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The fool-killer., 1921-10-01
Please Learn Something.

Suppose a little eight year old
school boy who was just learning
to spell "cat'' should butt in and
try to dispute the teacher of the
algebra class. You would think
that kid was a little too fresh,
wouldn't you? 80
Well, honey, that's sorter the
way I feel when some Of these
here little orthodox fellers try to
be so wise and tell me that I
don't know what | am talking
about. For instance, when I say
that the preachers have lied to
the people for thousands of years
and taught them all sorts of
wrong EMOTIONS about death tand
the hereafter, some little ignor-
ant upstart will cut loose and
call me all sorts of bad names.
And when [ try to reason with
him and show him the Bible
proofs for what | say-no sir, he
don's want to hear any of that.
Just because he knows nothing
about the proofs, he thinks they
do not exist.
The average person does not
know any of the following facts:
That the Great Pyramid of
Egypt corroborates the Bible
and proves the Divine Plan of
the Ages;
That the Jew is the key that
unlocks nearly all the mysteries
of the Bible, and makes it all
harmonic and give good sense;
That every thing in the old
Jewish order was a'type Of some
thing else to come later;
That the Bible is full of figures
and dates, mostly hidden under
various kinds of symbolism, but
still there;
That the length of time the
Gentiles should. rule the world is
positively given as 252O years,
beginning COG B. C. and ending
1914 A. D.;
| That the Jewish Double as
given in prophecy is an absolute
ly sure proof Of the time when
The fool-killer., 1921-10-01

[ composed most of the dope
in this issue right at the type
case, putting it in type with my
own hands just as fast as | got it
Matched: Do you want some more
like it to oil your thinker with?
The fool-killer., 1921-10-01
WONDERS OF THE FUTURE.

| find that a great many people
are sorter puzzled about these
modern wonders that are coming
into the world so thick and fast.
They can't understand what it
means, and they are wondering
what it will all lead to in the
future.
Just a few days ago I was talk
ing to a man on this subject. The
conversation started about the
modern improved methods of
travelling-the convenience and
speed of the automobile as COM
pared to the slow and clumsy
methods of the past. From that
the conversation drifted on to the
various other startling achieve.
ments of modern invention and
discovery.
Leaning back and drawing a
long breath, my neighbor said:
well, it's wonderful. We can
see that the progress made in the
past Is years has been greater
than in thousands of years before.
But do you suppose the change in
the next % years will be as great
as it has been during the last 25?'
YES, and a great deal more,'
seq I.
What? Do you reckon so2':
sez Mr. Neighbor. 1T don't seen
possible. 1t looks like everything
has already been invented tina
can be. I can't think Of anything
else."
NO." SEE L, land you couldn'
think of the things that have al
ready come until somebody elss
thought of them first. But there
will be inventive minds in the
future, and they will 60 right OF
inventing and discovering more
wonderful things than you Cal
possibly imagine"
And that is the truth. peODl,
cannot begin to comprehend wha
the world will be like even q
years from now. There is no pos
sibility that inventive progress
will slow up. On the other hand
it is certain to get faster. AM
lust try to imagine what it woult
be in 25 years even at the presen
rate! Why, it staggers the imagin
alton to try to think about it!
OF course we see that the art O
science of government is not keep
ing pace with the rapid improve
ment in other lines. The inven
tions and discoveries are the wor]
of the ''dreamers''-people VIII
have imagination and can loo
ahead. But the business of gov
eminent is still in the hands O
Ignorant and shOrt-sighted politi
%cians who are SO hang-take'
"practical' that they still try t
run the governments by the la,
of the jungle-brute force. Tn
political ''dreamers'' believe Their
The fool-killer., 1921-10-01
PAGE THREE

Gods favor would return to the
Jews;
That history shows that it DID
come to pass just on time;
That the 70 Jewish Jubilee cy-
cles of SO years each show the
time when the Great Jubilee will
be due to start.
All these things and many
more are in the Bible, but the
average Bible reader has never
seen them nor heard of them.
Even the preachers do not
know that such proofs exist.
But in their ignorance they go
around disputing the word of
people who Do know.
To those Of us who have given
long years of careful study to
these things it is sorter hard to
have patience with the big talk
of people who have never studied
them at all.
Say, mister, please learn some-
thing before you talk so big.
The fool-killer., 1921-10-01
G-U-U-R, GOLLY!
Shades of Napoleon!
Here we come!
Had ,-l N

~ A\0ROACO11s
Here we come!
Head US!
And so here is a sample of how
awful bad the great statesmen of
the world want peace and dis
armament.
| clip the following news story
from one of the big pluto papers,
and am going to give you the
headlines, sub-heads and all, so
. you can see just how sincere
they are in their disarmament
talk.
All the way from President
Hardtimes on down-or up,
whichever it is-they have no
notion of trying to disarm. They
are only trying to pull off a few
stage stunts in order to fool the
common folks and make them
think that something big is being
done.
But now just listen:
GAS APPROVED BY
MILITARY EXPERTS
Conference on Limitation of
Armament Will Not Recon-
mend its Abolition
DOUBTS OF PERMANENT PEACE
The Proposition Is Advanced
That a Gas Bomb is Equally as
Humane as a i, 000-Pound
Shell or Torpedo.
Washington Poison gas as a
means of warfare has come to stay.
Americas military experts join with
those of other countries in insisting
that the gas bomb is just as humane
as the torpedo Or the 1,00O-pound
shell. Any idea that the United States
army experts will advise the Ameri-
can delegation to the conference on
limitation of ornaments to propose
the abolition Of poison gasses can be
dismissed as out of the question.
President Harding in his Invitation
to the other powers pointed out that
"'it may be found advisable to formu'
late proposals by which in the interest
of humanity the use of new agencies
Of warfare may be suitably con
trolled."
A canvass of military authorities
develops the fact hat the American
army holds chemical warfare to be a
recognized and desirable means OF
warfare-that it is just as desirable as
any other means of killing the troops
of the enemy.
MIR. Harding himself in his speech
90 the army war college spoke his
doubts about permanent peace anC
indicated that armies and navies
would always be necessary.
Now don't you reckon we viii
play smash at getting disarma'
ment from a gangsthat talks like
that? I just want you to hush
as Tom Watts says.
[ composed most of the dope
The fool-killer., 1921-10-01

i, In a world where nearly every
body are liars it is sometimes
dangerous to tell the truth.
1t don't take much scratching
of Daugherty's skin to find old
Gregory underneath.
Wouldn't you love to have you
a nice little League Of Nations
all to yourself?
If Ireland was just one Ireland
perhaps old Nanny England
could manage it. But Ireland
seems to be twins.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
.$l0,000,O0O for
|Busses Is Hylan
Transit Remedy
Calls Department Chiefs in
Conference Tomorrow to
Map Legislative Program
on His Home Rule Ideas
Subway Relief Must Wait
If Albany Gives Permission,
However, He Will SHOW
Interests, Mayor Vows

The heads of the city departments,
at the request of Mayor Hylan, will
confer with his honor tomorrow and
discuss proposed amendments and new
legislation which the Mayor has in
mind in furtherance of home rule
program. In making the announce
ment yesterday the Mayor declared
that the recent election unequivocally
expressed the theories on home rule of
the local electorate, and that the
Legislature should have chance to
respond If the Albany Legislators
still decline to adopt the Mayors pro-
gram they must bear the blame, he
said.
The Mayor said if the Legislature
would give the city the power to at
tend to its own transit affairs he would
show his critics that he had traction
program. The city is ready to spend
$1O,000,o00 for municipal buses, he
declared.
"Now that the people have spoken in
no uncertain terms" said Mr.. Hylan.
sthe legislation this city favors will
once more be submitted to those who
have the power to pass it or reject it.
If they reject New York City's program
OF relief, its program of home rule,
powers at Albany
The first step in the city's legislative
program will be an amendment of
Chapter 444 of the laws of 1914. so
that New York City may have the
same power as upstate municipalities es
to consolidate certain city departments
II such scheme would make for eff
fieiency and economy. Such amend
ment would permit other important
changes in the organization of the
city government if the city saw fit to
make them The Mayor said there was
absolutely no use doing anything about
the city charter until this law had
been amended.
we are also going to ask the Legis-
iaturc again for authority to operate
busses," said the Mayor. at has been
claimed by those who speak for the
traction interests that the City of New
York has no traction program of it's
own. Let the Legislature give us the
power to attend to our own transit
affairs and we will show the traction
interests and those allied with them
whether we have program, We are
prepared to spend $1oOO0,OoO in the
purchase of well, lighted, comfortable
and we'll ventilated buses. This nro-
gram would have been carried out long
ago, as the public is generally aware,
had it not been for the fact that the
Board of Estimate was restrained in a
SUIT in which Guggenheim, Untermyer
Marshall were counsel This action
is pending in the Court of Appeals"
The Mayor said the sole object of
the conference tomorrow was to for
mulate general home rule program
of legislation His friends declared
that he is anxious to have a charter
revision and home rule program be-
fore the Legislature, or at least be-
fore the public, before the Charter Re-
vision Commission, which was provided
for by the Legislature when the Meyer
investigating committee was created,
is called into being. The commission
is not expected to be appointed until
after the Meyer committee finishes it's
work
New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
Wife's Uncles Held After
Husband Sends Her 5000
Man Tells Court of Dispatch
ing Money to Woman Who
Had Deserted Him

Magistrate George w. Simpson in
Sne Essex Market Court yesterday held
William Diamond, of 467 Riverdale
avenue, Brooklyn, and Jacob Eisen-
sssein, OF 593 Washington Street, Brook
iyn, in $1,000 bail each on charges of
grand larceny. The complainant was
ssidor Elazaroff, clothing contractor,
20 Allen Street.
the magistrates action followed
aaearlng of Elazaroff's story of deser-
uon by his wife, Sonya, whom he had
NOT seen in eight years until she re-
turned to this country from Russia
sssscentiy after communicating with
Isiazaroff and expressing regret for her
ueseTtion- He told Magistrate Simp-
sen ne had sent the woman $500 with
which to return to the United States.
Nine months ago, Elazaroi. said, he
was visited by the two uncles of his
we, who told him they had located her
qnu asked $500 to bring her back from
: russia Elazaroff gave them the
money, he said. Later he heard from
ais wife direct and sent her an addi-
nonai $500. When the woman arrived
New York week ago she was taken
y diamond TO his home, Elazaroff
sa'e She had refused to rejoin him
snc her sons.
Mrs Elazaroff told the magistrate
she left her husband because he was
ssatal and that she also had been
csaaseasened by her sons Magistrate
epnnpson told the woman he did not
sse'sve her story and held thu uncies
Aof tns grand Jury.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
indictments for Lives
Lost in Fire Quashed
Court Holds Board of Review
Members Not Responsible
tor Maiden Lane Deaths

Justice Burr. of the Supreme Court.
handed down decision yesterday dis
missing the indictments found aya;n st
William +. Doyle, Thomas r. Tantrv
and William H. Swartout. members ar
she board of review OF the Fire De-
parsnlent, The three men were in
aicted on charge of manslaughter fol-
lowing the loss of three lives in fire
on January 20, 1920, in the Jewelrv
Manufacturing Building, at 16 and Is
Maiden Lane
At the time of the fire changes we're
neing made in the building to bring it
up to al the requirements imposed by
the various bureaus of the Fire De-
partment. The owner of the building
had applied to the board of review for
an extension of time to complete the
alterations and improvements. An in
spector who investigated reported that
there was no particular habard in the
business carried on in the building.
These indictments should neyer have
peer peen brought" said Justice Burr.
1here Is no legal evidence to sustain
them. This is apparent on reading of
the minutes Of the grand jury"
The justice added that there was no
evidence that the violations before the
board of review in September. 1919,
wherein an extension of time for the
completion of alterations was asked
had been responsible for the cutting
on OF the escape of the three men who
lost their lives, or tended to cause their
deaths,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
Court Bars Taking Up
Of Chauffeurs' Licenses
Police Action Forbidden in
Case of Drivers Arrested
for Alleged Feionies

The police, in ruling made yester-
day by Magistrate Francis x. Mancuso
In Jefferson Market court, are pro-
hibited from taking up licenses of
chaufeurs arrested for alleged fell
onies The railing was embraced IN q
decision of the magistrate to dismiss a
summons against Benjamin De Vorl,
twenty-six years old, driver Of taxi
cab, for operating without license.
Dc Vorl is out on bail awaiting trial
on charge of assault and robbery, and
his counsel maintained that the police
had taken his license without due au-
thority.
Acting Captain Francis J. Finn, of
the police investigation bureau, West
Ihirtieth Street station, who had De
Vorl's license taken up at the time
q his arrest, said in court that if this
right were denied the police $40
automobile drivers. a large number
Of them cab drivers, arrested since
early this year and awaiting trial could
reclaim their licenses. Such condi-
ton would constitute menace to pub
lie safety. he said.
Under the present law there is
nothing l can do but dismiss the com
plant" said the magistrate. The law
provides that magistrates may revoke
licenses after proper grounds have
been established.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
Hearst .Junket
Senatorial Bait.
Ian1nany View
Publishers Invitation to 100
Congressman to Visit Can
ada to Investigate Sales
Tax Makes Hall Ponder
New Bid for Popularity
Due to Collect From Murphy
and Nomination Against
Calder Is Probable Price

Tammany men are suspicious of the
projected junket of William r. Hearst,
boss of the local democracy, for 100
congressman to Canada as guests of
Mr.. Hearst, for the ostensible purpose
OF studying the sales tax as admin
istered in the dominion.
They suspect that Mr.. Hearst is pre-
pairing to enter the field as q candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for Senator next fall against Senator
Calder, and that the junket is merely
spectacular play for popularity.
The Hearst papers yesterday an
nounced that arrangements had prac-
ticaily been completed for the trip and
that the delegation Of representatives
was likely to number 100. The party
is scheduled to travel in a special train
as guests Of Mr.. Hearst. with all ex-
penses paid, leaving Washington on
Sunday afternoon, November 27.
Tammany Anticipates Bill
The feeling in Tammany circles that
Mr.. Hearst is about to present his bill
for political services rendered to Tam
many Hall during the last four years,
and that the claim may be liquidated
with the nomination through the aid
of Charles F. Murphy, of Mr.. Hearst
for Senator. is becoming widespread
1t was recalled yesterday by the Tam
many men that Mr.. Hearst pursued
nearly similar tactics in 1905, when he
sought the regular Democratic nomi-
nation for Mayor, and again the fol-
lowing year when he obtained the NOM
ination through the aid of Charles F.
Murphy at Buffalo, after what the late
Thomas F. Grady said was "the dirtiest
days work" of his political life.
Representative Lester o. Volk, of
Brooklyn, serving from the district for
merly represented by County Judge
Reuben l.. Haskell, is chairman of the
committee of arrangements in charge
of the trip. Volk's Congress district is
coterminous with State Senator Charles
c. Lockwood's district. Volk is a Re-
publican, and is the Congressman who
tried to induce the House to make an
investigation of the B. r. T. He was
backed by the Hearst papers in that
venture.
Would Eliminate AL Smith
The friends of Mr.. Hearst in Tam
many Hall are saying that the time has
come for the organization to honor the
man who has consistently supported
Mayor Hylan and who brought about
his denomination. They say that Mr..
Hearst will be able, as a candidate for
Senator against Senator Calder, to at
tract radical Republican support, and
that he would stand an excellent chance
of election.
Incidentally this plan would prevent
the nomination from going to ex-Gov-
ernor Alfred E. Smith, and force Smith,
in the judgment of the Hearst men, to
accept nomination for Governor.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
Day and Parsons
Take Charge of NY.
Dry Agents To-day
Five Summoned i'm Alleged
Bootleg Syndicate; Chi
cago Rum Charge Against
City Employee Received

Prohibition Director Ralph A. Day
sons are preparing to-day to assume
charge of the New York prohibition Of
fees at At West Twenty-seventh Street.
Acting Director E. c. Yellowley yes
terday received confirmation from
Washington of Mr.. Parsons's appoint-
ment, and also of the appointment of
Colonel Herbert S. Catrow as assistant
retired United States Army officer. He
is native of Ohio and q construction
engineer.
Summonses were issued in New York
yesterday and defendants released in
custody of their attorneys in what
Newark IN. j. prohibition agents de-
scribe as "big New York bootlegging
syndicate, with a Newark source Of
supply" 1t was reported that several
indictments had been returned in New
ark in this case.
Summoned in the case are Charles
Shotwell, real estate broker and for
mer major in the United States Army;
Louis c. La Brecque, president of the
La Brecque Warehouse Company, of
Newark; DR.. William Garner, Isadore
Simonelh and Joseph Epifani, all of
New York.
The complaint drawn in Chicago
against Edward Mas, for eighteen
years contract examiner in the New York
Corporation Counsels office, arrived
yesterday, as did Chicago Assistant
United States District Attorney. Mas
was called before United States Com
missioner Hitchcock and released in
custody of counsel on a 5000 bond,
to await removal proceedings on the
complaint which charges conspiracy.
In this case an alleged bootlegger,
using alleged fraudulent withdrawal
permits, is said to have operated under
cover of being a silent partner of a
jeweler near the New York financial
district.
Tony Lamont, ten-year-old Brook
lyn boy, was arraigned in Childrens
Court yesterday and remanded to the
Children's Society pending an investi-
CATION of charges of intoxication. He
had been away from home for five days
and when found was drunk. He said
he had been drinking home brew made
by his father
Theodore Baird was discharged for
lack of evidence, and Ralph Baird and
Ernest Wentz were held in $4,000 bail
before Magistrate Douras in Morrisania
Court. All we're charged with grand
larceny in connection with a $4,000
alleged liquor deal.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
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came in to him. | wonder IL he got
them. Here's hoping that next time
those Ducks come in here first"
He once more made himself COM
Portable and settled down for a long
wait. The Black Shadows crept out
from the further bank of the Big
River. jolly, round, red Mr.. Sun had
gone to bed and the first little star
was twinkling high overhead. 1t was
very still and peaceful. From out in
the middle Of the Big River sounded
low "quack." Dusky and his fock
were swimming in this time. Present
ly the hunter could see silver line
on the water and then he made out
nine black spots. In few minutes
those Ducks would be where he could
shoot them.
Bang. bang" went that gun be-
low him again. With roar of wings
Dusky and his flock were in the air
and away. That hunter stood up and
said things, and they were not nice
things. He knew that those Ducks
would not come back again that night
and that once more he must go home
empty-handed. But first he would
find out who that other hunter was
and what luck he had had. So he
tramped down the shore to where
that gun had seemed to be. He found
the blind of Farmer Browns Bow,
but there was no one there. You see,
as soon as he had fred his gun the
last time Farmer Browns Boy had
slipped out and away. And as he
trainped across the Green Meadows
toward home with his gun he
chuckled. "He didn't get those Ducks
this time" said Farmer Browns Boy.
Copyright, 1891. by II. W. Burgess)
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