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which could not be retraced and would end forever
the prospect of clearing up the case in decisive
fashion.
If some one had desired further to enghten our
Marian visitor on Jersey justice" he might have
learned of the killing. some months back of New
Jersey wife and mother by public officials
He would have been told how the slayers of this
woman were cleared in jury trial and how the
former sheriff eaped chairs in the courtroom to
congratulate his exdeputies with tears in his eyes,
He would have been amazed to find that these
deputies were reinstated in public Office to continue
their work of protecting womanhood law and
order No protests, believe, came from Princeton
TURNING back to the newspapers, the traveller
Il from Mars would have read of the Vera Strets
case. Here a who admitted shooting
man-her one-tme lover-under conditions that
seemed to indicate generalization. But she was
acquitted.
Moving to crimes against property our celestial
caller might have discovered the fact that Col Luke
Lea had been released, after serving one year and
eleven months out of sentence of six TO ten wears
for conspiracy to defraud bank in Asheville N C..
The crime for which he was convicted was the
key incident in the failure of the Central Bank and
Trust Co. of Asheville with loss to depositors Of
s17000000 This led to the closing of several other
North Carolina banks with greater losses
II the visitor from Mars could have drawn from
these news notes any basic principles relative
standards of judgment of crime our zeal for JUSTICE
our penalties and our sense of fair play he would
have done better than any realistic crminologist in
our midst could have>h been done
BARELY has weekend provided more coIorful
examples Of cockeyed justice.
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One of His Daring Moments

QY the time Mr.. Hoover became President prohi-
bition was no longer an experiment, although
he went so far as to call it so in one of his more
daring moments BY that time prohibition had ma
tured into the all-Amercan outrage
There is way of reckoning the number of
people who were fined or sent to prison for being
just little bit guilty, as in the case of man who
likes his toddy and keeps flask on hand There is
no computing the total of people who died of poison
or lost their eyes or the number of ginger paralytics
who became unstrung from drinking jake.
When Mr.. Hoover became President prohibition
was an established system of corruption in which
agents of the United States government rode the
bootleggers trucks to provide safe conduct helped
one gang of booteggers hijack another gangs load
Certainly not even Mr. Hoover himself could have
been dumb enough to believe that enormous brewer
les operating openly in New York and Chicago could
produce and sell their beer without the protection
and partnership of government agents and prose-
cutors. But the Anti-Saloon League seemed strong
and Bishop Cannon was tough politician so Mr..
Hoover showed what sort of President he was by
repudiating the report of his commission which
investigated prohibition and found it rotten.
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Washington Merry Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON, April Ill
w Managers of Gov. ALT Lam
don are so confident he will win
the presidential nomination that
they have begun to lay the
groundwork for a G. o. P. Labor
Committee for the campaign. At
a secret meeting in Washington
last week, a Landon spokesman
told IA union officials that the
Kansan had the nomination 'in
the bag" and that the Repub-
lican Party would have plenty of
money to wage an aggressive fight
against Roosevelt. The last
two days of March saw more new
stock issues registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion than during all of it's first
year. Reason for the sudden rush
was that until the April l dead
line corporations could use their
year-end balance sheets as the
basis of stock issues. After April
l new audit of accounts was
required. The Standing
Room only" sign will be out when
Andy Melons 100000 tax eva
sion case is argued before the
Board of Tax Appeals in June.
Already more requests for seats
have been received from lawyers
and thrill than there are
places in the boards hearing room.
Facing one another in the dramatic
debate will be Robert Jackson,
young Assistant Attorney General,
and Frank Hogan, council for AL
bert B. Fall and others in the ia
nous Teapot Dome Scandal. i.
Serge Uget, for many years Gus
todian of all Russian government
property in the United States, in
GLIDING the handsome 16th-st en-
bassy, is now an assistant to the
United States District Attorney in
New York.
Said Senator Cotton Ed" Smith
during a hearing of the Agricul-
ture Committee, of which he is
chairman: Some of these days
some of our people will get to
thinking. and I am afraid they
will all die of apoplexy."
= u
THOUSANDS of thin copper
i plates, about the size of
postcard, have been sold to Ital-
IAN Americans. They are in
Scribed with Easter war messages
and instructions to turn the cop
per over to Mussolini's depleted
war stocks. Copper is one scarce
war material Mussolini needs
most. +. Charley Nicholson,
publicity sage of the Democratic
National Committee, is making
the most of a letter which the
c.. o. P. committee sent out to
all Republican editors offering to
supply them with any material,
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Training for Killing

"TXTHEN was in a training camp he said, they
w used to teach us to hate the Germans In
bayonet drill when we stabbed dummies the man in
charge always tried to work us up to a white heat
of ferocty. I found it hard because I had never
seen German. The dummy used in bayonet
drill was lust like the dummy used to tackle in
football practice.
It went to France and was put in the line and
fired and was fired at but still hadn't seen any
Germans And then one day in the Argonne we
were advancing along a sunken road early in the
morning and my first German. He was about
II years old and he probably part of patrol.
He was sprawled out beside the road, shot through
the chest and dead, but not so long.
with hand he had torn his tunic open.
That would have been the left hand His right hand
was tightly cenched on something The captain
said to search him. There was nothing in his
pockets and his insignia had been cut away.
opened his hand. He was holding picture of a
young girl with two long braids. I gave it to the
captain I had seen my first German and didn't
hate him.
Copyright, 1857
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POSSIBILITIES in the manu-
l. featuring fields have hardly
been touched. But in their ferti-
lizer and farm machinery pro-
grams, the co-ops have discovered
some significant things. They have
found that some big manufacture
ers already in the fields see in the
coop method of distribution
step forward.
These manufacturers, as in the
case of the Tennessee Corporation,
have shown their willingness to
play ball with the co-ops. Here
may be one solution of the manu-
featuring problem.
Another important factor will be
that of legal and legislative action.
Lobbies of vested interests will
naturally enough move to get
Gripping and cramping legisla-
ton passed to stop the co-opera-
tives in the easiest way.
Already the answer to this prob
lem is appearing. AS the mem
bership of the movement grows,
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people to whom it makes its
appeal must be taught the
philosophy of cooperation.
Most of the big wholesalers are
already facing this problem. There
is in action now a system of edu-
cation within the movement. The
big coop wholesale houses have
not been turning ali their profits
back to their individual members.
In most cases half the profit has
been set aside to make up fund
for expansion and education.
INDIANA is an outstanding ex-
l. ample of just how the sue
cessful coop will work in the flu
ture. The Indiana Farm Bureau
Coop Association has set up an
educational department, which
works in two ways.
During the summer, it runs
series of one-week courses at
camps and colleges rented for
that purpose. At these courses,
classes of about 80 young people
are gathered from the various
counties and are given an inten-
sive course in cooperative philos-
ophy and technique.
These students return to their
counties imbued with the coop
idea, to become local leaders in
organization of study clubs to
carry on through the winter.
The summer of 1884 saw 1000
of these students trained in coop
schools. In 1885 this number was
jumped to 1900. Plans for 1886
call for an even greater number.
In Noble County, Ind, under
direction of the Rev. Carl Hutch
inson, the study club idea was
linked with system of co-opera-
tive recreation. Folk games and
dances of European countries
proved popular with these typical
young Americans. AS a result,
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oum With a government badge
that they might have in their
possession as little as a dram of
some miserable counterfeit liquor,
and that Mr.. Hoover never had
the pity, let alone the decency,
to say AYE" yes" or mo" about
it. If he had had the gumption
to say that he believed in pro-
hibition, that would have been
something. But you can go
through his entire record and
never find a sentence in which
Hoover the President or Hoover
the Cabinet member affirmed a
belief in the Eighteenth Amend
ment eXceDt to call IL a "nohle
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EhEnouh
WESIBRO0K

{ IF course, prohibition is no issue in the
current presidential campaign. But
think of prohibition every time Mr.. Hoover
makes speech, because the very word
recalls what sort of President he was when
he had his chance.
1t is hard to remember. easily are pains for
gotten, that during Mr.. Hoovers time in Washington
many people were shot the mere suspicion of some
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Solution to Previous
Contract Problem
BY w. E. M'KENNEY


American Bridge League Secretary
DRE-EMPTIvE bidding pro-
i duces strange results, at times.
Certain players can not permit
pre-emptive bid to be made
against them. 1t is like waving a
red flag at a bull. They are
bound to bid something.
When playing against this type
of player, strengthen your pre-
emptive bids.
Then again, there are players
who do not know just what to do
against e-emptive bid. Against
this type you can use a light pre-
emptive bid. Odd results, however,
were produced with today's hand.
When South elected to open
with four diamond bid, West, of
course, knew that South was try
ing to shut him out and promptly
bid four spades, which could be
made. Even though North held
three aces, he felt certain that he
would not take a diamond trick.
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Tor tenants or other parties, or
whether they were due him per-
sonally.
1t has been said frequently
that the real purpose of AAA was
to buy the Republican farm vote
but nobody dreamed that Sec
rotary Wallace would aim so
high.
q q
NNE touching little Easter
" story is the way loyal Fas-
cist Italians in this country have
been buying Easter greetings en-
graved on almost thin
conner sheets which slim into an
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in 1914. Reading further, he
would have found that a man.
whose guilt was regarded by
many as not fully proved, was
being electrocuted with almost
mobilize frenzy while his case
was still under official investi-
cation.
Our visitor from Mars would
have read how the distinguished
and solemn faculty of the great
Princeton University demanded
a searching investigation of a
Governor who claimed that he
was determined to gather all
the facts before TAXING O efcr,
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might be on my way TO lame and
fortune, but that was while I was
still playing lunches. Later on I
was ruined through the use of a
scientific system. For instance,
there was Idle Midget, a couple of
weeks ago. Idle Midget just
didn't figure, but all morning I
had been talking with man
about the munitions hearing. A
coincidence like that could hardly
be passed up by any one of in
telligence. Morgan's lap, Idle
Midget-how could one miss? The
horse paid the nice price of 46
to /.
DIT liz nAidcznE nn,al1lsa,t ele Il
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HOOUer Should Yell

THERE has been some complaint that Mr. Roose-
vet's Administration is slightly dictatoriaI
around the edges, and that can't be denied with any
sincerity, for the boys have made free use of the
whip these last four years. particularly in the Treas
ury Department. This business of using the income
tax to beat people into line is out of the book of
Hitler and Mussolin and Huey P. Long But Mr..
Hoover is hardly the to hoer dictator" at any,
body considering the dry dictatorship which had his
sanction under prohibition.
In the last campaign Mr. Hoover represented pro-
hlbt1on because he lacked the honesty and courage
10 say word which would have annoyed the Anti
Saloon League and the Methodist Board of Prohibi-
tlon, temperance and Public Morals Roosevelt de-
nounced prohibition, and that was the great popular
issue of the election.
Not only hedger, but bit of a wilmer, it is
natural that Mr.. Hoover has struck the pose of a
martyr with the plaintive slogan Smear Hoover" as
a blanket reply to every criticism brought against
him. There is no denying that Hoover was smeared.
He ought to know because ne did the job himself.
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Liberal Viewpoint
; BY HARRY ELMER BARNES

A VISITOR from Mars. from Europe.
would have been rather dazed by the news last
weekend with respect to our criminal procedure
He would have scratched his head in vain to dis
cover some strain of logic
He would have noted the news of the Hauptmann
execution played up in headlines as large as those
which proclaimed the declaration of war in Eilrone
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Allan Hoover Gels
$4,000 From AAA
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON. April 11.-Who started these
w disclosures of AAA benefit payments anyway?
Now it leaks out that Allan Hoover, son of former
President Hoover, is the books as having
ceived $4,000 in AAA sugar benefit payments from the
New Deal against which his father is pitting wit and
wisdom. The payment was made on a 1884 sugar
contract and went to ia Sansome-st, San Fran
cisco. 1t is not known here whether Mr.. Hoover
only the nominal recipient for payments intended
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envelope for easy mailing to relatives in Italy Com
plants were made to the State Department but the
answer was that the government could not inter-
fere since there is prohibition shipping copper
to Italy Since it would be cheaper for Italy to buy
copper in bulk the sale of the small copper greeting
cards is taken here to be combination of money
raising and sentimental propaganda among Italians
here and abroad who probably think they're snug
Cling copper to help II Duce.
HERBERT HOOVER also had brain trust But
n 4 1t has scattered Two of those most active in
1t we're not college professors but Washington news
paper correspondents Roy A. Roberts of the Kansas
City Star, and now its managing editor and Jay
G.. Hayden of the Detroit News. When Hoover was
Secretary of Commerce and during the early part
OF his White House term, both of these political
writers were among his most intimate advisers
him gain the political prominence which led hist
nomination in 1928. Roberts is supposed to have
put at least one man in the Hoover Cabinet
But where are they now? Roberts is one of Gov
Landons principal political advisers and is now In
the East doing missionary work for him. And Hay
den few days ago wrote a dispatch to the effect
that Hoover was making efforts to block Landon
Hoover was so aroused that he wired to Hayden's
editor protesting aagnst the dispatch of his former
adviser.
IT'S settled now. The most powerful man in the
Il Administration is six-footer jesse Jones. chair
man Of RFC. He went to Texas recently to break
grourd for historic monument at San Jacinto
But when this political Camera put both hands
on the ancient pillow which had been chosen for
the ceremony, he not only broke the ground but
the plow. too.
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experiment. or expressed the natural loathing of
honest men for a regime brutal and dctatorial as
Hitler and Mussolini at their worst
After all, if a government kills innocent men and
then protects the killers from punishment if gov
eminent breaks into private homes on the suspicion
of malicious neighbors to slug the occupants and
drag them off to Jail for protesting that is Nazism
and FascSm
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hEYWOODBR0UN

MIAMI, April 1.-The President is head
ing north and so am |, but think we
are both making mistake, for this is the
finest time of year in Florida. The Presi-
dent probably spent the wiser vacation, for
he followed the fish while I pursued the
horses. His was the heavier catch, have no DOUBT
and besides if you lose on mackerel it doesn't cost
anything. In the beginning it seemed to me as if
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BY BERTRAM B. FOWLER

Copyright. 1856 by NEA Service
CO-OPERATIVES have definitely struck out toward
processing and production after functoning for
era years in the purely retail end of the business and in
dustria field.
into problems and heavier responsibilities The future
of the movement will depend how these problems and
responsibilities met.
First and foremost is the question Of education If the
coop movement is to succeed the great of the
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ShalU Shocks Miami

CPEAKING of Old Comrade. Bernard Shaw found
~ Miami just his meat when he dropped in for
day during the height of the season. He shocked
the citizens and also the newspaper men. re-
porter for a wire service told me- "Of course,
couldn't send out most of what he said"
For instance?" inquired.
well" he explained, "the old gentleman said
that Roosevelt all right for an amateur but
that the United States really ought to import a
couple of commissars Imagine my turning in a
story like that to my ofhce"
Wild legends went around about Shaw in Miami.
1t was rumored that he had drunk two cocktails.
I investigated that rumor, and it turned out merely
that Shaw had split bottle of buttermilk with
Bernarr Macfadden
And speaking of vegetarians, l did not learn
until it was too late the way of beating the dog
races. The intelligent greyhounds, which is no
great compliment grow little bored with the
mechanical rabbit They know it is fake, and
their racing becomes a little perfunctory At such
times shrewd trainers will take the blase hound out
in the morning, put muzze on him and let him
have dash after real rabbit.
That night when the dog gets on the track he
is full of patriotism, and he banks and pranceS. He
is good bet for show.
1t was Jack Bell of the Miami News who told
me about the dogs and the rabbit and by a tranSi-
ton which did not seem to me at all abrupt he
began talk about war.
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second time and there have been De Valera, Mixed
Party, Flying Arab Old Comrade and others too
numerous to mention. Old Comrade was distinctly
a disappointment. The racing colors under which
he ran were black with a large red &C." Certainly
there horse to fill the eye OF any radical But
he finished last for all that although the chart did
say, "Old Comrade closed fast"
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CONSUMERS IN BUSINESS
kes Lead in Training Youth to Carry ON Movement "

This the by Fowler
in
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The co-opers tive movement
isn't all work. Above is scene
in a revue staged by employees of
the Central Cooperative Whole
sale in Superior, Wis, at the
seventh congress of the co-ops'
district league, Turning back to
work, the tractor shown at right
is one designed especially for sale
to coop members.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-15
REP. zIONCHECK
 NOT YET THROUGH

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, May l5-(UP)-Rep. Marion zioncheck, d., Wash, today located the cradle of mankind in the Virgin Islands,
 Look up your history" he cried in an address to the Virgin Island legislature. You will find that Adam and Eve were born here. To me this is Eden. Ills legislative appearance over, the honeymooning zioncheck delighted a party aboard the visiting German warship Karls- ruhe by conflding personal matters to the company at large. We are broke but we are having a good time," he shouted across the decks to his bride while guests were nov ing in the reception line before the German commander.
 Zioncheck told all and sundry of his antics at party at the Hotel Bluebeald Castle last night. q car ried on a la Bluebeard," he said. The doings of the zionchecks eclipsed even local interest in a spy scare. Two large French submarines and a French warship have been cruising in Virgin Island waters for several days. Until the zionchecks arrived to provide popular enter tainment the natives were certain the French men O war were here to search for German submarines alleged to be active in this part of the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-15
MRS. COOLIDGE
 MUCH SHOCKED

Northampton, Mass, May l5- (UP)-Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was shocked" at the publicity attend ing the recent auction of household furnishings of the late president. 1t was reported today.
 A friend of the Coolidge family revealed he had written Mrs. Cool idge, now vacationing in Europe, protesting against the sale. He said she replied:
 q am shocked as much as you are over the publicity that this sale has been given.
 The auction in Smith school arena last Thursday attracted less than 400 persons who paid approx imately $l200 for articles ranging from dining room sets to phono- graph records. It was conducted bN George H. Bean. another friend of the Coolidge family.
 Even as the auction was being conducted. Probate Judge Henry P Field, in whose office the late pres ident studied law, denounced it as a disgrace to the city of Northamp- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-15
TWO CONNECTS
 ARE CAPTURED
Part of Eight Who Made Escape - Othars Are
 Split in Two Bands

JHcAlester, Okla, May l6.--(UP)' Two of the eight convicts who led a blooGy break from state prison were recaptured early today, soon after they had released their three hostages.
 The six other convicts had sep arated into two bands and were be- lieved hiding in the wild hills Of southeastern Oklahoma.
 One of the hostages. Tuck Cope, a guard who was seized when the convicts escaped Wednesday after killing another guard, had been shot in the neck. The other hostages were unharmed. They were Victor Conn, a guard, and Wilburn ooak' Q farmer.
 No Shot Fired
 The cony!cts, Archie Herring and Bill Anderson, serving time for rob- bery, were taken from their car on remote road in the southeastern section without a shot being fired.
 The guards were found by officers who were searching the section In search of the fugitives. They were sitting by the side of the road where they had been waiting for aid for an hour. Doak was released near Antlers. Two of the fugitives, Julius
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