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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Every man's work shall he made Corinthians 3:13. ONG LIFE IS DENIED us; let us therefore do something to show that he have ASK PROTECTION. I IS NOT SURPRISING to hear that the residential sections of Llyswen are seeking zone protection. In this city, as well as throughout the country at large, occupants of residential districts are engaged in the active pursuit of protective legislation.

They wish to insure the banning of business pursuits of every sort from the districts they have set apart for residential purposes. Of course, business houses are necessary for the comfort and convenience of citizens who reside in residential sections of any community. But the idea of the average citizen is that while business 'operations are essential to the convenience of family life, yet It is best to have them located at a reasonable distance from the homes of the people. This seems to be a natural ai well as a highly desirable idea. And while business believes reasonable proximity to residential sections is very desirable for the mutual accommodation of its promoters and of the general public, the owners or occupants of private residences are best satisfied with a reasonable too the turmoil and oftimes confusion inevitable in every center of reasonably active business.

It is conceded that they 'do not usually mix well. Generally speaking, however, there la BO real dispute between the different elements of any community's daily life. Operating for mutual convenience and benefit, these diverse elements are usually able to carry on their activities from day to day without any conflict. We may recognize the existence side by side of divera operations, yet all of them marked by the spirit of mutual helpfulness. ENFORCED IDLENESS.

ARE TOLD that more than 150,000 adult Pennsylvanians, men and women, are idle today because no man has given them work. This would indicate that three-quarters of a million men, women and children in the single state of Pennsylvania are In a condition of great uncertainty concerning the immediate future. The situation ia far from being as bad as it might be, but it ia bad enough. No properly constituted man or women can afford to contemplate such a condition of affairs with indifference. We should all be interested in the alleviation of conditions at the earliest possible moment.

There is a certain vital sense in which the employed worker is his brother's keeper, especially when that brother ia out of work and has a wife and children dependent upon him. At such a time aa this the number of unemployed in any given community is apt to be comparatively email. That reduces the complexity of the situation considerably and renders the task of relief correspondingly lighter. Thus when all thoM who have work or are fortunate enough to have a sufficiency and to spare, are vitally interested ia the problem of help, the aituation may be tided over without much But we should all gladly help in the time of need. GOING TO THE tAKM.

I ACCORDANCE WITH ITS annual custom, the Kiwanla club of this city will extend the hoispi- of its farm, near the city to ft group of forty boys during the heated Mason. The fortunate youngsters hove been selected and will be conveyed to the farm on Wednesday next. The are eagerly looking forward tu their experiences during heated term. The Altoona Mirror ia confident it a very considerable of citizens of Uitfc ffttti ft ttie club upon htet Its Inclination to fee to go ninny at city dttttng a. consider- part of the fttttea term is equal- led by Its ability.

It owns a fine carnfc our readers know, and has for some seasons been extending the privileges of aft outing to under- prvNlged boys. Every man or woman who Is interested in the continued progress of the human family and particularly of the boys must cherish a kindly feeling toward the Klwanls club and all similar organizations that are both willing and able to benefit a certain number of the lads of our community. Every wise person understands the vital Importance'of Influencing young life In the proper direction at the critical moment. In an Incredibly brief time our children grow up and take our places in the community and the world. Their value to their generation will depend very largely upon the training they receive in childhood and youth.

It has taken the civilized world a considerable period to grow accustomed to the idea that It Is responsible for the proper education and training of the coming generations. It is our duty and should be regarded as an exalted privilege to train our successors not only to take our places but also to exceed our services to the world to which we are all debtors. Freely we have received; freely we should give. Frances Folsom Cleveland THfe SAtJNTEREft SHOUll CHICAGO AND ITS GANGS. OR MANY MONTHS the country has been reading and hearing about Chicago and its murderous gangsters.

It has been stated in the public prints and not denied that the business life and the political life of the city are at the mercy of reckless and quite well known gangsters. Apparently about all the average Chlcagoan did so far has been to shake his head and murmur something about the deplorable state of affairs existing in that city. The truth is that the situation In Chicago seems to be typical of conditions throughout the country at large. From in the centers of has been disregarded and defied. Murder become an almost daily incident in our large cities.

Disregard for law has grown Into a general habit. Many of our people have forgotten the simplicity of the fathers and seem to have reached a point where obedience to law has become old-fashioned. We are not indulging In a senseless tirade. We are not exaggerating. Our country seems to have raeched a point where the people themselves must stop and consider the situation before proceeding to action if law and order are to be maintained and the enemies of orderly government are to bo driven to the rear and compelled to respect the powers that be.

We do not realize the danger here in our orderly city, but it clearly exists. Not only that, conditions continue to grow worse. We realize that serious thinking has largely disappeared. But it remains true that the bulk Of our population consists of patriotic men and women who love their country and desire its continued prosperity and development. These folks are not willing that our institutions shall fail.

All they need is organization. Especially do we need a better class of men and women in control of our affairs. Each citizen should help to bring the better days to pass, to drive out evil and keep it out. SOMEBODY TO BLAME. HE COLLISION IN BOSTON harbor the other night in which almost half a hundred human lives were lost under circumstances of peculiar horror, seems to have been due to the wanton carelessness of some official on one of the boats.

It was bad enough that so many lives were taken under such terrible conditions. The incident made the occurrence one of the most agonizing on record seems to be slowly coming to light, too late to be useful. One does not know just how an event of this sort may be utilized for the benefit of the living in time to come. One wishes some process might be discovered and utilized in the future. But human carelessness is one of the marvels of our times and there doesn't seem to be any process whereby a better state of affairs may be brought to pass.

Almost certainly the human -race has not heard of cruel disasters for the last time. The constant reader of the news columns of the daily press has become habituated to the sorry tale of disaster which greets him morning and evening. The narratives differ in their contents, but they overflow with tales of the same tenor, recording disaster after disaster morning, noon and night. Some are beyond the power of mankind to prevent, but there is a great deal of reason to suspect that they might have been greatly modified had care been exerted to mitigate the possibility of disaster. The trouble is that our people are too careless, too heedless, too much hurried.

Hence disasters are often seen to occur in quick succession. An actor says that stage jokes are more refined than they were 40 years ago. There's a. good joke. MIRRORGRAMS It requires a head to look ahead.

You receive no better than you give. The man who tries to do it all ends by doing very little. It's not what you did yesterday, but what you are doing today that counts. One good way to insure failure i.s to shirk responsibility. Another is become a chronic buck-passer.

RANCES n'otjSOM CLBVBLAN'D, wife of Gtover Cleveland, ty-second and twenty-fourth dent of the united had several unique distinctions among those who have presided as mistress of the executive mansion, she was the only White Mouse bride ot.ft president, the only one to whom a child was born In the White House and the only one Who upon becoming a widow remarried. Mrs. Cleveland, now Mrs. Thomas S. Preston, is still living at Princeton, N.

J. Several others were married to presidents while in office, but the weddings did not take place In the White House. The "bride of the White House," Mrs. Cleveland was one of the most popular of all those Who have reigned there and she is the only one who, after a reign there, returned after an interim of four years. She was the daughter of; Oscar Folsom, a law partner of the president, and after the death of her father Mr.

Cleveland became her guardian. She was born in 1864 and after attending school in her native city she went to Wells college. After graduating she traveled In Europe and was married to the president on June 2, 1886, soon after her return from abroad. The wedding was a notable event in Washington society and it attracted the attention of the whole country. The bride was but 22 years of age.

the youngest of all the president's wives, although hot the youngest mistress of the White House. She was a most beautiful, charm- Ing and accomplished young woman and following the wedding the president's sister, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, who had presided over the White House, stepped out and Mrs. Cleveland entered upon the exacting role. Despite her youth and inexperience, she acquitted herself in a manner to bring upon herself, her husband and the country the highest credit, presiding most gracefully at all public functions and making friends of all whose pleasure it was to come in contact with her. At the election in November, 1888, her husband was defeated for reelection and she and Mr.

Cleveland thereupon removed to New York city, where during 'the next four years he was engaged in the practice of law. In 1892 he was again nominated for the presidency and at the election he defeated Benjamin Harrison, to whom he had lost in 1888, and March 4, 1893, again found the Clevelands installed in the White House. Their first child, Ruth, was born In New York, Oct. 3, 1891. The second, Esther, was born In the White House in 1893.

Subsequently three other children were born to them, Marian, Richard and Francis Grover. Ruth, the eldest, died at Princeton after their retirement in 1897. The others are living. Richard served In the marine corps during the World war. After they left the White House on March 4, 1897, the Clevelands took up their residence at where Mr.

Cleveland died on June 24, 1908. On Feb. 10, 1913, Mrs. Cleveland was married to Professor Thomas S. Preston, an instructor in the university, and they have since resided at Princeton.

A woman of rare charm, fine personality and highly accomplished, Mrs. Preston Is highly venerated by all in the university town. Esther- Cleveland, the White House baby, is now Mrs. Randolph West. WHAT OTHERS SAY Minimizes Fear.

The tendency upon the part of our courts to impose light sentences for violation, of the prohibition laws, or to place the giiilty ones on parole, is a bad practice and tends to prevent that fear of the consequences of their illegal acts such as should prevail. Violators of the law do not mind such sentences. They expect them. Many persons go into the bootlegging business with the determination to follow it until they make enough money to retire and in the meantime, if they are caught within the law's clutches, they cheerfully pay a fine, if one is imposed, or go to if necessary, and then go at it again. Light sentences have no terror for them.

A long term in jail is the only thing that will deter them. We-hear much about the laxity of enforcement and much of this is due to the failure of the courts to make their penalties more severe. 1 Nothing but the most drastic punishment will curb this open violation of the law and when the judges of the courts complain of congested dockets growing out of violations of the prohibition laws, it might be well for them to exercise a little introspection and ascertain they, themselves, are not to blame for much of this deplorable Gazette. A Diversion. The Chicago tornado must have been enjoyed as a pleasant Appeal.

(Memphis.) Just Happens. Why is it so hard for the law to find a fake stock promoter arid so easy for the victim to find Racine Journal News. T'would Be Great. This would be a much more interesting world if half of the class prophecies came Star. 0 Seasonable.

It is the season when it seems most people are graduating or getting World-Herald. Better Weather Desired. The country has now definitely shifted its straw from votes to hats. Haute Star. 23 YEARS AGO TODAY From the Mirror Files.

The Altoona baseball team held fifth place in the Tri-State league, having won sixteen games and lost nineteen. John Schell, aged 82, died at his home at M15 First avenue and Mrs. Margaret Kearney, aged 67, 1512 Seventh avenue. Councilman David E. North introduced an ordinance to provide a system of collection and disposal of garbage in Altoona.

C. A. Wood, chief clerk in the general superintendent's office, returned from an extended trip to California and made preparations to go to Europe with his son, Charles, and Rev. Morgan M. Sheedy.

Rev. O. S. Frantz, student in the Reformed seminary at Lancaster, was supplying at Trinity Reformed church. He won two prizes at the seminary, one for the best sermon and the other for the best essay, in his class.

Jacob R. Hurtman, aged 23, of Martinsburg, and William F. Wendt, aged 47, of 419 Crawford avenue, were killed in Goodman's repair yard when a draft of cars ran against a car under which they were working. off MONEY did have the united States tthen 1 was 8. lad, Seventy.

or eighty years ago?" It was the Octogenarian and he was ing to one of his younger grahdehilS tiren ift answer to 6ne of the almost Innumerable queries that fell from the lips of one of the round dozen of whom he is proud to boast. And the great-grandchildren are not included, either. Of the latter he cannot Count as many as he ought, but he has noticed that very few of the youngest generations seem to be quite so fortunate in getting children as the older ones have proved themselves. The solitary are not planted In families so numerously as they once were. And then went on to answer, In accordance with his recollection.

He doesn't remember whether the half-cent was coined during his childhood. He could not remember having ever seen a coin of that denomination In RIs childhood, and he does not know now when the half-cent was launched. He has very vivid recollection of the old Conner penny which preceded the nicklfe penny. Before the Civil war the other coins he recalls were the 3-cent piece, the 6-cent piece, the dime, the quarter and the half dollar. Much foreign silver circulated, generally pieces that passed for quarter dollars.

Another foreign piece represented a half dime and was called a fl'penny bit. There was a foreign sliver piece commonly called a "levy," and worth cents. The federal government Issued no paper money, so far as I recollect before the Civil war. State banks issued notes. Otherwise, gold and silver were the sole mediums of exchange.

For a time In 1861 much embarrassment was experienced In finding change. This difficulty was overcome In due time by the Issue of what was called fractional currency. Beginning with 3 cents, it represented 5, 10, 25, 50 cents and perhaps some other denominations. That was a long time ago and the Saunterer, then a boy, handled very little of it. He remembers, however, that some of It was villainous looking stuff.

That was particularly true of the paper half dollar. The Saunterer believes he mentioned In this column a few days ago that the first piece of hard money he ever saw after the Civil war began was a silver half dollar given to him by Colonel John A. Lemon in May, 1876. Colonel Lemon was than a member of the senate of Pennsylvania. That piece of solid currency was surely prized by the recipient.

How long he cherished it cannot now recall, but it was certainly quite a curiosity to most of his associates and especially to those of his own age and station in life. Also the Saunterer recalls that almost at the beginning of the southern rebellion, for some unremembered reason he abandoned his position as steerman on a boat by whose captain he was employed, and returned to his home in the little town in which much of his childhood and young manhood were passed. He had great difficulty in getting his money changed and was compelled to spend almost 50 cents on the dollar before the desired end could be accomplished. That is to say, he gave away almost half his money in order to secure the smaller denominations which he had absolute need. It was a consternation breeding occasion.

If the young who were prominent In the home community are to be judged by. their talk and their actions in the beginning of the events immediately succeeding the Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, few of them had the slightest conception of the tragic events which were about to confront them. Nor were older persons any wiser. It was not until after the assault upon Fort Sumter and its capture by the confederate forces that the friends of the Union began to perceive dimly, and more than half incredulously still that their brethren of the south were in deadly earnest.

To say that they were astonished, stunned, is scarcely to visualize the situation. Well, how easy it is for a writing chap to go off at a tangent concerning something that possesses little interest for the present generation. The Saunterer had no thought of the beginning of the Civil war or of the Inconvenience caused by the suspension of specie payment or of the other dead and past deprivations or changes resulting from the attack upon Fort Sumter and its gallant garrison. It seems highly probable now that our country has safely encountered the more serious perils of national infancy and that it is destined to encounter a prosperous and an honored old age. This is a very much more respectable and peaceful world than the one into which our fathers were born.

There are some persons in the world so optimistically disposed that they feel quite certain the dangerous era has been put safely behind us. "Henceforth," they tell us, their faces shining, their eyes sparkling, "our beloved land is to go onward and onward from victory to victory. It's dark days are behind it; nothing but the best of fortunes awaits it. Inspired by its example, the other nations of the earth are rapidly dispensing with antiquated forms of government and preparing more completely for the enjoyment of the blessings of civil and religious liberty which are eventually to be the heritage of the whole 'earth. Let us hope all their hopes maybe fully realized." "Well, It's better to look up than to look down; better to hope than to despair; better to love than to hate; better to smile than to frown.

W. H. S. M' ANNIVERSARIES LA FOIXETTE'S BIRTH. On June 14, 1855, Robert M.

La Follette, lawyer and statesman, was born at Primrose, Wis. He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, studied law there, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. After serving as a district attorney of Dane county he was elected to congress, where, as a member of the ways and means committee, he helped draft the McKinley tariff bill. In 1901 he was elected governor of Wisconsin, but resigned on being 'elected to the United States senate. He was reelected for three succeeding terms.

La Follette made important contributions toward railroad regulation said other public reforms and came to be regarded as one of the ablest debaters in the senate. In March, 1917, he led the historic filibuster against authorizing President Wilson to arm merchant ships against German submarines. When the United States entered the war lie became a pronounced pacifist. To him chiefly was dye to the investigation disclosing the Teapot Dome lease irregularities of 1924. Later in the same year he was nominated for president by the Progressive party and received nearly 5,000,000 votes in the ensuing election.

On his death the following year his son, Robert M. La Follette, was elected to lill his unexpired terra, and has since served. 9f GHAC15 ft. FRIBND-, £., Wttd liven ttltddet Station, called we up the other day and fed me if 1 would accomflfcny to visit same friends, who in Altoona ahd who will shortly celebrate their golden weeding; anniversary. It was little hard to set a time that suited all of us.

I thought May was a busy month, but June seems to be filled with duties and engagements, which, added" to the routine tasks, to make my days full to overflowing. We finally agreed on Wednesday evening, and, at that, Mary and her folks arrived before 1 got back from a hurried trip to town to mall Son's big box of cookies and smaller box of roses, In time for-his 22nd birthday. 1 had written to ask him what kind of a cake I Should suggested angel cake; but he wrote back to please make It Russian rocks are his favorite of brown sugar and spices and filled with raisins and of nuts. As soon as I arrived home we set off to make the visit we had planned, and we had a most delightful evening. The folks we visited, Mr.

and Mrs. Rudolph Mulhollan of 816 Fourth avenue, are the kind of jolly, pleasant, active folks you would never suspect of being past 70 years old. Neither of them looks It nor do they act it. They are spry and jovial and interesting, and the kind of folks with whom It Isn't hard to "get acquainted." Rudolph Mulhollan and Nannie Stevens were married on June 17, 1880, in the old First Baptist church the Rev. Dr.

Miles. They boarded for one year, while their new home was being built for them, and then they went to house- keeping in the new they have lived ever since. A well-built home, In excellent preservation, and just now In process of external rejuvenation by way of a coat of paint. It was a real treat to be 'escorted over the home by Mrs. Mulhollan and to see how well-preserved is everything in it.

These good folks are refreshing persons to meet In this day of constant change and upheaval. They love the old things and are constant and. loyal to the family traditions and holdings; and everywhere we were amazed to see evidences of the reverence and regard with which they have cherished family- possessions. The Mulhollans never had any children of their own, but they have reared a grand-nephew, as a aon. Jack.Is 13 years old and Is a quiet but friendly lad, and certainly a constant joy to his loving foster parents.

Mrs. Mulhollan showed me a great many highly-prized pieces of antique furniture, dishes and other possessions, some of them almost 200 years most of them handed down for generations in their families. They have two beautiful old tables of the swivel top but clever tables, oblong, but by means of a swinging top, capable of being swung about and opened into a square surface, large enough for a tea table. One of these tables Is of black cherry and one of has a pedestal In the lyre pattern and the other has a harp pedestal. There is an old desk, handmade of beautiful -wood, put together with wooden pins; a small, neat low-topped desk.

It belonged to Mulhollan's Another thing of great Interest to me was the fact that they are still using the same cookstove which they went to housekeeping forty- nine years ago. I saw the stove. It Is the New Lighthouse make, Is not warped a particle, and is polished and smooth as glass, never needing blacking, but kept smooth and shining by soap and water. There Is a large cupboard of old dishes that would delight lovers of antiques. A little blue pitcher was purchased by Mrs.

Mulhollan's mother, in Tyrone, when that lady first went -to housekeeping. There is an odd-looking glass nutbowl, and a blue glass vase, held in a glass hand, a gold ring on one of the fingers of the hand. They have a quaint old desk, of the kind once used In the railroad looks like an old-style school desk, and was the property of Major Gardner at one time. So many lovely old things. Mrs.

Mulhollan took us ran up the steps lightly as a show us the bedroom suite they had bought to come to housekeeping, and are still using. It is of walnut, the headboards and the dressers high and quaint In outline. There are lovely old marble top tables and wax wreaths under glass (the wreaths made by Mrs. Mulhollan years ago), marble top dressers with drop style drawer pulls. There are large paintings on the walls, the work of Mrs.

Mulhollan, and things of Interest to be seen on every hand. This charming and versatile woman was up for an airplane ride last summer and wants to go up again. She will be 73 years old In October and her husband will be 74 in July. Mr. Mulhollan was retired, as machinist, from the P.

R. at the age of 65. i They will observe their golden wedding anniversary quietly at home on Tuesday, receiving their many friends without special ceremony. The bride of fifty showed us a lovely orchid and white dress made new for the anniversary day. Before we left we were served a delicious luncheon, as quickly and easily served by our hostess as It could have been by a modern bride.

It was a most enjoyable visit, and we extend to them congratulations on their fifty golden years CASTLES IN THE AIR. (Christian Science Monitor.) Now they are conaidering building a skyscraper In New York 105 stories in height. The old practice of building castles in the air certainly has been brought down to a practical basis. QUOTATIONS "There is today in the world no great poet, no great philosopher, no great religious Murray Butler. "Man is not made happy nor does he progress by realism alone.

You've got to delude yourself a little bit." Jean Nathan. "Women are less troubled by disturbing dreams than because they have less work and Bernard Hollander, British alienist. absolute resignation to things as they not a normal state of mind. It is fatalistic. There is a virtue in making the best of things, but that is cheerful ac- REFLECTIONS By THE REFEREE.

UR PSYCHOLOGISTS HAVE been very busy of late telling us how we should raise our children. The job ought to be done scientifically, they Insist; most of "us have not the knowledge to be good parents, and botch the job fearfully. Now, however, comes Miss Joanna C. Colcord of the Russell Sage foundation to laugh these pretensions to scorn. Miss Colcord tells the mttonal Conference on Social Work, meeting In New York, that the old-fashioned, unscientific way of raising children Is after all about the best way there is.

most stable children," she says, "seem to be reared by parents who are too busy at useful tasks to interfere unnecessarily In the development of the children." That sounds like common sense. The psychologists 'are prone to take in a little too much ground in their claims. Fate can be whimsical almost beyond belief, sometimes. Consider the case of Henry Bushmeyer, parachute Jumper. Bushmeyer made his living by making exhibition parachute jumps.

He had jumped from airplanes more than 500 times -without being hurt. The other day he went up in an airplane with a friend. It was a pleasure hop, so he did not wear a parachute. The plane crashed. A would have saved his life he didn't have one.

So Bushmeyer, who had make 500 successful leaps, was killed. There is a queer, ironic twist to that story that fairly takes one's breath away. THAT BODY OF YOURS By JAS. W. BARTON, M.

D. HEN WE THINK THAT despite the age of man in the world, It is not very long ago that individuals with sick minds were loaded wtlh chains, bound like galley slaves, and thrown into, frightful dens at the mercy of their attendants, and these attendants convicts from prison, It shocks us beyond words. The first help given these unfortunates was by some English physicians, not with the idea, of being able to help their mental condition, but simply because of a humane desire to do all possible to make their lives happier. Then research men began to realize that the brain was a part of the body, an organ just as was the liver and heart and so they began to study it. Thus as they studied the structure of the brain and how it worked, they found that certain definite portions of the brain controlled certain definite functions of the body.

This was of considerable help in locating injuries to the brain that were causing paralysis of arms, legs and so forth, but did not locate what was causing depression, melancholia, fits, uncontrollable rage and other mental symptoms. Despite careful examination, research men have not been able to see actual physical changes In the brain substance that they could definitely state were causing any of the above symptoms. And so our brain specialists have to study the brain from the actions of the individual, from his thoughts, when they can get the patient to express them. It is not hard to recognize an 'imbecile' because the brain of this poor individual never did develop, or if it did it was never past the first years of childhood. A demented person, on the other hand, has had brain power at one time but something has ma.de him lose it, either temporarily, permanently.

In imbecility and dementia, an actual change in the brain substance has been noted. However where there is excitement, depression, or an actual loss of interest in everything, there is. not the gross changes in the brain substance. Then there are 'hallucinations' when the patient sees an object that has no real existence. 'Delusions' are false beliefs, where the patient may think he is the King of England, President of the United States, or has an exaggerated idea of his no inferior complex.

Or he may have the delusion that some one is attempting to harm or persecute him in some way. An 'obsession' is where the patient gets the idea in his mind at times that there is something wrong with him or some one else. There are times when he knows this is not true. Perhaps these definitions will help you as you think about the mind, and the problem it presents to physicians. RIPPLINGRHYMES put of Work.

By WALT MASON. HE ENGLISH HANGMAN has resigned and deadly noose away; he could endure the beastly grind if he could only make it pay. But victims are so far between an honest hangman cannot buy the petrol for his limousine, or purchase filling for a pie. In England murder's out of date, it is a graft that doesn't pay, and seldom does a vicious skate decide to draw a gun and slay. He knows that in the British courts 111 fares the gent who wields.

a gat; the history of dead game sports who 'tried it out has shown him that. The murderer stands In the dock, his melancholy weired to dree, and he receives a nasty shock when sentenced to the gallows tree. He knows a sentence over there means what it says and nothing less; and so he rends his raven hair and sheds some tears in his distress. His lawyers make a prompt appeal to save him from a shameful death, but while they pull the stunt they feel it is a waste of time and bre'ath. The higher court is stern and cold, the judges sit in grim array, and say the slayer, brash and bold, must hang on the appointed day.

So there is much respect for law in Britain's merry little isle; the killer knows the noose will draw, and he refrains from deeds of guile. The hangmen for a thousand yean have swung their victims to the breeze, and now at last the time appears when they can't earn their bread and cheese. The executioner resigns, there are no slayers to be slain; he thinks he Is in grievous lines, the situation gives him pain. Perhaps some moral we might draw, while crime waves sweep our native land; why have we less respect for law than any decent laws demand? Why doesn't justice function here, why do our statutes grasp and die? This same conundrum, sprung last year, has failed to bring a sane reply. (Copyright, 1030, George M.

Adams.) IN HUMOROUS VEIN "She said If any man kissed her without fair warning, she would scream for her father." "What did you do?" "I warned "You have an admirable cook, yet you are always growling about her to your friends." "Do you suppose I want her lured Courier-Journal. Husband: How does a woman look -when she's really startled? His wife: Give me and find Mary: Bess never tells anyone her age. Marjorie: Yes, I've noticed that. But her age is beginning to tell on Scotsman: That's a fine building for ye. What dae ye think o' It? American: Say, that's nothing.

We've got hundreds of buildings bigger and better than that. Scotsman: Aya, I expect ye have. That's an Recruiting you fellows would like to join the navy?" Spoof and we want to aee girl you sailors have in every Pathfinder. ABE MARTIN ESPECIALLY HIANK. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.) The senior class of a New England college which voted sleeping to be ceptance, not Rob- the favorite pastime should receive erts Rinehart.

some recognition for frankness. "It must have been long after midnight, fer I wuz rtudin' a bed lime story to my little son when I heard what I took to be a pistol shot," said Mrs. Lafe Bud, teatifyln' about a shootin' scrape. "Next to a woman's intuition ther hain't nothing' as certain us peas," said Joe Kile aa he set ilowii at a little dinner party last nigljt. (Copyright, Jolm If.

Ulllo Cc.j REPORTER KILLED By-BRCCE CATION. I IS JUST BARELY possible that In murdering Reporter Alfred J. Lingle the Chicago gangsters gone a little too. far for their own good. Newspaper reporters are not, narlly, especially honored the community.

They are not up on any pedestal. No one gives their calling the veneration that goes to such people as doctors or clergymen. But when a newspaper man, in pursuit of his duty, follows the news trail into a place where his temerity costs his life, there seems to be something In the situation that jars publia opinion clear down to the bottom. Perhaps it is because the reporter or the editor is, in a sense, a representative of all the people. He is the eye and ear for the man in the street.

The ordinary citizen depends on the newspaper man's integrity, his daring, his zeal, for his knowledge about what Is going on in the world. When Lingle, for instance, pursued his inquiries in the dark places of those deep abysses where death is an ever-present threat, where all the structure of order and decency that society has painfully reared is held in he was there as the representative of all of us. However that may be, organized crime invariably puts its foot into it when it elects to put one of these newsgatherera out of the way. The underworld of Canton, might give the Chlcagoans tip. Canton had a wide-open underwoHSl a few years ago.

It also hail aV courageous newspaper editor named Don Mellett, who swung his light on this underworld. Canto'n failed to get excited about.lt until Mellett paid for his daring with his life. Then Canton boiled over with indignation. It landed on its underworld like a thousand of brick. The underworld, with its leaders imprisoned, has 1 never been the same since.

Chicago has been extraordinarily patient with Its gangs. For many years they have held open house in the nation's second city, and the city has seemed willing to tolerate them rather than rouse itself to the point of putting them down. But now it Is we repeat, just barely possible that things will be different, For killing a reporter is, when you come right down to it, last word in open defiance of society. It is as if gangland had said: you not only can't keep us from doing the things we want to do, but you can't even find out about us. We don't want you to bother us even to the extent of putting things about us in the newspapers.

If you do, we'll shoot." It will be interesting, now, to, see what happens. Killing a reporter has always been bad medicine. Will it prove so in Chicago? What we are afraid of, in case of another war, is that Mr. Mussolini will be Detroit News. Senators are up in arms over the prospect of a special session to ratify the disarmament Ann Arbor News.

As it Is we have more sympathy for Gandhi than If he had started revolt for mayonnaise Duluth Herald. IL, Our Idea of unimportance Is matrf' nvonial news concerning gala allied with the show business out In Tulsa World. And in the merry, month of June little Dan Cupid will be safe enough in predicting Lowell Evening Leader. Apparently there are HO many racketeers in Chicago that the shooting will be good for some time to come. Dea Moines Tribune-Capital.

Fortunately you can't judge a great man by the foolish look he wears when he adds up his golf score. Arkansas Democrat. (Little Rock.) If matches are really made in heaven, the fellows who borrow them are going to be just aa great nuisances us they are on Louis. villa Times. A northern correspondent Informs us that the biting season la well vanced, with the biackflles and mos- quitoa again displaying more energy than the Hamilton Spectator.

SAYINGS (Forbes Magazine.) A high aim overcomea low spirits. Faithfulness alone yields fulness of life. Be a fan but not a fan-atlc, empty in the upper story. Make the most of the ordinary things of life or you won't be extraordinarily happy..