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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
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as he stepped off the train.
"Who are your" asked Cactus Joe.
-Im Professor Doperino. the IA
nous hypnotlst."
1.-THE man who puts folks to
sleep2"
yes"
swell, stay right here and catch
the next train that comes. What Grim
son Gulch needs is somebody to
wake 1t up"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
And Not Always Politely

People are not nearly SO formal
as they used to be-
No" said Mrs. Chuggins. Near
ly every time ! 20 out In the car
policemen to whom | have never
been introduced don't hesitate to
speak to me"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
Frank Little Tommy

Caller--Won't you walk with me
as far as the car, Tommy?
Tommy can't.
Caller-Why not?
Tommy-'Cause we're going to
have dinner as soon as you 60.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
Small Mercin.

"Hellol" exclaimed the investor.
who was reading the third quarter
report "a reduction, by George !!
That's good newsl"
what reduction In profit good
news?"
.'Oh, no, not In proflt-in deficit"
Boston Transcript.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
MODERN DANCE STEP

What is the name of the dance
Beth just did,"
From the way she was shaking
! should say 1t was St Vitus
dance"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27

Old Lady-Arent you ashamed to
be seen smoking cigarettes?
urchin-Wen, wot can yer do.
lady, when the ole man pinches yer
pipe ?-London Weekly Telegraph
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
Dad Had = Supply

Mother-Johnny, will you 60 down
to the cellar and split some kindling?
Johnny-Wait till Dad comes.
heard him tell Mr. Smith that he
bought twenty-five dollars worth OF
chips last night.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27

Uncle George suppose you are
on the football team?
Tommy Well, yes, do the aerial
work.
Uncle George-What's that?
Tommy blow up the footballs.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
Reward

Reward
Mother believed In appealing to her
children rather than Furnishing them.
One day when Tommy had been par
tlcularly fractions she said.
IF you are going to be naughty,
Tommy, you'll make mother poorly,
and she'll die and be taken TO the
cemetery"
Tommy Rugged her. "May ! slf be
side the coacbman!' he asked.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
REMINDED HER

II was thinking Of you last night,
Mr.. Soft"
"Ah. really7"
"You see. we had Professor High
brow at our house and during one
OF his tests he babe ua think OF moth
Ing"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27
Tourh Hrnak

Edtor-Well, how's that thrilling
article getting on? II
Author docking up from blank pa
peri thrilling for words
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27

Above Is DIR. +. K. Townsend OF Long
Beach, Calf, prepayment of the "Town.
send Plan of Old Age Pensions" by
which all citizens above the age of
sixty years would be retired upon
pension of $500 month and would he
required to spend the entire amount
Of the pension within thirty days from
Its receipt within the confines OF the
United States. He would provide the
means of meeting the pension roll by
the enactment of universal sales tax
or a transaction tax.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-27

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Evening star., 1934-04-20
THREE S[AYERS CO
To 0CHA|R At DAWN
One Shot His Way From
Chicago Court Room-150
Watch Executions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 2o-Three con-
victed slayers paid for their crimes
with their lives at dawn today.
Within 26 minutes the three. who
followed each other in the electric
chair at the Cook County Jail, were
dead
They were John Scheck, 21-year- ar-old
slayer of Policeman John G. Sevic,
who last July "a shot his way out of
a crowded court room: George Dale,
% who on August 4 shot and killed
GuStave Hoeh an 8l-year-old haber.
daSher. and Joseph Francis, IS, COL
ored. who slew Joseph Hartel, milk
wagon driver, September 18. when the
latter tried to run away from him.
Scheck, who had lost his spirit COM
pletely, was the first to appear in the
death chamber. His face covered by
a black mask, the young man was
strapped into the chair at 501 o'clock.
He yielded to his guards without the
slightest resistance. The current was
applied a minute later and he was
pronounced dead at 5:07. The cur
rent was applied to Dale at 5:12 and
he was declared dead six minutes
later. The current was applied to
Francis at 5:2ll q and he was declared
dead at 5:28.
Between $50 and ITS spectators wit
messed the executions, separated from
the chair by glass partition.
Dale appeared to be the most cheer
full of the three. He said:
There's nothing to it. I'll take 1t
like man. I know I did wrong"
Scheck penned note earlier in the
evening addressed to Ito whom it may
concern"
Never during the trial." it read
"was it thought advisable to portray to
the jury and the court the past cir
cumstances Of John Scheck as a mere
boy who was lured and tempted into
the life of crime because of his in
tense devotion to his parents and his
home that they were about to be de-
prived of its victims of a Nation wide
economic depression
Evening star., 1934-04-20

York and then returned q second
time, getting $4,000 more.
"Mr. Jameson invited me to lunch,
the witness said, "and congratulated
me on the success of the campaign. ."
He said he then told Jameson:
"Yes, but we need some more
money. I don't know how we are
going to get 1t"
He said Jameson replied:
Suppose I let you have $4,000.
Will that help?"
And that" Cannon said with a
smile, "is how he happened to give
me the s7,3Oo."
While describing his efforts later
on to raise $4,000 more by directly
soliciting persons who had been inter-
ested in the campaign, Bishop Can
non asked If he could see a letter
written to these individuals.
II don't think it's necessary for the
purposes now" his attorney told him.
well, it is necessary for my pur-
pose," Cannon retorted.
The Letter was produced.
Bishop Tells Life Story.
Bishop Cannon took the stand late
yesterday, gave his age as So, and
began detailed narrative of his early
life. He told of his early life in Mary
land and Virginia and his entry into
the dry fight in the latter State.
Several efforts were made to hasten
completion of this narrative by Gov
ernment counsel, but the churchman
stood fast and told his story in his
own way.
Evening star., 1934-04-20

The steel wagon is known as
the Little Giant" the wood
as the Racer" Both have rub
ber-tired disc wheels and 11x24-
inch bodies-just what every
sturdy little boy likes!
Kann's-Fourth Floor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-01-25
Blackboard Chances
10 YEARS AGO


Republican
Schultz Ebrght PRESIDENT
W.
reelected at the annual Commercial meetngThe
defeats
Kentucky
hereTh will exhibit paintings
to armory
YEARS
military L
The bottom Echo fell water
machinery village protection
until its biggest
of
$500
Word has Werner will
ed for Morgan Friday night
livery
suitable wardThe
wood Falls Theodore Thomas festival
be held Tiffany
down below WededayThe
Redwood Falls library
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-01-25

w nth French pawnshop frauds giving an unsav-
w Dry smell to the news and airmail contracts
under suspicion, it is pleasing to read that per-
holding advantageous positions in the Democratic
party, will not be allowed to exploit their positions.
Lobbyists, political pull, nepotism and the spoils
system altogether too general in both our state
and national governmental system Even mild efforts
to check public losses through these evils are deserv
ing of applause
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-01-25

A loud speaker weighing nearly a
ton was tested out at the Anacostia
Naval Air Station recently. It is said
to have voice range of about 80
miles under normal conditions.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-01-25

Submerged rice crops may be har-
vested by means of two-ton ma
chine developed and tested in Califor-
mia.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-01-25

rIGURES released this week show that pork stocks
II are 81 per cent above year ago and nine per
cent above the five year average, beef stocks are
"a per cent above year ago and five per cent over
the five year average.
With these figures in mind, it is easy to see why
the government recommends q crop Reduction as the
best not the only solution to the low price problem
Our guess is that Redwood county farmers will be wise
to accept the allotment proposition in preference to
shrugged individuaism" and give the plan trial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-10

cause ne passed q Cnree-year MILL
tary law in August Of that year
and thereby put another army
corps on the German front; M.
Barthou, 10 times minister Of
France, was still as pessimistic in
1884 as he had been in 1918. He
declared:
81 can no longer prophecy
that we shall not have war in
1884"
That was in the spring Of this
year. We still have 10 more weeks
to run in this most murderouS
of postwar years. But M. Bar
thou is gone and he was worth
more than an army corps to
France.
It is difficult to say which
death may prove more fateful for
Europe, King Alexander's or M.
Barthou's. Coming together, they
provide a tragedy unexampled in
modern times.
The two men were stricken al
the eliminating point Of the en-
deavor of France to rebuild her
system of alliances against Ger.
many, which had been weakened
by the detection of Poland.
M. Barthou'S chief task was to
try to bring about a reconciliation
between King Alexander and
Premier Mussolini. MuSSolini had
gone halfway when, in Milan just
three days before the asSassina-
ton at Marseilles, he offered to
make friends with Jugoslavia If
Jugoslavia made friends with him.
The real point at issue was
whether Jugoslavia would stay in
the French camp or switch to the
Germans. Jugoslavia hated Italy
so bitterly that the idea Of a
Franco-Italian understanding was
enough to tempt her to desert to
the Germans. This would have
been fatal for France and unpleaS-
ant for Italy.
Italian Situation
Italy wished only to prevent
the Germans from taking Austria,
To prevent that, she had threat
ened to march into Austria when
Chancellor Dollfuss was killed and
to prevent it in the future she
would make the same threat
again. Italy does not want to
take Austria, Quite contrary, the
one thing she wants to avoid is
a common frontier with Germany
But Jugoslavia made nd makes
the counterthreat that if Italy
marches into Austria so will she
That might mean war. That was
what M. Barthou wanted to pre-
vent.
He is dead now and, whoever
his successor may be, there will
be great trouble to replace his
personality.
At Y he still had more energy
than any other minister in the
worried French cabinet. Not the
least of the consequences of the
Marseilles crime may be its effect
on weakened French democracy
But, above all, the whole French
plans for a series of pacts to sur
round swiftly arming Germany
depended upon M. Barthou. Ger
many has lost one of her most de
voted enemies, who, on the eve Of
visiting Italy and at the moment
of meeting King Alexander, was
about to try to build with Musso
lini the last section of the wal
around the NaZi Reich.
Much depends, too, on the sue.
ceSSor to King Alexander. The
King of Jugoslavia today is IL
year-old Peter, at school in Eng
land when his father was shot.
His joint guardians are his
mother, Queen Marie, and the
cousin of the dead King, Prince
Paul.
BY the amended Jugoslavia con-
stitution of 1929 and King Alex.
ander's own will, Prince Paul and
two aides will rule as regents I'm.
til Peter comes of age.
Paul is Al and estimated by
those who know him to be an
able man. His wife is Olga, elder
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-10
Bureau for Voters
Gets Larger Room

The absentee voters bureau
conducted by the Women'S Edu-
cational Council in the National
Press Building has moved to
Room 1104, into larger quarters
to take care of the increasing
number of absentee voters wish
ing to send their ballots to their
home States, it was announced
today by Mrs. Grattan Kerans,
president of the council.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-10
Dark Future Is Seen for Europe
AS Result of Sayings

sister of Princess Marina OF
Greece, who just became engaged
to marry Prince George Of Eng
land.
Out Of this tragedy emerges
only one reassuring fact. Because
of it the issue may after all be
peaceful. The murderer Of King
Alexander was a citizen Of his
own country.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-10
FUR COATS STOLEN

Two fur coats valued at $435
were reported missing from the
Frank r. Jelleff store in the 1900
block of F st. N. w. today. Store
officials said the loss was dis
covered during a check Of the
storeroom.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-10

CONTINUED from Page y
leaders-one King, two premiers
and two ministers.
Roster Of Slain
Chronologically, they were:
Premier Duca; Polish Minister
Of the Interior Bronislaw Pie
racki; Chancellor DollfuSs of Aus
tria and now King Alexander anc
M. Barthou. The statesman went
on:
II consider that the life Of
Alexander is one of the three
most important lives in Europe.
That is, his death could bring
more serious consequences than
the death Of any others, save
possibly two.
"Alexander'S kingdom is d.
vided against itself. There are
about 100000 Serbs who run
the country. There are over
100000 CrOatS who are dis
franchiSed and 100000 Mos
lens and perhaps half a million
others.
"All nOn-SerbS hate the Serbs.
Let the iron hand of Alexander
relax in death and JugOSlavia
may dissolve in civil war. Once
that begins, no man can tell its
ending, for JugoSlavia has many
enemies waiting only for their
chance"
Now the worst that one of the
wisest men in Europe could think
Of has happened. What will come
next?
King Alexander had something
to say on that. Tragic circum
stances decreed that of Is Euro
pean statesmen interviewed by
your correspondent this year on
the question of peace and war
three of the most important, Chan
cellor DollfuSs, M. Barthou and
King Alexander, have been muir
dered since.
Kings Last Interview
It was King Alexander's last in
terview. He said something that
may not be reported even now,
but one remark he surely would
allow to be quoted today. I had
just come to King Alexander's
palace at Dedinje outside of Bel
grade from another head Of an
other state, as told the King
when 1 talked to him. The King
inquired eagerly:
"What did he Say?"
"YOur Majesty, he said war
would not come in this part Of
the world because you dared not
mobilize your army"
King Alexander leaned back ir
his chair and laughed, not loudly
but candidly. He asked:
"And why nOt?"
because you have in YOUR war
strength regiments about one.
third Serbs and the rest CrOatS,
Albanians and MOhammedans
and what-nOt and the opinion
was you dared not arm nom
Serbs"
King Alexander ceased to smile
He put his fingertips together and
with severe expression declared;
II wish you would 60 back and
tell him that if the time comes,
the Jug0Slavian ARMY will mObi-
lie and there will be no Serbs,
no CrOats or Albanians, but
only JugOsIavianS and they will
be loyal to the last man. And
this will happen under any cir
Cumstances."
Omnibus coincidence has II
that of all the people who an
Swered my question on war OF
peace this year, King Alexander
and M. Barthou were most pessi
mistic.
Predicted War
King Alexander constantly
shook his head when asked:
do you see any hope Of
keeping peace indefinitely"
Seated at his desk at the Quai
D'Orsay. M. 'Barthou, the man
who saved France in 1914 be
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-13

personal popularity with the voters. He is usually
a good citizen who has real desire TO NIL the
office in a creditable manner. Perhaps not quite
so much can be said for his staff, particularly spe-
cial deputies temporarily employed, who are fire.
ouently chosen for political rather than for
their ability.
Their experience in law enforcement and ham
ding Iawbreakers is largely confined to arresting
and locking up bootleggers, public DRINKS, petty
thieves and other minor offenders. Any fair-mind-
ed person must admit that such officers, however
good their intentions may be- likely to prove
less than match for crafty, ruthless killer will
ling to stake his life on bid for freedom.
The solution of this problem lies in proper
training of carefully selected men to handle crim-
nails of the Dillnger type Because of our elective
system of choosing county law enforcement Off
GERS and their indefinite tenure of office it is not
expedient for them to spend the time and money
required for proper training for their duties how
ever desirable it may be in the public interest.
Each state should have corps of state police
chosen because of peculiar qualifications for their
work properly trained and supervised, and able to
attend to their duties untrammelled by any politi
cal considerations whatsoever We have only to
look across our northern border to Canada to see
such 4 force at work. There is no reason why we
sboud not have the benefits and sense of security
enioved by our Canadian neighbors.-The Lenoir
News-Topic.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-13
CLEAR VISION NEEDED

We have labOrers who dream of Socialism and
capitalists who dream of Fascsm, because they
both work. They are more efficient than democ-
racv and they guard the control of the class IN
whose interest they are established But these
dreamers of an ideal should look clear-eyed on
facts. Fascsm and Socialism are no longer fam
cies in book. They are practical going concerns
And wherever they have actually been tried they
have exacted two prices for their efficiency. One
is Liberty. The other is Truth
The Liberty perhaps we could forego. There are
those who would readily exchange personal and
political liberty for economic security. If the ma
iority preferred to pay that price, it would be their
privilege to do so, as they have already done over
most of the earth. America presumably will not
do it: but it could. For freedom, being product
of the human will, be abrogated by it, or made
subject to it.
But not Truth. Truth remains, whether men
know it. or seek it, value it, or do not. The
ages when Truth was suppressed were the ages
when everything else stagnated and finally retro
graded And every Communist or Fascist dictator
shin on earth today makes the suppression of truth
the very first article of its policy. 1t abollshes I'D
erty of speech and of the press; it propagandlzes
education and turns research from the sclentlhc
oues+ of truth to its own ends Even history is dis
torted into fiction; economic study is regmented;
art prostituted; scholarship is neither free nor
fruitful; science is the handmaiden of politics; and
teaching, speaking preaching, writing and print
ing are all under orders.
That way lies the death of human progress
Chester H. Rowell, in San Francisco Chronicle.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-13
ABOUT ADVERTISING

2 In view, of the suggestion from members OF the
ebrain trust" at Washington that advertising Of
generally used commodities should be limited be-
cause of the increased COST due to the advertising
some figures collected by Bernard Llchtenberg
former president of the Association of National
Advertisers, are of especial interest.
/. CampbelIs Soup is taken as an illustration. The
advertised price of CampbelPs Soup is II cents a
can The cost of advertising a single can of
CampbelPs Soup, according to the figures of MI
Lichtenberg, is 36-100Oths of one cent. -
The Loose-Wies Biscuit company says that on
ten-cent packages the advertising expenditure is
less than one mill.
A Lord Peppere shirt for S1.95. The advertls-
ing expense at that price is one-third of one per
cent or some 64-100ths of cent.
A fve-cent glass of Coca-Cola costs for adver-
Using 1576-1000 00ths of a cent
The Eastman Kodak company has been con-
sstent advertiser 1t has built its business and re-
duced its cost increased its volume, and given the
benefits of its business building to the public The
Eastman company justifes the money spent on ad-
vertising by saying
Savings to the consumers as result OF con-
sistent advertising are many times the amount
of the, money devoted to advertising that we think
any question of wasteful practice is untenable."-
Point Pleasant w. Va., Register.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-13
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
A BASIC DEFECT

The escape of John Dilinger, notorious outlaw
killer, from Crown Point Ind. Jail last Saturday
after running gauntlet of armed officers invites
attention to basic defect in the American system
of coping with enemies of society.
Dillinger must have laughed over the sloppy sem
timentality and craving for publicity that led the
Indiana prosecutor to be photographed with his
arm affectiOnately placed around the outlaw, and
he did laugh, according to witnesses when armed
with nothing more deadly than wooden pistol, he
stuck up the Jail guards, equipped with machine
gune, and went his way.
The public could laugh too, if the whole sorry
business were not disgusting. Yet there is a
lesson to be learned from Dlnger'S escape, if the
country will take heed.
That lesson lies in recognition of the fact that
county Jail, guarded by men. with no special
training Jor aptitude for handling desperate crim
nails -sssao place in which to attempt to hold suel
dangerous characters.
The average sheriff is manor woman, q:
at 6sesnSPoint-sw gains the office because o.