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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane New Tariff Mr. MiUrooney on Crime $500 Per Killing Do Ang-els Fly on Sunday? The new tariff passed the Senate, Sen-ate, and one of the richest, most forceful men in Wall Street says: "That means the election of a Democrat 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 heav-ily duties on others of his production. produc-tion. Some will be glad to hear that the duty on pearls and diamonds has been cut in two. This is done not to oblige those that want jewelry, but to diminish smuggling, by making it less profitable. Commiisioner Mulrooney, newly appointed head of New York's police po-lice disccurses interestingly on crime. He says: In a murder case you must hae one of two things, an eye-witness or a confession. With gangsters well organized, witnesses are afraid to testify. The killers do not confess." The modern killer runs little ritk 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. citizens would do their pare a rule they prefer being blackmailed to defending themselves. ! Racketeers and gangsters are miserable mis-erable cowards, except "when ganged gang-ed up and armed. A real man could take a chair and beat up half a dozen of them." Young criminals should be segregated, seg-regated, not confined with older criminals, who teach them all they knCa'pital punishment does no goal. "Send the gangsters caught carrying car-rying a gun, thus proving his intention in-tention of willingness to commit murder, to some place just inside the Arctic Circle where he will do useful hard work for the rest ol hL. life, and you will get results that no electric chair could give. The Prince of Wales flew from England to Le 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 fu-ture loyal subjects by rei rainin from encouraging desecration of th. sabbath." The Prince did not answer. Perhaps he is asking the Arch- anlu nf Cfllltc''bury whether the wim "y Sunday or fold thel k. n n Salurday midnight to tnhin, Spri"BS were 0I1ce known ' rowds hpV1 ?fthered Potable ' d on or b"a;'Se the ded not a This lL Z n the Sabbath. rhnmn ff 1 haPP'-ned lately, al- thouch it would still be easy ro LaTersm that could Fran,f b',ing h0USe at L Fiance, playing baccaret tAnCL as the Slm rose she went to bed with 2,000,000 francs, winnings win-nings about $80,000. At. least, she and the press agent say so. T . " uieir 2,000,000 francs, if really wen, they wiU get 500,000 000 francs worth of free advertising. Fools will crowd their tables and $80,000 with interest. Henry Ford says that "more than ever business industry must depend de-pend on older men. When he was young, he talked to old men, got their advice and paid attention to He is right about the importance ol old men, but when you driv around the works with him you find on the front seat, in the person per-son of his manager, a young man, with the energy of two steam engines. en-gines. Young men for energy, old men for direction. Old men to direct, young men to do. Mr. Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockefeller, writes cn "The Use of Leisure," in the Dartmouth Dart-mouth alumni magazine. The article ar-ticle is well written, serious. In time the young man's problems prob-lems will be "the use of money." His father and grandfather do not live extravagantly. They give away a great deal, but compound interest is more powerful than their giving. With any sort of management, man-agement, the third generation 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 spseeds in motorboats and automobiles, and was killed when a boat in whicn he was going 100 miles an hour capsized and sank. Major Segrave had shown that, man's speed afloat can be greatly increased. Nature supplies, in water, wa-ter, perfect, ball-bearing surface, the drop of water rolling one over the other, without friction. A water speed of 500 miles an hcur could be obtained with the right ship construction and adequate ade-quate application of power. |