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PHYSIOLOGICAL JUSTICE

According to Judge Cabot OF the
Boston Juvenile Court actual bad
eyesight sometimes misleads 4 boy
and lands him in the pen" A sys-
tenn Of justice, recognizing that the
crimes of youth cannot be treated
quite as adult violations are treat
ed. has won its place in the chief
centers of population. The chill
dren'S courts now try to under
stand all that concerns the child,
from his mental equipment to the
condition of his shoes. The courts
no longer serve the legal system
alone; they, are boards of inquiry
and doctors for society BY send
ing a young offender to the hos =
pital they can sometimes save the
state from later tracking down
and supporting grown person.
With a word of advice they are in
position to do more for people in
general than the most perfect ma
chine for abstract justice.-New
York Sun.
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Greatly snocked. Arrive 18th.
hope police will discover criminal.
Believe Jewels principal part mot
hers estate. Offer reward immed-
lately for return anyone not con-
nected with crime.
81 am suggesting tenth part OF
the insured value he announced.
shall see the solicitors before l
return.
AS we drew into Victoria, | offered
my companion a lift He refused,
however, on the ground that he had
case of wine in the van, which he
was taking back to a wine-merchant.
l made few calls, dined at my
club, and travelled back again to
Brighton by the late train. | met
Rmmington in the hall Of the hotel
and we strolled into the manager 5
office. Mr.. Leon Grant, looking more
tired than ever after his long day
in town, was speaking passionately
into the. telephone
1T is, absurd. be declared as we
came in.4.I spoke from the number
am asking for,Sseverai times this
afternoon. The Telephone is in per
feet order
If you. are speaking Of Mayfair
1882, Mr.. Grant" 1 INTERVIEWED, 81
am afraid the supervisor is correct
The number is disconnected"
His face, as he looked at us, grew
horrible. The receiver slipped from,
his fingers and fell to the floor.
what do you mean" he grasped
Simply that Scotland Yard dis
| connected your fat in town, for fear
you should ring up and find out tina,
the case, of wine you brought up tc
London has been opened" explain
| ed. "Rimmington, this is your job"
Huntington was quick. but moi
quick enough. Grants right hano
was in the drawer by his side in ;
moment, and the silver-plated little
revolver at his temple. believe tina
he was dead man before the In
speetor laid hands on him.
Huntington came to my sitting
room later on, and helped himsel
to whiskey and soda.
"A little secretive this morning
weren't you, Sir Normon?" he oh
| served
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ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY Olive Barton Roberts

OF went the Twins to Sugar
Plum Land watch lay between Cas-
tor Land and Plaster Land.
"What'd you come for?v asked
someone.
And there stood a chocolate rab-
bit with white icing done all over
him like an embroidery pattern.
Hello" answered Nancy politely.
1--WE came to set things to rights"
"Well, it's, :,igh time somebody
did," said the rabbit. "King Ginger
bread made new law yesterday no.
body can obey and we'll all have to
go to Jail unless he takes it back
What law?" asked Nick.
"He said bathing was a good hab-
it and every Sugar-Plum Lander
would have to take bath twice a
day." &
That's awful" replied Nick.
Even once is bad enough"
1T won't do even at that" said
the pattern rabbit, wag-
Cling his ears. 1--WE can't even battle
once, any of US, except the Kewpie
off the top of the wedding cake. It's
made of bisque and won't run; but
how in creation can folk made OF
cake and sugar take bath? We'd
all run away and mix together and
when we dried off, like as not I'd
have an ear off the knick-knack dog
leg off the lemon cookie sparrow
and tail off the gum-drop pig
81 never thought of that" declar.
ed Nancy. We'll go to see King
Gingerbread at once. Mebbe he'll
take the law back"
"Goody!" cried the chocolate rab-
bit. III spread the good news" And
away he hoped to tell the othe,
Sugar-Plum Landers that nobody
need endanger his life by taking 8
bath.
Say" he called. stopping sudden.
ly. YOU'D better stop at the Cut.
Out Lady's house and ask her tt
sew King Gingerbread's buttons or
straight. She sewed them crooked
and he gets mad and makes silly
laws" :
"All right" called Nancy.
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WHAT Is VALUE?

Noah Webstcr's book gives hun
dreds Of words to defining aIue.
~; is what thing will bring in
cash" says Il by-stander. But cash
is merely a measure OF value. The
economists all tell us what it IS.
but the Romans knew. They gave
us the word itself -'valere'-tO be
strong. to be valiant, to be worth
The query above arises On hear
ing that the junior Rockefeller has
given $1,l00,O00 for six fifteenth
century tapestries, made in mediae-
val France, which depict the story
Of the Hunt for the Unicorn
1t requires a large and generous
financial education to make any
physical object worth a million dol
lars to any man, along with large
assets in addition to the million.
Perhaps all values are compare =
tive. that is, dependent upon many
other things. Yet, in a general
way a things value is what it Will
bring in an open market, A dla-
mond may be we'll worth $1,000 to
ieweler. and not worth a hundred
dollars for the use of an individual
who does not fancy that kind OF
adornment. We dare say com
Portable home. a fairly profitable
business. and nice credit balance
in bank, have more value to the
average man than these superb
tapestries, if they might be only
possessed and not sold Chicago
Journal of Commerce.
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WHEN ENOUGH is A PLENTY

A man has just passed out of Co
lumbia university, after having been
a student there for forty years. He
was Il classmate of Nicholas Murray
Butler, who is now president of the
university In the four decades of his
experience this man has accumulated
about every degree the university
,csn bestow, and has all but exhaust.
ed the study Of Known subjects. His
most recent venture was a course in
photography of America, which
means ancient writings or inscrip
tons
He gives as his reasons for with
drawing from the university that he
can no longer abide the notoriety
thrust on him by the newspapers. If
he does not put to use some of the
extensive knowledge he has acquired
as student, he will have little oc-
sasion to grumble about newspapers
notoriety in the future for news
paper space is too valuable to waste
on dead ones" unless they are in
the Tut-Ankh- Amen class. He may
get real fame from the application
of his profound learning, or he may
simply drop out Of sight.
"A little tearing is dangerous
thing" wrote Pope, advising all t.
"dripk deep, or taste not the Pyerian
spring Forty years of steady APP
pearance at the class room would
seem to be enough, however. Men
with scarcely that many weeks OF
+, schooling have been of immense use
to the" big world; we may now see
how weh the years of student con
ditiQn have prepared an individual
to help the cause of humanity ir
any way.--Omaha Bee.
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BARROOM

= Do you remember the famous old poem, THE Face\o
the Barroom Foor?" Hugo Antoine darcy, its author is
given banquet by actors in New York, on his eghteth
birthday. ....,
- Darcy wrote this roughhewn classic to induce bartend
be kind to aged who had better days. In
words hobo bar flies He did dream that his poem
would become powerful piece Of propaganda in the proh
bon movement.
Darcy dynamic influence in his generationy There
should be to him, also to the author of "Ten
Nights in Barroom Both important historical char
acterS
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1--WE wanted the jewels" pointed
out. Directly the man told me ne
had case of Vine in the van,
knew that everything was alright"
when did you get his dossier?
by the second post this morn
ing" replied, :" and a pretty bad
one it was. He has a fiat in town
under another name; he owes one
bOokia alone, over two thousand
pounds, and his domestic arrange
ments were, to say the least OF it,
irregular. He was desperately in
need of money
Even now the reconstruction isn't
absolutely simple" my companion
unused. Leon Grant evidently made
has way to Mrs. TrumpertOn-Smiti's
rooms after her. return; she woke
up while NJ was making off with the
jewcl-box, and he strangled aer. But
what about the two visits from
Bloor, earlier in the evening, and the
missing diamonds? think you said
that they were not in the jewel-casc
which you have recovered 2
II imagine that the night-watch-
man must have made mistake" l
told him. "On the other hand, Bloor
may lave already disposed Of the
diamonds. Again, they may have
been mislaid and will be brought in
for the reward"
what first of all made you think
of Grant," Huntington asked a 1t
tie later, as he was preparing to
take his leave.
"A very slight thing" | answered.
1.-The woman was strangled, as you
know, although the finger-marks
were undistinguishable. There was
| a scratch upon her throat, and a few
drops Of blood, evidently caused by
the fingernail of the murderer. Now,
Sidney Bloor's fingernails are bitten
almost to the quick. The managers,
on the other hand, were really no.
ticeable. They were long, and brot
! to point. The nail on his right
foreiingcr however, was broken off
short"
81 see," Huntington replied.
"Good night"
sat up for some little while
waiting for what felt sure was in
eyitablc. 1t was nearly one o'clock
when there was soft knock at the
door, and in reply to my invitation
Janet entered. She closed the door
behind ncr and came over toward
me.
IL have found the diamonds" she
announced.
~ congratulate you," replied.
81 have heard all that has happen
ed" she continued. There will be
no trouble about the reward ?"
None whatever assured her.
She laid them upon the table
the necklace, the bracelet and the
earrings.
where did you find taem?' ask
cd.
I'm the small silk bag which Mrs
Trumperton-Smith took with her tt
the bridge-party." she replied. ''Sht
came back to her room and a., mo-
ment just before starting, and mus
have taken them without saying
anything to anybody"
"A most ingenious supposition,
murmured.
She looked at me for momen
VITA the strangest light in her eyes
opened the door for her.
Good night, Janet" l said. g
have stood in the way of your for
tunes more than once. This time
am able to remind myself that Mrs
Trumperton-Smitn is not my client
The reward will Certainly, BE paid
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Tom
Sims
Says

1t might help If we worried less
about what we are after here and
more about what we are hereafter
One spring sign is Eskimo pie"
Americas birth rate is declining.
We have too many people who think
we have too many people.
The biggest liar we know is
bootlegger claiming his stuff came
out of King Tut's tomb.
Another spring sign is "Onicn
Sets for Sale"
All of these old clothes collected
by the Salvation Army should he
sent to the bathing beaches.
And another spring sign is Fresh
Paint"
One day Florida fish failed to bite
for Harding, perhaps because they
didn't know who he was.
Still another spring sign is 'Use
Blanks Chill Tonic"
Minnesota farmers are demanding
! q fixed wheat price because present
prices 60 against the grain.
| Distances at sea are deceptive. A
man may think he is all at sea over
i something when he isn't.
And still another spring sign is
"Swat the Fly"
One thing worse than having a job
as wife is working in a laundry
where every day is wash day.
Pennsylvania legislator wants
law against stunt flying by aviators.
Leave them alone and the law of
gravitation will get them.
This language of ours tickles US.
When man comes before dinner he
usually comes after dinner.
1
IDENTIFY have hip subsidy.
A lazy, impudent clerk is Il COM
bination in restraint of trade.
The early bird may get the worm,
but not the sleep.
Woman wants hut little here be-
low her ankles.
Roasted peanuts arc not always
what they are cracked up to be.
Only thing you can, tell by some
tciOcks is what time it isn't
San Francisco man who has been
living in boiler II years should be
hard boiled by this time.
Another couple that should not be
divorced is hot cakes and strip.
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looks rather black against YOU" l
pointed out.
Il can't help it" he answered sui
lenly. 81 didn't do it,
left him on the promenade, and
saw him stroll across the road to a
chemists shop for IA plck-me-up. !
went back to the hotel, and discov-
cred that my friend Inspector RIM
mington from Scotland Yard had al
ready arrived and had taken over
formal conduct of the ease He was
waiting for Bloor, whose very UNI
enviable dossicr he had brought
down VITA him. | glanced it through
| without any particular interest
Huntington watched me curiously.
THE young man is a thoroughly
bad lot he observed.
There's only one thing in his
| favor," | nodded. when you talk to
| him, you will realize that he is IL
| decadent, young man without nerve
or any manlike quality. Now | don't
| know whether it has ever occurred
to you, Huntington, but | should
imagine it would take a person with
| great strength OF nerve to hold a
woman by the throat and watch ner
die"
| Huntington was unconvinced.
81 shall know better when | have
talked to him, perhaps" ne remark
ed.
took the midday train to town
and travelled in the Pullman with
Mr.. Leon Grant, the manager Of the
hotel, wno was on his way up ia
confer once more with the directors
He showed me cable from Mrs
Trumperton-Smith's son, who was
on his way back from Egypt. 1t ran
as follows.
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$4,000 YEARS AGO

The Stone Age people who lived in Great Britain $4,000
years ago physically and mentally superior to the
average European of 1928
SO claims the eminent authority anthropology Prof
Elliot Smith of England.
Smith KS accurate, Mackenzes book "Ancient Man
in Bran This book, which is creating sensation in Eng
land gives this description of the Brtons of $50 centuries
ago &
I all essential features they of modern type. They
would dressed modern attire through the streets
of modern city without particular notice being taken OF
them One branch particularly tall and handsome with
an average height for the males of feet 1I2 nches
The people who inhabited Britain $4,000 years ago SUI
fered from many of the physical complaints that
today.
here is evidence in skeletons of the effects of rheu
matism and of bad teeth, says Prof Smith.
Those ancents clever surgeons. They were skilled
performing the delicate operation, repannng the skull
to relieve the brain from pressure irritation Skulls
which have been dug up reveal this clearly and unmls
akaby.
Similar operations by the way, performed by the
AZtecs who had highly developed civilization, the
american continent until the punderng Spanish explorers
destroyed it.
The late Prof. Camden NJ Coburn, who uncovered the
cities which the Israeites built of sundred brick before
they fled Egypt had the greatest surprise of his life in
India.
There Cobum ancient document in which sclen
fist 5000 ago told how he had discovered and so
lated something like 80 different kinds of throat bacli
disease bacteria).
Link this fact with Prof Smiths revelations about the
Bons of $4,000 years ago. and rather takes the starch
of vanity.
How long will it be until exploring scientists of the future
dig deep into the earth and remnants of the cvza
ton have todayfor instance right here in Bismarck
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RIDICJJIE

Cheserton, English writer, ridcules prohibition as
that curious colonial experiment the other side
Cheserton, who has mental hyperacidity, asks how a
nation which permits negroes to be nched and burnt alive
"has right to set itself exempar of morality
for the rest of the world.
The this is that the average American doesn't
whether the of the world drinks not and knows
it's of his business But get this Ches Prohibition
came in America moral question: but economic
simple matter of efficiency. Wet England will event.
ual have prohibition, be unable to compete in foreign
trade with dry America. Liquor lowers efficiency
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THE SOUTHLAND.

ANYWHERE IN THE SOUTH.
l like the South-a lot of it-though
now and then some spot of it.
Does not exactly thrill me through
and through;
And in this southern latitude l sure
am full of gratitude
For all the. friendly things tina:
people do.
They have joyous way with them
that brightens up your stay with
them,
And they're not out to rob you of
your chink,
But one unkindly reference l make
with all due Difference:
wish that they'd make coffee fit
20 drink! So
It's muddy as their rivers are! !
wonder what folks livers are
Who drink this, southern coffee
every day;
A spoon will scarcely sink in 1t,
there must be I've and ink in it,
It's strong enough to pull heavy
dray.
By some internal trickery they fill
it full Of chickory
And then, as if that were not quite
enough, =
They stew it for an hour or two, thus
giving it the power to
Compete with T.. N. T. as potent
| stuff /.
!;
Sometimes, by luck that's notable,
you find the, coffee potable,
A drink that anybody can imbibe;
But mostly it's incredible, beverage
SO dreadable
That nothing in the language could
describe.
Oh, southerners, you've treated me
supcrbably, and you've greeted
7 me
With courtesy wherever ! have
stayed;
love you most aloringly, but still
cry imploringly,,
II wish you'd learn how coffee
should be inade!'
| .BERTON BRALEY.
! copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
/
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BEGIN HERE. TO-DAY

Vendetta begins between
MICHAEL SAVERS, noted criminal,
and
SIR NORMAN GREYES, once of
Scotland Yard, wnen Savers beau
tiful housemaid,
JANET, saves him from Sir Norman
by shooting dead the officer sent
to arrest him. Janet becomes Say
ers' wife and accomplice. In many
exploits, Michael escapes arrest
by taking desperate chances. jan
ct is an able assistant, but be-
cause he greatly admires the many
good qualities he recognizes in
her. Sir Norman deals leniently
with her.
Janet goes to work for Mrs. Trum-
perton-S Smith, a wealthy widow liv-
ing at the Magnificent Hotel at
Brighton. The widow is found r.ur-
dered and her jewels missing. Mr..
Sidney Bloor, adventurer and ore
tended admirer of the dead woman
is accuse of the robbery and mur-
der.
NOW GO ON WITH STORY
Sir Norman's Story
81 should not have thought" she
agreed, that he would have had
courage enough to wiring the neck
of chicken.
regarded her fixedly.
"Why don't you try to earn the
reward?" | asked.
Il am thinking about it," she re-
piled. of have any luck, I'll come
to you"
She left me then, and l went for
a stroll along the front. Seated in
one of the shelters, little way to-
ward Hove, was a young man who
/ felt sure, from his description, was
Sidney Bloor. | looked around and
found that one of Rimmington's men
was seated on the other side of the
shelter. ] touched the young man
on the arm, and his violent start
assured me that ! had not made a
mistake.
~ believe that you are Mr.. Sidney
Bloor," | said. "Can have few
words with your
LET US take stroll along the
sands | suggested. And then, as
we walked along side by side:
IL have no official connection with
this case, Mr.. Bloor," l began, "bul
the hotel company have asked me to
make a few inquiries. If you arc
guilty, the police will probably bring
the crime nome to you. If you are
not"
Il am mott" he interrupted pas
sonately.\
"If you are not" l repeated, :"
am here for your assistance. Re
member, l am here to discover thu
truth, not to try and fix the gull
on any particular person. VIII!
don't you tell ME the truth 2"
He was silent for several moments
probably, l decided, piecing toget
>her the story he had made up hi:
mind to tell. He went farther, how
ever, than | expected.
"Tney were stolen before ! coult
! get at them. made her take then
off before we went out to bridge
/ They were left in drawer, no
even locked up. The first time
cut out of the rubber, l came bacl
to the hotel. went up to ner room
and searched the drawer where tn
| jewels had been put. They wer
gone. | went back to the bridge
party, came home with Mrs. Trum
pGrton-Smith about two o'clock, sal
| GOODNIGHT to her in her sittin
room, had whIskey and soda an
went to bed. That's all know abou
it, 30 help me God!"
Wien you couldn't find the dia
monds, Why didn't you take the. jew
ell ease" 7 asked as we turne
back.
II should havee.been seen carryin
it," he replied, "and had no tool
with which to open It., am not
! professional thief"
"You are aware that the eyidenc
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COAL

= shortage of 10000 $4,000 coal is being
nonced constantly by the railroads. If there
than needed the price of coal would tumble for Amer
lea has surplus of Mines all eager to operate to capacity
Plenty of COAL shortage of Transportation that's the stu
alton.
Back of the shortage shortage of motive power.
About fourth Of the locomotives owned by the railroads
laid up for repairs Emphasizes that transportation is
leading problem
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MYSTERY

Scientists spurred by the discovery of King Tuts tomb
will dig into ruins Yucatan to learn about the Maya
believed have had the oldest civilization the American
Continent.
The most important discovery that could from this
scientific expedition would be explanation of how the
Mayas happened to have many of the symbols the
ancient Egyptians their temples and tombs One
must have visited the other Which?
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Thanks" smiled the visitor.
He watched the Scot fill his own
pipe from a package Of very good to-
bacco, then began to feel in his own
pockets and finally observed.
"Gosh, that's funny! don't seem
to have any tobacco"
Then said the Scotchman,
"yeIl no ned the match"-and re-
covered it from where it lay on the
window sill.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW

Comments reproduced In this
column may or may not express
the opinion OF The Tribune. They
are presented here in order that
our readers may have both sides
Of important issues which are
being discussed In the press OF
tho day.
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RUHR

. French government believes German resistance will be
broken by the first of May.
q Meantime it's minister. of war; Maginot informs the
enc cabinet that troops in the Ruhr and Rhineand must
he doubled for at least month.
81 The French venture in German territory will simmer
dawn to the simple business proposition whether not is
financially profitable.
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A THOUGHT

Then said his disciples, Lord il nc
sleep. he shall do well.-John II: II
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sor.
rows eye.-Shakespeare.
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BY FLORIAN LAMPERT.
u. 8. Representative From Wisc0n.
sin, Sixth District. =.

like the old story Of the Scotch
man and the American.
They were travelling in railway
carriage in Scotland.
The American took out his pipe
and asked the Scot for match.
Grudgingly the latter dug one up
and laid it on the sill of the car
window beside the American.
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BEULAH COAL now SAFE
per ton delivered. The Wach-
ter Transfer Co. Phone 62.
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Americas birth rate is declining.
We have too many people who think
we have too many people.