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They May Be Fooled

You get the idea. Almost unconsciously the i'm
4 pressionabIe boys were soaking in the psychol-
ogy of the animals which they piloted about the
track each night I don't mean, of course that any
member of the Hurricanes had quite come to the
point Of beginning to bark to wag, but the boys
did have something of the greyhound look. The
greyhound has a small brain and that is very use
full
1t permits him to concentrate. He thinks of just
two things-speed and food. Accordingly he be-
comes an expert in one thing and that is chas-
ing the mechanical rabbit. How many things do
you think of, dear reader? Maybe as many three
of four That is why you not an expert in any
one line and why you no great shucks in chas-
ing anything.
The fact that one student a team may be
a fatal flaw has been demonstrated on scores of
gridirons. Players have been known to run the
wrong way and do other extraordinary things just
because they insisted on individual cerebration
which is fatal to any system.
The Hurricanes will gallop out on the field on
New Years Day mbued with the idea of speed and
that alone. After their nightly comradeship with
the greyhounds even the fastest back on the oppo-
sition will seem little better than dachShund. OF
course the visiting team may fool them 1t is just
barely possible that nobody the Bucknel eleven
looks like a rabbit.
Copyright. 1880
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It was with no light heart,
therefore, that State Secretary
Hull and other state department
officials received the death war
rant of a hope born with so much
promise.
1 have seen many international
gatherings but none more dra-
matte than the first session of
the session of the Washington
naval conference.-the conference
whose far-heralded work has been
tossed into the scrap heap.
Long before the gavel fell the
hall was packed. People were
thick about the doors and in the
park opposite. A cold wind was
blowing but nobody needed it.
They seemed to sense that some
thing epochal was about to take
place.
CTATE SECRETARY CHARLES
~ EVANS HUGHES, chairman
to-be, arrived and took his place
on the stage. Lord Balfour, of
the British delegation followed,
and after him Elihu Root, Premier
BRAND, Viviani, Senator Lodge,
Admiral Kato, Prince Tokugawa,
Admiral Beatty, Senator Schanzer
and the rest.
In the balcony sat members OF
the diplomatic corps, officials of
the United States and other ma
tionS and their wives. In the
press section were distinguished
writer's from all over the globe
among them William Jennings
Bryan.
Lastly came the President,
Warren G. Harding-one OF the
handsomest figures ever to occupy
the White House-and Dr. Aber-
nathy of the Calvary Baptist
Church, offered the invocation:
Almighty God," he began, 1--WE
thank Thee for the coming of this
eventful day. May it bring untold
blessings to troubled world +.
the cries of multitudes of widows
and orphans have come up before
Thee, oh God f. out of the
depths we cry unto Thee: save us
or we perish!"
President Harding reached the
high point of his career that day.
Only the day before he and the
distinguished foreigners had gone
to Arlington to bow before the
tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He
now called on those present to
think of the sufferings of a war
weary world and strive to bring
to mankind a new order of peace
and understanding.
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The suit was sponsored by the
Indian Bureau under the Hoover
Administration and was pushed
even more vigorously by the same
bureau under President Roosevelt.
In fact it was pushed so vigor-
o1sly that the Eagle-Picher Lead
Company retained two of Wash
ington's most accomplished lobby
lists, Phil Campbell, venerable ex-
Congressman from Kansas and
j. Bruce Kremer, pachydermic
Democratic National Committee
man from Montana.
Kremer's lobbying activities have
since forced his resignation as
national committeeman, but have
not interfered with his close per-
Sonal friendship with Homer
Cummings. When Mr.. Cummings
first came to Washington he
lived at Kremer's home, took his
advice regarding the early organi-
cation of the Justice Department.
= was in his friend Homer's
department on Dec. IL, 1888, that
Kremer staged a hearing on be-
half of the Eagle-Picher Lead
Company, urging that the suits
against it be dropped. Representa-
tives of the Indian Bureau, as
guardians of the Quapaw tribe,
were present and opposed.
They wanted the Justice De-
partment to push the case.
CEVERAL months passed and
- nothing happened. Then in
May, 1884, Homer Cummings
agents in Kansas City, where the
suit was filed, moved that it be
dismissed. Shortly before this, as
if it knew favorable action was
impending, the Eagle-Picher Lead
Co. quietly removed its offices from
Kansas City. After that the Qua
paw Tribe could not sue in Kan
sas City.
Attorneys of the Indian Bureau
and the Interior Department we're
indignant. They had received no
advance notice of the intended
dismissal.
So they prepared a long brief,
vigorously upholding the Indians
and claiming that their case was
valid.
Kremer, questioned by the writ
ers regarding his part in the case,
said that he had not made any
use of his friendship with Homer
Cummings, that he had been re-
tanned only because of his knowl-
edge of mining law, and that the
Indians had a poor legal case.
But members Of both the Sem
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ate Indian Affairs Committee and
the Indian Bureau remain uncon-
WINGED. Their opinion is prompted
not merely by the close friendship
between Kremer and Cummings,
but by the fact that Cummings
appointed as assistant attorney
general Henry w. Blair, former
attorney for the Eagle-Picher
Lead Co., who took the oath of
Office just II days after Kremer
laid his case before the Justice
Department.
The case comes under Blair's
division. He has taken no actual
part in it.
CHESTER DAVIS, administra-
~ tor of the AAA, recently was
asked the reason for Secretary
Wallaces present enthusiasm over
the Bankhead cotton restriction
act. Originally Wallace had been
lukewarm.
Sometimes" replied Davis,
''babies are not planned for, not
even welcomed. But we grow to
love them just the same"
THE biggest problem of Okla
i homa's rookie Congressman
is what to do with the gallon
hats.
Not only Percy Lee Gassaway,
but also two other Oklahomans-
Josh Lee and Phil Ferguson-are
ranch owners who did their cam
paigning in cowboy regalia.
THE dapper cowboy" is the
name won by Josh Lee. Actually
his effectiveness derives chiefly
from powers of elocution. He be-
came an orator not through
chanting cit along little dogies,"
but through teaching oratory to
students of the University of Ok
lahoma.
With sharp wit and command
of colorful figures of speech,
Democratic committeeman regard
him as a second John Sharpe Will
liams, have used him widely out
side his own state.
He is short in stature, dapper,
handsome, 40 years old, and tee
totaler.
q
TN the files of the Tennessee
l. Valley Authority is an exhibit
highly priced by its executives.
The exhibit consists of full
page articles bitterly aSsailing the
IVA, while defending the service
and rates charged by private
power companies.
The articles are identical in.
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He Finished in StgIe

= A SUSPICIOUS nature might have detected some
n sinister connection between the state of thinos
IN the metropolitan Monte Carlo and the police
mans ready possession of $4,000 to bet 1pon the
outcome OF the fight However and fortunately
tne oulk OF the people seem to have taken broad
view OF the officers affairs and to have decided that
ne PROBABLY had saved up the $4,000 out of his
naroearned salary by dnt of self-denaI and thrift
90 When his time was up they rewarded him with
an annuity OF $500 and he went away to stretch
his life at the public expense
POSSIBLY, II the two young patromen accused
oI burglary mad been more highly placed thew too
would have busted themselves with projects more
prosperous and much more in keeping with the dip-
ty OF the department than the alleged theft of mo
poXes OF candy valued at $3.50 each If bv chance
Vhey had been high officials of the department as
recently as the prohibition they might have dis
covered opportunities to enforce the law with that
remarkable discretion, tact and efficiency which durA
Ing that time enabled some of the most notorious
criminals in the lively criminal history of the United
states to operate night clubs and other dives in the
Broadway district.
VI course prohibition is past now but it is not so
long past but that those high officers of the DEPART
ment who suffered the traps to operate in such pro-
1uSlon might still be asked to explain how come
1her bank accounts brokerage accounts real estate
holdings and other affairs considered in relation to
the night club and speakeasy business of those re-
cent days, might disclose a fascinating example of
cause and effect.
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A Brilliant Training Scheme

zach dog is led to the starting kennel by groom
~ brightly attired in blue yellow coat and red
pants mean of that they all wear. the same
colors on the same night and all change together.
AS remember it's blue for Monday and yellow for
Tuesday and so on.
The young men who led the dogs seemed rather
stawart lot but paid particular attention since
they were not running for anything and there was
no way Of betting them. Besides all uniformed
attendants seem little dim and paIid to any
who had the privilege of seeing the original Roxy
ushers But they lined up before the judges stand
preceding the ninth the announcer suddenly
called the attendants to public attention.
These young men," he said, who lead the dogs
to the post are all members of the Miami football
team which meets BuckneI here in the Orange bowl
on New Years Day
New Orleans has its Sugar bowl game and even
understand that out in California they going to
have Rose bowl game I ask you all to give
local athletes fine hand and wish them well in
their encounter with Bucknell."
Everybody applauded dutifuIy and was struck
Immediately with the brilance of the training
scheme Here it well along toward midnight
and many would have said that it time for foot
ball players to go to beddybye But considered they
not staying up with loose companions, with
cards. or with those beverages which blight the
brain. They were staying up with greyhounds
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WTHEN he is with defense at
w torneys he displays a spirit
OF cOmraderie which is no doubt
completely real He is anxious
that the defense get its share of
favorable personal publicity, just
as he is anxious that his own
boys" get their pictures taken
occasionally.
During the period preceding
Hauptmann's arraignment at
Pennington and while the trial
date was under discussion he APP
peared one morning with his arm
around James NJ. FaWcett's
shoulder and announced that on
that day the defense lawyer has
the advantage of me-"
Il didn't get any Sleep" he
went on. Il decided that it was
about time that I took my wife
out for a good time, and so we
went night-clubbing together"
With women he is extremely
chivalrous, always ready with a
cigaret or a light, a chair or first
access to the elevator door.
The Attorney General is much
in demand about his home terri
tory as a political and after din
ner speaker and his appointment
last February has interfered with
such engagements. Especially
CALLING was this just before the
elections.
n don't know whether can
talk or not" he remarked, brows
knit. This business certainly
has cramped my style"
He is careful to consider the
rights and prerogatives of other
Office holders, even when these
office holders are outside the
Democratic pale.
When a group of photograph
ers approached him for permits
sion to snap Hauptmann
through the bars" he sent them
Straight-off to Sheriff John
Henry Curtiss, a Republican, at
Pennington.
You'll have to take that up
with the Sheriff, boys" he said,
genially. "Anything the Sheriff
says goes"
There are those who say that
Mr.. Wilentz has gubernatorial
ambitions. And, after all, why
not? There are few limits to the
possibilities awaiting firm man.
NEXT-The Sheriff.
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self put it in the interview which
preceded this sketch:
1--we helped to send a lot Of
people to state prison before this,
but it was always an assist. This
is positively my first appearance
on behalf of the peepul."
The fact that so few persons
we're aware of his identity might
have feased a less Self-posSessed
fellow than David T. Wilentz.
When he appeared with Col.
Schwartzkopf and then Police
Commissioner Organ at Green
wich-st police station on the eve
ming of Hauptmann's arrest his
name had to be spelled out for
the reporters, and there was a
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THE Attorney General was
u equally definite in confirm
ing his adherence to the Ortho-
dox Jewish faith, and the inter-
view concluded with the state
ment, its vigor enhanced by flu
rious f1utterings of the captive
cigar, that I'm firm man, you'll
find me firm man.
Il may be wrong sometimes" he
admitted in tone which limited
this to be a most unlikely con-
tingency indeed, but you'll always
know where I stand, and you'll
always find me firm"
Among newspaper men working
on the Hauptmann case Mr..
Wilentz has acquired a reputa-
ton for fair dealing, and they
attribute the fact that he meets
them more than half way, keeps
his promises, to his early train
ing in Plainfeld and Perth
Amboy.
AS a family man he was genu-
inely shocked by the Lindbergh
kidnapping, and his intense pre-
occupation with the case is evil
dent in the zeal which he has
brought to the effort to convict
Hauptmann.
On the job he is Enthusiastically
boss; Hunterdon County Prosecu-
tor Hauck has taken a back seat
in the counsels of the state since
his advent. All Of the voluminous
records in the famous kidnapping
mystery are at his command.
either in the vaults of a Tren-
ton bank, or those of lesser value,
in the files at state police head
quarters in the squat little red
brick building across from the
capitol.
While the press, and even many
citizens of HunterdOn County
have cast aspersions upon the
evidence which New Jersey has
amassed against the rough-hewn
German carpenter, Wilentz him
self expresses such supreme con-
f1dence that one is almost con-
vinced without seeing the ace up
his sleeve, that it is there.
THE case of the state of New
jersey" he says, chewing upon
the unlighted cigar, sis complete"
And that, take it or leave it,
is that.
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time in his Trenton offices when
even the stenographers didn't
know him. But everybody soon
found out.
Gov. Moore and I have never
been associated, except politically.
Oh, I'm a regular organization
Democrat, right enough, make no
mistake about that. I'm one of
Frank Hague's boys, all the way
through.
But that isn't going to make a
bit of difference on this case, I'M
derstand? There's no politics in
my Office. Everything will be fair
and straightforward, and I'll use
only my own assistants"
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At half past ten, Nov. II, 1921,
the five great sea powers met in
Continental Memorial hall here to
start off the conference that was
to limit navies and Danish the
spectre of uncertainty, and per-
haps war, in the Orient.
Now one of those powers, Japan,
has formally notified the United
States and the others-Britain,
France and Italy-that so far as
she is concerned the epochal
treaty of Washington is dead, aft
er the prescribed two years.
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6|AUPTMANN
ON TRIAL
The Courtroom Cast
BY Sutherland DenIinqer

HE is a brisk, cocky little
man, and to see hin
standing on one of the shrub
bordered paths surrounding
the Trenton State House,
huge cigar fitting outward
from the left-hand corner of
his lips at the most raking of
angles is to be reminded fan
tastically of an English spar
row with a twig in its beak,
If you did not know that David
T. Wilentz was New Jerseys At
torney General, director of the
prosecution in the State VS.. Rich
ard Hauptmann you might guess
that he had something to do with
Broadway, was, perhaps, one of
those wise, hard-bitten guys who
hang out at Lindys.
Like them, Mr.. Wilentz, is a
natty dresser, and there is no
Trenchardian bagginess about the
knees of his breeches. His crown
ing glory is his hat, a sassafras-
colored creation of light felt with
a high crown and the foppieSt of
wide brimS. He wears it with a
careless jauntineSs so effective as
almost to seem premeditated, and
it is seldom removed save in court,
on which occasions his shrewd,
thin features are topped by pat
ent leather covering of slicked
black hair.
The Attorney General is barely
40 and lives with his wife and
three children, two boys and a girl,
in one-half of a two-family house
at II Lewis-st, Perth Amboy, from
which he commutes every working
day to Trenton or Pennington, as
circumstances dictate.
He was born in Perth Amboy
and went through grade and high
school there, developing a good
deal of his time in the latter to
the management of athletic teams
of one sort or another. After
graduation he got job as reporter
with the Perth Amboy News, going
from that journal to the Plain
field Courier-NewS.
= n
TINE more usually remunerative
Il fields of politics and the law
attracted him. He quit the Plain
field paper to take a law course at
New York University. The war,
during which he served as a lieu
tenant, interrupted his studies
only temporarily. Graduating, he
returned to Perth Amboy and
plunged into his twin occupations
with characteristic zest. He be-
came City Attorney of Perth Am
boy and held minor political posts,
including the Democratic chair
manship of Middlesex County, but
did not emerge from comparative
obscurity until Gov. 4. Harry
Moore appointed him to his pres
ent position.
He had appeared often enough
in criminal cases, but never before
as a prosecutor. Or, as he him
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They Kept on Walking

nNE thing is certain anyway, that many New
~ York streets notorious with unlicensed
saloons standing shoulder to shoulder for whole
blocks and that the comn1onocop were obviously
under instructions to keep on walking and not
meddle with a condition which did not concern
them, but was the business Of the high command In
all that time nobody ever heard of poicemans be-
ing disciplined for neglect to kick one of the late
Larry FayS Stck-up parlOrs. But it would have
oeen on the contrary, grave mistake for a con-
sclentiouS and hteral-minded cop to close place
whose proprietors had made the necessary arrange
mentS downtown
The stealing or graft from this fine forbearance
made the 109 boxes Of candy look very patry indeed
and that may be the very reason why the error of
the two young patrolmen today is looked upon with
such shuddering adherence The crime alleged tends
to cheaper the dignity of the police department and
on that ground alone should be sharply rebuked in
order that the common cop may keep his aim at the
stars
1t was the New York commissioner, Mr. Valentine
himself, who recently said in public address that
Dutch Schultz, the No. public enemy could not
have escaped arrest so long if he had had pro-
lection. But, protection in the last analysis de-
ponds on the police. Mr.. Valentine didn't finish his
story.
Indeed, the common cop should not burgle any
candy stores That is crude and petty operation and
he who does such shows that he the type to bet
$4,000 on fight or come up through the grades
to the command of a thousand SpeakeasieS each one
paying regular dues a dough day.
Copyright. 1884 by United Feature Syndicate 1nc)
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EIEnouNh
BY
WESTBROOK PEGLER

TWO uniformed policemen in New York have
been locked up for burglary and much horror
has been expended on them by the brass hats of
the police department 1t is easy to concur in this
loathing because the gallant officers. when thev
stopped to mischief showed a depIorable lack of
vision, ambition and class They appear TO have
stolen nothing more important than 100 boxes of
CANDY valued at 81 50 each $1,000
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DreV Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON 31-Whie Cummings busy taking
w bows before his Crime Conference trouble accommodating
these the
involves the Quapaw tribe
lead lands exploited by the royalty
within this tribe is the alleging
weighing sulphur
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The extra curricular activities of the Miami Hur-
ricanes are far more imaginative and the entire
country should watch the result OF the Bucknell
game with interest I do not refer to fans. Just
what title the boys playing for is shrouded in
mystery I calling attention to the fact that the
game on New Years Day in the Orange bowl eff you
must have it, will be one Of the most important
tests ever carried on in this country to the power
Of mental suggestion.
The news of what is going on first came to me
at the end of the ninth race at the dog track
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know whether neS going 20 q 1UUI-
ball game or a blue plate dinner. 1t
seems to me that Yale ought to
stage a post season contest in her
own saucer which was the first
model of the sort. This would be
known as the Bowl bowl game and
might tend to end all the semi
globular nonsense.
But I must say for the Miami
University team that it has adopted
a type of training brand new in the
annals of the sport. Red Grange,
as everybody knows, delivered ice all
through a gruelling summer in or
der to complete his education and
develop his shoulder muscles.
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BY comparison, consider the ca
reer of another public guardian of
a nobler sort, who died recently in
retirement in Long Beach, Cal, after
living 81 years as the guest of the
New York taxpayers on a pension of
$500 year, total of $77,5OO. not
counting the compound interest.
This was Elias P. Clayton. for
n1er inspector, who once was able to
scrape up, somehow $4,000 to bet on
the JeffrieS-Corbett prizeight at
Coney Island at a time when he was
commander of the Coney Island dis
trlct. The obituary remarks about
the late officer recalled that Cnneu
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. 1Slau aC IIat tne was known as the Metropolitan
Monte Carlo and that his police administration there
was heartily criticised by the clergy and others The
critics charged that faro roulette and aI-night
POKER games were permitted to operate in Inspector
Clayton'S command ~
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| COVER THE WORLD

By William Philip SimmS

WASHINGTON, 31The world today brought
w unbalanced situation the Pacific
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II Seems hoM
Haywood BROUN

NTIANII, Dec. Silt would probably be a slight
4'A exaggeraton to say that this city is all agog
over the football game which Miami University is to
play here in the Orange bowl against Bucknen to-
morrow. But it is being just as agog as it can be-
cause it wants to show up the Sugar bowl en-
counter which Huey Long is pulling on the same
day in New Orleans.
To me this new development of bowl encounters
grows Just a bit confusing. The fan doesn't quite