The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

is very fond. But the law is stronger
than love. But the law has decreed
the death Of Dick" because he be-
longs to an allen" They say cam
not give him away. he must be killed.
He must be killed. 1t hurts me here,
walls Jacob. Funny laws!
To see whether the taxi drivers Of
New York were making fabulous In
comes, some joker proposed tax Of
$3.50 for $500 casualty. 1t was TAX
en- seriously. Affidavits from many of
the $4,000 taxi cab owners show that
after eight, ten and twelve year service,
incomes of more than $50 a week are
rare. These long-houred men declare
that tax of $3.50 week was quite
too much quite too much. The tax is
little premature. At peak hours the
subway surface and overhead troIIeys
have all they can haul.
1t is boldly said that the kidnapping
of A. Bruce Bielaski, and lot of others
in Mexico, ives engineered" in Wall
Street, that oil interests wer back of
the affair. Strange coincidence, Mex
lean petroleum advanced we'll over the
200 mark the farther the Victim"
got into the inter or of that bleak re-
gion. When Wall Street talks, thrones
and embryonic republics totter and
Will Obregon go the way2
Some health advisors say that golf
after 40 is harmful liable to cause
heart failure. Tennis also is harmful
after so. How about young men strik-
ing the rubber cuss on with sledge
to see if they can make the bell ring"
and get a cigar. at fairs and Luna
Parks. One young fellow, champion
rail splitter at home, dislocated his kid
ney trying to shoot the ball to the
top. There's danger in everything, but
mostly in the mind.
IAN apple a day keeps the doctor
away is not always true. Little Willie
Huffman choked SO badly on an apple
core his greedy sister had given him
that the service of surgeon who per-
formed tracheotomy. made it possible
for tn youngster to live at all.
There are men, matrons and maids
who do not bel eve it right to bring
the waters of Lake Erie near New York
for drinking purposes and to make cleo
tricity SO that for 40 cents a day the
maid can be kept away" from the
home.
To do SC would throw lot of men
out of employment who are now in
gainful occupations. Jueer how people
fight their own interests, but that's been
the real battle down the centuries.
Airplane travel in France is reaching
the d entity of limousine touring. Com
Portable cabs, storage holds for lug
gage, roomy seats with splendid, un-
interrupted view of the scenery below
and cheap = is the news that arrives
by pictures. With the helicopter's per-
lection aerial navigation soon promises
to be made as safe as travel by land or
water, and much faster.
The war to end war was not sue
cessfuI. Ireland bursts forth with fury
and brothers kill brothers because they
think differently. Other brothers over
in Illinois fight and many die because
hard jobs were imperiled. Berlin is
hated by inhabitants of outlying dis
tricts because it represents the govern
ment of oppression" Unionists and
Socialists strike work and consume
hundred million hours to protest
against the murder of Minister Rath-
enau. China fights the north against the
south and thousands die. India with
filled prisons seethes with revolt. Civil
ization % is a volcano and much
more deadly than Etna, Vesuvius or
Mount Pelee. Some other remedy-than
war is needed to bring about adjust
ments Of mans relations with himself.
A girl may come to the throne Of
Monaco made vacant by the death Of
Prince Albert. Monaco, the gambling
Mecca of Europe. may lose the distinc-
ton Of being the greatest place of
chance if Paris richest man. with other
men, is permitted to erect the palace
of Chance" in Paris. Americans are
the expected customers. as Americans
like to lose money" In fact. American
are so used to losing money that the
pnr;e gentleman have everu rioht TO