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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1924
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Miss Doris Fitt, aged 26, has been
elected to the city council of Nor-
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Miss Fitt is a theatrical manager by
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MEXICO CITY, July 4—The prop-
erties of the Mexican Eagle Oil Com-
pany in Tampico have been'occupied
by'federal forces, say dispatches re-
ceived here. The military commahd-
ant is quoted as declaring that the
occupation is not connected with the
strike of the company’s employes, but
the regional federation of labor has
sent a message to President Obregon
asking an explanation.
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The State Bar Association, in session in Dallas, proposed a
resolution recommending that the association work for a constitutional
amendment abolishing the grand jury, except as an inquisitorial body
extraordinary, and authorizing the state’s attorney to present felony
charges on complaint and information.
The proposition aroused considerable opposition and was finally
abandoned. But the fact that it is seriously proposed by men who
admit their own high patriotism and deep understanding must give us
pause. The grand jury is one of the things we wrote into the organic
law after our unhappy experience with Mexico. It has been included
in every new constitution since. It ought to be in all the new ones.
We make conviction of a felony doubly disgraceful by forfeiting
the right of citizenship upon conviction. The very horizontal stripes,
symbolical of the convict, are regarded with scorn and considered the
emblem of degredation. And so, too, is the charge of a felony. When
not privileged, it is libelous per se to make the charge. It is not to be
made privileged lightly, nor left to the discretion of a single man, and
that man a partisan in the discharge of his duties as prosecuting at-
torney—and, in many cases, an opposing partisan in local politics.
Felony accusations should be allowed only on the judgment of
unbiased men after due deliberation and on the agreement of that
multitude of counsel in which safety is reputed to abide. The grand
jury has been the bulwark of the citizen for nearly ninety years in
Texas. It should not be abolished by the ites in the spursuit of isms.
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By LEE PAPS
I was setting on Mary Watkinses
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House SQUARE .
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"Address the jury," thundered the
attorney, "and tell them how you deal
craps.”
"Lemme outa here,” shrieked the
darky wildly. "Fust thing Ah know, dis
gemman heah gwine ask me how to
drink a samwich."
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While playing on a new riding device
at Barton Springs, Harold Shelton,
7-year-old son of Mr. and. Mrs. J. a.
Shelton,* had th® misfortune to have
the big te on his right foot mashed
and painfully injuring that member
at 2;15 this afternoon.
The oungster whs brought to the
Emergency Hospital by his parents,
who were out at the pleasure resort
for an .outing. The wound was dressed
by Dr. Frank C. Gregg.
colonel who happened to be present
was asked what he thought of it.
"I never saw such realistic reeling
in my life," was his verdict.
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Ouch! Benjamin De Casseres, novel-
ist, favors the league that sponsors
married women retaining their maide
names. Hays he: "As man is the ruler
of this planet, and always will be so
long as he is woman’s physical and fi-
nancial superior—for muscle and
mammon are the princes of this world
—the inferior sex should look on the
names of men as a privilege, not a
gift. No man should allow his wife to
take his name until she can prove she
is a fit mother for his children and
that she is a mental an« physica
complement."' Somehow Wo imagine
Ben's breakfast disagreed with him or
Homething.
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Three robberies have occurred below
the famous dead line at Fulton Street
during the year. The order that crooks
should not pass ' the dead line was
given by Inspector Brynes in the 80s
and was rigidly observed for many
years. It was a sort of unwritten law
there should be no invasion of that
vast treasure trove of gold in Wall
Street and diamonds in Malden Lane
an® woe betide the criminal who tres-
passed it. When Byrnes died in 1910
the law had never been broken.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 4.—Two
members of the lower Merlon town-
ship police were shot and seriously
wounded early today when they at-
tempted to disperse several hundred
white garbed men surrounding a fiery
cross on the outskirts of Ardmore, a
suburb of this city. The policemen,
Albert Miller and Charles Roy, had
been summoned to the scene by a
negro who expressed fear that he
might be attacked. The officers said,
however, that beyond a noisy demon-
stration about the burning cross they
found no disorder ahd heard no threats
made against anyone.
Notre of the men were masked and
with two exceptions all dispersed
quietly at the command of the police-
men. These two, the officers said,
were inclined to Ignore their orders
and in an argument that followed th®
policemen were shot. Roy was so
badly wounded that 'physicians said
he could not live.
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The important young prosecutor was
trying to make things hot for the
negro, who had admitted in 'court
that he was engaged in a craps game
One of the most magnificently staged
bits in a musical revue of the past year
in my opinion was the "Orange Grove
in California” scene in the Music
Box Revue. The effect was heighten-
ed as th curtain rises by flooding the
theatre with an orange scent and at
the climax when the orange trees and
crates of oranges take on their amaz-
ing yellow glow there is a collective
gasp that surpassed anything I have
ever heard in the theatre.
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NEW YORK, July 4.—Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
Three supper clubs in a row. Salaam-
ing parasites baring their teeth for
tips. Midnight ladies revealing odd
dewy freshness. But how will they
look in the morning?
A dark skinned prince Wearing an
Inverness. Weasel sleek young men.
Carion eyed old men. And the brazen
gold-diggers showing the vulcanized
artlessness of their ilk. The haunting
refrain of "What’llI Do." Aud In the
inky shadows the old women selling
gum and last editions.
A boxer with a purple shadow under
his left eye. Broadway - night shops
adazzle with light. Hosiery. Millinery.
And cosmetics. Night workers taking
the 12 o’clock lunch hour to visit the
movies. Bookmakers along the curbs
receiving the whispered bets.
Newsies asleep in doorways. Tor-
tured by the heat and files. A long-
haired reformer .with an audience of
four. Creaky market carts with lop-
sided wheels. A woman laughs archly
at an old man—and flees up a pair of
steps. No fool like an old fool.
Ponderous thinkers grouping at the
Algonquin. A man with, a chair at a
pawn shop’s back door. Hurryng
lunchers in the alphabetical quick
lunches. Restless trumpeting of Hip-
podrome elephants. The hard-faced
loungers about the all night drug
stores.
Lonely private policeman. Always
seeking someone to engage in conver-
sation. Slinking figures in the shady
hotels. Zip! goes a man-hole covering.
Hope that fellow is not following me.
If he is he’s silly. I once won a hun-
dred-yard dash. Cabaret girls going
home. There's Hassard Short.
Early morning whistlers. And the
staccato rap of policemen’s clubs. Cats
sneaking home. And they seem just
a little weary with life. Nodding fire-
man in their shirt sleeves. Lights blink
out. Milk cans rattle. Another day.
One morning at breakfast Maria
asked her mistress if she might get off
next Sunday to attend her brother’s
funeral. Of course, even if special
company had been invited, brothers'
funerals, had to be attended, and per-
mission was reluctantly granted.
After Maria’s mistress got upstairs,
however, she remembered that it was
Tuesday and wondered what Marla
was trying to put over on her. So she
went down to the kitchen to find out.
"See here, Maria,” she said, "you say
your brother Isn’t going to be burled
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Trust and Savings Company there and
is connected in other business ventures.
The nomination was made at the
party’s recent convention in Columbus,
Ohio. Marie C. Brehm was named vice
presidential nominee. She is a W. C.
T. U. worker in Long Beach, CaL
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th® ceremony, in telling a friend how
to break the news to his father and
mother, he said:
“Tell them first I am ded; then
gently work up to the climax.”
steps tawking to her about diffrent
subjecks sutch as the difference be-
tween plump and fat and how old a
lady awt to be and still have her hair
bobbed. ami Persey Weever came up
in a new pair of patten leather shoes
and sat down with his feet stuck out
conceeted, Mary Watkins saying, O
wat perfeckly lovely shoes, look how
they shine,O, I think theyre perfeckly
bewtiful,-m perfeckly crazy about
them.
Me thinking. Darn that guy. And I
sed. Aw G, you awt to have saw the
patten leather shoes I had once. They
was so shiney I use to leeve ladies look
in them on the street so they could
powder their noses. strate. G, tawk
about shiney shoes, I sed. Perseys
shoes look pale alongside of the ones
I use to have, I sed.
Prove it, Persey sed.
Ask enybody in my house, I sed.
Well eny way I think your shoes are
perfeckly wonderfill, Persey, and I dont
care who knows it, Mary Watkins sed.
Me thinking, Darn that guy. And
I sed, O well enyhow, Ive got a unkle
with a million dollers in the bank and
I bet he'll leave me most of- it or at
leest 20 dollers and then I can buy
all the patten leather shoes I wunt to
and everything elts, too.
Ive got a bran new dime with 1924
on it, Persey sed. And he took it out
of his pocket. Mary Watkins saying,
O how bewtifu. Me thinking, Darn
that guy. And ist then the ice creem
sanwitch man terned erround the cor-
ner, Persey saying. Do you wunt a ice
creem sanwitch, Mary?
I dont know, I dont care, sho sed.
Meening yea Me quick getting up and
going home before he had a chance to
buy her one wile I was still there.
Prqving it aint wat you use to have
or wat youre going to have, its wat
you have now.
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A campaign is on foot at the Fort
Apache Indian reservation in Arizona
to improve the living conditions of the
Apache. Of all the Amrican In-
dians he is the most primitive. It
is probable that a number of mod-
ern houses will be erected in the
coining summer.
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A husky young Irishman secured his
first great freight-handling contract
after serving some years as one of
the "gang.”
Promptly at 7 o’clock that morning
he called five hundred of the burly
“dock wallopers” to order and shouted:
"Now, yez are nil to worruk for me.
and I want i very one of yez to under-
stand right now that I kin lick anny
man in the gang.”
Four hundred' and ninety-nine swal-
lowed the insult, but one large, giant-
built warrior moved uneasily and
stepping from the line, he said: “You
can't lick me, Mike Hennessey.”
“Oh, I can’t, can't I?” yelled Hen-
nessey.
“No, you can’t," was the determined
answer.
“Well, thin, go to th® office an’ get
your money,” said Hennessey. “I'll
have no man in me gang that I can't
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One hundred and forty-eight years ago today transpired an event
unique in the annals of time. A nation destined to become the greatest
in the world was brought into being by. proclamation. Its foundation
was definitely laid by a conscious act,'and it was firmly established in
a reasoned opinion which at once asserted eternal truths and made a
world-wide appeal fo their recognition, pledging without limitation or
qualification the fortunes, lives and honor of a struggling people to
their triumphant vindication.
Never before in history had such a tremendous step been taken.
It involved an absolute trust in the power of human reason to declare
principles and an unwavering faith in its ability to maintain them. It
condemned the past for the futility and misery in which peoples had
blindly accepted their institutions as gifts of circumstance, reconciling
themselves to an imperfect happiness and an impaired dignity. It
supremely challenged the future to show cause why man should not be
full master of himself, and his society display the ordered harmony to
be seen in Nature.
The Declaration of Independence published to the world by the
Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, truly emancipated the human
spirit from the trammels of circumstance and founded a state by
original act upon first principles. It appealed to the author of all
law on behalf of human rights. It asserted in immortal language that
men, “are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights;
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” From
. which it follows that all human affairs acquire dignity and importance
never suspected before, that the social and political realm becomes an
integral part of the universal order, resting upon the same continuing
and infallible basis.
Politics was given by the Declaration almost a Divine sanction.
It is pre-eminently the science of immediate human concerns. Nearly
all the other sciences treat of subjects which are impersonal and far
off. But politics is vital, present and personal. Its subject is the
individual man and its problem is how his life may be developed to the
full by giving to it the benediction of measured order. Natural rights,
which arg essentially the powers and capacities of man, are the ends of
orde, andgovernment the means through which they shall be achieved.
Govuenmepl can have no object except to maintain order, and order
no fhal purpose except the defense of freedom.
Tne degree of liberty and happiness of a people is the fruit of its
system of government, law or society. The revolutionary doctrine
that the just powers of government are derived from the consent of
the governed is revolutionary only because it was never asserted before.
In the darkness of the past, peoples on account of their weakness and
want of courage, had erroneously supposed that government was an
end in itself, a something to be aggrandized at the cost even of
happiness and freedom. As a means to happiness and freedom,
government becomes much more stable than it could be as a final
object, for as Jefferson said “society is one of the natural wants of
man,” and the necessity of its defense gives to government a
permanent character. . ...
There is nothing dangerous in the proposition that whenever a
system of government becomes subversive of the ends for which it was
established the people have the right to abolish it and to institute new
government, “establishing it upon such principles and under such
forms as seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." This
principle, instead of endangering, insures the continuance of govern-
ment by insuring that it shall be just and responsible, and therefore
proof against the assaults of unreasoning enmity.
Government as conceived by Jefferson and translated into the
language of the Declaration of Independence has given brilliancy
and penetrative power to the two guilding lights of the modem
world—nationality and individualism. The first has made possible
the vast organization of our intricate machinery of production, dis-
tribution and consumption of goods. The second has imparted life
to the whole moving mass. The'initiative of the individual has been
the impulse which has made American business outdistance that of any.
other country in the world. Here in America ldbor is dignified, secure
and remunerative; capital safe and profitable.
The Declaration is a document as much of the moment as of the
times in which it was drawn. Its principles are still operative, its spirit
marching on ahead of progress. It is the light of the future as well
as the guide of the present and the initiator of the past. We can but
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The prohibition party’s candidate for
the presidency, H. P. Faris, is sponsor
for the statement that he stands a
better chance of occupying the White
House than mem-
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AKCNGa parties believe.
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prohibition party.
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