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Show convicts fn fhe blockade, wTen a" machine ma-chine gunner on the roof discharged his machine gun accidentally and killed them. Such accidents are bad for prison discipline. (, 1930, Dy King tttturts bpndtcau, lac.) ! i have 1,800 stories" and require a large base. With modern building conditions, all the ground floor space ltt the building would be for elevators. '"But human Intelligence will overcome over-come that, and Mr. Otis of elevator fame la working now on tha problem of multiple elevators In one shaft. This writer ono rode In suoh an elevator ele-vator in London. It moved slowly, the cars attached in an endless chain that turned around and came down without turning upside down. There la a great deal of action la modern killings, now so frequent that it la hardly worth while writing about them. Near Chicago, Chief Mitchell, of the La Orange police, sitting with two other policemen in a lonely spot, was wondering why a machine ahead stopped by the road and put out Its lights. Investigating, he saw a man, hands and feet tied, sitting against a tree, begging: "Give me a break." The reply was : "I'll break your head," and one of the gang struck the victim over the head with a pistol butt. There was a rope around the man's neck, thrown over the limb of a tree. It was to be a hanging. Three policemen, with three flashlights, flash-lights, yelled: "Put your hands up!" and, having the drop, they were obeyed. Two of the intended murderers had been in jail and were paroled. There is a little too much paroling. The victim, Holmes, a wood carver, had met a woman belonging to one of the gang, wanted to marry nor and "make an honest woman of her." The gang decided to make corpses of both. If you saw that in a dime novel you'd say:, "Impossible nonsense." Celebrating his twentieth anniversary anniver-sary as King of England and Emperor of India, King George, last week, went to the races for the first time since his serious Illness. Buckingham Palace and the government govern-ment buildings were decorated with flags. His subjects rejoiced. He has been a good king, aware that j the business of a British ruler Is to . listen to his ministers, chosen by the people, and say "Amen" when they have spoken. Looking back over twenty years! King George must feel grateful for the firmness of his throne, one of few, involved in-volved in the World War, that survived sur-vived It. In the Ohio penitentiary, where near, ly four hundred convicts were recently burned alive, two long-term prisoners ended their inwlsonment suddenly laweiekThey wereasleeD. with other I t This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE Mr. Wells' Chimpanzee Pagodas Shaken 18,000-Foot Building Shaming Dime Novels Did you read H. G. Wells' interesting itatememt about the higher apes? Thej san "think ahead" a little. No other inlmal except man, not even monkeys (pith tails, can do it. Without being taught, a chimpanzee ..- will take one stick, insert It in the hol low of another stick, and, with the idded length, draw a banana into its sage. ' Since the beginning of time no other inlmal but man could think as much is that. Consider what man does now, weighing weigh-ing the stars, measuring the electrons Inside of an atom. And only twelve j thousand years ago he was using sharp flints for weapons, not far ahead, mentally, men-tally, of the chimpanzee. What will he io 10,000,000 years hence? News from Burma tells of many Seaths by earthquake and tidal wave. Ancient pagodas were rocked to destruction. de-struction. From the top of one, the Shwe-Dagon pagoda, there fell a huge weather vane, of solid gold, said to be worth $1,200,000. Many devout Burmans doubtless mked themselves what particular God had become annoyed, juBt what had annoyed him and how he could be placated. Educated Burmans know that it was only this old earth trying to settle down Into permanent shape. That process will continue for thousands of centuries. cen-turies. The Pacific Coast sends news of snow four feet deep near Los Angeles. In New York, on the other ocean the themometer stands at 80, and rising, as this la written. Forest fires continue in the East, hundreds of them in many States. Some, unfortunately, are believed to be incendiary. Why any man, whatever his grievance griev-ance against an Individual, society as a whole or himself, should set fire to a countryside; and burn beautiful trees that could not offend him, is beyond comprehension. Engineers in Charles M. Schwab's organization, figuring out stress bearing bear-ing and weight carrying capacity of steel construction, say it Is mechanically mechani-cally possible to build a skyscraper 8t000 feet high. Such a building would |
