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Show ' This Week 3 by Arthur Brisbane ' Going West e Thank Your Local Editor The First Hoover Year Ants are Foolish and Men t Going through Colorado, New j Mexico, Arizona, and on to the Pacific, for the hundreth time. Is as interesting as on the first journey. jour-ney. You feel that you are in a big country. f A. L. Watnen, of the Interior De- partment of Indian Irrigation Service, Serv-ice, in connection with looking after' af-ter' the Coolidge Dam, says with conviction, "No place east of the Rocky Mountains is fit to live in." i He would not have said that when in the army, across the ocean I a while ago. He is sure of it now. At Albudquerque, H. F. Pickerell is at the station. He is editor of ly the Alburquerque Journal, which is r- a success. Wants you to know that at the Rio Grande conservancy proj-ir proj-ir ect, nothing to do with Bouldei ss Dam, will soon irrigate 120,000 acr-ia acr-ia es or rertue land above and below Alburquerque, providing Jobs ana t- prosperity. to A natural gas main, on its way to Alburquerque, will secure ' the establishment of a big glass factory. fac-tory. Alburquerque "healthiest place In the world, had 17,000 population pop-ulation a little while ago, has 35,-000 35,-000 now, and will soon double that." - Such an editor as Pickerell, is a d- whole chamber of commerce In nim-a- self. The value of an energetic local editor is not often fully appreci-aed appreci-aed by his community, nor is the value of his advertising columns he appreciated by national advertis-ers, advertis-ers, as they should be. His read-ers read-ers buy everything from paint on the roof to cement in the cellar ;d floor, buy more automobiles per capita than city dwellers, have time to read about the latest products, clothes, food, time saving devices, 1, ec. And buy them. re Senator Capper's newspaper, The Daily Capitol," comes out wit h a review of Presid:nt Hoover's first er u Senator Capper describes It as rt year of blue prints." Meaning s. year of preparation, r. The caPital observes that Con-th Con-th esihas nt been strongly behind we President, the "wet press is not sympathetic toward him, and eastern east-ern publications with a Wall Strest omplex are unfriendly and would Wer another President in the "lite House." Senator Capper's editorial de-T2? de-T2? ?1 tert accurately as Wta? h does not act first and rlect afterwards." tan!?, emevScy he acts instantaneously instan-taneously as in the WaU gtreet Prta?' Capper sys blue Zf not a bad start." The four to "three years of the outstanrfimme an administration son of 5" . He finds "the lea-I lea-I v "s ,i lr"minded PPle in Hoc- - j in HooVe.ear to have confidence f ! zhtt Tm be wel1 Pleased' ! say ,?enator CaPPer des not ion 'dien the "wet-dry" ques- 'ih feTn,0'- andthe tariff' 'he wav ""fjnttles, is out of print" stat ic When the "blue ! ak f?orla' wh0 studies ani-aM ani-aM and le'ephant and whale to 1 ebvTVfying sound, noises ce'eaworK- I Sli'tmne Is insect life a, kydU.s there ro Uvet.v -r every f,mille. This will In i:iles make nil that racket "Ants," says Dr. Ditmnrs', "somo times make fools of themselve liny mites, nnd blind littio' .Vn-less beetles pnt tf0 .heh feet ,uul then the ants pat Not ao dim-rent from human be- S te, th a,Ve I""0y- Sych0Phants flat tin them, "pnt them" with conipllmpnts. then they feed the sychophants. nnd sometimes let ihem marry their daughters. Chicago police hold seven men and one lady, accused of conspiring conspir-ing to kidnap citizens, torturing them to extort money. Theodore Kopelman, head of an insurance company, identified the fv feftlh-..tTh0,Indy' his fer V m tlI,1,ed" the kidnappers that if they got him, "he would be He obeyed orders, and paid when threatened with red hot irons. Police investigators attribute six other torture kidnapping" cases to the same gang, and the prosecuting attorney says he will have them all sent to the electric chair Death is the punishment for kidnappin-m kidnappin-m Illinois. That seems a little severe and capital punishment is barbarous Kidnapping, with torture, is 'also barbarous. This small item of news interests managers and stockholders of railroad rail-road and steamship lines: An airplane driven by a Diesel engine flew from Detroit to Miami m 10 hours, 15 minutes, without stopping with Chief Engineer Wilson, Wil-son, of the Packard Company and Walter Lees, pilot. And the trip cost for fuel $8.50. |