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NOTES OF THE DAY

LIBERALISM AND LABELS

or

AUGUST 11, 1935.

SMASHING CRIME IN AMERICA

BY W. F. BULLOCK

"Grt'em, olive or dead, but get

The Very Idea!

SUMMER SAYINGS

gation. So confident now is "G Preparing The Public For

Weekend Outings

- Man 'Number One" that his men will win out against the modern gangster that he says. "Sooner or Inter we get them."

Those words blazing forth from the front of a famous readway cinema told all who cared to know that a new "G-Man" film had come to town.

In spite of aspersions cast apon democracy In AOMU quarters, there must be something attrac tivo in the idea of self-governs ment, otherwise people would not ['rm." be so insistent on having them- Acives known an liberals, or demo- crats,

progressives, Indivi- duals and political parties. In many countries go out of their way to retain the label of Bheral- ism, even when parating policies which the true Liberal would down. A good example is found in the names of party groups in the French Chamber of Deputies. n the Right, or conservative side of the Chamber, is one group

"I knew if I did," answered the which calls itself the Democra-gangster, “that you G-Men would

shoot me." tie-Republican Union, and

Nun-

other which proclaims itself to be

the Seelal-Republican Group. Yet the parties henring these labels are thoroughly conservative. Io | the centre of the Chamber, where

When a G-Man in on the job he

(Dy Eddie Kally. Chef)'

It was. Machine-Gun Kelly who carries a map, a wrench, a lam- WHAT with summer med the members of the Federaler, dies, chisel, Healingwax. here, and people Bureau of Investigation "G-Men.fieldglassen, a handsaw, a note- He himself was captured by some book, a tape measure, a flashlight, spending their spare of them. Kelly had two pistols soft rubber tape for finger-print-time at picnics and what with him. He did not use either.

ing, and the inevitable place of Why, if you were armed, didn't string, Hoover ken his men to nots, we think some you shoot?" he was asked.

lawyers, bank-clerks hints on this all impor-

Officially these men are known brings them superficially on a par as the F.B.I., a contraction which with the famous C.ID, of Scotland Yard.

these Federal agents

a place benide

resemble doctors, taxi-drivers; anything but the ruthless bloodhounds they tant subject would be seek to be. He has Л man in

welcome. Texna who is small, and as round as he is high. But he is a dead brought up as a Texan ranger, shot with either hand and was

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order

Besides, it's the only thing we've got to write about to-day.

Opposed to these men of law

are 10,000

public enemies, including gangsters who There are many who think that shoot only to kill, crooked poli-at a picnic is salt. moderates are supposed to sit, are Established 1841.

The first thing you want two groups calling themselves, | af

Salt is are worthy ticians, smart underworld lawyers, respectively, "Popular Demo-Yard detectives. They are dedactors who "lift the faces

the Scotland officials who take bribes, criminal what you take the "Very crata" and "The Radienl Left." scribed as equal to

of Idea" with a grain of. It is the famous rich desperadoes, and women who used as The Frenchman, even the conser

Canadian Mounties and as being shelter them. Dillinger was trap-

a flavouring for vative Frenchman, likes to think French Surete.

more dramatic in action than thed because the G-lee knew that animal, vegetable, mineral of himself as something t

he was mad about films. What- and tails of the birds you liberal, and parties which want than 600 meh, These few hundreds not keep away from cinemas.

This force numbers hardly more

ever the risk, that desperado could can't catch. bik vote are Wise in choosing names which seem to promise deck to protect the lives and pro-was shot to death outside one.

There are three kinds of votion to the ideals of the Third from Maine to California, from perty of 126,000,000. They work

Every effort is being made to salt. One, obtained at sea,, Republic.

the Mexican border to the Cana Bureau, consistent with the Stater is the salt of the earth and activities of the is called "old salt;" another dinn line. Tre Bureau in Wa- shington has this year an app The Bureau

rights to police their own domalu. priation of £800,000 with which to

Was

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Way back Home--Fox Trot

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Jackson's Orchestra. I Love you Cipsy-Fox Trot ..jackson's Orchestra. On the Good Ship Lollipop (Film "Bright Eyes") I've got a Note-Fox Trot

Me and the Old Folks-Fox Trot

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 1935,

THE ABYSSINIAN BACKGROUND.

News

ALL PROGRESSIVES

extend the

He

has 5,000 finger- there is also a tough old salt, eperate. It is estimated that lastrints of men known to rob banks. Epsom, by name.

It is now a Federal offence to rob

In the United States to-day year, when the allotment there are New-Dealers and anti- much smaller, £4,000,000 in fines

bank which Contains Federal Pepper is, what the modern | new Dealers, both eager to be known and recovered stolen property moneys. One bank robber was Hongkong housewife uses to

RA liberals and progressives, were

reclaimed by Mr. Edgar astonished when Federal agents keep her canned food hot in- itexford Tugwell, whose name is | Hoover, and his devoted men,

arrested him. "What," he, ex definitely with, [claimed, intimately licked with New Deal!

Edgar Hoover, who is not relat-there. This

you guys doing legislation, has recently published to the former President, only Bank."

National Combined with salt pepper ed an article exalting "The Protonk over the job when assured

makes a nice suit of plus fours gressive Tradition," bat

for the winter. It is mined by

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is not

It

"No," replied an

-

"but agent,

of the United States stuck all

ne polities would never be allowed there's Government money in it/punching holes in the top of a amall boy might any, That's influence his work. Ha a R nothin'. for Lewis W. Douglas, bulldog temperament. His men The whole world is at the

"I wish I'd known it," remarked tin with a rusty nail. farmer director of the budget, has call him ruthless in action, but the gangster ruefully. moment watching the

brought out a book severely criti- | devoted

Pepper is very dangerous. If to their interests. He despatches concerning the tri- title. "The Liberal Tradition." Infants and their capabilities.

cizing the New Deal under the knows every one of them, their!

taken in large quantities il pro- his office Hoover has a map įduces a condition known as pep. partite parley in Paris between Germany, the ruling party Is British, French

Pop is pepper with the last known as National Socialists, but

about with pins. Each pin with three letters omitted. If they and Hulian

to an outside observer seems to When pose of smoothing the way to a delegates, convened for the pur-

the telephone number tiny coloured label attached be much more national than "National 7117 Washington" starts tells him at a glance where are not omitted it is still pepper.

The most. socialist. There is little doubt, ringing America wakes up with amen are and what is oach one's

famous brand is however, that the inclusion of hang, Hoover is on the job, issuing particular job. Abyssinian dispute. These talks paelfie adjustment of the Italo- "Socialist" in the party name had Instructions with the speed and of the Department of Justice

On the top fluor Pepperup.

Cinammon is the difference be- a good deal to do with building accuracy of a machine-gun in ae- Building is the fingerprint room. tween breakfast and getting out from the League Courcil ment are preparatory to and separate

up the tremendous popular suprated on the scene of the crime. received daily from all parts of

tion. The whole force is concen- Here 2,500 acta of fingerprints are of bed on a cold morning. ing which is to be held early

port which raised Adolf Hitler to power, The Inevitable conclu-

the world.

it comes in all the season's sion from all this is that there is was the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. States will take his Department as coming to brunette toast.

A typical and striking example next month, by which time it something deep in man which re- Within ten minutes of word being the model for their police forces.

He hopes that eventually the shades and is particularly be- will be possible to assess the

bels against arbitrary authority. received in Washington of the He says that some local police are The old Romans used potassium Every man thinks himself a king, dastardly erime, G-Men from all armed with "horse pistols" against

It is a fairly recent product. prospects of a friendly settle-

but he would not be a tyrant, and parts of the country were flying to gangsters who is guns that are cyanide. The young one's didn't ment of the whole dispute. likes his fellows to believe that Ticoma. For There will be general hope that

three days and three miles." he will join them in resisting in-nights Houver and his office staff the G-Men have college degrees. the floor and around the corner..

Eighty per cent, of care. Cinammon is found all over resort to hostilities, which

justice and oppression. Even the never went to bed. Capping his Hoover trains then to the highest of the mouth. ienst liberal of politicians to-day hand over the telephone would hardly think of organizing him Hoover rushed such orders as:allow, and "supports them

beside point of efficiency that money will repercussions, will be averted.

Sand is the flavouring used party to be known as "The

"Send Johnson from San Fran- the best scientific laboratories."

with mostly by picnickers. It is Meanwhile, it is worth while to Absolutist. Langue,” or "The race, he's a good shot," or "Go by keep in mind

Autocrats." He would probably irplane and run in America into a crimeless Utopia down.

found in almost all bathing suits If the G-Men ever transform and is discovered by sitting some of the

get more votes if he called his Tacoma. Tell the family to keep they will have to obliterate some circumstances which have given party "Republican" or "Demoera-quiet and let us handle this." rise to the troubles now being tie."

pretty tall statistics. It Ён Hoover laughed when the news. estimated that 12,000 citizens are edible used to be known as the The vendor of this famous encountered, In this Connec-

papers reported that Volney Davis murdered each tion, it may

year, be recalled that only other matter prior to the Davis was safe in a Chiengo gaol, have their homes burgled.

100.000 "sand-man" by the old fashion, was suspected of the crime. assaulted, 5,000 robbed, and 40,000 but in Hongkong is known as after the clash between Italy disturbing events which have but no one but the Bureau knew and Abyssinia in 1896, a treatynow arisen that need be men of it.

The new American Sherlock Johnny Walker or wassail. Holmes, who looks like the late was concluded between the two tioned is the general Arbitration

The coarser varieties of sand Lon Chaney, has plenty of work are found on our beaches, but countries in 1908.

Wild rumours that Alvin Kappis ahead of him. But he holds that fother grades may be found in One of the Treaty - of

the familiar kind was connected with the kidnap-the average criminal la a coward, buildings, mixed with cement. chief provisions of this Treaty between Italy and Abyssinia G-Men to aid their secret investi-punishment is severe enough.

ping were encouraged by the who will cry "Quits" if only the suggested that there should be that

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Britain, France and Italy; miles within Abyssinian terri- and by a Treaty between these tory, but in or about 1931 Italian three countries signed in 1906 troops occupied Unlual.

It is it was agreed that the integrity impossible to und independence of Abyssinia partially what happened there on summarise im- should be respected. In 1925 November 23 and the following Britain and Italy came to andays, though full reports have agreement with regard to their been sent. to respective economic interests in Governments by the British, their respective Abyssinia. As Abyssinia her-Abyssinian, and Italian officers self had not been consulted, she in charge-and also to the protested to the League, of League of Nations. On Decem- which she had been a member ber 5 and the following days, since 1923, and though both actual hostilities occurred be- Powers immediately declared at tween Italian and Abyssinian Geneva that they had no an- troops. This then is the first of nexationist aims, she has since the "incidents" and as the truth carefully preferred give about them, is highly controver- economic privileges to members sial and also in a sense sub judicc. of States other than her neigh it would be wise to conclude bours. An instance of this is n this outline of recent history recent cotton growing concession with the hope that it may have to Japanese citizens. Another fulfilled its purpose of drawing

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to the

"Sometimes, when I hear the boss getting the worst of a deal,

it's all I can do to keep from butting, right in, on the conversation."

When sand is by itself it is Icalled beach. When it is mixed with ham and bread it is called sandwich. It is always mixed with hum and bread at picnics.` There is no substitute for sand, the nearest thing being the ocean,

Short Story

Mrs. Whalesteeth was airing her troubles.

"I don't know what I'm going to

do about Pete," she said.

"I'm

sick and tired of quarreling with him every night when he comes home drunk,"

"Why not." said her neureat friend, "try kindness for £4 change? Trent him lovingly the next time he comes home in that condition, and see what happens."

Mrs. Whalesteeth agreed. Late that night, Peto rolled up the stairs

and, after детс dimculty, let himself in the front door.

She was waiting for him,

"Darling," she gushed, "let me take your coat and shoes off. There you are, aweet, just sit down there for a while and make your- self comfortable."

"fuh" said Pete. slumping into the chair heavily.

"Dom

'00 love '00 little snookums?" she asked as she un-

dreased him.

"Huh!" said Peto.

"There you are now, Pet," she added, "Come on into bed now, dear, you must. bo tired."

"Huh," said Fete, "might a well. If I go home that old hen. of mine will give me hell!?

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