The Washington times., 1937-08-19

BOake Carter
Back to savagery
Valuing Our Treasures
Picking the Wrong Criminal

THE Hon. Mrs. Helen Charlton
L has Cancelled all her vacation
plans SO that she may better
continue her work in the west
end OF London each night feed.
ing stray cats pate de fois gras,
minced salmon, minced beef and
milk. Il have given UP donat-
ing money to charity" said the
daughter of the late Baron Abin-
ger.
New York city detectives
sought a little old woman whom
they suspected of feeding poison
pills to pigeons in a city park.
The breasts of the birds swelled
from the poison and FOR a SIX
block radius round the park
dead and dying birds fell out of
the sky.
In an Alabama town, citizens
locked up their pets and the po-
lice went on a hunt for a sadist
who sawed off the legs Of stray
animals just Ito see them suf.
fer"
Is our highly vaunted civiliza-
ton breeding more cruelty and
viciousness among human be-
ings? Is our modern world, with
the intensity Of living it gen.
crates, taking us in a cycle and
bringing us back to the age of
savagery?
nOCK Magness, rs, white
~ haired, black-skinned, Of st.
Louis, wanted nothing more in
his old age than a farm and a
mule. For years he had earned
a living playing his violin.
Passersby tossed silver coins
into his hat and Dock was thank
full. But, by and by, his feet
began to hurt. He couldn't beat
out a rhythm. The longing for a
mule, a pillow and Dixie grew
very strong.
So Dock put up his old violin
for sale. 1t was a Stradivarius,
which had been in his family
since 1920, when his Tennessee
slave grandfather received it as
a gift from his master. In good
condition it would have brought
$4,000. In its present condition
it's worth $4,000, just enough
for a mule and a farm in Dixie.
Here's an old Negro, with no
culture, nc training and school
ing in the finer things, who
treasured his old violin so that
only old age and the desire for
home and shelter could force
him to part from it. Doesn't
this hold an example for those
people who have so much in life
but who value nothing2
#AMs
IN a strike in Peterborough,
L Ontario, a C. I. o. organizer
was asked by police to break the
picket lines to permit the police
to pass through. He refused and
so the Canadian coppers hauled
him before the local magistrate.
He was held for obstructing and
then locked up.
Hes yelling so hard he can
be heard out in the street," said
the police four hours later.
Hes yelling for British fair
play"
It's funny hoyf,We cheerfully
break laws and hGneFe it's quite
all right, but when the cops
come along and lock us up,
that's not fair play! What is
sauce for the goose is also sauce
for the gander, although we are
apt to forget that sometimes.
AT times the British take
"A themselves very seriously, it
seems to me. Once upon a time
back in 1777. to be exact-the
Gibson family of Sutton, Eng
land, built family tomb. The
last Of the family died in the
Eighteenth Century and left a
trust fund to finance yearly in
Spect1on OF the tomb to see that
the graves had not been robbed,
and the collins remained intact.
The parish church officials
have just completed the 144th
inspection and found seven cof-
fins in perfect state Of preServa-
ton.
What a grim piece of English
satire! They leave all that
money to find out whether the
boxes are still there, while in
side the contents have long since
turned to dust.