The Washington times., 1931-08-04

sense of public outrage as the result the shooting
eral Italian children in the course of rackeeers feud
hope the papers right; they are certainly right in
attempting the kind of and noble indg
nation which they say already exists for this slaughter of
the nnocents exactly the of thing which pull
up the average indifferent citizen and make him say "this
is going too far
Comforting Words
But am not at all sure that the public
million be brought to the point of action. We have
wordformuas for putting such things of minds
awful, ghasty, incredible. The only formula the New
Yorker longer is, "Do they think this is Chi
cago? because this latest murder is callous if it
isn't horrible than the garage murder of gangsers
which up has been the most beasy of its kind On
the conscience of the city authorities the murder ought to
be burden; although the police not the of
racketeerng pass them the job of protecting
from and Furnishing its vicious FORMS do not
envy the police at this moments and confess that the
story of Little Italy refusing talk seemed puerile
and ridiculous.
No public meeting of angry citizens has yet been
nounced vgilantes have gathered together; and the
average tipping citizen is still buying BOOZE perhaps
ing his share of tribute the murderers
x Marks the Spot
In book palmistry to be issued, find pecu-
liar the spot 1t appears to be a dent hole
in any line of the palm and it Indicates the temporary
cessation of the activities of that line at that particular
moment. On the Line of Life is the indication of
sudden sharp attack Of illness On the Line of Head 1t
usually foretels blow concussiOn of the BRAIN
Perhaps critics. thousand years from now, will trace
back this book the origin of the phrase put on the
spot The sudden sharp attack of illness would be lead
poisoning or ''swaowng Lead and the only thing
the critic of the future will understand why this
"cessaton of activities should be called temporary Our
gunmen when they at the top of their form, take no
chances recovery.
Capitalism and Summer Heat
Some of nv friends convinced that 7 "a liberal at
heart IAN unconscious radical" 'unconsclous Is
good, at any rate irrtated by my failure to snap
back at the capitalist system dhty nd my
much better, and my lack of faith in what will come after
capitalism simply shocks them.
To please them going to the capitalist system
of grave crime against humanity-the gravest In fact
1t is that capitalism has done nothing about the weather
In big way it has sold heating devices and created
ar-onditionng and rergeratng plants; but these merely
mitigate the offense which is according to the bill of com
plant, "compelng people to live and work in unsuitable
climates, and at unsuitable times
A Cool Complaint
This is not the arrangement of heat victim am fairly
calm fairly cool and entirely serious when say that the
aim of weegulated society should be the webelng the
satisfaction of its citzens and there can be no well we'll
being until the physical conditions Of life made appro'
pirate the human beings who have the job of living The
whole trouble with savagery which always appears to be
such ideal savage suffered from real and
imaginary trror from lightning and the wrath OF MooMoo
the great god, from drought and famine.
The civilized man. roughly speaking does not thirst ne
still passes through periods when he hasn't enough to eat
He does not freeze Except England where ne prefers to
but he suffers ANONYMOUSLY from heat He betrays himself
believing that he lives In temperate
he hasnt the arrangements and adjustments which
people the tropics do make he suffers tropical damnaon
The capitalist system has arranged for number of people
extremely small number of the mserles of
heat to the rest to executive earning hundred thousand
year and getting bonuses of half mllOn) it offers ice
water fan an office on the egheth and other
venences; but it keeps him at work Go down the salary
ranges and the number of comforts decreases at the bottom
they do not exist.
"a Weeks Per Year
Yet the release from labor factories and offices during
the months would less than most of the expert
ments of system of living What is wrong with the
method followed by friend of mine who draws salary II
months year. but works only 10? should is ideal
Granted that specific quantity of work must be done,
isn't possible done in A weeks leaving eight of
leisure during which proportonate amount of salary is
paid? 1t is merely question of pushing back the sacred
number of working weeks; already so weeks constitutes
working year. with salary for 52 for many people, 48
weeks constitute par And people really for
lying beside silver lake for months than having pearl
handled chewnggum service plates they could make A
the standard.
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