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THE SCR ANTON REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY. JULY 16. 1936 ATLAS WAS A PIKER! The Washington Merry Go Round DanD. Lyon "I'm a wise guy.

I know the guy that did it. Leave him alone. I'll take care of him myself." So spoke the victim of a Ray mond Court stabbing affray, as (El? rninfam Republican Kounaea lust FRANK SCHROTH. Editoi ana Puolisner Published Every Morning Except Sunday 332 336 North Wastungtan Ave. Tht Scranton Kepuoncao was estaoiisnea as a weeklj in August.

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to I A. M. 7339. reported by The Republican Tues day morning. Twenty four years old he was.

with a finely moulded head and a handsome face. One pointments, it might be said that they are recurring challenges to the best In our characters challenges to our ability, our enterprise, our energy, our determination and our courage. That which is most worthwhile is the hardest to attain, a truth that is forever interwoven with the disappointments that visit us a.s we travel up the tortuous ways of a perplexed world, following the Gleam of Hope which is forever beckoning men to the finer horizons of Life. It may be, above all, that in stressing our disappointments we are inclined to forget those fortuitous hours that sometimes brighten our paths and bring us gifts of beauty and delight. Interesting Dictum on Wills In the Hattie Dexter Wright will case, Judge Sando of the Orphans' Court yesterday departed from the usually dry legal language which has to do with such thought of the old poem about somebody's darling.

By DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON, July 15. William Washington Howes, the new Acting Postmaster General, has a glad hand mounted on ball bearings, and he has back slapped his way right into the Cabinet. There is no place where he does not feel at home, or where he does not make you feel at home. But he is at his best in an old fashioned political gathering. There, no one can out glad hand him.

not even James Aloysius Farley, whose ornate walnut paneled office he will soon occupy. In appearance Howes is as plain as an old shoe. He wears horn rim glasses, soft collars, shirt sleeves, and a black, thick pompadour. Shorter than Jim Farley, Bill weighs about 250 pounds, uses ordinary instead of green ink, and instead of chewing gum smokes cigarettes chain fashion. He excels Farley in one respect having three double chins against Big Jim's two.

In this, he follows the precedent set by the first Postmaster General, Benjamin Franklin. Many things that young man might have been. Many things he was. But as he lay there and gasped out the argot of gangster dom, one felt with a sense of sad ness and of pity that a wise guy he was not. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TPTNTSV, WOODWARD AND COMPANY.

rNC. wisdom lies not so, gasping futilely. Twenty four! And already lost 110 Eis Street, New Vork. 400 No. Michigan Avenue.

Chicago. New Center Bunding. Detroit. Globe Building. Boston.

7'. 1 Glenn Buiiatng. Atlanta. 417 East 13th Street, Kansss City Chamber ot Commerce Building. Los Angeles.

Rusa Building, San Francisco. Entered at Scranttm Post Office as Second Class Mall to every sentiment of self respect; already unashamed to walk openly into those purlieus which are at IP once the antechamber of destruc tion and the disgrace of the city that tolerates them; already ac issues, and rendered a decision that Is dramatic reading for laymen as well as lawyers. Petitioners, including Mrs. Wright's husband, endeavored to upset her will, cepting for his heroes and models the filthy and cowardly Jackels that make defenselessness and decency their prey! Contemplate it, ye smug. Look upon it not without interest having elements of the personal in it.

For to a greater extent than ye realize, it is due to you and to what you are. involving an estate of $25,000, on the ground that she was not fully aware of what she was doing and that undue influence guided her. Politics Early Bill began training for his present career while a student at the University of Minnesota, where he was a great ralljer of class spirit. If the boys and girls on the campus were a little lukewarm about getting out to root for good old Minnesota. Bill Howes was right there with the pep topic.

He was the chief urger on in a very urgent student body. Bill was not a fraternity man. There was no such snobbishness in his ego. But with the help of his father, a moderately successful insurance man, he did acquire a part interest in a cigar store during his sophomore year. It became the focal point for athletes and the betting center for all games.

At law school, Howes joined the legal fraternity of Delta Theta Phi. and during his second year attended the national fraternity convention, where he shared a room with the dean of the law school. Howes used the occasion to get the dean's advice on where a budding young lawyer should practise, and was told that the state of South Dakota needed lawyers almost as badly as it always needs water. SCRANTON, JULY 16, 1936 The Pickup in Construction Although building construction figures in Scranton this year were given a tremendous boost by the South Scranton Junior High School and the new American Legion home on Washington Avenue, the 1936 record indicates a sharp rise in new structures. For the first six months this year 295 permits have been issued Involving a total of $1,347,083, compared with the full year records of 1934 and 1935 with 358 and 355 permits respectively, covering $264,639 in 1934 and $336,310 in 1935.

The pickup this year is bound to be reflected advantageously in the various trades and business channels having to do with building, and 1936 promises to be the largest construction year since the beginning of the depression. Dark, Dangerous Night Watchman what of the night? A dark night, and a dangerous. A night that finds the outer and even the nearer works already possessed by an enemy recruited in hell and having the devil for captain. A night on which the very citadel is in danger of falling because of complacency and corruption and betrayal. And ys stand there, ye stupid burghers whose homes cannot but be involved in the ruin! Ye stand there and ye say with the imbecile king: "Let's choose executors and talk of wills." And what have ye to will any more than had he Judge Sando, however, concluded from the evidence that she met fully the requirements of the law as to soundness of mind and mental and physical capacity.

He reminded the petitioners, moreover, that the injustice or even the folly of a testator cannot be considered by a court so long as the testator has met the provisions of the law of the Commonwealth. The point was raised that the testator, ignoring the rights of the husband, made a sizeable bequest to a friend who was no kin whatsoever, but upon that issue, Judge Sando laid down the dictum that, "a man's prejudices are a part of his liberty!" That may, at first glance, appear to be a startling bit of philosophy, but when it is carefully analysed it reminds us that under our form of government we not only enjoy a greater degree of liberty than most peoples of the earth, but that our liberties, in certain circumstances, even permit us to use exceedingly bad judgment and, if we see fit, to offend close relatives who might normally be the beneficiaries of our By Talburt in Thf Cleveland Press IN NEW YORK the ruin that your stupidity and vanity have made? A Daily Guidebook By GEORGE ROSS tral and Savoy Plaza. The Rain amount of the check and the hat check girl will smile when she re NEW YORK, July 15. To come right out with it. the wisest way to direct a Manhattan visitor to various posts of night life, is to bow Room and the Rainbow Grill are higher than any hotel roofs deems your chapeau from any thing between fifteen cents and a quarter.

Beware of gyp taxis out present him with several general warnings and then send him out side of night clubs. It is safe to to explore on his own hook. walk to the corner before hailing But I hear choruses of. 'Well, one. South Dakotan Law So Bill Howes took his final year of law at the University of South Dakota, during which he and his friend the dean conducted a survey of the state to ascertain the exact spot where lawyers were scarcest.

They found that in the little town of Wol sey, population 458, not one lawyer was to be found at all. So Bill Howes went there with the proverbial $40 in his pocket, registered at the best hotel (if there was more than one, rented an office for $12 a month 'on which he paid $5 down) and hired a sign painter to paint a shingle with the biggest gilt letters possible. A few minutes later, a cow puncher came in with a title to be verified. Howes charged him $5 and thus paid for his shingle. Howes has never made a fortune at law.

but he has made a comfortable income, though he did not stay in Wolsey to make it. His home in recent years has been in Huron, a town of 11,000, and among the largest in the state. The big thing Howes did for South Dakota at least in the opinion of Jim Farley, who rewarded him for it was to inaugurate Democracy. For many years Democrats in South Dakota had been as scare as Republicans in Mississippi. But Howes swung the state in 1932, and says he will do it again this Parents, ye have betrayed and are betraying the children given to ye by God as an awful responsibility.

Into the hands of willful, passionate, illusioned and rebellious youth, ye have surrendered the authority that it was yours to maintain as the vicegerents of Omnipotence. What shall ye answer when the demand is made: Where are they that I gave unto ye?" Citizens, ye have stood by in apothosis of dumb inanity while the forces of corruption and destruction now infllterated and now charged boldly, now surprised the flanks and now struck hardly at the center. So to their counting rooms went the Carthagenians of old. while Nemesis thundered at their gates. And when they came to their senses at last, it was to what places?" Which is the why and wherefore of this compen dium.

So, then to specific di rections: in town. The Hotel New Yorker features an ice carnival. There is a plethora of sidewalk cafes and what the New Yorker designates as places al fresco. The finest and most ornate of these street level, outdoor restaurants are the New Promenade Cafe in Radio City, Longchamps at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, the Brevoort on lower Fifth Avenue, the Park Lane Gardens, the Ambassador Italian Gardens, the Chatham Walk and the One Fifth Avenue und Fifth Avenue Hotel sidewalk oases. from trf files ttf jrrarrfan ftepubtiam On the Broadway front, there is no more extraordinary institu 64 Years Ago, July 16, 1872 We should be careful, therefore, not to abuse our freedom.

tion than the French Casino, a A. F. O'Boyle and P. Nallen left theater cabaret. There are ac commodations for a thousand peo yesterday for Ireland.

They were accompanied to New York by Prof. pie at the tables in orchestra and M. J. Lovern. A Fine Safety Record The city of Evanston, 111., with a population of 67,800, has the finest traffic balcony.

At the dinner and sup Thomas Reap has purchased the interest of James Connery of the per hours, a scanty costumed show entitled "Folies des Femmes" make an appalling funeral pyre of themselves. Breckinridge Supports Landon Henry L. Breckinridge's desertion of the Democratic Party to support the Landon Knox ticket is not surprising. It is a logical outcome of his well known opposition to the New Deal and all its works. Almost from the first he has opposed what he has described as the Roosevelt Administration's attempt to upset traditional constitutional government in this country.

His entry in the primaries in several States against the occupant of the White House this year was designed, on his part, as a protest, representative of a large bloc of Democrats who hold his views. Landon's election, he believes, will insure "greater security and prosperity" in agriculture, industry and business generally, and he feels that the Republican candidate can be expected to restore "economy and common sense" to government. It is reasonable to believe that although his support of the Kansas Governor is not unexpected, he will carry with him a large number of Democrats, who, though they are still fervent believers in the governmental philosophies of Cleveland and Wilson, believe that real JefTersonianism and real Democracy have been destroyed by the New Deal regime. Let's Go to Harlem And of course, there is Harlem, not as hot as you might suppose is given on the stage. firm of Connery fe Carroll, livery men of this city.

50 Years Ago, July 16, 1886 A juvenile bicycle club was or In the same region, there are the Hollywood Restaurant, another the dusky belt would be in Sum And ye, the governors of the city, to whom was ignorantly committed the defense of the citadel mer. The Cotton Club has stopped nationally famed caravansary that features an elegant floorshow ganized last evening, calling itself functioning with typical neo African entertainment but the the Scranton Juniors with the fol lowing officers: A. Brown, cap Ubangl Club on Lenox Avenue tain; W. Kemmerer, president; I. dishes out a show that is tur Brown, treasurer, and F.

Collins bugler. bulent. At about 2 A. M. and thereafter, the late crowd gathers E.

B. Sturges, Clarence Sturges at Dickie Wells' and the Savoy Ballroom to really see Harlem in Merry Go Round Senator Jim Couzens is introducing something new in electioneering. The multimillionaire one time partner of Henry Ford is touring the Great Lakes section of Michigan in a palatial yacht which he has rented for the Summer One of Governor Alf Landon's key utility experts is now an official of the Motor Carrier Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He is H. M.

Roberts, chief of the section of certificates and insurance. Roberts was selected for the federal action. Which means that the with elegant ladies at dinner and supper and the Paradise Cabaret, diagonally across the street, featuring just about the same In the vicinity, is Connie's Inn, a Harlem night club brought down to Broadway, complete with table d'hote dinners and a sepian program Jack Dempsey's Supper Room with an intimate divertissement after theater hour and with the Manassah Mauler himself, sometimes visiting his own premises Dan Healy's Broadway Room, the congregating point for the Broadway cognoscenti anytime after 1 o'clock in the late crowd doesn't generally get what of ye? Ye have been weighed in the balance, and found wanting. For ye the fingers are even now at the wall, and they are writing "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin!" Five months the chief of ye thought he might take to find whether broth elism was rampant, and through twice five months and more he has seen it rampant and rebuked it not. Vice open and brazen ye have tolerated and perhaps profited by, while an indifferent people looked on.

And lo! "Now what cometh? look, look! Without or call. Who writes, with the lightning's bright hand, on thf aM? home until 8 o'clock in the morn safety record in the United States, and that fact leads to the question: How was it achieved? An answer is supplied in a recent pamphlet, issued by the National Safety Council. The report shows that a motor death rate of eight persons in 1934 was reduced to only two persons in 1935, as the result of a definite program, rounded out after efforts and planning covering a period of six years. The safety measures, during 1935, in a nutshell, covered these elements: 1. City Traffic Engineer, appointed for full time.

2. Existing street illumination increased 80 per cent. 3. Curb corner? cut back at 115 intersections. 4.

Ninety five per cent of all traffic accidents investigated. 5. High percentage of convictions. 6. Complete program of safety activities in elementary and high schools.

7. Seventy two per cent of all hit and run drivers, caught compared 17 per cent in 1928. 8. Compulsory auto inspections at city operated station. ing.

Then, there are the fashionable places in the mid town area Among these: the Versailles, the job because of his outstanding service with Stork Club, La Rue, El Morocco, the Kansas state government. Works Progress Administration now is operating the Mons Paris, the Town Casino Club, Anna Held's Coq Rouge and and Anna Sanderson will sail for Europe on Saturday. 26 Years Ago, July 16, 1910 The Lackawanna Railroad and Its engineers yesterday signed their new wage agreement. The gain for the engineers is 16 per cent. Manager Frank Caum of the Scranton Railway Company yesterday announced that the entire length of the Trans County Road is to be improved by the trolley company.

10 Years Ago, July 16, 1926 John Griffiths, Washburn Street, well known in mining circles, has been named chairman of the Lackawanna County Republican Committee. County Commissioner Morgan the Marguery where the cogno scenti of stage, screen and radio 4.636 sewing projects, employing around 400, 000 women. To finance this type of work relief the WPA has set aside $97,000,000. Last year the women workers turned out more than 27,000,000 garments, which were distributed to needy families Although wheat gather, and the Cafe de la Paix in the Hotel St. Moritz happens to be this town's best vantage point What pierceth the king, like the point of a dart? What dr.ves the bold blood from his cheek to hu heart? 'Chaldeans! magicians! the letters tx They are read: and is dead on the ground! Hark! the Persian Is come, On a conqueror's wing.

And a Mede on the throna of Belshatiaf the king!" to observe Manhattan's most beautiful women. Providing visitors bring their automobiles along, there are many is featured in the news headlines, it is not the most valuable American crop. Corn, cotton and hay each have a higher dollar and cents value. The 1935 wheat crop amounted in value to $500,000,000, while that of corn came to $1,250,000,000, cotton $750,000,000 and hay $650,000,000. they were put Tip Top Places High above the perspiring pavements, the hotel roofs offer surcease from torrid temperature to diners, winers and dancers.

Almost any hotel listed in the Manhattan directory has a roof garden of one kind or another, but the handsomest skytops, and the ones I favor, include the roof gardens of: The Waldorf Astoria, the Pennsylvania, the St. Moritz, the Biltmore, the Astor, the Montclair, the Pierre, St. Regis, Sherry Netherland, McAlpin, Park Cen suburban spots within commuting distance that are scenically beau tiful and conducive to pleasant Thomas left yesterday for New York to meet his nteces, Dorothy and Miriam Robathan, who are on the market a year and a half ago, the evenings. Now for general admonitions: government has sold $335,000,000 in "baby returning from abroad. bonds." The waiters in this vicinity are 9.

Parking offense arrest ticket system, with "cafeteria court" for guilty pleas. 10. Ticket fixing eliminated. 11. Intensive training for traffic officers.

12. Special study of the drinking driver problem. Those points are based on practical experience and have brought about desirable results. They are worthy of the most serious study and consideration by all officials and citizens Interested in trying to minimize our own death toll and in reducing the number of accidents in the Scranton area. accustomed to being tipped a little better than 10 per cent of the Penalized for Courage (Chicago Dally News.

I Thomas P. Gore, the blind Sen Your Health The City's Litigations Diplomacy as well as legal skill evidently are combined in City Solicitor Myers achievement in handling law suits and claims against the city of Scranton. During his tenure, from January 1, 1934 to July 1, 1936. the suits and claims Involved a total of $425,441.85 which were finally settled or were fought out in court for $10,352.87. As Mr.

Myers puts it graphically in his report to Mayor Davis, that means that two and four tenths cents were paid for every dollar cued for or claimed against the municipality. How such a record compares with other cities of Scranton's size is not known, but in a community of 145,000 people, with municipal activities involving innumerable obligations to the citizens, relating to safety and property rights, it would appear to be a reflection of good legal work on the Solicitor's part, for which he should be SIDE GLANCES By George Clark ator from Oklahoma, has been Slaves to Vice Oh, it was a sad day for the king, that day not less sad for the people. Nay, but more sad for them, because the king was dead, and the judgment he had earned was unchanged by the time of its pronouncing, but for the people there remained life and slavery. And for ye, Scrantonians, except ye shall awaken in time and throw down the abomination of desolation that sits in a holy place for ye. too, there remains slavery.

When vice is master of a state, be it a city state or be it a national state, there are no citizens, but only slaves. And the slaves to vice oh, God, how Intolerable their chains! defeated for even a chance of re nomination by the New Dealers of his state. While in the Senate Gore has dared to follow his con science. There have been times when that daring placed him squarely in opposition to the dictated policy of his party. One dmm mm such time was in February, 1935 By speech and vote he opposed the $4,000,000,000 boondoggling; bill.

His answer to New Deal politi cians, who wired him that he might as well stay out of their Oklahoma county if he did not support the boondoggling measure, deserves to be recalled. "Your "I'm a wise guy," declared that pathetic 24 year old victim of a society rapidly going bankrupt of moral stamina. "Leave him alone, I'll take care of him myself" oh, there was unconscious irony in that. For what has been the policy of the present city administration, save to leave vice alone to leave it to you arrd to me and to the rest of us to take care of it as best we can? telegram," he wrote, "shows how iDr. Flshbeln will answor personally any addressed to him hy readers of The.

Republican. His addres is 635 North Dsarborn Street, Chicago, 111.) Careful Treatment Necessary in Cleaning Baby's Ears By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIX When your child gets an infected ear, call the doctor. That Is the safest thing to do, when so tender a part of the head as the human ear is concerned. Even in the simple matter of cleaning the baby's ears, you must be extremely careful, and you should know the proper technic to use so as not to harm the baby.

It is safe enough to go further, and wash out accumulated and hardened wax or other material that may have gotten Into the ear by accident. For this purpose, use a solution of boric acid two teaspoonf uls to a pint of water. Old hot water bottles which have been lying about in closets, and which have filled all sorts of purposes, should not be used until they have had a thorough cleaning by repeated rinsings with boiling water. The tube attached to the bag also should be cleaned before any attempt Is made to wash the ear. The hard rubber tip should be cleaned thoroughly in alcohol.

The bag filled with the solution now may be hung at a height of about six feet from the floor. If the child to be treated is sitting on a bed or a chair, this will give a fall of about three feet, which is sufficient pressure for the the dole spoils the soul. It Inti mates that your votes are for sale. Much as I value votes, I'm not in Senator Borah's Regularity Senator Borah's final endorsement of the Landon Knox ticket, while possessed of a bit of theatricalism, is not unexpected. It is characteristic of the man to appear for a brief while as a hold out and then dramatically to fall in line.

It will be recalled that he has done that frequently in the past. The procedure, nevertheless, adds strength to his stand and it adds strength to the ticket. No good Republican would like to see the lion maned Idahoan bolt the Party. Borah ought to be satisfied, in any event. The Cleveland platform in its essentials is largely his handiwork, and the two men on the ticket, with their Progressive background, certainly ought to be liberal enough to meet all his requirements.

What is of utmost Importance in connection with his regularity, however, is his value as a campaign speaker. He is a convincing orator and he is especially skilled in dealing with constitutional and legalistic problems. His support of the ticket this year, therefore, while not unexpected, is a gratifying development from the Republican standpoint. And so pitiably futile was the young man. And so pitiably futile have we been.

the market. I cannot consent to buy votes with the people's money. I owe a debt to the taxpayer as well as the unemployed. I shall discharge both. None but the bully resorts to threats, and none but the coward yields to them." The New Dealers of Oklahoma doubtless would have renominated Senator Gore had he been as darkened in vision ethically as he is physically.

The New Deal calls for blind obedience. The Disappointments Sorrows in life are inevitable, but, if we will, we can be like Constance of Brittany in Shakespeare's King John who exclaimed, "I will instruct my sorrows to be proud" That is because there is about sorrow an irrevocable fate which ordains that we cannot recall to life the beloved voice and the vanished hand. Disappointments are of different mold. As Burns, in his plaintive apostrophe to the lowly mouse sang "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men. Gang oft a gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy." Even though we sometimes fail in our endeavors, after pain and longing and striving, there is nearly always the opportunity to strive again.

In one way of contemplating disap The Indian potentate who offers $10,000 to anyone who will put him to sleep can get a valuable tip by writing to Mr. Joseph Louis, Detroit, Mich. A midwest garage man found a new comet. Undoubtedly, part of the credit should go to the car owner on whose time the discovery was made. A business man's wife isn't entirely happy until her husband has a lot of irons in the fire and, for that matter his wood clubs, too.

spirit of courageous independence is being crushed in American politics by the New Deal's policy of conditioning its benefits upon submission to its regimentation. The rejection of Gore is a new challenge to America to reassert Its freedom. purpose. If more pressure is used, there may be pain from the force of the solution against the eardrum or the inflamed tissue. Temperature of the solution should be tested by dipping the elbow into the water, or by dropping some of the solution on the inside of the wrist.

If it is too warm for the elbow or wrist, it is too warm for the ear, and is likely to be painful. This is the time of year when the farmers' daughters must have showers because the farmers don't. "Look, I always close my eyes and let them go around me.".