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


Private yacht owners and their guests should suffer
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 f~irst-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 we're 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 stHl wondering who had renewed I'M
restricted warfare when a rum-chaser came along
side. The crew boarded the Fish yacht in pirate fash
ion and in the search for liquor left 1t looking like
Scow No. 8.
Mr.. Fish sued. Judge Knox in his ruling Just an
nounced. declares the agents have no right to shell,
board or search a private yacht merely for an emo
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. TOT the past SeNeLdL years
1t has been the custom to. 80 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 10 be a pleasure trip or a restag-
ing Of the Monitor and Merrimac battle.
49,
It was an open question whether the proper yacht
ing headgear was a linen cap or an iron helmet.
Yachting loses most OF il joys when the owner has
the cocktail shaker shot out Of his hands by persons
unknown. and when any guest is in constant danger
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 slsn''
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 AZ
sl40 a share?
national BISCUIT Is one "a bS
stock issues. possibly on the prospect that people nav
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 pe"-headline
You may fire when you are ready, Heflini
"
Douglas Fairbanks was a contestant, or nearly So
IN the British amateur golf tournament. This goes 10
show what moving picture Qualification will 90 70 q
mans sense Of proportion.
THE OPTIAISTS
Home for the Aged Is Presbyterians' G~oal"-head-
line Rockville Center News-Owl
YOU CAN'T DOL HER
IF anybody talks to me about high school ooys ana
girls drinking. I just tel them they don't know what
they're talking about. We have 100000 children's tenn
perance pledges."-Mrs. Ella Boole.
This is the frankest description Of the condition OF
steel executives have 50 far come across" says j.
W. Whitney.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wife or colored girl tor
general housework and cooking" New Rochelle
Standard-Star.
How is the experienced wife market these days,
anyhow?