BRI SBANE)| THIS WEEK The Big “Black ack Legion” More and Better Babies A Worried Empire U. S. Dollars Emigrate The “ritual” of the murderous secret society called the “Black Legion” con- tains some old “Know - Nothing" features. "The can- didate for admis. sion must be “will- ing to commit mur der, to proceed against Catholles, Jews and Negroes"; he must be “native born, Protestant, white and gentile.” The Le- gion,” ably “Black which prob- will not last long, had ambitious plans, Among other things it proposed to overthrow the federal government, which is not an original idea. It was also going to set up a dictatorship, with night-riding regiments to enforce discipline. Die- tatorship Is not a new idea, either. Strange things are done or planned in the name of “liberty” now, as they were when Madam Roland mounted the guillotine platform, Arthur Brisbane Russia wants bigger families, like Mussolini and others with “plans.” Stalin wants plenty of new little citi- gens, A thousand million rubles will be set aside by Moscow to “subsidize large families and ald mothers.” Birth con- trol ladies and gentlemen will hear, surprised, that ald to large families will begin after the seventh child. Seven are taken as a matter of course: that is just the beginning of a Russian family. Chancellor Hitler of Germany joins In the “more and better babies™ ery. The German ideal is no longer the beautiful golden-haired Margaret, spin- ning her wheel and saying “No.” The Nazis demand women who, “above everything else, can become the moth- ers of several children,” and are will ing to do so, according to a representa- tive of Chancellor Hitler, William Philip Simms, English. is afraid the British empire may not sur- vive, on account of “air fleet peril” Britain is disturbed by the thought that her whole imperial line of com- munication, stretching 4,000 miles from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden, Is under Mussolini's bombing planes. Except that her empire is the biggest, England should not worry more than other countries. With sur- face ships losing all importance, except in the opinions of some Americans. anybody's bombers can break up any line of communications temporarily. “Americans investing huge sums in the Bahamas, to escape income tax.” says the New York Times, big type, front page, Americans have been “investing huge sums” elsewhere, outside of the United States. Billions of American money have gone to Canada, England and other “foreign parts.” More will go. In all the Bahamas, 4.403 square miles of beautiful territory, there is no income tax. Think of that for a happy country, Needless to say, If enough Ameri can money pours In to make it worth while the intelligent British will find a way to tax it Germany has proved the “48-hours from-Europe-to-Americs” possibility, with America looking on. Now England is rushing prepara. tions for a line of heavier-than-air planes to fly between England and America, starting In a few months, and the French, preparing a similar line, are negotiating for a half-way harbor at the Azores. The southern route was sald to be the wisest by Lindbergh, shortly after his great flight, Many Frenchmen are disturbed and puzzled by the situation in Europe, and General Mordacq, close associate of Clemenceau in the war, discusses the question, “What would Clemenceau do If he could come back?" France feels the need of "a man with a fist,” un homme a poigne, and Clemenceau was that kind Concerning that fine old fighter from the Vendee, it is safe to say that if he came back he would hasten prepara tions for another war. But he would not have waited until now. Ethiopia so swiftly, has been called to Rome, perhaps as part of a wise plan net to let anybody grow too big, like the tree Igdrasil, supposed to have its roots in hell, its topmost branches in heaven. A pew comet now approaching us, discovered by and named for L. C. Pel tier, amateur astronomer, who works in a garage, will be the first comet visible to the naked eye since 1927. ny eut off the head of a sixty. fiveryear-old man convicted of killing 12 boys. Before death, “examined” by Nazi officials who thought he might be a Communist, he admitted many other murders. He used a secret polson that doctors could not detect. King Features Synd ine, Kine NG Service. + Rb Ri ABR ti ni sii Prepared by the Nationa! Geographlie Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Bervice, UADALAJARA, venerable city of Mexico's west, Is one of Mexico's tourist meccas, Sleepers run from Los An- geles through Guadalajara. Ralls also link the city with the sea at Manzanil- lo; still another system tles It with Mexico City, with the Gulf of Mexico, and the Texas border. These railways, with the nation's steadily growing net of motor highways, make Guadalajara an active distribution center. Here cheap electric power, ample labor, and abundant raw materials stimulate va- rious industries. These include spin- ning and knitting mills, candy and cracker works, and shops famous for thelr beautiful tiles and mosales. The arcades that shade the sidewalks before stores facing a plaza shelter many street venders. A hat peddier walks majestically along, with 15 or 20 hats for sale, stacked on his own head, one atop the other, like a pagoda. Another carries a long string of san- dals. Some are of straw, others of rawhide, and a few made from gutomobile tires cut Into soles, Country peons usually wear baggy white drawers; but custom now crees that this badge of rural servitude shall not be worn In Guadalajara streets. So, at the edge of the city, “pants shops” are open where trousers may be rented. Just check your draw- ers there and rent a pair of pants, as impecunious American students may rent evening clothes for a party! Changing sartorial standards, however, are destroying this simple industry. Indians arrive In the city with bas. kets of assorted fruits, guavas, gourds, tiny lemons, cactus pears and ma On the pavement they arrange little piles—one kind of fruit here, another there; then they squat down, silently awaiting buyers. If you want fruit buy it. but don’t ask questions, Toys, candies, soft drinks, posteards, newspapers, pottery, medallions of the saints, small melons white on one side like a fish's belly—everything from mule gear and old tools to earved-wood sticks ending in ornate filigree balls for stirring chocolate—are spread out for sale on the sidewalk. Good Merchandise in the Stores. Inside the large stores, of course, is modern merchandise. Some American women, wise In local ways, say that If the stores don't carry the particular bat or gown they wish, clever native women soon make them--copying, if need be, from no more than a picture from an American fashion journal. Most lingerie, dress goods, millinery, soaps, perfume, and jewelry are sold by French merchants. Machinery, hard- ware, and such heavy goods are usa- ally bandled by Germans, Few Americans are found in retall trade; they, with the British, are more interested in mines, ranches, power plants, railways, or banka If you buy any sizable article In a store, the merchant whistles up a street porter to carry it home for you. Per sons of position would lose caste carry- ing a big parcel through the streets, Porters even carry big bags of sliver coin to and from the banks—and for de. ngoes, As you walk the streets of Guadala- dummy man, in top hat and morning coat, in a general's uniform or merely Then iaughs and yells, the street crowd and maybe even Burning him in ef- figy at this time Is a Mexican practice. Sometimes “Judas” is stuffed with ba- nanas or candy which fall out when he blows up, and street urchins scram. “Buy your dead man’s bread here.” day. At that time, some Mex- icans believe, the spirits of departed relatives return to dine with their fam. files. The dining table becomes an altar, and some foods are served In strange shapes, such as candy skulls, big and little, with cherries for eyes, ribs and leg bones made of chocolate, or cakes baked in the form of coffins, Many churches In Mexico were built on sites of ancient Aztec temples, the heads of whose Idols were cut off by renlous Spaniards, In some churches fragments of heathen Idols are bullt in- to the walls. After the conquest, Spain bullt literally thousands of Mexican churches. They dominate Guadalajara. Devotion of the Peons. Horses and rebels were housed in some of these churches, with priests and nuns deported during the revolu- tions. But the faithful earried on Plous peons came for miles on the knees to the churches. Old women shouting the chants and litanles o counting their beads, crawled to the altars on stiff old knees. Girls knell with crowns of thorns on thelr brows and small boys elutched at the crucl fixes. From Guadalajara out to the subur ban church ot Zapopan is but a shor trip by tramear; but during an August feast peons hobble out to it on theh knees, taking all day. When prayers are over they stage a costume play depicting the Spanish conquest of Ja lisco. Then Indian players dress anc act the parts of Spanish knights and the local Indian characters of that con flict. In recent years education has been taken away from the church, and the new generation tends to abandot these mimetic dances and dramatic rituals, The chief edifice in Guadalajara the cathedral; its twin towers ris over the city, visible for miles. Or feast days long strings of lights illo minate the towers, and at Easter the of twelve olc men, chosen from crowds, at random sree! Rushing to ald the king of 8; the Peninsular war went Guadalajara. sent, too, silver plate cathedral. ain I many men o Legend raised ENYS money was mehing gold and and can Ks from ths In grat tude the king gave Murill painting "The Assumption of the Virgin" stil hanging in the eat though many attempts have been to buy ™ purioin it. Bull-Fighting Loses Popularity, The bull ring is here. of co but such sports as boxing, football, an¢ baseball have robbed it of old-time pop ularity. Despi te its continuous appea to the peon, who glories in its cruel gory combats, and survival of a few other habitues, bullfighting as a busi ness Is on the decline. by lost ie this church o's great edral made urse Julls from are still sent « Mexico City, where tourists help sup port the arena, and some fighting an imals are still raised on the West coast ranches for Guadalajara. One of these is the old Rancho San Jose de Conde in Navarit, which dates from 1500. Ii is one of America's oldest ranches Its output of small, black, savage bulls went on for generations. To perpetu ate the fighting Instinet, the rule or this ranch was “Kill every bull eal that does pot seem to hate men.” Such & plan insures a bull ferocious as any wild animal. One young bull on this ranch chased a vaquero up a tree and kept him treed till he nearly died of thirst, When Cortez conqiered Montezuma and founded “New Spain,” he had with him one Don Nuno de Guzman, who soon rose to power and grew jealous of his chief. Eager to gain more hon ors and riches for himself, De Guzman, in 1529, quit the Aztec capital, with picked Spanish troops and many Tiaxcaltecan Indian allies, to explore the unknown reglons farther west and north. In thelr travels, De Guzman and his lieutenant, Cristobal de Onate, came upon a huge Indian stronghold, Spain by the Spaniards built their camp, a cluster of huts. Though moved about later to various neighboring sites, a town was lald out about 1530. It was named for De Guzman's home town In Spain, Guadalajara, from the Moorish Wud-al-hajarah, meaning River of landed at Jamestown, to work In the gold and sliver mines Vast fortunes were thus amassed, lux urious bomes were built; and New Galicla, of which Guadalajara was the capital, then Included not only the present state of Jalisco, but much of what is now five or six other Mexican states, reaching up to Sinaloa, Visit certain old Guadalajara family homes now and you are astonished at the wealth and beauty of heirlooms from colonial days. Hand made silver. ware, even table services of gold, heavy Spanish chests bound In leather and copper, miniatures, jewelry, crucifizes and old paintings, guitars, inlald with pearl, historic weapons, hand-carved tables, and other furniture so heavy that it can be moved only with dif. culty. The old hand-made locks on front doors are often so massive that the key liself may be as big and heavy as & common hatchet, say a foot long. ~~ what (cbb| yin): thinks | Hot Political Campaigns. OLLYWOOD, They say this will be the liveliest fight for years and years, with glee clubs gargling and the boys out with brass bands—and brass-knucks; and batteries of college professors firing on op- position professors, But they'll never reclaim the glorl- ous ancient spirit. We're too tame, Take "66. Now, there was a campaign for you. When Bryan was a discovery Instead of & chronle recurrence, Two life-long friends would meet, “What d'ye think of this here free silver thing?” one would ask. “I think it's the greatest no- tion in history,” the second fellow would say. “What do you think? “I think you're & dirty such-and such!” The first man would yell, and then everybody would start bouncing those old-fashioned brass cuspidores off of everybody else's dome. Irvin 8. Cobb J. Edgar Boulder. WING to recent developments over which it had no control, 1 believe the Interior department temporarily has shelved the Idea of changing J. Edgar Hoover's name to J. Edgar Boul- der, as was previously predicted In these dispatches. jut now certain critics at Washington insist on accus- ing that gentleman of over-advertising in connection with his latest activities Well, he has the advantage over some press agents. When he promises a show he certalnly puts it on upon the day and date announced, with the band playing “The Alcatraz Drag”—and every cage full, ® % ® Funny Foreign Names, BRD from Warsaw Is umbent, the Hon, Marjan Zyn. iram Konselalecowski. having resigned, the president of Po land has picked as the new Fel awogsklad dk ter gentleman has stalled up to and five or six sylls name running as a secon So what you mistook for statie on the radio ni before last was just the news broadcaster trying to nounce him as a whole, . * * that Wi i other than Gen, Int. in- including first the rest of the i section, pre mi er no fevan Kl The heen his wkd, already ables, ght pro- Ever Rising Taxes NYBODY who fondly be regardiess of which ontfit wins In November, taxes won't keep right on going up and up bas a thinking ap paratus that dates back quite a spell I'd say it dates back to the climax of the big rise, as set forth In the Bible, and is a direct Inheritance from the skeptical folks who wouldn't harken to the prophetic warning, Remember the scene, don’t you? The forty days’ rain still beating relent. lessly down, the freshet climbing high- er and higher, the animals marching In two by two And with the old ark starting to move and Father Noah yelling, "All aboard.” and with the waters closing over their heads, those know-it.alls still gurgling through their valedictory bubbles, “Shuckin’s, there ain't goin’ to be no flood.” V HEN the Post Office department includes among the gallery of the greatest Americans, to be pictured in the new lssue of memorial stamps, the faces of the Confederate chieftains, Lee and Jackson, what happens? Why, nobody waves the bloody shirt. Nobody ennobles the sorry word “tral tor” by applying it to the memories of those two gallant soldiers and sim- ple Christian gentiemen. Nobody in the name of patriotism drags the moul- dering bones of sectional rancor out of the ground. Nobody beats the “Rogue's March for Rebels” on hate's snare drum, Instead, all over the Union, men and women applaud this generous but ieves that, CI Honoring Lee and Jackson, Boston—Boston, no less, once muiching bed of abolition and the breeding ground for anti-southern sentiment-—editorially commends idea, IRVIN 6. coBB Copyright ==WNU Service, Railear Popular in France The rallcar, or “automotrice,” as it is known there, Is becoming one of the most popular means of rapid passenger transport in France, At the same time great efforts are being made to increase the speed of these railcars, Every few weeks a new record is established by one of the rival constructing compa- nies. Record was attained by M. Jean Bugatti, who drove a Bugatti railcar from Strasbourg to Paris in 3 hours 31 minutes, averaging 80.4 miles an hour. Seventy-five Bugatti railcars are now running on the French rallway system, M. Jean Bugatti considers that railcars run on petrol are particularly useful for ultra-rapid transit transport over distances of three or four hundred miles.~London Sunday Observer, Fine to Kill the Appetite Mayme-—Dearle, did you ever try smoking a cigar? Jayne—Once, and for a week after I didn't have any trouble sticking te my reducing diet, darling! i TALL TALES As Told to? FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Pat Scanlan’s Triple Play HE grandfather of James E. Me. Grath of Evanston, 1ll., was T. D. Scanlan, one of the ploneers who lald the first transatlantic cable out of Hearts Content, Newfoundland. He was also the father of Jim's uncle, Patrick Scanlan. Pat Scanlan, down to and now we're getting cases, was one of the most powerful swimmers and fishermen Canada or New England has seen. Often he plunged Into lakes and swam them with a surveyors chain in his mouth. And while doing this, Pat al- ways had time to select the likeliest fishing pools His finest fishing is family history, handed down to Jim McGrath, It hap pened In upper New York state and Jim 1s positive it's true because Pat yelled so loudly it shook the McGrath house, down in Brooklyn, You see, Pat was fishing in this lake le had seen while nibbling a surveying chain. It was near dusk and he was casting three hooks near the shore for fish lle sometimes in shallow water when it's getting dark, Pat cast and hooked a trout He played the fish a short time, then gave a determined Jerk to establish who was boss. As Pat jerked he snared a muskrat on the second hook. That was too much so he whooped and threw the double eatch high in alr, casting trout, muskrat and line back toward the water with a mighty “swoosh.™ And when Pat heaved the line to- ward the water he caught a bumming bird on the third hook. He always claimed It was only unassisted triple play of that particular season. the The End of the Philly-Loo T IS a well known bird Is extinct but accounts of the death of the last survivor var Larry Fiint, a Pennsylvania nes per man sass he saw traged while visiting In Wyon fact that the phil. Iy-loo “The philly ferocion of the holes in doug His meth- od of eating them was unique: he backed up to them, slipped his tall through them, the ap- pendage around In front and fed him- self, “An old-timer out there, knowing of this peculiarity, sought out the last surviving phi and laid several doughnut holes down In front of the bird. In order to eat the hole. the philliy-loo had to move his tall around inte the proper juxtaposition. This brought about his end” jut F. FF, Fuller of the Rhame (N. D.) Review has another version of the story. He says that he and another editor had the job of hunting down the last survivors of the race to serve at a banquet for some visiting news. paper men. Near a mountain in the Bad Lands they flushed a covey of the birds and started chasing them, “The philiy-loos began circling the mountiaing,” relates Mr. Fuller. "As they did so each bird grabbed the tall of the bird ahead and as they mount ed upward and the circle parrowed they swallowed to take up the slack. They kept circling and swallowing un til each bird had completely swallowed the bird ahead, and they entirely dis. appeared from before our eyes. All that is left are a few tracks circling the mountain that look just like those made by an automobile driven by a one-armed driver, I've never seen a philly-loo bird since that time™ loo was sly fond anus, ha ind then flicked ly L000 Winner by a Nose OTS of fellows who work In a metropolis were born in the great open spaces, and Invariably they re tain their hankering for the hinter lands. Lewis W. Hunt, city editor of the Chicago Dally News, is no exception, And sometimes when the boys are hav. conceal his liking for the bad Iands of Montana from whence he came, So when a party from Kansas as serted that in his country It became so dry It was necessary to run water from the well through a wringer, and to throw gravel on the barn to delnde tha “It's cold we relish In Montana” stream en route from pot to cup. “And that was the year,” he con- cluded, “that the man in our town with the longest nose froze his proboscis, A friend recommended the only pos- sible relief would be to rob snow on it, The long-nosed man rubbed snow on the part of his nose he could reach and threw snowballs st the rest. In nine days he was entirely recovered.” © Western Newspaper Union, Insane Monarchs Europe had more insane monarchs in power during the last half of the Eighteenth century than in any other similar period In its history. 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