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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923
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The Austin Statesman
BARLING BOMBER MAKES SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT AT DAYTON
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Independence, Not Isolation
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the notion that criminals constitute
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case was tried in Richmond, the small
county seat of Fort Bend county and
the question of whether fin-
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The independence, not the isolation, of the United States was
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A ROSEBUD BY MY EARLY WALK.
A Test of the League
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So he baahed to this wolf:
"Go ahead and show your teeth all
equipment in the Austin detective de-
partment., Ineidentaily, Mr. Lacy took
taken by banks and other business
concerns to protect their vaults. These
yeggs used to work in pairs, and the
Fourteenth Street had a touch of
the good old days last week when two
adventurers from the hinterland were
found in doorways unconscious from
himself,
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Medical gentlemen who make side-
walk diagnoses often find themselves
contradicted by the X-ray and the mi-
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dining room’s a better place than the
doctor’s office.
“There is no exact line dividing the
criminal from the nun-criminal class.
The biggest mistake officers make in
the handling of criminals is due to
BACK FROM TH®
SUNMER CAMP
CAPITAL PRINTING COMPANY
Office of Publication: Seventh and Brazos Streets.
occasion Saturday to praise
Commissioner Harry Nolen
tact just as an ordinary person who
has happened to a-bit of hard lurk.’’
Thus spoke C C. Iacy, head of the
Lacy finger print bureau of Houston.
Expert on Criminology Discusses
Finger-Prints, Crime and Crooks
With Whom He Has Matched Wits
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neighboring republics as can be made to bear the appearance of ac-
‘ceptances of "international obligations" by the American people.
he was going to shoot us lusted or take kans and hobbles about on crutches,
our pickture, saying. All steday now. Many others came and much brave
move back jest one step, will you. I talk.
PAPER DELIVERY.
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afternoon on week days and by 8 o’clock on Sunday morning will onker a A r
on the management by calling the Circulation Department. phone 6156, 157 .
poring any irregularity. I
Jocular Jonathan
Was a hundred and two.
But he never did worry
Like most of us do.
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long, sharp horn planted in the wolfs I Billy. Then he thought, "Perhaps he
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DAY BY DAY
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tern out rite it will be because you
moved or something, so be carefill not
Mosquitoes come—
Bringing sorrow;
We the today
Shake tomorrow.
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' of installing a set of finger print
you like! You can’t frighten me!"
Just then Billy spied the goat up
on the rocks above the wolf and he
baahed out:
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—A page from
the dairy of a modern Samuel Pepys:
Lay abed late and with my wife to
the Colony Cafe to breakfast with
Awake the- early morning.
So thou, dear bird, young Jenny fair.
On trembling airing or vocal air
Shall sweetly pay the tender care
That tents thy early morning.
So thou, sweet rosebud, young and
gay.
Shalt bea u ten us blase upod the day,
Andbless the parent’s evening ray’
That watched thy early morning
—Robert Burns.
; interrupt my musings,
reading Hamlet and so to bed.
Sunday pop made me and ma and
my sister Glad dis go out in the yard to
take our pickture with his new cam- |
era, and we all stood in a line next
to each other Uke people ixpeeling to ’
have their pickture took, pop saying.
Now this is a very ixpensive camera
and the lens came from Germinny, so
I gess you know if this pickture dont
exhibition in its first test fights
at Dayton, 0. The great ship,
irplane piloted by Lieut. Harold R.
iderful Harris, took .off in fourteen seo-
to move or enything. Jest step in a
little bit, will you. mother? he sed.
Wich ma did, and pop pointed the,
camera at us with a ixpression as if
him word came
for his
Then stop looking as if you were,
steddy now, take one step fowerd, will
you mother?
I will not, Im ixhaused,me sed, and
Gladdis sed. So am I. And they went
back in the house so pop j+st took
me by myself as if I was going to
sneeze but not doing it.
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with. a lawn mower at dawn youu
yawn more at dusk.
A rosebud by my early walk.
Adown a corn-enclosed bawk,
Sae gently bent its thorny stalk.
[ All on a dewy morning.
I Ere twice the shades of dawn are fled,
in a’ its crimson glory spread.
And drooping rich the dewy head,
it scents the early morning.
RUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cash In Advance
By mail, daily and Bunday, except
Monday. for Austin Rural Routes and
forgeries, running from 319,000 to
$ 23 000. eat h in money they had stolen.
“I was sorry when this financial
wizard left for his prison, for he was
A kind, handsome old man of nearly
00 years, and we became clo friends
during the month he taught me char-
acter reading." concluded Lncy.
la the city, daily
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Italy declines to be bound by a League of Nations decision of her
controversy with Greece.. Announcement to this effect is made by
the Italian Minister to Greece. At Rome it is contended that the
present Greek government has not been recognized by the great
powers, and therefore, is not in position to make an appeal to the
League. •
Greece and Italy were among the League's original members,
and. whether the status of Greece has been changed by internal polit-
ical changes or not, Italy still is a member. Moreover, the League
covenant not only provides for the case of a dispute between a mem-'
ber and a non-member, but declares that "any war or threat of war”
may be dealt with by the League. The Greco-Italian dispute, which
may involve all southeastern Europe in strife, is exactly the kind of
case to deal with which the League was formed.
But it is already conceded that if Italy will not accept its de-
cision the League can do nothing to check Europe's latest quarrel.
Its council has received the Greek appeal, but is marking time,. post-
poning consideration of the dispute and obviously looking to the
allied ambassadors to take the lead in preserving peace.
MEMBBA or THE ASSOCIATED PRES&
Tha Asnoctated Press i exclusively entitled to th. um for puoncatonno
all mews atspatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in ti priz ,
and also the local news pubitshed herein. All riehts of pubuication oSeci
dispatches heretn are Also reserved «8•
and can’t understand English, or may-
be he is deaf. Guess I’ll just jump
over the rail and run up and see him.”
(Tomorrow you will hear of Billy’s
further adventures and how he lost
Nannie.)
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the finger print developments or ihe!POP sed. Stop that sneezing. Is this
trail startd a finger print fad olajeny time to sneeze
men could be heard arguing on every l Im a sneezed; Im not going to
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The most important part of Secretary Hughes' address before
the American Bar Association in convention at Minneapolis Thursday,
seems to have been slighted by commentators. .This may have been
intentional, for there are not wanting those who persist in condemn-
ing the American government’s attitude on foreign questions, and
who never cease to demand a reversal of traditional policy that 1 riminal with whom 1
would permit our full participation in European affairs. They
naturally welcome any new application of the Monroe Doctrine Which I
might be made to appear as tending in the direction of participation. Mr - Lacy, who for the past nrteen
Commentators representative of this group of citizens have con- years has known hundreds of crimi-
fined themselves mainly to a discussion of the Monroe Doctrine in nals in person and thousands by their
its most obvious meaning, in dealing with the Secretary of State’s!
speech. However, they have really used the doctrine as an intro-
duction to such cases of American intervention in the concerns of
Secretary Hughes made this perfectly clear, and also showed
that in asserting their right of self-defense in the wide sphere of
the New World- the United States did not aim at any dictatorship
over neighboring republics. He said that the Monroe Doctrine "does
not stand in the way of Pan-American co-operation; rather it affords
the necessary foundation for that co-operation in the independence
and security of American States.” And again, that "it should be
observed that the Monroe Doctrine is not an obstacle to a wider in-
ternational co-operation beyond the limits of Pan-American aims and
interests, whenever that co-operation is congenial to American in-
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Down in Orchard Street on the Fast
Side the children give street plays.
They rig up their own costumes and
the performances are supposed to be
western melodramas—shootings and
killings and wild rides over the plains
on broom stick horses after Indiana.
When an automobile passes through
the street the performance is inter-
rupted while players run to safety.
(Copyright 1923, by The McNaught
Syndicate, Inc.)
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dealt with, but there is one case that
stands out above the rest. In this
case a man was convicted of murder ’
on the evidence of finger prints alone.
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tising. Eastern office. World Building, New York City. Western office.
Tribune Building. Chicago. St. Louis office, Suite 1411, Syndicate ‘Trug
Bullding. Detroit office. Ford Building. Kansas City office. Bryant Build-
ing. Atlanta office, Atlanta Trust Building. l
so the other half inay stay up
night.
Is now serving twenty years at San
[ Quentin in California for forgery This
' man, who wag a university graduate
the central thought of Secretary Hughes’ address. The so-called
policy of ’isolation,” so often condemned by the unthinking, was to ...... ....... —,
Mr Hughes, in its true meaning, only the determination of this i4n""a KMppenea’a tEmi. midge, A
country,to retain its liberty of action in international affaits, that it boom on town in Fort mend county,
might, in addition to preserving its own independence, further the i lust sixteen miles From Houston. In
t . I c..1. 11 A- I 1921, a number of big gushers had
cause of peace and good faith among all nations. ■ been brought in aud the town sprang
"Our people are not disposed," the Secretary of State declared, in up oyer night. A bank was entab-
the beginning of his address, "to commit this government in advance. Inseeasnprhsitenn, cathsohe man a:
to the use of its power in unknown contingencies, preferring to re-larternoo the citizens noted that the
ifred and Lord! How the people stared
at Rudolph nor did he appear to notice
it soever.
Afterward for a short drive and
then to see 8. J. Kaufman, the chron-
icler, who caught cholera in the Bal-
serve freedom of action in the confidence of our ability and readi- bank was closed Kntranw wm gained
the door of the Canadian exhibit of
the exposition where the stuffed ani-
mals were, .and were standing gazing
about when Nannie spied a wolf look -
ing at her with mouth open showing
gleaming White teeth. She drew in her
breath and stopped short for she had
seen the wolf in the stuffed animnal
display. Then with a bleat of fright,
she cried:
"Oh, Billy, come out of here quick!?’
and she turned and fled out of the
building and down the avenue as fast
as her legs could carry her, never
turning to look around, but thinking,
of course, that Billy was behind her.
On the contrary, Billy stepped for-
ward, and said, “Come on! The wolf
won t hurt you, with all these people
around. He is probably chained.”
He went right up to the railing,
thinking Nannie was close behind him.
Then he began to think the wolf was
not alive ds he stood so still, but he
sniffed and smelt the smell of a wolf
and just then he saw the beavers
move, so took it for granted that all
the animals were alive, especially the
bears that stood close by. But Bilry
was not afraid of bears, or of one
wolf, for he had not been leader of a
flock of sheep in the Rocky Mountains
without getting,over his fear of wolves
unless there are many of them to-
gether, He could remember the time
when he had ripped them open witn
his long, sharp horns, just when they
were standing on their hind feet ready
to jump on him. At that moment a
with several degrees, and a medical
doctor of much skill. averaged an an-
nual income of 3200,000 from his oper-
ations. He was one of the smartest
men I have ever known and one of the
most highly polished in every respect.
In fact, I was so facinated bv this
smooth genius that I prevailed upon
the California Authorities to let me
keep him for a month in my office.
During this month, he gave me a
course in character reading, that -was
wonderfully instructive.
"I happened to see this man on the
Thus is disposed of the erroneous idea that the doctrine is a Eronoip rKenminahe mememenr
“regional ‘ understanding ’ and it appears in its true character: a that the man who will hold you up
policy formulated and upheld solely by this government to give effect wiI kinl you. The. stick-up’ man is
to the right of national self-defense. That right extends beyond the the reccrakero Thestktims prEE:
territorial confines of a country into its geographical neighborhood, tically passed out of existence, be-
It is a right that nations have acted upon throughout history with- cause 5 the many .safeeuards now
out exactly defining.
All the American republics enjoy a certain community of inter- man who was in the back teracking
ests and rights by virtue of the ideas of free government which they "the safe would go calmly about his
from twenty-three
ly and split rewards with the ruling
boss of the district for protection. But
those days are gone. In three more
years the last visible vestige of the old
street will be smothered out by prog-
ress and reform. One of the sparks
among the dying embers is a penny
hippodrome where, one may gaze at
those flickering pictures whose titles
promise: “Parisian Beauties at Their
Toilet,” "Peeping Tom in the Bath
House,” and '’What He Saw in Bur-
lesque Queen’s Dressing Room.” Those
are about the sum total of Fourteenth
treet’s wickedness these days.
An unpatd nota la a restiess bed- Within the bush her cover t nest
llow. let it “iep at the bank. A htu« linnet fondiy prest:
— The dew zat ehiily on her hieaaL
One-half the world stay" up all day Kae early in the morning.
al She soon shall see her tender brood.
The pride, the pleasure o' the wood.
Among the fresh green leave, be-
dew'd.
onda, though it weighed in the
neighborhood of 40,000 pounds.
The big ship accomplished every
test and maneuver expected of it,
a separate class I have always, made
it a habit of .trying to treat, every
"knock out" drops. In that period
when Tom Sharkey’s saloon, Maison
Doree, Hans Souci, Wolfert’s, Thiess’s
and the Grip dotted Fourteenth Street
the. "knock out drop" or "Mickey
Finn" claimed almost a dozen victims
a night. Prostitution was then close-
ly allied with politics and the scarlet
buccaneers who flocked where lights
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NOTICE TO TIE PUBLIC.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation at
any person, firm or corporation which appears tn the columns of this ”5
wik de gladly corrected if called to the attention of the publishers.__
that he had written for I
When it became known that
The two goats had just come in.
Back home and wrote many letters
and then to see W. Lengel, the editor,
and N. Hapgood there. This day I
When the arterial tension is high,
undue mental or muscular strain may
raise it to the rupturing point.
As ach respiration
Seemed nearer to death*
A victim of asthma
Wai fighting for breath;
He thought of goose feathers.
Of-the dust on the stair*
But he never once thought
Of the dusty horse hair.
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By carr’er,
Bunday;
One month ..
mother?
Wich ma did, saying. O for goodniss
sakes, Willyurn, snap it. Im getting all
fidgitty.
If its sutch a wonderful camera wy
at the rear and the cashier was found
dead, his brains beaten out by the
heavy crank that was used in opening
the vault. At that time I was head or
the identification bureau of the Hous-
ton police, I hurried to the scene of
the crime and upon arriving l-noted
the finger prints in blood, on the
handle of the crank: Those prints
meant much to me.
"About forty suspects were brought
in to me for investigation," went on
Iacy. “but the finger prints of none
of these corresponded to the prints
in blood. Finally one day the mur-
derer was brought in. We had noth-
ing against him, except that he was
known to have been at Blue Ridge at
the time of the murder, just as had
been the other forty. But his finger
prints told the tale—they correspond-
ed to those on the bloody crank At
fit the man was inclined to be sullen
and jeering, but I sat down with him
and showed him how absolutely im-
possible it was for his prints to be
like those of anyone else I showed
him the picture of his prints taken in
my office and I showed him the pic-
tures of the prints on the crank. He
confessed to the crime, after this ex-
planation Later at the trial he re-
pudiated his confession and I had to
appear as a witness I was on the
stand for twenty-eight hours during
that trial bui at the end the man was
given life imprisnment. I had copies
of. the finger prints made and gave
several to each juror. Other pictures
of the prints several feet square
showed the jurors how identicai the
finger prints on the crank were with
the prints taken in my office This
“Good morning, Mr. Short Legs!
How did you get up there with your
short legs? I always thought moun-
tain. goats had long. slender legs like
chamois.”
But, of course, this goat did not
answer Billy, though he baahed good
morning again. Still no reply.
“Oh, don’t speak when you are spok-
ger prints were a certain means of
identification.”
The topic switched -from finger
prints to interesting criminals and the
expert smiled as he recalled “the most
interesting criminal" who had come
within the ken of his own experience.
“The most interesting criminal I ever
progress in arranging for the install-
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Attempted justification of special applications of the Monroe tirication; in a city the size of Aus-
Doctrine is quite a different thing from its proper definition. Yet, tin.
ow" o'ffidaTwts"8^ Eomnmentatorssamecommpamacoo"conccardthaz rhrnsnns.: -n-wi 2 2
the doctrine is distinctly a national policy of the United States, and criminal, in your experience, is the
as such not subject to interpretation by other powers. They also /most danzerous !DeT.
are driven to the admission that it is essentially defensive and not; |n”r -mh "dek-upesmat.mAn"er-
offensive. ' liow who uke. your roll, from you at
entertain and the liberal institutions which they have established, work of opening the vault whilo hi.
No other part of the world can have with them such close relations Pverssentehisonappitnhathumtero
as they sustain to one another. Their.common purposes are neces-times.
sarily exclusive of the aims of Old World powers. This does not "The murderer, unless he be a des-
mean, of course, that American countries can not co-operate with Eda-srr.noncs.danKrrrusmaniraeror
European nations on an international basis; it means only that they gets the man he want,, he u n, harm-
can not suffer any interference with, or impairment of, their own Ieas as a chuid Thezforser.thebunco
sovereignty by parties that are strangers to their most immediate in- j marmhies, windierhatcreok tPosarsiknew," declared I.a cy."wasa man who
terests. The co-operation into which they enter must be free and' sense enough to live by his wit has
uncontrolled, and such as will guarantee to cachand every party ab-|too much sense to resist an ofticer. .
11... ...a____i ”__ I worked for the Amvrb an Surety
SOlutC equality and independence. | Company four years and during that
cast my accounts and paid some debts
-------- which lightened my burdens,
dont it hurry up and take our pickture In the evening I sat alone and pon-
without all this red tape? Gladdis sed. । dered over the . mystery of existence.
It will if you give it a chance, step . why we are here and whither we go,
but jest a trifle, will you mother? all depressing, then came A. Roche to
pop sed. I interrupt my musings. Later fell to
Im a mental and fizzical reck. If
youre going to take it, for goodniss
sakes take it, me sed.
steddy, now, everybody, hold it, pop
time I trailed hundreds of forgers
and confidence men and arrested
scores of them: I made many of these
arrests without a gun on my person
and not one of this type of criminals
offered resistance when he saw the
game was up "
The conversation naturally turned
to finger prints, the topic about which
Mr. Lacy knows the most, and the
one in which he is enthusiastically in-
terested He was asked to relate his
most interesting finger print rase. The
expert said: "I could talk for hours
streets of Houston one day. His
‘mug’ looked oddly familar to me and
I shadowed him for two days I found
that he was getting ready to pull a
big 1«>b in Houston. After I had ar-
rested him I found a cashier’s check
for $18,000 on one of the Houston banks
The daily afternoon regatta on Cen-
tral Park Lake has interesting high
lights. One may rent a rowboat for
25 cents an hour and put up a dollar
security so he will return it to its
mooring. Although the lake is only
four feet deep there are a number of life
savers. Boats are not permitted to
touch the shores but sometimes young
shipping clerks coax fair cargoes
aboard from the park walks and lawns.
Thia is known an "Snuggle Smug-
gling." One does not have to be ex-
perienced in rowing to join the re-
gatta. There- is a good natured give
and take when boats bump together.
The rowers are middle class folk who
know how to enjoy themselves in sim-
ple pleasures.
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ness to respond to every future call of duty. They have no desire _
to put their power in pledge, but they do not shirk co-operation I'
with other nations whenever there is a sound basis for it and a
consciousness of a community of interest and aim. Co-operation is
not dictation, and it is not partisanship.” This willingness to co- j
operate with others has been shown throughout the history of the '
republic, and has gone hand in hand with a fixed determination to -
preserve our distinctive institutions. '
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