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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane .59 Run 120,000,000 Our Biggest Industry Another Girl Ona Short Lynching James W. Gerard, formerly ambassador am-bassador to Germany, says "59 men rule the United States." The remaining re-maining 120,000,000 odd will be interested in-terested to know that but one public pub-lic official and not even the President Presi-dent of the United States or any member of his cabinet, except Secretary Mellon, appears in the list of "59 that rule the nation." It seems impossible, but perhaps it isn't. Sometimes men seem to rule that really do not rule. Mr. Gerard says, "All these men are too busy to run for political office." The really important man, of course, doesn't run when he can send a boy to run for him. However, the marvelous 59 don't seem to be doing very much running cf the nation just at present. They are letting down the good old U. S. A. machine coast down hill, while each asks the other 58: "What do you think of the prospects?" Some read with surprise the statement that organized crime in the United States, including booU legging, takes in each year an amount running into billions, far in excess of the total revenues of the United States government. It is no exaggeration. The get-rich get-rich ouick rascals, racketeers, gangsters, gang-sters, bootleggers, collect, squander ,and distribute in bribes a revenue greater than that of Uncle Sam. One little item in the organized racketeering shows that in New York, the "milk gang" levy on milk j dealers amounts to $1,155,000 a iv.eiik. and that is only one of a thousand "rackets." I Investigation of "tong" murderers, in New York's Chinese quarter, shows that certain Chinese have entered the "racketeer" game so important in our modern civilization. civiliza-tion. The humblest Chinese earning a living must pay part to the racketeers. racket-eers. Big Chinese racketeers are bosses" boss-es" in smuggling in Chinese for $2,000 a head. The crime wave is spreading and will spread, while young men otherwise oth-erwise worthless, deadened by cocaine, co-caine, can earn $500 by pulling a trigger. The Duchess of York has a second sec-ond baby girl, no son. Between that baby with its head shaking, eyes that cannot yet see, trying to get used to new suroundings, and the British throne, there are only three lives. The British, doubtless also the mother, father and royal grandparents, grand-parents, wished for a boy. It is not a sound wish, for since Henry the Eighth the only two British royalties that really amounted amount-ed to much, in themselves, were women. Elizabeth established power in government, and Victoria established establish-ed good morals in government and selected advisors that made hei Empire respected. When Gutenberg ran nis little press by hand, using the typesetting idea that was to fight the darkness of superstition with light, he printed print-ed a simple Bible. One of his F'bles now becomes the property of t:ie Congressional Library. Ona million five hundred thousand dollars dol-lars bought Dr. Volbehr's collection in which the Gutenberg Bible is included. in-cluded. Dr. Volbehr bought the Bible from the monk of St. Blaisus Monastery in Austria for $275,000. All that would surprise old Gutenberg Gu-tenberg if he could hear of it. But a modern printing press would surprise and interest him more. Oliver Moore, 29, a negro, was accused of attacking two white girls. The sheriff jailed him,' a mob broke into the prison, "Moore walked sullenly down the aisle toward them." They took him to his home, that the "lesson miglit be impressed up-cn up-cn his neighbors," hanged him to a tree, riddled his body with bullets. Men in the North will pass judgement judge-ment cn that incident promptly. Some might modify the judgement if they happened to be the father cf girls, five and seven years old similarly treated. Working in a tunnel under construction con-struction near Madrid, a Spanish workman, Antonio Camacho, 34 cars old saw that a case of dynamite, dyna-mite, with, many workers near it had caught fire. Saving nothing' he carried it out of the tunnel and was blown to atoms. The other workmen were saved. f His name won't be remembered t :'( r f:v minutes, but it is just n- I i well to print it at least. I No other name will bo rernem " bpred -ither, for that matter when this cm-th is a million or two years I 0?CttT. ... ih-: :.;v-.'L-t price "for all'time" ;..: wilts a pound. ' Take apples not quite ripe, boil them, let the juice drip from a F i I . J3?.. thi n squeeze the bag. Make ill a;yia joliy, op.l- cup oi suur 'ld I V 'i "; aPPle juice, ana vo.i I I h.ive tnroiiRh the winter 'an I exr-lient, nourishing and cheerful ua j food for your children. That jelly on bread, with fresh butter under ! the jelly, is a food, almost complete i vitamins and all. " ' |