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It is our desire to give subscribers prompt and satisfactory service, and we will appreciate your notifying us during the hours mentioned. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Seek ye the Lord and ye shall 5:6. Everyone goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent soonest. -Voltaire. COLQUITT A very high mortality rate has been recorded, in this year's primary contests, among those Democrats who did not support the ticket in 1928.
The list of victims is not confined to those who opposed Al Smith; it includes several who were passive or lukewarm in their support of him. Congressman Box, for instance. We cannot think of a single instance of a bolter's winning in this year's contests. Heflin, of course, still has a chance to win, and Blease has probably a still better chance. But neither has been reelected yet, and there are scores who have met defeat.
Looking over the casualty list, we call to mind one name that is not in it. The name is 0. B. Colquitt. When Colquitt presented himself in the Hoovercrat camp in 1928, his welcome was not exactly cordial.
Practically all of the others in that camp were men who, in bygone years, had opposed him with fervor, yes, with rancor. There were men there that hated him and whose hates were returned with interest. They accepted him, of course, but they could not bring themselves to love him. The smoke of the 1928 contest cleared away and it was found that Colquitt had fared better than anyone else on the Hoovercrat side. He had become a member of the rail labor board, appointed for a six-year term, with $12,000 a year as his pay.
It would be interesting to know what he thinks, as he reads the results of primary contests in his own and other southern states. His erstwhile comrades have either. met defeat or still face hard fights. He, like Job's horse, can view the ba'te from afar. Such things as run-off contests, Raskob, party pledges and the like, need trouble him not at all.
Not even the fact that his chief sponsor, Earle B. Mayfield, was among the casualties, need trouble him very much. Politics is a funny game. If there is anything funnier in it than the fact that Colquitt lit on one of the softest spots there while those who more properly belonged in the Hoovercrat ranks took the hard knocks, we don't know what it is. PERU, BOLIVIA AND ARGENTINE Governmental upsets have taken place recently, in Peru and Bolivia, and there are rumblings in Argentina that hint of similar trouble in that republic.
Stability seems to be lacking in practically all of the Latin-American states, whether in Central America, South America or in the West Indies. "Not often" remarks the Houston Post-Dispatch, "is it a civilian host that overthrows or attempts to overthrow a South American government; nearly always it is an army or part of an army." This, adds the Houston paper, is one reason why revolutions in the countries to the southward usually take the rest of the world by surprise. For there is no public discussion, no open expression of dissatisfaction, preceding the revolutionary movements. They are hatched in army posts, the movements spread through army channels, and the first the populace knows of them is when the new regime takes charge and the ousted president hurriedly catches a coast-bound train. Latin-American statesmanship, it would appear from this distance, should exert itself toward abolishing the standing armies which give birth to the military castes.
Great Britain in the 17th century saw the danger of a large standing army after some unhappy experiences with military intrigue, and our own country adopted the same tradition. Yet the Latin countries in both hemispheres establish larger armies than they need and then proceed to pay dearly for them. Another ever-present cause of dissension is the Latin's predilection for official graft. He looks upon a certain amount of "pickings" as the concomitant of his position. That was one reason why Spain lost the vast empire she once ruled.
It is one of the reasons why Latin-American governments are so unstable. Taken in combination with the development of military castes, plus the Latin's innate love of intrigue, it makes office-holding precarious in every Latin country. A AFTER NINE YEARS On March 28, 1921, Jim Harvard was shot and killed as he sat on the front porch of his Angelina county home. Earl Dixon, his brother-in-law was arrested and indicted. The trial took place late in 1921, resulting in a verdict of guilty, with a 25-year sentence.
The case was reversed and remanded by the high court. Dixon was again tried in 1923, again found guilty, the sentence being 15 years. Again the case was reyersed and remanded. At a third trial in 1925 he was found guilty, the sentence being 18 years. And then another appeal, the case being again reversed and remanded.
The case was transferred to Cherokee county, There it remained on the docket for four years, postponements and continuances being ordered. Finaly, however, it was again tried and disposed of. A jury last week found Dixon guilty, assessing his punishment at five yearsand suspended the sentence. If that sort of thing were exceptional, we could afford to ignore it. But the judicial history of Texas records dozens of similar cases.
Iceland has five sheep to each inhabitant. Bleat that if you can. JUST FOLKS -ByEDGAR A. GUEST (Copyright, 1930. Edgar A.
Guest) CONSIDERING A PROPOSITION To be richer means more worry, More of mind fret, more of hurry; More of planning, more of scheming And less time for idle dreaming. Do I want this thing they proffer? Want the money which they offer? It is true that I can use it, Spend and possibly may lose it. There's another thought to fret me: Why risk loss that may upset me? Why pile up the burden greater To be disappointed later? I've enough on hand and plenty. Why seek forty if with twenty I have all that I have need for What is all this flaming greed for? Round me others strong and clever Seem to cease their toiling never, As if urged to buying, selling By an inner force compelling. Line by line with calm precision Calls this contract for decision And I hesitate to make it.
Shall I scorn this gold or take it? Farewell freedom, farewell soul time, I have sighed away my whole time, Had I spurned this chance they hand me Very few would understand me. That they shall not think me funny, Queer or mad I take their money And make mine their ruling passion As a woman flies to fashion. I Visit the Big House By GLENN FRANK President of University of Wisconsin and Former Editor of the Century Magazine (Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Last night I saw what seems to me, in its technical excellence, one of the triumphs of the talking screen, and, in its significant subject matter, a phetic symbol of the large social role this new instrument for the communication of ideas and impulses may play in our national future if we use it wisely. The film was The Big House, as the prison is called in police and prisoner slang. This film depicted with sustained artistry the poignant pathos of the conditions that are current in many American prisons, and drew from the mot(ley audience a response obviously richer in content than the rudely raked emotions that follow sheer melodrama.
It vividly dramatized the national problem involved in the repeated uprisings of prisoners, the burning of prisons, and the murders of guards and inmates that have shamed America during the last two years. The citizens who crowded this theater will see their state legislature, when it meets next January, wrestling with the problem of an elaborate and expensive reconstruction of the prison system of the state. The men responsible for the administration of the penal institutions of this particular state are just now concerned to forecast the probable reaction of the will of the tax-paying public to their projected request for greatly enlarged appropriations for prison construction and prisoner care. My own experience in attempting the solid discussion of serious issues before popular audiences leads me to believe that the majority of the watchers of The Big House, with whom I sat last night, would remain relatively cold to the call of any long and logical analysis of the prison problems of the state. The legislative reluctance to face the prison problem for the last 20 years, a reluctance that is now reaping the bitter fruit of -uprisings and bloodshed, bears out this belief.
I am convinced, however, that if the sponsors of prison reform and prison reconstruction would tour the state with a talking film like The Big House, accompanied by a simple and crystal clear analysis of the problems it dramatizes, an overwhelming public opinion would insist upon and insure an 'adequate legislative handling of the problem. The use of the talking film to enable voting America to "see" its problems is an enterprise tint merits exploration and experimentation. For the next three days I want to discuss some of the basic aspects of the prison problem, now tc the fore in American concern. There is no more urgently critical issue confronting American lendership than the prevention of crime and the provision of a socially sound prison system. Tomorrow--America's Prison Perils.
WICHITA DAILY TIMES TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1930 I WASHINGTON LETTER By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON. Mr. John J. Raskob is going to be the big issue of the fall election campaigns -If the Republicans have anything Ito say about it.
The party in power expects to make Mr. Raskob a very effective target. As long as Mr. Huston was the Republican chairman his party wasn't in any position to say anything about the other party's chairman. But now the lid is off and the fun begins.
T'he Republican theory is that if they yell "Raskob!" often enough they will save themselves a lot of votes that might otherwise go Democratic. Mr. Raskob decided after the 1928 election to step into the background and allow Mr. Jouett Shouse, as chairman of the party's executive committee, to take over active direction. Nevertheless, the Shouse and the Democratic publicity campaign were Mr.
Raskob's ideas, and it was Mr. Raskob who produced the money, without which these ideas could never have been realized. The G. O. P.
will try to lent old Mephistopheles sits picture Mr. Raskob as they malevobehind the screen and insidiously pulls the strings. Recalls Old Battles The great war of publicity being waged by the two parties takes one back to the pre-civil war period when political parties kept able journalists as editors of partisan newspapers in Washington to fight their battles for them. Each party, has hired an able newspaper to fire off its propaganda barrages and recently interest in Washington was heightened as these two gents took to shooting their wads at each other and each other's methods. The Democratic publicity chief is Charlie Michelson.
former correspondent of the New York World. and the Republican publicity chief is Jim West. formerly correspondent for the Associated Press. More than a year ago Michelson went to work issuing daily releases to the press attacking the Republican administration with every weapon could be found. These releases came in the form of statements from prominent Democrats in congress and out.
The tariff revisions, the economic depression, falling farm prices and various troubles of Mr. Hoover gave Michelson an immense arsenal from which to draw. He kept an able assistant, Bob Gates, constantly busy consulting senators and congressmen about what they were going to say for the morning and afternoon newspapers. P. Annoyed The Michelson blasts received a surprising amount of newspaper space.
They were always well written and pungent and frequently "hot stuff." It began to annoy the Republicans terribly and a few months ago, after they began to worry about the possibility of losing control in one or both houses of congress, they hired Jim West. West's job has been to defend the administration and at the same time to give vent to feverish outbursts of righteous indignation at the attacks from the Michelson masts, bureau, trying them into proof of Democratic unfitness to rule. other day he pushed out a statement by Congressman Will R. Wood of Indiana, chairman of the Republican congressional committee, charging that the Michelson campaign was an "infamous plot" by Raskob to misrepresent the and malign all his acts. Mr.
president and challenge, slander Hoover's high-mindedness, patience and sense of dignity his office, it was explained, had endured the effects of this "plot" -for 17 months without complaint. Worst of all, it was said that the attacks were "issued in the names of various persons who have shown themselves unwilling to be pawns in such Returned the Fire Next day, Michelson issued A blast by Shouse at the Republican publicity bureau. West was accused of violating journalistic ethics by getting an advance copy of Shouse's last radio speech and preparing a criticism of it by Congressman John Q. Tilson of Connecticut to be distributed among correspondents before the speech was actually delivered violation of confidence and breach of manners." Shouse implied that Tilson had nothing to do with the statement issued in his name, being many miles from a telephone at the time. It appears, however, that West had written the Tilson statement and read it over the phone to Tilson, who authorized it.
Next he sat by the radio at national committee headquarters to be sure that Shouse's actual speech duplicated advance copies and then only proceeded to issue the Tilson statement for morning newspapers. Nobody denies that both Michelson and West write most of the statements and some of the speeches by prominent party members. Or that the prominent party members are delighted with the system. What West has to worry about most is the matter of keeping Raskob's name in his publicity. And one of the most important things Michelson has to do is to keep it out of his.
(Copyright, 1930, NEA, Service, Inc.) IN NEW YORK NEW -The gigolo industry, which seemed to crash with the stock market, appears to be reorganized in a bigger and better way for the coming winter. They tell me of a service now preparing to get under in the Park avenue sector, where those giddy and graying old ladies will find a particularly attractive assortment of companions for hire. They are all six-footers, young and with hair well slicked, attired according to the best traditions of the collar advertisem*nts. As they used to say in the rural papers, rumor hath it that the gigolo trade is going after the younger generation this year and is front, seeking though to put that on isn't a. college easy as it sounds.
Word has gone around that there are more young women with money around town just now than there are young men with money. The summer has taught many a pretty maid, accustomed to lavish attentions, that the young men are guarding their purse strings in these lean days. Most of them actually haven't got that surplus for extravagances, and those who have are sitting tight. In Atlantic City, for instance, scores of chorines bask in the sun and sands during summer weeks and generally find little annexing sugar daddies. wag trouble, sent back word a few weeks ago that the girlies wouldn't have to reduce this year because they were paying their own checks -and, hence, staying thin, But there are also plenty of girls with plenty of money to spend who are accustomed to going places and seeing things.
Naturally, they cannot offer to pay the check for young men in their own circles. These would be both insulted and indignant. Worst Story Have Heard By WILL ROGERS There was 8. kid in New Hampshire that got a bug In her ear. Her dad was a guy that was awfui careful with money, but he couldn't do a thing nor neither could his family to get that bug out.
They tried to drown the thing in water and applejack and oil, and the kid yelled worse and worse. SO they took her to a doctor. The doe took her into a dark room and lit a match, and the bug come right out to the light. The dad was glad. "How much do I owe you, Dr.
Fordyce?" he says. "Two dollars." "Say doc, that seems kinda high, don't it? Can't you make it a dollar seein' as how the bug walked out all by hisself?" SAYS NEXT WAR WILL BE FOUGHT WITH GERMS AUSTIN, Sept, 2. The next war will be fought in the laboratories with germs, electricity and devices to exterminate entire armies, Josh Lee, chairman of the oratorical branch of the University of Oklahoma and ex-service man. told 2.000 000 American legionnaires in state convention here today. Nor is such a war as remote a possibility as "smug optimists" would he declared, citing the militant theories of Mussolini.
unrest in Russia, India in revolt and Chinese disturbances, along with the United States "waging unI declared war" in Nicaragua. And there's where the new crop of six-foot, handsome gigolos expect to come in. The most popular gigolo type In the has been the dreamy-eyed, dark-haired Argentinian, who has drifted lazily to these shores and finds it inconvenient to work. He has been an expert dancer and a most ingratiating hand kisser; affecting a servile attention and taking any, gifts that may come his Some--and these are a most gerous breed--do not wait for these gifts to shower. More than once a gray-haired woman has been found crumpled in the doorway of her apartment, her fingers shorn of rings and her purse looted.
Others. working partnership with robber bands, have used their gigolo opportunities to spot the hiding place of valuables and to turn this over to criminal crews who then loot the place. On the average, the gigolo may be said to be a fairly harmless pitlable, a despised figure. Another character more or less scarce in the Manhattan picture of late years, but recently playing a return engagement, is the old-fashioned "badger game" and blackmail team, who preyed chiefly on wealthy, philandering husbands. Around town there now circulates a story concerning such a pair who, it is said, under bogus foreign titles have done very well in the Park belt district, but soon will be publicly exposed, with possible chances of arrest.
Bogus royalty is a perennial drug on the social market. At least once a season, some "count." "duke" or "lord" is revealed as less-thannobody who made his way into the salons of the and socially elect, playing a rich, game which probably was a lot of fun while it lasted. -GILBERT SWAN. HEROIC VENTURA WITH RESCUED PASSENGERS GIVEN NOISY WELCOME SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.
(AP) Capt. William R. Meyer, and his crew of the liner Ventura, who rescued the 317, passengers and crew members of the British steamer Tahiti in the South Seas recently, were guests of the city today. Bearing 81 of the Tahiti's passengers, the Ventura docked here yesterday while the water front staged a noisy welcome. EFFORTS PLANNED FOR EXTENDING HIGHWAY 77 OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept.
2. (UP) -Efforts to extend highway No. 77 from Dallas to Beaumont, Texas, will be made at a highway meeting in Beaumont Sept. 5, R. A.
Singletary, secretary of the good roads division of the chamber of commerce, said today. Singletary will attend the meeting. Paving of highway 77 in Oklahoma is nearing completion and it will be the first highway paved across the state, PERSHING'S STORY OF WORLD WAR DUE SOON WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. (P) -Gen.
John J. Pershing expects his story of the world war to be published before January. Back from abroad, he said today he would work on his own memoirs in the near future. The history covers exclusively the war. The leader of the American expeditionary forces will celebrate his 70th birthday Sept.
13, Run a classified ad in the Times and Record News and rent that spare bedroom. -Adv, HEFLIN OPENS CAMPAIGN RE-ELECTION ADOPTING SLOGAN 'WHITE CONTROL' Sept. 2. (P) MONTGOMERY, -Senator J. Thomas Heflin formally started his independent campaign for re-election today with emblem a liberty bell bearing the inscriptions: Control" and "Down With the 27." The second slogan referred to 27 members of the state Democratic executive committee who voted for 8 ruling barring from the primary candidates who opposed Alfred E.
Smith, the 1928 party presidential nominee. Twenty Years Ago Today From Files Wichita Times September 2, 1910 Cleveland, Ohio, Sept, H. Curtiss of Hammondsport, N. yesterday established a new record for over-water flights by traveling over Lab Erie from Euclid beach, nine miles east of this city, to Cedar Point, Ohio, approximately 60 miles distant. The announced time consumed in the passage was one hour and 18 minutes, A crowd of 10,000 people gathered on the beach went wild when Curtiss landed.
It rushed the aviator, lifted him from the machine and carried him on its shoulders to the hotel. At a meeting of business men and citizens held at the Woodmen hall last Friday night, it was decided to give a big barbecue at Burkburnett at an early date, celebrating the opening So of the Texas-Oklahoma wagon Star. BUENOS AIRES RUMORS RIFE AS PRESIDENT IS REPORTED SICK BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 2. (P)- Illness of President Hipolito Yrigoyen today caused some uneasiness in government circles.
He was said to have suffered an attack of influenza Sunday night, and to have been confined to his bed. His temperature was 101.3. There were rumors that he had been removed from his residence, where apparently police and military vigilance was somewhat laxed. Meanwhile rumors of impending political trouble will not be stilled. The Buenos Aires morning papers published innumerable reports of disquieting character concerning the extraordinary activity of officials all night.
BUILD SCAFFOLD FOR LEAVENWORTH HANGING LEAVENWORTH, Sept. 2. (P)-Erection of a scaffold for the first execution in Kansas since 1870 -the haging next Friday of Carl Panzran, slayer of a prison official and described as one of the most hardened criminals in America-was begun at the federal penitentiary here today. Civilian workmen wielded hammers and saws within earshot of Panzran's cell. The condemned man remained as indifferent his fate as when he addressed a letter to Federal Judge Hopkins at his trial demanding "justice," which he described as "that I be found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to die." One walnut tree imported from Chile nearly 60 years ago started an industry that now spreads over 5,000 acres in Santa Barbara county, California.
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Donald Downs, 19, the most $0- second on his arm Sunriously hurt of two, underwent a operation day night, reports reaching here stated. Dr. Morton Fraser, who unbroken sped many miles over rough, trails to reach the injured boys, amputated Downs' arm just above the elbow last week. Donald, however, had found new today the presence of courage his mother, Mrs. D.
W. Downs of who reached the Glendale, cabin yesterday after a weary 30- mile hike. Edward Jordon, the other student, was believed to have contracted pneumonia from the effects of a punctured lung suffered in reach- the landslide. Although reports ing here stated that he had improved since yesterday, grave fears were felt for him on account of the high altitude he was in. Meanwhile Robert Rankin and Donald Griffin, also hurt in the avalanche removed to Fresno, were but, the road to health.
AUTHORIZE MANDAMUS TO FORCE AMENDMENT TO OKLAHOMA VOTERS OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 2. (UP) -The state supreme court today authorized former Gov. J. B.
A. Robertson, attorney for Mrs. Lamar Looney, to file a mandamus action seeking to force the state election to submit at the November election 8 constitutional amendment permitting women to hold major state offices. The proposed amendment was submitted Oct. 2, 1923, but the courts held it had been improperly submitted.
OKLAHOMA BOY IS HURT IN FALL AT BURKBURNETT BURKBURNETT, Sept. V. Alford, son of Mrs. R. Alford of Devol, was seriously injured here about noon, when he fell from a truck belonging to the R.
E. Stewart Trucking company. J. V. and companion, Gay Watkins, had started to Wichita Falls to seek employment They were riding on top of the truck when the endgate fell out.
The boy fell from the truck and a large sack of 2-inch connections him. Acording to Dr. Slaughter, the attending physician, he is suffering from concussion and possible fractures. He was taken to the Wichita General hospital at Wichita Falls. Rites for Dispatcher EL RENO, Seit.
2. (UP)- Funeral services D. D. Burke, chief dispatcher for the Rock Island railroad who died Sunday, were held today. The Masonic lodge was in charge of the rites.
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1. PHILLIPS Ahoy for the International Cup Race! Sir Thomas Lipton, whose vain quests of the America's cup have put him in the always-a-bridesmaidbut-never-a-bride class, has arrived in this country, and the next big sporting event will take place off Newport when two million-dollar sailing yachts engage in 8. series of tests to see which is more brittle. else it will give After a 10-year interval an international cup race is again at hand off our coast. If it does nothing PHILLIPS President Hoover an opportunity to take a yacht owners and prove that, despite the business recession, there are more yachts under the Hoover administration than there ever were under a Democratic regime.
Yachtsmen regard an international cup race with the same enthusiasm as a baseball fan regards a world's series, and already a big boom is reported in our yachting cap, blue flannel coat, pants, binoculars, co*cktail shaker and punch bowl industries. It was the aim of the Republican party to put a yacht in every home. The ambition might have been realized if Roger hadn't gone garrulous last September. Even at that, it is surprising how many Americans are able to go in for the most expensive of sports. The international races may provide the big psychological punch necessary to restore prosperity.
It will be impossible to look at all those costly yachts making whoopee on the sidelines and still feel that money is hard to get in this country. If President Hoover's industrial commission wants to restore confidence it should move to have the races transferred closer to the shore and nearer the masses. By planning to hold the races off Newport the yachtsmen are making them almost a private event. Ten years ago the Lipton cup hunt was held off New York, where there was also a chance the hoi polloi might get a glance at the race from a ferryboat, tug, coal barge, garbage scow, oil tanker, raft, fishing pier or rowboat. The races that year were a big disappointment to the yachtsmen, however, because of the fact that common people had been able to get a peep or two at the racing to realize that lot of people who boats.
It is re pretty heartbreaking don't know a spinnaker from a middy blouse and whose sea life has been limited to excursion boats are getting in on an event you are attending on a twin-screw yacht costing you $2,500 every time you lift the anchor. In previous cup races there have been such curious time allowances and committee rules that one yacht might lead its rival over the line by half a day and be declared the loser on the ground the skipper wore the wrong hat and had snapped a garter. This year no huddle will be required to name the winner. A skipper whose boat finishes today will not have to lie awake all night wondering if the can lose to the boat arriving on the morrow. So the element of mystery will be removed and the public should get somegood clean fun out of the races, even by hearsay.
The Real Test Captain Hawkes flew from coast to coast the other day in 12 hours and 25 minutes, Such flights mean nothing to the average man, however. Not until some flier tries it with his wife will it have any significance, Anybody can make speed without the handicap of backseat driving. There are 234,854 idle in New York, according to estimates. But you can't look around any metropolitan office these days without feeling that this is a gross underestimate. Well, the congestion is getting so fierce we may have to have special traffic rules for members of Hoover commissions pretty soon.
One of life's saddest spectacles: A member of a Hoover drouth commission caught in a rain without an umbrella." "Are you innocent." asked the politician's lawyer, "or shall we have to go before a grand jury to get you cleared Italy, smitten by an earthquake, is now visited by a tornado. The thing most people can't understand is how they got by Mussolini. Add similes: As embarrassed as 8. toothless man when served with corn on the cob. Little Benny's Note Book By LEE PAPE Weather: Fairly bad.
SISSIETY PAGE Miss Mary Watkins the well known charity werker saw about 5 ants in her kitchin so she spred sugar all a ways from the kitchin to the frunt door to keep them from waisting their time, and the ants took advantage of her charity and brawt all their frends in, and their not all out yet. Mr. Sid Hunt's big brother Fred izzent werking just at present but he is thinking serious of either raising pidgins up on the roof or mushrooms down the celler, Sids father being agenst both. SPORTING PAGE Skinny Martin is the champeen at one hand, catching flies looking out kind of the of air crazy with to anybody that sees him doing it without knewing what he is doing. Shorty Judge suffered from a bluddy nose last Wensday as a result of trying to stand on one hand.
INTRISTING FACKS ABOUT INTRISTING PEEPLE Mary Watkins has 3 small size freckels on her nose, being more of a decoration than a diskrace. LOST AND FOUND Not today..
