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VfWVfVV establish a system of alleyway ob structions. Each landlord possessing a property adjacent to an alley should take it upon himself to erect a gate way closing the space when not used during the late evening or very early morning. It would prevent a pas sageway for running criminals and would lessen eviL Having no place to run but the open street an escaping hold-up man would find himself greatly harassed and in an easy position for capture by passing pedestrians. Charles Goodman, 1401 S. Jefferson St o o CLAIMS FORD'S IDEA Herschel Parker New York. Herschel Parker, arc tic explorer, declares Henry Ford's plan for a baby submarine did not originate with Ford and claims that he himself deserves credit for the idea, which, he says, he gave to Ford. "Who is Parker, anyway?" was Ford's only reply. o o Nearly half a million Armenians have been slain by the Turks because they were christians. Respectfully referred to a christian kaiser. T MOTHER JONES SAYS JOHN D., JR., IS MAKING FOOL OF HIMSELF Washington, Oct. 1. "John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is making a bigger fool of himself than ever on this trip of his through Colorado," Mother Jones, "miners' angel of mercy," said today. "And I'll tell him about it the first time I see him." Mother Jones is here to see Pres ident Wilson and intercede for the structural iron workers imprisoned at Leavenworth, Kan., for complicity in dynamitings. "Tfiis trip won't do Rockefeller any good," said Mother Jones. "I told him to go to Trinidad alone, call all his miners together and hear their griev ances. Instead he is out there, sur rounded by his satellites, MacKenzie King and the rest, and he is seeing only what they want him to see. "Dancing with the mine boss' wife and borrowing the mine superinten dent's night gown when' he sleeps in his cabin will not put any more food in the stomachs of the underpaid miner ana ms wue ana Danies. .was coming out when I was in Colo rado two weeks ago. I would have made it my business to see that he saw the things he should see." o o DONT AGREE WITH JOHN D.f JR. Chicago labor leaders and univer sity professors who are students of labor and political economy do not favor John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, plan of a "court of capital and labor," to settle all disputes. A. F. Whitney, vice president B. R. T., voiced the sentiment of most of them when he said: "I think a body of men like that would be controlled by capital or capital would not be so anxious for it" o o At Johns Hopkins university water was made to boil after five hours' paddling. The small boy can beat this record by four hours 59 minutec. jmMlAjiiAMMmim