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CALLES AND THE FUTURE SHE INAUGURATION yesterday of Plutareo E. Callcs as; president of Mexico should make Nov. 30 a memorable : date in the history, not of Mexico alone, but of North America, j Os course the bearing of this event upon the affairs of the j United States will be secondary only to its bearing upon the future of Mexico itself. For the first Time since the overthrow of the autocratic Por- j tirio Diaz a succession to the Mexican presidency that has been ; both peaceful and constitutional has been effected. The will of J a majority of the Mexican people has been politically expressed l without recourse to arms or intrigue. In this case the majority . will is proven to be a distinctly liberal will, Ualies being the champion of labor and the small farmer. Beyond beimr a personal triumph for Callcs, his election j and inauguration is a tribute to his predecessor, the retiring President Alvaro Obreg n. Obregon came in as a conqueror. In office, however, he did not seek personal aggrandizement and ; the perpetuation of his own power. Instead he worked to make i possible the return by his people to constitutional methods of i self-government. For many years recently—for many decades prior to the Diaz regime—Mexico has been in an almost constant .state of revolution and counter-revolution. With occasional setbacks i her course has been steadily toward the ideals of democracy and liberalism. Anions Mexico’s liberators and progressives have been counted such great names as those of Hidalgo. Morelos, •Jaurez. Madero and Carranza. Whatever mistakes these men may have made, if was their country they sought to serve. So j that it was a splendid tradition which Obreiron had to live up to ; and which lie did live up to. It is the same tradition when must influence Callcs in the conduct of his high office. In the northern view it now seems as if the lonir nightmare of warfare and dark plotting in Mexico were ended. It now seems as if the Mexican people, rat her than Mexican polit .dans, j were in power. No development outside of this country itself could mean more to the United States. This is true for tin* average citizen, who wants no more than a “square deal” in Mexico or any other foreign country, whatever would-be exploitationUts and ounces nonaries on this side of the border may think about it. This newspaper has faith now more than ever before in the future of Mexico, and in the future of amicable and protitabh’ business and other relations between the citizens of tin? nation and the citizens of this one. HEATING TILE GAME? eE WAS CALLED “the smoothest and most dangerous confidence man in the United States,” was Leo Koretz, alias Lou Kcyte. of Chicago. In the past few years. Koretz has been known as the head of the 8.-.vano Syndicate, the Barano Trust Company, the Bavano Timber Company, with offices in many cities. all of which meant nothing, because about all the Bavano companies had was offices. Two years ago. Koretz was indicted, in Chicago, charged with using ti;<> mails * , defraud The State's Attorney in Chicago accused Koretz of slim-slamming gullible folks out of savings aggregating *2.000.000. Rather than stand trial. Koretz jumped his bond and disappeared, leaving behind him his sumptuous offices, his fashionable dwelling, his fast automobiles, and his family, which ,vas penniless. Detectives finally found Kortez near Halifax, Nova Scotia, hiding behind a huge beard, in a grand mansion he had purchased with the money he took from women, and old men, and stewards, and others who trusted him to make them rich quick. In Halifax. Koretz was known ;!■> a man of great generosity, well iked, so popular that he was asked to preach in one of the local churches. Koretz thought he was safe from his pursuers, but a habit trapped him. He liked expensive clothes, and in running down the strange coincidence of a recluse in barren, rocky Nova Scotia who ordered dozens of tine suits from a New York tailor, the police found Koretz in his hiding. Now it s all < ver but the penalty. They will try Koretz ami sentence him to a prison, where the clothes everybody wears arc exactly the same, and none of them are stylish nor of quality The strangest part of it all is that Koretz did all these folks out of their savings, inventing elaborate machinery for the purpose, to satisfy a craving. They lost their all, and he lost his all, his family is penniless—yet a man as smart as Koretz could base made in honest ways all the money he needed to buy all the suits he wanted, if he had just taken a little more time for the job. He and his victims all were trying to beat the game, and everybody lost. Life springs some grim jokes, doesn’t life* AN AIRSHIP LINE from Paris to Moscow will have a traveling time of nineteen hours—if there is anybody in Paris or elsewhere desiring to go to Moscow in nineteen or any other number of hours.

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‘MA ’ WILL PUT STOP TO BRUTALITIES New Governor Expected to End Texas Prison Floggings. ! P-v V h'A Serrirr USTIN. Texas, Dee. I. BrutalityA prisoner lying face i downward on the ground with j one convict sitting on his head, another on his feet. Over him stands a burly man applying lashes to the back with J a leather strap attached to a i wooden handle. The prison doctor I ami legal witnesses look on. The prisoner moans—he can i scarcely move. He forces his : voice in an appeal for mercy— This is the law in Texas. Wholesale floggings of prisoners have been going on in the peniten- ! tiary in Huntsville ami different ; orison cr.mps scattered through the j southern and eastern parts of the ; .<ta f e. with official sanction. The | statutes permit them. >l:t May stop l? Mrs Miriam <Ma) Ferguson is ex I period to order its abolishment when , she is inaugurated Governor in January. And the State legislature probably will go further by enacting a law eliminating forever this practice of disciplining refactory prisoners. Little was known about these wh desale floggings until word of 1 1 ho beatings administered three men ,n th. Blakely > . nviet farm began ;to got abroad. ■ i •!:• revelations were more , st-., k. ig than even those familiar I w ;th tit.- system’s <q raii'-ns ever l had > onceived. During the pas; six months nearly ; ?0n cor.xicts have iinlerg. ’ • ’he tor j tures of the "flogging rhanil-r." i Sum-times ’he flogging: \\ edd ho 'staged in the prison 'cracks Sonicj tings out on the open prairie. S.-m-uinvs "II t prisoners are | for >d ’ • witt --ss them Sonie’lmes or!" witt: -s a-.juiced by law it" r’' It h--ie was . ’le ' c.'Tet-oice jn brut lit V TANARUS: c ■"•■ -t ' nV- I op the rrotjnd. held b> f-H-w pusoners. is • i* • UT ' e.. . . ,I ■ •, • s.t V* s ! him from ,<< 11 >. j Th- ! ' t- usually apph. I by the • manager of the • or v: farm Barks Cut by Blow A strap, four inches wide and a •1 Barter < f an in.-* thick, attached | to • WO. ..ten I: in lie is used ll\ the "ft .gg. If st rot:.- blow is

— s ' 7 A. A TKN \S PRISON FLOGGING AS SKETCHED t KoM AN I- 1 struck, th" skin on th- prisoner's j Science tr ..... er.u u for merev and : For centuries there have '""’n 1<“

struck. tin skin on th<> prisoner's back cuts with each lash. If tiic victim calls for mercy and promises never to disobey the rules attain, the. beatings are halted. A few years ago an Inquiry at the hoys reformatory In Gatesville dls closed 900 inmates hid been subjected to almost every sort of torture imaginable. Tho superintendent was dismissed and the commandant given a. ten year sentence when convicted of killing a 14-yen.r-nl<l boy. Investigation also showed that prisoners at one time were made to straddle "a horse,” a four-inch plank high enough to keep toes off the ground. They were made to ro main on ’his horse for hours at a time. Now, if they are not (logged, they are required to spend hours stand ing on top of a barrel. Boys at the Gatesville reformatory were forced to march with their chins elevates! at an angle of 45 degrees even when the sun struck their faces. When unruly, they have been forced to toe a mark, bend over anti touch their toes, remaining in that position forty live minutes, a punishment only the strongest could undergo without collapsing. Tongue Tips Senator James A. Reed, Missouri: "I do not plead for a large standing Army, but I do believe In the training of a citizens’ officer reserve. We should not send men to death through neglect and lack of organization.” * • * Dr. Karl V. Wettstone, University of Dubuque: "Americanization is rather an ideal than an actuality. We need but travel from foreign section to foreign section of our cities to realize that we have but scratched the surface in solving the ptoblem of the foreign element.’ ’ %

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Max Jerome Phaff, young Now j York lawyer. accused of piracy on the high seas in connection with rum-running enterprise*, is ir-re Landing l ack home on francs bail, '.lending the completion of his trial in a French court. Ins and Outs By HAL COCHRAN Kver -ita-e the le-g .•t.i ■ :g life's ‘ been, flr v t an inning • f i then ; un Inning of 1 ; and We plt.v icpr'-s | sion and then have a ses-c.-n of [ j thing- bat will make us fed dad you shouldn't expect plans to j never be wrecked, so • it's true that i they now and then sli; And ;• 's . that S"i-r of tiling In -■ r ev- and > {thing that makes lift* an ime rt;un , ! trip One day you sit pretty: yr.;t're ; needin' tio pity, for kick's i nda i j breaking your way, You -e -■> ; for stewing: w -tre un and nh; g. it'd all .-f .c is work st > • i play. j A gain life's >x ; : you —• 11 : • in a flurry, and everyrh.ng i wrong Vo : ,-e . ha- " . f: ' < ;•. ou 'x •• ,vel site s ( - way ■ i:;x :: g a :a- :. ■ f ’ frown am! ’the mde \ •• tv: 1 hi* P's • ha* we have that make IC. > •: worth while Copyright. i'‘'J N'K A led

Science For centuries there have been legends about lost continents. Most of these have been about the continent Atlantis. in the Atlantic. There is some evid.-rn - th it this < -a Uncut existed. Even more mys terious fin! attractive, to the romancer and to the investigator with oriental leanings, is the legendary continent that is supposed lo have existed in the Pacific. Col. James Churchward. Mt. Vernon, N. Y.. has returned from India, where he. with oilier Buddhist s.-ho! ars. deciphered ancient table.:./, which, he claims, pi"'"- th< existence of this continent. it had an advanced civilization ! and .00' years ago, he says, and a population of 04.000,000 It was destroyed by great earth convulsions A few Pa cifle islands, such as Hawaii and some of the South Sea islands are the remnants of this continent, according to his theory. Colonel Churchward, formerly of tho British army, has a reputation as a geologist and archaeologist and was the inventor of the steel preparation used for the armor plating of battleships. A Thought Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, ami my calamity laid in the balances together.—-Job. 6:2. * • It Is from the level of calamities, not that of everyday Ufa, that we learn Impressive and useful lessons.—Thackeray. Wife Serves Him “My wife looks after me, T can assure you. Why, she takes off my boots for me in the evening.” “Ah! When you come home from the club?” “No —when I want to go there.” — Edinburgh Scotsman.

SCHOOLS TEACHING UNTRUTHS Geographic Society Finds Many Geographies and Histories inaccurate, UN DIKE I>S of thousands of T 1 1 school children are learning 1~1 j geography and history from maps in their school books which j are no longer correct, the National j Geographic Society of Washington, j D. C.. lias learned after an extensive . survey. Youngsters in many schools are I using books that were printed be- i fore the war. Others, compiled be- | fore the war but still lying printf.il, j are incorrect because it is too much . trouble to correct the plates from • which they are printed, or it costs money, or effort. Kverytbing that children learn froi th* so books must l>e unlearned ! and learm-d till over, a process not . only confusing but about four times , as hard as 1- anting tin- facts correct- . ly at lirst. So tli.st parent* may ch.-ok up on thf-ir children s school tvinks, the I National Geographic Society las ! pi--pared a.• rie-s <>f maps c -.m-id : ; ered the most accurate published, i The Times reprints a copy of the map of Kurope, as pr* j.ared by the Society. The map of llurope lias undergone more changes than that !..f any other continent and next to! j'rem: |. of the I. mi:ed Stt*>. Is the 1 in.ost intporant on** which school! childr.-u have to .-Uidy. < lianges 'limy V- t result of the treaty of Ver-| -u ! tiertna ny lost a total of .. L". i s'j'i.ir-- it- I-- ..f territory h.iv- ■ big a poptil.ition of ti.-17the i I N.-f tonal G.- .graj hie S,--iety estt j t: at t * -s. Hungary was redu.-- and from 1 JA.Ofin I .11 : e miles and more than j m:l-s a: and aU.ut S. inhab- I .- ■ :ii • treaty St G.-t t.-. ,t . : A us*: i.i tv-1 < re I : • 1 ft on. LG ■ ’ 1 •" r u -. . f • . t ’ w j t - w.

v, being Shit* s formed after the ! j Worl 1 War. Kir land is the largest of anv of the new nations.-having an ' j a s'|-..a! to Uz. -ho.. Slovakia, Aus-w-i. Hungary and Bulgaria combined. i’oiand Bigger Than Italy As now constituted, Poland exceeds by oni* third the pre-war area of Italy, having 15U.000 square miles and a population of 27,000,000. i V.e.-ho-Klov-skla is altout a third las large with an area of 54,000 I square miles. This Is about the size .-f our States of New York, New Mersey and Delaware combined. ; .lugo Slavia. another new sov- ' ercign State of importance. Ins been i affected by a larger number of trea- * ties following ih< World War than any other State in Kurope. By tho Austrian peace treaty, Carniola and Dalmatia were acquired; by the Hungarian treaty, the provinces of Croatia and Slavonia and part of Banat, and by the treaty with Bulgaria three small areas including Tsarl ! brod anil Serumltsa, were added. In | addition Austria and Hungary joint- | Iv surrendered (he provinces of Bos- | ni.i and Herzegovina. Serbia was ; also taken into the new territory. ,lugo Slavia is now a state three | times the pre-war size of this lat. j ter country, and has a population estimated at 14,500,000. Italy acquired Trentino, Oorizia and the Istrlan peninsula and the j great seaport of Trieste, thus in- i spring Italian control of the Gulf j of Venice. The total territory gained by treaty was 7.350 square -miles with more than 1,500,000 inhabitants. France got the much disputed provinces fnt Alsace and Borraine and at least temporary control of the great Saar Valley coal field, to compensate in part for - the coal mines in northern France destroyed or damaged by the Germans.

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BOOZE WAR CONDUCTED ON COAST !n• *• • Conspiracy Is Brot: 't to Lisht in West. ; m * spfitil * rm W A >rvi:u rrirNh Ov m tt.'h U • 1 1 4 Am* * ' *f '*’ 1 ’ ... u -. • Vtmc. -r ' b-.-.i.-rs t- P f -rm th<- c. - dot.,:.- of the < '..nsoli 1 Kxp-'rters ] • !. 1 l--.den Vth • mid! it; 1 i :. ~■ of -c" cc: r I rutin-- s a-, j ’ylm: r!:e P , : - King literally tons of h"-- r off the • .•Iv—niib line t Portland. JSearlo. Sin Francisco. Ins Angeles am: San c>. The b -l--.es ■: s’ t:.. tTi> sai 1 i ■ ' mg an army of Ttrl ish Co- ’ h!a exporters corrupted Mexl•lt t’.d '•' :al Am." an port of .Is : in 1 "’.hi. : .ns ,u i .w- ---.... , ni ts a band of 1 t ’--gg.-rs. fore- r. highia.-kers nn.-l gif.m- n. lt.f.-s;: • ■ ev--ty • city. Shipi*-il I'r-un Canada The liquor in cases, either distilled ' In Cam la or exported in bond from ; the Fnlted States or Hngland, is ' sidpped from A'ancouver or Victoria ostensibly for Mexican. South Amort- ■>■ *n • r Central \merican ports. The all.destination is souse -ill p- a- •• • wht re there ■"e only ’ .‘.live of f the ship clearance papers. Til-s'-ad of the cargo of boo;:.,, arriving at the port of destination the agent ! for the Vancouver rum-trust has .false clearance pa pets sent to San Francisco or T."s Angeles and there i turned over to the rum ship as she ! unloads her cargo ofT the twelvei mile line to fishing boats or privateer ! smug :?ers and dealers. The seagoing rum ships are owned by three dominating booze rings I financed by Canadians and Amerl••a’ts A rakish flotilla of a score of bigger vessels, besides some fifty smaller craft, make Goal Harbor; hc: their rendezvous. (>n* is an ex fl-rman subchaser. Another is a ; former M-mtreai millionaire's yacht. ; a third is a former movie boat, user! hv th- Hollywood colony, but now , considerably tiff location. Trust Is Formed "The Trust" dominates the traffi< This is the Consolidated, which j is ,a duly incorporated export firm operating five great warehouses in . British Columbia. Anew firm, i known as the "Western Freighters," I and financed by a Scotch whisky dis- ! Miller, is pressing the “Trust'’ for | business find the rivalry between! the two fleets has brought to light ; tales as thrilling as of the days of j Captain Kidd uud liixie Bull A third ring controlled by Henry i | Keifel. owner of flie B. G. Distillery, j j T,td.. and the richest man in the! | province, who owns several rum J | runners, was among those indicted : ; in connection with the capture ini I Sait Francisco of the rum ship ! Quadra, a "Trust" ship, laden with booze and manned by a crew armed i to the teeth, caught within the twelve-mile limit off the Golden I Gate. Nature A slightly wounded ant is eared I for by its fellows, but a desperately j injured one is ignored and left to die. Authorities on the ice age, during! which North America was deeply covered nearly as far down as the i latitude of the Ohio River, estimate j j that six million ruble miles of ice j ! were piled up over the affected part !of the northern earth. This indicAt- ; : ed a weight of twenty-four quadril- : j lion tons 2-1 with 15 naughts after j ; it. The snow that built up the ice j j came from water evaporated from j | the oceans. One theory is that thoj j great weight tipped the earth a bit, j causing the southern sea water to rush north, with a great flood as the ; result. This may have been old i Noah’s flood.

Tom Sims Says Bad news from Mexico. Women will be educated Then they will know better than to do all the work. | Or.-gen explorers have found an Ind.m city 2,000 years old. Maybe they ran sell the streets for porktng The iny<s of anew year arc always dinne-i because if makes your car : *>i a,- a last year's model. M.s P..v.i is the champion typist lof F•• and e :n her name sounds . l.k>- Living a ?;. :* writer key. TI v ci :m a Frenchman. Louis .' PMl.ips. '-rgiti ired Jazz music, but • v ■ if --1 cross-word puz--.v- :: hav e- aped. In Pir s the rale of snappy p!c- ---• r- s ’.--:ng sv-pped. perhaps to f Am- -an magazines. A N rth o,■ a banker who was - ort 'a .- 't for dinner for - - :.-xt ight ,rs !'. ':j.o- bet wi r.n-bed in a (THcaco jail. No rn.liter how slick you are, soma one e.s- is always slicker. Our food will run ou’ in 3.000 a. TV mvs a s.-ienJust I1k“ ore. ' Worrying about 3,000 A. D. insteal Delayed Thanksgiving report show a great many fat people gained Just .1 few m. : ■ pounds. A surgeon !:: .g • is making Hurry up with your worrying Try and get ft r;1 over with before the Christmas holidays. We can't decide if foolish girls are popular <->r if It is jus’ being popular •hat makes them foolish. Crooks are becoming so numerous in Chicago people with gold teeth are afraid to open their mouths. These Oregon explorers think they have found another lost race. You can find plenty at a race track. Now is the time to have your teeth Mixed for Christinas. 'Copyright, 1!*?4. NEA Service, Ino.J Facts Paraffin is the best material for waterproofing stone, recent taste have revealed. Old-time hooks and scythes are used for harvesting in may parts of : Scotland. More than 500 tons of tickets are sold annually by tho London Omnibus Company. Tho population of Roumurda has increase' i by 600.000 since 1&22, bringing It to 17,000,000. The forests of central Africa are being destroyed by wasteful native methods of farming. Two French operators have obtained X-ray motion pictures of a beating heart. The starfish has no nose, but the whole of its under side is endowed with the sense of smell. More than $1,000,000 worth of playing cards were exported from the United States in 1033. In the old Colonial days, sugar was a luxury, costing 75 cents a p.iund. Ninety-eight per cent of the almonds grown in America are produe. and ip California. Banner-tail, the kagaroo rat, is the champion high jumper among all rodents. "Heat lightning” is tho refieccion of thunderstorms too far distant to be audible. Sugar is dried by means of warm air in long cylindrical revolving granulators. "Fiasco," meaning a failure, is an Italian word, and originally meant a flask. Lazy Limit "Never mind." said a man In tho barber chair, “some of those days someone will invent a machine which will make it. possible for a man to put it right on his head and cm his own hair.” The barber smiled. "Yes.’’ the customer continued, “and then they'll invent something that will shave people automatically" “Well," the barher replied, “the plans will never work out." “Why not?” "People are getting so blamed lazy that after while they'll want their shaves and haircuts called for and delivered."—Youngstown Tele-' gram.