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Show .. bt Arthur BrUban If Prohibition Wont Italy's New Tunnel - v ; Charlie Boston Leaves Pity The Poor Parrot " rHS President, according to Wash- 1 ington reports, agrees with Mr. ; Wlckersham that all of the State should share In prohibition enforce-; enforce-; moot Prohibition machinery must be made stronger, with State and Nation-" Nation-" al governmental standing loyally behind be-hind It On the other side of the fence the war against prohibition continues. An organisation of young "Crusaders," with headquarters In Cleveland, has vowed that prohibition shall go. There are many interesting name among the young Crusaders, not dismayed, evidently, by the sad fate of some Crusaders of old. Suppose, "Just for the sake of sup- posing," that antl-prohlblUon should win and prohibition be eliminated. How would the bootleg crime army t be absorbed T At laaat fifty thousand determined and desperate men are In that army. They have become hardened to quick i shooting and accustomed to very "easy money." What would they do If bootlegging, with 1U hundreds of millions of annual an-nual profit, vanished overnight? -- Doe ony one think the army would 1 peaceably disband, returning to dull 1 ' hard work for small payT Hardly. For the first few years, ' when. If ever, prohibition takes wings, i hire for your business and home extra watchmen They wtyl be needed. The Italians, their efficiency in-(c in-(c creased by Mussolini, in spite of finan- t cial difficulties, and unfair treatment i by the war allies, have ust finished a magnificent work. The tunnel i through the Appenlne Mountains,, 1 more than eleven miles long, Is com- pleted, after ten yean' constant work, "-l,l0 men-employed' underground, 800 . above ground and $40,000,000 expend- v , as' The road to Vienna and Berlin is r Vj' tad shorter, "by twenty-two miles. And, much more important, the mail-rauum mail-rauum elevation of railroad tracks is reduced from 2,003 to 1,04 feet, increasing in-creasing speed, and freight-hauling poMlbllltles. This American nation needs similar tunnels In the Pacific Coast, notably through the mountains back of Seattle : and Portland, and such tunnels would pay enormous dividends, cutting transportation, sending east of the mountains, for irrigation, water that now goes to waste in the Pacific. In great public works, we are literally liter-ally behind France, Italy, Germany, Britain, and considering how great ' our wealth is compared with theirs, and our number of unemployed, our backwardness Is disgraceful. . They get things done. We talk, " write, appoint commissions, delay and side-step. Ferhape some day, when we ; get our whisky question off the na- ' tlonal ohest, we shall have time and energy for other things. The late Charlie Boston, New Tork " Chinese merchant, head of an import-'V import-'V ant "long and doubtless In heaven at this moment, neglected no precautions. precau-tions. a Tw Chinese bands accompanied ; him to the grave, to keep away evil I spirits, and bits of paper were scats' scat-s' tered along the route, perhaps with prayers written on them, to frighten ; the evil spirits more thoroughly. Two f Chinese bands should have sufficed. I , Rice, wine and ehicken were placed la Mr. Boston's grave, with the bod, that he might need nothing. . A Presbyterian clergyman, Chinese, 'J read the Christian burial service. . R was planned to have a Taolat priest go through a Chin sec ceremony to mak sure, but ao Taolst priest -i . could be found. - Behind the two Chinese bands X marched aa Italian band, which play ed sad dirges. Few arrive at the heavenly gates with such a good start 't -Pity the poor parrot, now ia the i limelight because of his disease, ti psittacosis, which when human beings 4 ' contract it, usually kills them. The number of deaths Is small, com-;1 com-;1 , pared with other death causes. But I . "psittacosis" la a hmg name and to be I killed by. germs from your own parrot j ' is aamUUUag. 4 Matty husbands, seeing their oppor- : j'f tuntty, have turned pet parrots over r. ' to the authorities to be disposed of, mercifully, sacrificing many that aev-i aev-i er had pstttacoala - ' Sad for parrots, but no great loss. , After an, a parrot cannot say any- thing that you cannot say yourself, better, and its shrieking annoys neigh bora. J ii '.' From Portland to San Francisco, :: : Air Mall Pilot Ralph Vlrden flew at an average speed of 301 miles an I hour, breaking records and climbing : ; 1 . 13.000 feet up to get the desired "fast i .': 1 tall wind" to drive him along. I I The poetoffice has done more to de- J ' velop American aviation than all oth-t oth-t ' . " '' or agencies combined. Jyr "'"""H ' -President Hoover and Postmaster f Brown and the brave, brilliantly able ' mail "pilots deserve the public's 'thanks . ' "-' '',' ': - ': ' .' MS. s Kiat fMn SraekMt fej - ' |