Innumerable counties and forty-eight States in
volve so many jurisdictions, so many frontiers, that
the outlaw has a tremendous advantage. The utmost
cooperation of Federal and local law enforcement
officers might meet the need. If not. then a
nation-wide armed force to deal with violent crime
is the only way out.
Great Britain has a surplus, not ol wheat, cotton
or anything like that, but of money in the treas
ury. The trick is said to be merely not spending
as much as was planned. We might try it. but we
won't.—(Springfield, Ohio. Sun.i
Crowds chase a dangerous mad dog and nobody
tries to shoot a drunken driver.—(Akron Beacon
Journal.)
It isn't her inability to afford a European war
that stops Europe; it’s ours.—(Detroit News.)
Speaking of the debt payment question, a Gallic
statesman recalls that Prance once sent us La
fayette. Ah. true! And what she gives us now
sounds a lot like the first three letters of his name
— i Boston Herald.)
Taxpayers are the grapes in the political wine
press—(Buffalo Courier-Express.)
MOCKING HOUSE
.BY WALTER C. BROWN.
SYNOPSIS: It seems obvious
fk«t the man toho ambushed Pierre
Uulresne. contractor and political
power, i* he who has been sending
JJufresne threatening letters. But
Sergeant Harper is not so sure,
and he is puzzled by Dufrcsne’s hint
that someone close to him may be
auilty. Du/rcsne is about to open
his house on the edge of the city as
bait for the auilty man; “Sheriff"
Doyle, reporter, arrives at the Hth
Precinct police station iust as Offi
cer Hamill fails to pull his boit
for the first time.
