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FRIDAY. MAY IS. 1931
Wise Spending
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David Belasco
UNCLE PANTHER’S MAIL BOX
big business and money as c,
represented by the millionaire, ASK THE PRESS
he spoke of an idea
"five or ten
Lawless Government
T
coming scarcely less of an offense than to
cities police and Led-
the authorities, in some
eral immigration officials are quietly waging a
reign of terror
Just after the war,
happen to look like aliens.
byword for
trekkers
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East
Mr. Mellon thinks the
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I want a high tariff placed on oil
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Q. Please tell me something
about the life of Edward Mac-
Dowell, the American composer.
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he done to make the ordinary
man’s existence a little bit less
bare, a little bit more full of
those moments of contentment,
- of ecstacy or of achievement
that give it significance.
With that coal mere length
SAYS-
Gang rule is just an-
other example of what an
organized minority can
do, especially when aided
and abetted by public in-
difference.
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Bookkeer
the biggs
are havin
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over this
presalon
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come tax
receipts f
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the forms
stead is
ring finar
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bundle of
to be paid
governmei
er basis.
In brief, t
verting it
Into long-
higher ra
longterm
in the lat
from Texarkana in his plan for
the Impeachment of Mellon.
This is going to be some job
because big business is pot go-
ing to give up their spokesman
While the crime wave unfor-
i with little Interference from
STRONGEST DICTATOR
Editor The Press:
rHERE has been much criti-
I cism of other countries with
Q. If.you put a live fish in a
| tub of water, will that add to
______—---IN NEW VRK
MEET A FAMOUS STEEPLEJACK
5° My cigaret lighter weighs
eight ounces, which makes It
much too heavy to carry con-
veniently. Where can I buy a
lighter lighter?—Esther.
Can a postman do a better •
job than a stenographer in tak-
ing a letter?—A. T. B. .
Are there 13 cards In a ship 8
quarter deck?—S. K. L.
Does a singer soon get the
air if he can’t get the air over
is flooded with this )
N one year the number
thefts reported by police
| has too many imperfections.
Few people carp to linger on
• A. The welkht of the fish will be
added to the total weight.
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the air?—L. R.
Please tell me how to raise
green blue grass.—D. C. D.
DR. B. U. L. CONNER.
pcE‘-
against persons who are, or
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Q. What is the largest and
most famous* waterfall in Af-
rica?
A. Victorla Falls, on the Zambesl
River.
PUT police statistics as to of-
D fenses are especially lacking
in accuracy because the police
are often afraid to admit the
number of crimes committed
last they incur public dlxppro-
A Thought for Today
A ND THE next day we touched at Sidon. And
A Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave
him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh
himself.—Acts 27:3.
mHE PARIS hotel at which Alfonso resides
1 charges him 3600 a day. They.look upon
him, apparently, as Just another tourist.
__A WOMAN’S vIWrOIT —--
Romantic Reading
Member ot the United Prena, Bcripp•
Howard News alltance. Newspaper En-
terpris. axsoctation, ScUncv Service:
Newspaper Information Bervic• and
Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Q. Was Jessica Dragonette:
radio artist, born and educated
in this country?
A She was born in Calcutta, In-
dia and received her edudcation at
reiar. Court Convent m Lakewood,
N. J.
without a fight and everyone
knows what a fight monezscan
put up. Think it over.—W. R-
Jordan.
They are demanded particularly in
BN found several
• DOC questions asked
of me, which I was unable to
answer. So, I must ask for
A He was born in New York City.
Dec IS. SHell. He had a varied edu-
cation in music, first under spantah-
American teachers, and then in Eu-
robe, at Paris, sttteart, Wiesbaden,
and Weimar, where he was chleny, in-
flueneed by Joachim. Haff and LIsst.
In 1881. ha mar: led Marlon Nevine of
New York. He returned to America
in 1888, and eetiled in Boaton uhtll
1806. when he «u made profenmot «f
music at Columbia University, New
York.’ This pout he resisned in IFH,
•nd in 1905 overwork and insomnia e"
suited in a complete cerebral collapse.
He died on Jan. 2%, 1908.
i Mr. Frankel holds up a bright-
' er picture than would be the
case if he simply 'promised
longer life. . ,
rpo have life and to have it
1 more abundantly has al-
ways been the race’s greatest
earthly hope. It is back of
every great migration of mass-
ed tribes and nations, back of
every revolution, back of
many bloody wars; the hope
that somehow something can
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH
Editor The Press:
PRESIDENT HOOVERS ad-
I vice on scrapping land arm-
aments ought to be taken.
Nearly 5,000,000 men actively
under arm* is about $5,000,4
000,000 annually. The after
effect of such scrapping would
be beneficial to everybody.
TN THE FIRST place, and to cite its most .
1 criminal influence, whether it be
sweet and innocuous or whether It be clever 1
and witty. it always assumes that man is Per
netually and everywhere aware of woman.
S.‘that ife should be romance ;
for us and that each day should be filled to ,
the brim with love making.
Thus it deceives and misleads.
The truth is that men are not at all as
these romancers present them. Girls there-
fore are given an entirely false idea of court
sei, of marriage, of business and domestie l
life They are filled with a sex consciousnest
that retards their proper development and that
is likely to make them shunned rather than
Taxes could be reduced, and
more money would be avallable
I for roads and many other pub-
lic improvements, which would
i j give work to ex-soldiers and
IIIE SUPPOSE that that Canadian baby who
VV was bor in an airplane recently .will be
forever boasting of his descent.
help. .e
If you can answer any or
these please let me hear from
he had in mind that might take
I the law was repealed. Com-
pared with Mellon, Mussolini
i is a piker.
10 BE AN alien in the United States is be-
By GILBERT SWAN
ATEW YORK.—The first warm days bring
P out Manhattan’s steeplejacks and vermin-
chasers.
The latter are considerably in the ma-
yesterday morning
' unemployed workers.
More people ought to be en-
' gaged in production, and this
of course will be possible
through shorter hours. The
more people engaged in pro-
duction and the better methods
we use, the less hours we will
need to work.
Let us say we have 42:000-
000 workers in the United
States, 7,000,000 of which are
unemployed, leaving only 35.
000,000 actually employed. Let
us say these 35,000,000 work
4 2 hours a week each. Now if .
we cut the work week to 35
hours and put our 7,000,000
unemployed back to work we
have 42,000,000 people doing
the same amount of work that
35,000,000 do now. Consump-
tion has been increased while
productivity remains constant.
There will be no shortage of
goods, however, because new
methods of production, which
are being devised and applied
continuously, will soon increase
productivity so that still short-
er hours will become necesary.
More people in industry, better
methods and shorter hours is
what we should aim at, because
that will eventually make pro-
duction so attractive that
everybody will desire to become
industrial workers. A four-
hour day, five-day week is not
i far off. By all means scrap
armaments and let the soldiers
and workers of the world have
a chance to make a decent liv-
ing.—Erik 8. Nelson.
suBscRIrTION NATES:
——- copy, two cento; by mau in Tezas. » centa monthi
-“X es 10
cents per copy and 10 cents per week.
-Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way"
Policy Operators
rMES may be hard and mon:
1 ey tight but two "polie"
operators- in Harlem — Ne" ’
York’s great colored district-
have each made a million dur- A—
Ing the last few years.
One of them., Jose Enrique
Miro, a Porto Rican, bad only a
dime when he hit New York in
1916.
After working eight years as
a common laborer he took up
gambling from which he radu-
ated into the “policy" game.
His salesmen are said to have
worn buttons inscribed with his
initials to guarantee them Im-
munity from arrest.
• • •
"Cheap Thieves"
A TTORNEY GENERAL JOHN
A J. BENNETT of New York,
who took charge of the oper:
tions against the Jack "Leg:
Diamond gang in Greene Coun.
ty by special order of Governor
Roosevelt, does not regard the
problem of destroying rack-
eteers as either mysterious or
difficult.
Racketeering, in bls opinion.
Is just another form of outlaw-
ry organized by “cheap
thieves,” whose courage is
largely derived from firearms
“Here in Greene County,” he
says, “we have found Jack
"Leg*" Diamond and his gang
the cheapest sort of cowards,
and all of them everywhere are
nothing more.”
Gang rule is just another ex-
ample of what an organised mi-
nority can do, especially when
aided and abetted by public in-
difference.
The most alarming phase of
the situation is the fact that so
few people realized what was
going on until recently.
You can’t explain the terror-
ism, tribute and corruption on
any other ground.
All that we need to break up
this childish manifestation of
cussedness and all that we ever
have needed is exactly described
by Attorney General Bennett
when he says, “Relentlessness
in the courts and prosecutors
willing to used mailed fists in-
stead of kid gloves will send the
racketeers to cover.”
Texas oil field should be shut
dwn. It is producing so much
oil that the price is being forc-
ed down. But he does not
Theater in San Francisco to be dean of the
drama in Amerloa.
Public Aroused
NyOW that the public is be-
IN coming aroused it is only
a question of time when gang
rule will be smashed.
There is no question of this
country’s ability to handle such
marauders.
The majority of beer barons,
hijackers, pug-uglies and "pol-
icy” operators will be run in or
run out.
But that is only part of the
job.
The great weakness of our
legal machine is its inability to
do much by way of restitution.
per 100,000 population was
1929 in Washington, 861 in
Baltimore, 6 33 in Rochester,
405 in Philadelphia and 1562
in Toronto. But criminologists
scoff at the idea that these fig-
ures proved there was four or
five times as much larceny in
Washington or Toronto aa in
Philadelphia.
Warner concludes that statis-
tics of offenses committed are
so untrustworthy in most Amer-
ican cities as to warrant no
place in a national publication
on crime statisia and impltes
that it will be Flong time be-
,
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headed west, I
journeyed back
to my domicile
and pledged to
put in a day for
my readers.
Going thru
i my mail—still
ebull lent — I
TT IS HARD to realize that the curtain has
1 rung down for David Belasco.
His gentle, halting “You have made me‘
very happy" still lingers in the memory of
Character creation, and gloried in it.
One of Belnsco’s last productions was "It‘s
a Wise Child,” an unpretentious comedy that
proved to be the most profitable attraction
his theater had ever housed. His earlier
“Mima," a lavish modernistic spectacle, cost
him a fortune, yet despite financial straits he
turned down an offer to name his own price I
as a producer of talking pictures.
Until the last few years, his energy seemed ;
inexhaustible. Ho wa s ‘n his theater workshop
at 8:30 in the morning and worked often uni ;
Press. Washinigton Bureau, 1342 N"
York Avenue, Washinton, P:.Su.n-
closing two cent! in atampa tor reply-
—EDITOR.
val. Professor Sam Bass War-
ner, who made the commis-
sion’s survey of criminal statis-
tics, points out that “there is a
great tendency in this country
to charge crime rates against
the police rather than against
the community.” He adds that
this, “along with the political
knd non-professional character
of American police forces, has
led, to great reluctance on the
part of many police depart-
ments to publish correct figures
of crimes known to the police.
Authority is cited to show
that records are apt to be jug-
gled when the number of crimes
greatly exceed the number of
arrests. A crime commission in
Chicago obtained a record of
141 crimes of violence commit-
ted in one month in a single
precinct, but the captain of the
precinct reported only 37 of
them as known to him.
MOSCOW. PPWorth Press
fore policy chiefs and precinct
captains can be relied upon for
the real facts.
State prisons often collect
figures on the use of intoxicat-
ing liquor by their inmates, but
the report says such statistics
are “of no value either to the
institution or to the country at
large."
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"rHERE are no statistics on
1 the use of liquor by non-
criminals with which these fig-
ures can be compared," it is ex-
plained. “Further, the figure*
are very unreliable, since the
matter is one upon which the
prisoners have a strong interest
in lying, and the majority of
prisons do not check up on the
truthfulness of the prisoners
statements as to their use of
liquor.” . .
The U. S. attorney general 15
mildly spoofed for including un-
der “Habits of Life” figures on
federal prisoners who— \
“Claim to be temperate.
"Admit themselves to be in-
temperate.”
What, the commission
Is “temperate" and what is “In-
temperate” and who decides in
which class the prisoner shall
be entered?
The reliability of prison sta-
tistics varies greatly from insti-
tution to institution, one learns.)
Sometimes the records are bas-
ed almost entirely on the pris-
oners’ statements and “it is al-
most impossible to secure even
reasonably complete informa-
tion concerning the number of
crimes committed."
years, of one’s earthly exist-
ence is not a prime consider-
come and presidents may go,
but Andrew W. Mellon goes on
forever.
The law did not permit a
person holding the position
held by Mellon to secure a di-
vorce, and Mr. Mellon wanted
one. That was a mere trifle
to Mellon. He simply gave a
few orders, and a law was
passed to enable him to get
one and as quick as he got it,
Some say that reference to his "clerical”
garb, which he termed not clerical at all but
merely old fashioned, annoyed him. Yet others
say he knew himself to be his own greatest
sought by men. .
If we want to save our girls we must deal
with facts. Such sticky sentimentalism is ruin-
‘ ous to them as it has been fatal to countless
women before them. Romantic love-ts.only
one of the splendid experiences that life offers
to women. There are many others equally im-
portant.
Ticker Tape
rAHE New York Board of
1 Trade !• opposed to shower-
Ing distinguished visitors with
ticker tape and torn-up tele-
phone books.
Outside of the unnecessary
clutter and fire hazard wbieb
-such a custom—Involves, the
board of trade solemnly de-
claree that there are better
ways of showing respect for *
celebrity than dumping waste-
baskets on hl* head.
Not arguing the point, there
is one advantage in the aper
downpour. The tonnage collect-
ed next day furnishes a good
barometer of the celebrities
rating'. Lindbergh, for instance:
drew 1800 tons while Byrd
drew only 1400.
Q. Why does a distant light
seem to twinkle?
A. Because ot the interference »t
Aust an* other particles In ths
mosphere which the rAYS encounter
whie travelinK toward the ey"
first nighters.
Born in this country of a Portuguese gypsy
mother and a Jewish father, eight hours after
they had landed, penniless, from London, David (
Belasco rose from callboy at the Metropolitan
ir22s
aiz
0 *2,5*30
; ation. Whether we are to
I have 50 years or twice 50,
j the most Important question is. •
I what are those going to be
। like? In promising better
health for our grandchildren,
Bp JACK MAXWELL
rHE Bible says: "He that is
I slow to anger is better
than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit, than he that
taketh a city.” Just what the
spirit IS, I leave to the opin-
ion of the other fellow . . .
but I know all about what it
moans to become angry; just
a bad case of one going
NUTS, Vthat's all.
Now, by the grace of things
as are. I am going to pay
my WIFE a little compliment
. doubt it not. In the
year 1898 I met a young wom-
an. her age at that date, is
nobody’s business. Some year*
later I married HER. Or
maybe she married me. Any-
way. we hooked up for LIEE,
and are still yoked. Thirty-
three years have gone by . . .
and I have never witnessed a
fit of anger on the part of
the aforesaid damsel; neither
have I heard of her snying
an unkind word to anzone.
Evidently* she has SELF-CON-
TROL . . . and manages to
live and breathe. She might
not be able to "take a city,
but she is one of the BEST
-souTB fever-ntruns"M
their dictators, such as Mus-
solini and Stalin, but people
that live in glass houses should
not toss ' pebbles, but should
clean up their own back yards.
The United States has, the
strongest dictator of any other
country. That is the power of
Ary FATHER’drifted from there to Arizona,
M buying a ranch Just outside of Tucson.
Well, I started right out 1 1th a sea urge, ran
away from home when a kid and reached san
Francisco where I stowed away on a Panama
ship. I wanted to get to New Bedford having
heard my dad’s whaling yarns. For 12 years
I was on an old whaler and then quitman
went to a merchantman. Then I became
deep sea diver. . . ...
“And it’s because I was a sea-faring man
so long that I’ve made good in New York as
a steeplejack. You see, the old whalers were
all sailing ships, and I got accustomed to run-
ning around in the rigging. Flagpole climbing
U a cinch, even at my age, for one who has
played around in the skysail yards.
“I started by painting the spire of •
church in Boston. But this seemed monoto-
nous. and being accustomed to the high spo s.
I became a parachute jumper, going around to
, country fairs. . .
"While in the show business, I went With
a fair to Paris. It went broke. It so hap-
pened that they had a job of repairing way
up near the tip of the Eiffel tower This
was duck soup for me, and paid good money
because they couldn’t find anyone who could
stand the dizzying heights.
"Funny—that attracted so much attention
that I got quite a ‘rep.’ James Gordon Ben-
nett. the old New York publisher, happened
to be there and later he Introduced me to
j Cleveland Moffatt. Moffatt was going to be
made Sunday editor of Bennett’s paper an
they wanted me to tell stories for the feature
• section. Moffatt used me in a book some
time later."
their doctors will, be busier
preventing disease than curing
it.
And this, after all, is about
all that any sensible man
would hope for. The yearning .
for ayerlii«Hng life seems to
be one of mankind’s funda-
mental traits, but it is always
assumed that that Immortality
will be enjoyed in another
world than this. The earth
part? Or is Loueas right in claiming that th*
government had to have some evidence against
him before it could lawfully get a warrant for
hi* arrest and take him into cu*tody?
Judge Woolsey’s decision went off on a
By RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON — You can’t
VV trust police officers or con-
victed criminals for crime •sta-
tistics. according to the Wick-
ersham Commission.
The commission found the
criminal statistics situation all
jumbled up and quite inade-
quate from any national stand-
point. due to the failure of
most states and other units of
government to collect them.
But, beyond that, the com-
mission finds that you can’t de-
pend on the police to admit the
amount of crime that is really
committed or on the convicts to
give facts about themselves
such as are needed in any study
of criminals, their habits and
antecedents.
Sometimes, the commission
says regarding criminal statis-
tics, “a serious abuse exists in
compiling them as a basis for
requesting appropriations or for
Justifying the existence of or
urging expanded powers and
equipment for the agency in
question rather than for the
purposes which criminal statis-
tics are designed to further.
Frequently the tables of two bu-
reaus in the same department,
dealing in part with the same
subject and relating to the.
same activities, are at variance.
«etter. to this eolurih should be
kept within SOU words to unzure
Dubiteation. letters should bear
the name of ihr writer •" • «uar:
ante ot rood taith. Name to M
withheld It desired unites the let-
ter contnins untair criticism. All
tellen wubject to ’dums 190
Ions or It the contain objection-
able natter.- Editor).
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THE FORT WORTH PRESS__—--------
----:---— THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN
tablish his right to be here, of which there
is do question, but to protect persons who look
as tho they might be aliens—for an inspector
can disbelieve a claim to citizenship quite as
readily as claim to lawful entry—from similar
arrests. Loucas demands his immedlate re-
lease from what he claims is an illegal arrest
and detention without submitting to an inves-
tigation by the Labor Department.
The real issue in the case is not a tech-
nical one. It is the question whether an ad-
ministrative branch of the government, em-
powered only to carry out the law, can do
what no court has ever claimed the right to
do—compel a man against whom it ha» no evi-
dence to prove that he is innocent before it
will release him. If this is the law we are
all, alien and citizen alike, subject to arrest
by the Labor Department and to be held ip
custody until we hsve proved that we have not
’ violated the immigration laws.
II7E ARE GOING to hear more and more
W about government economy between now
and the time Congress meets, for in economy
is planted the administration’s hope to avoid a
tax increase on the eve of an election campaign.
Politicians, of course, constantly condemn
the growth of bureaucracy. This condemnation
is as much an institution as bureaucracy itself.
But bureaucracy means several things there
are necessary bureaus and unnecessary bureaus.
Would you, for instance, reduce the expen-
ditures of the U. S. Children’s Bureau: This
agency's work should be Increased by more
money to spend.
Would • you hamper the work of the De ,
partment of Agriculture in attempting to make .
farming less a gamble and more scientific.
Remembering the Mississippi flood, would
you decrease federal expenditures for flood
control? Naturally not.
There are the unemployed to help, national
health to preserve and a score of other activi-
ties the government must Inaugurate or con
When bureaucracy 1* condemned, take a
pinch of salt with that condemnation, and re-
member that real economy is wise spending.
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON -
TN His ADDRESS at Stockholm, Sinclair
1 Lewis spoke of a certain type of Amer-
ican literature which was “sunny and full of
song and virtue."
flood of oil from there. You
see, Mr. Mellon owns the oil
lands in South America.
Everyone should get behind
Congressman Wright Patman
Andrew W. Mellon.
Mellon owns controlling in-
terest in several hundred com-
panies. Among them are such
companies as the Gulf Oil Com-
pany, and others equally as
large. Although Mellon’s of-
ficial position is that of Secre-
tary of the Treasury, that is .
only a front. It affords him
an excuse for being close to the
president. Thus big business is
represented by one of its big-
gest, (Melk i), right in the
B,M.E TRACY
NTEW YORK, May 15.—SpeaK-
Mecdaraademt'ePpraef;
15 At that, he l* not th* oldest
man to be so honored.
M Thiers was 80 when eal-
ed upon to clear away the
wreckage left by the Franco-
Prussian war.
The new president is a reel
by-product of democracy.
His parents were so poor that
ba had to leave school at an
early age. First he became a
locksmith and then a reporter.
He has held one kind of PO-
HMcal office or another during
the last 40 year*, having served
a* deputy, senator, governor of
Indo-China and minister at fi-
nance on three separate occa-
sions. .....
Three of hi* sons were killed
in the war and the fourth wa*
so badly gassed that he died
later.
TirHILE still in a state of
W ebulliency after mtssing the
Bing Alfonso
rHE new Spanish republic cel-
i ebrates it* 80th birthday by
seizing the personal fortune of
King Alfonso on th* ground-
that he should be made to pay
back what he wrongfully took.
That should be the rule in
every case where it can be ap-
plied.
Thieves, thugs, swindlrs and
all others who have preyed on
the public should not only be
apprehended and punished but
every item of value they have
acquired should be taken from
them and returned to those who
were victimized.
That would probably be a
more effective punishment than
serving time.
As Miro, the Porto Rican
"policy king” said after he was
arrested, "I've got mor* than
. 8600,000 put away and you can
all go take a running jump off
the Battery."
of days has little to;do. We
need not be disappointed if
science finds itself unable to
promise a longer life. It is
promising a better one — a
life more free from pain, a
life in which men can more
fully use the powers that are
in them. That is enough. We
would be foolish to ask for
more.
Life is not so short but that there is always
time enough for courtesy.—Emerson.
And it is one of the I
most deadly of all the evil, influences that
have long affected girls.
Romance in all its varied forms Is to he
found in this sort of writing it contain
nothing Rabelaisian, nothing bold, nothing of
Dadlrorm. 1» .11 things itiseminentiyprope 5
Yet it is Indecent and immoral, since it
presents life as it never has been and as I
never can and never will be. It presents ’
thus distorted, to girls who are flushed with
romantic dreams of future .ove.
The harm, therefore, that comes from read
ing only this type of literature cannot be over-
estimated.
. We have again the situation of local police,
appointed to administer the state or city crim-
inal law, turning Instead to help the federal
authorities enforce federal laws by illegal
methods. .1
Now at last these tactics are being chal-
lenged. A Britisher, Loucas. arrested by a
federal inspector, tipped off by the New York
police, is appealing to the courts for protection.
His arrest was unwarranted. For Loucas. was
arrested for deportation as having entered the
United States without a visa, when it was only
the precipitancy of his arrest that prevented
hl. showing the officials the visa which he
didn't happen to have with h‘m but which ha
nevertheless been duly issued in London by a
representative of our State. Department. So -
much even the government now concedes.
The fight has narrowed down to this: Did
the government, as it claims, have the rig t
to arrest Loucas without any evidence whatso-
ever of wrongdoing or violation of law on his
years to work out completely.”
Now, at 7 8. he 1. dead, and the world of
the theater is poorer for the loss of a man
whom it must have made very, very happy.
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it indefinitely.
But The more length, • in .
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By NRUCE CATTON
(NE of th* favorite dream*
• of this scientifie age has
been that human life, at some
time in the near future, will
be measurably lengthened.
The "average life span” that
we hear so much about has
been stretched in the last gen-
eration or so; most of us have
a lurking hope that It will
eventually go far beyond the
scriptural three score and ten.
However, the experts on
such matters are a bit dubious
about it. There is, for ex-
ample. Lee K. Frankel of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance,
who told the American Philo-
sophical Society recently that
the actual number of years
which an individual can attain
will probably never be much
greater than it is now.
•••
KTILL, Mr. Frankel is an
• optimist. Human beings of
the future may not live much
longer than human beings of
oday, but he believes they
will be a great deal healthier.
They will support fewer hos-
pitals and orphan asylums, and
president’s office. | uu vi wur
With this watchful eye al- ; its weight?
ways open, it is a safe bet that -
the president will never do
anything contrary to the wishes
of the party so ably represent-
ed by Mellon. Presidents may
mice seem to go into winter quarter*. Green-
wich Village has its share' of rodents, too; so
has the Bronx.
ButIn the flagpole squad, one of the most
famous is a steeplejack by the name of Robert
Merrill. And New York being what It 18,
here's a man who really worked from the
bottom up. for he once had d»ded to be a
deep sea diver and followed that trade for
years. ..
TNCOUNTERING Merril) ready to go perching
b above the St. Regis Hotel, he Informed me
that most of the men in his trade happen to
be Scandinavian*. But hl* own birthplace
chahces to be Arizona, tho his immediate an-
cestor* are New Englanders who followed the
sea until they trekked westward.
Merrill became acquainted with the height
while in the role of a parachute jumper and
there are few thing* he has not undertaken.
“You see," he began, "my father wa* n
whaler—owned a ship running out of New Bed
ford in the days when whalers were whalers.
Just about the gold rush day»—in 4 9-he
went around the horn and wound up in Sa
Francisco. Hi* erew joined the gold rush
erowa, and being unable to get another erew
together, he aWnTniiF'? the shig,anehere
y rotted. _________ ”
* N,
IN WASHINGTON: tithes jumbled and unreliable.
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