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The Finishing Shop The finishing shop in the crime factory is the courtroom ruled by political influence. Cities in which petty and major crime flourish usually have a judge or two who can be depended upon to turn free those with political power and protection. The criminal law is well devised to protect the criminal through apparently insignificant courts. A hearing before a magistrate is a constitutional right, originally designed to protect the individual from official tyranny. In many places it has developed into an easy method of escape for the guilty. The bosses who thrive on big graft must protect the underworld and its characters, for the underworld furnishes the votes to put over the candidates who are labeled by parties as pure and indorsed, most frequently, by professional reformers. The underworld furnishes the ballot box staffer and the repeater. Its price is the right to prey, through crime, operation of petty gambling places, vice, baseball pools and bootleg joints, upon the public. The customers of these places furnish the man with the gun who sticks up and sometimes kills the decent citizen. Even a determined and honest police department might be discouraged when courts continually turn loose the guilty on slim technicalities and often in violation of the plain evidence. That furnishes departments with a desire for blindness with an alibi for inactivity. “What court am I in?” was the question asked of a policeman by a man placed under arrest, according to testimony of the arresting officer. And when given a name, he said: “That’s all right.” And it was all right. He went free. When any city becomes the victim of crime waves, and discovers the crime factory in wide open gambling and protected violation of the law, it may be worth its.while to look for th(j finishing shop. That shop is the political courtroom ruled by political influence, where pull and protection instead of law govern decisions. This department of the crime factory is generally easily located. A Fine Distinction When Rumania sent, as that country did evening, a royal decoraton to Wallace O. Lee, it did more than recognize an individual. The citation and appointment was the royal manner of recognizing hospitality and courtesy when Queen Marie visited this city. It was Mr. Lee who had charge of the arrangements and whose deftness and understanding made that visit so outstanding in the memory of the distinguished visitor that the decoration follows as a letter of appreciation. Here are characteristics which any city might cultivate with not only pride but profit. Courtesy and hospitality ma£3 for enduring friendships. A city known as a courteous community to the stranger, as hospitable to the visitor, is more than ‘‘No Mean City.” And any citizen who contributes largely to such a reputation deserves the thanks of his fellows. Tomorrow’s Navy What does all this ocean hopping mean to us m terms of national defense? Are we in peril of bombs from overseas? Is our Navy obsolete or on the point of being? Is the battleship doomed? The next Congress should consider these questions. It is due to tackle the problem of rounding out our Navy to bring it up to treaty of Washington specifications, which imply it shall be second to none. It is proposed that we build fifteen 10,000-ton cruisers, an airplane carrier and some other ships at once. And in 1931 some of our capital ships will have to be replaced, while between that time and 1935 practically our entire fleet of destroyers will be retired for age and new ones built. With what are we going to replace them? What will our new ships be like? Will they be like the old ones, to all intents and purposes, or will they embody all we have learned to date, plus some intelligent guesses as to the future? Much depends on the answers which Congress will give to these questions. It is to be hoped, therefore, that brains, rather than politics, will be the deciding factor. In the last fourteen months the Atlantic has been flown time and again. So has the Pacific, from the west coast to Hawaii, and from California to Australia. These exploits have thrown the spbtlight on some of the possibilities, as well as some of the limitations, of airplanes. They have proved beyond doubt the world’s great navies of today are due for a thorough overhauling to fit them to fly as well as to swim and dive. But they have also proved that, barring some revolutionary discoveries in the way of motors and fuels, we can not afford to place our sole reliance, or even our main ’reliance, on planes for our national security. This is particularly true when the fortunes of war dictate that our fighting shall be done at considerable distance from home. The other day our new airplane carrier, Lexington, shattered all records for speed. She steamed faster even than the swiftest passenger liners. Yet she can carry upward of a hundred planes—pursuit planes, fighters, bombers, torpedo-launching and the rest. Recently, too, Great Britain experimented with a great new ocean-going submarine equipped to carry planes. Even destroyers are being planned to utilize aircraft, at least for scouting or observation purposes. Here, many of our younger naval officers are asserting, is a glimpse of the future. Our present

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battleships are not obsolete, but they are passing. In their place we will have Lexingtons. Our ships of 10,000 tons may be called cruisers, but they, too, will be airplane carriers. And all our new destroyers and submarines will carry planes. But we must have ships. We can’t disperse with ships—at least for an indeterminate time to come. The question is the type of ships we must have, the kind of armor required, and the sort of guns the ships will carry, in addition to the planes. Perhaps it was just as well that Congress failed to appropriate that $275,000,000 for new craft during Its last session. It gives us time to think—time to study things out. Both the old fogey who says the battleship is everything and the enthusiast who claims the airplane is all we need are wrong. Somewhere between is the type of navy we must build and it will be up to Congress to blaze the trail. For, as surely as Iron ships superseded wooden ships, the present eia is dead. Aircraft here and they will revolutionize the navies and the naval tactics of tomorrow. Senator Reed’s Position If Senator Reed is right in his xiew, first, that; Governor A1 Smith will fail to get the necessary twathirds of the Houston votes and, second, that he (Senator Reed) then will, as the only other candidate having any considerable strength, attract that said tvo-thirds to himself, there will be only one possible explanation. It is this: The Democratic party refuses to nom> nate a Catholic. Between these candidates, broadly speaking, there is little difference, save as to their church affiliation; not much more difference than the fact that Smith wears a derby hat and Reed doesn’t. True, it may be argued for Smith that he has proved himself an executive almost without peer in this country, while Reed’s reputation Is that of a public prosecutor, or it may be said Smith’s understanding is limited to state affairs, while Reed is experienced in national and international matters. And then, in turn, it can be recalled that Smith has been right, from the Wilsonian viewpoint, on international policies, while Reed has been wrong. There are differences of that kind, but It is nOv about these differences that the delegates seem to be concerned. Both men are wet—but Smith is a Catholic. It is only on that fact that can base any hope. Yet if Reed may hope for the nomination on this ground, he surely would not hope for election. If the Democratic party can not afford to nominate j a Catholic this year, it is equally true that it can not afford not to do so. The Yosemite Threat The Yosemite National Park, in California, is one of the most beautiful and popular of our national monuments. More than half a million people visited it last summer; the number this year will be greater. Yet, contrary to popular belief, not all of the land there Is national property. There are more than 11,000 acres of privately owned land wthln the park; these lands can be cut over, used for hot dog stands or otherwise used so as to mar the natural beauty of the park. The National Park Service wants to make this private acreage national property. It can do so by trading to the owners certain other park lands and paying about $2,000,000 in cash. An act of Congress is necessary before this can be done. Congress must act at the next session, for lumbering operations are expected to be started next year. It is highly important that that act go through Congress. If you want to see the Yosemite preserved unspoiled, write your Congressman at once.

—■Pavia Dietz on Science Star Groups Change No. 82

THE sky seems to be a great dome above the earth which is turning with the north star for an axis. Astronomers call this apparent dome the celestial sphere. The accompanying diagram will help you to understand the apparent motions of the celestial sphere. Imagine yourself seated upon a small globe at the center of a great hollow sphere. A platform extends

out from the globe, shutting off your view of half of the sphere which is below the platform. The globe represents the earth, the platform the horizon, the hollow sphere represents the celestial sphere. The earth turns from west to east. Asa result, the celes-

tial sphere seems to turn from east to west. The earth revolves around the sun. The effect of this is to make the celestial sphere seem to gain four minutes each night. That is, a constellation which is in any particular position tonight, will take just four minutes less than twenty-four hours to regain that position again. Now this has an important bearing upon our view of the constellations. For we do not see the stars throughout the twenty-four hours. When the sun is up, its bright light makes the stars invisible. Therefore, we only see the stars above the horizon during the time when it is night. Reference to the accompanying diagram will show that the stars close to, the north celestial pole are always above the horizon. Consequently, these stars are visible every cloudless night in the year. But stars further from the north celestial pole are only above the horizon part of the twenty-four hours. The diagram makes this clear. Now let us suppose a certain star rises, or comes up over the horizon at 9 o’clock tonight. Tomorrow night it will rise at four minutes to 9„ the next night at eight minutes to 9, and so on. As the months pass it will soon be rising in the daytime and, hence will be invisible at night. This explains why the night sky looks different at each season of the year. In the summer certain constellations are visible because they rise at night. Others are invisible because they do not come above the horizon until after sundown. Then they can not be seen. Six months later the situation is reversed and the constellations of summer are invisible while othets come interview. __

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “It Is Generally Agreed That a Protestant, a Prohibitionist and a Man Who Appeals to the Farmer Should Be Nominated for Democratic Vice President."

Ft. WORTH, Texas, June 21. All roads lead to Houston One of them is through Ft. Worth. It is crowded with politicians, reporters and sightseers heading south. Among others, H. L. Mencken struck town Wednesday. He came in by automobile through Arkansas and Oklahoma. His sinuses were clogged with dust and his throat was dry. Small wonder that he felt the urge to talk on his pet subject—prohibition. “I challenp'j anyone to show me the good oi it,” he said, between sneezes, which was consistent, if not original. m m Same Two Issues The folks talk as they travel, not only with each other, but with those they meet on the way. The political chorus swells as the multitude converges on Houston. With Governor Smith’s nomination virtually conceded even by those opposed to him, one hears more and more about the platform and the possible candidate for Vice President. The chatter sounds much as it did one week before the Kansas City convention. There is the same uncertainty about who will be nominated for second place on the ticket, and the same two issues are considered of primary importance. What will the Democrats do about prohibition and farm relief? Will they adopt a dry plank, a wet plank, or a compromise? Will they come out for the McNary-Haugen bill or pussyfoot? tt tt tt Running Mate Problem It is generally agreed that a Protestant, a prohibitionist and a man who appeals to the farmers should be nominated for Vice President. The South hopes for recognition, but wonders whether political expediency does not call for a westerner. In naming a man from California as its standard bearer, ane one from Kansas as his running mate, the Republican party has presented a unique and perplexing problem. Hitherto the Republican party has gone out of its way to please the East, but this time it is all West. The Democrats are hoping to capitalize midwestern discontent. What worries them is how to do it. With a presidential candidate from the East, it looks as though they were almost compelled to name an exponent of radical measures for farm relief for second place and write a plank into the platform on which he could stand. tt a a Dry Plank Favored The prohibition issue has been softened by the failure of Governor Smith’s supporters to insist on a wet plank. The prevailing belief is that they would be satisfied with anything short of an out and out indorsement of Volsteadism. This leaves the way open for one of those “harmony” compromises. Though a majority of the delegates might be In favor of t. demand for modification, it is doubtful if the Smith leaders would permit It. They appear to have decided that the one essential thing is to adopt a plank that will not antagonize and alienate prohibition votes. u a Lynching Disgrace Meanwhile, Houston finds it necessary to interrupt preparations for the biggest show she ever staged in order to wipe out the disgrace of a lynching. It was the kind of a curtain raiser that no one looked for and no one wanted. Half a dozen hoodlums, reverting to Ku-Kluxism and playing the part of cowards, have made Houston madder than she has been for a long time. Bad as It is, the outrage they perpetrated may do some good. It was of such a character and occurred under such ciroumstances as to arouse public indignation. It not only broke a spotless record, but came at a time when Houston was on dress parade. Local feeling is faithfully reflected in the drastice measure adopted by the city council. A special committee, including two negroes, has been appointed to run down and prosecute the lynchers and SIO,OOO has been placed at its disposal. One successful prosecution would do much to discourage lynching. It looks as though that might be the result of this unfortunate affair. tt tt tt Law-Abiding Record Millions of people will Jump to the conclusion that lynching is as typical of Houston as any other southern town, but such is not the case. Houston has not only opposed mob violence, but has prided herself on its successful prevention. She has done this, moreover, In the face of some tense and irritating situations. I well remember the morning when Houston woke up to find that a company of Negro soldiers had mutinied; that five of her peace officers and a dozen defenseless citizens had been shot and that a whole section of the city had been terrorized during the risnt. I do not believe i .at another city in the South, or anywhere in the United States, for that matter, could have shown firmer respect for the law under siich circumstances. Houston had been outraged for no reason in the world. It lay within her power to reek prompt and merciless vengeance. Her insistence that the law be allowed to take its course; that the case be left for military authorities vo handle, was almost as surprising as the tragedy icself, _

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN their interesting guide on home problems, Miss K. W. Kinyon and Prof. L. Thomas Hopkins devote one chapter to a discussion of the manner in which sickness should be controlled In the home. The systematic outlines that they present are safe guides to healthful living. For instance, one statement gives briefly and succinctly the elementary facts for the control of the sickroom. The room must be clean and simply furnished, and be provided with plenty of fresh air and sunshine. Heavy furniture curtains and rugs and bric-a-brac merely provide places in which dust can accumulate and are of little value to the sick. All unnecessary furniture and ornamentation should be removed. Flowers may be placed in the room but even these are frequently distasteful to patients and should not be urged upon the sick who do not care for them. Particularly distasteful are faded or dead flowers. No medicine should be given which has not been prescribed by the physician. Medicine should always be given at the specified timee and In the amount prescribed. The

Bridge Play Made Easy BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A— act; K— k i ng i„9.r queen: J—jack; X—any card loer than 10.) When you hold three cards in a suit, no matter how small, the danger of the opponents making more than four tricks in that suit is greatly minimized, the probabilities being that the cards are fairly distributed among all the players. From this we deduce the rule that it is inadvisable to bid a no trump initially if blank in a suit or when holding a singleton or worthless doubleton in one of the suits. When this is clear, It becomes equally self-evident that if you hold two suits blank, or two suits Witr. worthless doubletons, on any such holding, you ought not to bid a no trump. A suit is mathematically and surely stopped when It contains the Ace. or any of the following: K Q K J 10 Q J 10 J 10 9 8 For the purpose of bidding an initial no a sure stop is extremely helpful, but it is not absolutely necessary. If, however, you were to postpone bidding a no trump until your hand always contained three suits mathematically surely stopped, you would be passing up many a hand out of which you might reasonably make game. For the purpose of bidding an init.al no trump, the following may be considered probable stoppers as distinguished from the sure stoppers previously listed: K X Q J X QX X X J 10 X X J X X X X. Every sure stopper Is obviously a probable stopper, but every probable stopper is not a sure stopper. Stoppers in three suits alone would not justify an Initial no trump. You also must hold some high cards and the hand must, be worth at least two quick tricks. As ar. illustration, when you hold: Q J 10 Q J 10 Q J 10 XX X X you have three suits stopped. The hand, however, is not worth two quick tricks and you therefore have no bid. If you hold: Soades A X X Hearts A X X Diamonds K X X Clubs X X X X your hand contains two and onehalf quick tricks with three suits safely stopped. Yet there are many players who assert this Is too weak a holding on which to bid a no trump. (Copyri * ht P BeferenCß

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patient’s own judgment in this matter is certainly not to be trusted, but even his judgment is better than that of the untrained attendant. Few people without training are able to take care of the patient's bed. Every one apparently is anxious to make the patient feel comfortable, to shake up his bed, move him around, and adjust his pillows. The patient may prefer to be let alone. If such happens to be the case, he probably will be fully competent to manipulate his own pillows. If a person is sick, the sheets,

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vent total blindness one eye was removed Nov. 28. How many American consuls are in Canada? There are twenty-two American consulates and four consulates general. Is it proper to cat olives in the fingers? Yes. When did Robert Todd Lincoln die? July 26, 1926. How old is President Coolidge? He was born July 4, 1872. Are there any Negro members in .the present Congress? No. How old was Jenny Lind when she died? Sixty-seven years (1820-1887). What is the melting point of gold? 1,030 centigrade. What is referred to when one speaks of cutting the Gordian knot? According to Greek mythology, the King of Phrygia tied a hard knot about the yoke of his chariot. The oracle declared that whosoever loosed it should be ruler of all Asia Alexander the Great cut the knot in two with his sword and fulfilled the prophcey. The term Gordian knot is used to designate any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual measures. What was the exact date of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac? March 9, 1862.

This Date in U. S. History

June 21 1783—Armed United States troops surrounded Congress in Philadelphia and demanded redress of grievances, forcing Congress to adjourn to Princeton. 1788—New Hampshire ratified the Constitution. 1892—Grover Cleveland nominated for President by the Democratic convention at Chicago.

.JUNE 21, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY Houston, June 21. —At t**** old bridge they found him, hanging by the neck. In the white oak thicket, morning birds were singing. And there was “Nigger Bob” dangling stiff, with the sun coming up behind him and his eyes turned to heaven. “Lord have mercy,” he had pleaded. But they put the rop® around his neck, jerked him from the hospital bed, and carried him off to the old bridge. He had shot Detective Davis, they said. Back in town, late parties of con vention delegates and reporters were breaking up. Houston was dull, they agreed, the Democratic preliminaries a washout. No news. Nothing but a leak in the roof at Convention Kail. The Republicans at Kansas City put on a better pre-convention show. Why, KanhoMu ty 6Ven ran ln a daylight bant •* it TT was that leaking roof that A mattered. Could this proud city, with the eyes of the world on it at convention time, fail to stop that leak? Houston’s reputation for efficiency was at stake. Today it is the lynching of Robert Powell that matters. Houston's reputation for something greater than efficiency is at stake. "May the spirit of A. W. Davis look down upon us in sorrow and sympathy, and may the ghost of that dying Negro haunt forever those five men who so disgraced this city,” says the Press, a ScrippsHoward newspaper. “May the outc world not take this as symbolic of the Houston spirit. It was not men like these who died in tha Alamo, it was not craven creatures like these who fought at San Jacinto.” Houston has been shamed befora the nation,” says the Chronicle, published by Jesse Jones, candidate for the presidential nomination. “To those Democrats who are now pouiing in on us, and to the world at large, we can only say that the people of Houston do not approve this thing.” tt a a f | ''HE mayor at once appointed an investigating commission; the city council appropriated SIO,OOO for search and rewards; the InterRacial Cooperation Commission and Citizens League for Law Loyalty started to function; the Governor assigned Texas Rangers to the case and posted rewards. But on the streets there is no talk of- the lynching, apparently no interest. Only Negroes gather and whisper, alert lest they be overheard. “Bob didn’t kill the cop,” they mutter. “Them police jest wanted blood, cause Pete Chester warn’t hung a year ago for shootin’ another cop what beat him up.” Anyway, young Bob was ln that corner crapn game early Sunday morning, when Detectives Davis and Bradshaw rushed up. The Negroes scattered. One man dropped a gun. Bradshaw caught him. Davis was not after another. There were shots. Davis was found on the ground in blood. He died in the hospital. They caught Bob at home with a bullet in his side. They found there a loaded gun with one shot fired. His brother-in-law said Bob asked him to hide it. Bob denied shooting Davis. At the hospital early Wednesday morning, a sheriff’s guard was sitting outside Bob’s ward. There was one light. Bob was moaning, close to death. The other Negro patients were wide-eyed. Three Negro attendants watched. “Stick ’em up.” The lynchers broke in. One covered the guard. Four others put the rope Bob’s neck. They carried him out. 1 “Lord have mercy,” Bob was pleading, the men were laughing, and there behind was the rope trailing along. The two cars drove off. Back in the ward, the Negroes were whimpering. The guard was at the phone, trying to reach Sheriff Binford. a tt tt FINALLY, Binford answered. Yes, the guard said, he could identify the men. None was masked- One wore a blue uniform like a policeman. The Negro attendants and patients all agreed with the white guard about that uniform. Now “Tee” Binford is leading the hunt. He was in on the Chester case. Because he saved Chester: from the mob, they never forgot. Pete Chester was a Negro gambler. Back in January, 1927, he shot to death Officer Jones. Pete claimed self-defense, but was convicted of murder and given a death sentence. A higher court set aside the verdict. The case then went to Judge Harper for retrial. Harper shortly before also allegedly had shot a man. The day after the judge was acquitted, he presided at Pete’s trial. Pete had the lawyer who “got off’* Harper. The judge instructed the Chester jury on a manslaughter charge, and the verdict was fouij years in the penitentiary, v Pete's escape from the gallows enraged many. There was lynch talk. But Binford slipped Pete out of th jail, and started toward the Huntsville penitentiary. They had to pas* through Conroe. When they came to the charred hitching post beside the courthouse, where so many Negroes have been burned, another mob was milling. But Binford got through with his prisoner. Twenty minute* later, the Conroe mob hanged another Negro. Binford is known as the quickest ' shot and squarest officer in south Texas, and the Negroes trust him. Twenty yeers ago, he came up fron\ the country, never having been irj school. He drove a water wagon, and then joined the force. Hia fame started when he alone outshot and captured three bank robbers. In 1917 he was credited with “saving the city” when black troops Infuriated by alleged police cruelty* started their march on Houston from a neighboring cxntonment. While Binford is searching fop Powell’s lynchers, city officials aro questioning police. All officers are to be marched for identification before the hospital guard and Negroes who saw the lynchers and swear one wore a uniform.