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The Washington times., 1927-04-09
If We Had Some Swift Justice
in District Courts

The impressive speed Of Justice in the Wisconsin courts
illustrated in the Of Vase Radich at Milwaukee he
killed his esranged wife at o'clock last Thursday morning
arrested hour later confessed and at noon five hours
after the deed sentenced to life imprisonment Three
hours after facing the judge he was in prison.
Virginia courts not tagging in dealing quick justice
n heinous crimes The case Of Louis r Boersg in Fairfax
County demonstrates that n little over thirty days after
he killed two children and attacked their mother he was
under sentence Of death in the electric chair.
These examples Of crime suppression show well in compar
with the hardness and delays witnessed in District courts
Attempts to diminish crime in this city viii not succeed no
matter how active efficient the police department.
dangerous offenders against laws continue to find legal
procrastination all in their favor.
difficult to point to the exact cause Of the wear
some delays in criminal trials here scarcity Of Judges
and prosecuting officials has long been alleged as the main
reason Another the apparent ease with which criminal
lawyers the District code to set up techncaties and
subterfuges that favor local criminals.
Even in the face Of these Instructions quick justice
does possible that prosecuting officials here could more
often make prompt examples Of offenders Of gravity
giving warning to and Of this type that the
trict is no haven for crime.
congested criminal dockets constantly confront our
courts would be far better that the lesser criminals should
get the benefit Of long delays in trial than to give these
advantages to those who commit oenses that should be
swiftly punished
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
GORILLA LAND = : By Ga

A HAUNTED HOUSE" doesn't
"A look like ordinary houses to
the eye of the imaginative spec
tator for the GHOSTS" lend 1t q
moral atmosphere Of dread and
mystery. So the Gorilla coun.
try" In Africa. impressive photo
graphs Of which have been pub
lished in connection with the
story of the late Carl Ageley's
explorations. seems to have a pc
culiar aspect curiously suited to
the homeland of the monstrous
ape that has given 1t a name.
Somehow the country, as shown
in these pictures, recalls its
strange and formidable inhabi.
tant. 1t is. apparently. a land
difform, its face distorted by un.
usual freaks of geological forces
that have thrown it into a chaos
OF crowded, dome-shaped heights,
enclosing deep. branching. steep
sided valleys whose bottoms as
well as the slopes and tops Of
the thronging mountains are man
tied with rich bosxy covering
Of trees and underground that
imparts q high degree of pictur-
esque beauty to the rugged scene.
Has Haunting Effect
But the name, gorilla country"
has haunting effect upon the
mind while one looks at the pic
lures. Natural history contains
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
To LiUe Is TO Fight
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

THIGHTl Fight fight That is the law Of life. Man is
4 fighting animal. He is also fighting soul Only
by incessant conflict is life possible. Peace is the
of death When have daily struggle
we are beginning to fade To stop is go backward All
souls float IN stream whose steady sets toward
death. Life is to the swimmer
The body that has ceased to overcome JOY triumph
over to leap and plunge and CO. has settled down with
the door open to every disease The mind that shrnks
from effort that reads only what is spced and pleasant
that does not love tackle hard problems and sweat over
enigmas, is morbund The soul that no more struggles
and suffers that finds passions to wrese with no
more Heterogeneous to surmount is already half lost
Every day to healthy being, And in ratio as we
sound and love it. ITO him that oyercometh
will give the of life" As we are more and more
invaded by the hunger for comfort and rest and quiet We
settle down into the waiting Of Death
Blow on blow the bucklng of the harness the chase
and ardor of the to the that has not some
spot IN him where such taste fingers For to live ID to
fight To struggle is to die Vivre cest triumpher
sans cess says AmielTo live is to triumph continuav
Copyright 1921 by Mcclure syndicate
The Washington times., 1927-04-09

NO more formidable word than
gorilla, which, since the time, now
some sixty-six years ago. when
Paul du Chaillu first made the
name OF the great mysterious
beast of the dark African forest
popularity known, has continued to
excite q kind OF shuddering In
terest. The descriptions that he
gave Of the terrible creature. made
in awful caricature of the half
developed human form, advancing
out of the gloom of the woods, It's
huge, hairy hands beating thuu.
derous sounds from its drum-like
chest, while its immense face was
distorted with rage as it uttered
roars that might be heard three
miles off, have shaped the popular
idea of the gorilla ever since.
The thirst for scientific knowl-
edge alone makes welcome the
fact that the blood Of the gorilla
The Washington times., 1927-04-09

tried to reassure her, telling her
we had telegraphed for her
mother and that she would soon
be home again. But this seemed
to brighten her the more. She
couldn't go home oh, couldn't we
see that she'd never, dare 60
home again?
It was such a common story.
She was the loved end guarded
daughter Of q most respectable
family. So guarded that she had
heard nothing of "the facts OF
life'-snice girls" didn't know
such things, A small town, with
few pleasures for an attractive,
vivacious girl. A Wonderful
/ Young Man from the City. Al
Irritation, which Mother and Dad
mustn't know about. Then, oh,
dream Of dreamsan Elopement!
Shed be the first girl in her High
School class to marryl
/ wonder when she discovered
that she wasn't going to be mar
ried after all-that she was only
! one more pitiful. broken thing,
trapped by her own ignorance.
1t makes one sick to think OF it.
OF course the man had gone by
the time we found her in the
cheap hotel. She knew the facts
of life by then--the facts her
mother had been too nice to
tell her!
It's going to be terrible for that
little girl, back In that prim,
small town, But no one viii
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
By Garrett P. Serviss

is chemically akin to the blood Of
man, and that this monstrous
being can trace his origin back to
point of common ancestry. Tut
man struck, or was guided into,
the true upward path OF evolution
while the goriIla's fathers and
their offspring had to remain for
ever beast-like. It was not given
to them to spread over the world,
but they must stay in their own
country where at last their bril-
liant cousin" in blood has found
them out to furnish filling for
library shelves and exhibits for
museums.
Splendid Romance
The story of Carl Akeley is one
of the most splendid romances
of natural history. Go to the
great American Museum Of Nat
ural History in Central Park
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
By ELSIE ROBINSON

t4'
thin net and applied to the palms
of her hands. her arms, thighs
and soles OF her fete so that she
may not become either lazy or
slow. The bites Of these ants
are agonizing and slow in heal
ing. Often the girl faints during
the Ordeal but it is continued
until, in the opinion of her elders
she has received sufficient dis.
cipline.
This Is en1y the beginning Of
her education. She is tatooed,
and made to stay many days in
strictest seclusion undergoing q
period of tabu. After this she
is brought out and severely
beaten with a whip OF palm fiber,
into the tips of which red pepper
has BEEN rubbed in order that
the wounds may smart.
All Of this discipline has b
moral significance and is SO re-
ceived. During the months while
this is going on the girl Is In
structed in all household crafts
and all sex matters. Only upon
the completion OF her course of
instruction is she allowed to asso.
ciate with the young men of the
tribe.
That ordeal by black ants
doesn't sound so good, does it? 1t
makes us proud that we are
civilized whites" instead Of cruel
savages. And yet
wonder IL In our niceness we
don't abandon our girls 20 some.
thing worse than an ordeal by ants2
The Washington times., 1927-04-09

West, and look at what he has
done to make the gorilla and
other African animals known to
science and to all mankind. The
beauty of that institution is that
it does not hide its light under &
bushel. While working for SCI
ence, in scientific harness, it
works no less earnestly and eff
fectively for the people at large.
In its halls one walks through
the world as 1t is. through its
continents and its islands, through
its forests, its mountains and its
deserts, seeing its plants. its ami.
mails, it's minerals-a universal
fair, where the whole planet con-
tributes to the exhibition under
the guiding hand of science; and
then one walks back through
past times and sees the globe
and its inhabitants developing be-
fore his eyes.
Carl Akeley was one Of the
greatest contributors to this mag
nificent exhibition. Like every
man who, succeeds and helps his
fellow men with his knowledge,
he loved his work. The gorilla
country was the cynosure of his
thoughts. Through his influence
with the King Of the Belgians a
great sanctuary park has been set
aside in the Congo region to pre-
serve alive the race Of the gorilla
amid its natural surroundings, to-
gether with other native African
animals, which human civilization
threatens with extinction.
Carl Akeley died in the gorilla
country" in November last, and,
by his own wish. his grave is
there. So the farm boy from
Orleans county, New York, his
life work done before the world,
sleeps contented In the sanctuary
of the gorillas.
The Washington times., 1927-04-09

or played with Bobby's Meccano
set.
She hath not looked on while he
struggled into boiled shirt and
strove to look natural" in 3. wing
collar and q painful pair Of pumps.
She hath never watched him
when he wrestled with the Sunday
fowl, and left it limp and mu-
tilated upon the platter; nor sur.
veyed him when he washed the dog
and sought to master the animal
with battle cries,
She hath never heard him NUT
ter in his sleep, nor Iearkened to
his bowls Of pain, while she spread
the soothing liniment over his sun.
burned shoulders.
She hath never seen him cropping
for a towel with his eyes shut, or
endeavoring to shave around the
dimple in his chin. She hath never
been called upon to wash his
BACKl
She hath never beheld him when
he regarded his own beauty in the
mirror as he tied on is new spring
cravat and sought to make his
cowlick lie down.
She hath never had to FEED
him, to nurse him, to find his
shoes, nor to put him to bed after
a celebration She hath never put
the ice upon his head, the plaster
upon his back. nor the hot.water
bottle to his feetl
Lo. why should mans stenog.
rapher NOT regard him as a
mighty and glorified Being? For
his wife might likewise revere him
II she saw him only from to 81
sELAH.
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-
~ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:

hEAR MRS. BEECkMAN:
~ would appreciate It very
much II you could answer the fol-
lowing question: am going to
be engaged and would like to
know whether it is proper or
improper to send out printed
announcements OF the engagement
to my friends and relatives when
lam not going to have an engage
ment party.
If it is proper, kindly let me
know when they should be sent
out. before the engagement or
after? A READER.
It is not according to good taste
or good form to send out formal
engraved or printed
ments Of an engagement. Tell the
relatives who live in your town or
near you and write those at a
distance. Tell the friends who
are closest to you,, write the other
ones. Then sit back and watch
the news spread You won't need
any aIfnounc IL you do
need any further announcement
OF the happy event, have your
mother and father insert for
NAL notice of the engagement in
the newspapers.
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
LISTEN, WORLD!

dream Of max
ing It hard for
Mother!
They do things
differ en- t ! y
a m o n gst the
Taulipang In.
dams of South
America, When
a girl reaches
puberty there
they think it's
time she knew
what woman.
h GOD Is all
about. So they
spend several
months in tell
ing h err and
they m q Ike a
thorough job OF
1t. First she
must go through
the Ordeal by
Ants. Large
ants are Inn.
...H
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
WISE SAYINGS

ENEAR is the parent Of cruelty.
Froude.
Nothing, is. there to come, and
nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always
last. --Cowper.
There is no evIl in the world
without . remedy.
And II you mean to profit,
learn to please. Churchill.
IT'S education forms the common
mind;
Just as the twig is bent the trees
inclined. Pope.
And when the echoes had ceased.
like q sense Of pain was the
silence. --LongfeIIow.
Thu only way to have q friend
is to be one. Emerson.
A suppressed resolve WIN be.
tray itself in the eyes.
George Eliot.
No great thought. no great OBJ.
ject. satisfies the mind at first
view--nor at the last.
Madame de Stael
-
Great hearts alone can under.
stand how much glory there is in
being good. --Michelet
weakness on botl1e sides Is. an
we know. the motto Of ali quar-.
rels. --Voltaire.
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
WlHE police
IL matron took

WHE pol1ce
j matron took
me to her.
I have gone
on that sad
errand so often
with the nnatron
and I felt a
cynical certainty
of what / would
find. But / was
surprised. This
wasn't the usual
brazen, painted,
70 ng hussy.
H ere " a 8 q
frightened, cry.
ing child, not
yet out Of her
teens. The blue
eyes were dis.
tended with ter
ror-the face
gray and pinch.
ed with shock.
s he covered
g. wy
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
SAYINGS OF
MRS.SOLOMON
BY Helen Rowland
The GIorified Being

The GIorified Being
MY DAUGHTER, what is so as
IVA tonishing to a woman as the
Difference and the secret devotion
with which her husbands stenog-
raphet glorifieth him?
Behold, unto his wife a man is
only an overgrown infant. But,
unto his stenographer he is
Mighty Intellect, a Human Dy-
namo and a Master Mind.
For 10, his stenographer hath
never beheld him without his COL.
LAR, nor with his face covered
with shaving lather and his hair
standing aloft as shorn wheat
fieldl
His stenographer hath not
watched him when he lay pros
trate beneath the car. full of
grease and perspiration ana per-
plexity and profanity
She hath never put his feet in
mustard water nor soothed him
when he was i'll and frightened and
ready to eat out of a woman's
hand.
She hath never seen him with a
thermometer instead of a cigar
sticking out Of his mouth, nor hath
she watched him hold his nose
while she poured castor oil down
his throat.
His stenographer hath never be-
held him sprawled upon all tours,
while he wound up the Baby'E toys
The Washington times., 1927-04-09
I Getting Rid ..Ofn
NEAR mrs, BEECKMAN:

NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
II In making up the following
paragraph a discussion mas
arisen concerning the correct use
Of the words ''of" and 'off." /
trust that you win please let us
know II the word Is used properly
or not.
"I think this sort Of operator
should be brought to your atten.
ton, for / believe these are the
kind that you endeavor to rid the
highways of or off," r. w.
The sentence should read: II
think that this sort of operator
should be brought to your atten.
ton, for believe this is the kind
which you endeavor to rid the
highway Of"
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02
Parsons, Hartford

Wooden kimono," greatest of mystery thrillers. will be the at traction at Parsons tomorrow Fri day and Saturday night with a mat lnee Saturday. The play comes di- rect from a long and successful New York engagement, with the entire original cast and production. IL felt the sting of prohibition, indirectly, when first staged in New York. There are a number of supposedly subterranean explosions in the John Floyd piece. produced by firing both barrels of a shotgun into barrel at a given distance. An old-fashion- ed beer barrel is the only kind that will produce this effect. In pre-Vol- stead days the theater property man could have found one of these barrels on any corner and possessed the same in return for a "compli- mentary ticket" given to the white spurned czar of the brass rail. It required two-day search, sS and carriage charges to procure the bar rel now used in the production of Wooden Kimono."
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02
SPIDER KELLY
 HAS LAST FIGHT
Famous Lightweight Passes Away in Minnesota Hospital

San Francisco Nov. ! (UP) - Spider Kelly, the wry. long, armed little Irishman who stood up against the mighty attack Of Joe Cans for 25 rounds. was cheated by fate out Of the chance to fight his last battle in the city where he rose to fame.
 Spider" died yesterday-in a hos pital at Rochester. Minn.. far from home. He will be brought back 10 San Francisco for burial beside the bodies of his father and mother.
 But Spider whosereal name was James Patrick Curtin, wanted to die here. near the scene of his early tri- umphs and defeats and among the friends who had known him at the height of his ring career.
 Before leaving San Francisco for Rochester to undergo mastold operation. he told his friends he would rather hear the final gong here than in any other spot in the world.
 The old timers today were re- lnlnlSClHg dUOut the neTy uttIe 1llSll- man whose vituperous tongue was nearly as deadly as his flashing fists.
 Those of them who had been at the ringside in New York when Kelly stayed upright against Joe Cans through the 25 terrible rounds. said he managed to do 50 only because he had Cans guessing what it was all about"
 Many q time. those old friends said, after Kelly had foresaken the ring to train and second fighters his flashing tongue spurred many an ap- parently beaten man on to greater efforts and victory.
 Spider learned 10 fight in the streets and continued to fight be- cause he loved to-
 Tim McGrath. San Francisco box ing promoter and perhaps the clos est friend Of Kelly, told of the early struggles Of his pal 10 gain entrance into the fighting ranks.
 He was d great lad and how he loved to fight" said McGra.h. Kelly and I were boys together. We play ed together and we fought together.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02
AUTO ENGINE IN
 FATAL EXPLOSION
Three Killed, Boy Loses Arm in
 Kentucky Tragedy

Central City, Ky, Nov tP>- Three persons were killed, and four injured, one perhaps fatally, when the, engine of an automobile, which had stalled in the downtown section here yesterday, exploded.
 The explosion occurred, witnesses said, just as r. C. Wells, q passcrhy. had raised the hood of the car. Wells and William Lewis, 1G, who were standing near, were struck by frag- ments of the engine and apparently were instantly killed. Their bodies were recovered several yards from the wreCkage.
 The car, ,driven by Mrs. F. D. por- ter stalled as she was negotiating a turn. she said. Wells, who Was pass ing by stopped 10 assist her.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02
FIRST DAY TAKES
 LIVES 0F THREE
Hunting Season Opens With
 Fatalities and Injuries

Philadelphia, Nov. 2 LF,-The first day of the open hunting season for rabbits and other small game ended in three deaths in Pennsylvania and Delaware yesterday.
 Twenty persons. including a wom- an who is expected to de, were in hospitals or under medical treatment for injuries as hundreds of hunters started the second day of the sea son. Another man, said to be the oldest licensed hunter in this state, Andrew Ripple, 97. Of Altoona, col lapsed and d@k shortly after start ing from the home Of relatives for the woods.
 Of the three killed in Hunting ac- cldent7. s. G. Dayton. of Media, was the most prominent. Dayton, member Of number of clubs here and a director of the Camden, x. J., Safe Deposit and Trust company, was the victim of a peculiar acci- dent. The banker with a party of friends had formed a duck blind at Bridgerille, Del. when one barrel of bis gun was accidentally discharged while he was loading it. The dis charge hurled the gun against the blind and the concussion fired the second barrel. the full load entering Dayton's back.
 Charles B. Carnahan, Wander grift mill worker, was killed when a companion hunter accidentally fired his gun into Carnahan's eyes. The third fatal accident occurred in q Lancaster county farmhouse where Jerry Movey. of Chester, was killed when a pump gun in the hands of a friend was discharged while the other man was examining it.
 Mrs. Lottie Spencer. 31, Of Tidi- cute. who was shot by woman companion while they were gunning near Warren is in a serious Condi- ton from loss of blood. The acci- dent occurred in the excitement of chasing a rabbit through the brush.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02

men as Young Corbett, Jimmy Britt. Abe Attell, Joe Thomas, Sailor Jack" Sharkoy, and the Burly Jim Jeftries.
 Kelly earned his reputation as the worlds greatest second because of his expert handling Of long line of champions. When boxing was In its zenith in tn west. Kelly was an outstanding figure at every import ant event.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02

The battle of seIcheprey fought all day April 20. 1918. resulted in heavy losses for both sides in killed and wounded but not an inch of ground was given. The German barrago started shortly before 5 o'clock in the morning and 1,500 of the pick Of the German army, shock troops known as the "Kaiser's Own" charged the American positions laid out in front of Seicheprey and stretching into Remieres Wood Fwo companies. c and D. which had relieved two companies of the third battalion the night before, bore the brunt Of the attack.
 Although practically wiped out. the two outfits held the lines unth II o'clock that morning when none except q handful were left. Major Eau and Major Thompson, both Of Hartford, organized details from kitchens and supply wagon mule skinners' into attachments and backed into Remiere Woods and re- lASeu lp lttNt. lLt al lllltIy OIi both sides sent death and destruc- ton into each others lines all day until 7;3o in the evening when the third battalion of the 102nd swept over the top in q counter charge, cleared the lines of the Prussians and regained all the ground lost.
 The picture printed in connection with this article was received by ex- Senator Claude ". Stevens Of Ber- lin, who returned recently from a tour Of the battlehelds of France. IL was sent by a French boy whose acquaintance he made while on tour.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02

GOOD SHOW AT LYCEUM

Today will be your last chance to see what everybody that has seen this bill called very good. The main attraction offers Evelyn Brent in "Women's Wares" The companion feature is Monte Blue in One Round Hogan" Thursday, Friday and Saturday brings to you as good of a bill seen here abouts in a long time, the main attraction is Clara Bow in Wine" for a night of joy unconfined: come see the girl with TT" at her zippiest best. The com panion feature is the big brother Of "the third alarm-'Hook and Ladder No. g" with d great cast of players.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-02
s<sssee%~eeSseSssSysssS
AT THE CAPITOL,

Beginning today for a three day run the Capitol offers q double fea- ture photoplay program that should prove real entertaining. Both fea- ture attractions being photoplays that will be well liked and having excellent stories.
 The main feature will present Reginald Denny, the popular comedy and action star, in his new hit, The Cheerful Fraud" It is fast moving story with a plot that keeps one on the edge of the seat, so diff 1erent and exciting is the action.
 The companion feature offers Marguerite De La Motte and Donald Keith in Broadway Madness"
 Tonight is pillow night at the Capitol when fancy silk pillows will be distributed to patrons.