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weighed 1700 pounds.
molests
circum-
harmless,
humans
stances.
"A fellow
wondrous
feeling
kind."
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tip in :
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reasons!
made a
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carrying a dozen heavy tasks
But always he can find time
quainted with woe, I learn to
. help the unfortunate,” as Vir-
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Our Responsibilities
Smoking Room
Stories
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Oklahoma 1
Declines
To
medical stores, begged a con- ,
tribution from the Laura Spel- .
man Rockefeller Foundation, ।
managed other funds so as to i
squeeze out a few million {
more.
And the Americans took on !
Just imagine!
BY J. W. R;
He secured three innd. a helf L the the Third --Internattonat —
continues to use us for the nw-
nALPH D MENDERSON
Busineen"‘nnnKer
Tracy
SAYS
You can't go anywhere
these days without dis-
covering that Judge Ben
Lindsey is there, is about
to come or has just left.
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Women Students
young lady, and drank.
"Now, can you tell me about
the castor oil?” she asked.
"This was just a little jok-
er," replied the druggist. "You
have already taken the oil.”
"What!" she cried. "I want-'
ed it for my little brother,"—
French Humor.
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The Life of Herbert Hoover
A REMINISCENT BICGRAPHY—BY WILL IRWIN
Copyright 1928 for The Fort Worth Press by United Feature Syndicate
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FORE!
Wonders of,air and earth and
sky;
The lure of ships that sail
the sea;
The loves that live and loves
that die
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"UILICITY
“I went shopping with my
wife in a moment of weakness
the other day,” confesses M. M.
"She picked out a dress that I
didn’t approve of.
" ‘If you wear that dress peo-
ple will talk about you,’ I warn-
ed her.
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ny Entted Prens. I
CENTER, Texa:
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oil has been made
about 12 miles sou
which has been co
Chapparral Oil Co.
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in Blaine, Kingfii
Custer counties <
Oklahoma, have
leases during the
scouts estimate. 1
planned. ‘
was "Being not un-ac
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skin-Qu
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their lovely complexiok
grant, soothing, power
ener—Nadinola Blead
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waiting for results, n
ments. Tan and free!
blackheads and blotch!
before it. Instantly yot
effect It brings w]
velvety smoothness u J
neath the darkened, w|
ened surface. Yet sol
action that it is harmled
most delicate skin. Dori
start toward beauty—l
Remember, Nadinol:
Every package contain
money-backguarantee I
full, simple directions.]
your druggist or toilet (
Extra large, mohey-sa
National Toilet Co., Pi
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The New Threat in Nicaragua
WXTHILE a thousand more Marines pack their
W kits to reinforce the 4200 other leather- ,
necks and blue jackets already in Nicaragua,
nology of the Department '
"A FUR COAT for the wife?
A Well, take my advice and
don't invest in something cheap.
This coat at *800 means real
economy."
"I should say! I’d have, to
economize for the rest of my
life!"—Detroit News.
’i
Are of no import now to
Of all that was or is to be
I ask that now I have
say;
I toss my hat and dance
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UDLEY FIELD MALONE:
“McAdoo is an extinct vol-
strained to the breaking point.
Unemployment had risen to Its government from exporting na-
Prodding the Duce to Cuss
CLIMB a tree, or something equally as good!
• Mussolini is going to. repercuss.-—-
t‛ One Ellenbogen, former president of Aus-
tria’s parlisment, publicly declares that Musso-
lini is base and cowardly in threatening war
on parties Interfering with his running of the
Austrian Tyrol; and, the cable folks say that
their wires are quivering in expectation o.f
", "repercussion" by the Duce.
To "repercuss" is to rebound, reverberate,
. ete. That’s one of Mussolini's best bolts and
• he is expected to make the European heavens
cano emitting lava, sulphur
and gas."
behind the counter:
"Can one take castor oil
without tasting it?”
“I will find out if you wait
a second," replied the man.
“Will you have some lemon-
ade In the meantime?"
welt in this dtst
and th* outcome
ed closely. The J
late today or ear
A “Eh
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It never
under any
rTHERE’S no substance in the rumor that
1 Gen. Sandino will visit Chicago to compel
a fair and orderly election.
By U’ntted Fress.
WICHITA, KE
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south and threeH
springs, attract®
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and Graham. at
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topped th* chatm
oil came into tim
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oiler it might ml
running thru ’■
townsite is frE
southeast, wher
played in th* ol
Phillips Petrol
lent oiler today
son. tmmediate hl
Springs townsitel
dred foet of oil I
One hundred bil
secuted in four]
the swab yesterd
Skelly Oil CMH
at 1550 feet las ’ l
ed to reach th* l
today at its No 1
of Lamont, I
Operators ar
Ward Layton well
of Section 2 2 17
when drilled in
feet of fluid in t
was pumped off|
BY GILBERT SWAN
NEW YORK, March 20.-—The none-too-gentle
I) art of being ritt§ and high-hat is practiced
by an extraordinary number of New Yorkers.
Pretensions are paraded particularly in the
presence of some guest from the old home
town.
So prevalent is this custom that an adver-
tisement in one of the sophisticated Gotham
publications boldly flaunts this challenge:
“Perhaps you have a little country cousin
you wish to impress; if so, be sure and tab
this address!”
Now I ask’ you! :
This effort at "Impressing" thers is what
keeps money in circulation in New York. It
also succeeds in keeping many a modest sal-
MAYBE a week of prayer will lead Chicago
• II out of her "wilderness of crime"; but M
• usually takes forty years to get out of a
wilderness.
hauls, especially in the West,
would seem to offer a far morn
logical field for air transporta-
tion than some of the Euro-
pean countries where it is be-
ing developed with remarkable
rapidity and success.
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HERBERT D. SCHULZ
Managing Editor
O. 1. BOGOM,
Advertising Manager
3*
RY way of proving that she is
D strictly in step with Amer-
ican progress, St. Louis has
just recorded her 31st auto vic-
tim for the current year.
If she, does as well during
the next nine months as she
has during the last twnd a
half, 1928 will see her laying
something like 140 corpses’on
the altars of the speed god.
At that, she probably will
not take first prize.
. the Western European coun-
> tries, but they lurked always
just below the surface of Rus-
sian life.
Now, they burst forth —es-
L’Envoi
Dear reader, pardon my wild
vent
To joy that knows no better
way.
Would you begrudge me my
content? ■
I mad*-a. hoi* in one.today!
F you look over the chro- • could be restored, df a rotting, a died of it. Philip B. Shield
peclally typhus., that co-eou-
spirator with famine.’ Another
rush season for Hoover.
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WJHEN they ask you what’s
W the biggest fish, don’t give
the. whale as an answer, be-
cause the whale is not a fish :
It is a mammal. The largest
fish is a shark, sometimes call-
ed the “whale" shark, altho
it is nothing like a whale.
This particular shark, 50 to 75
feet in length, Is absolutely
T ISTENING fo beef and pork
1 quotations over the radio, .
of which there is one in ‘ever
room at the Statler, you are
reminded that this is close to
those great open spaces where
they raise corn to feed hogs to
raise more hogs to' eat more
corn.
There is no relief, however,
in finding the front page clut-
tered with the vulgarities of
Chicago’s "Big Bill,” where
one has been accustomed to
the generally humorous and i
never offensive record of New
York’s "Little Jimmy."
(ITY ASSESSOR GESNER
• says that the valuation of
real estate and personal prop-
erty in St. Louis is *1,169,000.
000. An optimistic reporter—or
pessimistic, if you prefer—adds
that the. State Equilization
Board is expected to raise the
figure to *1,250,000,000.
Tho that is less than one-
tenth of New York’s valuation,
it should be enough to satisfy
local price, if not local taxpay-
ers. *
JOHN II. SORRELLS
editor
U A. WLKE
City editor
KT. LOUIS, Mo., March 20.-
P The first piece of news to
catch my eye on opening a lo-
cal paper was the announce-
ment that Judge Ben Lindsey
is here to debate companionate
marriage.
It certainly had a familiar
look. You just can’t go any-
where these days without dis-
covering tnat the judge is
there, is about to come, or has
just left.
If work counts, he oughgt to
be making progress.
in the old American Relief h-s--
Admintstratton and threw them million dollars’ worth of sup-
piles from our surplus army
England has knighted an
American printer. At last the
devil gets his dues.’
6lan>b<r ot 1’nlled 1‘rssa. Scripps-How * i U Newspaper alliance, Newapaper Enterprise Associa-
tion. NewspnperIntormntionser vice, and Audit Burosu at Circulations._________
“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”—bante.
DURING the past season BroadWHy theater
• managers have constantly complained that
they can no longer sell balcony seats. The
tendency to "show off" has grown to such an
extent that everyone now wants to sit in the
orchestra. Sitting upstairs, they feel, implies
a cheapness and a loss of caste. They are
willing to pay scalper’s prices when, for a
couple of dollars, excellent seats could be had
in less expensive locations.
The situation has at times become so acute
that productions have actually faced the pros-
pect of failure because the cheaper seats could
not be sold. It is no secret that the success
of plays lies in the balcony and gallory pat-
ronage. It is the turnoved of these sections
that supported many a drama over a stormy
session when the orchestra was but half filled.
On one occasion a number of theater men.
got together and decided to boost the prices
of balcony seats, making them more costly
than the others in the hope that this would
have a psychological effect upon tho “high
toned" ticket buyers. The novelty caught on
for a time, but has not been generally suc-
cessful.
DON'T 4 KewM:
Eastland’s famous long-dis-
tance hibernating frog will
soon be hacked off the map.
From Wilbarger comes the
news that the courthouse there,
soon to be razed, has a quart
bottle of rye whisky In the cor-
nerstone, put them 40 years
ago.
Life may but empty honors
bring,
But I will count it all but
Joy
And cry, “O Death, , where is
thy sting?"
My happiness knows no al-
loy.
The world is but’ a dangling
toy
And I the owner of It’ -Say,
is life worth while? Reply:
“Oh, boy!
I made a hole in one today!"
KIND TO MOTHER
"How old are you, Mary!"
"Fifteen."
"A girl of fifteen should
tell her mother everything."
"I know it. But mother is
so innocent, I really haven’t
the heart."—American Legion
Monthly.
TON"T say "Neither you or I
• will go. "Neither you nor
1" Is correct.
Don’t use "every" when you
mean "all" or "entire."
Adage popularly used but
“And all she had to say, as
I i she ordered thegdress sent out,
® was:
“ ‘Dearie, you’re beginning
to catch on!’ ”
rTAXPAYER’S PRAYER WEEK! This paper
I demands that President Coolidge declare
it right away. Citizens desiring to Indorse
this demand will kindly form in single file at
this office’s back door, if the crowd at the
front is too big.
Congress joint committee on taxation is
under orders to form a single scale of grad-
uated income tax rates, as a substitute for the
present complicated system of normal and
surtax scales.
. Cussing, tears, hysteria, unintentional per-
jury have got nowhere in the presence of that
Confounded income tax blank. What that con-
gressional committee needs is prayer, organ-
ized, amalgamated, able-bodied, especially di-
rected prayer. Let wife, house, business, poli-
tics. golf and all other morak-obligations pause
while the consolidated taxpayers bend the knee
to beseech God’s influence upon Congress.
,And, if a week seems insufficient, make it a
month, Mr. President.
B tog ot official assertions and contradictions
’ completely hides what is going on.
Just a little over a month ago the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in Washington
attempted to get the truth. Here, verbatim, is
the way the inquiry opened:"
Senator: "Mr. Secretary, whom do you de-
sire to have called first?”
Secretary Wilbur: “I think I would like
to make a general statement. I might say
first that we received a very Important tele-,
This colyum is conducted
for the purpose of supply-
ing thrills—the thrill of
seeing your brain child in
print. Any sort of clever
miscellany is welcomed.
Ain’t we got fun? Just
imagine.
MARCH 20
! • 1775—Virginia selected seven delegates to the
second Continental Congress and in-
dorsed the actions of the first.
1834—Charles W. Eliot, late American edu-
cator and president of Harvard, born.
1 : 1|*<—The "Nautilus," pioneer steamboat,
made its trial trip.
1903— Misslssippl River at New Orleans reach-
ed a record high level—19 feet 8 inches
abqve normal. A
I of Commerce you will find that
' Hoover was at the moment
busy with reorganization —
maximum. Congress was in
no mood to grant Europe any
more funds.
However, the Grain Corpo-
ration had accumulated $20.-
000.000 profits. Hoover ask-
ed Congress to grant this for
Russian relief. There was .some
opposition in Congress itself,
some slander from outside, be-
fore he secured the appropri-
ation.
He stimulated and assisted
PA GETs EVEN
"I don’t understand your
letting young' Perkins marry
your daughter. I thought you
were enemies."
"Yes. And now he will have
my wife as his mother-in-law."
Boston Transcript.
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WIFE'S ANSWER
“A man who cannot make
himself understood when he
speaks, is a fool. Do you know
what I mean?"
"No."—French Humor.
the familiar, disagreeable lob i
of establishing hospitals for '
the sick, of delousing, inocu- .
lating and sanitating the heal- ।
thy. In six months, they had
virtually power of life and
death.
By the summer ot 1923, the
disaster was over. It is hard
to estimate. how many live*
Hoover’s promptness and wise
ndmlnlstratlon. plus the devo-
i tion and efficiency of his work
staff, saved to their normal
I terms.
An estimate of fifteen mil-
lion would perhaps be no ex-
fiably fail to look after our children—and that
is when we are dead. |
—!
aggeration. As usual, he had
a heart for the children; along
with wheat and bacon, the Re-
lief imported condensed milk
by the carlond, got it securely
into the systems of the rising
generation thru the old, famil-
iar device of special meals.
And all this time the Relief
Administration supplied Russta
with the seed for her scant
harvest of 1922, her abundan:
one of 1923. When the crieis
was over, the Soviets gave
Colonel Haskell and his aides
a complimentary dinner. And
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
rTHE Indiana father who has confessed to the
1 murder of his twin sons gives as excuse
the nagging of his common-law wife, who was
not the mother of the children.
That might have had something to do with
it. A nagging woman can work more havoc
than a thousand devils.
But the real trouble lies deeper than that.
It is the same story of the broken home. A
father in America. A mother in England.
Some other woman living with the man and
hoping to get rid of this encumbrance of his
sons. r
- The result is merely a form of the wage
that mortals must pay when they fail in their
duty to others. ■
If we could see behind all these tragic tales
of crime; if we could anayze them as Theo-
dore Dreisser analyzed for us the simple mind
of Clarence in “The American Tragedy," per-
haps we. could Bee and realize dimly what
tangled things the lives of humans are.
For we go merrlly to our work or play
these days, assuring ourselves that what we
do can matter to bo one.' We say we have
no duty to others; that ours is the privilege
of doing and living as we like. Yet all the
while our existences are enmeshed in an incom-
prehensible manner with the lives of others.
It is not possible for us to untangle the mys-
terious web which some one higher and wiser
than ourselves has woven all about us. But
it is possible for us to acknowledge its exist-
ence and save ourselves and others sorrow.
In the Indiana case it is easy to see that
tho the father’swas the hand that committed
the deed, there rere two women who helped
this murder unconsciously. First, the mother
of the boys who had shirked her natural re-
sponsibility. Secondly, the woman who lived,
with their father and who might, if she had
been the right cort, have gathered for herself
treasures in heaven by giving his children
love and care, and yet who wanted most of all
to be rid of them.
Foor helpless little lads. Not only that
‘Acceptable’ History .
KPEAKING of "Big Bill,"
• Carl Russell Fish wants no
laurel wreath from his hands,
or from the hands of his edu-
cational commission.
Prof. Fish’s history of the
United Sttaes has just been
designated as "acceptable" for
Chicago schools by the "Amer-
ica Foist” mayor, and his ad-
visers, but instead of regard-,
ing this as a compliment, Prof.
Fish takes it as a reflection.
"A regtattable honor," is the
way he describes it, and adds,
"Both my publisher and I re-
gard it as a most unfortunate
endorsement.".
If such remarks are charac-
teristic of the professor, his
book ought to be worth read-
i ing.
The Fort Worth Press
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Telephone Etchenae, Piel 1-M51__________________________
• glee—
I made a hole in one today!
This sturdy driver here of mine,
- A steady eye and perfect
stance,
A record drive on number nine
(With bright smiles from
the god of chance
And it was done! Now to ad-
vance
And claim the honors of the
fray
As knight ot old, so bold of
lance-
I made a hole in one today!
ful example, under all this
bluff lies perhaps a warm
memory.
rusting transportativn system.
Haskell and his men en-
countered all the mental ob-
stacles which one would expect
when West meets East and
capitallsm tries to work with
Communism.
Owing to sheer bureaueratic
ncompetence or to official
heorizing on a situjon whictr
equired practical uetin, th. re
.vere periods when a dozen
provision-trains lay stalled o
i siding; when Haskell, in de-
.♦pair of getting relief thru dip-
lomacy. ’must issue the ultima-
turn -"start something or we
get out.”
At times, the nflininistration
hud to meet mid face down
orders of wholesale arrest ns
"counter - revolutionaries''
against its Ruslan employe*.
Toward the end, it must
By Vntted Preen. •
TULSA, Okl®
West Texas o®
ciimt!n Last •
dally average ■
052 barrels, tl®
the Oil and Ga.®
day. B
Tbl'' was an
barrels in dail
of the week bE
dricks area al
169,693 barrel
rels. ■
Greater Semi
barrels in dalll
520 barrels, tol
second oil prod
nation. I
Oklahoma's I
duction decline!
651,895 barrels]
West Texas |
Continent field
5045 barrels. fd
erage last week
rels. Californ
barrels, to 605
A daily ave
7095 barrels w
t'he United Stat
2,403.781 barre
tnereate was 20
THE COUNTRY BANKER
Rep. Williams .(Dem., Texas)
During the World War when
drives were being made to sell
Liberty Bonds and secure
funds for the Red Cross, the
country banker . . . was
working in the lead. He neg-
lected his business, left ft in
the hands of others and went
out over the country making
j speeches, contributing money
: and loaning money to those
j who did not have it, to contrib-
ute that he might assist, as a
good Citizen, in giving the
best of which he was capable
to his country.
TN Seattle's primaries. Mrs. Mayor Lande* has
I cleaned seven other candidates, mostly he
ones. Rah tor Ma Landesl--
HE walked into a
disappeared as tho the earth
had swallowed him — probably
murdered.
They witnessed at time* in-
credible horror* They lived in
a constant state of apprehen-
sion for the safely of their
native assistants.
And from the Siberian bor-
der to the Black Sea, they
governed districts as large as
our northeastern States, over
which this strange turn of in-
ternational destiny gave them
Fast Service
rTHE Pennsylvania Railroad
I is reported to be consider-
ing plans for a combination air
and rail passenger service be-
tween New York and Texas.
As tentatively outlined in
press reports, the project calls
for passengers to travel by
train at night and by plane
during the day. '
It has been calculating that,
with such a hook up, the jour-
ney from New York to Fort,
worth, which now requires 45
hours, could be cut down to
slightly more than 2*4.
The most curious phase of it
is that some major road has
not thought of doing such a
thing long ere this.
This country, with its long
$250
A CALIFORNIAN, 104 years old, has been
• F fined for driving while under the influ-
l ence of liquor, says Detroit News. 'Tain't
" news. It was the liquor that was 104.
father but all America should weep for them. I
For every woman in this land who lends her-
self to the false doctrine that she has no duty
save pleasing herself is a partner in this
and many other crimes.
There is only one time when wo can justl-
Cleaned and
Pressed
to
Perfection
t was never more
pleased in my
life, is the ver-
dict of every
man who sends
his suits and.
clothing to Cur-
r a n‛s to be
cleaned and
pressed. Service
that pleases par-
ticular people.
DIAL
2-7247
" for another job.
: With President Harding's
approval, Hoover accepted the
burden, 'started a* of old to
I raise funds, arrange transpor -
tatlon, organize personnel.
As usual, finance was the
first and greatest task. Rus
sian relief cost eventually $75,-
000,000, of which he strained
! *15,000.000 in gold out of the
I Soviet government. The rest
came from the United States.
At first sight, it looked dit-
flcult. We were in our post-
war slump.
American charity, both pii-
vate and offictat, had ber t
our philanthropic religious
bodies to raise funds; scraped
together .the residue of fund's-'
If companionate marriage
means that your wife helps to
make th* living, it may not be
so bad at that. And certainly
nothing now.
aried young man broke. He rides in “gyp"
cabs; he buys his seats at a "gVp" theater
broker’s offices and pays up to *10 a seat; he
takes his friends to dine at places where
"important people” gather; he makes all the
gestures of the affluent spender.
The "important people,” of course, are In-
clined to go about their own business and
dine with people in their own circle. Being
important, they can afford to be free from pre-
tension—tho a f^w of them are not—they can
leave their high-hats at .home and go where
they please without any thoughts as tn wheth-
er "It is being done.” It's generally the
climber and the near-important person who
puts on the airs.
’ ITHE House approves *26,808,000 for army
- aviation. Probably it is too late to re-
cant on the reprimand of Col. "Billy" Mitchell.
• But, apeak up, "Billy"!
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life" while feeding its own
people on American charity.
Along with the famine come
the danger nay the- actuality
—of pestilence. Typhus, small-
pox and such diseases are
scotched snakes for us and for
HROM England comes the
I news that women medical
students have been barred from ‘
five of London's largest hospi-
tals.
Men students objected to
their presence on the ground
that “the two sexes can not
mix in. the study of medicine.” •
that “women Interfere with
athletics," that “they distract
men from their studies," and
that “women are not successes
as doctors."
Thus we save the world from
its better half by preserving
football and cricket in the
name of science, learning to
cook and making asses of our-
selves In general.
The lie-woman is bad
enough, heavens knows, but
that she is easier to live with,
or live down, than men who
put on skirts just to show they
are not afraid of her.
THAT’S THE IIASON
"Why. are they called w-
♦ rets of success?" B. Lamber
rites in to ask this, colyum of
erudition. "Everybody is al-
ways-telling everybody else!"
LITEINTURE
Moss: “Nine out of t*n per-
non* think they could write bet-
ter novels than the succesnful
authors of today
Hoss: “And the worst of It
Its, a good many of them
could!”
"Certainly,” replied
that Sandino had escaped into Honduras, and
in so far as Nicaragua- is concerned, he is
• finished.''
That, we say, was a little over a month
ago. Today, Secretary Wilbur and the admin-
istration plan to build up a force of more
than 5000 men down there, ostensibly to pro-
tect Nicaragua from this same “finished
bandit.”
But is Sandino "finisheq" and is he a
"bandit"? Read this bit of dialog before
the same senatorial committee:
Senator Swanson: "What would be the
result if we should retire?”
General Lane (recently returned from the
Sandino front): "I think Sandino would come
to Managua (the capital of Nicaragua) and
• would be president."
This does not sound much like a bandit
without a following.
The truth, of course, is that Sandino is
not looked upon as a bandit either in his own
country or anywhere else in Latin-America.
In Nicaragua he is undoubtedly receiving help
from all sides.' If he weren’t, the Marines
. ' would have had his scalp months ago.
It has even been charged that Gen.
Emiliano Chamorro, former dictator and lead-
er of the Conservative party, is aiding the
rebel chieftain. ' And if this has not been
true in the past it is likely to become so now.
During the Senate inquiry, Senator Borah
asked Admiral Latimer this question:
"It is true, is it not, that the (Nicaraguan)
assembly is under the control of the Conserv-
ative forces, Chamorro and 'President’ Diaz?”
Admiral Latimer:. "I would rather put it
‘Chamorro or Diaz’."
Wise admiral! He knows his Nicaragua
: when he wants to. He believed that one or
• the other—Diaz, the Conservative puppet of
the State Department, or Chamorro, the for-
mer Conservative dictator—was in control of
the Nicaraguan legislature. But not both. And
: he was right. For Chamorro has just made a
• monkey out of Liaz by taking the Conserv-
ative, leadership completely away from him and
forcing the Congress at Managua to defeat
the law legalizing American supervision of the
coming presidential elections.
Now we are coming to the real reason for
; sending more Marines. Chamorro is now defl-
nitely lined up against the United States. It
is known that he will .stop at nothing. He
may join forces, openly or otherwise, with San-
dino and the rest of, the anti-American fac-
tions in Nicaragua and bring about some real
trouble. For he is opposed to the coming
•lections, and a spread of the revolt, thru
Conservative backing, would not be a surpris-
ing development.
But as usual, he set the
machinery in motion before he
had an assured supply of fuel.
Within a week after Gorky’s
appeal, his agents had moved
on Riga, Russia's peephole to
the outside world.
There, they met representa-
tives of the Soviet government.
Even in this grave emergency,
official Russia was suspicious
and hostll. But after a few •
days of hot debate, the Amer-
icans and Russians signed an
agreement.
For details of the fled work
I must refer the reader to H.
H. Fisher’s book on the Rus-
sian famine. From Belgium to
Armenia, from the first call
out of Brussels in -1918 to the I
last shipment to the Levant
1923, Hoover's men never
tackled any other job so tick-
lish and melodramatic.
That two-fisted soldier. Col-
onel William Haskell, who
learned his trade under Hoo-
ver in Roumania and Armenia,
took charge in Moscow. -
The job involved not only
distribution of provisions out
the restoration, so far as it
L. A; Koepfgen, president
Narcotic Educational Associa-
tion: "No one knows how
many drtig addicts there are
in the United States. Gov-
ernment official estimates vary
all the way from 290,900 to
1,000000."
More Unpreparedness
’ VOUNG Rockefeller “wasn't prepared" to
- cast his 1,339,000 shares for or against
Col. Stewart's reelection as head of Standard
• Oil of Indiana.
• About the same attitude as Col. Stewart’s,
as a witness. Stewrt wasn't prepared to tell
what he knew.
Rockefeller » “much disappointed" over
. Stewart's attitude. Stewart much pleased over
: his unanimous reelection. Two horses on
Rockefeller.
. HOTDOG:/
......-Armntmat opera Ts to be
produced in Prague.
From the Record
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AN OLD MAN SPEAKS
Sen. Bruce (Democrat, Mary-
land)—It is a sad thing to me,
now that my life is gradually
passing into the shadows of the
late evening of existence, and
now that I have attempted
thruout my life to make myself
familiar with the Constitution
and general history of my coun-
try ... to find what a change,
what a revolutionary change,
the political institutions of my
country are undergoing.
rTE thing is true according to the law of
1 Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
—Daniel 6:1 2.
Law should be like death, which spares no
•ne.—Montesquieu.
EVEN BUTTER
Mrs. Hicks: “Can you run
your car?"
Mrs. Kent: “No, but I can
run John.''
Because of the earning ca-
pacity of Entry Badge, a rac-
ing greyhound of England, the
dog's owner, E. Baxter, claims
that he is the most valuable
dog in the world. Entry
Badge has won 12 races, and
in the last he won *5,000,
pestilence under control.
Our young agents, heirs of
the men who founded in Bel- j
gium-this new craft, struggled
thru two years during which j
dreariness alternated with mel-
odrama. They lived often in |
towns where accumulated filth ■
lay ankle deep. They faced
pestilence, of course.
Several had close calls with
typhus; and Harold Blandy
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