A. The name is from the Greek word “keros,” meaning wax. It was for- merly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax. Q. Please name some of the trees now growing in the Holy Land—M. F. | A. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, in his book | called “Out of Doors in the Holy Land,” speaks of the olive, ~orange, and eucalyptus trees. Dr. n ke, in his chapter called “Going Up to Je- rusalem,” says: “There were few trees | 1921, when he began to address Visitors | except now and then an olive orchard, in the Munich beer gardens. Collo- |or a round-topped carob, with its with- quially, his party, the National Soctal- | ered pods. ists, are know as the Nazis. | S Prrer R 1 B 3 en a State is e Q. How tall has a man been known to grow>—L. G A. There have been reports among the less civilized tribes and among cer- tain savage peoples that men have measured as much as 15 feet. From sctual records that have been compiled. the greatest height found was that of Topinard’s Finlander, who measured 112 inches of 9 feet 4 inches. Q. When Is bread considered stale?— 8. 53 A. In the baking day, it is considered I stale the second day after baking.. Q. How many jers of fruit should be | canned for a family of fou?—P. §. ! "A. An ideal canning budget allows |23 quarts of fruit for each person per year. Q. Please give a history of Claude | Duval, highwayman.—A. R. A. Claude Duval was born in Nor- mandy in_1643. He was sent fo | Paris in 1657, where he remained until | he came to England in attendance on | the Duke of Richmond at the Restora- | tion. He soon took to the road and | became famous for his daring and | gallantry. He was captured in 1670 in London and within & week was exe- | Union when is the star added to the | flag?—R. T. s A. The star is added on July 4 fol- | lowiig the date of admission. Q. How many screens, both wood and metal, are made and sold in the United | States in a year?—-D. E. S. | ""A. The Hardware Age says that such cata sre not available, but that Gov- ernment figures covering the year 1929 indicate that the total sales of window | screens, both wood and, metal, amounted to $24,205,000. Assuming that a screen a imately $1.50 in value, a rough estimate would indicate that | 18,000,000 window screens were sold | during that year. Of course, 1929 was & | peak year for most industries and the average is probably 10 per cent lower. Q. Can leprosy be transmitted from & pet rat to a person?—S. S. | _A. The Public Health Service says |that there are no records of having been transmitted from rats to | human beings, either by bite, associa- tion or other means. There is a dis- | ease of rats known as rat I , but it has not been shown conclusively that it ing: | have any disease, el any other affection, it is believed it is to the best interest of all that the animal be killed. Q. Is the practice {cuted at Tyburn. His body was laid in state in a tavern and was viewed | by huge crowds before the exhibition was stopped by a judge's order. Q. Why does soap lather?—W. F. A. It is because of the inclusion of of liming origin’ 1] 2—1. driven into avowal to escape hideous|gyicy, grave clashes took place 1ast|oh, let us see our country first. comparatively recen: torment. And by the same token it has smudge the landscape quite noticeably, ' air in the emulsion of soap and water, undoubtedly brought to book many a criminal who otherwise would have escaped. Immediately upon the publication of the report, with its array of “cases” and its naming of citles where the | third-degree practices have prevailed— and perhaps still prevail—there has come an outburst of denials from police authorities and prosecuting officers and municipal officials. There are also angry retorts to the general effect that criminals are not entitled to gentle treatment. There is also a chorus of explanations that the practices com- plained of in the report have been abandoned or modified. Proposal of a Federal statute to cor- rect abuses in the States is decidedly beside the mark, for no Federal law could reach the municipal police forces or affect the judgments of the State courts. Proposal of a constitutional amendment is equally of doubtful wis- dom, for it is difficult to see how any such addition to the organic law of the Jand could be so framed as to cover effectively already illegal practices. Such recommendations or suggestions are to be regarded as academic offer- ings by the Crimes Commission. ‘The courts can be relied upon now to ‘correct actual abuses as far as they can be corrected. The proof of third- degree outrages upon the persons of prisoners is and must continue to be extremely difficult. There is usually only the word of the prisoner against that of the police. There are always more police witnesses than prisoner ‘witnesses, for the brutalities of torture are always perpetrated in secret. This | s not a matter for more law, but for stricter supervision by higher police | officials and municipal administrators | over the methods employed in the pre- | liminary inquiries into criminal cases. | pstpes b S No system of trafic lighy can be made sufficiently secure () guard| against the exhilarated driver vWo pays 10 attention to signals. The old story of perfect mechanism defeated by the | buman element. e——— A Hunted Man. A Nation-wide alarm has been sounded in New York for the arrest of Vincent Coll, twenty-one-year-old gang leader, four of whose gunmen are said | by eyewitnesses to have killed one child and wounded four others recently in New York during a skirmish in what is styled the Harlem narcotic war. This young man, who is a bricklayer by trade, is in one account of his career | described as having been in trouble with | the authorities “ever since he was a boy.” At eleven he was sent to a mis- | sion as & disorderly child. Immediately | after his release he was az-ssted for| unlawful entry and sent to a protectory | eeijars without transporting or manu- for detention. Four years later he was taken to the chiidren's court on a charge of grand larceny and was placed on probation. The same year he was |chado to date has Sunday. Apparently President Machado look.l‘ upon his predecessor, former President | Menocel, as the arch-conspirator in the | present disturbances. Menocal's sons | and other adjutants were apprehended | and jailed, and Menocal himself is a fugitive at sea, though unofficially re: ported to have landed in Oriente Prov- | ince with the purpose of leading a for- mal military movement against Macha- do and Havana. Evidently these are no mere smoldering embers of hostility that are coloring the Cuban horizon with a ruddy glow. The United States' interest in devel- opments in the island is enduring, be- | cause of our rights under the Platt amendment to intervene for the pres- ervation of law and order in Cuba. The Havana government for two years has| been seeking to wriggle out of a finan- cial crisis that always carried the men- ace of a political upset. Sugar, the| country's all-essential staple, has gone the way of other national crops through- out the world, and, because of demor- alized price and supply conditions, has ceased to be the old reliable prop of the government treasury. In addition to purely fiscal hardships, the Machado | regime has been under fire for high- handedness and dictatorial practices | which piled the fuel of popular discon- | tent upon the fire of economic woe. | Machado has made numerous con- | cessions to the Nationalists and other opponents. Many political prisoners | have been released, constitutional re-! form promised, the first census since 1919 pledged and measures to provide food and shelter for unemployed taken But all and sundry of these recourses, | or subterfuges, whichever they were have not served the: purpose of quieting | the mation's malcontent forces. Ma- ridden storms that upset other Latin American govern- ments under far less provocative cir- cumstances. It is hardly to be doubted that but for the shadow of Uncle Sam, which hangs eternally over the Pearl of the Antilles, matters long since would have careened in Cuba to the crashing point. | e - More aviators are taking off daily. Afr travel is only in its infancy and yet the skies are already crowded and showing need of more and better traffic Tegulations. | e The “Grape-Brick” Raid One fears that the raid of the “grape | brick” or “wine brick” establishment | in New York will fall far short of| bringing that test of the provisions of the Volstead act under which the man- ufacturers of these and other products so0 successfully circumvent the prohibi- tion laws. The keen legal minds that | devised a method of getting wine into | facturing it saw far enough ahead to cyard against any such simple expedi- enw' as & mere reid by prohibition agents »~d a resulting court definition arrested for carrying a pistol and was sent to the Elmira Reformatory for a In 1928 he was arrested for un- | yance what the law said and what the | lawful entry, for assault and for rob- time charge was for of evidence. the same year Yonkers as a “suspicious discharge was rear. back to Elmira for 930, he of what the law sags and what the law means. They knew very well in ad- law meant. Nor is there much point to charges of discrimination in the raid, resting on the assertion that if the “wine-brick” boys were haled into court, the “wine- concentrate” boys, and girls, should also be haled into court. ‘The wine-brick establishment probably nitted the fatal error, attributable to the human fotble of too much Perchance a willing mind Will find impressions old reversed If you are but inclined To give your native land a show, E'en though it lack the charm Of ruined towers where long ago Men shuddered in alarm. We'll find that Boston girls are not All sternly erudite That New York's Broadway—curious spot— Sometimes shuts up at night. Old Philadelphia’s not bewitched To sleep her life away, Nor are the Brooklyn men all hitched To baby carts each day. Why unto foreign nations turn ‘With ever generous hand ‘While we have still so much to learh About our native land? Our landlords do not lack in skill; Our waiters make few slips. ‘Why go to England for a bili? Why let France claim your tips? The Ready plainer, “What did you think of my graduation | essay?” inquired the young woman. “It was a profoundly thoughtful ad- dress,” replied Senator Sorghum. ut I saw you yawn.” “A tribute to its quality. It was so profoundly thoughtful I imagined for a moment that I was in the halls of leg- islation.” Analogy. “If nature had intended man to fly,” said the positive person, “she would have given him wings.” I suppose, then,” replied the aviator, “that if man were intended to travel by water he would be sicb-footed.” Misleading Proverbs. If money talks, as sages say, And riches are equipped with wings, The parrot might become some day The embiem of financial kings. Unappreciative. “Most of our great poets led very lone- ly lives,” said the literary young woman. “Well,” replied Mr. Cumrox, “I don't | wonder some of them were lonesome. Judging by what they wrote, I shouldn't consider them what you'd call good company.” A Suburban Sorrow. ‘Twas ever thus, since childhood's hour,” The poet sang so sweet Whene'er 1 plant a garden flower It proves to be a beet. Tomato plants with care brought out, Far from the climate rude, When in the sunshine set about Are only cut-worm food. ‘The sweet corn and the cabbage sprout, Now cherished with such glee, Will furnish dainty food, no doubt, But not for you and me. That market basket once despised We'll carry as of yore. The place where hopes are realized Is in the grocery store. “Honesty may ke de best policy.” said Uncle Eben, “but out our v ‘taint allus ‘counted de best politics. S r— Qualified. From the South Bend Tribune The Eckimo hunter who became de- mented when he saw his first motion vlft‘ur! evidently was a born movie critic. — e Absorbent. Prom the Hamilton. Ontario. Spectator. Torouto has landed a blotiing paper . Well, there certainly is a lot of ink to be mopped up. Wrong Target. Highligh : ighlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L UNIVERSAL, Mexico City.—The | globular. water would all Polish legation in Mexico City | slip off if it was.” has petitioned the air ministry | “Young ma: thundered the prophet, in belr_:luvlé of s IW-.:’n‘;: l:n:lzn for | “instead of swallowing the nonsense of e privilege of lan er- | modern astronomy you should read ent parts of the country during the Bible and tm!g"yo’m"l mld,,.. 'l‘:: course of a world flight. The Oorpon- Bible will teach you the world is flat.” cion Aeronautica, operating aircraft be- | He heaved a sigh and shook the majes- tween this city and all important points : tic dome of his head. *“ modern in Mexico, also has asked permission to | astronomy is slaying souls by the tens glci‘(’ up r;p.:.;utsd Mm'.hn:\u amegor thousands. order an carry it | The prophet of Zion City is a portly SoeeE numbees ate Being deported froms | lat aputs, Ha . sioe mep e bas toe the United States who have no other |eyes of a judge from whom little mercy ways of reaching their native destina- man be . Like an Old Testa- tion, . |ment patriarch, he believes that God Why, the * ok Glasgow Falls 1. “In just over 20 To Keep Wage Promise. . , . “I have increased my |fortune from 35 cents to $10,000,000. The Evening Times, Glasgow (letter Naturally, he feels that a man to whom | to editor).—Sir—The Town Council six |that has happened is on the right track. | months ago promised to go carefully | “I'm a fundamentalist in religion, but into the question of stairlighters’ wages a modernist in business affairs,” he pro- |and general conditions. Nothing more has been heard of the awful conditions | of this section of municipal workers, not even from any of the 40 champions of the oppressed—our blind, deaf and dumb Labor group. I climb 30 stairs twice per day seven days per week. clean 30 lanterns and | 90 globes, light and extinguish 120 lights, pay full unemployment money, | also health insurance. I pass for this job an army A-1 test, and am classified an unfit man, able only to run up and down stairs. 'And after 12 vears' serv- ice I receive less than $10 a week When will finis be written across this municipal farce? I am, etc., STILL HOPING. | * ¥ x % | | i | i U. S. Influence Fails To Change Porto Ricans. El Progreso, San Juan—To Porto Rico the United States has brought new markets, and much_business, but the habits of the people have remained about the same. The Porto Rican farmer raises his plantains, corn, sweet potatoes and beans on the steep slopes. On two acres of abrupt_ hillside he and his family find their living much as before. He will have goats—cows eat too much for the impoverished land There will be cheese and goat's meat on rare days to go with rice and beans, bananas and yams. Though sugar pro- duction of 50,000 tons in 1901 has be- come 400,000 tons in 1931, and export trade has increased 12 times, the people live about as they did before, except that there are more of them More Porto Ricans rather than higher standards of living are the main income of American rule so far as Porto Rico is concerned. Labor is still largely by hand. The native still lives on his little land, but a meager living it is, yet these people would not change their age-old customs and con- tentment for all the modern improve- ments and methodical efficiency of the United States. Socially Porto Rico has remained | Spanish, native and insular, while pro- ductively she has become American, but only to a limited degree. At last her balance has been broken, and which her people will develop can be determined only with the years. * ok ok % | | Still Believes World Is { Flat After Long Tour. News-Chronicle, London (From a New York correspondent) —That hymn from Kipling's great story, | lage That Voted the Earth Was Flat," was beating in my brain as I' listened to the cornet-like voice of Wilbur Glenn Voliva when he came sailing into the blue and silver of New York Harbor after a six months’ tour ‘round the world which has left him more than .ever convinced this globe is as fiat as his 3 And all the members of the Royal Geographical Society, rolling their globes and unrolling their maps, will not persuade Mr. Voliva to budge an ly manufacturer | claimed. “Parti | candy “Ye icularly when you're making b English Spelling Wins Over American in Canada From the Atianta Journal. Canada. apparently apprehensive of the American influence, has again taken the trouble to sanction continuation of English spelling styles. The Cana- dian Historical Association, the Cana- dian Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Canada have thrown the weight of their influence into the | issue, and it may be considered defi- nitely settled—for the present. This means that miscreants in Can- ada will continue to go to “gacl” a destination so phonetic that we have always considered it much more at- tractive than a mere jail, & place, in fact. where one might serenely write ballads. There is no disputing that the English spelling is in many cases more graceful than the American. onour” ‘has a_dignity just a little decper than the crisper “honor,” ‘labour” seems more noble than “labor’ and utterly spendthrift “waggon" sounds like a vehicle in which one could dream away the romantic turns of an open road. Our spelling is more efficient, per- haps more sensible. But we can hardly blame Canada for adhering to the code of the mother country when that code is esthetic rather than practical. Zoning I,x;ws Al;ecl 46,000,000 C From the Roanoke Times. The latest report from the Depart- ment of Commerce lisis 77 municipali- ties which had their first experience with zoning last year, bringing the total up to nearly a thousand. Another way of stating the progress made by zoning, and an impressive one, is to point out that some 46,000,000 people, more than two-thirds of the urban population of the United States, live in communities which now enioy the benefits of this form of city self-control. The move- ment has spread rapidly since 1916, in which year New York City adopted a compromise ordinance 1egulating the use, height and area of buildings and grounds. “In_widely ssattered municipalities.” the New York Thmes pointed out the other day, “the tendency is to think of | 2oning in’ terms of the permanency of property values, rather than in terms of | the TVation of certain broad com- | munity values by the proper exercise of | the police power. Whenever the ques- tion of re-zoning comes up, as Prof. | Munro recently pointed out, the issue | is often approached not from the stand- point of what the city needs, but of ‘w::". :;n:“pfl\m owners desire, and | wi immediate neighbors feel disinclined to let them have'.” zens despite Puritan claim to an ive tenaciously remained to handicap many an otherwise useful and promising projezt. Good service at this point not only brings Alaska out in its true iight, but it may just pessibly help American Puritanism generally. It may. Here, also, are fine pictures of progress in i Indusiry. in the building of roads, the | improving of waterways, the zeal for beiter homes. Here are glorious pic- tures of the land itself—mountain, great rivers, deep canyons, snO lacier and so on—with many a smiling 1d in between for growths of many sorts. Mary Lee Davis of Alaska and Wash- ington and the New England coast has put readers in her debt, readers gen- erally in her debt for the good sub- stance of her work on Alaska, for the fine pictures of Alaska that she has made. * ok ok x T. Scoyen and Frenk J. Taylor. Foreward by Horace M. Albrigh director National Park Service. Stanford University Press. ‘The story of the Rainbow Canyons in the sandstone the account of crea- tion since time immemorial; here may be traced from its dim beginnings the evidence of how life began, in plants as well as in creatures. Here is the record of prehistoric man; here the history of the American Indian. Here, too, is the tale of a heroic people, the Mormon pioneers, whose courage, devo- tion and industry turned the deserts into gardens.” Horace Albright, direc- tof of National Park Service, speaking in an introduction to “Rainbow Can- yons. A compact book of facts, pertaining to the national parks of the great West, where these two writers have seen many years of service in both the great and spall matters of supervision and direct attention to these splendid res- ervations set apart by the Government for the pleasure of the people. Factual though this record may be, and is, its effect is that of the miracle of creation. For illimitable years, for uncountable thousands of centuries, the master carver, with no tool but running waters and silent weathering, hewed out these depths, these gigantic figures, fantastic, bizarre, terrifying in their tallyings of a time duration that can only stupefy one looking on. From point to point we follow these two wayside guides, willing to forget the colored pageantry without, in de- talls of this particular park or that one. Its rise, the explorers who dis- covered if, the measures taken for its fulfillment as part of the public serv- ice, the duties involved, the names { identified with them. one and another. We are told that “The Rainbow Can- yons” do not appear on any map as such. Rather as Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon. and others lying within the State of Utah, where this tremendous miracle of “raining rainbows” appeared to satisfy the natives, and why not us! Beside this scenic panorama, abso Jutely indescribable despite the valiancy of these two writers in attempting the jmpossible, beside it goes the story of the Mormon pioneers. Goes the story of Brigham Young and his dream of a new world, set up rather closer to heaven than any domain of which he had hitherto heard. Peace and indus- try, A simple creed. A sane program. And out of these two, working together, Brigham Young and his Mormons did more, have done more for the soil, for the people, for the great piains of the West, than all the gold diggers, ad- venturers, mine-and-labor exploiters put together. I kno We've all been projudiced by the single fact of polygamy as part of the Mormon belief and practice. Yet, Young picked that practice out of the Bible itself. But we, superior, select such parts of Holy Writ as we like for guidance and reject the rest. Because we_couldn't—simply couldn’t—stomach that wife plu , We women, we re- fused to this fn‘g ‘ploneer the common due of fair judgment. The story of Young. so competently and dramatically set down here as part of a body of sclentific fact, becomes in certain the basic content of m’u ‘book: itself. Not really that, since rec- ey the historic plety which, from that day to this, has | THE RAINBOW CANYONS. By Eivind | is a story of stories, for here is written | forming myriads of tiny soap bubbles. | Q. Who were the men named by | George Bernard Shaw as the makers of the universe?—A. A. In chronologi . ¥, ical order they are 1 y this country since its first settlemen It has been followed in many parts of Court Stand in Debated as Renewed public attention is given to the Capone case as a result of the re- fusal of Judge Wilkerson of Chicago to approve an agreement for a plea of guilty in return for promise of leniency by th: prosecution. “Many believe that the ruling will influence future treat- ment of criminal prosecutions, while others doubt that it is possible to get a verdict in some cases of this type. In his instance, Capone takés his constitu- fonal right to trial by jury. “Criminal trials always have their hazards,” says the Chicago Daily News. “Especially is this true when the inter- ests at stake are manifold and not readily appraised in their various rami- fications. Opportunities for delays and technical appeals are not likely to be neglected by men of the Capone type. Moreover, the Government must con- sider with extreme care the kind and degree of protection it will have to ex- tend, before, during and after the trial to the witnesses against the head of ruthless and resourceful gang of law- breakers. It is unfortunate that the action deemed necessary by Judge Wil- kerson is likely to give many persons a misapprehension of its bearing upon the professional course of the district attorney, despite the judge’s considerate assertion that there could be no que tion about the propriety of the district attorney’s recommendation. f Capone is seen by the St. Louis Times as taking “refuge under the sheltering wings of the Constitution that, up to now, he has not considered as having either value of importance.” The To- peka Dally Capital holds that “the Gov- ernment could afford to lose in the trial of the case, if unable to convinc jury, but it could not afford to down’ after such prolonged prepar: tion.” The Anniston Star advises that “it would be fair, in dealing with Ca- pone and his like, to give them the same consideration they have given the public in their activities. Reviewing the practice in such cases as are presented in this instance, the Baltimore Sun remarks f this sort of dickering with justice shocks the sensibilities ‘:.f‘lthmho ‘lsomlily lm; ine that lure always l‘:fl"el’ of (heor!grcll exactitude, let it be remembered that a great many pro- hibition cases in Federal courts are set- tled in just this way. Pleas of guilty are entered in a majority of the cases and often there is some sort of under- standing as to sentence. Similar prac- tices are followed from time to time in prosecutions under other criminal stat- | | case is that Capone is too big a figure for the court to stand for an arrange- ment that would let him off with a relatively light sentence.” “Sending Capone to prison under the terms of a leniency agreement would not solve the problem which he has come to personify,” remarks the Oak- land Tribune, with the explanation of its attitude: “The trial of Capone, set for a September date, may be short, but & lengthy one would be justified if it would bring to light the various re: sons why Chicago has become the breeding place of gangsters. The siti ation appeared hopeless until the Fed- eral Government ste| in. A fafr start toward & clean-up has been made, but the job will not be finished until enough is known of the causes behind the problem to enable effective meas- ures to be taken to prevent the rise of brd g | Yacter & Ban " _con News, while wouldn't be a bad even achievement by way of turning a desert into :‘ h‘bk'hly lnl{g&lnd sustaining part great Sclentific repaxl Lr utes. The only difference in the Capone { ht to the finish than a | = Capone Case Force in Crime will die of old age inside of a prison. News voices a demand by the country for vigorous action, and emphasizes the Frohsblllty that-“the court might have elt that Capone’s conviction would have greater weight as a moral deter- rent were it to be in the face of a vigorous defense.” The Chatles- ton (W. Va.) Daily Mail advises: E |is perhaps well that the issue is made’ direct, if only to determine which | shall rule—the Government or the ene- | mies of the Government and the vio-. |lators of the laws.” The Jersey City Journal maintains that “the United States courts cannot be flouted quite so and expensive his counsel have thought.” Belief that the gangsters are losing the Harrisburg wer is expressed g“:kmph and the Butte (Mont. Standard, while the Rockford Register- to the services of vice and crime racketeers fear him.” “There has long been need,” in the judgment of the New York Sun, “of a declaration from some court such as should be established. If he is innocent, he should be turned loose. The court |and the court alone is competent to | weigh the facts and @ecide the extent of any guilt that may be shown upon fair trial” —eons Only Ten Years Ago. | Prom the St. Louis Times. | An excellent piece of fiction of recent date is built about a series of letters that came to the solemn attention of & group of business men who were laying | out a publicity campaign. They found | that numerous banking and finance ex- | perts were quite sure that the lull in business might last & long time. Then it was ducl:}"e’re‘diuls the mm;: folded. that the letters were n 1921 and that they exactly fitted into conditions in 1931. with the difference that all of the 1921 prophecies of evil petered out. “This story sent us scurrying to the files, and, sure enough, experts were quite sad in 1921. Finance and indus- | try were gloomy. The word “normaley” was much used as something we should get back to. It was a drab world. "Most every one was out of a job the tightwalls were tighter than ever. 'x’nebnrmer was low and crops were in doubt. ‘Then followed 10 years—the best 10 years we have ever known—with more square meals per capita, more motors per State, more ‘prosperity | than ever, more jobs than the country recurrence. Normalcy word, and we are getting back e None of That for Shaw. From the Lowell Evening Leader. | Beat Them to It. Prom the Seattle Times. Kodiak