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Dean Taylor and His
Brilliant Work
A life of service in a noble field of endeavor, per
haps the highest field of usefulness, deserves recogni
tion at all times. Students and ex-students cf the
•ollege of engineering of the University of Texas hon
ored Dean T. U. Taylor at their annual banquet Sat
urday night.
It was an auspicious occasion. More than unusual
importance was attached because it afforded oppor
tunity for the presentation of a bronxe bust of Dean
Taylor to the university by the students, the ex-stu
dents and faculty of the college of engineering.
Dean Taylor had completed 40 years of service to
the university and the presentation of the bust marked
the culmination of a movement originated among the
students and heartily supported by the ex-students
and faculty and the college of engineering to take
proper cognixance of his long and faithful period of
service.
Forty years of service! Fause for a moment and
think of the material Dean Taylor has accumulated In
this period, his experiences and his efforts in mould
ing the minds and developing the brains of hundreds
who are known in the world of endeavor as representa
tives of one of the greatest professions.
Dean Taylor began with the university when It
was a baby. Properly speaking, he has been one of
its mudsills and one of its chief props. His life has
been given to the cause of education and Texas owes
a vast debt to the dean and men of his ealibre.
Men who have been developed and trained in his
department are found everywhere. There »re Texas
engineers who have ridden to the highest peak of
success.
It goes without saying that the dean of the college
of engineering is widely known in the ranks of the
profession as well as beyond the pale of the profes
sion and among his most intense and enthusiastic ad
mirers are found in the ranks of those who came from
the college of the university of which he has been the
guilding hand as well as the directing head for many
years.
Concreting Canals
Authorization of bonds in the amount of gl.g00.000
by the voters of the La Feria irrigation district marks
another step toward ultimate elimination, through con
creting, of wastage of Rio Grande waters and dam
age to lands.
The La Feria district is the third of the major
established districts of the Valley to take this step,
the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo and Edinburg systems hav
ing financed concreting by voting of bond issues last
fall.
Among the smaller districts, the West Brownsville
system has been brought under concrete, the McAllen
system has concreted part of its canals, and nil o.
the new districts have provided for concreting in their
bond issues. The Willacy county district, which will
he the largest in the world, also has financed concret
ing of its entire distribution system.
Experience has proved the value of concrete sys
tems, not only in preventing waste of irrigation water
and damage to lands, but also in reducing irrigation
costs. In many respects the Intangible value of con
crete irrigation systems is very similar to that of
highways. They return dividends in the form of
greater efficiency, improved service and lower opera
tion costs. California districts hav# established that
the direct returns In the form of reduced operation
costs and high development of lands are more than
sufficient to carry the interest and sinking fund to
retire the bonds. In other words, concrete canals, like
well constructed highways, pay for themselves.
The rapid development of the Valley has brought
Its water problems, problems which in periods of low
flow often are serious. Conservation is of primary
Importance. But conservation dees not apply merely
to construction of impounding dams to regulate the
river flow. It also applies to distribution of water
to the land. Within a few years wastage of Rio Grande
waters will not be tolerated, and it is obvious that the
Valley districts must make provisions to eliminate
that waste.
It is true that in recent years the duty of irriga
tion water has been increased very materially in the
Valley, due to improvement of avstems and education
of water users. But with the moreintensive develop
ment of the older areas and with hundreds of thou
sands of acre in the new districts coming under de
velopment. it Is apparent that there must be further
Improvement in the duty of water. Several Valley
districts are now putting to beneficial use less than
•5 per cent of the water diverted from the river; the
nil-concrete systems are expected to prov 80 to 90 per
cent efficient. In other words, the concrete system
will divert less than 50 per cent as much as the dirt
system to water the same acreage.
Irrigation leaders are predicting that within five
years practically all irrigation water will be distribut
ed to Valley lands through concrete systems. When
this is attained the water losses will be reduced to the
minimum, damage to lands from seepage will cease and
land owners will be provided with irrigation facilities
which will permit intensive development upon a scale
without a parallel in the world.
MONSTIRS INANIMATE
Ofew Orleans Times-PicayunaV
The production of an inanimate monster teo pow.
erful for control by its human creator is familiar to
litmture, but until now w« believe no writsr has
thought of making copy of an inanimate monster pos
sessing that same insuperable menace. But such a
case has developed in Germany in the vicinity of Co
logne. Recently there has been diseavered there, on
the premise of a disused dynamite factory, a tank con
taining a large quantity t>f war-time poison gas of
the “Blue Cross” variety.
No. the material was not preserved with any inten
tion of use, but had bean abandoned because there
goald be found no mean* of disposing of the poisonous
A.
vapor. Hamburg’s experience last year was so terri
fying that not even the government dares ship the
Cologne poison “to the sea,** which fa regarded as per
haps the only place where the stuff might be dumped
without extreme danger.
The interallied commission long has had cognizance
of this gas’ existence, but it is as far at the German
government from being able to suggest a remedy. The
relief now announced is that of digging a deep mine
and the placing therein of a steel chamber to hold
poison buried far in the earth. And at that, diggers
of some future century may be in for distressing sur
prises. It may be recalled that scientists have sug
gested that the tomb gf King Tut of Egypt may have
been protected by some subtle disfase-bearing ma
terial that led to the death of Lord Carnarvon and
some others of the archaeologists who first entered the
burial vaults.
Dr. Einstein’s theory seems to suggest that he
whistled into his Alphabet Soup.—Philadelphia Eve
ning Public Ledger.
A “seer” says 1929 will be a fortunate year for
females, thus making the tenth year of that kind since
1918.—Kingston Whig.
And if the apes eould chatter in our lingo they
might agree that men did plenty of descending while
he was at it.—Dallas News.
Tim®!y Vn®w§
INTEGRITY IN AMERICAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
STRESSED
By ARTHUR ERNEST MORGAN
President Antioch College.
(Arthur Ernest Morgan was born at Cincinnati,
O.. June 20. 1878. He obtained a high school ed
ucation and began a private practice in ' ngineer
ing at St. Cloud, Minn. He was employed by the
government as a supervising engineer for two
years and then became president of the Morgan En
gineering company. Since 1915 he has been pres
ident of the Dayton-Morgan Engineering company.
His services have been engaged num-rous times
by the government and he has constructed 75
water control projects. Since 1922 he has been
president of Antioch college. He ha* written sev
eral books on engineering subjects. His homes is
in Yellow Springs, O.)
The standards of American boys and girls do not
originate mysteriously or by accident, and are not cre
ated by original thinking. Experience and observation
each young people what are the actual standards of
their elders, and they imitate men and women they
most admire. If they see cynieisii accepted by lead
ers in public and private life, no preaehing will eon
vincc them that honesty is the be*t poliey. Our youth
is a mirror in which the older generation sees Itself
truly reflected.
In the recent political campaign there were many
conflicting Issues. But the American public had one
dominant concern—integrity in public affairs. Each
party was compelled to nominate its best man. The
strength of each candidate W4S public confidence in
his integrity, and the weakness of etch was his prox
imity to sinister influences.
The people sought a leader who eould be implicitly
trusted. Political organizations fought for votes, but
seem to have changed very few. To sn unusual degree,
votes for both candidates were votes of confidence in
personal qualities and abilities.
Now that the campaign is over, many professional
politicians are seeking rewards for their party services.
Many of these men never have been and are not now
personal admirers of the successful candidate. They
took him on compulsion, and worked for him in order
to maintain their political positions.
The friends of Herbert Hoover are not those poli
ticians who opposed him as long as they dared, and
then rode with him to victory. His friends are the
American people who craved dependable leadership,
and who compelled his acceptance by the party organ
ization.
One large fact stands out clearly. The nomina
tion and election of Herbert Hoover were due, not
chiefly to the astuteness of professional politicians in
winning him votes, but to the confidence of the Amer
ican public in his integrity and capacity. Mr. Hoover
owes his loyalty to the American people, and not to
political organizations.
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Tk® World aundAll !
By Charles f. DrlseoU
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EINSTEIN AND AFTER
Recently I saw a play celled “Wings Over Europe.”
Not a great play, perhaps, and not faultlessly done,
but provocative of thought. Well, a few nights earlier
I had se«n a completely worthless play called “One
Way Street.” It was so utterly empty and unsatisfy
ing. and so badly acted, that I thought I had come
upon quite a treat in “Wings Over Europe.”
This play, as you may have heard, has no woman
in it, and is practically devoid of action. It has a
great deal of talk, the usual admixture of hokum, and,
of course, one pistol shot.
But there is a young man in the play who talks a
great deal about his newly discovered mastery over
the atom. He can rearrange the molecules or the
electrons or something such, and so he can do any
thing. He can turn wood in to gold, sugar into dyna
mite. He can suddenly rearrange the atoms making
up the earth, thus instantly turning this planet into
chaos and blotting out what we know as civilization
and society and the world.
• * • •
Coming back from the play, I happened to fall upon
Einstein’s latest pronouncements, with explanations
by sundry learned men.
It seems that there is a good desl of thinking to
be done presently.
I have before me a typewriter, which I have always
considered a marvelous mechanism. Anyway, it has
me wholly buffaloed.
But is ft a typewriter, afterall? It seems, in the
light of a few new formulate and a thought or two,
that it is merely matter in very small quantity, just
now functioning as a typewriter. Or seeming so to
function.
If someone with the secret of the atom should hap
pen along, perhaps he might instantly change this
typewriter into a glowing starbeam, a nightshirt with
pearl buttons, a bosk of poetry, a day in June, or a
happy thought.
• * • •
Now, we begin to be mixed up.
Could the secret of the atom result in the conver
sion of a pound of apples into a great thought? Could
the miracle of the atom-doctor change a cold chisel
into a love affair?
This may be a bit post-Einstein.
I know that somehow, by a subtle alchemy we only
think we know something about, thoughts, good and
evil, proceed from a something that seems to reside
in a human body and function through a human brain,
and that apples and meat and carrots are somehow
changed into the life and energy that seem to make
the thought possible. And I think m sleep on that.
W& THE FORTUNES OF WAR
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I Passed Up/ 'is?
* By ROE FULKERSON J €>1929 by Central PrtM A»oc>aUon, Ibc. |
READ THIS FIRST:
At the death of her parents,
Betty Brown is forced to take up
professional dancing, the only way
she knows to make a living. The
unwelcome attentions of many men
come to a climax when Jake Dau
bert, a local politician, tries to drag
her into his limousine at the en
trance of the night club where she
dances. Andy Adair, a school
friend, knocks him down and takes
her away, but Daubert brings in
fluence to bear on the proprietor,
end she is discharged. A local
scandal sheet tells the story, and
she is asked to vacate her room.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTER XXVIII
Betty was up early in the morn
ing after she had read the itory In
the Tattler. She went fer a walk,
and felt that everyone she met must
have read the story. She wished
she did not have to face them.
She felt there was no chance for
her now. This publicity might be
worth something in a professional
way if she could induce one of the
decent newspapers to tell her side
of the story; but she felt the mat
ter was not of enough consequence
to interest them.
She had but a hundred and fifty
dollars, and wondered what she
would do. She was sure there was
no chenee for her to get other work
dancing in the city. Almost uncon
sciously she turned her steps to
ward the restaurant George Harris
managed. George was a steady
reck, and had alwaya stood by her
in every crisis.
During the lull of business be
tween breakfast and lunch, the res
taurant was almost empty. Betty
sat at one of the tables and asked
the attractive head waitress if she
could see Mr. Harris.
As George came out of his of
fice she saw his eyes sweep the
room to see who wanted him. She
also saw his jaw tighten, his lips
compress to a narrow- line, and dis
approval come into his face.
He came across to her and said,
very formally: “Good morning, Bet
ty. What can I do for you?”
“I’m not sure .you can do any
thing, George,” answered Betty. "I
have lost my position and-”
“That disugsting thing in the
Tattler was called to my attention!
I should think a nice girl like you
would be ashamed to be mixed up
in a drunken street brawl!”
“But George, it was not my fault!
It wasn’t a drunken brawl, anyway.
I gave that nasty Daubert no ex
cuse for what he did. I im not to
blame!”
“You are entirely to blame. It
was altogether your fault. He had
evary reason to believe you were
not a good girl!’
“Why, George Harris!”
“It is true. You can’t handle pitch
without becoming defiled. You
can’t expose yourself when you
dance without men misunderstand
ing you. I told you where you were
headed when you began this danc
ing business. Now you are dis
graced, and you have no one to
blame but yourself!”
Betty rose from her table.
“Don’t go yet,” he said. “I am
not through. Whenever you tell
me you are through with dancing
I will do anything I can to help you,
Betty. You are a good girl at heart,
but if you keep on with this work
you are going to the devil.
"I’m sorry to say this, but it is
true. I hope you won’t be angry.
When you have given up dancing
and the wild men and woman who
play around night clubs, I will he
glad to aid you.
“But until then, I ask you to make
your visits here on an entirely bus
iness basis. I have made a suc
cess by strict attention to business.
1 am contemplating buying this bus
iness. I will have to depend on the
banks to loan me a part of the
money. Banks are particular about
their moral risks. I cannot afford
to bo known ts a friend o. a girl
who dances in night clubs and -ets
into brawls in the street . I hope
you will—”
Betty walked out of the restau
rant.
—--^ ■ -- - T7?
“Don’t go yet,” he *aid. “I am not through.”
She walked half a dozen blocks
at a rapid pace, so angry she was
not conscious of where she was go
ing. So! She was not even to speak
to nice people any more! She was
an outcast, a contaminated woman.
As she walked her anger gradually
cooled, and she began to wonder
what Andy Adair and Harry Ford
thought. Would theV. too. consider
kcr beneath their notice? Was all
the world as cold and as hard as
George?
She was roused from her revery
by the honking of a car which fol
lowed her along the curb. Other by
passers looked and smiled at it.
She raised her eyes to see Harry
Ford in his disreputable car, a doz
en new wise-cracks painted on its
sides. He pulled over to the curb
and threw open the door.
“Come on, fair one, and let’s rat
tle and roll!” he invited.
His cheery voice was music to her
ears. She got in promptly.
“How’s the city’s most advertised
dancer?” he asked.
“Out of a job, out of sorts, and
almost out of money!” Betty laugh
ed, ruefully.
“! have no job to offer, but I have
a lot of sorts and a couple of dol
lars. I will give you a few sorts
and one of the dollars, and you are
two-thirds out of trouble."
“Where are you going?” she ask
ed.
■‘Riding, wherever that is. I
should put a new sign on Leah, ex
plaining that my passenger is the
notorious dancer for whom men
fight, bleed and die. My reputation
is getting too good for this town.
1 am no longer considered danger
ous. That might make me alluring
to the tender skirts of the city. May
1 play moon to your sun and shine
in yoor reflected glory?”
“You are more likely to share my
disgrace,’' answered Betty, her chin
trembling. ‘*One of my friends
suggested I not come around to his
place of business any more. My
landlady has asked me to vacate my
roof.”
“That’s what comes of having a
rooming house or a place of bus
iness!” declared Harry. “I have
tried to make my father understand
that business and rooming houses
and things cause the downfall of
the nation by making us a race of
money grubbers. He wants me to
begin the practice of medicine, and
his contacts with busines have so
biased his judgment that he even
suggests cutting off my allowance if
I don’t!”
“I wish I had never danced,”
sighed Betty.
“But you have danced, and you
must pay the fiddler!” reminded
Harry. “Gin tonight and headache
tomorrow, girls to dinner today and
hot dogs for yourself tomorrow, cats
today and fiddle strings tomorrow.
' That’s life! After that the river!”
“I wish you’d be serious.”
“I was one night, and kissed you
while in that humor. What was the
result? I thougLt for two hour of
marrying you and going to work.
But the next day it all passed off.
I was scared to <’eath, and have
never been serioua since!”
“I don’t believe you ever gave
anyone a serious thought!" replied
Betty. “But what am I to do now?
I must live, you know!”
“I suppose you see the necessity,
but I don’t. If you work for soma
thing to eat, the work fivea you
such an appetite that you have to
eat more and then you have to work
more to get the additional food.
It’s a pernicious progression in
which you either eat or work your
self to death, so why begin?*’
“You are impossible!" Betty
laughed in spite of herself.
“You are laughing, and that’s an
encouraging sign. Laugh - ad the
world laughs with you. weep and
you get a red nose and people ac
cuse you of drinking. Now we can
get down to the real business of ths
occasion. I know a sweet gal with
a sweet roommate in a three-room
apartment. Your old friend. Doc,
who pawed the piano for you be
fore you became famous, is accom
panying me there tonight. Andy
knows both girls and is welcome t«
their humble homes env time. 1
will get in touch with And- an4
have him bring yeu- We will twee)
dull care by the note, and put
orange juice to the use for which
nature designed it.”
"Why couldn’t I go with you?’
asked Betty.
“Oh. bemuse I don’t want vou to
and you don’t want to, and my nee
girl would be cattiah and Andi
would maybe punch me like he die
Daubert. If those aren’t reason)
enough I’ll give you some mere
Let’s turn Leah’s nose in the gen
eral direction of Andy and see if h)
is dated up far tonight.”
They found Andy at a college
club. Harry brought him out to the
car.
"Andy, that man Daubert had me
discharged!" exclaimed Betty.
“Yes, I know. I took a couple of
fellows and went there last night
to see if Daubert wanted any more,
but as neither he or you were there,
I went to Taxton. He told me what
the dirty dog had done to you. But
what about the party tonight Do
we go?"
“I suppose I might at well." Betty
resented the fact that neither of
the men seemed to consider the less
cf her position of the least conse
quence.
"I will be at the hou«e at eight
thirty. Those two girls are good
fellows and we’ll have a good time."
Andy went back to the club. Betty
asked Harry to drive her to a place
where she had seen a room adver
tised. but it was so dingy on the
outside that she did not go in to
look. Harry drove her home.
fTO BF CONTINUED)
About
! NevTfork
NEW YORK, Ftb. 17,—They credit
Norma Talmadge, the moom pitcher
j star, with it. It concerns two f«l
low* who represent*! the front and
hind legs of a horse in a picture now
being completed in Hollerwood. The
lad doing the front legs interrupted
the proceedings by suddenly remov
ing part of the horse make-up end
shouting to the director: "Say, do I
get screen credit for thie?”
I
SAVED
The soft lights gave a fairy-like
touch to the dance . . . swaying
couples drifted about the floor . . .
the music rose and fell in plaintive
entreaty ... she looked up into his
face expectantly.
"Did 1 understand you to say that
you are taking philosophy 450 off
of.Professor Bone?”
"You certainly did, and of all the
dumb dodos that fellow Bone takes
the prise."
“Sir, do you realise who I am I”
she gasped in horror.
“Why no, can’t say that I do.”
“Well, I went you to understand
that I am Jano Bone, Professro
Bono’s daughter.”
"All 1 can say is that life played
you a dirty trick. Do you know
who I am?”
"No.”
"Thank goodness!”
TAKING NO CHANCES
An Irishman, who had been ad
vised by his solicitor to plead guilty
as a first offender, stood in the
dock.
“Are you guilty or not guilty?”
asked the magistrate.
“Guilty, your honor, and I’ve got
witnesses to prove it,” replied the
prisoner.
BRING ON THE VICE
PRESIDENTS
Times had reached a troublous
pass at the First National Bank of
Miners, Merchants A Morons, and a
meeting of the directors had been
called.
"We've got to have a reorganiza
tion at onee,” tha chairman an
nounced.
“Why? What’s the trouble?” a
mere director asked.
“We’ve just discovered that we
have three more depositors than we
have vice presidents.”
WRITE, MAN, WRITE!
For two hours, at intervals, the
efficiency expert had been watch
ing the man in the movie studio
while the litter chewed on a pencil.
Occasionally he would set something
down on paper, but resumed his
mediation almost immediately.' Ex
asperated. tha efficiency expert ad
dressed the man: "You're a writer
in, this studio, aren’t you?”
"Yes,” the man admitted.
The efficiency expert glared.
“Well, why don’t you write?”
FOILED
Mrs. Stuvvesant Petersby Wook.
well-known society leader, was found
in her apartment bound and blind
folded today. Four men came in.
put her in a chair, and tied a towei
ov.er her eyes, she said, after which
they ransacked her home.
Mrs. Wook admitted to the police
that she submitted without a strug
gle, and mad© no outcry until the
robbers had completed their work
and left.
“I thought.” she explained, “that
it was on© of those cigarette tests!”
“Absolutely, of court#!” retorted fl
the imoatient megaphone juggler. 1
To which the chap doing the hind fl
legs chirped: "Whatever you do, ■
don't give me any screen credit. I ■
don’t want to be known as a type.” 9
LOVE IS A TERRIBLE THING 1
Recently it was recorded in “Thiw- H
Town of Ours” that a lad who dfl M
joyed an immense rep as columrfllfl
for a western rag was in New YJrkfl
distributing phone directories. Since I
then we learned why. His "heart,” I
a stock actress, stranded him to ac- 9
cept a local stage job, and the sep- 9
aration drove him mad. lie followed fl
her here, but she kept giving him fl
the well-known prairie, and finally fl
instructed the stage doorman to keep fl
him out. His paper, believing him on ■
a holiday, urged him to return, but ■
he ignored the plea. fl
The gel is a bit of a ham, with fl
high aspirations, and can’t be both- fl
ered. The night her show premiered. 111
howeevr, he discovered he was down^H
to his last dollar and a quarter, but^fl
he spent ninety centimes of it to
send her a telegram wishing her fl
luck. At present he is dusting plates fl
and doing other duties demanded of fl
a bus boy in a Coffee Pot directly fl
across from the stage entrance of fl
her theater, for which he rates two fl
bucks per night. fl
The first twenty years are the od- fl
dest, is right. fl
FLIP QUIPS * fl
By Wayne G. Haisley: Wives of fl
great men all remind us of it. fl
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When in Rome do the Romans— fl
a fool and his money are some party, fl
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It is more blessed to give than re- fl
eeive a dig. fl
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Tis love that makes the world go fl
round with that pained expression, fl
Who am I? In what great wom-^H
en's movement did I take part HM
Where is my home? Bj
Who is the governor general of^H
Canada?
W'Ko laid the first corner stone^H
of the capitol at Washington? 8H
What countries comprise tho^B
once notorious Rsrbary coast?
“For to this end Christ both died^f
and rose, and revived, that he migljtVH
be Lord both of the dead and
ing.” Where is this passage found®*]
in the Bible? B|
Today in the Faat
In 1915. this was the eve of the^Sj
bombardment of the Dardanelles^®
forts by the British and French^®
fleets. IB
Today's Horoscope l3M
Persons born on this day are sav-B||
ing of their money and they know®®
how to look out for « rainy dav JB
They do all thing* slowly hut we”. IB
A Daily Thought W
‘Woman reduces us all to the B
common denominator. "—George Ber- B
nard Shaw. B
Answer* to Foregoing Questions Bf
1. Mrs. Fmily Newell Blair; suf- B
frage movement; Joplin, Mo. B
2. Viscount Willingdon. B
3. George Washington. ®
4. Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and'.B
Tripoli. fl
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^Avkshington
Daybook
STEWART DISCUSSER WASHING
TON BLOWOUT
By CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Police
have been doing their best lately to
clean up Washington, in readiness
for next month’s presidential inau
guaration festivities.
Among others, four gamblers were
caught and convicted.
Mercy, in moderation, was offered
tham by Chief Justice McCoy of the
District of Columbia supreme court,
if they would snitch, wholesale, on
Washington gaming and gamesters.
The hardened culprits preferred
prison to squealing, and each got
three years of the former.
• • •
To the local underworld's per
verted sense of honor this reticence
on the quartet's part appealed to be
very noble. It was resolved to pull
off a benefit performance in one of
the capital theaters, to help their
respective families.
Anyway, the wife of one of the
> captives had bean evicted from their
, ham*, with her six smallish children.
[ and the seven of them camped on a
1 mattyes in the street, in 18 or 20
i dagree weather, when seme tough
• eggs who knew the woman’s husband
i rescued and sheltered them.
The benefit was a corking success.
• * •
Actors and actorines of avery de
. gree of excellence, musicicians,
r dancers, vaudevillains of all sorts
r and both sexea gave their services
I gratis until there was no room for
i more on the program.
The house was packed.
Fly cops say every bootlegger,
i racing tout, racketeer, gangster
1 crook and near-crook in Washington
and Baltimore was on hand, bit
frail with him—that quite a lew^B
came from as far away as Philly andB;
.Manhattan. Also there were a iotflj
of nominally respectable people who^H
either were merely curious or real|Hg
!y felt sorry for those gambleri^H
families. ^B
The affair netted five grand uM
several centuries over.
The question is: ?|g
Was this blowout a beautiful
lustration of the fellowship ofH
man?—even in underworld circles. 99
Or was it a horrible example o^B
the national capital's contempt foifl|
law, order, morality and decency?B|
* * * JQ
Listen to some of the rommentB
“It (the benefit) seemed to
rather a disgusting demonstration. }|B
can’t understand why there shoul<|9
be so much appreciation of whaBI
those four convicted gamblers did.^B
—Senator Arthur Capper of Kancts^H
chairman of the senate's District
Columbia committee. 99
“In my opinion the performanct^^
was staged to create a false publit^J
sentiment in the trial of gaminjg
cases.”—Assistant District AttorneiBj
William H. Collins, who prosecute^B
the four gamblers. 9N
“To contribute to a fund to ai(B|
in defeating the intent and PurpeaeBpi
of tiie law is not good citizemhipB9
— Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, police suptBB
intendent of Washington. By
* * * Wm
Honest to gosh, dear readf, i^B
the simplicity of my hcart.,^<>oulB|
have taken the other side Tn thiBl
debate, until 1 heard the cootrarBg
arguments. |fl
Now I see I was wrong.
But at that, any time I find my^H
self up against it for a friend i^H
need, believe me. I’ll cast my vot^H
I for some tender-hearted burglar. Bjj