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Evening star., 1938-04-19

an opportunity to dispose OF his
weapon, and turn the matter over to
them.
Pate held the winning hand that
night, for two State policemen we're
drinking coffee at the station restau-
rant when the bus drove up. One of
them. young chap named Ted Hol-
brook. just out of training school, had
emerged onto the platform. Lester
Neal pointed him out to Quimet. and
the driver cast furtive look at the
big man and headed for the officer
From the corner of his eye he saw
Lester Neal making his way toward the
station rest rooms.
"Quimet explained to Holbrook, as
rapidly as he could, what had hap
pened. I searched the baggage and
every one on the bus he finished,
every one but that man there-the
one heading for the rest rooms
"uOLBROOK took in the situation
in an instant He yelled at Les
ter Neal, then poked his head inside
the station door and called to his
partner, Jim Inman. Inman came
running out, grabbed Lester Neal and
hustled him inside the station. Young
Holbrook strobe over to the bus and
ordered every one to stay inside Then
he closed the door and returned to
the driver. Just at this point Inman
reported that he had searched Neal
and found nothing. Probably he
added, he disposed Of the knife dur
ing the remainder Of the drive
We'll, it began to look as though
the case would develop into one Of
those long-draWn-ou affairs, in
volving a long search for the knife.
Young Holbrook prevented this. He
took charge of things, and five min
utes later had found the knife and
wrung a confession from the mur-
derer.
You see. young Holbrook had just
graduated from training school and
he recognized the dominating figure
in that small mob of people. the only
one who wasn't running true to type.
This was, of course. Otis Quimet, the
driver. Quimet hadn't been searched,
and the knife was found in his pocket.
1t developed later that he and Titus
Quale had been having trouble over
woman, which established the mo-
tive, but that, of course, is another
story"
tCopyright, 1881
Evening star., 1938-04-19

SA1SAAeSoo AlOlIl ILLS Characterization, ne
becomes the leader of the mob, or the
dominating factor
OF course the IA people who we're
on the bus on the run from Montreal
the night Titus Quale was murdered
didn't make much of a mob, but the
elements were all there.
The murder took place on lonely
stretch of road just south of the Ver-
mont line. A fuse in the bus lighting
apparatus blew out and the driver
stopped to make repairs. 1t was a
cloudy night, and the interior of the
bus was inky black. Suddenly out of
that blackness came an ear-splitting
scream, followed by thud and a
groan. Pandemonium broke loose in
side the bus.
THE driver. Otis Quimet, kept his
head. From beneath his seat he pro-
cured flashlight, and by its rays saw
Titus Quale slump in chair halfway
down the aisle. his shirt front covered
with blood. Others saw it, too. One
woman tainted, others screamed, the
men of the party cursed.
\ **
nUIMET admitted later that he
himself was scared, but he did
the only thing possible He handed
the flashlight to the nearest man and
went about the business of inserting
another fuse in the box. Presently
the bus lights came on. Quimet ap-
preached the man who held the flash
light. This mans name was Lester
Neal, big, forceful type, seemingly
quite calm.
We're miles from anywhere the
driver explained. Best thing to do,
guess, is go on to the next station.
Lester Neal agreed. but he had a
suggestion to make. No one has left
this bus since the man was killed.
No windows have been opened. Obvi-
ouly the victim was knitted. That
means the knife must be on the bus
either in some ones pocket or baggage.
If you drive on to station the mur-
derer will have chance to dispose of
this weapon
"Quimet agreeds He was glad to
have some one to talk to who wasn't
excited or upset. With Lester Meals
help every passenger on the bus was
searched, every piece of baggage
examined. But no knife was revealed.
This was strange, and Quimet thought
about it. 1t occurred to him that
Lester Neal hadn't been searched. He
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Children Calm Bull.

How school children Gained an en-
ragged bull has just been reported in
Paris. Breaking loose in a suburb, the
animal raced along a railway track
until 1t reached the country. The red
lights of railway crossing so enraged
1t that 1t made a mad dash at them.
broke from the line and arrived at
school just as the children were leav-
ing. The owners of the bull found the
animal and children becoming friends.
The pupils were feeding it with bread
and patting it and pulling its tail,
which the bull seemed to enjoy.
Evening star., 1938-04-19

fines totaling $500 on two defendants
who had previously been arrested and
their cases held up.
Edward P. Sheehy, 7127 Georgia
avenue NV, who was arrested March
on charge of driving while intoxi-
Gated and at that time demanded q
jury trial, yesterday withdrew his de-
mand and entered plea Of guilty.
He was sentenced to pay a fine Of
$780, Half was paid today, and he
was given until May 2 to pay the bal
ance.
Charles w. Pearce, jr., 1904 Wyo-
ming avenue NV, who was arrested
Evening star., 1938-04-19
DAILY SHORT STORY-
DOMINATING FACTOR

hated the idea of
suggesting that the
big man submit to
t h is indignity--
Neal had been
more than helpful,
proving a steadying
influence on the
drivers nerves
but the more he
thought about it,
the more it looked
to him as though
Neal were playing
a rather shreWd
game.
Eventually the
driver hit upon a
plan. He would
drive on to the next
town. He would ask
Neal to accom-
pany him to the
local police station,
making sure not to
give the big man
Evening star., 1938-04-19

last November 26 and convicted April
Of this year for reckless driving, was
sentenced to pay q fine Of 500 today.
He paid.
Evening star., 1938-04-19
"THERE'S an old

"THERE's :, an old
adage," John
was saying. that
you never can tell
what a mob will do.
That's silly, because
you can tell in a
minute, If you stop
to analyze the DOM
mating factor. The
ability to identify
and analyze this
factor is just one
more Of the many
steps made in mod
ern crime appre-
henSion.
"Mobs are made
up of a bunch of
people all Of whom
have the same
fundamental prin-
ciples or traits or
personalities. II one
of their number
deviateS in the
Evening star., 1938-04-19
TWO FINED $500 TOTAL
FOR TRAFFIC OFFENSES
Judge Newman Sentences One
to Pay 5000 on Charge Of
Intoxicated Driving,

Judge Hobart Newman, who gained
reputation for stiff penalties rem
dered while he was sitting on the
Traffic Court bench, upheld his repu-
tat1on yesterday when he imposed
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Mullet Given Tags.

To learn about their migration and
growth. mullet bearings tags are to
be released of the coast of New South
Wales, and any fishermen catching
one will be paid the value of the fish.
Evening star., 1938-04-19

Greece may adopt the metric sys-
tenn of weights and measures.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

Eden had little in COMMON. The premier
coldly questioned the very formula Of life
in which Eden's whole pattern was cast.
Few acts Of our time have been less pop
ular than Edens retirement the defeat Of
national idealism by business commonsense,
Ethiopia, Spain, China, Austria-rapidly
the causes Of conflict followed each other,
Closer and closer to the brink of the abyss
the world stumbled. until 1t found itself
slipping over the edge. In this predica-
ment 1t clutched to this jutting crag of
hard, business common sense. Chamberlain.
And in this emergency the man came
before the world in a new light-no longer
the cold, inhuman assessor and tax COL
lector, but the humanist and gentleman.
The Chancellor Of Germany is great
orator in the traditional pattern. but his
most eloquent gatherings left the world
cold and disguised compared to the simple
human statement Of Chamberlain, which
left 1t In tears.
Risks Place in History.
He risked his own place in history and
principle in the world which lies almost
entirely outside the historic tradition-the
principle that there is value in the lives
Of men and women which transcends the
value Of the prestige of nations. A ma
tion may win a war. But what meaning
has the word win" when all but a very
small minority Of the human beings con-
stituting that nation have most assuredly
'lost"-many Of them all that there Il to
lose, life itself.
Because Of Neville Chamberlain hard,
kindly commonsense . new pattern Of re-
lations between peoples may have been
established. 1t is pattern which Is the
ideal Of democracy, in which the welfare
Of state Is nothing more than the mass
welfare Of its inhabitants. It may be that
the time Is not ripe for the triumph Of this
ideal. It may be that In month or q year
or 10 years there will be reyersion to the
old pattern and the world will again plunge
into the red depths Of war.
And it may be that this pattern will be-
come established more firmly than ever
and that for another few centuries the
name Of Chamberlain will be derided by
history. But let it be the fervent prayer
Of the millions who will be living a few
years hence and who might otherwise be
dead that the pattern will persist in world
relations and that the cheers of Germans
and British alike with which the Birming-
ham screw manufacturer Il now greeted win
continue without any kissing intsstuds.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

school age Is years ago is an illiterate gen.
GRAFTON, voting for demagogues not compre-
hending soil or forest conservation, letting
the farms run in rivers to the sea, losing
their land, slipping from the tenant class
into the cropper class. Or, worse, from the
owner class to one of the other divisions
The politicians tell the farmer he is the
backbone of the Nation.
They sit and listen, apparently never
thinking that in the South today the av-
erage farmer has gross income of about
$l85 per year, as against nearly 5000 for
farmers in other sections The average
income Of the tenant farmer is about SIS
and the share cropper obtains in cash about
the same.
Nearly 20 per cent Of the farm lands
OF the South are owned by corporations
insurance companies and banks that have
foreclosed mortgages and become unwilling
farm owners
Absentee landlordism is another chain
on the economic legs of the South.
Facts Support the Charge.
So, the story runs. The figures, the sta
tistics, all the miserable and challenging
array OF facts to support the charge the
South is an economic problem, may be
found in the report of the National Emer-
gency Council and in the report of the
Presidents Farm Tenancy Commission.
There is another side The South does
present splendid picture Of accomplish
ment. Its supply of manufactured goods
is large. 1t has accomplished some of the
things for which Grady longed. Yet, by
the measurement Of income, money spent
on education, the percentage Of farm
owners, Of literacy, and all the other yard
sticks, the South is economic problem No. /.
1t is possible to make graph of the
economic pressure on the South.
Until the South definitely cast in her
lot with agriculture and refused the pos
sibilities of industry. she was the dominant
section. The Declaration Of Independence
was of the South, most of the great leaders
were OF the South. The decline began in
1916 when the first tariff law was passed in
the East.
Shackles Have Been on Since.
The South always has been against
tariffs
When the War Between the States was
done all political protection and influence
was lost. The figurative shackles were re-
moved from the slaves; the economic
shackles were forged on the South. The
choice had been that of the South. But
political dominance protected the manu-
facturers Of the East and Middle West.
Tari4-aaws and freight rates persist to this
day.
few sample rates will tell the story:
Evening star., 1938-10-02

Roosevelt But he is beginning to wonder
about the New Deal He knows that for
the first time the South is having a seat
at "the first table" He is bit bewildered
by all the attention being paid him. He
knows that farm labor is difficult to obtain
because of "relief." He doesn't quite un-
derstand that part of it. He wants to
know. That is Important.
Vocational education has come to the
South If had to name one single factor
which augurs the most good for the most
people, would name the vocational school.
Today only small percentage of the hign
school graduates 60 to college. Today it is
possible to obtain, not as generally as need
ed, practical education.
The word Cooperative no longer spells
communism. There are in the State of
Georgia almost $50 cooperative COM
munity canneries which have made a
slight dent in improving diets and remov-
ing pellagra as an unnecessary disease
There is growing number of cooperative
efforts although, it must be admitted, the
number yet is small.
tOCatlOnAl SCHOOLS Are Cause.
The vocational schools largely are re-
sponsible.
few days ago saw picture in South
Georgia, near Moultrie, which will tell the
story. There was farm near the town.
The son of the farmer had been given
start with pigs. At school he had learned
about pigs. He had learned parasite con-
troll. At six months of age his pigs weighed
about 100 pounds. His fathers pigs given
the run of the range, were the same age
weighed about 40 pounds, difference OF
almost 100 pounds. The father had said
that next year his soon would have charge
of all the pigs.
Georgia has been importing about $40
100000 in pork products each year. There
is no reason why the State cannot supply
its own market. In the South pigs may be
brought to market each month in r.. The
weather permits it. Within few years
that import amount will be tremendously
decreased.
All over the South there is the evidence
Of an awakening. It might as well be ad-
mitted the old one-crop farmer, the ten
ant and share-cropper who are past middl.
age are pretty much water over the dam" 1"
The new generation that already is on the
farm, already settled in farming as a pro-
fession, Is coming along. They will know
markets and modern farming and Cooper
ative effort.
There is willingness to work. There is
a crying for farms. The next legislation
ought to be that which will permit the
young vocational or college of agriculture
school graduate to buy farm and get
start. He is the real hope, not the man
who already has started down hill.
There is willingness to take Govern
ment aid. There is not. on the part of
the new generation in rural areas, to de-
pend on the Government for a living There
is q willingness to work.
In the cities of the South there is a large
group Of unemployables. They make up
. problem for which there Is not now a So
luton. The usual political efforts are be-
ing made to create . class distinction and
Isss THE SOUTH, Page o-3)
Evening star., 1938-10-02
This Man Chamberlain
Will History Make Him Hero Villain When the Story Of the Czech
SequeHAe Written?
4. Henry
And I haze done one braper thing :
Than all the heroes did
-John Donne.

y RokEN-IlMBED, pain maddened
X Europe had crawled out of the
abyss Of barbarism into which it had
been pushed by the fall of Rome.
Thenceforth it began the building of
civilization compared with which all the
civilizations OF the past were like villages
seen from lofty peak In far away. low
valleys. For thousand years this progress
continued, beyond the most fantastic
dreams OF man in the past. It took in
all the civilized world-progress toward a
universal plenty, universal health and uni
versal security and leisure such as hitherto
hardly had been envisioned for the kingdom
Of Heaven.
All this time there were wars and r,lmors
OF wars, big and little wars, serious wars
and musical comedy wars They were full
OF tragedies for individuals, but for civiliza-
ton as whole no more than pin scratches,
The wealth Of mankind increased beyond
the widest dreams OF the past in terms
OF the only true wealth on earth-more
and fuller human lives.
Then came 1914, and for four years
thereafter the greatest struggle in human
history. This new-found wealth of life
was squandered with an insane abandon
at which the benevolent gods wept and the
malevolent gods laughed. The very &C.
complishments Of civilization which had
made life so pleasant and so desirable made
war more terrible. The very things that
had made 1t possible for ten-fold more
people to live on earth made 1t inevitable
that in this madness hundred fold more
should die.
Millions died-in battle. Of hunger, Of
broken hearts. F7ourishing cities became
smoking. lifeless shells. Mile after mile of
steeple-dotted countryside became desert
OF barbed wire-and after that Of wooden
crosses. Civilization stopped
World Presses On.
In four years 1t was all over. The
wounded world staggered to its feet again
and pressed onward. 1t had seemingly
learned lesson, that it could not afford to
play with war Another struggle such as
it had just passed through would push it
into deeper abyss than the depths Of the
one 1t had been climbing for a thousand
years. ClVlllzatlon hardly could be expected
to survive. Nor was there any immediate
threat Of war. For 20 years civilization be-
came more complex and efficient.
And then the world began stumbling
again over series Of little wars and found
itself. quite Unexpectedly to the mass Of
mankind, suddenly slipping on the edge
Of new abyss Of carnage and destruction
to which nobody could see any bottom
1t was Illogical. It was useless. No.
body wanted 1t. Most Of the world realized
that 1t would settle nothing-that in an
other struggle comparable to that Of 20
years before everybody who took part would
lose. Victor and vanquished in the actual
physical struggle would go down together in
the crash of civilization which, it was
Evening star., 1938-10-02

That explains why the South cannot
manufacture its goods. It explains, too,
why the South has been but a feeder of
raw materials. 1t helps explain why the
South has enjoyed the status Of colonial
possession and why the Eastern manu.
facturers turn out more than 70 per cent
of the value Of all manufactured goods.
Economy Is Unbalanced
Not until all the people of America real
ize the South must sell in an unprotected
market and buy all it uses in a protected
market, will there be any adjustment Not
until there is an appreciation of the problem
and determination by the rest of the
Nation to wipe out the economic unbalance
will there be any real solution of the
problem.
The South can solve her own problems
II given the chance to develop her own in
dustries without restrictive and oppressive
tariffs and freight rates.
The market for cotton is not coming
back There Is no chance for it so to do,
Russia, England, Brazil China, Japan
all are engaged IN the cotton growing busi-
ness. The A. A. A. protects the wheat
farmer, whose product is about 10 per cent
export, much more than the cotton farmer,
whose business is about 60 per cent ex-
port.
There is feeling in the South that
more cotton than ever before grown should
be the program; that every domestically
consumed bale be subsidized, and that all
the rest be dumped on the world market
for what 1t will bring. There is no real
chance at retaliation. The best staple
still is grown in the South, and the best
cotton can be grown in the South at a
cheaper price than anywhere else-the
best cotton, not just cotton. That will
keep the foreign markets, but it will
not solve the problem of the cotton farmer.
South Is a Hope Also.
When the Nation realizes the South is,
at one and the same time, the economic
hope and problem there may be change
in attitude. The short-sighted opposition
to removal Of discriminating freight rates;
the fight against any effort to remove eco
nomic barriers and permit an economic
balance, not an unbalance, are extremely
shortsighted
When that Is done the South can, with
Federal aid, turn to the problem of malaria
and health in general; to wiping out
illiteracy; to rebuilding the land and the
forests; to creating industry and a market
Tor the remainder Of the Nation.
That, in brief, is part of the picture.
Now, what is the South thinking todav2
Because the South is thinking.
The South is not nearly so sentimental as
once upon time. The South is looking
at its lands running to the sea: the South
is looking upon its low standards of living
for the tenants and croppers; the South
is taking stock.
Farm Bill Not Popular,
There definitely is resentment in the
South against the farm bill. It perhaps is
not 50 much resentment as 1t is bewilder-
ment and misunderstanding. It is no
longer q popular bill.
The average Southern farmer has IN
abiding faith In Prekdent Franklin D.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Liquor From Cocoanuts.

SINGAPORE R).-Whisky, brandy and
gin made from cocoanuts and cocoanut
flowers in Ceylon are being sent to South
American and other countries as samples
Of ceylon's new liquor industry. Backers
says the "cocoanut liquors" are hardly dis
tinguishable" from usual drinks.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Soviet Accepts Aliens.

MOSCOW H1.-Soviet Russia has en-
acted new law making it possible for,
foreign workers residing outside the Soviet
Union to become Soviet citizens If upon
application the Supreme Soviet (Parlia.,
ment) deems them worthy.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
South, u. S. Problem No. H.
Also Its Opportunity and Hope
Giant Long Fettered by Tariffs and Discriminatory
Freight Rates, Is Beginning to Claim
Its Rights as Part of Nation.
By Ralph McGM.

(This Is the second OF series of
Sunday Star articles reporting on
conditions IN the ominous parts OF
the United States. The third-trom
Los Angeles-,DiH appear nert Sun
day. Mr.. McGal, author OF this
story on the South, Is erecutive
editor OF the Atlanta Constitution)
Evening star., 1938-10-02

Gee THE SOUTH, Page o.3.)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-11
Stagehand Has
Chance; That's
Why He's Running

KANSAS CITY. Mo, ipril IL
,UPl-Earl Sande was glad today
that his colt StaRehand wasn't go
ing 10 run the Kentucky Derby
against the Iron Horse that made
him an also ran yesterday.
The Iron Horse was a Mis-
souri-Pacific passenger train that
pulled away and left Sande. Stage
hand seven ether horses. two dogs
and five stablehands.
Sande's horse express. attached
to a Santa Fe passenger train. was
late in arriving from California.
where Stagehand won si36 TOO in
nine weeks al Santa Anita. The
other train left on schedule
Sande Jockey who turned
trainer. fretted because he said it
would mean that Stagehand. the
fayorite 10 win the Derby would
lose a whole day Of training at
Louisville
A woman asked if he thought
Stagehand had chance 20 win
the big race
Lady that's why hes running
in the Derby" he said
Another askged If staRehand
vas a sure thing
only death and taxes are sure
things Lady he answered
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-11
L. "A. VEGETABLES

Los ANG ELES, April Il OUPJ-
supplies were generally heavy OF
most lines with trading fairly goou.
Asparagus, tomatoes and straw
berries were weaker. avocado
firm.
Asparagus: loose per lb loca
select l2c. fey 7-Sc. choice o -7c
Tips sc. Imperial valley regal few
mostly SC, fey std The.
Cantaloupes: Imperial Wy pony
as mostly S4.5o. orange pack $3.50
$500.
Cucumbers: san Diego c. flats
mostly $1.75-Sl.85; Imperial VALLEY
mostly Sis. small $1.25-S1.5O.
Lettuce: san Diego co dry PACK
! dozen mostly S4.25 crate; . dOz
s3.65-S4. s dozen S2.75-$3; zoos s.
s2.25; Santa Maria, Guadalupe auC
Pismo dozen S3.75-S4.25; dOz
.50-$3.75 doz S2.25-S2.65; 9DS
sI75-S2; iced 75S S2.25-S25O sos
$3.50, IS S2.75-S2.S5; local loose
s1.25-$1.5U.
Peas: santa Barbara co bush bes,
mostly 6 - -7c. san Luis ObispO co
6-6 nc. Carpinteria pole 9-l0c.
OceanO mostly Zoe Ventura co pole
9-lOc. San Diego co fair sic. Local
bush 5-6c.
Squash: Imperial and oCachella
Valley white summer crates mostly
s1.75-$2; flats S1.50-S1 local lug
81 25- $3.50 Italian, Imperial and
flats mostly S1.85-$2; fey Coachella
S2.15S2.25; san Diego co lugs $l.Sj-
50; light colored $1.25-s1.50; local
0est S1.75-S2: Imperial Valley yei-
.Ow crookneck crates mostly $2.25-
S235.
Sweet potatoes: INLAND and I'm
perial Valley crates Stops mostly
1852; 12S mostly $175-$1.85: 16S
9O-S1.15; POS mostly 6O-75c. Flats
5x5S and 5x6S mostly 6O-75c. 6x7S
mostly S1.15-$1.35; 7X8S mostly 10,
sx9S mostly $4,000.