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THE NEW SOUTH
est. Paul Pioneer Press)


One Of the most striking and hopeful trends In
America today is the awakening Of the public con-
science in the South against mob violence. Lynching
has been declining consistently in America since 1892.
but IL has only been since 1923 that this progress has
become so marked IS TO arouse the hope of an early
obliterstion of the mob spirit There were only six
teen ~lynchings in 1924 and seventeen in 1925. and al
though the record is not so clear in the last two years,
no better assurance could be wanted that the gain has
been real and that it will be permanent than the re-
vulsion Of feeling which has swept through the States
Of the South where this evil has run with the loosest
rein. Alabama has at last come to grips with the mob.
Spurred on by popular indignation over the spread Of
lawlessness and violence, Attorney General Mccall has
set out to clean up Crenshaw county. He promises at
least ninety indictments, and apparently he means
business. A special grand jury is in session. and 1875
witnesses are to be called. Circuit Judge A. L. Gamble
has given the jury some instructions which ought to
stand as a model wherever the "rule of the mask and
lash" prevails. There is no excuse in morals or law
for mob rule. Two authorities cannot exercise the
same jurisdiction at the same time. Here we have the
courts on one hand and on the other men responsible
to no one and exercising physical strength to crush the
weak" With a little more of this spirit. the "carcef
eating into the firm flesh" of the whole South viii
soon be cut away.
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Washington Letter
BY CHARLES r. STEWART

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-There's
this to be said for women in poll
tics
They're sincere.
The mems ideal political leader is
often. in reality. a convictionless,
cowardly dub, who simply knows all
the cheap tricks Of his business in
side out.
When women talk about the quail
tiles Of political leadership, they
mean brains and courage and genuine
public spirit.
The women leaders weakness is
on the practical side. They mostly
lack experience. The mems bosses
flim-flam the women's managers,
whom they can't hold a candle to
in intelligence, fully half the time,
by virtue soley Of a longer course of
training at the game, and by cheat
ing. too. without getting caught at
il, as likely as not.
Now have he women any leader
at all who, while measuring up to
their standard. has it in her makeup
to break even with the mems
crowd mot to bluff and renege and
equivocate like the others, but to
score something like $3.50, by honest
methods, against the system a
square-shooter in politics must lack?
Ask this question at any of the
women's political headquarters in
Washington and the chances are
regardless of ~partisanship = that
they'll
"We think we have at least one
Mrs. Medill Mccormick Of Illinois"
The vomen evidently have built
great hopes upon Mrs. McCormick's
threat TO become a United States
senator.
After q successful term-no woman
be one-who knows what she'd be in
line for next? (The vice presidency,
there's no question about il, Is the
goal Washington ferinists have
their eye on.)
The women are very proud Of Mrs.
Nellie T. Ross record rs governor
of Wyoming. but
/. Wyoming's considered a little
out of the way, and
2. There's no getting away from
the feminists' conviction that .
woman's succession to an office her
husband generally her jate hus-
band) has held doesn't make the
same political impression as her cleo
ton indisputably as an exclusive
tribute to herself.
About ana" Ferguson's term in
Texas. it's agreed. the less said the
better. The women's manager make
allowances for MA" as n victim Of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-24
At THE CRACK OF A TwIG

All the baby Possums were SO still
you could have heard a pin drop.
Every pair Of bright eyes peered
fearfully about, every leaflike little
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-24
Peters Adventures

took to his legs and in q flash was
out Of sight. IL was almost as
though the ground had opened and
swallowed them up. Peter peered
about him sharply. but couldn't spy
a Postum. However, he heard a
stirring among the dry leaves be-
hind the log. and he rather guessed
some Of the youngsters had run 20
cover there.
Mrs. Postum took a few dizzy
steps, then down she dropped and
lay flat upon the gound. Peters
heart did a back flip. Some dread
enemy must be on it's way 20 fright
en- his friends so ~dreadfully. Then
Peter thought Of something. His
heart went right back where il be-
longed and kept on beating M
though nothing had happened
There was no enemy nesr He was
sure of il. Twas he himself who
had scared the Possums. Peter
chuckled.
some would think you had been
shot. Mrs. Possum," remarked Peter.
in a loud whisper. Get up. old
lady, and call the children out of
hiding. for no trouble threatens any
Of you. All is still safe in the
woods"
Mrs. Postum slowly opened one
eye and looked cautiously about her.
How do you know. boy?" she whis-
pered back. What was that sharp
sound7 SErely there must have been
some stranger at hand 10 make such
q connection"
Nobody stranger than Il" chuckled
Peter. II stepped upon q dry twig
and broke IL in two. and that 10 what
you hear. II you were 90 afraid an
enemy was coming, why didn't you
run? II there had been an enemy
on your trail he'd have caught you,
sure"
Next-~Takan nc TwtAlahA-~
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-24

Who am Il? OF what country am
I the prime minister? To what party
do I belong7 Whom did / succeed
in office?
On this date in 1853 German set
tiers laid out Germantown, Pa. Dur
ing what way was a battle fought
around the town?
An eastern city prides itself on be-
ing the "Hub Of the Universe"
Which one II il?
A well-known political figure Is al
ways associated with the song.
Sidewalk Of New York" Who Ia
he7
"Ee that is not with me Is against
ne: and he that gathereth not with
me seattereth." Where are these
words found in the Bible7
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-24

circumstances, but they don't point
to her administration with pride.
Great stores set by Congress
woman Mary T. Norton of New
Jersey, for having been elected TO the
house of representatives in her own
right" so TO speak.
Judge Florence Allen Of Ohio goes
into the same classification.
Praise Of Representatives Florence
p. Kahn, California. and Edith
Nurse Rogers, Massachusetts. ell
ways is qualified by mention of the
fact that they had congressional hus-
bands before them-not 4 bit dis
paragingly-only everybody knows
it's so. Maybe il will wear off since
10Th have been reelected "on thei5
Jwn.")
As for the coming sessions new
woman representative-Mrs. Kate G.
Langley Of Kentucky-we shall see.
Her husband, too, was a congress
man.
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ear stood erect to catch the slightest
sound: every sharp bewhiskered little
ose was pointed straight into the
air to receive any warning the wind
might bring.
Just nc this moment Peter stepped
on q dry twig. Crack At the sud
den Bharp sound each little rascal
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-24
SfMMY JAMS

8AFAUA JANIS
Persons born on this date are
jealous and rot satisfied with the
existing orderNof things.
Answers 10 Foregoing Questions
!. w. L. Mackenzie King; Canada
Liberal; Arthur Meighen.
q Revolutionary war.
2. Porpeii.
4. Boston.
3. Al Smith.
9. Luke xi, %.
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ONE LAP AHEAD

ONE Lar AnEAD
II was s~peeder's day in the police
court. The first offender vowed he
was travelling only fifteen miles an
hour when apprehended. Next a
notorious fast driver told the judge
he was going only ten miles an hour.
"And how fast were you going =
asked the judge Of Tim o'Brien, third
in line.
"May IL please the court" said Tim
with straight face, Il wuz backin'
up, Yer Honor"
am happy and all that, Of course.
old chap; still. I wish my wife
wouldn't talk so much about her last
husband"
Forget IL. old man-mine's always
talking about her next"
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Timely Views
PROHIBITIvE TARIFF DECLARED UNwIsE
BY Claude Augustus Swanson
U. s. Senator from Virginia

(Clsude A. Swanson was born at Swansonville,
Pittsylysnia county, Virginia, March 81, 1862. He
served as q member of congress from the Fifth
Virginia district from 1898 to 1905 and was re-
elected for the following term but resigned. In
1906 Swanson was elected governor Of the state.
In 1910 he was appointed u. s. senator for an IN
expired term and has-served in the upper house Of
congress ever since.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-24

The same kind of people who think a subsidy is
merely q little subvention and that Imperialism Is
benevolent assimilation think a lobbyist is a legis-
lative superintendent-ohio State Journal.
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Dinner Stories
Has HIGH HnPES

HAS HIGH HOPES
The sad-looking IN stopped ut
the lunch counter and said: "Five
ham sandwiches, please"
"Will you eat them here or take
them away" asked the counter
man.
~ hope to do both" was the reply.
Evening star., 1927-04-19
EXPERT GUNMAN
PAID FOR MISSING
"Pardner" Jones Holds Faith
of .ScreenIand in His
Trigger Finger.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, April 19.-
He is seldom heard Of himself, but
twelve hundred times he has held the
life of some screen star or featured
player within the crook Of his trigger
finger.
He is Ed c'Pardner') Jones, the
gunman Of Hollywood
Not one of those laundering gunmen
who kill men for money, Jones is so
good he gets paid for sparing mems
lives by inches or fractions of inches.
Easy to Register Fear.
When director wants realism in a
sequence where bullets are supposed
to be flying perilously close to the
principal characters he calls on Pard-
ner Jones.
An actor who never has been shot
at by Pardner Jones usually finds it
easy to register fear when a bullet
passes through the brin of his hat
or knocks a cigar out of his mouth,
sbut those who have been "under fire.
with him more or less regularly dur
Ing the IL years he, has been in Holly.
wood have implicit faith in his aim.
Plays William Tell.
Jones has shot literally hundreds of
apples off the head of Harry Carey,
who used to enjoy doing civilian
Tells" for the entertainment of his
week end guests. Tom Mix achieved
an even bigger thrill by letting Jones
smash with bullet the works of a
Evening star., 1927-04-19

watch he carried in pocket over his
heart.
Pardner Jones rides, acts western
roles and manages cowboy outfits on
location. He was born in Del Rio,
Tex, and Just learned" to shoot
while growing up in New Mexico and
Arizona.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
SON 0F BISMARCK PROVED DIPLOMAT
Incident of World War Shows
 Him Qualified

Berlin, May 20. R-The recent announcement that Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the "Iron Chancellor" would resign his seat in the Reichstag on May to enter the diplomatic service, has caused much speculation as to whether or not the 29-year-old prince has the necessary qualifications
 An incident of World War days is recalled by friends to prove that even then he showed diplomatic finesse.
 In 1918 Professor Ludwig Stein of Berlin. known under the pseudonym "Diplomaticus, called on American Ambassador and Mrs. James w. Gerard before his de- parture for Budapest, Hungary.
 Mrs. Gerard requested him to take a book in English to her sis ter, the Hungarian Countess Sig ray. When Stein reached the sleep ing car he found young Bismarck in the next compartment.
 See here" he said to Bismarck, 'you are a prince and a Bismarck nobody will examine your bag gage. Would you mind taking this book through for me?'
 "I'll not only take the book" young Bismarck replied. "but give mo your pass, and I'll guarantee you that you won't be awakened at any of the three frontier sta tions."
 Tho professor reached Hungary without being disturbed once. In Budapest he asked young Bismarck for an explanation.
 Nothing was easier" Bismarck replied. T merely gave my valet the passports and told him to say to the frontier officials that Prince Bismarck Is accompanied by his physician and his valet. That did the trick"
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
FOREST. MONARCH
 FINALLY PEELED
Giant Tree Is Bought for $625
 by UQmberman

Madison, Ind. May 20 R-The largest walnut tree in Kentucky has tallen before tho renewed demand for American walnut. The owner sold the trunk of the tree. six feet in diameter at the butt and II feet TO the branches. for 3625 to Clyde Wallace. Madison timber buyer. after four years of negotiation.
 The branches. as large as ordi- mary walnut logs, and the roots wers kept by the owner, who ex- pects to realize more than $1.ooo from tho tree when the branches have been marketed and the roots made into veneer.
 For 200 years. timbermen esti- mate. the tree grew on the bank Of the Kentucky river near Lockport. attaining a size unequaled in lum- bering annals along the Ohio rover Generally walnut trees do not grow to . diameter of more than 16 inches, and they sell for $so to $10o.
 Tho log was felled carefully to prevent waste of its lumber and was brought by barge to Madison, then shipped by rail to Louisville for manufacture. It was found to be solid timber clear through. After it is milled the remaining wood will be used, like the roots. for veneer.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
Mooring Mast Rises
 High Over Scott Field

Belleville. H., May 70 R-An aerial "hitching post" 176 feet high, nearing completion at Scott Field, will make the airport accessible to every type of light-than-air craft from giant Zeppelins to the smallest balloons.
 The mooring mast. che of the worlds tallest for aeronautic pur- poses, will have a ladder stairway, an elevator. electric lights, tele- phones and speaking tubes. and in it will be stored supplies of helium. fuel and water for servicing airships.
 The tower is supported by an oc- tagonal steel and concrete founda- tion which weighs 63s tons. Twelve foot bolts, c2 of them, anchor the tower, which is built of steel plates graduated in thickness from half an inch at the. base to quarter inch at the top. Seven diaphragms or floors furnish rigidity.
 The mast will be flood lighted at night and three search'ights will be beacons.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
Pays Millions for Her
 Thrills on the Stage

Paris, May 20. P)-1t costs Mime. Ida Rubinstein, wealthy actress. about half million francs for her periodical first nights" at the opera.
 Her recent production of "L'Im- peratrice aux Rochers." mystery by Saint-Georges de Bouhelier, set to music by Alfred Honegger, cost her a small fortune. This was not the first time she rented the opera, bought scenery and costumes. paid the company and orchestra and in- vited her friends to fill the Nation- al Academy of Music.
 Mme. Rubinstein's expenses in these appearances includes from 30,000 to 60,000 francs for the rent, a quarter of a million for costumes, half that amount for scenery and many salaries.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
AMERICAN TOURING
 L0ND0N'S SUbWAYS
Finds Way to Visit City and Keep Dry

London, May 20.-F-American ingenuity has beaten English weather.
 An American woman has dis covered how to see London in the midst of a driving wind and rain and yet keep dry.
 She confided her discovery to fel- low tourists who had cancelled a tour of London and had spent the day pent up in a hotel lobby by the driving rain without"
 i've just seen London" she de- clared, land I didn't get touched by a drop of rain. I've spent the whole day in the subway"
 Then you can't have seen much of London" objected a friend.
 "Oh. yes did. saw it all. l got out at every important station, went up to the subway entrance and looked at everything could see without stepping out.
 Then I got a ticket to the next stop, and between stations I read in my guide book all about what was inside the places I'd been looking at. So now I'll be able to tell everyone back home all about London.
 T got fine view of Piccadilly Circus. Only 1t wasn't 8 circus at all, just big square like Times square in New York. It made me feel just like home. There were two theaters, one covered with posters Of an American movie and another of an American musical show. Most of the rest was covered up with board fencing where they're putting up some new building, the conduc- tor told me, and building new subway station in the middle.
 T saw Trafalgar Square. too. I coud only see Nelson's back on the column. as he was facing the other way. But I got fine view of the lions.
 But I couldn't see the Tower of London at all, because it was around the corner from the subway station. and it was raining hard then. But I guess it doesn't matter. There was a good picture in my guide book, and I feel just as though I'd seen it, having got so near"
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
Pallavicini Art Objects
 Being Offered for Sale

London, May 20-The Pallavicini art collection will be auctioned in London during May.
 The nucleus of the collection, which was removed from the Stu bichofan Schloss, Styria, was form ed by a member of the Pallavicini family who left Italy in the 18th century and founded the Hungarian branch of the race. It includes the Immaculate Conception" by Muril- To, "The Nutcracker" by Nalesquez and examples of Van Dyck, Koeck,
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
Miss Garden Recants on
 Seeing Young Composer

Rochester, N. r., May 20. - Eu- gene Goosens, youthful composer and orchestra leader, has won addi- tional fame here as the Briton who changed Mary Gardens opinion that "Englishmen lack music in their souls"
 When she appeared in Carmen recently Miss Garden met Goosens who conducts the Rochester Phil harmonic Orchestra and who has just returned from leading the weel of opera in English in New York. After watching the English conduc- tor intently she exclaimed:
 '1 take back what I've said. He is a revelation"
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20
Lady Lavery Helps Her
 Husband With Exhibits

London. May 20-Being the wife of an artist means more than pos- ing without pay as his favorite model and acting as hostess at im- portant functions. Lady Lavery. the American wife of Sir John Lavery, famous Irish painter. accepts both those duties, but she also assists her husband in arranging his exhibi- tions. She helped him recently to arrange one which included many of the subjects painted last year on their visit to the United States.
 Lady Lavery was the widow of Edward Livingston Trudeau of New York. She is the daughter of Edward Jenner Martyr of Chicago. 9 HID TIME WOMAN
New Britain herald., 1927-05-20

Vienna, May 20.-Fraulien Herta Matzsr of Furstenfield is the coun- trys first woman master -stone- mason.
 She has built walls, carved cor nices and chiseled gravestones to the satisfaction of the authorities. and she has taken over her dead fathers license to work in the trade. Fraulien Matzer is P, nat urally strong and h considered quite good looking.
The Washington times., 1927-03-22
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Copyright, 1877, New York
Evening Journal. Inc.
Registered u. 3. Patent OfneA 4
Young
By DR.. FRANK CRANE

OEORGE YOUNG, Canadian boy of seventeen years,
r succeeded in swimming the Catalina Channel which
separates Catalina Island from the mainland Of Cali
fornia.
He the only Of 103 entrants to finish and he
the distance in little fifteen hours and the
$25 900 Wrgey prize The of youth illustrates the
residence of youth.
That Young able to stay in the cold water long
and able function successfully marks him
of the greatest athletes of his time
His life history reads like Horato Alger He
down from Canada motorcycle and landed in Los
Angeles with only sixty cents in his pocket.
Now he has signed up movie contract well got the
Wrigey prize and doubtless will be capitalized by vendors
of entertainment and make his fortune.
Whether it will ruin him is yet to be determined
Many stand adversely who stand prosperity.
His exploit demonstration of youthful pluck and
endurance The prizes for physical prowess go young
By and by the prize fighter golf expert gets old
and muscle bound and young takes his place.
is interesting note however, that the great positions
in the business world filled by older
Youth is time for physical excellence and old age
time for mental Many of the great business of
the day are in the hands of old men,
Youth needs to make hay while the Shines for youth
will not always last If man, however, depends upon
mental he is apt to keep up very old age
unless those powers fail.
copyright 1927. The syndtae)
The Washington times., 1927-03-22
MOVING EARTH = =

her feet--but only the mathenati-
clans eye can detect these rcspon-
sive motions of old Mother Tellus
(thc EARTH, Yet as the nod of Jove
shook Olympus, so we may aver
that the universe vibrates to the
feet Of the children.
Every object that falls pulls the
entire globe toward it, at a rate
proportioned to its weight COM
pared with the earth's weight. The
earth weighs six sextillions of tons;
the baseball, modest number of
ounccs-you might say Babe"
Ruth how many. The ball drops
is feet in one second; the earth
moves to meet it such an infinites-
NAL distance that magnified tril-
lion times it would still be invis-
ible.
Earth Really Moves
Yet the motion is real for the
most fundamental law of the uni.
verse, gravitation, requires 1t. In.
crease the baseball to the weight OF
the moon, put 1t in the moons
place, and let 1t start falling from
there toward the earth. The earth
would draw it, during the first
second, about one.twentieth of an
inch; during the same time it
would draw the earth about one
sixteenth hundredth of an inch. If
the moon started falling very close
The Washington times., 1927-03-22
Crime and Punishment
Immediate Punishment Crimes Best Deterrent

The news Of the day is much occupied with the activity
Of crmnals-gang killings whisky hefts thefts
attacks on women and children the escapes and plots
escape by convcts embezElemens fact the whole gamut
of crime.
taken into custody. Most Of those captured
liberty on bond Few face early trials Some acquitted
and few convicted.
This game Of hide and seek with the law great game
for the lawyers, but costly one for the public.
The public apparently, is little interested and then only
sporadcay in crime and less in punishment The pub
lies interest in crime extend to punishment before the
much talked-of tcrime waves" win recede.
This interest in punishment must be intense enough
bring about desire the part of officials instant trials
and instant punishmens when guilty Such be effected
only by the adjustment Of archaic laws originally designed
TO safeguard the citizens rights but which have been CON
rued throw protecting wall around the criminal
The public have what Il Xanta but must want Il
The Washington times., 1927-03-22
By Garrett P. Serviss

to the earth, the earth would move
it at the same rate as 1t moves
the baseball, namely, 16 feet dur.
ing the first second: and the moon
would draw the earth in the same
time about two and two-fifths
inches.
Can't Evade Gravity
But while gravitation binds
earth and moon and earth and
sun, it never draws them to-
gether because in every case
there is a "cross.motion" which is
indestructible. The moon falls to-
ward the earth a twentieth of an
inch a second. but while so doing,
1t also rushes ahead at the rate
of 1850 feet per second, and the
combination of these motions
causes it, instead of falling upon
the earth, to travel In an orbit
around it. In other words the
moon moves ahead over 100000
times as far in second as it
falls earthward, and the two
motions occurring together cause
is to describe a closed curve
around the center of gravity he.
tween it and the earth, which lies
over a thousand miles below the
earth's surface.
Nothing can get away from
gravitation. Nothing can hide
away from it either. for 1t is not