St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 44

ST. LOtflS POST-DISPATCH, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1929. PAGE 2B ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded hy TVlITZtR Vrerer tZ. It't The C- OFFICIAL MURDER.

So desperate has the prohibition situation become on the Canadian border that it has drawn from Mr. Hoover a statement in which he says: -I deeply de-plor the killing cf any person." In the pt two weeks three men have "been killed fcy dry agents in the course of an intensive campaign the iNT-mrr rurroRi ing a liquor truck, threw out a smoke screen when he was pursued. It was the Fleming shooting that was applauded in the lower house of Congress when It was reported by one of the members. Bishop Cannon described the congressional applause as "one of the healthiest indications I have heard in a long time." It is only fair to say that many Congressmen, drys as well as wets, were shocked by this ghoulish demonstration and reminded the House that the applause was an offense to common decency. We submit that the orgy of blood-letting that has accompanied the attempt to enforce prohibition is full of disquieting possibilities.

History teems with examples of popular resentment of official tyranny, brutality and murder. It will be strange if the American people, once, their patience is too sorely tried, do not rise to rid themselves of the Cossacks of prohibition. No wonder Mr. Hoover is alarmed. No wonder the prohibition officials are attempting to control their gunmen, and that Representative Pit-tenger should express the thoughts of millions of citizens by saying: If prohibition can only be enforced by the use of shotguns in the hands of irresponsible Government agents, then indeed we have reached the high tide of fanaticism and bigotry.

arsicst lienor srr.ugtlers. Archibald Eugfter. -1 years wss fatally shot at Detroit on June 12. An asso-loate admitted he and Eugster were liquor runners. A few osys later Arthur Gordon of riattsburg, N.

1 ws killed hy border patrolmen while running boer icto the United States. Gordon's killing was de-! scribed hy the authorities as "accidental." The case was brought to the attention of Washington authori-! ties hy S. Johnson, president of the First National Back of riattuburg. who wired them as follows: One of your customs guards phot a Plattsburg boy in the back in broad daylight last Saturday. The people of this community are getting tired of such actions on the part of your employes and wonder if we are rapidly approaching conditions which exist in Russia.

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JOSEPH UnER. April tlWT. 11 i lip LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ivs mm mil) I II State Is iKriiiR to laminate What the ing within his authority under tne law wm oe issued. But the case which has aroused the deepest feeling is that of Henry Virkula. a respected merchant of International Fails, Minn.

Virkula, on Sunday, June 9, was motoring with his wife and two children, the latter being asleep on the back seat, when he was Grade Croings. io ihe Editor cf the Post-Diptch. your editorial section of Saturday. 1 Ju ne S. there appears an eauoriai A.

i i. til 8 -M I I I ki .2 ra lip i 8' ordered to halt by two customs guards. As the car passed the guards one of them. Emmet J. White, fired a sawed-off shutgun loaded with slugs through the MEXICO'S SETTLEMENT.

Announcement by the Mexican Government that services will be resumed in the Catholic churches of the republic does not mean that the centuries-old controversy between state and church in Mexico is composed. What it does mean, according to the statement issued by President Gil, is that education is left to the state. The church is to exercise entire liberty in the spiritual field. In insisting that all priests must be registered the President denies, the Government ever meant to substitute its own priests for those ordained by ecclesiastical authority. He also denies that it ever wanted to destroy the church.

The statement will hardly terminate the widespread resentment among Catholics of the Government's policy. That is as irreconcilable as the establishment of secular education in France. The recent revolution left the Mexican Government in complete back of the car. killing Virkula. No liquor was found, and Mrs.

Virkula declares the shot followed immediately the command to halt, so closely that the car had not proceeded its own length before Virkula was hit-Local feeling reached the boiling point, and the City Council of International Falls addressed a series of appeals to Mr. Hoover for protection from the dry agents, one of which ended with the words: "For God's sake, help us." The Council asked for the dismissal of Henry J. Sullivan, an immigration official, whose actions "have been highly distasteful in that he has proved himself obnoxious and officious beyond the degree to which bis office entitles him." possession cf the country. The church had Etruck in protest against the Government insistence upon the secularization of education. This was at the bottom of the trouble rather than the registration of priests.

headed "Perilous Grade Crossings." While this editorial deals with grade limination primarily In St, Louis and Mcinity, I notice that you refer, in the fifth paragraph, to the State road system and imply that the State should be paying: some attention to this safety measure. I am afraid it is very apparent that you are not familiar with the work that the State has been doing along this line. Our biennial reports for several years have been carrying a report on this work. At the beginning of our program In 1321 there were approximately 750 grade crossings on the roads comprising the State road system as then designated. Since that time, by relocation of our roads.

3S0 crossings have been eliminated from the system and In addition ISO grade separations have been effected with the railroad, the railroads paying BO per cent and the State 60 per cent of the cost of this elimination, leaving approximately S00 crossings on the system os used Many of these crossing will be eliminated either by relocation grade separations aa our system is completed. The ones which are not contemplated to be eliminated at this timt ere either located In such way or places that it is Impossible to eliminate, rr friar unimportant railroads that have very light traffic. On our main highways such as U. S. 40 from St.

Louis to Kansas City, all the railroad crossings, with the exception of the electric line at St. Charles, have been eliminated by grade separations. There is only one grade crossing on an unimportant railroad left on Route 36, whic'u Is from Hannibal to St. Joseph. Practically the same conditions exist on Routes 66.

61 and 71. which are some the more important primary roads in th State. C. W. BROWN.

Assistant Chief Engineer, State Highway Jefferson City. Mo. The agreement in Mexico is therefore pleasing only in so far as one believes that education should be the state's business and that the churches should confine themselves to the spiritual. There is a grave and honest difference of opinion as to that, in which the Catholics are far from being alone in the view that the church should control education. It is undoubtedly because of the indignation of the people of International Falls and other border points that Mr.

Hoover has deemed it necessary to take presidential recognition of the "war on the border" by deploring the killings and calling upon the border communities to "do their best to help the Treasury end the systematic war that is being carried on by international criminals against the laws of the United States." And it is in response to the Virkula killing that customs guards have been ordered by Assistant Secretary Lowman to discard shotguns and rifles and to arm themselves only with service revolvers. A long history of bloodshed precedes the latest killings, llr. Lowman announced on April 6 of this year that U. S. dry agents had killed 197 persons.

Nor is the war entirely one-sided. In the 10 years of prohibition 60 dry officers have lost their lives in the performance of duty. This carnage has brought forth condemnation from both wets and drys- While such wets as Senator Edwards and Congressman La Guardia see in the situation the seeds of civil war, Senator Dill, a dry, is saying: The revolutionary government of Mexico thinks not, and the church will resume on those terms. WHY NOT? A judge of the Omaha Court of Domestic Relations says there would be fewer divorces if talking pic THE KILLER. tures were taken of the marriage ceremony to be shown to the couple in later years when a rift ap Planes for Private Flying How a person should go about selecting a plane for private use; suggestions as to speed, stability and safety devices; advantages of open cockpit; upkeep of $3000 plane estimated at $2000 per year; doctors in sparsely settled regions, ranchero, prospectors and others are now turning to the airplane for transportation.

pears in domestic life. This, he says, would be a good reminder of the seriousness of the covenant. We suggest a better plan would be to have homes equipped with complete sound equipment to record the family spats. These recordings could be run off whenever connubial bliss is threatened. We daresay the couple would laugh heartily, chorus: "Ridiculous," and prepare forthwith to start on their second honeymoon.

Little Pauperism In the Oiarks. To ths Editor of tb Post-Dispatch. I think the outrageous manner in which our constitutional liberties are being invaded and innocent people being killed, injured or at best having their property destroyed, is doing more to injure sentiment for prohibition in this country than any other one thing. Perhaps the factor which most fans the public flame WASHINGTON. Jal Alexander Klemin in Scientific American.

(Reprinted jrom Fleet's Review.) UT Senator Brookhart'a real orchard. I against prohibition killings is the attitude of the Washington authorities, whipped and spurred Out in Washington. Ia his BJ be owns a email farm and appls He has a reputation in Iowa i by the dry organizations. The latter, according to the New York Herald Tribune, "have insisted on one one cf the foremost apple mwi'l thing above all others that the Government must State, Apples from his orchard af IMFLT as a friendly gesture I am going to say to you that a recent editorial In your paper concerning the Orarks captioned "Mussolini and the Ozarks" gi-es you a splendid opportunity really to know and present the Orarks as they are. Even the real "hill" country people, are rot paupers or dependents, and the "Osarks-' touches very closely to St.

Louis, with one of your greatest railroad systems traversing much of it. At best the bounds of the Ozarks are very loosely defined and it is a blanket indictment which should at least be largely qualified. Tour paper struck a note very discordant to that now generally heard in speaking of this section as a whole. While there are many acres on our hills which do not produce much, they at least do not produce, paupers any mere than doea the Rocky Mour.talr.a and it does not seem even a Mussolini could level these and cover them w-lth a productive soiL TV. B.

LOWRT. Aurora, Mo. ight tooth and nail to save agents from punishment. It is held that the first time an agent is punished for overzealousness a great blow will be struck at the morale of the dry service." This policy has been 100 first place at the Iowa he was awarded the blue hibition in Kansas City, orchard himself, and it fruit only three years. The Senator confesses -IHE GREATEST SHEPHERD." Francis E.

Warren, United States Senator from Wyoming, was So years old on Thursday. He has been a member of that body for S5 years, and has established a record for continuous service formerly held by the late Senator Allison of Iowa. The occasion was happily observed. Senator McKellar of Tennessee, of Confederate lineage, paid eloquent tribute to the elder statesman who as a youth had fought on the Union side in a Massachusetts regiment' and was awarded the Congressional medal of honor for gallantry in action. A long life of varied activities and accomplishments.

The dean of the Senate is justly held in high esteem by his colleagues. In the felicitations of the day, untroubled by the faintest echo of "old, unhappy, far-off times and battles long ago," the memory of a debate might Emilingly have been recalled. nothing quite so much aa lie per cent successful. Xo dry agent has ever been convicted cf the murder of a citizen, even when it icas hotc that the citizen tras utterly innocent cf hoot-legging or any other crime. auaAeA tn Vuv one near Wasbisftr' A year or two ago Jacob Hanson, a well-known and aJJ li i-i a- his spare time.

At tha present content himself with tha bait highly-respected citizen, was driving his automobile at Lewiston, N. when he was ordered to halt by i nlanted in hi! bttt Cry agents. These agents were attired in overalls and sheepskin coats and Hanson had no reason to guess they were officers and no reason to fear officers. Hanson refused to stop; the official report The Payne-AJdrlch tariff law was before the and Schedule K. which had to do with wool, was Trees and tree surgery of aa a peal to Senator Brookhart tiisw His associates say that as toe Tiiml the country he is careful to being raked with forensics.

Serene and mellow in nrrViirii ilnnr tne war. to note wrong methods and says he "attempted to run down he was shot and killed. The court which tried the killer held that that controversy was Dolliver of Iowa, long a Republican faithful, but unable to approve a bill that so ruthlessly violated the party pledge of downward Iilxw Ix-ad in the Prmocracy JW-rbT. LI ENGLAND manage! to keep sev-era laps ahead of tva in tffmwracy. Ffc Labor party leadens harg of the great British Empire, appoirts the first woman to a Cabinet position and now a Prime Minister will break 11 precedent! to cross the seai bent wholly on a mission of brotherhood and friendship.

A most admirable doing that breaks rudely through the old frosty rorvenlionalitm that forbade neighborly isita out. plane of today, the enclosed cabin is almost universal. But for the small two or three peater privately owned machine, many airplane constructors remain faithful to the open cockpit. With an open cockpit, the flyer-owner can hear and watch his engina better and his vision is never obstructed. The feel of the air on his face, the whistling of the air through the rigging, all this helps the moderately experienced man to fly better.

Very small planes of low wing loadings respond too readily to gusts. The controls need little force to actuate them, yet suh ships are really very difficult to fly. Particularly in cross-country work have the "flivver" planes had a checkered career in the United States. They offer the advantages of extreme maneuverability, and the ability to land and make a get-away in very small fields. They are cheap in original price, and their gasoline and oil charges are absurdly low.

But instead of the "flivver" of 20 horsepower we shall probably see a large number of 40 to B0 horsepower machines in use. Some very neat planes of this type have been built and flown successfully in recent years. On almost every point in the design a plane, there are two or more divergent opinions. Whether two-seater should have or tandem seating ia a typical subject of discussion. Side by side is more pleasant and sociable.

With dual control, communication and instruction between teacher and pupil become easy matters. On the other hand, a side-by-side fuselage must be wider and therefore offer more head resistance. With side-by-aide seating, vision in landing can never be quite as good on both sides as in a tandem plane. No private owner should buy a two seater without dual control. Even If he never becomes a pilot, he will find much pleasur In taking tho controls occasionally.

fashions in wing structure change quita frequently. Biplanes. cantilever monoplanes, and semi-cantilever monoplanes each have their good points. The eemi-cantilever monoplane, with Just two etru.a going from either side of the fuselage to the wings is a compromise. American desig i-ers seem to be in agreement, at the raiment, on the all-around advantages offered.

revision. Gracefully yielding to an interruption of ENATOP. BROOKHART al Senator Warren who spoke feelingly for his own Wyoming which Dolliver had once visited as his pert rifleman. He was an instructor In If Hanson's flight gave Jennings reasonable gTound for suspicion that he was attempting to escape after committing a felony, then Jennings had a right fo $hoot to cripple the car. That, generally, is the view the courts have taken 1 guest.

Mr. Dolliver, when he resumed, described i-. ami viviciy the far ranges, "billowing white with the will climb our antiquated in cases of this kind. So dry agents, while they are 111 II1C lBJUl? A 1 schools during the World Wit was captain cf the America rv team in 1912. winning the wor ship, lie has served four terms of the National Rifle Association provincial fence, no longer policed by fleece of endless flocks the ranch cf my good friend, the Senator from Wyoming, who, I am convinced, is the greatest shepherd since Abraham." Fenator Ree of Missouri, and witha! cautioned by Washington authorities against the reck will find himself it, midst of a really les use of firearms, have been fairly certain of im TO many young men, the ownership of a plane is a fascinating thought.

The sky will not be darkened with "flivver" planes for many years to come, but private owners will increase rapidly in numbers. Private flying is a sport which needs careful preliminary training. Care is always needed and overconfidence is dangerous. But flight surgeons, flying instructors, and other competent authorities are all agreed that almost anyone can learn to fly who so desires, provided he is young, and has a good physique, quick reflexes, and presence of mind. Skill in driving an automobile, ability to ea.il a boat, good "hands" on a horse, and skill in rapid games are all good auguries of flying ability.

There are many excellent flying schools available, in which one can learn to fly "solo" in 10 hours, and secure the Private Pilot's license of the Lepart-ment of Commerce. see In purchasing an airplane we must look first of all to its flying characteristics. A maximum speed of at least 100 miles per hour Is Cruising speed is always 10 to 15 er cent less than maximum speed, and head winds have to be allowed for. The landing speed should not be more than 40 miles per hour. A private owner who wishes to make cross-country flights may have to land in a small emergency field.

Low speed lessens the shock of a poor landing, and also reduces the chance of nosing over. The easiest way to secure low landing speed is to increase the wing area. But a large wing area for a given gross weight means bumpy flying in gusty weather and also entails loss of maximum speed. The next step in airplane design is therefore some device to increase the lift capacity of the wing on landing. All auch devices deserve the most careful attention and one or another of these devices will ultimately come into general use.

The commercial plane needs the ability to climb at a steep angle so that obstacles can be readily cleared. For steep climb the loadings of the plane should be low; these loadings are perhaps the first characteristics to be determined when purchasing a plane. Stability In normal flying is another requirement. A plane should be able to fly "hands off" for several minutes even gusty air. If a prospective purchaser taken up for a trial ride, he may (at a safe altitude) ask for a number of simple testa to demonstrate stability.

The art of stress analysis is now so well understood, that a plane which satisfies the airworthiness requirements of the department of Commerce, and whose maintenance is adequate, should never have a structural failure. Accidents due to the aerodynamic characteristics are unfortunately not so Infrequent, Perhaps the most frequent source of trouble is the spinning nose dive following a stall. Perhaps th very best method of preventing the stall is the use of the automatic Handler Page slot. In a fairly large five or six mono munity from punishment. warrn-harted and friendly people who are quite ready to co-operate for permanent peace.

The day of the little tvtti Js until the Worta A NAME FOR OUR INLAND SEA. After the Virkula killing. Dry Agent White was or five years, Seaata taken into custody by local authorities, who are now yf 4 A Tn VatlOBSl politicians who have been Industriously misleading the American people thess uov. Lauirield has a scrupulous regard for the sensibilities of the people. Witness his veto cf a bill proposing the name cf Lake Benton for the "inland sea," still in embryo, that is to wash the is a veteran of the Spar.lh-Am- i XI Iran rer many years, is fast drawing to a close Especially since, the war have they de Ml V.

Maior. and was a Lieutenant- luded this nation into ratiis most un Infantry in the World War. shores of Central Missouri when the projected elec worthy of its character and brought It tric dam on the Osage shall be a fait accompli. The into disrepute with the world. waging a fight to keep him under their jurisdiction and try him under the State law.

Whether they are successful or not remains to be seen. If they are, it will be the first time that a caie of the kind has not been tried in Federal court. The usual procedure Is for the Government not only to gain custody of the prisoner, but to defend him. All the resources and prestige ot the Attorney-General's office are brought to bear to save dry agents from the conse-auences of what in minv race ftntrint fiil A President of international caliber language of the resolution acclaimed Thomas Hart retractable wheels, permitting lanA or Benton "the greatest United States Senator from and vision waa our greatest need and maybe we have him. The gods could type which is of particular tntr mini emu -Missouri.

pernaps he was. As to that the Governor will engage in no unseemly quarrel. But no I J'1 -n send us no greater gift. L. R.

JOHNSON. referendum has been held on that question. No sufficient lor ootn ma maintenance of the Urge -ttnrA fn a tW lawlessness. It does not sit welt, to ue a homelv I maJorUy vosce tas spoken. A plebiscite might show Phrase, when the Government, in all its maiestv Preponderant preference for another.

Anyhow, it A Tl Tl it 3 1 tr V. a fn A s.A, 1 i a nohors the Air. To tl Editor ot th Tf SN'T about time that a differen attitude were assumed toward stow ways tn trans-Atlantic atr liners miv-feaser umuui miny ie assumed mat the legislative super rushes to the rescue of official gunmen who have lative would be ratified unanimously by the State era nlane will find the mlnlinU equipment already installed- So, out ot meticulous respect for contrary opinion, Why should these youngsters actuated by the Governor has disapproved the measure. no camui umr. iw $3069 plane should be able ta earrr definitely with an expenditar thine- like rer annum.

icL. unesse, ciscreticn to the nth degree those viicuufcuisaea laiieyrana are all pos of an owner who has his sessed by our perfectly balanced executive. Yet the blue waters cf this unborn lagoon must have a name repair shop, and ni course, be very much heavier. no ether motive than fame, unearned. hm hugged and kissed for the theft of such transportation more than the theft of ride upen the blind bagge ear? When a fresh young adventurer en Impede the progrem of a wtl-pUnnl flight to such an extent as to nsr-vlr ape lose at st a.

It ia time that tHy, tntei.d of adulation, be meted out to By brainless Intruders. The of the re roes far to-ei4 the roi rect'on ef such ridiculous I Mirv you are capaM de been wanton, brutal and murderous in the supposed performance of duty. Mr. Lowman' dsth roll, tt course, does not Include the many killings that hare been committed by local an-i state authorities. One of the most horrible Instances was the ffl shooting of Mrs.

Lillian le King by Deputy Sheriffs at hr home In Aurora. 111. Entering the King homm -Hh a serrh warrant baaed on a false oath, one of the dep.jtie killed Mrs. da Kln as tbe was about it telephone fr hIp, or, as the deputf claimed, when he thonsht saw her reach tor a pistol. Another rcet rate was the kill-log; rf Ottracr Herman Fleming hy Wahinon tP.

C) policeman. It was cUfmed Ihe youth, drlr- muts more practical to For the sportsman owner who Intends to fly his own ship, there ia much to te said in favor of the two three seater with open cockpit. But for the man who intends to employ a pilot and to make long trips, the somewhat more powerful cabin moro-plane is preferablt. It ia likely to coat about $12.00. Cabins should be so designed that passengers have plenty of leg room.

Chairs should not be such as to Injure passengers behind them in case of a crash. Even in a small cabin plane, it aeema advisable to have some division or partition between the pilot's cockpit and the cabin proper, although there should be at all times perfect freedom of communication between them. The amphibian a seaplane provided with cui oesujw upon it a patronymic that will thrill every native and adopted son from Atchison to Temiscot. from Hannibal to Higginsville? Why ai a regular flying iieia. --and service are readily avaiUb lce puddle by calling it Lake All PBTt gy prospectors, iorri- iiurord many ot other occupations are rtvate nership.

It tf lrop-r spanking. Mrs, to a Federal Prison in ir. HJictea without mucn naaaro. J. n.

n. linia for tnoonhining. is the new Arkansas traveler. both a steady and rapid locr--' use of airpUncs for yrivata.