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EDITORIAL
FAE FORM WORTH PRESS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28,1988
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hell—unless we considered the source. So
we trust Sheriff Wright will not get mad.
The folks who have been lending these
messages have less regard for the welfare
of those arrested than haa Sheriff Wright
or anyone in Fort Worth. What they
want is to make martyrs, to advance the
cause of communism. And ‘the worse the
martyrdom the better they are satisfied.
1 For this very reason, the release of
those held might be urged. Guilty or not
guilty, the elaborate charges against them
appear far out of proportion to any of-
fense. Guilty or not guilty, a week in
jail in this weather seems more than
enough to expiate any crime of which they
have been accused.
Guilty or not, prosecution would be
playing right into the hands of the pro-
fessional agitators—while to drop the
prosecution would play right out of the
hands of the latter.
Prosecution is what they want. It is
worth considering.
It Seems To Me
by
Heywood Broun
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1933
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TRAGEDY OF A WORD
(From the New York World-Telegram).
"NO.
I was not and I am not a reform-
er.
I do not believe in moral re-
“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today
LIOR if we believe that Jesus died and
F rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.—
Thessalonians 4:14.
The waters of salvation, welling forth
from the mercy-seat above, have descend-
ed in copious floods to refresh and bless
the earth.—G. B. Ide.
TOO BIG FOR PERSONALITIES
A BOUT all that is necessary to carry the
A August 26 elections in favor of beer
and 18th Amendment repeal, in the pres-
ent state of Texas public opinion, is for
repealists to stick together and work for
the common cause.
That would seem to be the least they
could do, if repeal leaders are as truly
devoted to that cause as they say they are.
Yet yesterday's developments in Austin
would seem to indicate danger of a
breach among the repealists which it con-
tinued further may imperil that cause.
James E. Ferguson carried thru the
bold maneuver first outlined by The Press
48 hours before other newspapers awak-
ened to it, and seized control of the re-
peal convention.
He installed his own man as perma-
nent chairman of the convention, and at
his urging the convention adopted a plan
of campaign that in some respects would
seem to supersede or subordinate the work
of the Liberal Legion, which has effec-
tively organized the state under the lead-
ership of John Mathis. Today the air is
filled with rumors and reports of what
the Ferguson leadership intends to do.
As always when “Jim" becomes an
issue, much linen was washed in public.
This discussion will be meat and drink
and ammunition to the prohibitionists of
Texas, who are facing a last-ditch fight
—to defend the “noble experiment." —
No one can blame them if they take
full advantage of it.
The Press recognizes that Jim Fergu-
son was fighting prohibition—and truly
predicting its dire results—many years
ago when that stand was very unpopular,
and when some of those who criticized
him yesterday were either silent or riding
the prohibition band-wagon.
Yet the cause of a decent and en-
',lightened approach to this great social
problem is so much more important than
the interests or the feelings of one indi-
vidual, that we cannot but deprecate Mr.
Ferguson's apparent determination to
seize the reins, and to decree that the
cause of repeal must bear the Ferguson
stamp.
To show what appear to be the Imme-
diate effects of his policy, it is enough
to say that while 48 hours ago It appeared
certain Texas would go overwhelmingly
for repeal—and probably will still do so
—doubt has crept into the issue.
It is a small doubt—no larger than a
man's hand—but it should be enough to
bring Mr. Ferguson to a pause.
form applied externally. They have a
genuine itch to make the world better,
all the reformers I have met; but they
irritate more souls than they heal and
purify. .
"They try to relieve a moral Itch
under their own skins by scratching their
neighbors’. They work on the principle
that you can pump goodness into a man
if you will first pump out the badness to
make room for it. A saint, according to
them, is a deflated sinner. For such a
doctrine I cannot pump up any enthu- |
siasm."
The special interest of the above is
that it- comes from a man the average
New Yorker thinks of as an almost legend-
ary example of "reformer"—Rev. Charles
H. Parkhurst.
In a striking article In. the New York
Times Sunday Magazine this 91-year-old
foe of Tammany explained why, back in
1892, he made his famous round of visits
and first-hand observations that revealed
the city’s vice.
He did it, he says, because he had to
get evidence to support his own earlier
pulpit accusations based on "well sub-
stantiated rumors.”
Those accusations stirred up a storm
of protest. A grand jury virtually de-
nounced him for defaming New York. He
was threatened with "a tremendous libel
suit." Evidence, affidavits, proofs were
indispensable. He sallied forth and got
them. %
"Hard facts, hot facts,” acted upon by
an increasingly educated public, is Dr.
Parkhurst's formula for progress in cleans-
ing government of corruption. He refuses
to be labelled "reformer” merely because,
like others before and since, he dug out
facts.
"I am not a reformer, as that word is
commonly used, and I never was one. To
make a clean sweep of the matter, I
doubt the value of reform in the realm of
morals. If reform has died I do not
care to be counted in among the mourn-
ers; I would go to the cemetery only to
(Copyright, 1933, for The Fort Worth Press).
NEW YORK. The cop is a curious per-
I son and most gravely misunderstood.
Much after the manner of Mr. Lecky’s
strange woman, he is blasted for the sins
of the system.
He is the first and
most prevalent symbol
of law and order, and
nobody really likes law
and order no matter
what you may hear in
the commencement ora-
tions. "Pull over to the
curb” or "Move on,
there” never rings pleas-
antly in the ear.
I have seen police-
men behave very badly,
and I have seen them
_ show not only great
I courage but superb tact.
—-------------I grant that this later
Broun quality is not exactly
rampant on the force. Courage is..
In the last few years the job of being
a policeman has become increasingly ardu-
ous. The growth of radicalism has im-
posed new and difficult responsibilities.
A veteran on the force was sighing for
the good old days.
"The way things sre now," he com-
plained, "somebody sneezes in Asia Minor
and two cops get hurt in Union Square.”
The Cop and the Communists
T THINK that the average policeman is
1 justified in being a little puzzled when
he is called out to mill around with men
and women bearing banners inscribed “De-
fend the Chinese Soviets."
The complications of radical politics
are so intricate that the average patrol-
man sometimes grows confused as to the
Ins and outs of the Lovestone movement
and Mr. Foster's party.
Both sides have agreed on a simplifies- i
tion of the problem involved. To the cop
anybody who gets up on a stepladder to
make a speech is a dangerous red and will
bear watching. The radicals, on the other
hand, have agreed that all cops are cos-
sacks. But this shortcut is too easy to
be true and causes clashes which, are
sometimes unnecessary. J..o
Apparently the invitation to workers
of hand and brain to unite has never
been construed broadly enough to include.r,
the cop. And yet he is as proletarian asr
the next one. He is certainly exploited,
and there never has been a police force
in which more members profited by graft
than suffered because of it.
Theirs Not to Reason Why
make sure that it was thoroly buried
. . . You cannot legislate the human eententions.
TN the field of higher ethics it has
L sometimes been argued that no lawyer
should ever take a case unless he feels
certain of the righteousness of his client's
. 15 Millions Out of Work Under His System
A
PLANNED
ECONOMIC
PROGRAM
to.
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If G.O.P. Had Done Job, Democrats Wouldn’t Have To
WHAT OUR READERS SAY --------——-------
Editor, The Press:
TANOWING that your daily has
A ever been quick to aid the
masses by a fair and impartial re-
cital of all sorts and conditions of
reprehensible activities, snd realiz-
ing your incomparable editorialists
will no doubt deal with Congress-
man Snell in his attack on the
"double expenditures" of the re-
cently adjourned extra session of
Congress, yet I would like to add
the feeble voice of a working man
so that statesmen and financiers
may become thoroly awakened to
the fact that the people as a whole
are single minded about co-operat-
WEDI
race into heaven."
This is pretty sound sense from a
militant clergyman nearing the end of
his life. It will give many New Yorkers,
old and young, a new "slant" on Dr.
Parkhurst.
Nevertheless, wo wish there were some
way to lift the word "reform” from the 1
present low estate to which the minds
and methods of “reformers” have abased
it.
It Is a good word. No substitute is as
short, simple and expressive. Yet now
when we greatly need it in this city we
have to shun it and call it something else.
Even valiant old Dr. Parkhurst rouses
himself to help dig its grave. Zealots
and.fools have done it to death!
This system Is not invariably followed
by lawyers. It isn't followed by cops at
all. It wouldn't be quite practical. For
I instance, the other night the College of
| the City of New York staged a combined
| police parade and commencement.
If there is any generosity in the soul
of Dr. Robinson he should see to it that
the captain of the precinct is awarded an
LL. D. During the last year the police
have played a larger part in the adminis-
tration of this institution of learning than
the professors.
DOLLAR WHEAT
T\OLLAR wheat has much more behind
D it than speculation. To that degree
it is healthier and means more to business
recovery than the unwise Wall Street
boom in certain Industrial stocks which
are again selling beyond their earning
capacity.
Doubtless there is a speculative factor
in the sudden and rapid rise of grain
prices. Some are gambling on the possi-
bility of further monetary inflation and a
continued fall of the dollar on foreign
exchanges. But that is not the chief
factor.
Three other forces are operating:
Farm prices properly reflect the Increase
in industrial activity of the last month,
and the virtual guarantee of larger urban
purchasing power thru the minimum wage-
maximum hour codes of the national in-
dustrial recovery administration.
At the same time, the farm relief ad-
ministration plan for future wheat crop
restriction promises a smaller surplus to
depress the market.
Finally nature is cutting down the sup-
ply, vast areas in the grain belt of the
middle west are being burned by heat
and drought.
This last factor, which probably has a
larger effect in lifting the market than
any other, will not bring permanent farm
relief. On the contrary. It may make
permanent relief more difficult. For. In
the past, lean crops resulting in higher
prices have always encouraged short-
sighted farmers to over-produce the fol-
lowing year and thus drive prices lower
again. 1
Therefore, while dollar wheat Is en-
couraging to general business which Is
dependent upon Increased farm buying
power, the need for the administration’s
domestic and foreign crop reduction pro-
gram is greater now than ever.
A SECURITIES MONOPOLY
FROM the admissions of Mr. Otto Kahn
" to the Senate investigating committee
yesterday it appears that the monopoly
in the vast banking field of railway securi-
ties is even more absolute than the pub-
lic realized.
Reports of the Interstate Commerce
Commission have shown that the railway
security business is dominated by two pri-
vate banks, Morgan and Mr. Kahn’s house
of Kuhn, Loeb. 1
But Mr. Kahn's testimony shown that
not even these two are competitors in any
real sense.
He explained that the big bankers do
not bid against each other in this field,
but each keeps hands off the customer of
another bank.
No Fun for the Police
THERE are many more pleasant police
L assignments than playing stooge to a
baccalaureate sermon. How would you
like it if you lost your day off by being
sent to Lewisohn Stadium to listen to a
patriotic exhortation by Governor McNutt
of Indiana?
Plenty of police would rather have an
evening at home than trail around under the
responsibility of seeing to it that Dr.
Robinson doesn't lose his umbrella. If
Ing with President Roosevelt to In-
sure the fullest development of his
plan, that is bound to go down in
history as the second Magna Carta.
A dispatch dated Washington,
J une 25, reports Congressman Snell
as saying, amongst other things:
"The adjourned Congress sp.
propriated more money, levied
more and heavier new taxes, and
authorised a larger bond issue, call,
ing for heavier annual Interest
charges, than any other Congress
in the history of the United States
with the single exception of the
Congress in session during the
World War.”
Well, what of It? No Congress
or any other parliamentary body
in the history of the world was
ever confronted with the task of
righting so many grevious wrongs,
brought about by the diabolical cu-
pidity of the money trust, their as-
sociates and subsidiaries, the sev-
oral members of which seem to be
equipped with rhinoceros hides, to
prevent them from exhibiting the
GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY
THERE is a good deal to be said ,n
1 sympathy for the 23 Fort Worth
people who are sweltering in jail because
of their attempts to stop an eviction.
If they hadn't been hungry and home-
less as a correspondent of The Press
said, and hadn't rallied to the cause of
someone else who was hungry and home,
less, they wouldn't be in jail.
But their cause is not being advanced
by the kind of inflammatory messages be-
ing received by Sheriff Wright from such
outside organizations as the International
Labor Defense,
The messages charge Sheriff Wright
with being a "Capitalistic tool” and de-
mand” that the charges be dropped and
“attacks on unemployed workers in Fort
Worth be stopped.” ...
Now if we were an officer of the law,
such messages might make us madder n
This seems an ideal set-up to Mr.
Kahn. Why shouldn't It?
The farther this Senate Investigation
goes into the banking maze the more ap- |
parent is the need for getting to the
bottom of it. Counsel Pecora and his
staff are doing brilliant work, but many
weeks of poring over the bankers' books
and files will be required to see this
thing thru.
Wisely, the Senate committee recessed
the Morgan hearing when new angles de-
veloped on which the investigators needed
more time for study.
Obviously the sessions planned for this
week can no more than scratch the sur-
face of Kuhn, Loeb activities.
If the Senate committee does not want
this investigation to be merely another
Pujo flash in the pan, it will take time
to do a thoro job.
Much more is involved than expose of
bankers’ lack of intelligence and lack of
trustworthiness in handling other people's
money.
The real object of this Investigation is
much more fundamental than spectacular.
It is nothing less than the formulation of
laws to make the government at Wash-
ington supreme over the power of Wall
Street.
The Daily Nosegay
Mr. Chester Reagan, ,
City Detective, Fort Worth. ‘ 1
Dear Chester:
I see you held on to one fellow
And shot it out with another.
All honor to your nerve and aim.
But let me ask you, brother,
Do you think this the way to be Sheriff?
Hadn’t you otta he gumshoeing around
Enlisting your friends with Influence,
And keeping your ear to the ground?
P. S. But if you become sheriff, I ven-
ture to blurt,
It looks like bold lawbreakers might
get hurt.
Yours, etc.
LESTER (Just call me Les).
you got a cop alone for 15 minutes off
duty I don't think it would be too dread-
fully difficult to convince him that the
little man with the big police whistle is
a very silly sort of person to be running a
college.
-----AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT----
Jingoist Jargon
___By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
"THE NATIONAL REPUBLIC," a Wash-
1 Ington, D. C., magazine, which an-
nounces itself against “all subversive move-
ments inimical to American ideals, tradi-
tions and institutions,”
expresses no small alarm
at the student pacifist
•movement.
Without going too
deeply into the question
of what exactly is meant
by American ideals, tra-
ditions and institutions,
it is interesting to note
that in this magazine at
least, they do not sig-
nify concord or inter-
national amity.
Sketching thru the
current number one
gathers that our ideals,
____________as "The National Re-
Mrs. Ferguson public" Interprets them
are fist shakings at the rest of the world;
that our traditions are those that proved
so fatal to Mr. Hoover; and our institu-
tions constitute a great Army and Navy.
* * *
THERE is announced, too, a new enemy
1 combatting organization, called the
"Paul Reveres," whose president, we no-
tice without surprise, is a lieutenant
colonel.
Yet these alarmists are, I fear, much
in the same position as the battlers
against beer—their cause is already lost.
Student pacifism is growing. The de-
mand for arbitration as a substitute for
war is increasing. And this is surely not
strange when we consider the body blows
that platitudinous patriots have had from
sundry investigating committees within
the year.
Do these impassioned Pauls now rid-
ing jso hotly after their elusive "enemies"
imagine that the college students are com-
plete and utter boobs?
Shall we ask the lads to die so that
the world may be made safe for the arma-
ment manufacturers, the armchair gen-
erals and the diamond-bedecked dowagers?
What sort of a country, I ask you in
all seriousness, will we have to defend
when the common man has no security,
save that he can get with bullets, and no
expectation except obscure and horrible
death on a battlefield?
All this jargon of the jingoists reads
like a dead language. To our boys and
girls who are wiser than we were. It is
without sense or meaning
blush of shame, when their vari-
ous delinquencies are laid bare for
the public to gaze upon.
No more proper or fitting time
could be taken to remind Congress-
man Snell, from the sovereign state
of New York, that if the several
Republican administrations, Includ-
ing the recent debacle of one Her-
bert Hoover, had not made it pos-
sible for every financial baron in
the country to exploit the common
people, there would have been lit-
tle necessity for the present Demo-
In writing to the editor,
be as brief as possible. Let-
ters should not exceed 250
words. As evidence of good
faith, sign your full name
and address. If you do not
wish to have your name used,
say so.
.------------------------•
A Cruel anti
Heartless Swindle
Editor, The Press:
An old gentleman living in San
Marcos told me the other day that
he had a couple of dollars that
he intended paying me on account
and that a couple of swindlers driv-
ing a nice car had beat him out
of It.,..--------------------.---------------------------
“They came to me," he said,
“and asked me my age, and when
I told them that 1 was 73 years
old they said that I was entitled
to draw an old-age pension. They
then wanted to know the age of
my wife, and when I informed
them that aha was 88 years old
they said she was also .entitled to
draw an old-age pension."’ They
tilled out a blank,‘and had him
sign it, and collected $1.98 fees
for the two.
They then informed him that in
about two weeks he and his wife
would commence to receive $18 per
month. So far, neither he nor
his wife have received any money
from Austin, and I told them that
was hot the worst of it, that they
never would get any, because the
legislature had never passed any
old age pension law and in tact
had not passed any law of any im-
portance.
That they had passed one bill
Thinks Mr. Field
Contradicted Himself
Editor, The Press .
A. C. Field of Handley is going
to be the victim, of this letter, be-
cause in a recent letter to The
Press Mr. Field irked my own ego
with what I consider some ill-timed
and random remarks about the
narrow views and poor ability of
us old regular contributors, re-
marks which he claimed were of-
fered as a soothing draught lest
we become over het.
I wish I could return the com-
pliment. but in shy opinion Mr
Field needs no such reduction of
temperature. From the sample, I
believe he can go a long way yet
without even becoming moderately
warm.
His letter on tolerance, so re.
Tracy Says:
President Roosevelt
goes to sea while Europe
raves over war debts.
___By M. E. TRACY -----
TN the face of a French default
1 and British maneuvering to
stabilize the pound at too low a
level. President Roosevelt shuts
up shop and goes to sea.
It was, perhaps, the most im-
pressive gesture he could make.
While European statesmen may
be left in some doubt as to the
workability of their own schemes,
they can have no illusions as to
the kind of man with whom they
are dealing. He won't even stay
near the telephone. A
Quite a change from those chier
executives who, while preaching
isolation, were ready to stand on
their heads for Europe's good-
will.
Disturbing as the change may
be in London or Paris, it makes
men on the streets of New York
and every other American city
feel a whole lot better.
It has been a long time since
they were quite sure whether
Washington or some other capital
was in charge of American policy,
and whether this government was
more interested in helping Europe
or protecting American interests.
• • •
A GOOD deal of the depression
A is chargeable to the spine-
less weak-kneed attitude which
Mr. Roosevelt's predecessors
chose to pursue. Not only were
they against "rocking the boat,"
but they were steering a course
which might cause the boat to
rock.
The slighest sign of a breeze or
a little chop sent them into par-
oxysms of alarm. Playing on this
susceptibility, European diplomats
and statesmen have been busy
with nothing so much as waving
storm signals.
For 15 years west-bound mes-
sages over the Atlantic cable have
dealt with fear of what might
happen in Europe if the United
States failed to do thus and so.
In the name of "splendid isola-
tion." we have waived claims to
the tune of billions and lost other
billions thru the injudicious
granting of credit. As a reward,
we have seen our trade under-
mined by excessive tariffs and
currency depreciation.
While we have been foolishly
idealistic, Europe has been coldly
practical.
plete in balanced sentences, was
neither very narrow nor yet very
deep, but it was so stilted in Ita,
attempt at broadness that it was
flat.
Mr. Field concludes that not.
withstanding all the talk about our
present problems, people seem to
do very little about them, but
maybe the words that have been
writ and the breath that haa been
spent. If given a reasonable time,
would result again in action. Or
possibly, in some measure, they
may have already done so, since
we now have a new President, a
new deal, and more action toward
betterments than ever before.
making it a penalty to pick wild-
flowers on the highway, and had
also passed a bill cutting most of
the old pensioners from $25 to $12,
and that I for one had written
Governor Ferguson, that I hoped
she would veto that part of the
bill that called for a reduction of
But let that be as it may. Mr.
Field’s intolerant attitude toward
our mere angles of opinion so flat-
ly contradicts his own plea for
tolerance, that his whole theme be.
comes nothing more than a jingle
of meaningless words Possibly no
other veteran contributor bears
him ill will, and I myself may
condemn him for his generosity in
being so free to give to others that
which probably he will never need
himself. E. W. HUGHES.
• • *
DRENCH economists are even
F more amazed that the second
snd wholly uncalled for default
on the part of their government
should be treated with such calm
indifference.
Europe must not be allowed to
go on assuming that we are hope-
lessly dumb and that there is
nothing which we cannot be per-
suaded to do thru flattery oi
trickiness.
It is time that we stopped con-
fusing isolation with indepen-
dence. If the dollar needs to be
pegged, we should do the pegging
If tariffs are to be cut, we should
insist on a fair break.
If Europe wants to go on play-
Ing with armaments, we should
let It take the consequences.
The idea that we must act as
the world's "fat cat" In order to
save ourselves Is all nonsense.
So is the idea that we are
bound to be drawn Into any con-
flict that may occur and that we
would serve our own interests by
promising to participate before-
hand.
cratic administration to frame
national recovery act, requiring the
issuance of sufficient bonds to bring
about a readjustment that will ab-
sorb the line of 12,000,000 unem-
ployed, and return them to the
normal ranks of industry.
The recent revelations that have
come from the investigation of the
the Confederate pensions.
If you would be good enough to
a publish this letter In your widely-
read paper it might keep some old
people living in your section from
being swindled like they did my
friend and his good wife.
EDWIN WALLER.
San Marcos, Texas.
Gun Running in the Hot Countries
money trust prove to the average
citizen most conclusively that the
big financiers have succeeded by
and thru the power of their wealth
to bring about the enactment of
laws that apparently hold them
guiltless In a little matter of In-
come tax and similar irregularities,
but before the bar of public opin-
ion they are guilty.
New York and Washington pa-
pers please copy.
J. FRANK LAWRENCE,
2608 Vaughn Boulevard.
Ask The Press
You can get an ankwer to any an-
swerable question of fact by writing
to Frederick M. Kerby, Question Edi-
tor, Fort Worth Press Washington
Bureau, 1322 New York Avenue. Wash-
ington, D. C., enclosing three cents In
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
advice cannot be given.
Q If Canada is a part of the
British Empire, why is it allowed
to have separate seats in the As-
sembly of the League of Nations?
A Any—fully self-governing state, do-
minion, or colony may become a member
of the League of Nations. The status of
Canada within the British Empire is that
of a dominion. It is a co-equal with
England in the British Commonwealth of
Nations.
Q. When and where did Ells-
worth Vines Jr. win the national
world championship in tennis?
A When he defeated Henri Cochet of
France, 6-4, 6-4. 6-4, at Forest Hills, N.
Y., Sept. 10, 1932.
* * *
Q. Name the two points farth-
est apart in the United States.
A. Cape Flattery, Wash., and a point
on the Florida coast south of Miami, 2835
miles apart.
Q. How many submarines did
the United States and Germany
lose in the World War?
A. The U. 8. lost one and Germany
lost 205.
This Is Life
By JACK MAXWELL
TTELLO, and howdy-do!
Just a-fishing and a-wishing,
for Instance: Years ago, I teamed
up with a little rabbit twister, and
he and I caught lotsa fish; in fact,
I taught him what I knew about
fly fishing... and we had a great
time. Years rolled by, and the lad
grew up' and married, and now
has a wife and two kids, all of
which means . . , more WORK and
less FISHING.
Last evening the little lad of
Other Days phoned me and we hit
the trail for a few hours of fly-
fishing, and to talk the silly things,
things the cock-eyed world might
not understand . . . but they meant
a lot to we guys.
Tonight. I'm "dated up" with an-
other "rabbit twister," and If sump-
In' don't BUST . . . I'll make a
dern good "bug flipper" outta him.
And, when he, too “grows up,"
marries and has a family to feed
and clothe, and LIFE is tryin' to
pound the stuffin' outta him . . .
he will know HOW to hit the Out-
doors. and go rite on a-fishin’ and
a-wishin’.
Q. Did Herod the Great rebuild
Solomon's Temple?
. A. Yes, but it was destroyed by the
Romans in 70 A. D. The Mosque of Omar
(Mohammedan) now stands on the site.
Q. What countries are included
in Scandinavia?
A. Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
* * *
Q. Where is the Imperial War
Museum?
A. South Kensington, London, Eng.
AnTrodary’s
4A00aac
June28
1491-Henryv, king
of England and
husband of six
women, born.
1712 Jean Jacques
Routseau, French
social philosopher
and writer, born.
1919-Treaty of Ver-
sailles signed.
1953’Statesmen still
fighting about it.
________________________By C. L.
(UN running! What a romantic
U thought—filled is it is with
the possibilities of high adven-
ture, fraught as it is with the
danger and chance that makes
life worth the living.
I was talking the other day to
Colonel B. M. Hatfield — about
his projected boat trip from Fort
Worth to the World's Fair—and
some way or other we drifted
around to items of adventure.
And it came out that the Colo-
nel, an oil man who lives out on
Hawkins Street, had once been
a gun runner: that he had help-
ed plot juntas in the banana
kingdoms, that he had helped car-
ry Hotchkiss guns and rifles into
Honduras and other hot coun-
tries on the Caribbean. And so I
asked the Colonel to tell me about
some of the more thrilling epi-
sodes in the life of a soldier of
fortune, and he said he would.
So It happened that we pulled up
chairs to a table in the Selbold
Coffee Shop for a long session
thru the hot afternoon.
And can the Colonel tell a
thrilling story! Shall I pass it
on? Well, listen . . .
DOUGLAS________________
Street, "we who wanted the ma-
hogany and rubber concessions in
certain parts of Central America
used to agree to do the gun-run-
ning for a revolutionist clique in
exchange for the concession. We
made a lot of our own bombs
. . . out of powder and clay
balls . . . and I don’t know how
many mortars I've helped make
out of bamboo sections wrapped
around with wire. A more ef-
fectived gun than you would im-
agine.". Lots of noise to these
bombs,' but lit-
tie real
ger."
And
dan-
that's
the thing,
the smoke and
noise, says the
Colonel, for
most Latin re-
volts used
he
noise
won
to
by
and in-
t I m I d a 11 on.
That's wh at
made the busi-
ness of the
gun runner so
h u manitarian.
Drop a harm-
Douglas
"AUN running?” mused the
U Colonel. He laughed until
the tremor shook his 300-pound
frame. "An interesting sport,"
he said. "Why, I've helped make
and unmake 11 Central American
presidents that way. But that
was a long time ago; in the days
of the best revolter of ’em all,
General Lee Christmas; in the
days before the cables went down
. . . and, you know It was the
cables that wrecked gun run-
ning."
The Colonel paused reflectively,
and his eyes twinkled as he light-
ed a cigaret. "But gun running
could be humanitarian. The Lat-'
ins didn’t kill many In battle, and
if the gun runners tied up with
the right side they made the
world a better place in which to
live . . . during the next gener-
ation. They helped create better
governments.”
The Colonel smiled as he look-
ed behind the veil of the years.
“I've helped unload many a car-
go of rifles and powder from the
old Wasp,’’ he said, “and once I
helped Christmas capture two
cities.
see
"TN those days,” said the Cap-
1 tain Macklin of Hawkins
less bomb in a half dozen patios
and any city would surrender. Ev-
erybody’d run to the square and
be captured.
TN the capture of two coastal
1 cities in Honduras be and
Christmas, he said, loaded one
end of a raft with high explosives,
placed captured members of a
general's family on the other end
and floated down the bay past
the two towns.
“I stood on the raft with a
pistol pointing at the explosives
and shouting that I'd blow up
the general's family unless the
two towns surrendered,” said Hat-
field. “And they did; the white
flag went up and our rebels took
over. Like I told Lee Christmas
... It was a thin chance but it
worked. It takes strategy to win
battles."
The Colonel mopped back his
graying hair and cited incidents
—In the tropics, Russia, South
Africa and Mexico (for the Colo-
nel says he has left his foot-
prints on' most of the world).
"Did I ever tell you how ban-
dits once captured Torreon?” he
asked. Well, I'll tell you. . . ."
And he did . . . you'll hear
about it tomorrow.
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