The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-04

youth who are crowding to the front so rapidly. In this years race two veterans started in, Eddie Hearne and Ralph Depalma; but they knew they were beaten before the start, because the youngsters such as Murphy. Milton, Hartz, Paolo( Duray and the like had worked and emperimented to such an extent as to deveiap more speed with the same kind and size cars than the foxy old boys. De- Palma is great driversbut 1t Is time for him to join Louis Chevrolet, Gil Anderson,l Earl Cooper Barney Old field and Ray Harroun by retiring to the engineering or other game. Youth must be served and though drivers last longer than men in most sport 1t Is about time for Ralph to surren- der. He was mighty lucky to get fourth money this year. Next he may not be so lucky.
 The failure of the foreign ears this year was the cause of much gossip and not little sympathy was ex- pressed for the gameness of the for eigners in sending their cares here only to have them licked. It seems all the young drivers were lost dur ing the war and the foreigners have had to send over the old timers or else trust to oldtime drivers in this country.
 BUSINESS OF HUNTING INJURIES Theodore Waters, in Leslie's Weekly.
 The people who make living by getting hurt or pretending to get hurt, form a very special division of the underworld. For the most part, they are a weak souled lot who drift into their adopted calling by reason of some unsought opportunity of which their poverty impeis them to take advantage. This. of course, does not apply to the master minds who direct their operations and urge them on In the commission of crim- inal acts which so often prove their undoing. It may sound hackneyed to say they are the victims of Shy locks, who. after their fall. control their mIsdoings and toss them a pitt tance under fear of exposure. And yet this is exactly what In many in- stances has taken place.
 The writer knows of one case where man who was out of work and with two children to support was invited by friend to accompany him to a lawyers office. where he " oS tO cc pau SAInS money. on aC- count of an accident. While in the office of the lawyer the latter handed him his card and told him that If he ever heard of an accident to report 1t at once and he. the lawyer. would make 1t worth his while. Several days later. some friends told him about child who had just been hurt by an automobile and taken to the Polyclinfc hospital. He reported the accident at once and was told to bring the parents of the chtld to see the lawyer. He did so and after they had signed retaining blank. the lawyer paid him the munificent reward of $3.
 After that he went around hunting for accidents. Apparently he was out of luck, for he told the lawyer that he had better get some one else to do the hunting. whereupon ths lawyer said. acecrding to the mans sworn cdnfession:
 Walt minute You are not york Ing. are you? Well. walk around and see where there are any broken coal hole covers, cellar lixhts or vault liRhts. Go through flat houses ana see where there is any torn oilcloth or carpet. Then get somebody to fall and bring 'em down to me-
 osFed him. said the man. "how mrch there would he In it for me. and he replied: I will give you ss or $4 or a5 for every one you bring down and I will advance each one of your clients sS also' He told me that I was taking no chances In do- Ing 1t as long as there was iia- hiiity and my client actually fell and that he would send him to a certain doctor who would 'make something the matter with him."
 And that's how 1t all began. with this one man, He agreed to do it and Invited a friend to share in the profits. They started out next day and soon found . broken coai-hois cover over which the friend com venientiy tripped. In fact they found two broken covers. but As it might not look well for the same man to have two ''accidentA's of the same kind hsp-e~ m the same day, thAy induced third ma~ tn toin them. and ro the two accidents were duly reported and r~,d For. the ,et of which was a good dave wort from thcir point If view. or course. the doctor was consulted and found that their injuries wBre "setioua'' and hseked m hia insertion by benaag1ng nt o~& &.s. l. H