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16 THE BERGEN EVENING RECORD, SATURDAY. JULY 2, 1932. flood of dollars usually attracted rOONERVILLE FOLKS Fontaine Fox bimeon Sty lite From the Top of a Column Es Philosophizes About the Interesting Things of Life. Scrnmt Hmmum Zittavb 1 ESI ABLitiHED ISM Daiiv teiceot Uundavt oy THE BERGEN EVENING RECORD CORPORATION Al BACKEN8ACK NEW JERSEY BDSINESS OFFICII MAIN 6TREE1 EOnUKIAl OfTlCl It CAMDEN STREET CIRCULATION OFFICB 30 CAMDEN STREET MECHANICAI DEPARTMENT CAMDEN STREET Telenhonaa to til Departments HacKrasacli The OnccOver By H. PHILLIPS LO, THE POOR LOBSTER! Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission has ruled that all lobsters Intended for market must be tested by electric shock to determine their fitness.

Those that do not wiggle their tails when the current Is applied will be rejected." News Item.) In this vale of tears and strife Bitter is the lobster's life; As he roams the ocean bed National Adtertlslnt RtDreseniattves Htm Vort blori Bruoka FinltT Inc. 230 6 Park Avenue: Chtearu 8tor Broota Pmifv rne it ttu Wackn Orlve: PhllidelDtiu Storr Broom Ptalev Inr 123 South Strfr ttn FraorHco Coneet Co Third and Market Streets Mall SubscriDtlon Rate 6inglr coot 3c: One Month (In advance! 75c: One Year (In advance) (9 00 Foreign Postage Added Entered at the Post Otflrr In Hacaensaca aa aecond class mall matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Iba Associated Press Is exciuslvei entitled to the use for eouDiication ot all new. deacetche credited to It or not otherwtje i-rediteit In thlr naoet and also the local nw published therein Dedicated to serve that great majority of unorganized taxpayer which constitutes the backbone of Bergen County. SATURDAY, TIME TO ORGANIZE BLOCK AID RELIEF.

Progressive Bergen County towns should prepare to institute as early as possible a system. of block aid relief for their neighborhood unemployed and needy. This type of project can be designed to yield both money and Jobs. The block aid plan is simple to execute and has proved successful in New York City. A captain is appointed for each block.

He makes weekly visits to each home to collect from those who are willing to make regular "contributions to assist their less fortunate neighbors. He also notes any work that may be available in his district. This plan has two outstanding features to commend it: no home or possible source of revenue is missed, and the captain Is In a position to report accurately cases where relief is necessary. Often worthy families, too proud to report their plight, have received assistance in this way without the embarrassment of having the facts become public knowledge. Almost every family having one or more members working regularly can spare its funds, no matter how small, for unemployment relief.

Even though only 50 cents a week be contributed, it becomes a material factor when multiplied by thousands of donations. The block aid plan also helps to carry out the "made work" program. Captains frequently find home owners who want small Jobs done. They in turn report to headquarters, which assigns some unemployed man to the task. Neither the State, the counties, nor the towns are in a position to appropriate huge sums for unemployment relief to provide jobs this year.

All that can be guaranteed is that no New Jersey family will starve. Hence the block aid plan becomes of great Importance. It will provide more money for each municipality to take care of Its own, and It will find Jobs that so many persons are eager to fill. Hackensack, with an efficient unemployment relief organization functioning, is in a position to take the lead in this matter. Other towns are certain to follow, and will profit by the example of the county seat.

by the fall gridiron spectacles Is needed to support the rest of the athletic program, and college sports these days are budgeted in six figures. It would be quaint Indeed if we were to hark back only a few years and see again games played by students for rivalry instead of revenue and witnessed by undergraduates, alumni, a scattering of townspeople, and a handful of sports devotees. But the colleges changed all that. They hired expensive athletes and coaches. They built great stadia.

They increased prices and decreased student and alumni ticket allotments. And they received the publicity and public patronage they sought. Then the worries started. Some were anxious about such academic considerations as professionalism and exploitation; all were perturbed at the necessity of supporting from earnings the huge financial structure they had erected. And now the necessity for deflation, not too regrettably, perhaps, has come upon them.

Forbidding radio descriptions of the games may help attendance somewhat, though even that is problematical. But if they want to be candid, college athletic authorities will blame their present posi tion on the ballyhoo of which the broadcasting of games was the result rather than the cause. SUMMER CAMP. Thousands of New Jersey youths are preparing for their annual encampment of two weeks with National Guard units at Sea Girt, Fort Hancock, Newark Airport, or Camp Dix. Voluntarily they surrender their two weeks of vacation to prepare themselves for Immediate duty in war should the nation call them.

Many civilians have an idea that because the men are going to camp they will have a good time, with all the recreation and fun that an ordinary summer camp provides. But there is little fun in working hard for two weeks under a hot sun. with long hikes, hours on the target range, ceaseless drilling and inspection, and hours of instruction while thousands of other youths loll at mountain or beach resorts. When war threatens, the defense of the nation, next to the regular army, devolves on the National Guard regiments. The men can be equipped and ready for action in littl more than the length of time it takes a regular army unit to prepare.

That is the result of one night's drill a week during the year and the two weeks' summer training. The United States at present is far from war. The world is too busy paying for the last or.3. But the country's patriotic youth is willing to help prepare for emergency. Thousands of employers can ill spare their employees for two weeks, yet as a patriotic duty they are willing to go short-handed for that time as a contribution to the defense of the nation.

Few are so contemptible as to evade the dictates of decency and the law by permitting the men to go to camp and then discharging them after they have returned. The United States has no policy of conscription, as have many European nations; there is no peace-time compulsion. The United States depends on the willing participation of its sons and the co operation of those who cannot actually serve. Its appeal to the business men of the nation, though silent, will be heeded as it has always been. It Was Today that President James A.

Garfield v.aa assassinated by Charles J. Gui-teau, obscure Chicago lawyer, incensed over a bitter faetlnnal quiirrel ronq Republican Party loaders, 1881. The President did not die until Sept. 19. Oulteau was hanged June 30, 1882.

Hint Richard Henry Lee's resolution declaring the United States independent passed the Continental Congress, 1776. that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed, 1890. that the People's Party held Its first national convention. 1892. at Omaha.

Neb. One July 4 It nominated General jHmcs B. Weaver for President, and on July 5, James O. Field for Vice-President. that the Continental Congress met at Philadelphia.

1778. that Oenrge Washington reached Cambridge to take command ot the American Army, 1775. that President Harding signed a jrttnt resolution by the House and the Senate declaring peace with Germany and Austria, 1021. Hint Lieutenant Robert E. Peary started on his second Arctic expedition, 18(13 that Commander Richard E.

Byrd. Bert Arostn, and Lieutenants Novllle and Balchen, of the monoplane America, arrived at Paris by train, 1937. and were received by the President of Franre and a great crowd. It H'i on July r'niirlh that "The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America" for Independence, aa engrossed on Hie orlulnal parchment, was adopted, 177B. it wa not until Aug.

3 that most of the membeti signed tli final draft. that Vlcksburg. Miss, surrendered, I AOS. giving the Union forces complete rontrol of the MlaalMlppi River. This battle, largely planned and executed by General S.

Grant. Immediately made him the foremost Union commander. that Nathaniel Hawthorne. Amerl-ra'a greatest romance writer, bnm, 1804, at Hnlrm, Mm, that. John Adams, neeond President pi tut Uuiicd etaus, and TlvyttM Jet Congressman Randolph Perkins, whose embonpoint is a Woodcliff Laka show-place second only to its speak, easies and whose sagacity it.

an eternal miracle to his Republican fellows, seems to be promulgating a boner of purest ray serene. Yesterday New Jersey's Federal legislators, including Silent Ham Kean ar.d The Barbour, caucused. Every wind that sweeps from the West, if we may. appropriate the phrase of great Patrick Henry, brings to their ears the clash of resounding steins. The air is filled with the cry "Re.

peal!" The Democrats made a landslide of that motto even among the solidest of the Dry South and West delegations. No politician is safe. Panic Is rife. And so the Jersey delegation went into a huddle. Now what goes on in a caucus of politicians Is pretty thick stuff, and not to be ladled out for public con sumption.

But you can nrobflbly bt. 8 to 3 wltn your last neiriooms that Mr. Barbour said: "Gents, it Is about time for us to get out from under." Congressman Perkins left the meet. Ing, ostensibly in a huff. He refused, it is purported, to fall in with ths suddenlv enlightened remainder of the State delegation.

He departed Wash, ington with the figurative defl upon his lips: "All I have for resubmission to ths popular electorate with protection to States which wish to retain the Pro. hibition enforcement act, or something, but not one adjective for repeal!" Foolhardy, we say? Perhaps. May. be it smacks, to the layman, of leaping, garbed only in a well tailored suit of red underwear, into a corral full of bulls. Perhaps you and you, who may have heard the news of the latest Perkinsese antic while resting your feet on a brass rail and bending the elbow dutifully, consider the scenic wonder of Woodcliff Lake a trifle brash to go flouting the wishes of the electorate.

Well, maybs you are right, but please recall that Mr. Perkins has made great progress with doctrines at least as antinomlan as this for many years. Recall his campaigns. In every ona of them his Primary opponents and his General Election opponents have dragged out for public goggling the old story of how Mr. Perkins (allegedly) postures in the open as a devout Dry and (putatively) lives above a cellar full of the Moselle Valley's rarest and best, not to mention (saith Dame Rumor) his failing (cited in 67 Hart 429.

1930) for cocktails. This has been going on for years. Mr. Perkins, discussing the nation's foreign policy, bowling the first ball for Innumerable tournaments, and now and them bestowing a judicious smooch on the brow of a likely looking infant, has Ignored the base canards and won. And so it comes to this: no matter what the theory of it is, Mr.

Perkins knows the mechanics. When he says "Resubmission!" and flaps his coat-tails at a gang of politicians renowned for their wit and resourcefulness, you may rest 'content that he has a pretty fair idea that resubmission will win, at least tn the Seventh Congressional District, this autumn. This ought to astound some of the Bergen County citizens who regard up-country districts as peopled exclusively by bucolic soaks with their faces per-manently scarred by Imbibing silage-juice. The farmers of Sussex and Hunterdon, not to mention the northern tier of Passaic, are by repute among the most enthusiastic manufacturers and consumers of applejack, the Jersey Lightning of classic memory. They are, at least by backyard gossip, anxious to get an opening for legal sale of their amber nectar.

They ought to be, but Mr. Perkins Infers that they aren't, and you know Mr. Perkins. A tale seems not amiss. They nar rate that, somewhere back of the Ramapo, there lives a magician who can make a better brand of applejack than any man this side of the medieval alchemists.

It Is golden; it is smooth; It sifts through one's metabolism without disturbing a cell. I am told. But he can't get It to town There, you say, see? He ought to want con. trolled liquor traffic legalized. Ha could make a pile of money on a product like that.

You have not, unfortunately for your poise, heard all of the story. So this farmer discovered that the State Troopers had been Informed of the excellent quality of his ambrosia, and the next two loads which he headed for town were intercepted and eased down a Mahwah gutter. Was he downhearted? There is no need fpr answering such a question about a doughty son of the New Jersey soil, He set up as a Innkeeper. had his home fitted up with beds, dozens of them, in nice long lines. He transmuted his stables into a large garage.

And he sent word to town that It was open house. Well, it is a long way to go for a drink, but men whose palates are seared with the bathtub William Penn of urban speakeasies will go a long way for stuff that tastes like 1914. They began to go that long way. The farmer's trade began to boom. And thereupon he began to exhibit the olt-cclcbratcd moral superiority of the husbandman over the city slicker and racketeer.

He proceeded to get his clients unholy drunk, take them upstairs and throw them in bed. and when they woke up In the morning present them with a gigantic bill for alleged purchases never made. The clients, nat-utally, were helpless. They paid. It wan the old shakedown, with an exquisite sylvan refinement.

The tale Is narrated merely to substantiate Mr. Perkins's assured policy In these matters. He may not know the temper of Bergen County, weary and 111 at ease over It murders and It racketeering, official and outlaw. Hi does know, however, that his prestige a an old Congressman, secd-mallrr, and correspondent is good In the circles where the personal touch counts. And he seems to know that the electorate, In spite of Its famed grlmnesi r.uout Prohibition, is only fooling.

Sometimes, I fanry. he pauses and think about Mrs. Peters, and smiles and smiles. He must remind himself that when a Bergn County Assmblywomsn. representing the Wettest county of th Wettest State, can boost herself gieater than ever with a Dry vote fresh the minds of the voter, an old Congressman thrown among tanners and hayricks has nothing ftar from resubmission.

He remains, despite the appearand. the most astute of the contemporary. CoilUcUDA ct tnc pcuislitcd part, ew of whether a grand jury should thus exercise its own discretion as to which alleged violations should bring Indictments and which should be ignored. There is one school of thought which holds to the position that it is not the proper function of a grand jury to pass judgment upon the law as such. But it will be generally recognized that the Union County jurors have given expression to a candid stand on a matter which Inevitably resolves itself into an issue as to the wisdom of endeavoring to enforce statutes, old or new, which have been abrogated in fact if not in law by changing conditions.

Trenton Times. HOW TO CHECK THE GENERAL. One of the jokes of the year in Trenton Is how the State is going to pay Quartermaster General C. Edward Murray his salary. The salary was recently reduced from $6,000 a year to $1 a year.

There is a State law which says the State must pay its salaries semimonthly and by check. One solution would be to pay the General four cents twice a month and then throw in four extra cents about Christmas time. But the biggest joke of all is that the Federal Government collects two cents on each of the four-cent checks! So the State pays the Government just about half the General's salary! Jersey Journal. Hors d'oeuvres: Jim Corbett, the fighter, got Ed Wynn his first chance to appear on a stage here, at a benefit. New York is said to have more elevators than all of the European capitals put together.

Anyway, the ones she has run farther, up and down, than all those in the big towns over there. Eleanor Boaraman was an interior here. The seersucker suit at last has caught on in Manhattan, but most of the men you find wearing them are from the Lllyan Tashman Is known about town as one of the fanciest tippers among the women visitors. The waiters talk about her in most of the luncheon and tea spots. The bellboys call her "Blg-Hcarted Lll." A hoity-toity Fifth Avenue candy and cake shop has cut the variety of its offerings 50 per cent About the only one of the old guard of hard-hitting writing men who hasn't been pronounced "mellowed" (i.

softened) is George Jean Nathan. There are five islands in the Borough of Manhattan, not just the one. Van Mungo, the young pitcher who made good in Brooklyn, was born in Pageland, S. C. SLOW MOTION PICTURES.

Jack Sharkey's eyes look green sometimes, blue and gray at others. Bowling Green Is the oldest park in New York. Lou Reichers, the flyer, is one of the best patrons of the cigarette makers. All ot the Greenwich Village night places have cut their charges. It now is possible to have a very good time In some of them (speaking of a couple) for less than $5 an evening.

It still Is quite possible, even probable, that ways will be found to "stick" you In the rest. Margaret Livingston, Paul White-man's wife, is a Salt Lake City girl. One of the latest panhandlers to approach me asked me for 3 cents to buy a stamp for a letter going back home! Jesse Lasky's father was a shoemaker. Three columnists on dally newspnpers now have penthouses In the Village. Lynn Fontanne chews gum In public.

And she doesn't care what you think about It. The newest thing in halrdresslng is an Amelia Earhart cut. ITINERANT ITEMS. The sidewalk fad for roller-skating has been a huge boon for the skate makers this year, but adults (most of them society damsels who scooted along the Central Park walks) are quitting. They're either tired of it or find the weather too warm.

Goeta Ljungberg, the Metropolitan's Swedish nightingale, who will be headllner next year, doesn't use any cosmetics except a little powder. And she's gorgeous. Every time a new beauty comes over from that country, this type-pounder gets more and mote excited about a contemplated trip to Sweden. Those bird and animal sound effects which strurk you as being so realistic In a number of jungle pictures were produced by 1 gentleman named Donald Bain. Frequently he takes his recording paraphernalia out to Bronx Zoo, where he catches the genuine screeches, crooning', and growls of fowls and mammals of distant lands, These can be inserted wherever plcluis call Igr t'ocU efletta, Ev'ry hour's filled with dread.

In his search tor nourishment He must keep his mind intent Ever on detecting what May be trap or lobster pot. In his travels he must be Ever vigilant to see Anything that looks invalid Or become a lobster salad. If he strays into a pot He Is placed upon the spot; Soon upon the fishing docks He must stand electric shocks! Massachusetts craves to tell If a lobster's feeling well; All Its epicures would know If its pulse is fast or slow, Only lobsters in "the pink" Make good food, the people think-Only those with vim and vigor In a lobster stew should figure. If they'd grace a Bay State table They must show that they are able To react as is desired When to batteries they're wired. If they'd please staid Massachusetts They must hate electric Juice sets, Proving by each peppy antic They're the cream of the Atlantic.

Boston wants no fish phlegmatic It prefers them acrobatic; It thinks lobsters old and wormy If when shocked they are not squirmy. They must stand the current heated Even if it's twice repeated Without quiver or emotion If they'd get back to the ocean. Massachusetts, how unfair it Is to make 'em grin and bear it! Here's a wish the lobsters fake It, Grunting hoarsely, "WE CAN TAKE IT!" Presto! What the minds of some politicians need in making such rapid changes on the Prohibition question is a zipper. When a Democratic convention opens the chairman presumably calls it to disorder. Up to Date Stuff.

What most people have in mind when they say the country needs a leader is an old-fashioned magician with something a little better than the usual flag, egg, and rabbit tricks. Getting No Breaks. H. A. O.

Connell insists that the other day he heard om woman remark to another: "But the worst of it is that the depression had to come along when times were so hard." The laziest man in the world is the yachtsman who carries a rowing machine on his boat and takes his exercise on it while the hired man rows two miles for some cigarettes. Form Students' Handicap. Golf teachers have noticed that it is impossible to teach a man who has played on public links to take a slow, long backswlng. Such players' experience has taught them that if they delay the backswlng more than a second somebody will pick up their ball. After sizing up those feminine bathing suits this summer it would seem that business has turned the corner for the sunburn lotion industry.

"Bee Stings Horse; Two Hurt." headline. How to you suppose a bee locates a horse these days? A Nice Quiet Place. It develops that the late "Vannle" Hlggins, notorious racketeer, flew by plane to a New York state prison where he and two pals were the house guests of the warden. Possibly the boys were considering taking it over as a bottling plant. (Cooyrlaht It? brTn Associated NewsnaDATBt ferson, third President of the United States, died, both in 1828.

that Stephen Collins Foster, famous American song composer, was born at Pittsburgh, 1826. that Calvin Coolldge. thirtieth President of the United States, was born, 1872. that Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot and liberator, was born, 1807. that James Monroe, fifth President ot the United States, died, 1831.

that the cornerstone of the Washington Monument was laid, 1848. that Providence, R. was founded by Roger Williams. 1636. that work on the Erie Canal began, 1817.

that Samuel Champlaln of France, advancing from the north, discovered Lake Champlaln, 1609. that California was declared Indet pendent by American settlers. 1840. that the first passenger railroad In the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio, was begun In 1828. that the United States-Philippine cable was completed.

1903, and a message was sent around the world In twelve minutes. that Bartholdl's Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States at Paris. 1884. that the first protective tariff act was passed by Congress, constructed largely by James Mndlson Speelflr duties were placed on spirits, fermented liquors, tea, coffee, sugar, and a few other Import. that the United States Tatent Bureau was established, 1836 that Suhtreasuries were created In New Yorki.

Boston. Charleston, and St. Louis, as well as the Philadelphia Mint and the branch mint at New Orleans, 1840. that the treaty with Mexico wi signed tn 1848. that fire destroyed the center of Portland.

I8fl. causing 3.000 persons to be homeless. that Judge William Taft took oath of office a civil governor of the Philippines. 1901, In 1903. on thiisame date.

President Roosevelt proclaimed peace in the Philippines and amnesty to political prisoners there. that Joseph Pennell, etcher, Illustrator, and author. a born In 1883. that the French Line steamer L-s flnurgogne collided with the British sailing ship Cromartyshire, 1898, causing the loss of 860 lives. that forty-one persons were killed and sixty Injured In wreck on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western fcUroad uar Corolg Y-t 1913, JULY 2, 1932.

the failure of petit Juries to convict in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt. Sympathy or other false motives sway the talesmen in their decisions. When American Juries realize the full sense of their great responsibilities and return decisions based solely on the evidence, there will be fewer miscarriages of justice than there are today. And the first step to that end is legislation such as the Wolber jury reform bill, to enable and facilitate the drawing of honest juries. GLORIOUS FOURTH.

The nation has looked forward eagerly to the three-day holiday which culminates with the Fourth of July. But the length of the period doubles the hazards to which the public will be exposed. Most persons return to their work more fatigued than when they left u- Proof that the vacation, while pcrhaps not misspent, was not wisely used. Yet the main dangers of the holiday this year will be not so much from fatiguing enjoyment but rather dangers physical in another sense. The Fourth of July is known as the worst accident day of the year.

This year may break the record of the past few years unless extra precautions are taken and the pub-j lie follows the rules of safety dic-Uated by common sense in order to avoid injury or death from fire-I works, in the water, and on the highway. There are sure to be traffic jams which will try the patience of both driver and police. Trying to beat the llBht' t0 pass lon llnc of cars on a curve, or to whiz across an intersection is doubly dangerous this week-end. The sane driver will be twice as careful not to tuko chances that will endanger him or 'his fellows. a.

1 tartrUIBea or shot: Unk. are And wounds should be treated promptly, But after all, it's a three-day holiday. We hope you all enjoy yourselves. FOOTBALL BY RADIO, Fearing that lowered admission prices nlone will not bolster their 'problem is a very real one, for the (Fonuin Fox. 193?) Voices of the Press A PROHIBITION PLANK WITHOUT STRADDLING.

There Is certainly nothing confusing about? the Democratic plank on Prohibition. The plank commits the party to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and immediate liberalization of the Volstead Act. It is an extreme stand. The minority plank, which up to the last minute was the majority choice of the platform committee, was Wet enough to meet the hopes of most re-peallsts. It is Just as well, though, that the issue be drawn as sharply as it now stands.

The voters of the country are given a real choice. How the South will receive the plank was indicated during the debate. Florida, which has just concluded Its Primaries by evicting Drys and trimmers from office and electing repeallsts where given the choice, voted 13 to 1 for the repeal plank. So did Texas, reversing its support of the submission plank at a last- minute caucus. Tennessee voted 18 to 6 for repeal, and Kentucky unanimously.

Virginia split, 11 to 13, and North Carolina 8 to 18. There was no such talk of bolt and repudiation as the Wets produced at the Republican convention. Taken as a bloc, the South voted 165 to 145 for repeal, six States for it and six States for submission. What about the East, the Central States, and the West? Among them they massed only sixty-eight votes against repeal. Even with Roosevelt nominated the repeal plank will win the Democrats countless votes in the industrial States, where he is weakest.

The vote for repeal may carry States in the East despite Roosevelt, States which would be lost, or at least be debatable, with Roosevelt and a weak, indecisive Prohibition plank. The only consolation left the Drys is to vote either the comparatively Dry Republican ticket which insists on Fed eral supervision of the States which vote Wet under the Hoover plan, or to beg the question. Even the Democratic plank permits the States that wish to be Dry to continue that way and pledges them Federal assistance to that end, plus the elimination of "the saloon" anywhere. Public oplnon revolted so thoroughly against the pussyfooting the Republicans tried that the Democrats were practically stampeded Into dripping Wetness by the reaction. Had the Republicans been a little more explicit and less cunning the Democrats would have been a little less Wet.

Certainly in both parties, though, the Drys were routed. Prohibition Is doomed. The Wets must use their victory sensibly, constructively, restralnedly. Elimination of Prohibition is no signal for whoopee. It must be demonstrated that the country can control itself, that It docs not have to be controlled by Federal policemen and It Is truly a solemn occasion.

The victory must be treated as a spiritual one, not a spirituous one. Prohibition brought an appalling array of abuses; Its passing must not revive the older abuses and flippant disregard of the Drys. whose right are as sacred as are the Wets, for that Is what brought us Prohibition In the first place. Newark News. THE RECEIVERSHIP RACKET.

The investigation of the receivership racket, in the Courts of Chancery, has been tn action for four days. In that time It has brought out the fact that it cost a quarter-million dollars for receiver fees, counsel fees, and expenses In handling one firm In receivership. For one-quarter million dollars, however, the company in receivership got its money's worth, In one way at least. There were three receivers and two sets of counsel. Each receiver was paid 150.000.

after which came the lawyers and others. So. you see, they got a lot for a quarter-million dollars. If any member of the general public has an Idea that racketeering Is an underworld affair, dealing In beer and underworld protection, perish the thought. There la already good reason to believe that the racketeering in courts of law la not a misnomer.

Hud-ton Dispatch. CUSTOM AND THE LAW. A frank attitude toward law and custom was displayed by the Union County Grand Jury which declared as follows In a presentment dealing with alleged violations of the Sabbath provisions In New Jersey's antiquated Vice and Immorality Act: This body fully discussed and considered the conditions which obtain in thl county with reference tn the non-observance of the Sahbath law, known as the Vice and Immorality Act. We do not believe these conditions are due to any desire on the part of our people) to violate the law, but rather to a change In conditions and customs In many of our communities which make the present law governing the mode of lite on the Ssbhnth more or less obiulete. It Buy, Iso nuuticaed, ct course, NEW STATION.

Ending agitati.cn which started twenty-five years ago, Westwood by agreeing to pay half of the construction costs has finally persuaded the Erie Railroad to construct a new station in that town. The Pas-cack Valley may consider itself lucky. The Westwood station is the only new one planned for the Metropolitan Area in this year's Erie budget. Not only will the new project increase ratables for Westwood, but it will improve the appearance of the town. Westwood Borough Park was laid out with a new station in mind, but it has been marred by the unsightly 50-year-old landmark.

Many Westwood men labored hard and gave liberally of their time and energy to secure the station. None of these, however, has done more than Councilman Irving Dem-arest, to whom much credit is due. Westwood and the surrounding towns will benefit through the project. BABY KILLERS. A last-minute death house confession that he was one of the gunmen responsible for the Harlem baby killing last December has been made by one Frank Giordano, a gangster sentenced to die for ah- Afks lrtlllnrr The condemned man's inspired by the hope of escaping the electric chair even if only tempo- rarlly, has cleared up a crime that apparently puzzled the police.

Gangsters gunning for rival rumrunners sprayed with machine gun Washington Whisperings By HERBERT PLUMMER Speaker John N. Garner employed a very significant gesture whenever he was approached in the Capital and questioned concerning his chances of obtaining the Democratic nomination for President at Chicago. He held up his right hand, index finger extended, and shook it back and forth in front of his face several times. "That means," he told a group of newspapermen in his office the morn-Inp following the somewhat stormy State convention at Houston that gave him forty-six votes, "that I have nothing to say on that subject." What he thinks about It all Is a secret that perhaps only he knows. Consider, for example, that, the morning after the State Democratic Convention at Houston ended, a declaration for resubmission of the Prohibition question had been adopted.

ALL DRESSED UP. To newspapermen who assembled in his office fifteen minutes prior to the opening of the House Garner seemed vastly more Intrigued and interested in a frock coat he was wearing for one of the first few times in his career than anything that had happened in his home State the day before. The House was to hold its annual memorial service for deceased members that morning, and the Speaker had dressed for the occasion. "I don't have very much to say about what I wear." said Garner. "Mrs.

Garner does all the deciding. She Just lays out every morning the clothes I am to wear that day. And I put 'em on." MUM ON POLITICS. "Do you suppose Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis picks out the clothes the Senator is to wear each day?" some one asked him.

"If she does," Garner replied, "she must be some picker." On and on went the conversation in this fashion. Finally some one asked. to say about Houston, Mr. Speaker? Up went that right hand with index finger extended. And they all knew it was no use.

Talks With Parents By ALICE JUDSON PEALE CAUSE FOR JEALOUSY. Sister's birthday had just passed, and her gift had been a fitted bag. There had been a party, and Bryce, three years her Junior, had been included In the festivities. A few days later he sat down beside his mother In the living room and busied himself about nothing In particular. 'That was a nice bag you gave sister." he said.

"Yes, wasn't it. It's Just what she needed." "It must have been awfully expensive How much was It, mother?" She named the price and at once realized her mistake, for Bryce cried out, "Why, mother, that must be four times as much as you paid for my birthday present. You always did like sister much better than me, but'i that's Just plain unfair!" Such an exhibition of raw envy is not pretty, but under certain circumstances It is entirely natural. Thla boy's violent reaction to his sister's fine gift was the result of a deep-lying Jealousy. He knew quite clearly that his mother had always loved his sister better than she had loved him.

The matter of the birthday gift simply offered a concrete Instance: In this light his rage Is wholly understandable, and the occasion, as his mother guiltily realized, was not one for a lecture on the wrongness of envy Ibul for such reassurance of affection as sue was aoie to give. In such Instances It la the parent, rather than the child, who must seek to mend his ways. Scrupulous fairness about all favors, an effort to develop a greater sympathy and understanding for the less-loved child, should be the goals for which the parent should strive in the future. Woman robbed of 60 though she had a gun with her can reflect that at least she didn't altogether neglect prudent preparedness Cle-eland News. Since Clarence Darrow has declared for Roosevelt for IT aldent we look for an acquittal or deadlocked Jury.

Toledo Blade, The cost of 11.134 for printing ex-Senator Tom Heflln'l speech defending his seat In Senate wasn't worth that much even to Heflln. Butte Montana Standaid, mmmmMt, bullets five children playing in the! street, and one subsequently died of "anurous water, fool-his wounds. I iardy cs dlv duck- Oiordano named Vincent Coll.l1' contests. friBhtening brglnncrH. since slalri.

as one of the occupants 'mmim far out and away of the death-dealing car. Coll was Il0' he crowd, originally sought by the police and, T'1P lcfnot hnld tried for the killing, but he and hnd lh, Giordano were freed by the court a good one. It is perhaps when it was found that a witness I unnecessary to warn the patriot ic I but. ignorant not to celebrate with Thus we have another example of ouibbllng law, as it is so often exemplified today. Coll and his associate were euilty.

The New YorK ponce Dy good work caught the right men. Indictments were returned. But the men were given their freedom, and could never be tried again on the same charge, because of a tech-' shrinking football revenues, Eastern nlcallty that apparently hod liWe colleges will attempt to swell at-to do with their guilt or Innocence tendance by forbidding radio ac Time and again good police work of the major games. The TU'P'rt Jay. McU episodes or.

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