Coolidge Foreign Policy One Of Watchful Waiting Though President Anxious to Willi ICuro pean Nations Looking Toward Krdir lion Arma inputs Believe* Nothing Possible Noh Bv DAVID UWRRXC9 ir*??fi?ht. m<. By Th? A4.IIMI Washington, Sept. 11. ? President Coolidge is as anxious that something practical be done to limit further the arma ments of the principal powers of the world ns are tlie spokes men of governments who recently met in the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva. Mr: Coolidtfo lias no idea that the suggestion he made in his recent speech; namely, that he would convoke a con ference 011 armaments, will in any way conflict with the plan made at Geneva for a conference of powers. The Geneva institution in to ap point a commission |o study the' armament question and feel out the viewpoint of the powers with respect to a plan to bo presented to them In an international con fprrncp. America 1h dorply Inter ?ntfd In all plaus which will re duce tho cost of armaments. The policy of the United State* Gov ernment; fiUwcrer, la based \ipon a belief that a move In the dlrec- j tlon of an International confer ence will come with better chance of success when Europe has had an opportunity to digest the l)awea report and to put It Into actual operation. Mr. Coo I id go has not forgotten that in the Washington confer-, ? uce for the limitation of arma ments an effort was mud'- to briug up the subject of the size of arm ies and land military establish ment. The^ sptfech of Mr. Jlriand "iii'wlilch he pointed out that France felt herself In constant Jeopardy and could not at that time discuss land armaments still has its ImpresBion Indelibly writ ten in the minds of officials here. In other words, It was uselens then to ask Krance to reducc her armaments because the latter was constantly thlnktog of the situa tion In connection with repara ? lons and. of course, har own na tional security as affected by the 'controversies growing out of tin Treaty of Versailles. In such a mood and In such a temper, ef fort* to convoke an international conferenc ? were not regarded as likely to succeed. Ilut when the United States Government will assume the Inl- ? tlatlve in convening an Interna tional conference must for the moment be left open. Certainly nothing will be done during the present political campaign as such n move might be misconstrued both abroad and In this country. When the smoke of the campaign has cleared away, the President feels, It *.v|ll be time enough to ex amine whether the operation of the > Dawes report has brought about a different state of mind in Europe with respect to armament conferences. Meanwhile. the Lennue of Nations with Its com mission of inquiry will be study ing the subject and much more will be known about the attitude of other countries than Is known today. Thus far. the only com mitment mnde from Geneva has been for the principle of further ? ^reduction of armaments and a method of arbitration but there Is always a practical difficulty when It comes to applying the principle In a definite treaty form. It would not he surprising If. nfUr all, the attitude of the for eign governments would develop concretely what could be accom plished In an international con f. rence If It were held, so that the chance of succeeding would be k neyrn far In iflfSnte. WTilln much was accomplished at the \f ushlnRlon conference thst was' a surprise to the general public, there In no doubt thst the main idea back of tin- Washington con ference was fully discussed by the powers before they sent their plenipotentiaries to Wsahlngton and that there was substantial agreement before the conference actually met. In other words, diplomacy I* constantly trying to discover a common ground on all moot ques tions and there Is no doubt that the subject of military weapons and s conference to codify Inter national law will be given atten tion an the Coolldge administra tion proceeds with Its foreign policy. Just now, the administration feels quite confident that Ihe^ Pn we* plan will take s good deal of Mine and concerted thought to op rate successfully and that Its! f varied processes are the best an f,w< r thst csn be made as to the attitude of the Itepubllcan party towsrd questions overseas. In deed. If It were not for the Dawes plan, the Republican administra tion might eonaldar Itself on the defensive because the unsettled condition of sffalrs of abroad would have provoked constant In quiry as to" the American plan for solution. With a plsn adopted by all the interested parties. It Is felt there is nothing mora the I'nlted States could do for Europe even . If H were s member of the League of Nations. The working ont of the Dawea plan must be awaited before thf next atepa can be tak Fights Rebels Till' is (iciifriil \\ u I VI I* o, military dictator of (lie Ivklntr government. Who I* leading the fluht on the L'hcklung rebel army. TOM COOPER ENTERS PLEA OK GUILTY Wilmington. Sept. 12. ? Thom as E. Cooper and J. C. Ruark. president and cashier respective!/ i of the defunct Liberty Havings Bank. yesterday pleaded guilty t<" ' several charges of misdemeanor | and felony and violations of th Slate bun king laws In coniioctloi* with th?* bank's failure. Their M i tence will be passed at 2: HO this afternoon. MANUAL LABQR NOW FOR BOY MURDERERS Jollett. Illinois. Sept. 12. At ler their first night in prison a pen: in the "court solitary" where all prisoners must spend their first night In the penitentiary. Dickie LOeh and liuip Leopold "dressed Jn" last nig.it as prisoners numbers ; 9.30S and 9.306 and faced tbei" lint day of Imprisonment for the murder of Robert Franks. Having forfeited their life of ease for the routine scheduled fo^" all lifers, the prisoners will toon begin manual labor In one of th?? prison factories. Jollet, III.. Sept. 12.-- Nathnf: Leopold. Jr.. and Richard T^oeb ontered the penitentiary lan night for life to expiate th.'-mur der of Rob rt Franks. I NsEKN IIAM>S" IS TODAY'S ATTRACTION With Wallace Beefy as the star. "Unseen Hands" Is the attractfou at the Alkrama today. It Ih adap ted from an original story by Wal ker Coleman (Jrnves, Jr., and tells the story of a man who fell !u love with a beautiful woman and In order to ply love without any interruption, causes her husband to die when he turns off the elec tric lights during an operation that would have saved his life. The scene* open in Northern France and then shift to the I nit ed Stales, with some exciting cli maxes taking place In an old Span ish rancho in Arizona, in the cast appear Joseph Dowllng. Foii taifio La Rue, Cleo Madison. Jack Rollins and Jamie Orcy, Jacques Jaccard directed the picture. .MI'rtH TKItM llEfilNS HKI1HMIIICK M FT E K.N Til I'rner O. Davis announces that those who wish lo study music with him the coming term should register at his studio, corner Road and Fearing streets, Saturday September 1.1. between the hourr of II and 12. Mr. DmvIm will in struct In piano, violin, mandolin banjo-mandolin, brass Instruments and also pipe organ by speclnl ar rangement en. And It will be long after flec tion before It can lie determined whether the t>awes plsn Is n suc cess or a lallurf. No new developments may. therefore, be expected in connec tion with the forelsn policy of the sdmlnlstrstion whlrh might be a factor In the national political campaign. The administration's foreign policy will bo attacked, of course, but President Cool Id ge Is confident that with th?- gradual , Improvement of conditions In Eur ope lie will get the benefit of pub lic reaction rather than a resent ment vote, for he does not eonsld er the las tie sufficiently sfut* to j excite the populace on thin side | of the Atlantic. CHANGES IN LAW FOR CHILD LABOR Attention < ailed to Matter us School Open* So That Employer* and Children May Act Accordingly. The County Welfare officer call" the attention of employers and to boys ar.d girls to chansea imide tn tht State child labor law | ul tiic wwnl wMloii "( llw t ,vu" ' ,ral Aaacuibly. School la open ing now and bo>s and glrla are , planning to work atter achool and on Saturday?. Before doing ho. they flhould note these changes, as- , c.rtaln what steps are necessary to permit them to work, and whether they will he allowed to do so or not. : It must be borne In mind that the welfare officer did not pass thcBe laws and that It la not a' personal matter In which she pur posely trlea to work hardships, but that she is appointed by the 1 State to enforce the law or to re port violations. There are three Important changes, as follows: Section 5032 which formerly read "No girl un der the ago of 14 years, etc . now reads, "No child" and in cludes boys as well as girls. The section iu full follows: "Sec. 5032. Employment of: children under 14 regulated. No' child under the ace cf 14 years shall be employed or permitted to work in or about or In connection with any mill, factory, cannery, workshop, or manufacturing es tablishment. No child under the age of 14 years shall be employed, or permitted to work. In or about or in connection with any laun dry bakery, mercantile establish ment. office, hotel, restaurant, barber shop, bootblack stand, public stable, garage, place of amusement, brick yard. *u?nJ>*r : yard, or any messenger or denv ery service, public work*, u! irnT" form of street trsdes. except In cas?ir and under regulations pre scribed by the Commission herein created, provided the employ tnents In this section enumerated shall not be construed to Include | bona flde boys* and girls* canning clubs recognized by the Agricul tural Department of this State, or , vocational tralstair Causes auftnr Ized by the State Hoard of Edu cation. and such canning clubs and vocational classes are hereby expressly exempted from the pro visions of Ihls article.". Another Important change Is In Section 5033 where the age limit Is raised from 14 to 16 year?. This section now reads as follows: "Sec 5033. Prohibited em ployments of children under 16.1 No person under 16 years of shall be employed, or permitted to work, at night In any of the places or occupations referred to In the flrst preceding section, be Iwe-n the hours of 9 p. in. and six a. m.. and no person under ir. years of ag. shall be employed or permitted to work In or about or in connection with any quarry or mine, nor shall any child under the age of 16 years be employed except In rases snd under regula tions prescribed by the Commls ?Inn herein created, when (1> such child haa symptoma of dis ease contributory to retardation or disability; or employed when surrounding con ditions sre Injurious to Its mor uls; or <4> employed when dan gorous employment hatards are "'section 5034 In regard to age certlAcates formerly contained the | clause. ' Whose aci' l? undeter- , mined" which allowed a loophole | through which many chl'dren were allowed to work This s*c ?on |, now definitely "under the of 16 years, and In full It ""^s" " 5034. arc certllicetSs No child under the age ot 1< year, shall he employed In '"!' " ?he ways enumerated In thla act unleaa at the time of auch em ployment the employer shall in M.od faith procure, rely ">">!>'''* | place on 111... a certificate leaned In such form and under dltlons and by auch person! ?s ?w said Commission herein provided | fur shall prescribe, showing that \Z person^ t. Of legal ??' 'or auch employment, snd the laws and rules msde by the HUt Cb" Welfare Commission undt r an thbrlty Of thla act have been com piled Willi. The possession of such certificate liy an employer shall be prima facie evidence that he has compiled with the require ments and obligations of thla act when employing auch 1 person shall knowingly ??*?*. false statement or preaent falsi evidence 1.1 or In relation to any auch certificate or application therefor or cauae any false state mont to be made which may re- 1 suit In the Issuance of an Improp er certificate of employment. The purpose of the law la Bet forth hy Ihe State Child Welfaro Commission as follows: "The Commission feels that It } should call the attention P"" ent?. public officer?, ministers, educator? aoclsl workers, snd thinkers, and tha public general ly to the fact that the l^glatatura Intended thla act to be a uieasur. for child welfare and to solicit the aid and cooperation of all in i securing the henettcl.nt purpoeel Intended. To tbtl e?d It I* W? In War-Torn China China may be out of dato In some reapcrt!*. but military warfare la rm occupation that Chinese do not pattern after their unoentor*. The picture ?hows a modern fleldpiece. part of the modern military equipment em ployed by the force* row bcfraRueriuc Shancha!. CIIE KIANG FORCES "CAPTURE A TOWN Tli?" AkVltM I'rrul ^ Shanghai. Sept. 12. ? The Che Kiang forces defending Shanghai operating from the west of the ci ty have captured the town of fil ing. compelling the Kangsu army !n that sector to fall bark toward Changchow. ACKNOWLEDGES HIS DEFEAT BY BLEASE Columbia. S. C., 8ept. 12. ? - Coleman LivingHton Kinase, twit* governor and conceded to he tho most picturesque political leader flnce Ben Tillman, will be tbo Junior senator from South Caro lina for the next Mix years. Representative Byrnes today Is sued u statement accepting I. is defeat in the Democratic run-cTf primary of Tuesday in which, ac cording - to -"liirna li polled 2,314 votes lets . than Uease out of the total of 198. Ouc tabulated. ?ary to make every poaaUilA effort to provide wholesome condition* of environment for children while not in school or employed. Such environment muat depend* upon better home Influences, more parental thought and tare, and more public co-operation In the way of playgrounds and other wholesome recreation. It in at ill true that an Idle brain la th#? dev il's workshop.' and javenilo delin quency arises In nearly all canes from idleness or lack of proper direction of youthful energy." JUMPS TO DEATH FROM HOTEL KOOM i -New York. Sept. 12. ? Mrs. Maude lligby. forty two years old. wife of th? mayor of Ormou.l Beach. Florida, Jumped to death from her room on the seventeenth floor of the Heimont Hotel her today. Mrs, lligby had come to York for treatment for u nervou ; .Mines.-. lur huahand .said HAND1TS HOLD III" BltONX JEWEI.EK N'ew York. Sept. 12 ? Thre.? bandits today held up lr\in Huron. Jeweler, iti his Bronx store and af ter forcing hint to open the itaf ?. lesc.i|M-d wiih unset diamond... watches and rings valued at $10, 000. TWO KILLED WHEN ? rrraooN-Hf ts tokh* ! Tokio. Sept. 12. ? Twenty per sons wero killed today when a ty phoon ftwept tho soiit hr ;iHt< ; 'i roast of Japnn. Several othc rs arc missing in fishing boats caught in the typhoon at sen. meningitis h \<;ks THRUOUT JAPAN Tokia, Sept. 12. ? Tho m.-nlngl t Is epidemic now sweeping Jnpnu has reunited in 2.6:;6 deaths. ;i cording to government report made public today. The opidem:. is subsiding. Ancientlndian Ceremonies Being Observed In Public Kill** Once Zealously Guarded from Eye* of I'alr Fare* Now Practiced I > y Indians of Smilliwivt While Whiles Look on in Awe l?> IIK.XKY II. IIAKKIt |?34. TIM A?ra>Ml uaTTupr n. M., Sept. 12. Once J more covered wagons are creak ing ocronu ? the desert, whips cracking over teams white with alkali, an the last scores of cara vans Join those already camped about thin city. But thin Ik no mimic cavalcado posing before movie cameras. The group* 1 * th?- prairie schooners, the dusty riders on their plodding ponies and the Agures that move up and down the picket lines where more , than a thousand hfrses will soon be tethered, are serious folk, gathered for a serloua purpose. Nor are they a new set of pion eer*. They ore descendants of the red inan, who were once the white Minn's enemy, now answering the white man's call to take part In the great Inter-tribal Indian cere monials held Wednesday, Thurn day and Friday. Hopls from painted desert, 7. u nls from the land of the Inscrip tion rocks. Nevajos from th< bridge ef the rainbow, Pueblos and Isletas from the adobe vllr lages and others fr#m the sur rounding plains and hl1li>? repre sentatives of 14 different and a? one time highly uncongenlsl tribes of red men are gathering to perform, wlthont remunim tlon, their most sacred rites of prayer and worship, propitiation and benediction, long Jealously guarded from alien eyes Here, on the ancient trails of their an cestora who camped besides these fame mesas and In these arroyos when Home was young they will perform the ancient rites, some of ' them said to be little changed from the days wh? n the Innd was theirs. The gathering here at the cor ner* of four states, roughly the center of a circle enclosing the n ?w shrunken domain of the In dians of the Houthwest, Is unl'iix quite aside from its barbaric col oring. It Is unique in that It reems to present the successful result cf an altruistic effort which has been met -without suspicion and Is working for the mutual good of the while investigators and the Indteaa. Jt was started by ? small grasp of artists, writ- > ?r? and boats is i mm\ with t He idea of promoting the welfare of the Indian by encouraging the ac tivities which make him self-sup porting and likewise helping maintain IiIh Better I radii Inns which have psychological value to hlin, It is Hiiid. as well an a prac tical benefit, Commercialism has been kept out. It Is predicted that this year will hw the 2.O00 participants of last year supplemented by many more, for the Ion* and patient ef fort* of the promoters In per HiiadlnK the Indian to perform bin sacred ' ceremonies In public h having Its effect. Many of the educated Indians, all of whom still look whh respect. If not with piety, on tEeff tribal customs, were at first loath to encourage publicity for the sacred old danc es. However, the demonstration of good faith on the part of th* white men and the obvious |)enc* (Its Mint have accrued have won even the conservatives over. Most of the Indian dances are so vitally bound up with the very existence of the peoplo- -especial ly those connected with propitiat ing the gods of Cfoud and Thun der In a country wher?- rain Is scarce ? that It la natural that they are serious sffsirs. (tut ob servers ssy that In making them public the Indian has lost none of Ills sincerity. He blesses his house In impressive pantonilne. Invokes the Thund< r bird, and propitiates the dieties of seed time and harvest so that the most casual of tourists cannot fall to be Improsxiri In all the natural huh-ub si ways surrounding such an event there is a matter of fact serious ness displayed by the white popu lation as well as - by the Indians who have already arrived, some of them altpr long treks across the desert, that robs the occasion of any of the atmosphere of a wild west shoy The natural sur roundings, th? dignified hearing of the red hien and whole atmos phere of the place adds to the 1m pretalvenes* of the occaslt n nut .lha red m*?n. by his very nowhere, makes the average pale face glad tha* the pea re ptp end not the tomahawk la the symbol i of dsy. HOOD PROMOTES BIG CORPORATION (^uarlrr Million Dollar* Will lit- Authorized < a pi tul of Industrial Bank Finanrui): Company Goldsboro, Sept. 12. ? Gurue) P. 1 1 oo?l is organizing a large cor poration to Ik* known as The Hood Klnanro Corporation with Ji e ail q unrters n t_ G * ? I dsboro. Th* general purposes of the corpora Hon will ho to' organTso Industrial hanking systems, to acquire stock In Industrial hanks and re-illa i'ouut papers for industrial banki. The corporation will have an t?r million dollars, with $ jO.tiOC paid in to start with. Mr. Hood. | it is remembered. recently or gunized . The* Hood Industrial Hank at Goldsboro. which Is now in successful operation. Mr. Hood, who is to make Gold shorn hU lump, and will he a', ity* head uad In active charge of the corporation, ii vice president of the Carolina Hanking & Tru.it Company of Elizabeth City. Col umbia and Hertford; vice presi dent of the Hood Industrial Hank of Klizuhfth City, and a director of the Hood System Industrial Hunk at Goldsboro. has had li v-'ars practl'-ul experience in bank* Ing. having devoted the last three years to the Industrial hanking bu slot 551 and having soTiT during the pust year 6u Hood Industrial Hanking systems and organizer two industrial banks. DISTINCT MEETING II El J) AT NEWBEGUN All l>ny Conference Tliurmlay At tended liy l>el< gaits From Far and Wido The Klizabeth Cily District Methodist Missionary Conference mm ? in Ni'wbt'Ktin Mfthudls1 Churcli in this county Thursday in an all day meeting presided ov er by. the district secretary Mm. George llu wains of Kdoitou. Upuuing devotional eiercUrts were conducted by Rev. W. T. 1'hipps, pastor of Newbegur 'Church, and the welcome add rest was made by Mrs. Grace I'almer of Newbegun Church. Report* of the various auxil iaries from all over the district from the threti departments bright Jewels, young peoples, and adults, were given by delegates from Hertford. New Hope. Win Tall. Sunbury, Plymouth. Stumpy Point. Moyock. Camden, South Mills. Warichese, and other points art well as the Pasquotank and Klizabeth City churches. The main point stressed was "Doing Our Beat For the Master" whhi is the conference slogan. Miss Lu cille jMiinette and MUs Margaret Foreman sang a duet Jum before the close of the morning session A bountiful dinner was serve 1 on the grounds by Newbegun and Hnlon churchoi. Mrs. W. C Glover superintendent of the Pa? quotunk County work, had charg I of the aft?arnoon devotional ser vice with scripture eison by Mr* Mollle Fearing and a solo by Mrs J. W: Foreman. Mtr. W. T Phlpps read a letter from Mrs. N. II. I> Wilson, superintendent of the children's work of the confer ence. stressing this work and re gretting her Inability to be prctenr Adjournment was made wi'h the benediction pronounced by l(. v C T Thrift of Moyock. Thl? is an annual meeting and the place of the next meeting was not do elded on at this time. NEGROES PAY WITH IJVES FOR MURDER Richmond, Sept. 12. ? Ott?? Clear and Fritz Lewis, negroes, were electrocuted at the stuta Penitentiary today for murder of Thomas Campbell, aged farmer whom th?>y beat with a rifle and pistol, stuck with knives, tied tc his mattress, and set fire to It and after ransacking the place, set the home afire. LARGEST ELK DIES OF HEART TROUBLE Winchester, Va.t Sept. 12. ? - Charles Bhlpman. whose normal weight was said to be about 460 pounds, and #ho was report^! to be the Urgent member of the Kike. died suddenly today of heart trouble at Leeshurg. COTTON MAKKKT tNcw York, Sopt. 12. ? Spot tot ton closed qulot. Middling, 23.80, a decline of poifltr. Futures, closing bid, Oct. 22.6ft. Dee. 2 2 17 Jan 22 1 3. March 22 40. May 22 ?ft New York Sept 12. ? Cotton fu tures opened today at the follow Ing levels; October 23.27, Decen. ber 22 74. January 22.77, March 23 00. May 22 30. C. H Brock and daughter. Miss Mand Brock, have retu*-n*d from a trip north. While awsv they vis ited N>w York. Jersey City, Phllj delphla. Newark, Washington and Baltimore. Leopold Loeb Sentence In Line With Chicago J ustice City With Record of One killing a Day and One Hang* ing u Year (!ould Hardly Have Be?'ii Kvprrted Impose Extreme Penalty in Thin (.W II j ROIIKRT T. KM. \ 1.1 j iCwrtlihl. l?X4. b? TU? Aduvti I New York. Sept. 12. ? Ufo im | prlsonment In the cam s of "Dick er" ixyrb and A'Babe-" ? Leopold may be Justified only If these two youthful murderers are placed lu a confinement ho deep that they will never be heard of attain. Thla ; lal comment, leathered from all , sections of the I'nited States yes terday on the action of Judge I Caverly In the famous Chicago i murder case. But public opinion scoffs at the Idea that any such thing will hap pen. Life Imprisonment has ceased to be life Imprisonment, i The- money which permits rich { criminals to hire expert lawyers and sympathetic allenlttla often follows up this advantage by gain ing eventual freedom for the con demned. I'ardon scandals hav< be?n all too frequent the country over. Ironfcml ln-the extreme Is mo? of the expressed public opinion If capital punishment wkh not deserved in thin caBe. then it should be abolished. There could j be no more atrocltlous crime than : the kidnaping of little Kobert Pranks and his cold-blooded, pseudo-scientific murder. If the people of the United States as a whole sustain Judge Caverly'* view, they clearly favor the abo lition of the gallows and the elec tric chair, to say nothing of Ne vada's new fangled lethal chum ber. There Is but one clash of opln ion In all the gathered commmt. A great majority of tho thlnhiitu newHpapers of the country feel j that the reaction to the sparing 'of the Loeh and 1^'opold lives . must he that in this land of free dom there Is one law for the rich j-and another foe the poor. -A- min ority of the newspaper* avow that ! Judge Caverly effectually has 'estopped the cynical from making Just that claim for he threw aside all the fanciful defense set up by the expensive alienists and the as tute lawyers and predicated his action solely upon the youth of ? he defendants. If two poor boys of 18 and 19 hsd come before him. some editors are generous enough to ssy Judge Caverly's ac tion would have been the name. This generosity Is the exception In the comment, not the rule. Con demnation of the "tenderness" of i the Judge rings out from many sections, while a few newspapers go so far as to hurl the word ("friendly" In a fashion that Is anything but that. The general feeling of the country seems to be that in prison tho money behind Loeb and Leo pold will lead to special favors for them. They v.- Ill receive vis itors. will publish their distorted views to the world, and will In !ed for the reat of their natural lives; If I wo ?uch egotists can be swallowed up by the gray prison walls and he forever forgotten, then the pun ishment may have fitted tin crime. Otherwise the chance for Illinois to sustain the mslestv of the law throughout the Isnd has been lost. Kxpert criminologists in this city who have been making an ex i tensive study of crime recrds throughout the I'nited States, hare professed seeing la the sen tencing of young Ix>eb snd Leo pold to life Imprisonment Just an other evidence of the difficulty In thla country of sending anybody to the gallows. It long has been said of Chicago that It holda a "?cord of a murd"'1 a rtav and hanging a year. Life insurance companies, hard hit by the homi cide epidemic which haa n sweeping the ooantry the pa*t few year*, have found that In an in DEFENSE DAY IS OBSERVED BY I !.& Nation** Drfpiiw Machin ery Intended for War Emergency lUe Is Given Its Firs! Tent. Washington, Sept. I-.- ? The na tion's defense machinery, intended for actual urq only in the event of war emergency. was today Riv en It* fir at test jccoinpnuicd by patriotic demount rations In every part of thr Flitted Stntes and it s possession. It. was a limited trat. the actual expansion plum of the War De partment being designed to cover .1 period of months. The day's" program culled for the trial of decentralized defense machinery sei up ainet*-- the- Na tional Defense Act of 1*120 was substituted for the pre-war sys tem. The demonstration of the suc cors of tho new srli nil' will sig nalize the separation from mill tary establishment, at least so far uh active servico Is invoved. of General 1'er siting who hud de voted his time since 1H18 to per fecting ft. voslUttllon of Ht kllllnua thero was but one execution. The criminologists, however, see one ray of hop in the prompt nn"' with w h i ell tlu? sluyers of Clio Franks boy were brought to trial. .They have ulways held that sure -nese a nd awlftnena of fMMfariHMat would be a greater deterrent to crime than sporadic severity of sentence. Of course, there woa no great reason in the Franks case why th we should have been un usual delay. The caxe auainsi th? boys was clear; they had con fessed; the evidence was un Itv about $160,000 apiece. What I they cost the wealthy i!> f. ndnnts, , [no one knows | The grounds for new tHal? e?d the grounds for appeals to high 'er courts are so numerous |i\ this I * . Continued on page 4 i