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Show ; This Week by ARTI fUR BRISBANE New Tariff Mr. Mulrooney on Crime $500 Per Killing Do AregeJs Fly on Sunday? The new tariff passed the Senate, and one of the richest, most forceful men in Wall Street says: "That means the election of a 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 his production. 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, smug-gling, by making it less profitable. Commissioner Mulrooney, newly appointed ap-pointed head of New York's police discourses dis-courses interestingly on crime. He says: "In a murder case you must have 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 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 citizens would do their part. As a rule they prefer being 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 segregated, segre-gated, not confined with older criminals, crim-inals, who teach them all they know. Capita! punishment does no good. "Send the gangster caught carrying a gun, thus proving his intention of willingness to commit murder, to some place just lDside 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 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 loyal subjects by refraining from, encouraging encour-aging desecration 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 water supply that could be turned off. A young American twin, Jenny 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 2,000,000 francs winuings, about $80,000. At least, she and the press agent say so. For their 2,000,000 francs, If really won, they will get 500.000,000 francs' worth of free advertising. Fools will crowd their tables, and later Miss Dolly will return the ?SO,C0O 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 o( 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 direction. Old men to direct, young men to do. Mr. Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockfaller, writes on "The Use of Leisure," in the Dartmouth alumni magazine. The article is w!l 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 sway a grea( deal, but compound interest Is morf powerful than their givine- With snj sort of management, the third generation gener-ation of Rockefeller should have ai least five thousand million dollars, a largo sum to use satisfactorily. The death of Sir Henry Segrave, brilliant, courageous Englishman, wili be regretted everywhere. He had developed new speeds Ir. motorboats and automobiles, and wa killed wheu a boat In which he was go ing 100 miles an hour cu.psizec and sank. Major Segrave had shown thai man's speed afloat can be greatly in creased. Nature supplies, in water perfect, ball-bearing surface, the dropi of water rolling oue over the other without friction. l& MiV, oj foul rutux. ayDditKA. IMC4 |