his testimony at the recent hearing in Washington that 875 agents, or a very large proportion of the total num. ber, had been dismissed for this reason. The important point to note is that an agent can pile up a considerable fortune before he is caught, and then he is not prosecuted, but simply asked to resign. High officers of the Prohibition Unit have stated that the Government policy is not to bring any proceedings against a grafting agent or to have any publicity about it, but simply to require his leaving the service. Many of the ex-agents then make use of their experience by entering the bootlegging business themselves. Mr. Carslake mentioned an instance in which a rum truck was seized with an ex-prohibition director in command of it. 'You "A local policeman," said Mr. Carslake, "who is getting a salary of $100 or so a month and who is keeping up a home finds it hard to withstand the argument of the bootleggers, which runs something as follows: have to live as well as I do. I am doing my best to keep my family in funds. This is a bum law, anyway. You have got a right to take care of your kids too, so why not take this $25 or $50 and lay off? We'll take care of you on our weekly pay-roll'." The prohibition agent also receives many threats of bodily harm; and he is quite well aware that in some cases he is dealing with desperate characters who would not hesitate to put him out of the way. "Several bootleggers told me," said Mr. Carslake, "that they would see to it that I died with my shoes on.". "There would be a good chance of enforcing this law to a reasonably high degree of efficiency if the Government would adopt the policy of locking a man up when it gets something on him. At the present time the moral fiber in this country seems to be very, very thin. With politics and the underworld hooked up together and so much underground influence working throughout the department, I don't think there is a chance of the law being enforced. If officialdom were knocked out, I think it could be done, It would have to be put up to the lo cal people, however. A good deal of the red tape would have to be done away with. Some of the directors of public safety and other local officers would have to be sent to jail. I don't think there would be much trouble in mak ing a good showing in enforcement if it was gone at in earnest. "The honest agent is too greatly hampered in his efforts. If you tread on the toes of men higher up or their friends, you are immediately called off. At various times the entire force of agents would be stationed on guard duty at certain out-of-the-way places, and, although we had no proof of the fact that we were being put there to be kept out of the way for some large movement of liquor, we all felt sure that that was the reason. Whenever I would get particularly active in knocking off a few of the beer trucks that pass over a certain road each night I would get a telegram ordering me to some other part of the State. About half my time was spent upon the trains, going from point to point, could for no particular reason that figure out, except to keep me out of the way. Upon one occasion I was taken off the road, where I had been making a great many seizures, and placed on warehouse duty for five days. Every bootlegger in the State knew it, and when I happened to make an arrest while off duty the rum-runner said: 'I thought you were in the warehouse. What are you doing here?" Sometimes I would get the same beertruck driver as many as six or eight times. I have heard of trucks being released when it was claimed the sam ples taken from the trucks were near beer, and not real beer. We all knew, though it would be difficult to prove, that somewhere along the line these samples of near-beer had been ex changed for the samples of highpowered beer seized. "Can you blame me for being pretty sore? The good people don't back us up. It is a pretty discouraging propo sition, I can tell you." Americana Excerpts from The American Mercury ARKANSAS: Aesthetic note from the State university: Paul Whiteman was first and Beethoven second in a plebiscite recently taken of the student body of the University of Arkansas to determine "the world's greatest musician." For third place, there was a tie between Paderewski and Henry D. Tovey, director of the musical department of the University. Angeles the CALIFORNIA: Los magnificent holds her ground: Memorial services were held here at the exclusive Breakfast Club for Elizabeth Greis. famous eight-year-old mare owned by W. W. Mines, prominent real estate dealer and horsebreeder, which died of pneumonia several days ago. One hundred and fifty members of the club, including outstanding persons in the business and social life of Los Angeles, stood with bowed heads while the club's president offered prayer for the departed animal. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: ress of the Higher Learning in the nation's capital, as revealed by a notice in Printer's Ink: Prog The National School of Bricklaying, Wash. ington, D. C., has placed its advertising account with the Tauber Advertising Agency. Plans are being prepared for a magazine advertising campaign on the school's correspond. ence course in bricklaying. ILLINOIS: From the eminent Chicago Tribune: At one of the rehearsals for Miss Marget Shaw's wedding today to Dean Stanchfield Arnold it was noticed that the stairway in the Shaw place at Lake Geneva where the ceremony is to take place, and down which the bridal party is to walk, consisted of 13 steps. In order that not the slightest omen of bad luck might attend his daughter's nuptials, Mr. Shaw immediately ordered that another step be constructed INDIANA: The luxurious finish of a Terre Haute Ptolemy: A telephone and electric lights have been stored in the mausoleum in which the body of Martin A. Sheets, stock broker, was entombed here. Sheets asked before his death that his tomb be so equipped that he might have opportunity to talk with the outside world if he should awaken in it. Associated Press dispatch from the town of Goshen: A. E. Kundred, gladiolus grower of Goshen, has been banned from the strict orthodox church he attended. The church cast out Mr. Kundred because authorities decided that in hybridizing his gladioli to produce new varieties he was interfering with the divine scheme of things. Note on the state of civilization among Indiana Men of Vision, from a Boonville dispatch: There are those who carry a rabbit's foot for good luck, but around Boonville the buckeye is preferred. At the Kiwanis club luncheon a check showed that 73 out of the 80 members present had in their pockets a buckeye. Some have been carrying them for 20 years. IOWA: Raising the level of life in Des Moines: The champion long range gum spitter of Des Moines will be crowned here. The Junior Chamber of Commerce will have its annual smoker, and the gum spitting contest will be one of the principal events. Each contestant will be given a nickel's worth of gum, and the one able to shoot the wad the farthest will be crowned champion. Patriotic outburst of the Hon. O. S. Bailey, editor of the Waukon Republican and Standard: One good Allamakee county farm girl who feeds the calves every morning, slops the hogs, and cares for the chickens, then perhaps walks a mile or two and teaches county school all day until time to repeat the farm chores in the evening, has more purity of heart, loveliness of character and real hon. est-to-goodness Godliness and womanliness in her make-up than the whole "royal" caboodle of Europe. KANSAS: Gala event among the solid citizens of Pleasanton: At the noon-day luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce R. S. Leavitt, who had just returned from Washington, made a report of his trip and the interesting features, among which was a visit to the White House, where he shook hands with the President. A motion was made and duly seconded that Mr. Leavist stand at the door of the banquet room as the diners filed out and allow each to shake the hand that had grasped the hand of the President of the United States. Intellectual activities of the ladies of Cherokee, as reported by the Sentinel of that flourishing town: on The Cultural Club of Monmouth met the 16th at the home of Mattie Boore. Twenty-seven members were present and exchanged towels. MARYLAND: From the advertising columns of the Cumberland Daily News: $1 DAY AT THE COURT HOUSE: In keeping with the Dollar Day Community Event here, Lloyd L. Shaffer, Clerk of the Court, announces that all persons from Allegany County applying for marriage licenses today will pay one dollar only. Reduced from $2. KENTUCKY: Boy Scout activities in the Blue Grass, as described in a dispatch from Lexington: Sheriff Fuller announced today that arrangements had been completed for the hanging of Ed. Harris, a Negro, next Friday morning in the county jail-yard. The noose has been tied by T. C. Fuller, the sheriff's 14-year-old son, who learned knot and noose tying as a Boy Scout. MASSACHUSETTS: How Boston is regaining her old reputation as the cultural center of America, as revealed by a United States News dispatch: A college course for washerwomen, designed to do away with all knuckle-scraping rubbing over wash tubs, is being organized by the State university extension division here. NEBRASKA: Scientific announce ment from the eminent State Journal of Lincoln: DR. GEORGE S. GEE, D.C., N. D. Treats all kinds of diseases with electricity, heat, massage and chiropractic. Free examination and a diet list for every patient. Free children's clinic. Special rates for college students. S. & H. Green Trading Stamps are given. 305 Brownell Bldg. NEW YORK: From the want columns of the celebrated Graphic: *MOTION PICTURE studio job wanted, ambitious 17-year-old boy, half lower jaw missing, comical appearance, desires to become comedian. Box G. 482 Graphic. *Star indicates that advertiser has been examined by the Graphic Vocational Expert and is especially indorsed as well qualified for the work indicated. OKLAHOMA: Aesthetic note from the Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City: The State Fair will give a prize of $25 to the boy whose red hair comes nearest to matching the hair of a Duroc Jersey hog. OREGON: Report of an extraordi nary biological phenomenon in the Burns Times-Herald: We wish to thank the many kind friends for their flowers and kind expressions of sympathy at the death of our little son. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Clemens Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith New world's champion discovered in intellectual Philadelphia: CHAMPION COOK OF THE WORLD In Famous Demonstration Catch, kill, pick, wash, drip, dip in egg batter and cracker dust and cook and eat a two pound and a quarter chicken in less than five minutes AT An Exhibition Seen Only Once in a Lifetime The co-eds of Bradley Polytechnic are holding a suppressed desire dance for co eds only. JEROME DAVIS (p. 133) is professor of practical philanthropy in the Yale Divinity School, and author of two books, The Russian Immigrant, and The Russians and Ruthenians in America. FRANK R. KENT (p. 131) well-known political writer, is vice-president of the Baltimore Sun. HUGH A. STUDDERT KENNEDY (p. 135), after acting for some time as London correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, proceeded to Boston and became associated with that journal as foreign editor and editorial writer. Mr. Kennedy has maintained contact with statesmen and leading figures in many countries, which in no way precludes his interest in homely social problems. He is at present working on a book dealing with the life and work of his brother, the Rev. G. A. Studdert Kennedy, well-known writer. GEORGE MARVIN (p. 137) met Soichiro Asano, industrial magnate of Japan, during his recent stay in Japan. Mr. Marvin has previously contributed to Asia a series of articles on the great Mitsui family of Japan. CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL (p. 143) is a journalist, lecturer, author of many important books, and citizen of the world. Member of the Special Diplomatic Mission that we sent to Russia in 1917; commissioner to Great Britain for United States Commission on Public Information; member of the President's Industrial Commission. CORNELIA JAMES CANNON (p. 145) has written many papers for The Atlantic and other magazines, and is the wife of Professor Walter B. Cannon of the Harvard Medical School, the distinguished investigator of surgical shock and of the activities of the endocrine glands. ROSITA FORBES (p. 149) is a remarkable personality. Aside from having written several authentic travel novels and a fascinating biography of a Moroccan bandit she enjoys the unique distinction of being one of the only two white women to penetrate the heart and soul of Abyssinia. Miss Forbes has been a prisoner in China; has traveled all over India, and was the first white woman to cross the African desert on a camel. A. MAUDE ROYDEN (p. 151) was long active in the suffrage movement in England; she is the author of that widely discussed book, Sex and Common Sense, and assistant preacher at the City Temple, London, from 1917 to 1920, and reputed to be the most eloquent woman in England today. ALBERT JAY NOCK (p. 157) was formerly an editor of The Freeman and wrote many of its most brilliant editorials. FRANK R. ARNOLD (p. 161) is professor of modern language at the Utah Agricultural College, which position he has held since 1906. Prior to that time, he also saw co-education in action at the University of Chicago as student and instructor. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1893. He later attended the universities of Paris, Bordeaux, and Goettingen. RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD (p. 173) was formerly the U. S. Ambassador to Italy. PAUL BLANSHARD (p. 181) spent three months in Russia recently. He is at present attached to the staff of The Nation. CHARLES MERZ (p. 185), a graduate of Yale (1915), has been a member of the editorial staff of The New Republic, Harper's Weekly, and the New York World. FANNIE HURST (p. 187) for years has been one of the most prolific writers in America. Her energy is amazing, and short stories, articles, novels, and movie scenarios continue to come from her pen with bewildering rapidity. ERNEST W. 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