Nogales international., 1927-11-18
By Arthur Brisbane

The theory that you are safe t
America if you steal ENOUGH
may be shaken by the trial
Washington of gentlemen accuses.
OF stealing the Governments oi
supply, by bribing the Secretar,
of the Interior.
The trial was halted .and th'
jury dismissed by the judge os
evidence as to the "6xing" O.
Jurors.
II it can be shown that money
was used to fix jurors in this case
the fxers might go to Jail.
However, if big thieves car
bribe a Secretary Of the interior
and escape punishment. even with
the Supreme Court officially de-
Rouncing their dishonesty. bTibing
q juror or two may not make much
difference.
After all the talk about "extrav-
Agant women" you will be inter
ested in this fact. provided hy the
United States Department OF
Labor:
Men, on the average, spend more
for their clothes than women.
The average for husbands Is
E71.38; for wives. $63.55. :.
Women are the economical half
of the household, making ends
meet, denying themselves for
their children and the future. Not
TO know it is not TO know women
or men.
A killing that will puzzle the
fury comes from McHenry County
in Illinois. The police announce
shat William Schumacher, twenty
eight. was innocent of the charge
that he had killed his father.
Schumacher told them "You are
wrong. I waited for him to come
snto the barn, pulled the trigger,
and the shot almost blew his head
Of"
His father made him work be.
fofe and after school when he was
nine years old, took him out OF
school for good when he was
twelve, and made him do q mans
work. He beat the boys mother.
repeatedly, knocked her onto hot
stove and left her there, drove a
pitchfork into the leg OF a youngeI
brother so far that the boy could
not pull it out without help.
lust before the murder ne
inocked his wife to the floor with
a blow on the chin, accusing hei
of inhdelity, saying a farmland
was the real father of the twenty
eight-year-old son.
That son killed him. The neigh
bors corroborate the story o'
cruelty.
1t will not be easy to get a con
vietion in that case.
The city of Syracuse spends or
motoring seventeen cents out -oi
every dollar of income--and old
fashioned finance, wagging Il:
head, says extravaganza" Buy
ing new automobiles takes ten ant
a quarter cents, gasoline three xnt
half cents, accessories three
cents. And that's the best invest
ment of seventeen cents on thu
dollar that Syracuse could make.
If hoptoad could buy wings fol
seventeen cents on his dollar anS
Hy,' instead of painfully hopping il
the dust, he'd be a fool not tt
spend the seventeen cents. Auto
mobiling is flying. Get a car i
you have not got one. or bettei
ear If you can afford it.
The Vancouver Sun tells yot
hat one hundred ships are char
;ered to carry 20,000.000 bushels o
Canadian wheat from VancouveI
20 Britain and the Continent il
he next three months. All these
ships make many cruisers neces
;ary for Britain We, too. shoult
,uild fast cruisers. for we ma,
ionlc day wake up and have com
neTeial navy.
Meanwhile, our Panama Cana
through which all the 100 ship
# grain will pass--is offered t
,ur Canadian and British brother
With no extra charge for the fac
hat our money built it. They pa,
ust what our own few ships pay
lot every nation would do that.
A fishing boat had drifted fou
thousand miles when it wa
Iicked up off our northwest coas'
White bones on the deck shove
he part that cannibalism ha
,iayed in the tragedy of the sea.
Two that died, last of all, wer
ntact. The others, seven or eigh
,ad been eaten to prolong the live
Il the two. No man can say whs
&c would do under certain circun
,tarces, unless he has beer teste
trder those circumstances.