Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
The Once Over
NO MORE YACHT SMELLING
BY II. /. PHILLIPS

NJ NUKE fAJhI SMELLING
Private yacht owners and their guests should suffer
less from shen shock this summer. A federal judge
has ruled that the playful government custom Of chas-
ing pleasure craft on suspicion Of rum running is IL
legal.
Smelling a yacht merely because some first-class
gunner doesn't like the shippers face will thereafter
be bad business.
The decision has been handed down In the case OF
Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish who sued the government to de-
termine whether a private citizen out for a summer
afternoons cruise on his own boat had any rights
other than those given naval target.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fish were lolling along in their yacht
Restless. thinking that all was right with the world.
when shells began dropping around the wicker furni-
ture. They were still wondering who had renewed I'M
warfare when q run-chaser came along
side. The crew boarded the Fish yacht IN pirate fash
ion and in the search for liquor left it looking like
Scow No. 8.
Mr. Fish sued. Judge Knox In his ruling just an
nounced. declares the agents have no right to shell.
tional workout. but must have specific information
that the ship is carrying contraband.
This Is going to cramp the coast guard and Gus
toms service style no little. For the past several years
it has been the custom to so out during the catching
season and shoot up a yacht a day Just to see the
skipper and his friends jump.
When a yacht owner took his craft out for a Sun
day afternoon cruise on the blue waters he never
knew whether it was to be a pleasure trip or a restag-
Ing OF the Monitor and Merrimac battle.
It was an open question whether the proper yacht
ing headgear was a linen cap or an iron helmet.
Yachting loses most Of 1t joys when the owner has
the cocktail shaker shot out OF his hands by persons
OF having part OF his white flannel trousers carried
away by a blast Of shrapnel
Last summer many yachtmen sold their boats and
spent the season in Nicaragua where they could get
just as much shooting for far less money.
The government now talks Of appealing from Judge
Knox's decision. Evidently Uncle Sam Is determined
to fight for the right to shoot a yacht owner on sight.
QUICK, WATSON. THE SMELLING SALTS!
Speaking OF the stock market, can you imagine the
embarrassment Of the U. S. Steel executives today when
they think Of their action a few weeks ago IN offering
employees the right to buy the common on terms At
S140 a share?
National Biscuit is one OF the ccnspicuously weak
stock issues. possibly on the prospect that people, hav-
ing been forced TO fire their maids. will give up eating
crackers rather than 90 TO the trouble OF sweeping up
the crumbs themselves.
~John J. Raskob In Audience with Pope"-headline
You may fire when you are ready, Heflnl
Douglas Fairbanks was a contestant, or nearly So
in the British amateur golf tournament. This goes 70
show what moving picture Qualification will do 70 2
mans sense Of proportion.
THE oPTIMIsTs
Home for the Aged Is Presbyterians' Goal"-head-
line Rockville Center News-Owl.
YOU CAN'T FOOL HER
IF anybody talks to me about high school boys and
girls drinking, I just tell them they don't know what
they're talking about. We have 100000 childrens tenn
perance pledges."-Mrs. Ella Boole.
This Is the frankest description Of the condition OF
steel executives I have 50 far come across says j
w. Whitney.
Neutrality-suspicious. wife or colored girl for
general housework and cooking" New Rochelle
Standard-Star.
How is the experienced wife market these days
anyhow?