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Another TriUmph7

IN Pennsylvania, they are going to
Il kill a woman next Monday night.
AS the fatal hour approaches, every
one becomes more interested in her
emotions and emotions. We may ex-
pect detailed and lurid descrip-
ton of everything that takes place
in the execution chamber, not to
mention lot that took place before.
If next Monday night runs true
to the law of averages, hundreds of
women will die, some of them in far
greater agony, and some of them
just as much the victims of social
injustice, or justice, if you prefer
the latter term.
But they will not get their pic
lures in the papers, or stories of
their last moments spread all over
the front page.
Maybe that represents another
triumph for modern civilization.
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Let Industry Rise to End 'Depressions

days week, or at what minimum
wages to permit consumption of
such goods.
DRIOR to 1929 there were esti-
4 mates current that from so to
10 per cent of persons employed
in this country worked at luxury
production. Considering the f1nan-
cial Importance of such industries
as motors. moving pictures, chewing
gum, bootlegging and prohibition en-
forcement, such figures are not
staggering to the imagination.
Yet they were guesswork to be-
gin with, and no one SO far even
has fixed generally acceptable
standard as to where necessities
stop and luxuries begin.
If industrial leadership is not 60
ing simply to accept as inevitable
the recurrence of depressions- along
with human misery, social turmoil,
political despair and the danger of
either Communist or Fascist revo-
lution-then such leadership must
act.
And as prerequisite to action,
an adequate institute" of employ
ment and other economic statistics
is in order. At least some def1ni-
ton should be arrived at for terms
like luxury and necessity" and
some comparative figures dug out
of the past to show progress or re-
PROGRESSION.
Having made this proposition, one
waits only for some one to cry out
for a new government department.
They always do.
=
DUT-why a government depart
ID ment? Can not our industrial
and financial leadership paddle it's
own canoe in this respect? If it
does not do so, the next step will
be new governmental regulating
agency, government unemployment
insurance supported by taxation, the
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DIT \ CON M, FREDERICK
ANA%A AOO4 LANDS

TT must have been hard for those passengers to be
L nonchalant the other day when their plane was
gliding eastward 1000 feet above Indiana, and one
Of the party threw fit and had to be overpowered.
The fact we've observed some very unanimous fits
is one reason why we've never sifted through the
clouds.
We've not been willing to trust to everybodys
remaining normal until we reached terra frma"
again.
What would happen for instance, if one OF tho
passengers too large to be subdued should suddenly
go Kings-x mentally and insist on grabbing the run
ming gears of the kite?
Why, only one thing could happen-the obsequies.
DUT the thing we've feared most is that the noodle
- of the grand marshal might suffer total eclipse
or that he might suddenly develop gall-stones and
neglect the mechanical igree and expose us to the
ravageS Of gravitation.
Now if such thing should occur in an engine
cab you trust the fireman to engage the explod-
ing engineer in a friendly catch-as-catch can but
when you're up touching the hem of altitude you're
in the hands of your pilot.
The fit which most induced our reluctance tc
cruise the inverted azure bowl thrown some years
ago on slow train through Iowa by husky who was
subdued only after everybody in two coaches had sat
upon him.
WE were ourneying through the tall corn to I'll
w speaking date in Council Bluffs when a ten
story Swede on our starboard side jumped from his
seat, shot his great toward the roof and
screamed: "Oh my Godl"
If there were any cold chills that didn't chase ur
and down by spine it was because there was no room
for them
1t some time before anybody volunteered e
break him to harness. for of us had been intro.
duced to him. but finally five of us tackled him. syn
chronzing perfectly throwing him into the aisle after
ofl. frJ
to make it binding.
Now if that prima donna had been in solo flight
the details would have been too grewsome for tender
ears, and so you are going to your humble servant
remain an active member of the earthhound Brother
hood for some time to come.
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CARDINAL NEwMANs BIRTH


Feb. 81
ON Feb. 81, 1901, Cardinal John
" Henry Newman, an English
religious leader, first in the Church
of England and later in the Roman
Catholic church, was born in Lon
don, the son of a banker.
He was graduated with honors
from Trinity College, Oxford, in
1920. Four years later he was or
dained to the ministry of the An
glican church.
For writing a tract concerning
Catholic doctrines in the Church OF
England, he severely was condemned
by officials Of the Anglican church
After three years of retirement
Newman became a convert to the
Roman Catholic church. AS he had
exerted great influence among the
Anglicans, the effect of this ster
was great. He went to Rome and
was ordained a priest.
In 1877 Newman was elected an
honorary fellow of Trinity college
Oxford, and revisited his alma
mater for the first time in twenty
two years.
Leo XIII created him cardinal in
1879. allowing him still to reside in
England. He died at BIRMINGHAM
England, IN 1880,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
BaIIyhooing Smut

IN Denver, a select group of so
4 ciety folk" whatever that means,
watch a naked youth wriggle
through certain contortions which
are described as artistic dancing.
Reports of the performance convey
a distinct impression that those at
tending it were rather disappointed
because the police took no notice.
Notice by the police has come to
be looked upon as essential to the
more advanced forms of art now
adays, especially because of its ad-
vertising value. The press agent is
quite as anxious for it as the cru
sader, and you can't always tell
which of them pulled the string.
One would have more patience
with the cry for censorship if so
much of it weren't obviously the
work of publicity hounds.
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fixing of hours of labor by statute,
and what have you?
And Communism, Fascisn, or
some other sort Of socialism or die
tatorship will have won a large part
of it's campaign without a battle.
For, once the facts are deter
mined, somebody, somehow, is go
ing to have to do something about
them. That employment, even in
times of plenty, is as precarious as it
has been in this country during the
last thirty years, is as unscientif1c
and out Of date as a horse car in a
subway.
And those who will function in
the doing, or who at least will have
the jump ON the job, will be those
who do the preliminary fact finding.
IF industrial, financial, journalistic
4 and other independent forces
want to see our world remade I'M
der auspices of men who make &C
ceptable candidates for congress. all
they need do is sit still and wait
for developments.
However, if they want to direct the
business themselves, and preserve
some of the democracy and the ad-
venturous possibilities of American
life that have made their present
positions possible, their cue must be
to take counsel with each other, and
act in the interests of the vast body
Of their co-workers, who quite nat
urally place Importance upon con-
tinuity Of employment, of family
life, and social position.
You my say all you like about
the unwisdom Of weeds replacing
vines. OF course the weed conten-
ton is that they are as good as, if
not better than, the vines.
This is improbable. The one
consequence, however, which seems
from long observation inevitable, is
that weeds will replace vines unless
the latter are looked after prop
erly.
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Angry Cowboy

HISIy OUWUUy
1T was not possible to recapture
l. the first fine, careless rapture,
but I grew interested in dice game
just to my left, in which four cow
boys were participating.
They cursed and quarreled and I
took care to mark the nearest exit
for an emergency.
Suddenly the lie was passed. "You
mean to call me liar?" shouted the
biggest cowboy.
you never throwed what you said
you throwed," repeated the agrees
sor. They eyed each other for a
second, and then the man with the
dice said: mo use having a rum
pus; I'll throw over again."
Loud as pistol shot an illu-
sion cracked. It will not return, I
fear. I do not want to be forever
provincial, and still it is less a good
thing to sentimentalize about the
underworld, but I must state the
honest opinion that the average
Broadway bad man could devour a
dozen cowboys before breakfast any
morning.
The toughest dive in Nogales, So
nora, Mexico, is but the Martha
Washington when contrasted with
our own Club Abbey.
It should not have come TO me
with such surprising and such
shocking force. On the previous day
I received a piece Of evidence which
should have prepared my mind for
just this revelation.
It was my privilege to watch an
amateur rodeo at a school where
my son was high scorer in the po-
tato polo tournament and second in
the equipment race.
After the boys had done their
stuff, some cowboys Of the neighbor-
hood performed a few stunts with
a high degree of skill and much
vocal volume Of yipping. For the
moment they seemed truly the wild
horsemen of the screen and novel.
A little later we met in the Office
of the headmastez. Curley and Slim
were chatting over their sarsaparIlla
and seemingly arranging some ex-
petition for the MORROW.
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An Ideal Month

TINE present month of February.
i 1881, is an ideal month, accord
ing to the advocates Of calendar
reform, for the following reasons
It contains twenty-eight days,
which make exactly four weeks.
It's first day falls on Sunday
and, as a result, its last day on
Saturday.
The reformers would give the
world a calendar based on that
model. Every month would contain
twenty-eight days and would begin
on a Sunday.
Thus in every month of the year
the Sundays would be the 1st, 9Th,
18th and 22d days of the month.
However, to bring this about it
would be necessary to add another
month to the calendar and to take
care of an extra day. Thirteen
months of twenty eight days each
would make total of 1854 days.
It is planned to take care of the
365 days by lacking it on the end Of
December. 1t would be known by
some official name, perhaps that of
year day." and not as a week
day. 1t might, perhaps, be dated
Dec. %.
It has been suggested that the
extra month be inserted in the cal
endar between June and July. It
has also been suggested that this
extra month be called Sol, an ap-
propriate name for a summer
month since Sol was the Latin name
Of the sun-god.
OF course the new calendar would
have an extra day once every four
years because of leap year.
1t has been suggested that the
extra day be made June 90 instead
of Feb %. This day, however,
would not be designated as a week
day, but by a special name. In other
words, the next month would begin
on a Sunday, whether it was leap
year or not.
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At Home

A A." said the bartender, IT
IA have some very fine Ameri-
can whisky" I WINGED. It almost
robbed the situation of it's romance.
To come so far, to a strange and
alien land, and then be offered the
potentially synthetic product of our
own Manhattan bathtubs!
I shook my head and continued
to gaze fascinated at the rows of
bottles. Almost was persuaded by
Sloe gin.
This was the wine of my college
days, particularly in my freshman
year, when I labored under the
misrepresentation that it was "sloW
gin" and suitable beverage.
But there came better idea, and
I offer it in contravention to the
familiar claim of the drys that al
vets are actually gin and whisky
addictS who are using beer anc
light wines" as a smoke screen.
1t may be so, but with the entire
fermented world displayed before
me in dazzling turrets and towers
Ispoke up loud and clear to say
Make mine bottle Of dark beer
And it seemed to me that this, OF
all the outlawed beverages, is one
of the few which actually have gone
into exile.
AS truthful reporter I can not
say that1 drained one dark goblet
of protest and then stalked bach
across the line Of freedom and pro-
hihition. ! fingered and sampled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
Radio Echo

Five hundred thousand million years from now
the speeches broadcast the weekly news reviews on
the cir, Amos and Andy, the popular music OF the
day, the Popes address, jokes mystery thrilers all
the daily hodge pcdge radio picture of our civilza-
ton will live again in the ether and can be heard
again by if there be men living then on earth.
The radio we have started in the years since
we have known how to broadcast still are travelling
through space, and if Dr. Enstein is right in his be-
lief that space is curved these waves will return to
EARTH radio experts tell u.s. 5OOOOOOO0OO years from
now.
So We have won immortality for our voices and our
thoughts, an Immortality they do not deserve yet
Not having learned to think of ourselves as integral
parts of todays world and to live accordingly, we
have been thrust into the life of the universe into
time and space and Importance we never can know
None of which will make our radio programs anv
betterS or our mudde-headed groupings in the world
OF economics and morals and politics and learning
But perhaps 1t will make us humble. And humble
and eager spirit is the only guide to wisdom.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H RE62f%

COMEWHERE West of the Hud-
- son.-If you had been a law
abiding citizen ever since the pas
sage of the Volstead act and sud-
denly found yourself in a place
where you might order an alcoholic
beverage without offenSe to the con-
stitution of your own conscience,
what would you choose?
In a rough sort of way, that was
the predicanent in which I found
myself at the bar of the Cave res
taurant in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.
What will you have, senor?"
asked the bartender, but it was not
decision to be made lightly.
He sensed the nature of my prob
lem and asked my homeland. I told
him that I was born in New York,
because it takes too much time to
explain about Brooklyn.
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ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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One Would Haze More Pa
tience With the Cry for
Censorship If So Much of
1t Obviously Wasn't the
Work of Publicity Hounds.
Ill PAso, Tex. Feb. 21.-Lee
II Duncan Of Alpine brings in
what local sportmen say is the big
gest mountain lion ever killed in
West Texas. He freed it with dogs
after a. two-weeks chase, and then
shot it with a six-gun. It weighed
156 pounds and measured 71s feet
from snout to tail.
Even those opposed to capital
punishment must admit that the
lion deserved death. It is known
to have killed more than 400 sheep,
not to eat, but for love of the SPORT.
Matching the lion story in human
interest. if not in heroism and hunt
ing ability, is the latest concerning
Ell Paso's "sheik" plumber, who
claims the worlds record in mari
tai adventures, and who now faces
what is said to be his fourteenth
divorce suit.
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Pehr Evind Svinhuvud has been elected president
Of Finland And there, the Fins are saying, is a
to conjure with.
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writer asks what the scrawls on telephone pad
mean. Probably that the operator is having difficulty
getting the number
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The stock of the Boston Brains. champion husky
team is up to $780, Here's one instance where stocks
have been on Bear" market
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Daily Thought

And the Lord commanded US to
do all these statutes, to fear the
Lord our God. for our good al
ways, that he might preserve us
alive, as 1t is at this day.-Deu-
terOnOmy 6:24.
All the good OF which humanity
is capable is comprised in obedience
j. Stuart Mill.
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scientist says that mans energy is worth cent
an hour That's what we thought after We saw our
first heavyweight fight
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"Can the spring be far behind9" as the convict
wisecracked on the gallows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

More than 1900 working on two big liners
in New Jersey were laid off, So now the men are at
sea.
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other beverages which Mexico had
to offer.
I wondered what other explorers
had said when they first discovered
Mexico.
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I had not heard the beginning
and did not know whether they
were about to start off for mountain
lion or spend morning busting
bronchos. It was only the tag which
came to my ears all too clearly.
All right" said Slim. "You pick
me up at 10. I'll shoot one round
and no more. My games gone cock
eyed. I just can't get rid Of my
Slice"
Copyright. 1881, by The Tines
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How is Iowa pronounced?
1t is pronounced Iowa" Ac-
cent the first syllable and sound the
a as in final.
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TT must have been hard for those passengers to be
L nonchalant the other day when their plane was
gliding eastward 1000 feet above Indiana, and one
Evening star., 1931-12-27
ONE-DAY DIVORCE LAW
PASSED IN CHIHUAHUA
Juarez Seen Reno Rival When
Couples Gross Border and Agree
to Dissolve Ties.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, December 26.--Law-
yers in Juarez Mexico, were informed
today the Chihuahua Legislature has
approved a bill which permits divorce
in one day when both husband and wife
agree.
Attorneys predicted Juarez will be-
come rival to Reno, Nev when the
law goes into effect. They pointed out
travellers may cross the line from Ell
Paso and dissolve the bonds of we'd
lock between trains
1t was reported the law also facilitates
divorce on other principal grounds
adultery, desertion, cruelty and incom-
patability.
The divorce legislation was reported
sponsored by Gov Robert o. Fierro
youthful aviator executive.
The minimum time in obtaining
divorce in Juarez now is two weeks.
Lawyers said the average divorce, how
ever, is completed in six months.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
HORSE FANCIER DIES

MEMPHIS, Tenn, December 26 P.-
William E. Matthews, So, widely known
horse fancier, died here today after
lingering illness.
He had raced his horses on almost
every track in the United States and
Canada. His best known horses were
the Duke of Shelby and Dolly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-30
MRS. ALBERT OSBORN
EXPIRES IN FLORIDA
Wife of American University His
torian Was Widely Known
in Church Circles.

Mrs Albert Osborn of Washington
Grove, Md. widely known in church
circles in this city and nearby Mary
land, died yesterday at st. Augustine,
Fla, where she was visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Harry Farmer. She was u
years old.
Mrs. Osborn and her husband, Rev.
Albert Osborn, historian of American
University, had been visiting their daugh-
ter in st. Augustine since December.
Mrs. Osborn was president OF the
Women's Missionary Society at Wash
ington Grove, and formerly was a men,
Der of Foundry, Calvary and the Met
ropolitan M. E. Churches. She also
was a member of the Ladies' Guild of
Sibley Hospital. At the time of her
death she belonged to Washington
Grove M E. Church, where her husband
had served 10 years as pastor
Apparently in good health, Mrs. Os-
Sorn died whsn she went to take nap.
Besides the daughter in Florida, she is
survived by three other daughters, Miss
Grace L. Osborn Of New York, Mrs. I.
L. McCathran of Washington Grove,
Md, and Mrs. j. B. Sappington Of this
city; a son, Harold H. Osborn of New
York; 10 grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
Funeral services will be conducted at
washington Grove Thursday afternoon
Interment will be at Gaithersburg, Md
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TWO STREET CARS
CRUSH AUTO, TYING
= UP 18TH ST. TRAFFIC

continued From First Page)
over his eye was sewed and the bruises
on his leg were treated.
Tries to Turn Left.
The crash occurred when Poole, who
WAS driving south on Sixteenth street,
made left-hand turn into H street.
According to witnesses, an east
bound trolley for Thirteenth and d
streets northeast had just crossed the
intersection when Poole turned into H
street.
He undertook to pass the car on
the left side, it was said, but crashed
into IL near the front The impact
part Of the west-bound Mount Pleas
ant train, which was about to enter
the intersection.
With the trolleys going in opposite
directions, the automobile was sand
wiched between them. Caldwell and
w. L. Dreddes, motorman on the Thir-
tenth and D streets car, applied their
brakes, it was said, but both trolleys
jumped the tracks and darted across
H street toward Sixteenth street for
several feet before coming to a halt.
Crash Attracts Throng.
The crash attracted a throng that
jammed the streets and sidewalks while
the fire rescue squad and employees of
the street car company worked to re-
move the wrecked machine.
Both trolleys had to be moved sew
eral feet before Washington Railway
81 Electric Co. emergency truck was
able to pull the wrecked automobile
from between them.
r. L. Motley was conductor on the
Mount Pleasant trolley, while H. D.
Rowell was conductor on the Thir-
tenth and D streets car Third pre-
cinct police said no charge would be
placed against Poole.
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FUTURE OF PAINTING
is SEEN IN AMERICA
Emancipated Art Tradition Is
Thought Begun-European In
fuence Believed Block.
BY the Associated Press.

by the hSSoCldteo FIe5S
NEW YORK, March 30-Where lies
the future of pictorial art? In North
America, answers Thomas Craven.
In the April -the-Month on
Men Of Art" Mr.. Craven contends
three men of North America have
started the development Of an ernanci-
pated tradition Of art.
They are Rivera and Orozco OF
Mexico and Thomas Benton Of New
York, all mural painters who depict
the American scene and character.
Mr.. Craven believes American paint
ing has been hampered by European
tradition, but asserts the tradition has
exerted no influence on American life
or thought
He finds plenty Of talent among
young American painters and tend
ency to rebel against the standards
which control the fashions and market
in art and he believes the time Is
ripe for an indigenous expression, pro-
ceding from strong native impulses.
Our poor painters nope and suffer,
complaining that they were born too
late Too late to grasp the immensely
of New York; too late to experience
the renaissance banditry and racke-
teering of Chicago; to explore the cot
ton belt and the hill billies Of the
South; to observe the tractors in the
Kansas wheat fields; the COW gentle
men of the Southwest; the Rockies,
and the proud breed Of Californans
an epic in itself"