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Telephone 212L Private exchange connecting all departments. EDITORIAL COMMENT SUNDAY. MARCH 16, 1930 DO SI DO AND PROMENADE! Arizona Delays Prayerful Chicago Seeks lo Ban Crime MAYBE THE GRAIN SPECULATORS COULD -FIND SOMETHING ELSE THEY COULD DO O. O. MclNTYRE "Canfield," by Alexander Gardi Threatened Suit BY these signs you may know them: Theodore Dreiser sits folding and refolding a a rchief rj when romnanv comes.

I i Jim Corbetts ner. (Doubleday Doran.) The story of a great gambler. "The Devil's Booth," by Perci-val Wilde. (Harcourt, Brace Co.) "The Forty-second Parallel," by John Dos Passos. (Harper's.) "The Devil," an autobiography from the French.

(Dutton's.) ONE of the "sophisticated" plays of the season contains this one. A gentleman complains he is not feeling well. "I hope it is nothing trivial." comments one of tho players. That was funny when Irvi'n Cohb pulled it 15 tugs at the lower button of his coat. Frank Adams signs his personal mail in led ink.

Franklin P. I Whether Arizona has seen the writing: on the wall and is thinking: twice before launching- a long and expensive court litigation or has taken seriously the biblical admonition of ex-President Coolidge to "agree with thine adversary quickly," it is welcome news to California and other Colorado basin states that no obstructive measures are planned against Boulder dam "until some later date." It is not believed for a moment that the heretofore dominant group in Arizona is willing to abandon its obstructive fight against the Colorado development, but it is patent that there is a growing sentiment in that state which does not accept the last ditch leadership. It is unfortunate that the sections of the neighboring state which are closest to Adams signs his personal mail in green ink. T-e Cook wrings his hands while telling a story. GUESS WE'LL .1 WA1 TO I MAKE WAT MACHINE DOES I A IWIIM4 Chicago appears to be serious in its determination to clean up and improve its reputation in the eyes of the world.

On a recent Sunday 2,000,000 members of 900 church congregations in the city prayed for a crimeless Chicago. The prayers covered four specific, much-desired ends. They asked 1. That every patriotic citizen register and vote. 2.

That candidates dedicate themselves to unselfish devotion to better community life. o. That those in office give more heed to the demands of honor. 4. That Chicago's reputation be not determined by its underworld characters, who are less than 1 per cent of its population.

If they follow up their prayers with a continued sense of civic responsibility, they will accomplish some of their aims. A city's character is what its citizens make it. Chicago is a living, growing city, of great interest to the friendly observer. But its citizens perhaps have been more interested in growth, size, power and progress than in such basic and important matters as good government and honest officials. They have learned, with a jolt, that fine buildings, boulevards, parks and so on are not enough to make a city honored, respected and solvent, any more than fine clothes, fine cars and a fine house make an individual honored, respected and solvent.

The prayerful attitude is a step in the right direction. THE VlOEKOF IOOMEN THAT i vv AMD 4.000 HORSES jzv i i i exit i- i i rrtt mN Ml I VafU I I'M Vrr Z-reri. the Colorado and which accordingly nave most at stake in its development do not have the cooperation of the more populous Phoenix district. It is the growing importance 01 tne Kingman and Yuma districts which may have well caused a member of the Ari years ago, but is a little sour now. SHORT shavings: A fishing tackle Is named for Bob Davis.

Jess Laskey was once a theater orchestra musician. John Golden, as a helped to build the Garrlck theater. Ed Wynne's "Simple Simon" show is a box office "smash." Mae West' was a strong woman in vaudeville. Burns Mantle, the dramatic critic, was a linotype operator in Denver. David Belasco's clerical collar has filled three big scrap-books with publicity.

Otto Kahn likes to walk on the Bowery. Hal Skelly traveled with a medicine show General John J. Pershing In writing the story of his life for publication "says things." It will bring the biggest price of any manuscript up to date. Rube Goldberg invariably gets lost coming out of a theater. Lillian Gish writes back hand George White has a hit in "Flying High" with Bert Lahr Johnny O'Connor is "Beau Broadway" on the Morning Telegraph.

Fred Stone keeps a Bible in his dressing room. Ace Hudkins never remembers what happens in the prize ring between the first and final bell The Montmarte Is about the only night club doing a paying business. Larry Larom, a Princton graduate, is president of the Dude Ranchers' association. Ex-President zona Colorado river commission to ex plain during the past week that the pro-nosed litigation is being delayed until Fred C. Kelly thinks faster than he talks and often sputters.

Robert L. Ripley is shy among strangers and blushes. Carl Van Vechten has pearly buck teeth and cat green eyes. Octavus Roy Cohen's favorite tipple Is coca cola. H.

N. Swanson, editor of College Humor, wears collegiate clothes. Mayor Walker tugs at an ear lobe when speaking in public. George White wears a tiny black bow tie. Harry Acton lost the end of his left index finger in a lawn mower.

Katharine Cornell spells it with two "a's." Charles Hanson Towne cracks his knuckles when agitated. Ring Lardner looks as though he is going to burst out crying when he laughs. Bernard M. Barui'h sits in the front row at theatrical openings and does not go out between acts. Harry Hershfield sticks out his tongue while drawing cartoons.

Sailing Baruch parts his hair down the back. Joseph Urban lights a cigarette, takes three quick puffs and extinguishes it. George Gershwin's dinner coat never fits around the collar. Herbert Bayard Swope always makes a dozen trips to the phone when dining out. Bud Fisher bites his finger nails when stumped for an idea.

further agreement with California has been attempted or at least until Con gress has appropriated funds for the A (you're putting! s7 for. us out of MT1 ro frf.) dam's actual start. A lew montns ago such a position would have been re garded as untenable by Arizona commissioners. Today it may hold out further hope of amicable agreement. Needles Has Reason to Must be something wrong in China.

It doesn't seem natural that 400,000,000 people could be so quiet as that country has been lately. Be Proud of Building Needles citizens are justly proud of their new Masonic temple and theater THE SAFETY VALVE block, a modern fireproof structure which was formally opened with fitting ceremony Saturday evening. The build ing, which would do credit to the busi ness district of any city, stands as a new monument to the civic pride and commercial advancement of the San Bernar dino county city situated on the banks Arthur Somers Roche wears a frayed green eye shade while writing. Heywood Broun has a Boston accent. Donald Henderson Clarke wears carpet slippers at his novel writing.

Isaac F. Marcossen wears noisier shirts than O. O. Mclntyre. J.

P. Morgan sits in one of the bank rows at the theater. Jules Bache wears a rimless, unleashed monocle. Charles B. Driscoll wears a wide black eye glass ribbon.

Ed Howe will often accept evening dinner engagements but won't eat a bite. of the Colorado river. The structure was provided for through a community sub Coolidge Made a Speech Not on some reeking battlefield Contenders in a man-made hell; But, winged explorers of the skies, In elemental strife they fell! Prince of the Power of the Air! They felt his scourging, icy breath (Though no man knoweth when, nor where Each has a "rendezvous with Prince of the Power of the Air! The bravest flee his warning frown; These fought him to the rampart peak 'Ere, blinding them, he struck them down! Through crashing thunders of the storm They passed to their eternal rest-Quick the surcease, and merciful. Since man must die, swift death is best. J.

C. DAVIS. Devore, California, March, 1930. By Will Rogers- WELL all I know Is just what I read in the papers, or what I see as I go about the Country watching Calvin open Dams, or close 'em up rather. You see he wasent going to go over into Ari scription campaign which reached its quota of $73,000 in half a week's time, a record which puts to shame many communities several times the size of Needles.

The same spirit which marked the financing of the new building was apparent in the arrangements for its formal opening, state and county officials together with not a few celebrities of the theatrical world taking part in the dedicatory exercises. Coolidge Is author of a magazine article, soon to be released, that will also "say things." IT Is rumored that the famous Marche des Puces the Parw flea market Is In trouble with the police and may be routed. On the fringe of the city It has existed since the thirteenth centuriy as an open air market for and thieves' loot. It has been 'a paradise for antique hunters from America and many bargains have been picked up there. FOR 15 years, jokes, lines verbatim, and entire paragraphs have at intervals been boldly swiped from this pillar of piffle and transplanted Into vaudeville, musical revues, gag books and rival columns and there has never been a single squawk from this chronicler.

The truth is, I have always been secretly flattered. Thus it is always amusing when now and then some new columnist whose very idea of a syndicated column about New York is the result of my lean years of pioneering and breaking the ice accuses mo of filching some stale Broadway joke that may have appeared elsewhere before reaching me. WtlEN I launched my quixotic adventure in New York col-umning every editor in America said people were not sufficiently interested in New York. I believed differently and kept at it, giving the copy away for years. Now look at the New York columns! (Copyrifelit.

1930) zona and do that at all. I think he kinder felt like it might be construed as a political move, for fu-t reference. So the Commit-teegot the bright idea of wiring President Hoover and getting him to ask Mr. Coolidge. Well Mr.

A Washington Bystander By KIRKE SIMPSON A HOLLYWOOD gag man has had printed across his personal checks: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." A WRITER usually has about 10 productive years. After that his income becomes uncertain and often dwindles almost to the vanishing point. I know many one indeed better than anyone else who were, what with money losses and unexpected expenses, forced to borrow heavily to pay their income taxes this year. Thus are hundreds unable to put a little by for a rainy day. The Government tax on earned incomes is out of all proportion and in many cases absolutely unjust.

And a lot of good this squawk will do! i MONO books recently, en- joyed: Hoover did and is he did he wired the Ari- ous thing if all of them could see that there was to be no more war and go ahead and do away with their arms of defense. But unfortunately they have all studied History and they know that these ideas we are talking about now are not new, they have all been gone over before, and they just carjt hardly bring themselves to believe that this is going to happen. So its as I said at first we were out there on Indian land dedicating a Dam to get water for white people to come out and use and gradually take more Indian land away. There is going to be nothing different. It started with Lief Erricson in 996, then skipped over Columbus in 1492, for he couldent find this Country in four trips.

Then come the Spanish settlers, then the Mayflower was the last straw. They dldent have any Ex President at the dedicating at their taking land from the Indians but they got it just the same, and they have kept right on doing it up to last week. So you see history repeats itself, the same it has in wars. It would be wonderful if people would quit fighting it would be wonderful if people wquld leave the Indians alone and let 'em do what they wanted too. But what a chance? I dont blame Arizona mind you.

You can't blame anybody. Its just the way we are bred, thats all. If we see anything we want we take it. The more so-called civilized we get the more we kill and take. But I bet many an old Indian got many a quiet laugh out of the speeches of "good fellowship" there that day, that were meant to be serious.

(Copyright, 1930) history, its not what did you do but what did you get away with at the finish. Thats why your disarmament wont get anywhere much, its just because all those Nations know that they are important in World affairs just in proportion to their Military strength. Is there any reason in the world why Japan should be the power she is and China with its millions and resources, that go to the four corners of the earth. But thats just the trouble, China has STOOD for so much from other Nations that they are not classed as one of the big shots. Why because they concentrated on peace and not war.

So Japan is at London now, and China cant even make a Rotary Convention. Spain discovered half the World, her ships were on every sea, but she let her Navy run down and wound up in the class League. Look at Holland, great Country big as England, and they have Colonies, but do you ever hear of them when they talk of what the big powers want? No, you would think they were Rhode Island. Why? No Navy, and some of the rest of them the same. We dont rate their culture, we dont rate their achievements, their Art, their Literature, Their Integrity, Their population, their size, in fact nothing but HOW big is their Navy? Why Brazil is bigger than all England, France, Italy and Japan, and has more National resources than all of them combined.

Yet she couldent get to a Chamber of Commerce Membership rally. Same old answer, No Navy. They all know that. So you see why there wont be any tall sinking done by any of these Babies that are up there on top now. It would be a marvel- WASHINGTON Should it fall out that Jim Ham Lewis of Illinois, and other points west, manages for a third time to beat the political jinx which, makes his official biography bristle with "unsuccessful candidate" notations Senate gallery-goers will be in for a double treat, Oratorically, Jim Ham is a joy to the ear.

Sartor-ially, he is a sight to see, despite the grayish tinge with which the anxious years have now dimmed the sometimes "pink" glow of the whisker that adorns his countenance. The Bystander unhesitatingly pronounces the oratorical effects of Candidate Lewis the most delightful noted in years of press gallery observation. The musical quality of that singing baritone has never been approached by anyone else. Tom Hef-lin of Alabama has a fine speaking voice, and knows how to use it. George of Georgia is good when he gets mad.

Joe Robinson of Arkansas can be a tumult of verbal sound and fury when he so desires. But none of these equals the singing quality of Jim Ham Lewis, that makes every speech Germany's War Hero Accepts Reparations Paul von Hindenburg, aged German president, has again demonstrated to an anxious world that he is both a good soldier and a patriot, for in signing the Young reparations plan he has provided for a greater measure of world stability in the generation to come. In accepting the reparation plan, the distinguished German leader of war days openly broke with the more outspoken Nationalists who a few years back were most active in securing his election. In accepting the Young plan President von Hindenburg has carried through a task personally distasteful. His willingness to act under the circumstances proves him a soldier still, who says "I have signed the laws with a heavy but firm heart after conscientiously examining them." rona Committee back that he had wired Mr.

Coolidge asking him to go. Well of course that put it up to Mr. Coolidge, and if he hadent gone the Committee would have known that he really was disaobeying the wishes of the President. It was pretty slick on Mr. Hoover's part in doing this, and anyhow after Mr.

Coolidge got there I think he was glad he went. It really was a wonderful sight A LETTER TO A LADY By BRUCE BARTON had a country house In Derby away out in the Mountains and desert, and here was this huge affair that they not only had to spend millions on, but had to spend a tremendous sum to get roads in there, to get in on, and bring all the thousands of Tons of stuff to be used. The Indians made it look mighty picturesque. One of the tribes the Pima's is supposed to get some of the'water for they are supposed to own the almost an operatic aria. And when it comes to dress, the cream vest or summer-wear white Stetson of noble proportions familiar as the Heflin ensemble, the invariable red carnation of Senator, Dr.

Copeland, pale into insignificance beside memories of the symphonies in brown? from spats to whiskers and bushy hair, with which Senator Lewis was wont to bedeck himself. Nobody but Ray Eaker of Nevada, one time director of the mint, ever gave Washington so many sartorial thrills. It is true that Jim Ham's speeches were a problem for Senate shorthand reporters. They were Says an advertising man: "If 25 per cent of the people who can afford to buy new cars, radio sets, ne clothes, are led to decide to buy, then 1930 will surpass 1929." Salesmen, up and at 'em MERELY THE BAER FACTS (Bugs) Baer By Arthur Something seems to tell us that the next big baost in aviation will come from pedestrians taking to the air. They'll have to.

A PLEASANT thing about writing for the newspapers is that one receives a great many letters from unseen friends. For example: "Dear Sir: "I think a woman's most puzzling problem Is what she ought to do or whether she can do anything to help her children in the wise selection of their life companions. "I have a boy and a girl at the ago where they are beginning to be interested in members of the other sex. What can I do to help them meet young people of the right type? Are their father and I justified in taking a better house In a more desirable neighborhood? Would my children have a better chance In life if I were to transfer them from the public schools to private schools? It would mean a sacrifice, but we feel that any sacrifice Is justified if it can help to assure their happiness. "In your wide experience you must have seen all sorts of people meet and solve this problem.

It would be very interesting to me, and I 'am sure to others also, If you would write an article along these lines. "MRS. T. L. C.

"Pittsburgh." At the time this letter arrived I was half-way through a biography; It contained another Instance of parental worry of a little different kind. The parents In this case were wealthy English people who had provided their daughter with everything. They shire, another in New Forest, and a fashionable apartment in London. The daughter was healthy and attractive. She had friends.

She could travel. She had music and art. Surely, a girl with all these blessings could not fail to be happy. Yet a strange perversity kept her spirit in ferment. "Everything has been tried," she exclaimed in her diary, "foreign travel, kind friends, everything.

My God! What is to become of me?" And a little later, see nothing desirable but deafn." Her parents, who could look back over a long line of respectable and contented forbears, were at their wits' Never in the family history had there been a young person whose rebel spirit seemed so likely involve her in disaster. What could they do about it? "We are ducks," moaned the mother, with tears In her eyes, "who have hatched a wild swan." These worthy and distressed parents were a certain Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale. Their daughter, Florence, did very well for herself after they had abandoned their efforts to make her what they thought she ought to be.

She wrote her name large on the pages of her country's history, and, following her own sound instincts, achieved a career which they could not possibly hare arranged for her, and towardfcv-hlch all their worry contributed nothing whatsoever. (Copyright, 1930.) Amateur horoscope: When old Sol crosses the Rubicon on March 31, expect an upturn of business. A Detroit man is going around buying up old saloon bars. Is Ford going to put them in his museum? reservation just below the Dam. I am going over there pretty soon when the thing gets going good and see just exactly how much land the Indians really own that Is watered by this.

Its as I told you before the Apache Indians owned the land the Dam is built on. But to be above a dam is very little comfort to you In the way of getting some water out of it You got to be down hill from it. Living above a dam Is just kinder like being a Democrat, you are living and voting, but you are not deriving any of the Benefits. You know as you saw all those Indians you couldent help but think of the old days. Here was the old warlike Apaches that fought to hold all they had, and most of them wound up In jail, but ther was a Washington that fbught for his trib against invaders and wound up with a flock of Statues and a Title of Father of his country.

And yet I expect if the truth wa known the old Apache Chiefs went through more end fought harder for their Country than George did. But George won, thats the whole answer to never quite certain. Those rolling periods ram-b'ed on and on, beautiful in tone effects but lacking in punctuation. The shorthand lads just did the best they could to find and pin down the ends of the sentences. Looking back over the Lewis record, you find this native of old Virginia first entering national politics as a member of the House from Washington state in 1897 as a Democrat.

Before that he tried fruitlessly for the governor of Washington and he also failed to "come back" in the Fifty-sixth Congress running as a "fusion-lst." He tried for Senate in for the Democratic vice-presidential nominations in 1896 and 1900 and lost Then he gave Washington state up as a bad job politically for a Democrat, and moved to Chicago in 1903. His political judgment was good. After losing out once more In a race for governor of Illinois, he finally made the Senate in 1913, got licked for reelection six years later, got licked again for governor in 1920 and now he's out to take another whack at the Senate. acquire the necessary finessee and vitality on his present Government salary. There Is a dog In our neighborhood who must know the law.

He bites everybody once. Having vaccinated you with the proper respect for his social standing he ignores you for the rest of your tenure In office. The next time he passes you he snubs you. His carriage indicates that he would like to bll.e you but he doesn't like the taste. Grocers, Icemen, instalment collectors and letter carriers are all victims of the law which gives pets the choice of the second bite.

And while man is getting weaker and vainer the fashionable residential leopard is Increasing in size. Every house In our block now feeds a German police dog that looks like an overstuffed sofa and has a necklace of walrus teeth wrapped around his face. New Jersey letter carriers have asked the state legislature to declare a dog guilty on the first snap. Under the present statutes of interurban courtesy every dog Is entitled to his second bite. In other and less vegetarian words you can do nothing if your neighbor's hound chins himself on your leg.

You cannot claim the parlor wolf is vicious until he corroborates, the testimony by helping himself to another tasty dish. Then you must have witnesses who may be absolutely worthless if the dog doesn't happen to be in the mood. About 50 Jersey letter carriers are bitten during the Christmas holidays by Airedales who don't believe In Santa Claus. In spite of the fact that it is only news when the man bites the dog you cannot expect a letter carrier to Yes, a book-a-month club is what you might call a literary filling station. 4 It's better to fight about navies than with them.

And his Republican opponent might be that We finally got parity in Liberty bonds, anyway. feminine chip of the old Mark Hanna block, Rep' resentative Ruth Hanna McCormlck..