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DEATH FOR RECKLESS DRIVING Some sort of record for severity in dealing with reckless driving seems to have been set by the Russian court in Moscow, which recently imposed the death penalty on a motorist who let his car get out of control, caromed into a marching column of troops, and caused the death of four men. We are sometimes told by the alarmists that we are growing more like Russia every day. But it is interesting to imagine what would happen if any legislature in America today tried to enact a death penalty for reckless driving, or any court tried to enforce it. Of course the repeal era may force us to drastic action eventually. This Russian sentence is all the more astounding when one considers the fact that, except in cases of counter-revolutionary activity, Russian courts arc.

reluctant to impose the death penalty at all, even for cold- blooded murder. Jt isn't likely that very many Americans would favor the adoption of such stringent measures in this country. Nevertheless, there is something to be said for the adop- IJMIII ri tion of extreme severity toward the man 1 who handles his car so poorly that he destroys the lives of his fellow men. We have a lot of public menaces of that variety in America, and so far we do not seem to have found any very effective way of dealing with them. We just knew that there was going to be trouble in western Europe.

Andorra, smallest country on that continent, has gone on a war basis, raising an army of six officers and six privates. LOOKING BACKWARD Into Filet of Freeport Newspapers FIFTY VKARS AGO I THIRTY YEARS AGO William O. Wright starts Miss Margaret L. Fry left this Bradford, tomorrow, where he morning on a visit, in New York city. will remain for some time.

Miss Kate Palmer has returned from a visit at La Saile and Peru, 111. Mtes Florence Wllkins went to Rockford this morning where she will attend the Seminary. Lieut. T. H.

Capron, U. 8. stationed with the 9th Infantry at Fort Badger, territory, is In the city visiting friends. John Chambers, of West Point township, captured Inrge she wolf and brought the scalp into town yesterday receiving $40 for same, Mrs. Fred Bentley, better known to her many friends here, as Hattle Kerlin, has been the guest of rela- C.

H. Munn, of Parkersburg, I lives the past week, Dr. and Mrs. and Dr. Clarence Leigh, of Grundy City, Iowa, were here to spend New Bentley have recently returned from a year's sojourn In London and Year's with Freeport relatives and Vienna, where In the latter city the friends.

Mrs. Sonator Logan came out the RlgR.s House the other day Mrs. James O. Blalne was passing and they walked a block together. That little Incident started that report that Logan a.

and An American correspondent in Shanghai says China has had a depression for 4,0" years. As Charlie Chan would say, "Pi- ali- enee lovely virtite." But we're not built that way. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934 A NEW ROLE FOR CONGRESS There are many gloomy prophets abroad today who foresee a possible disregard or "repeal" of the constitution because President Roosevelt has laid so firm a hand on congress, and because congress doesn't seem to resent the control he wields. Sentor McNary probably had this in mind Jvhen, after listening to the president's speech to the joint session, he said it was a "repeal of the constitution." These same gloomy prophets have, evidently forgotten how indignant they all were at the lame duck session at the end of Hoover's administration. In that congress, the president could get no co-operation at all.

There was nothing but opposition, fussing, speechmaking, and the customary distribution of pork. There are a good many students of government today who think that the real spirit of the constitution could be lived up to more closely if congress were shorn of some of the functions which it now exercises so badly. The check on the executive could be better preserved if congress enacted neither appropriation measures nor tariff laws, but merely retained the power of ratifying appropriations and tariff schedules proposed by the executive. If this takes the breath away from any reader, let him reflect how sorely congress has abused these two legislative powers. There is nothing which has brought congress into more disrepute than its log-rolling on tariffs and on various laws that call for the spending of money.

What is more, the exercise of these two powers subjects congressmen to the ceaseless attack of lobbyists. Most congressmen, senators as well as representatives, are yielding enough to promise trickles from the treasury to their constituents, by whom they hope to be reelected. A more effective would require the initiative to be taken in spending and in tariff-making by the executive, lie would have to propose. Congress could finally dispose. This would prevent recklessness by the president; it would also enable a more intelligent and inclusive view of government finances by the spenders of public money.

With the director of the budget at his elbow, the president could hardly go wild on his financial program. If ho did, congress could crack down on him, and refuse to approve the appropriations. As it if tmhi.v, I ho executive and tlin legislature ure hi a ninod. Whal the for eaiT.vinj.' out his recov- i plenty wit limn permitt ing tin still mure spending ilial is not. except for purposes ol vote- gelling.

The recent tariff laws enacted by congress have all heen sorry failures, and have contributed largely to the present low state of the Republican party. Republicans quite generally admit this today. The present tariff law is a rneasmv to tho economic conditions nf the times, and could not have come into except, for logrolling and exchange of favors. President A preview of the models submitted by CWA sculptors for the beautification of Chicago makes one feel that the government might be spending money to better advantage if it paid the CWA artists NOT to do the work. Blalnc on t'no Logan to be president and Blalne, of state.

What Mrs. Grundy don't know about politics, there's no use In any fellah trying to find out. Washington Correspondent. doctor took a post graduate course In medicine and Mrs. Bentley studied piano.

Will Llchtcnberger, who leaves for Chicago to accept a responsible position with the C. M. St. Paul Railroad In a. few days was tendered a farewell party by members of the Railroad Clerks Union at K.

of G. hall last night. All expressed regret at Will's removal from the city but assured him he will carry with him their best wishes for a prosperous career in the big city. Watch For Forcing Pass BY E. McKKNNKY Secretary, American Bridge League Naturally, most of the interesting hands nt contract bridge present only a problem in bidding.

The following hand was indeed an interest- In problem, due to the fact thnt Bust, In the course of the bidding, hud put 1n a psychic. Over BouUi's bid North should bid of one 1 two diamonds i A Freeport business man declares that he heard one of his patrons growling the other day as he read a newspaper headline saying that NEW ERA." the president "FORESEES "What's this ERA?" the patron inquired, "another of these cussed alphabetic things? rather than support the heart suit. Remember thnt we do not advocate the supporting of partner's bid with less than four with three to the there Is a better bid In your hand, until partner, by a re-bid, shows his suit to be at least five cards In length. East's bid of three clubs over the two diamonds, of course, Is purely n. i psychic, a good out In spades.

South properly doubles the three- club bid, North letting it remain. If East had passed, East and West would not tnke a trick. East tnkes himself out with three spades. What Other Editors Say congress empower Roosevelt wants to have him to make change's in the tariff. It seems like an innovation, but it is all to the good.

We have had too much protection of shaky industries that can never stand on their foot, to the. detriment of other Indus- trie's which can. As for appropriations, their enactment con. -imn amount of time, and with of v. ho an' a fl- )-.

JM h'-'-i a i in -e. a park in or a HI bure.au in depart- Congress has never, in its history, ment. shown that it can handle appropriations effectively. Of late, the favors asked for have reached mountainous heights. not.

let IIP initiative in expenditure come from the executive, and then have congress approve or disapprove? Bank Deposits Insured Hook Uliiiid ArKiis The people! of Rock Island could not have received a more welcome New Year's! day greeting than the announcement yes-j terelay from Washington that both local i banking institutions had qualified for mem-' bership in the. Federal Deposit Insurance corporation. Effective at once, deposits in the State bank of Rock Island and the Rock Island Bank and Trust company are insured up t.o $2,500. While every indication pointed to the acceptance of the Rock Island banks by the new federal agency, the confirmation of this presumption by official action following rigid federal examinations of the assets of both institutions, will be gratifying to their more than 25,000 depositors. The establishment of the deposit guarantee plan, supported as it is by the United States government, should result in the return of sums which were withdrawn during the banking emergencies of the past two or three yours to be put in deposit boxes or deposited with the postal savings system.

That these sums are large in Rock Island as well us in practically every other community in the country, there; is no question. At the peak in liloO, Rock Island banks hud total of approximately $20,000,000 in bunk deposits. Today tho figure is only slightly above $5,000,000. A large percentage of the shrinkage can be accounted for. Nearly $0,000,000 ure tied up in waiver agreements executed by the depositors.

The normal drain on savings accounts for tho legitimate purposes of living and carrying on business during tho years of the depression has been estimated by some bunking analysis at to per cent, which, if accepted as fair estimate, would mean that the depression's levy on Uock Inland bank ha-- been heiween UOO.OOO ami This leaves uboul to either in safety deposit boxes or with the postal savings. On 1 the postal savings deposits at the Rock Island postoft'icc were $1,570,000. At the start of the hanking difficulty the total he re was only $50,000. It required '20 years for the Koek Island postoffice to receive the first 1.000 postal savings accounts, lu the last three years the accounts increased to 5,000. In 1 alone, the new accounts totaled which brought now deposils of $81 While it is impossible to accurately state how much is in safety deposit boxes and under mattresses, can readily believe it would at least equal tne postal savings figure in Rock Island.

J. F. O'Connor, comptroller of currency, foresees in the new guarantee plan the possible eventual abolishment of ihe postal savings system, taking the view thai the latter will no longer be needed. He be- lioveK iliM with government protection itiiTcl to ba I-, depositors, th.e people will aid 1:1 the rehabilitation of and imiuotry and the acceleration ol ivmnur-! cial activity in their own community, rath-! er than deposit it with the postal savings! and have it sent to Washington. Hankers who desire to resume normal i banking functions to the end that local! business may go forward, are hopeful thai! this will be the public's reaction.

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South West. North Kiist 1 1 Double 1 5 1 9 4 'HSS -1 4 'ass 7 Pass 7 A 3 Today's Contract Problem Soutli has the contract at three no trump. West opens the king diamonds. How should South play the hand to make four no trump? 7 6 3 .1 -t 3 AQ 10 A 1 0 7 4 a 5 Jf.SC, Dealer A 1 0 A is 7 3 9 4 9 5 41074 K9 2 2 4 A 8 2 Solution 5 4 In next issue. 3 Papa of Prohibition Still Loves His Child Now South's bid of four clubs is proper to show that his second suit really is clubs.

North's bid of four spades shows no losing tricks In spades. South bids five hearts to show that he would prefer to play the hand In hearts. North can take the contract to seven hearts. East makes fine sacrifice bid of seven spades. South now is confronted with quite a problem.

His partner has 1 made a cue bid In spades, showing 1 no losing spndes. Due to the fact South holds a singleton spade, it looks very much as though North holds the ace of spades rather than void, and, if this is the case, undoubtedly a grand slarn in no trump can be made. However, South should not guess proper declaration is to pass. This Is a forcing pass, requiring partner either to bid seven no trump or to double. Naturally, without the ace of spades, North Is forced to double.

If North's cue bid had been based on the ace of spades, the grand In no trump could be made. Tills is a fine example of the forcing pass, and is a bid for which our readers should watch carefully. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) BY RODNEY DUTCHER Journal-Standard Washington Correspondent Washington, Jan. beautiful child of surpassing brilliance, cut off In the bloom of youth, after beginnings of rare promise, will be mourned by a heartbroken father on Jan. 16.

The neighbors deemed it an ugly brat and a general nuisance. But not Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, parent of the 18th amendment, upon whose grave he now tenderly will toss posies. For 13 years, on successive anniversaries of prohibition's birth, he rose in the senate to pay fond tribute to his offspring. Repeal will not deter him from his annual speech. "It was a success," he says.

"Best enforced law we ever had." Originally, to Sheppard, prohibition was the greatest event since the Nativity. He hasn't changed his views. In 1930: "Our country Is now the light of the earth by virtue of its moral and economic supremacy, for which prohibition is largely responsible." In 1931, the amiable, white-haired little senator was estimating repeal would take a hundred years. Last year he was saying that repeal would "begin the moral dismemberment of America," and as Texas prepared to ratify he made 40 speeches against it. Today, leaning against the wailing wall, he hopes for a national re-conversion.

Mighty Man Is Garner Jack Garner, the vice president, couldn't get into the senate chamber a day or two before congress opened. His keys wouldn't fit. After 10 minutes of fiddling, cussing a.nd summoning, he learned the locks had been changed during the summer. "Peel my muscle!" bragged Garner when someone suggested he wasn't strong enough to bust the door. "I did a lot of bending to touch my toes and just to make it interesting, I picked up handsful of pecans every time." The hardy vice president slept on the bare ground until, he says, his hips began to hurt him.

Then Mrs. Garner fashioned him a feather mattress. Wet Blanket on G. O. P.

Chubby Ogden Mills, former treasury secretary and a leading Republican presidential possibility for 1936, Isn't picking his cabinet just yet. Asked when the G. O. P. really would open fire on the Roosevelt administration, he replied: "You can't shoot when you're under a wet blanket." Returning Republican members of congress feel the same way.

Few arrived before the morning the session opened. Not even Senator Dave Reed of Pensylvania, who will be the most effective attacker in any offensive. You will hear plenty from Reed this session. He's worrying about renomination and reelection and his speeches will be made with an eye on Pennsylvania politics. Governor Glfford Pinchot will oppose Reed In the primaries, and the dope is that National Committeeman Joe Guffey is aiming to be the Democratic senatorial nominee.

Kickback Racket Bared The "kickback racket" is one unearthed by Senator Copeland's committee on crime prevention. It's the term used in those labor unions which demand a cut- in on a member's wages before they let him take a Job, YOUR CHILDREN BY OLIVE ROBEIKTS BARTON "Now then, here we are, Patsy," said Patsy's nurse brightly, setting the tray holding her charge's dinner on the nursery table. "Lots of good food to oat to make Patsy grow up Into a big fine girl." Patsy said nothing hut opened up her doll trunk and began stuffing In Lois- May- Anna- Jane-Lou, head, legs, arms and all including also Lois May Anna Jane-Lou's large straw "Oh, don't, do that. You're mining your dolly!" Nurse. "Stop it at once or I'll rail your mother.

Come on, now," she said with suddenly changing tone. "Let's have a nice party nnd see how much of this lovely vegetable soup nnd junket, you ran eat. And soo the lovely nice boiling Oh goody! I wish 1 hart nice boiling meat like that. I'm -m, yuin--ni!" Slir out the dishes, got. Patsy inio m.i'l chair and pullet) up "vii i 1 "-id "lli'ii 1 I'hii'ix'd.

"We put nii'i- napkin across Patsy's knees, like a lady, and Patsy, don't do that! Had, nativity girl! Ladies don't throw their napkins on the floor. There! No, don't tuck it in your neck either. the way Susan did with you. I gue.ss. Well, it, Isn't polite.

You inu.st learn to eat properly and not. things on your dress. You must always keep your napkin in your lap, unfolded once. Stop stiffening out your legs, you little Be a nice girl now. Oh, do taste this lovely soup.

Manners Come Later "Oh, Just a spoonful. See! Um-m, yum-m! Here, Patsy, taste the soup. Don't click your teeth on the spoon. Another form of ftrthrltU aecondary to Infection in gall-bladder, appendix, kidneys or sinuses. is not as acute and serious as the type Just mentioned.

This form of arthritis Is not so frequently fatal and much less likely to attack the heart. In still another type of arthritis, the Joints gradually become crippled; one after the other they break down and are injured permanently. It is not definitely known whether this Is due to Infection, to some dietary disorder, or to some special type of sensitivity. The disease gradually gets worse, and the most that can be done is to give the patient relief from the pain by suitable physical measures and perhaps, by good treatment, to limit extent of the deformity and progress of the disease. Finally, there Is ft form of arthritis that Is due to disorders of the metabolism, or chemical functioning of the body, in relationship to food.

Gout represents arthritis of this type. Apparently, In this type of Inflammation, moderation In eating is of the greatest Importance. Such a person should eat eggs, green vegetables, cereaJs, milk and milk products as the chief elements In his diet. IN NEW YORK DAILY HEALTH NEWS You're not eating ncvor, never turn clown in your mouth. tlie spoon.

And a spoon lie re, upside Nursy show you. Take some soup in your spoon and then eat it. Don't smack your lips. Don't raggle. Orent heavens, you little pig, stop that.

Pat.sy Jones, if you dare to stoop and drink that soup out of your dish llko it gutter pup I'll certainly smack you. Here, take the spoon, darling, and tnsto the lovely carrots and celery and tomatoes. And oh, here's a. dear little barley grain. Up-a-dee! There! Patsy ate up the dear little barley grain.

Oh, you must eat it ALL! You can't just fish out barley Brains with your fingers. Ugh! Nassy! "Well, that's enough dinner. We'll vjet mi our things and go out for a walk The bis tilings about any little child's meal are peace, silence, and to iret. the food inside. Manners an? not important at three.

They'll come along by-and-by. Don't worry. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeta, the Health Magazine What you may think is rheumatism may be, Instead, a form of arthritis, or some inflammation following an accident, that can be cured more easily than rheumatism. Rheumatism may affect the whole body, while arthritis is any inflammation of the joints.

Of course, some cases of arthritis may be rheumatic. On the other hand, a person may sustain an injury to a joint, such as a sprain of the ankle, which may be followed by inflammation. Arthritis of this type usually Is not infected and gets well if the joint is put at rest by bandaging or with a splint. After the inflammation has disappeared the joint may be used a little each day and will recover. There Is a form of acute rheumatic disease which occurs in people under 30 years of age.

This form of disease usually begins with an infection somewhere in the body; for example, teeth, tonsils, or throat. From these points, the germs are carried by the blood to the joints, which then swell and become painful. Associated with these cases are fever and sweating. Moreover in some cases, the heart is affected and the condition known as acute rheumatic fever develops. BY PAUL HARRISON New York, Jan.

Over the there were fewer hospitalized cases of alcoholism than in previous years. But some of the celebrants were seeing things One fellow, In evening dress and dragging a leash and vacant dog collar behind him, appeared in Dave's Blue room and tacked two or three times to an anchorage by the cashier. "Bring us," he commanded, "fifty cents worth of raw ground a plate." The meat appeared and was paid for. The man put the dish on the floor and Jiggled the leash. "Here y'are, boy.

Eat your supper." While Broadwayites looked on wonderingly, some snickering, the fellow stood there patiently, looking Intently at the place where a dog would have been had there been a dog inside the collar. Finally he gave up. "I guess he doesn't like It," he said sadly. "C'mon, y'mutt." And out he went, with the ectoplasmic pooch trotting obediently behind. Clifton Webb, the high-hat song and dance man, says Llbby Holman plans a return to the stage, but perhaps not before next fall.

She already has turned down some tremendous movie offers One of the chorus men in "Let 'Em Eat Cake" used to be a rabbi! His name Is David Gross, arid he quit his religious work because he believes there should be a single universal religion. Having a fine voice, he drifted into show business David Wark Griffith nnd Mack Bennett went swimming together In the Park Central pool the other day. Back in the old Bio- grapli days, it was Griffith who broke the glorlfier of the bathing girl Into the movie game. "Yoohoo, Prosperity!" i The new Manhattan telephone directory reveals an upturn In optimism. Twenty-three concerns have sprung up calling themselves "Prosperity" somethlng- or-other.

And 35 establishments, dealing hi everything from dresses to fish, are named "new deal" "The Zzyx," a club on Forty-fourth street, retains its last- place listing, but competition is growing keener for first position. The A. A. A. Ace Box company, for example, has Jumped ahead of the A.

A. A. Aaron Charcoal company by changing its name to the A. A. A.

A. A. A. Ace Box company New Yorkers who think their town boasts the most unusual night clubs should read, in the magazine Billboard, of the cave cabaret being built near Bowling Green, Ky. All underground, it is to occupy one of the larger grottoes of the region, and a lighted waterfall of the mysterious Lost River will provide an eerie scenic effect.

Neighboring caves will serve as private dining rooms. Billboard also reports that the Beaux Arts, at Atlantic City, has a bar that's so long the bartenders have to wear roller skates. Fair Comes to Broadway The old Hippodrome theatre, originally the scene of elephant acts and various super-spectacles, has a circus again. All was excitement backstage the other evening when word got around that old John Ringling, king of the circus business, was out front taking a busman's holiday. Part of the Century of Progress has been transplanted to five floors of Grand Central Palace.

"Venus" is there, and the Parisian dancers, and many another show that drew throngs on the world's fair midway. But the star of the exhibition is a local devil fish that proves New York's most amazing fish story. While getting ready to fish for porgy several miles offshore, A. L. Kahn, a manufacturer, tossed an anchor from his small motorboat.

The anchor went down and right Into one of the gills of the giant Manta. After a battle of several hours a coast guard vessel came along'and hoisted Kahn, his motorboat and the devilfish aboard and brought them to port. Kahn (now Captain Kahn) had the creature stuffed and became a showman. Says It beats the manufacturing business all hollow. Having developed the necessary technique for almost unlimited production of wealth, the engineer no longer can afford to stand aside while financiers, promoters, and politicians so tragically bungle the problem of its A.

A. Potter of Purdue University School of Engineering. ANOTHER PLACE WHERE WORKING HOURS NEED TO BE REGULATED 1619 reaches of Mew Orleans, Leans, Louisiana i OR. BOYS DO FARM WORK UNDER PRUSSIAN EDICT Berlin Two hundred tlcou- PrusMan sohool boys must "back to tho 1'iirin" for a year of labor, after graduating from city public in June. Tho icioii.

sponsored by Bernliard Prushlan minister of culture, Is. n.s ho explained it in Nazi terminology, "to show the alliance between blood and soil in the now Gorman community." The boys' work, Rust said, would pay for their keep. VETERAN FINDS MESS KIT LOST DURING WORLD WAR tV.e World war, turned up in a sale of salvaged army goods here the other day and was restored to him. Stationed at El Pa.so. Texas, in 101V.

he fcrau-hed his initials on th.e kit w.i.-, loci battle nnd Mayo forgot tjip incident until a friend chanced to see it at the sale..