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SAFETY HNRROLL A service; which this news-tmaggzifle volunteered te retail merchants à; couple of* weeks ago bas net b een accepted by' nearly se large. a numnber as it, :should have. been. The fact mnay be due toealaà of appreciation of the value of -the 'service,, or te delay in its acceptance.. Certainly it cannot be because of-a lack of desire -te cooperate in an effort toward making the streets safe for peçdestrians. The service offered bas to, do with the- control of speed of mtor delivery relicles. In an editoriat on June 2 it,:was,,suggested,*tha t commnercial, con-ý cernis euip such vehicles with gvros so that *they might net be driven beyond a safe speed. The, editorial also dire cted attention of mierchants to the fact that some were suffering the loss of patronage because of the.fit and m.rckless. uanieri uwhich their drivers were operating delivery t ruc ks. Êutler this point was presenited with insufficient. enphasis,' or employer.s of drivers guitty of traffic~ law viola- tions have given it too little consideration. That some villa'gers register their protest against' reckless driving by wîthholding patronage fromn owuers of the trucks involved is a known fact. Not hearsay, but knowledge. It is a desire to protect these merchants fromi this type of protest that rnotivated this' new's-maigazine to establisli a "Safety. * oo roi,,t. ."fltO- . in the village is included. Good will has a definite value. to every man in business. it is an intangible asset that' cosfs a lot of money to acquire. Nothing wiil gofurther. in building or holding it than prompt and earnest * participation in campaigns to miaké the streets safe. Notification that trucks have been equipped with regulatory speed devices will place the owners' namies on the "Safety Honor RolL". withln three weeks of the arrest. Between.1Z and 1937 reported burgiaries fel f rom .2,5m1 to 21,252; embezzlemnents, 106 to 70; larcenies of $50. and. over,. 1,739 toý 825; manslaughter, 37 to 15. "!Pejrhaps the most important, function*of an aleirt crime -commission is 'case, watchi ng,' > the writers declare. "Th e law's delays aid the guilty. Criminal lawyers say, irhree continuances equal an acquittai.' In Baltimnore, felonies reported to the police are listed dai ly1 in1 the 'Criminal "Justice commission'Ys office. A docket book,- an exact duplicate. of the c riminal court docket, is kept;, indictmnent, trial,- and disposition of eachi case are followed. Lagging ones are promptly spotted.". A radio progratu o ri ginating ini the Cook, county. jail features interviews1 with sentenced- prisoners, moýtly boys and young men,. who have been, founid guilty of. rohbery, and other crimes. One of the questions inivariably put to the convicted criniinial is. 'ow much nuoney did you actually get throughi crime?" It is surpris'iuig'liow nany of !bèse côî1- victed youths will answer "Fifty dollars," "A hunt- dred dollars" or «Two hunldred dollars." For these smnall sums they must spend f rom one to six or eight years in prison., at hard labor. On the basis of the testimony 'thus given, it iýs difficult to see how anyone can*figure, a profit ini crime. of sanity. 'The practice, whilch nias now 'een in- dulged for much too long a timte, caîls for the use of explosives of various kinds, beginining soon aiter the coming of June and continuing until the suppy' or the money is exhausted. \Vhat this preliminary and post-anniversary noise seasoni meanis to persons. iai il-health,. or of. sensi-, tive ,wrves. cati better be iniagined than described.. Onie of...Our' favorite coflgréseSSeI wonders why. with gin selling at 70 cents a pint and whiskey at 90 cents a pint, anyone should want to get a burt on by drinking paint remnover. If the çonigressmani thinks he.has mentioned bargain prices, he should visit'.West Madison street and like. thorpughfares, where the denizens refuse to pay nmore thanl 10 cents a.piitt, and insist. upon three, piî'its. fr a quar- ter-if they have that much rnoney. "South Carolina primary rivais Cat, sleep. and travel together," read 'a Moniday headîmie. Remiiid- ing of the .tr told by Opie Re ad of. the trick, played on two Kentuckians,' rival Candidates, for. Counity ýjudge, by a "dark hlorse". candidate for the same office. Theotwo, canipaignillg in the hlli dis- tricts, met one evening at the hljl home of. the third. It~as late, they were tired, and it wvas a long way% to the next town.. Sol they sought the hospitality ot the third. for the night, which was freely granted after the explanation that ýsleepinig quarters were limnited and thé two %vould have to occupy the same ,bed. Wh n e to retire caine the ,host tock onie of the two aside and explained that "Kunniel" Jones had a pecuiliar nervous affliction that prevented hii fromi going to sleep without the solace of a barking dog, and suggested that lie give as good an imitation of a dog b;ýrking as possible. Thien he. called -Kun- net" Smith aside and revealed to hini a peculiar affliction of "Kunniel" Jones, which wvas the habit .of barking like a dog, adding that the only thing that wotuld stop hinim'as for somconie to scratch bis back reat hard -with a comb-generouslY provid- *-ft- the t+%vo~ "Kt(iinels' had retire(l. a ctio n .w it n th e * uuuiD , raii c ti5 ,.... .- 1 until blood fiowed freely from the wounds. Th i > precipitated a fight between the two, e.acli threatening death to the other, the result being that both lied fropu the bouse, and in fear of their lives remnained ini seclusion untit after the election. Their lîost of tlîe night was elected. Those .South Carolinians slîould be on. their guard agaitnst framneups. Iii Munich, Germany, the principal synagogue i,, L.X. ~~Ltn 4m2kvron for a narking spa(ce. Modemn version of . the old. say in , -If you' can't lick 'emn, une 'em'à: "If you cati't lick 'em, soft- s0ap 'emn. THE PHANTOM REPORTER. wIn.*. AI1' classics.