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Show TH E C I and Clias. A. Levine left New York and flew to within a hundred miles of Berlin, their destination, breaking all world's records for non-sto- p long flights. The long flights conclusively prove superior construction of our airplane engines which has made possible the crossing of the Atlantic in a few hours instead of a few days by boat, whereas several years ago it took several weeks to cross the water. It sure makes us feel fine to see how grandly our fliers are entertained in Europe. Lindbergh could have anything his heart desired in Paris, while Chamberlin and Levine is turning Germany upside down in a royal welcome. Our judges on the fench have no sympathy for the husband who objects to his wife appearing in the style of the day. Long skirts, long hair and cotton stockings do not belong to this age. Chamberlin and Levine, transAtlantic fliers, will tour Europe, via the air, before returning to New York. According to present plans they propose to make the return trip in their famous flying machine, leaving London for the trip back home. BENGTZEN GETS HEARING T I Z EN outside of the surprise that it is creating throughout the 1C con try. When juvenile courts were first suggested, the pe0j n thought such courts would create much good in regulating lives of the younger generation. However, statistics show tli the leniency in dealing witli the youthful criminals has done rti erything but reform them. First offenses are blinked at, ai those having influential parents are protected. This knowled has spread among the youth of the country with the result th itr mere children do not hesitate to steal everything they can gd their hands on, from a bag of peanuts to a $5,000 automobile, a ie When a thief is given a reprimand for his first offense is only an encouragement to continue, always following the th $ ory that he will not be caught the next time, and in a few mont tri the ordinary boy develops into a hardened criminal and then i is too late to reform. Children must be taught to respect the law and it cannot done with a stick of candy. The boy of fifteen knows the diffe th ence between right and wrong. ei The boy that does not work is generally the boy who falls! id the wayside and gets into all sorts of mischief. A loafer nev in makes good. It was not so very long ago when Congress V asked to pass a child labor bill preventing the youth of the con try from engaging in any kind of work until they were of aa Such legislation would have provided a real brooder of erinl id and the country would have been filled with a host of loafii jr vagabonds. 0 ke c Bid lj la rei an re: D ill Clias. J. Bengtzen, who has been delving into city and county records for the past five years, checking up municipal expense accounts, reports that he has gathered much valuable information, and he has been granted a hearing before the city commission next Monday evening in the council chamber. If some of the figures Bengtzen has dug up are correct, there appears much work ahead for the auditors. FLAG DAY is Flag day. Old Glory ought to wave from the home of every residence in the city next Monday. People may be patriotic without displaying the flag, but it makes one feel better to participate in a celebration which means so much to us all, and we will all be better citizens in helping to perpetuate the unfurling of the Stars and Stripes which wave over the home of the brave and the free. . .Tune 14 HOME FOR CRIMINALS The United States leads the world in crime, which fact was brought out at the international convention of police chiefs at Windsor, Ontario, the other day. It was shown that while 12,000 men and women were unlawfully killed or killed while performing unlawful acts in the United States in 1926, while during the same time there were only 246 killings in England and Wales. It conclusively shows the difference between strict enforcement of law and the lax kind we have in this country, the kind the criminals do not fear. TROUBLE LOOMING Acording to late advices from China, the air is full of rumors that trouble may occur at any time between Chinese and the foreigners. Commander Smedley D. Butler is in favor of withdrawing, claiming that it will take too many men and boats to keep the lines open to the sea. A United States capitalist has been accused of saying that his company is in China to continue to do business and if necessary the United States army will protect him. This fellow is taking a whole lot for granted. - YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS What is the underlying cause of the great increase of crime among our youth! It is a question that has been discussed pro and con in all parts of the country, yet no solution has been suggested or found He en f k :ci GAMBLER REACHES TOP Je: Tex" Rickard has broken into New York society. i Gai j men have been looked down upon, with tl i police hot on their trail at all times, yet in our metropolitan cit the gambler is pressed to the bosom of society. We do not kno what to label this sort of. reform, but it does appear that seie ia is not the least particular just so long as your pockets bulge wi biers and sure-thin- g in mi 19 iii gold. 11 0 SMALL TOWN STUFF si The small town has always been noted for its radical u lift" laws, but it has remained for Scipio police to arrest ama because he had a billiard table in his home. When the math was finally brought before Judge Thomas H. Burton of tl Fifth Judicial district for decision, it only took the judge seconds to tell the people that the citizen had some rights afe in tli country. WHATS HAPPENED In a recent issue of the Boston Globe, Clemeneeau, the v premier of France, was quoted as having given the his reason for not writing his memoirs : following i I have seen too much and know too much. If I wrote n h memoirs, not a man would go to war, even if the security of country demanded it." ALLEGED MURDERER MURDERED Peter Voikoff, who is said to have signed the death that caused the. death of Czar Nicholas and the Russian warrjj met his Waterloo at a railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, vli a young assassin fired several shots into his body. The nmrd of the Russian family shocked the entire world. It was doj in such a cold blooded manner and it is recorded as one of most atrocious murders in the histroy of the world. If Vo was responsible for the death of the Czar, he has now suffer a like penalty. This killing may result in trouble between Poland and Kfl . si a. I I i j |