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BRISKANEl THIS WEEK Eckener, a Heal Man Wasted Mail Advertising I One Happy Man How Many Would Die? Dr. Hugo Eckem r, who has flowi 600.000 utiles in his Zeppelins an* about 400.000 more miles teaching young pilots, is In New York. It Is a pleasure to see such a power ful person, well past sixty, planning a new line through the air betweer the L'nite<l States and Eurojte. Mcoast to-eoast in 48 hours." lie, of course would run the ships on the tlrst few trips himself. A government spokesman urges ad vertisers to advertise by mail, writing nice "Dear Mr. Jones" letters, telling what the advertiser has for sale. Eugene Meyer, Jr., who owns th? Washington Post, says that is wrong and means government competing with honest, long-suffering newspapers an;' their advertising profits. He asks, hy implication, how can the press be free if you take away Its money? That worry is unnecessary. The ad vertiser who tries to advertise by inail throws money out of the window and soon finds it out. And advertisers are Intelligent. One happy man exists in spite of de pression ; his name, familiar to you, Henry Ford. As far as he Is con cerned the depression is ended. To prove it he will build one million cars "or more" this coming year. That is a good sign, since It proves that there must be people able to buy one million cars. Henry Ford says truly that Araer- | leans don't "want a dole." and those that bike the dole always turn against those that give it There is. however, the fact that America doesn't want revolution, or too many dangerous riots, and you may take it from the British that the dole is cheaper than revolution. England was near enough to the French revolution to realize that. President Knubel of the United Luth eran Church of America worries ahout the future of religion. Anti-religious fon-es, lie says, are growing constantly in tills and other countries; hundreds of millions of people are "spiritually blind." Itev. Dr. Knubel asks. "How do you know that In two years from now you might not be asked to die for your faith?" Let us hope it will not be as bad as that, while wondering respectfully , bow many would be willing to die. or, like the ancient martyrs, court death for the soke of martyrdom. There are various ways of making I a living In America, that finds it so difficult to conquer lawlessness. One way is to smuggle In Chinese, inflicting . fearful hardships upon the unfortunate Immigrunt Chinese and charging them from $1.0(10 to for bringing them 1 here. Smuggling Chinese is connected ; with the opium traffic. While smuggling In Chinese you can also smuggle with each one a considerable amount of opium. Federal agents looking for opium , found eighteen frightened Chinese in an isolated house in New Jersey, guarded by a powerful negro from Trinidad and five police dogs that would have mangled the unfortunate creatures had they tried to escape. Friends expected to bring the fee for smuggling them in failed to appear, hence their detention. Doctor Lahy of the New England I hospital says the much discussed ex- j perlment of transplanting In men the glands of monkeys Is a failure. How ever. partial transplanting of the parathyroid gland, from one human being to another, has proved success ful. opening up great possibilities. Failure of monkey gland trans plantation Is not bad news. There Is enough of the monkey In man up to sixty years of age to make any monkey gland transplanting at that age aeem unnecessary. Somebody said, long : ago. that man Is one-third man. one third monkey, one third hog. That Is a little severe, but the monkey part la sufficiently accurate. Japan la busy fortifying South Sea Islands that she holds under mandate of the league of Nations, and com plaint la made aimlessly. NftMwt M>. a:.>buOliJ/i.yiat , fortification news. Japan I- an gent country. It takes a country with statesman ship In the dodo class, like ourselves, to possess Guam and fall to fortify the place because polite Britishers, acting as mouthpiece for Japan, re quested lis not to do so. The achievement of the admlrahle flyers. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his aid. rapt. I*. G. Taylor, proves that the United States knows how to build airplanes. The plpne that came across the Pacific from Honolulu. 2,408 miles. In fifteen hours, beating by ten hours the best record. Is an American Lockhead plane built at Glendale. Calif., and the engine was built by the American I'ratt & Whit ney Aircraft company. If the United States should ever get really Interested In building the world's greatest air fleet, as It will do. or bit terly regret It the material Is at band. * Kiac vmtvrm ejrodloau. 1m. WNU a*rrtc* SUCH IS LIFE?That's So! B>' Charles Sughroe \}7e isAWED ^oor \ cdujmsu^ -TOP*/- / v^p\st2oveREPr-^ / WOUU? ME BE I FAMOUS1 IF UE 1 WAS" UVlNffTt \ v\e'o 6B 500 /= l" V?ARS OUPX Mati Hari Sent to Death by Comrade vy ''Mile. Docteur," Dying, Con fesses Betrayal. Berne, Switzerland.?On her death bed Anne-Marie Lesser, notorious "Mile. Docteur," German spy, revealed how she betrayed the glamorous World war spy, Mata Harl, to her death be fore a French firing squad. "Mile. Docteur" died alone in a sana torium near Zurich, where she had been under treatment for the narcotic habit. For she had taken drugs to deaden her memory. Her doctor in the sanatorium was the only person to whom she talked and after her recent death he dis closed for the first time her aston ishing story. It was a confession of a woman who stopped at no crime to gain war secrets for Germany. Doctor's Story. Here is the doctor's story: "Do you think, doctor, that I should be arrested if I went to France?" "Certainly not," 1 replied, "the ques tion would not even arise." "I should like to go to France," she said, "to see once more all those places where I used to go. I should like also to see Mata Hart's grave; she was one of my victims. I engaged her and it was from me that she obtained all her instructions. "But one day she told me that she did not want to continue the work. She had had enough or she was afraid, I don't know which. But she wished to be released from her promises. "For anyone who has trodden that path there is no possibility of retreat I should not have been able to release her even If I had wanted. I should have been suspected at once. I threatened her, but without success. "Yes, I had her executed. As was customary, I arranged that the French should receive all the necessary evi dence for her arrest. "And, now, doctor, I am going to tell you something which I alone know. "For a long time, for a very long time, I envied Mata Harl's fate. Her death was easy, I am going to tell you why. An Easy Death. "She wag condemned to death and was waiting for the end in her cell when a man came to her and said In a low voice: " 'Fear nothing,' Mata Hari, every thing has been arranged for your es cape. You will have to go before the firing squad, but that will be a mere formality, the bullets will pass above your head. " 'Pretend to be dead, our men will put you on the bier and transport you out of France on a wagon.' "Mata Hari smiled grarefully, and went to what she believed to the last to be a mock execution, and smiling received the rifle bullets in her heart. She had an easy death." Anne-Marie began her career as a spy when she was sixteen when, de scribed on her passport as a student at the Beaux Arts of Geneva, she ap peared in a little French village in the Vosges which was going to be the scene of certain military maneuvers. In 1914 there arrived at Brussels a splendid creature with a French name bearing only a vague resemblance to the little student of the Beaux Arts of Geneva. The beautiful "French woman" was not long getting to know a young lieu tenant, Rene Austin. In the intervals of love-making she painted little pictures, which she sent, via Switzerland, to Berlin, where her chiefs, removing the oils, found under neath tracings of fortresses, guns and gunpits. Mushroom si Anesthetic Dentists among the Zapotec Indians of Mexico used as an anesthetic a mushroom that still grows wild in that region. Navy'? Left Half Fred Borries is the left halfback In the formidable football machine devel oped at the Naval academy at Anrap oils. He is both fast and powerful. Wive? Too Expensive for Most Moslems Belgrade.?The prices paid for wires by the Moslems of south Jugoslavia have falleu heavily. I'rlces for wives used to be high because there was a shortage of suitable women. But many women have gone to south Jugoslavia. Numbers of them are actually pre pared to bring a dowry to their hus bands Instead of having to be "bought" from their families. Also, farm product prices have fallen and made it Impossible for most men to support more than one wife. ODD THINGS AND NEW?By Lame Bode ?-rr'MT. glKCN&IH Bo? MAPt FROM VEGETABLE FIBER OF PLAHT 'M FlFTEiN-IMCH DIAMETER CAM LIFT 4Q TOWS OF tvtX. ~ / - AIR PREJSORIV? iXirohol ON EGOS/ MLl-UHOL Br soMEcTiN6 Large scale TMEM TO NCREASED AUOMOC FUU MAM UFAC.TURE IS BEING . REEORO SHORT TWO. DEVELOPED FROM ftjap=/l PROCESSING OR DINARY CORN. V*20 I WNU tOTlM. | Liberty or License By LEONARD* A. BARRETT There Is an important difference be tween liberty and license. By liberty we mean, "exemp tion from external restraint ? free dom." In govern ment It means, "freedom from po litical usurpation; the condition of a people which par ticipates in the making of its own laws." License, means a special grant of privilege, like the right to conduct a certain Business, operate uu automobile, conduct an entertain ment or show. The distinction between these two terms is not always clearly understood. We find them seriously confused In many of our public ad dresses and press articles. Perhaps It is quite Important that this distinction should be emphasized these days when the problem of freedom is being chal lenged by many writers. Far be It from the spirit of this ar ticle to criticize the NRA or any as pects of the so-called New Deal. It Is Impossible, however, not to notice, with Best Dressed Woman Anna May Wong, the beautiful ori ental screen star, is the newest holder of the title of "best-dressed woman in the world." She was chosen at an in ternational convention of designers in the Mayfalr Mannequin academy, New York. Anna is shown with the cup awarded to her. considerable alarm, the daring assaults hurled at those in executive authority i who argue that the New Deal will re j suit in the complete destruction of that I liberty for which our fathers fought and died. Much of the writing directed toward this end, however, fails to recognize the distinction between liberty and li cense for which this article pleads. License fails to recognize a moral im perative. A license to operate an au tomobile does not Imply a moral obli i gatlon to avoid unnecessary risks. So far as the license is concerned, I can drive 70 or 40 miles an hour. Just as I please. True, my license may be re voked, If I disobey a law, which limits my speed, but my license has nothing to do with that Or, again, my neigh bor's house may be on fire. While I am. under no legal obligations to notify him of that fact, the very nature of the freedom of choice implies a moral ob ligation to do go. Liberty implies a moral btftfghtTdn T3"TTre ah?f let live. License may give me the right to con duct a certain business, but liberty lim its the methods and motives which may seriously affect the physical and eco nomic condition of the other person. License to do as I please, regardless of others, and liberty which safeguards the rights of others are two different things. The latter Is what we have in herited from our forefathers. Let us not lose it. WtattrB Newspaper Union. Blindness No Hindrance to Six New Englanders Boston.?Blindness Is no barrier to one girl and five boys who have en tered New England colleges. The girl has enrolled at Hampton In stitute. while the boys have matricu lated at Harvard. Boston college and the New England Conservatory of Mu sic. All are graduates of the Perkins In stitution for the Blind. (3%zr7~/ousefiofc) ? By Lydia Le Baron Walker GARMENT hangers require correct use for best service. It is not enough that the clothes are put over their branching arms. They must be so put on that they hang straight from the shoulders. If the frock or coat does not fit the hanger it is almost better not to use a banger at all for the gar ment will bulge In odd places where the ends of the hanger-arms push out the material. When a garment remains long in such a pe culiar position. It is difficult to re store the right shape even with good pressing. The tex tile is stretched out of shape and has to be coaxed back by steaming with a hot iron pressed down over a wet cloth. A tailor's services may be required, and all for the lack of a moment's attention to putting the gar ment on the hanger in the correct way. If a coat hanger is rightly used, it will save trouble and time otherwise needed in pressing garments. So why not let your coat hangers give you the best service? See that the arms of It come directly under the top of the shoulder. In some cuts of garments this place Is the shoulder seam, but not always is this true. See that the garment hangs in its right folds, that the hem at bottom of skirt, or the lower edge of a coat or blouse is not turned up, and that the sleeves fall as they should. There are women who are so par ticular about proper adjusting of gar ment to hanger that they seldom have to iron their garments. Dresses will have to be laundered or cleansed when soiled and some materials, which have to be crisp and which rumple easily, will need pressing, of course. But a correct use of hangers will reduce work amazingly. Don't Crowd Hangers. After garments are put on hangers properly they must not be crowded to gether in a closet. There are more ways of pressing clothes than with a flatiron. One of them is to hang them so close together that they press against each other and crush materials badly. So don't crowd hangers on rods. Some day soon I shall tell you about various rods, poles, arms and de vices on which to suspend garment hangers in closets. Some'of them keep the hangers sufficiently far distant from one another to eliminate crowd ing. Hints on Dyeing. The home dye pot will work wonders In changing colors of textiles to make them look like new and different fab rics. Now Is the time to make It prove itself beneficial in supplying what would appear like new frocks, or it may be different draperies, cushion covers and such upholstery materials as can be taken off and put into the dye pot. ' To get good results the dye must not only be the right kind for the mate j rial, silk requiring silk dyes, etc., but the color must be sufficiently darker than the color to be changed, to In sure hiding faded places, stains, and spots. It is because there is difficulty in doing this in some Instances, that makes dye houses advise black, which is a sure hue as far as concealing de fects In colors Is concerned. It is wiser for the home worker to pick out a tone which is sufficiently dark for her purpose than to experi ment, unless she is perfectly willing to redye the article. However. If she is willing to experiment she can often get stunning effects in what are known as "off-colors," those exquisite hues of artistic beauty not on color charts. ?. Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service. Hat of Beaver Fur Felt For the girl who likes tailored clothes, fashion suggests a hat of tine beaver fur felt, with a dressmaker touch of smocking on the crown.? From Knox. . Problems in Decoration Assembling a room is, after all, quite like assembling a costume. To have things which go together you must analyze before you buy. Consider these questions: Are you starting anew or combining new furnishings with those you already have? Does' your room lack color and design? Has it a preponderance of colors with no theme to draw them together? Or is your room, perhaps, of the type widely known as the "too-taupe" room? You can easily relieve the drab monotony of this one tone by hanging colorful chintz curtains at the windows. Then make a slip cover for a chair in the same chintz and place It opposite the windows, across the room. Bring out. some of the warm hues of the drap eries in lamp shades and accessories, and before you know It your room will really begin to live!?Good Housekeep ing Magazine. Worth Remembering When running a new tape or elastic through underwear baste one end of the new tape onto an end of the old tape, and when the old tape Is drawn out the new one is pulled in place. Tip on Ironing A clean, washable rag rug Is ex cellent to place under the Ironing board when Ironing. Large pieces, such as tablecloths, will not get on the floor. She Sees Through "Grafted" Eyes Mrs. Daphne Muir (right). Doted British novelist, is shown telling a girl reporter at Qulsset, Mass., of the almost miraculous restoration of her eyesight through a delicate grafting operation performed by Dr. Tudor Thomaa at Car diff, Wales. Mrs Mulr was blinded nearly ten years ago when a doctor acci dentally dropped some chloroform into her eyes during a minor operation, burn ing the corneas Another woman, almost blind and incurably so, offered the healthy parts of her own eyes so Mrs Mulr might see ngnln. Mrs Mulr appeared before the American College of Surgeons, so the members could see what may be done In the field of "eye grafting." | WILLlS ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS?Well all I know la Just what I read In the mail. w4 turned out a little movie here a short i.iuo ?6U, ana trom reports it seemed to be pretty good, hat is for mine. And the reports were that we had 'airly got into the atmosphere of the South. We thought trvin C o b b did a line Job, and that John Ford who di rected did another line one. and that '4 e n r y Walthall was suberb, and an actor named vn dau was great. Well, just as I was sorter grinning a kind of a satisfied grin, why I get this: Its from a lady who signs herself ? ? . daughter of a Southerner, from St Petersburg, Flor ida. "When one who is all southern goes to the theatre to see you play in a supposedly southern play, a story de pictihg the old South, and comes out of that theatre resolved never to see you play again, what is wrong? Judge Priest is far, very far. from being a true picture of the South of that period that it depicts (or any other period). Our feelings are hurt. That you should be so misled as to think you were in terpreting a southern jourist. "If Mr. Irvin Cobb wrote that story as it was presented, then Mr. Cobb is not a true southerner. The negroes kept, and still do. their places as ser vants. respectful and obedient, never appearing In public except in caps and aprons (in other words uniforms!; the women with clean dresses, caps and aprons, the men wearing a white coat, all the time keeping a respectful si lence. The South of that day was known for its culture, and I know not in his tory of a southern Jourist manifesting so^ great ignorance as Judge Priest manifested. "You played the part excellently, but you did not understand the South, and only southern men. and southern women should play the parts protray ing life in the "Old South" as they only understand the South. Judge i Priest's sister-in-law was also a trav ' esty, a woman who held the social position of the sister in law of Judge Priest was usually a gentle refined woman of understanding. Even though she were haughty, she would always be gentle. Its a pity those who do not know anything about the "Old South" should assign you to a part that is destined to ruin you with the southern people. "Should you live in the South among real genuine southern people you would agree with me, I know. There are many in the South who will con tinue to enjoy you in the pictures, who will understand that you have been misled as to the South. But something should be done to redeem that false picture of the South. 1 should suggest that the play be presented again -with a cast of all southerners, then there would be a different interpretation. "We like you, Mr. Rogers, but we think you have the wrong opinion of us. Sincerely yours, daughter of a Southerner, St. Peters burg, Fla." Now there is lots of ways to treat that. 1 could start in by kidding about It. But its a lovely letter, its printed word for word, with the deletion of one of two rather flattering personal Illusions to me. And the letter de serves 1 think an answer in the same spirit as meant. 1 myself would like to see it played by real Southerners. 1 was raised in the Indian Territory. (My father fought with the famous Stan Waite Regiment for the Confe eracyi, and If this tad> will look a' her map, she will notice that Okla, which was then Ind. Ter, lays south of the Mason and Dixon line. So 1 am not the daughter of a Southerner, but 1 am the son of one, and I am like her if its to be done over again, it should be written by a man further south than Padueah, Kentucky. Now there is only one thing In the whole letter that I think the criticism was not justified and that was about my sisier - in ? law. She said that al the Southern women would always be "Gen tie." Now r i g h l there, as much as 1 We-fiTe'tiler inl'f " any con troversy with someone know is a lovelj lady, but that"Con ' tlnually" being gentle stuff among all the women? mow nere is another way i gui -i;?? up with the South in addition to both my parents being born and raised there, and me too. I married one of em. Now I wouldenl be gallant, and 1 wouldent be Just, and I wouident be a southern gentleman if 1 d;dent pay my wife a lovely, a deserved com pliment, but 1 have se_'U ber when she j could have been "Gentler," and then compared to some other Southern women 1 have known, my wife is piurD Gentle." But a good dose of legitimate crit icism does us good, and 1 want tc thank this lovely lady and 1 will see that she gets the sister-in-law part in the aU Southern Productions. ? lfJ4, ******* \9*usu. tm.
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