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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane New Tariff Mr. Mulrooney on Crime $500 Per Killing Do Angela Fly on Sunday? The new tariff passed the Senate, and one of the richest, most forceful men In Wull Street says: "That means the election of a Dem-ocrat Dem-ocrat in 1932." It depends on the nomination. Some things are more Important to voters than the tariff. Farmers looking through the increased in-creased rates will find an effort to help them, adding 100 per cent to the duty on cream, increasing heavily duties on others of Ills production. Some will be glad to hear that the duty on pearls and diamonds baa been cut in two. This is done not to oblige those that want Jewelry, but to diminish smuggling, smug-gling, by making it less profitable. Commissioner Mulrooney, newly appointed ap-pointed head of N'ew York's police discourses dis-courses Interestingly on crime. He ays: "In murder case you must have one of two things, "an eye-witness or confession. "With gangsters well organized, witnesses are afraid to testify. The killers do not confess." The modern killer runs little risk. For $500 he hires a boy 16 or 17 years old, the boy does the shooting, not even knowing the name of the man "put on the spot." or why he is killed. Racketeers, according to Commissioner Commis-sioner Mulrooney, would vanish, If citkens would do their part. As a rule they pr-fer belns blackmailed to defending themselves. Racketeers and gangsters are miserable mis-erable cowards, except "when ganged up and armed. A real man could take a chair and beat up half a dozen of them." Young criminals should be segre-, segre-, gated, not confined with older crim inals, who teach them all they know. Capital puniBhment does no good. "Send the gangster caught carrying a gun, thus proving his Intention of willingness to commit murder, to some place Just Inside the Arctic Circle Cir-cle where he will do useful hard work for the rest of his life, and you will get results that no electric chair could give." .-. : The Prince of Wales flew trom England to Lo Touquet for a game of golf on Sunday, and churchmen at Cardiff wired him:. "Your Royal Highness should set a higher example to your future loyal subjects by refraining from encour-V encour-V aging destcratlon of the sabbath." The Prince did not answer. Perhaps he Is asking the Archbishop Arch-bishop of Canterbury whether the angels an-gels fly on Sunday or fold their wings on Saturday midnight, to keep them folded until Monday morning. Certain springs were once known to be holy and gathered profitable crowds, because they yielded not a drop of water on the Sabbath. This has not happened lately, although it would still be easy to arrange a r water supply that could be turned off. A young American twtn, Jemy of the Dolly sisters, sat up all night in a gambling house at Le Touquet, France, playing baccarat. And as the sun rose she went to bed with 2,OU0,000 francs winnings, about $30,000. At least, she and the press agent Bay so. For their 2,000,000 francs. It really won, they will get 600,000,000 francs' worth of free advertising. Fools will crowd their tables, and later Miss Dolly will return the 180,000 with interest. in-terest. Henry Ford says that "more than ever" business industry must depend on older men. When he was young he talked to old men, got their advice and paid attention to it. He is right about the importance of old men, but when you drive around ' the works with him, you find on the front seat, In the person of his manager, man-ager, a young man, with the energy of two steam engines. Young men for energy, old men for j direction. t Old men to direct, young men to do. Mr. Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockfeller, writes on "The Use of Leisure," in the Dartmouth alumni magazine. The article is well written, serious. In time the young man's problem will be "the use of money." His father fath-er and grandfather do not live extravagantly. extrav-agantly. They give away a great deal, but compound Interest Is more powerful than their giving. With any sort of management, the third generation gener-ation of Rockefeller should have at least five thousand million dollars, a . large sum to use satisfactorily. The death of Sir Henry Segrave, brilliant, courageous Englishman, will . be regretted everywhere. , ' He had developed new speeds in motorboats and automobiles, and was killed when a boat in which he was going go-ing 100 miles an hour capsized and sank. Major Segrave had shown that man's speed afloat can be greatly increased. in-creased. Nature supplies, in water, perfect, ball-bearing surface, the drops ' . . , of. "rater rolling one over the other, )?ut friction. ending fin. |