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Air Transport in the Future
Countless millions of dollars are being poured into
•!r transport and while practically all air transporta-
tion companies frankly admit that thus far their in-
vestments have returned no profits they are confi-
dent that in the near future the main air lines will
be paying greater dividends than did the railroads 'n
their heyday of prosperity.
One of the most significant facts in connection
with air transportation financing is the confidence and
enthusasm of those who are supplying the capital.
Multi-millionaires the country’s greatest railroads
conservative business men and transportation and
commercial leaders in all parts of the United States
are investing heavily realising that air transport is
rapidly emerging from the experimental stage and
within a few years will assume premier position in
rapid transportation.
The history of air transport so far has been a ie-
plica of the early days of railroading. The first rail
lines proved poor investments from a financial point
of view’ but they were the basis for the great rail de-
velopment that followed. The captains of rail trans-
port in the early days were the pioneers of national
development. They were men of vision; and while
many of them failed to secure substantial financial
returns from their investment they laid the ground
work for the huge fortunes later amassed.
However conditions are radically different from
those existing when railroads were first introduced.
The American public of that time did not accept in-
novations as do those of the present day. Years were
required to educate the public to the use of railroads;
whereas the public is now- prepared to utilize air
transport as fast as the service can be established. It
is true they have not been educated to its use as they
will in a few years but where half a century was re-
quired to popularize the railroads only a few years
will be required to popularize air transport.
Conservative business men realizing what the fu-
ture holds for air transport are lavish in their in-
vestments. They are not pouring their millions into
the business without first considering all the details
and hazards. They realize that the country is ready
for the facilities the air lanes will have to offer and
that in the not far distant future air travel will become
more general than rail travel by the present generation.
Airways now exend to all parts of the United States.
It is true that facilities for handling passengers mail
* and express are still very crude; that adequate landing
fields are lacking and that many of the new airways
are unlightcd. Ail these things are merely details to
be worked out as air transport develops and those
cities providing adequate well-lighted landing fields
will he the first to profit from the new method ot
transportation.
Less than a quarter of a century has elapsed since
the first frail rickety planes took to the air. What
will be achieved in aviation in the next quarter of a
century will far’ eclipse the achievements of those
years and air transport will be »s firmly established
as rail transportation.
Third Party Formed
A third party will not b« formed by bolters from
♦he Kansas City and Houston conventions according
to New York dispatches which announce that a third
party has already been formed and that ihe aforesii
bolters must be content with a fourth or fifth party.
General James A. Coxey of “Caxey’a army” fa ne
has the distinction of having organized the third party
which is expected to receive the vote of the “colored
brethren” of the south who have heretofore been cast-
ing their ballot* for the republican candidates.
The new party is of the most pronounced "black
and t«n” type and bears the name of the “Interracial
Dependent Political Party.” In addition to receiving
the support of the negro voters it Is designed to cap-
ture the support of the communist and radical socialist
voters of the east and north.
General Coxey with his usual modesty nominated
himself a3 the presidential candidate of the third
party and Simon P. W. Drew a New York negro pas-
tor was selected as his running mate. The third party
convention passed resolutions thanking Mayor William
Thompson of Chicago for the support tendered Oscar
De Priest negro candidate for congress on the repub-
lican ticket In a Chicago district.
To southern voters the move started by General
Coxey has much the appearance of comedy but to the
radical elements of the north and east and the negro
voters of the south it rill have considerable appeal
•nd his ticket will probably poll as large a vote as any
“bolter” ticket that may be placed in the field after
the Kansas City and Houston conventions.
A Zoning Ordinance
That a zoning ordinance is essential in any grow-
fng city was again demonstrated Thursday when resi-
dents of San Benito filed an application for an in-
junction to prevent a railroad company establishing a
roundhouse shops and terminals in a residential sec-
tion of a city.
A city to attain maximum growth must be devel-
oped systematically. It is of course impossible in
city planning to take into consideration all the factors
and problems which will come up in the future but
auch problems as that with which San Benito resident*
arc now contending could never arise if the city had
been properly zoned.
Brownsville should take cognizance of the situation
that has arisen in its neighbor city. San Benito resi-
dents are endeavoring to secure the passage of a city
zoning ordinance designating the business industrial
and residential sections and making ample provisions
d! (or the development of each. Under the charter amend-
ments voted two years ago the Brownsville city com-
mission is empowered to provide such an ordinance
which i» essential to future development of the city.
A zoning ordinance should not be passed without
fiving every phase of future development careful con-
sideration. It is a proposition that should be worked
out by a committee of citizens familiar with the city
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and its prospective development working in co-opera-
tion with the city commission. Passage of • zoning
ordinance would result in better stabilization of values
1 a tendency to improve structures of every type and
will assure the individual who invests in eity property
that its value will never be depreciated by a situation
such as has arisen Hi San Benito.
Ofth®ir P&p®rs
WILL FARM RELIEF COME AS TARIFF RELIEF?
1 (Dallas News).
Senator Smoot is said to promise farm relief in
i the form of an “adjustment” of the tariff which will
j place agriculture and industry on a level. It it an un-
common statement. It amounts to an official admis-
sion that agriculture is not on a level with industry
now. And it admits that the tariff is to blame. But
j it is consistently republican in that it still preaches
i that the cure for tariff ills is more tariff.
At least that is one interpretation of the premia-
i sory side of the senator's hints. Free trade would it
j is true be an adjustment of the tariff which would
| put farming and manufacturing on the same footing.
But Mr. Smoot'a whole life in politics is a rejection of
! that solution. We .teed waste no time supposing that
he it willing to consider it now. It may be thet he
' proposes to raise the tariff on farm products in order
' to keep importations down. It is almost certain that
| something of the sort will be urged at Kansas City.
But it is by no means certain that this will be suffi-
| ciently convincing to quiet the disgruntled farmers of
| t' i mid-west states.
If High Friest Smoot of the Temple of Protection
is bound to reject free trade as tariff atheism and to
amplify the orthodoxy of more tariff on wheat corn.
1 oats etc. to meet a querulous and exacting day. will
he turn to the export subsidy plan? The thing is log-
ical. If you are going to force the consumer to pay
in order to keep imports out for the benefit of man-
ufacturers why not tax the consumer at home still
further to keep exports going out for the benefit of
the farmers? The farmers are as deserving of sub-
sidy as jewelers and aluminum manufacturers.
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1 Th® World amd All
By Charles P. Driscoll
A PRACTICAL WORLD
We ought to have perpetual peace. We ought to
have equable distribution of wealth. Men ought to be
born equal to one another in every way. There ought
to be equal opportunity for everybody. Justice ought
always to proceed from courts of justice. There ought
to be no prisons. We ought to be able to tell what
kind of sickness afflicts a man who shoots his neigh-
bor for his neighbor’s money. We ought to take the
sick man and. without rebuking him at all quickly
cure him of his illness so that he might never do it
again.
Well surely. So many things ought to be that are
not. It is • fine thing to have ideals to work toward.
Ideals of perpetual peace universal brotherhood per-
fect understanding and so on.
But the sane and sensible man realizes full well
that we are living in a certain world and time. Utopia
is glorious—but it isn’t here!
Now 1 have known many idealists who worked upon
the foolish assumption that Utopia is here if w« onU
knew it. They vere for perpetual peace so they fa-
vored refusal to fight under any circumstances here
and now. They wanted the United States as a grand
gesture of righteousness to sink her navy deep in the
ocean right now this afternoon.
1 lo\e these idealists. Some of them are among my
best friends. They are delightful companions and
their conversation is inspiring. But thank God for the
practical men! Practical people sometimes become
very irksome insisting upon dollars bread and type-
writers and guns. But if it weren't for the hard-head-
ed practical ones what would happen to Utopia? I
fear it would vanish in smoke.
I love to speculate in fourth dimensional philoso- i
phy. I love to sit in a half-dark restaurant in a quiet
corner with a phisolosphical person across the table
from me. and plunge off into the uncharted regions of
thought where a table is not a table but only the re-
flection of some fourth dimensional object and a very
imperfect reflection at that. We agree that there is
no such thing as absolute time and that space as we
commonly sense it is a delusion.
But presently I look at my watch. Well time is
passing in the practical world. One must traverse
some prctical space and get back to practical work to
earn practical bread for the most practical children in
the world! It's fine to philosophize provided we al-
ways recur to the sane realization of the fact that
live now in a practical world.
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Tnimi®ly Va®w§
PERSECUTION AND BIGOTRY IN U. 8. DOOMED
By DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER *
President of Columbia University.
(Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler was born 1862 in
Elizabeth N. J. He was graduated from Colum-
bia university and later studied at various Ameri-
can and European universities. Upon his return to
the United States Dr. Butler became professor of
philosophy at Columbia university and in lMMi
dean of the faculty of philosophy. He has been
president of Columbia since January 1902).
——
Persecution has a long and squalid history. It ex- i
isted under the Christian emperors as well as among!
| the heathen and among Protestants as well as under
the Papacy and the Inquisition. There would appear I
to be no limit to the cruelty and to fanaticism of per- i
| secution no matter what the mild and gentle profes-
sions of the persecutors and no matter what the fun- |
j damental principles of their religious faith. It is often
i the case that those who loudly proclaim their own I
right to think and speak and act as they choose are
| the first to denounce and to persecute those who differ
j from them.
Our own American ancestors went to incredible
I i^BKths in their persecutions and their cruelties. The
statute books of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-
turies are filled with astounding enactments which con-
tradict at every turn the fundamental principles pro-
fessed by those who settled the American colonies «nd |
who began to lay the foundation of what is now the 1
government and social system of the United States.
The so-called Blue Laws which stili clutter the
statute books of several of the older states and which
| occasionally lead some belated fanatic to cry aloud for
; law enforcement are the remaining and the tragic evj.
| dences of habits and customs of mind and conduct thit
were once dominant in more American eolonies than '
' one.
From time to time we have had more or less sig- !
| nificant and temporary revivals of this seventeentn
[and eighteenth century bigotry. A hundred years agy
there sprang up among us the so-called Know Nothing
movement which troubled the public life of the nation
until the outbreak of the Civil War. Then some forty
years ago there grew up like a mushroom the Ameri-
can Protective Association which was more of a nui-
sance than a danger while it lasted. Finally there has
come the oddly stupid and unintelligent movement
known es the Ku Klux Klan. A sense of humor should
; have protected us from this amazing outbreak.
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OFF WITH THE OLD ON WITH THE NEW! ■
RESTLESS LOVEI!
© SamuelMendin 193a
RELEASED BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
READ THIS FIRST:
Ackland Center a little old town
in New England is proud of its
beauty and traditions. But the mod-
ern world crowds in on its peace and
quiet. Finally a notorious roadhouse.
Jazzland is opened by a gang of
bootleggers. Liquor flows. Girls of
the town are lured there. The editor
of the “Weekly Age” is murdered for
his editorial attacks. His brother
Homer Pew. takes up the fight.
Homer is joined by Stella Bagot one
of the home-town girls who has
made good as a writer in New York.
Stella comes to write a story and re-
mains to fight Jazzland. Homer is
beaten up in a mysterious midnight
attack. Stella takes charge of the
paper and writes sizzling editorials.
She also tries to trace a telephone
call believing it to come from the
murderers. Stella finds her little
sister Martha has been out on a
lark to Jazzland and has been drink-
ing. She gives her a lecture and
Martha oomplains that she is kept at
horns while Stella has been allowed
to go to college and later take up her
own life in New York. Stella retires
to her room and leaves a note pinned
on her door telling her mother to
awaken her early the next morning.
Steila has made an appointment to
phone Ernie Hallam a New York
admirer who is staying in Boston.
Ernie complains that Stella has
forgotten him but she makes a date
to met him in a little town nearby
that night at six-thirty. Ernie is
very much in love with Stella.
Stella finds out Joe Mariner Ack-
land's leading citizen and political
boss haa had a hand in leasing Jazz-
land to the gang.
Steila convinces Homer to keep
quiet about Joe Harmer until they
can get more evidence.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTER XXIII
In a rather bewildered manner he
obeyed. “I suppose that's sense.
But this lying around the house un-
able to do anything has driven me
just about wild today. Really it's
damn decent of you Stella ...”
“It may seem to you that I’m
lacking in sympathy myself but
•f
“Heaven no! Look at all you're
doing!”
“I’m not doing as much as I’d like
to. One thing is growing clearer to
me every minute Homer and that
is that you stand alone. You’re going
to need every last ounce of strength
and judgment. Do you think I don't
see what you’ve got on your hands
. . . not only the paper editing it
I mean but the job work too. and all
the butiness tangles and questions of
policy and the estate to handle.
And your household hare. Thst’s
right on your shoulders. And all
this besides the police business and
your fight with tha town. You’ve got
to keep your balance Homer. You
can’t let yourself he driv«i wild.
You can’t!”
“No ” said he. “Of course I can’t.”
"It’s like war. You may be
wounded hut you carry on.”
"Of course.”
“As a matter of fact I seem to be
in the war myaelf. Deeper in than
I’d thought poasible. I’ve run into
a queer situation at my house that
■ . . hut. of course that’s ... I
mean it has brought home to me
what your brother meant.”
“Nothing serious. I hope Stella.”
“Maybe. I don't know yet. It’s
ni> little sister. She’s only eighteen"
"She'a a pretty child. I’ve seen her
about here with Kitty.”
“Yes. she's attractive. Mother ia
been trying to protect her from my
fate—” a mirthless chuckle—“by
keeping her shut up at home. Shut
away from the world. But it can’t
be done. I’ve seen that. And it
hurts. When it’s your own little
sister.”
“Yes.” said Homer thinking of
Kitty "that’s bound to hurt."
“It’s queer.” Again that nervous
chuckle. Stella was not calm her-
self now. She was sensitively aware
of the finely proportioned old room.
Of the attractive hoy stretched out
on the couch. Of her own unex-
pected plunge into intimacy. Prob-
ably she ought to go.
“It’s queer.” she began again. “I
find mv notions of life getting upset.
All this so terribly real. In New
York the may you live and get to
thinking about things you're inclined
to forget that village life can be
vital.”
"It can” said Homer. He'd been j
gazing up at the ceiling. Now
abruptly he moved his head and
narrowing hi* hrows looked straight
at her. She felt her color rising.
"I used to think I wanted to get
into that New York life*’ said he.
She laughed again. And hated her-1
self for it. In her own ears it j
sounded tinnily self-conscious. He1
was still looking at her. She had to
say something. ’You don’t think;
you'd like it now?”
“No.”
•’It’s tremendously stimulating of
course. It's where all the big
things happen. And it s the only j
place in America l suppose where'
the individual can feel free to ex-
press himself.”
“That's it” said he shortly.
She didn’t understand. It was
strange that they should be cooly
discussing New York. Of course she
ought to go.
"I don't know about the great
genius” said he. “Probably such a
person has to go it alone. Justj
frankly be disruptive. The trouble
w’ith New York is that it's full of
little geniuses and persons with
nothing at all to express letting!
their egos loose all over the place.
I've come to see what Ham meant.
And I’ve come to see that I’m not a|
genius. I’d rather try to build some
one little thing. Right here for in-
stance. That's a tough enough job
for anyone. It's what my father
did” Hi* eyes roved thoughtfully
about the fine old room. "And it’s
what Ham was doing when they . . .
killed him. It’s what your father
and mother have tried to do.”
That was a stab. She drew in her
breath quickly. Did he mean it was a
stab? Apparently not. He was
talking thoughtfully on. “One little
constructive job is a tough enough
proposition for any ordinary human
being to tackle. It takes all you’ve
got of courage and faith. It tabes a
lifetime. I see that now. Ham
saw it."
She was silent. She didn't want to
talk abstractions. She couldn’t at
the moment even think them. “I m
just emotional.” she thought bitterly
eyeing him . . . “like a woman.”
"It’s what they laugh at in New
York Stella. It’s precisely what they
laugh at. The millions of Orientals
that swarm over the city. And all
the little strutting egos. They
ridicule our Anglo-Saxon culture.
They’re forever backing at it. And
that hsppens to be the finest thing
we’ve got. It’s really just about all
we’ve got. Yes Ham was right. It s
a war. And here’s the battle line
right here in Ackland. In any little
American town that has a tradition
that's worth fighting for. You have
to take sides in a war. you know.
Find out which side you belong on.
and stand squarely there. I've found
my place thank f»od! It's here.
Here’s where I stand."
"But tho world it changing so.
Homer. Concepts standards every-
thing. Haven’t we got to change
with it?"
“All the more reason to fight for
our little real remnant of what
hasn't changed? Oh. to the Cosmic
Eye if there is such a thing it prob-
ably look* comic. A little town
again*t a crazy world. And the
town itself too bewildered to think
clearly. Invaded ©verrqji. just as
Ham used to *ay. But why isn’t it
the first joh of the few who have
faith to rouse them rally their
forces ?”
(TO RE CONTINUED)
Citrus Production
Is Nearly 1200 Cars
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. June 13.—The total
of citrus production in the Lower
Rio Grarde Valley .luring the sea-
son just past was approximately 1200
carloads it was revealed in figures
secured from the packing plant at
Val Verde showing that the equival-
ent of 52 carloads of citrus moved
out by truck and had not been list-
ed previously.
The previous total had been an-
nounced as 1145.
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Waskmgton
L®ft£®!r
DENATURED CAMPAIGNS PROB-
ABLE THIS YEAR
By Charles I*. Stewart
WASHINGTON June 15.—Cow-
ardice is generally recognized as the
great weakness of our two major
political parties of today.
Our get-out-thc-vote enthusiasts
make a tremendous to-do about the
electorate's indifference but neglect
to say anythin" about the useless-
ness of casting a ballot which means
substantially the same thing which-
ever way it's ca.-t.
Five or six months ago there real-
ly seemed to be promise of a cam-
paign in which some lines would be
drawn. .More recently with the con-
ventions impending and the politi-
cians getting scared the party man-
agements on both sides have been
working overtime at the job of de-
naturing everything—and so success-
fully that it appears unlikely any
reasonably probable presidential
nominee will signify much—not even
as a personality f< r you can't re-
spect a straddler whoever he is.
« • •
So the question arises—why isn't
it a good time for a third ticket?—
which does mean something—and for
which there have been hints of an
increasing demand.
The painful answer is—as soon as
a so called independent makes his
appearance he becomes a straddler
too.
He’s afraid to take any position at
all ^or fear it will he too advanced.
He’s afraid to say anything because
even though he may win a few votes
by saying it he's afraid he'll lose
still more. %
• • •
There w’as a third party conven-
tion in Cleveland in 1924 which I
saw myself and heard.
It was advertised as a gathering of
the broadest political catholicity. All
advanced elements were urged to be
j represented. It was recognized that
the majority would have to rule but
' everybody was to be heard.
The Wisconsin progressives were
; present in a body—iH<;nrik Shipstead.
farmer-labor senator; Victor Berger
socialist congressman; Pete Witt
single taxer—
Up from among the delegates rose
a rough-looking guy—"Mister Chair-
man"—in resonant tones—”1 speak
for the I. W. W.”
Instantly strong hands closed or
the scruff of that. Wobbly’s neck and
the seat of his pants and out on the
lake front he landed—“Finish your
I speech there.”
I talked with him. He wasn't a
bad chap. “All I wanted" he assured
me “was a voice.”
• • •
Back in Washington in an execu-
tive news capacity at the time I
sent a reporter to sec the late Sen-
ator LaFollette. the third group’s
presidential nominee.
Among other things the senator
declared himself what's currently
known as a ‘’wet.”
_ A little later telephone bells were
ringing for me all over town. The
senator must see me at once. 1
failed to connect with him personal-
ly. but I did see his son—“young
Bob" then his secretary now' him
self a senator.
“In his own good time” said
"young Bob” “my father intends tc
declare himself on prohibition but
now would be premature. He ex-
pressed himself inadvertently.”
So 1 choked it off. The senator's
‘own good time” never came. Pro-
hi bit ion “wasn’t an issue” in his
campaign. loo many progressives
are drys. Too many are wets too
The senator was honcst--I don’t dis-
pute it—but he was a politician also.
How can a third party ticket get
anywhere or a major party ticket
get anything but a perfunctory vote
without a candidate who has the
nerve to stand pat!
former resident dies
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO June 15—Mrs. Wes-
ley Ammerman. formerly a resident
cf this city died recently in Fort
North according to information re-
ceived here. • The family had also
lived at Harlingen for a short time.
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Kslllygirams
By FBiSD G B11X»
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V. I ■ -
CIRCUS DOGS
For years I wondered how perform-
ing dog* In circusea and other travel-
ing shows were trained to turn back-
soraersaults.
Even if the dog knew what one
wanted him to do the mere skill re-
quired would seem to tasks the feat
one of tremendous difficulty.
I recall how as a child. I tried to
make my little rat-terrier perform
this trick but gave it up when I re-
flected that I could not possibly
learn to do it myself.
After years of curiosity about this
trick the last time I saw it done in
a circus I hunted up the dog trainer
and asked him for an explanation.
Like most mysteries it was simple
enough when understood. He showed
me a little harness consisting of a
girdle around the dog's body oe
each side of which were two straps
attached by swivels to permit the
dog to turn over and over without
twisting the straps.
The trainer described how he would
start the dog up a little inclined
plane holding these straps and turn-
ing the dog over In mid-air after
which he would reward him with a
piece of liver.
Of course he carried out the tcain-
ing when the dog was hungry and
consequently anxious to go to any
length to obtain choice food. He made
the dog want to do the trick
The dog in time came to help him-
self and would spring with his hind
legs at the proper time to throw
himself over backward- Gradually
the straps could be dispensed with.
Once the dog caught the idea of what
he was expected to do. and tried to
do it the rest was comparatively
easy.
Many seemingly difficult tricks
may be taught to a dog if proper as-
sociations are built by easy stages.
To make a dog jump through your
i— i —- --
hands is at first a problem and y*t
I find that by doing tha thing gradu-
ally I can teach this to almost any
dog in about ten minutes. First I
make sure that the dog is hungry.
then I hold a cane in my hand and
make him walk over it toward food
temptingly displayed. Gradually I
raise the can an inch or two. After
Is have corsiderably increased its
height. I drape a newspaper or cloth
over it to make it natural for the
dog to go over rather than under it.
If he does not go over it I refuse to
five him the food. In a short time
e recognises that he must go over
the cane to obtain the coveted bit-
cuil or chunk of inut. The next
stage may be to bold the cane with
mv hands on it only a few inches
apart; and the final stage i* to dis-
pense with the cane entirely and clasp
mv hands together. The whole pro-
cess. as I say may be taught In a
few minutes.
I knew of a retrieving dog that
was taught to fetch objects from
persons a few feet away and the
distance was gradually increased un-
til the dog would go to a grocery
several blocka away after articles
mentioned in a note attached to his
collar. Thus the seemingly impos-
sible was accomplished by teaching a
little before attempting much.
No one knows how many dog ow»-
era spoil their pets by their manner
of feeding them. If given too little
food and drink a dog may be forced
to turn scavenger and work up
regular free-lunch routes among the
neighbors. On the other hand if
fed too often or whenever the owner
things about it. a dog gradually
comes to have food on nis nund all
the time. A grown dog should bo
taught to expect food only once a
day. and then all he wants. Natur-
ally this should be in the evening
after he has done hia exercising.
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M®w Y®irk L®ftft®ir
NEW YORK.—New York may be
the busiest city in the world and
New Yorkers the most sophisticated!
folks alive but it is an easy place
to collect a crowd. A broken-down
auto long ago ceased to be a curios-
ity in even Hazard. Ky. but it is a
never failing source of interest on
Broadway. A man applying gold leaf
to lettering on a window is certain
of an appreciative indience. Flap-
jack flippers in Childs’ windows no
longer have the powerful attraction
j they used to possess but the appeal
! in the sight of men repairing shoes
I on machines or making cigars by
hand in a window b*.s not diminished.
Hawkers in fake auction rooms on
Broadway and Sixth avenue are never
j without hearers a 'tw of whom ever
■ seem to buy anything. Excavations
until they reach the 3»:ige w-here ev-
erything is hoarded up. are big dis-
plays. One contractor is thoughtful
enough to make the top railings
around excavations on Broadway of
sound unsplmterable wood so that
the “inspectors” are saved from in-
jury. The other dav traffic on both
sidewalks on West 42nd street was
blocked by persons gazing at work-
! men using a sand clast machine to
clear a building.
“Pitchmen." whose subtle barrang
ues and dubious wares yet IHtla or
no attention in Tula*. Okla* lee.
Ore. Bald Knob. Mo.. Jackson. Mi*#.
and Lonynose M*. find themseleas
biy attractions on Chamber* *tr#et.
New York City.
The exnlanation. of coursa is that
New York is the biggest small town
on earth; and 1 do not ret thie down
as an original discover*. Barnum
found it out long ago.
• e a
In most towns a banker or prom-
inent business man would be ashamed
to be seen following a fire truck.
But in New York captains of in*
dustry glory in being firemen in
having fire alarm signals in thsir
houses and in racing after the sal-
vage trucks.
• • •
Restaurants night clubs and aueh
naturally dislike for customers to
bring in liquor. It’s against the law
and besides it hurts the business
of the hovse bootlegger. Various
methods are tried to force custo-
mers to buv their drinks on the
premises. One roadhouse owner has
trained a dog to silently search un-
der tables for liquor and carry off
the bottles.
Tk@ Grab Bag
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nr! bring the firrt woman t® ac-
complish such feat.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born under this sign are
Inclined to he closs-mouthed regard-
ing their affairs except with their
very intimate friends. They ash ad-
vice but seldom follow it. They have
a keen appreciation of beauty and
are by nature sweet and lovable per*
sons.
A Daily Thought
“The setting of a great hope U
like the setting of the sun. The
brightness of cor life it gona.”—
Longfellow.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Friedench Wilhelm Hohantol-
lem: ox-crown prince of Germany;
ex-kaiser of Germany.
2. Princess Ileana and Prince Nich-
olas.
3. In 1914.
4. They ar* sisters.
b. Romans ii 3.
JIMMY JAMS
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Who am I? wrh«t ia my title?
Who ia my father?
Name the son and daughter who
accompanied Queen Marie of Rou-
mania on her visit to the Lnited
States in 192*.
In what year was *he Panama canal
opened ?
W hat have Shirlev Mason and Viola
Dana moving picture actresses in
common ?
"And thinkest thou this. O man
that judgest them which do such
things and doest the same that thou
shalt escape the judgment of God?*’
Where does this passage appear in
the Bible?
Today in the Past
On this date in ’92*. Gertrude
Ederle swam across the English chan
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