Show THE TASTE FOR FO BLOOD AFTER I FTER ALL It such a fat far en cry LI rom from the days of the gladiator to the present that is when judged by bythe b bythe the popular appetite for sensational and bloody performances s Men den dont hack each other with any anymore more mo mores J nor are an Christians used as tor h h to light garden gare parties panties pa But the th minds of ot men are running more and more to the dangerously r lar The feat that draws the ibe largest audience Is that In which the element of danger is I most prominent Only a little while ago the Inventor of a loop contrivance was w s dashed d shed to te death from his own machine Wednesday In the city of or Louisville Ky K a man who was known knon as aa the thc human bomb was so seriously injured I that his recovery is impossible This I performance scorns se to have been the in carnation of ot dangerous the chief figure re allowed himself to be attached to a bomb which was Waz wa z hurled to a a great height where It ex et plod d releasing ng him and sand a parachute at ut the same me time and allowIng him to tc descend end safely by means mens m ns of ot the great t umbrella The feat teat required no Jio bravery erY What It did require was a display of or o r reckless foolhardiness such as fortu tortu nat ly enough are rarely met snot With At Wednesdays performance nce wit y as usual by a mange large crowd of or o C the bomb failed to t explode at the proper point Duill Dum could conic I not release e himself from It and the de do scent was rabid Pid A hundred feet in iz I the air the missile let go and when hen 1 Dull Duill struck the earth his back was was S broken br ken and nd he had sustained other othe in juries uries j Of course ourse Dull Duill was a fool f ol and I deserves no sympathy ath Still a e man i with as much nerve nerve as he had bad deserved a better tate fate f te teTh The Th real blame lies ll with RIth he be people D poop ople 0 who go so to see such su h performances p It is I S absolutely certain that if it w were re not no t for the morbid perverted taste that tha t attracts spectators to such sights there ther e would be none of them The Herald C would auld not Interfere With legitimate e amusements but the line should be b 0 drawn somewhere Some Seine people le must t t be tze protected from themselves them Human Rix n a life Ufe l feis Is entirely e too fa valuable h ble to i tob 1 e wasted or even ven jeopardized J oP d Jn In an effort t to make an American holiday hollday Until Ur more reasonable forms of e Pt amusement amusement are devised d ds d and popular r i we have little real right t to cise ise adversely ad the Mexican Bull bill fights or even the ancient gladiators |