L»T. SUNOCO - £/lP/33 <ru^ ‘UK&uty WH J#*> tt«3^sAthis is Lincoln’s BirthdayJ and the newspapers are all repeating anecdotes and reminiscenses about the great emancipator. To me the most interesting thiaag is an article in the lew York Times which tells of a new bit that has now been unearthed about Lincoln. They’ve dug out a newspaper of 1845, in which is printed a mystery story written by Three brothers were out walking in the woods with another man. The three brothers returned. The other man was missing. In the woods evidences of a struggle were found. One of the brotters turned States evidence. He declared he -&J- had not witnessed the crime,^that his two brothers had told him that they had knocked the victim down and choked him to Lincoln, then a young lawyer. real-life incident^ tUa£t^ercx3ftrr-gd-att • ■LiricnTrn’rsrfag LINCOLN - 2 death. ^ There was a lorig dravvii out legal case3 and there was serious danger of hanging the accused men. Then* some v time later, the supposed victim returned in good health. That is the way Lincoln wrote the tale, and it is the way things actually occurred. This Is a new light on Lincoln.*— the great emancipator*, as a mystery story writer. 11 H Of course the biggest Lincoln Day celebration will be the big gathering of the Republican clans^in NeV/ York, j with President Hoover th of honor. President is scheduled 3d to make.a powerful statement c Hi Sli I: ! Republican policies, I! 1 i ‘ : 1 I GEORGIA celebratlnn is being held ha . '~£tiijt rr south. Georgia is her EOOth birthday, two centuries Sir James Oglethorpe sailed lato-Afan atnyttoi the Savaimah RiTer to found the colony that is now the historic State of Georgia. — 0 — Another interesting event today was the opening of the worldT s first station for radio communication by ultra-shorl wave. And the place where it was inaugurated was the Vatican, the venerable and splendid palace of the Popes. Pope Pius the Eleventh made an address into the microphone, and so did Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy.^ These addresses were heard far and wide^ver the ■^teanelatlonc wore made for the- GERMANY It looks li-^e out and out dictatorship in Germany all right. If anybody had any doubts that the present Hitler cabinet intended to rule the country, parliament or no parliament, that doubt is now removed by no less a person than Hugenberg, the greag German industrialist who holds the Ministries of Commerce and Agriculture In the present Nazi cabinet, i Herr Hugenberg, who ranks second only to Hitler himself. has come out in^important speech with the statement that the present government intends to keep control no matter whfet haRoens forthcoming election.y The^.. reminds us that general elections are scheduled to be held In Germany on March 5th. The Hitler leaders expect to win a majority in the new Reichstag, but even if they donTt, it won*t make any difference, at least so says Herr Hugenberg. He declares that even if the elections go against the Nazis, they will keep the government, and no further elections will f be held. ^ And that, of course, iA dictatorship A jlr 3?- ITALY One of the exceedingly interesting bits of speculation in world affairs concerns two men — Hitler and Mussolini. People are wondering what does the chief of Italian Fascism think of the creator of German Fascism. Hitler is open In his admiration and approval of Mussolini. His whole Nazi movement is an imitation of the Black Shirt regime in Italy. ■a-itheugh But thus far Mussolini has said no things nt^.wnpwprr n h,r] vn. -frnr m nn-hlnr.-n-j r> -+i-> -H-ti* government- in Berlin.—-jlg-neld •■Gerteei-y-—the—Mew-Yerk Time-s w^re-h mirg-h% d'eawing .-tee-eXo^o to th» violontly-‘^ati4"enaliptic regime' at—Bnrlin. At tho-9-gfflre~44me? Muoooli-ni-1^— For my part there seems to toe a number of curious complications in the relation between Mussolini and Hitler. For one think the Black Shirt Dictator is now supoosed to * Qj ' be on excellent terms with the Vatican, In Germany the A Catholics seem to be solidly against Hitler. And then I don’t suppose that Mussolini can have much sympathy with Hitler’s tirades against the Jews. It is an historical fact that there Is very little anti-Semitism in Italy. There are plenty of Italian Jews* but the Italians don’t seem to be conscious of any Jewish problem JAMM It I n a case of stand pat and stay put on the part, of Japan. All week it has been the same old story in the wrangling between the Mikado^s government and the League of Nations. Japan won't budge. Ihe authorities at* Tokio are preparing a new declaration to the League. And what that declaration will say is pretty well known in advance. It will be that Japan will bluntly stand pat and firmly stay put* A special story to the New York Times prophesies that the final showdown between Ea Japan and the League will take place this week, with the Tokio government refusing to budge an inch in Manchuria. iXl l frjf * ^4. l.:hcr^ 'f~ - M* <# ISiTRO TO BRINK. |ir?rs* And nov? we are at the brink — no not the brink of disaster -- the great Brink., the jovial Brink. I mean Brinkerhoff, the cartoonist, the creator of f,Little Mary MiX-Up,” who delights the kids and also the grown-ups so much. Brink., as *rm newspapermen know him, is here ?/ith me, aas% not in his capacity as a cartoonist, but as a round-the- 'sd- 'world traveler. A little while ago Brlnkhrhoff took time A off, and went for a spin around the globe. Kcw what does a cartoonist think about as he beholds the wonders of Asia and of Europe? What scenes attract him the most? I*ve been wondering* 1 "r *, Brink. , which of all those wonders of the world impressed you the most? FQi-; Mh. Bh INKER HOF V.'eli? Lo.veil? the incident I remeniber most vividly in connection wlch that trip around the world was not climbing the Pyramids? gazing at the :tas2$sB±£s> or ^ visits to St.Peter’s' and the Louvre, The memory I recall most frequently is this:- In teeming, overcrowded China, every time we slipped out of our hotel in Peking we were attacked by crowds and swarms of ’rickshaw boys. We hired the same two every day. These coolies culled us all over SkxHii Peking day after day. Somehow,it went against our grain to have human beings for horses. So one day, my companion, George Pierrot, decided to even things up by giving THEM a ride. These poor China boys had been pulling other folks around in ’rickshaws all their lives, but had never rCLea. — \A/c\ nil ridden in one, pulled them all over the great walled city of Peking, and while we were doing it they nearly fell out of the ’rickshaws laughing. They oust roared with laughter all the time — while their brother ’rickshaw coolies stood speechless dumbfounded, a.nd the crowds in the streets of Peking gaped in amazement and all traffic stopped. Friends who live in the foreign quarter of Peking, have Fngjffi. BBINKhhHQF_- £ written to us since and they say that those two ’rickshaw coolies are still telling about thccrai.y Americans. A. theu hit ito^c-bout .was—. d^Jjc JY tk td^f -£%Le -£&*$. (2j £esu£* , -dJtZX^ ^AeJ- A vWU* t?w^- J$u jk>V:- This af ternoon I had a phone call which g;ave me a N' moment of reminiscence. A voice asked: "Is there any such word as Jagannath?11 The inquiry came from someone at the Annual Convention of the National Puzzlersfs League. td* Those mii-hty nuzzle expert^staged a crossword puzzle contest, in the course of which occurred that barbaric word Jagannath. u!c<^( ■fchatC< l the original form of Juggernaut^ j^ou know the famous car of the riant idol, beneath wheels of which the fanatics of India used to throw themselves in a weira act of martyrdom. Jell, I wish I»d been at that convention of puzzlers. 1 should have tola, them how heard that v/ord Jagannath one day. It was out in India. I was attending the weird feast. There was an immense throng^ The idol on thenar came moving along, Hundreds of thousands of people jammed and stampeded, trying to get hold of the ropes and. pull the god. And from a countless myriad of throats the wild shrilling cry arose: "Jagannath Ka Jail Jagannath Ka Jai!" 9 /? S><Xv4_ -r ' _ _ _ _ _ _ j-v « 1 +-I Hail to the god Jag? nh? thl Yes, it's a word ail right - and what a wore! SACRIFICE A weird5 gruesome story comes from the mountains of Kentucky. in an article ftpSsi the Atlantic City Press. At Inez, Kentucky, seven members of a mountain family are under arrest charged with the murder of a seventy-two year old woman. They are in Jail chattering away in a weird jibberish which they consider the gift of tongues, their secret language of prayer. village of Tomahawk has been in a condition of religious frenzy. A revival meeting was held there a little while ago They began to talk in that strange Jibberish, They believed they had the power of working miracles. And the dreadful became climax came when one family kKgSH convinced that the call /\ had come to them to make a bu ' se They started their mad rites, which went on for hours. Then they strangled the woman with a chain. They were about to The tale is told that for some time now the isolated and it drove the mountaineers to of religious madness as their victim an aged mountain woman,^Mrs. Lucinda Mills place the body on an altar and burn it as an offering, when SACRIFICE - 2 officers, who had got wind of the affair, arrived on the - J scene. So now these maniac^ fanatics are in jail, still babbling their weird nonsense BOXING A mocking bit of irony develops in the nev/s of boxing during the week. To a number of people that fight between Camera and Schaff looked a bit doubtful, as if it mighty have been staged,— 4 . phoney. The Italian giant knocke^the Boston sailor o&t with A a left jab to the chin. And that caused eyes to gape wide. Nobody had ever heard of a fighter being knocked out with a left jab, which ordinarily is a tormenting, but not a knockout blow* Of course the giant and iamaaiH immensely powerful Camera had been jabbing Schaff all through the fight. Still, whoever heard of , j anybody being knocked out by a left jab? Schaff was out cold for a long time and they took him to a hospital. But still the skeptics sneered. Some of the wiseacre boxing experts of the newspapers did a sour bit of sneering. Today, however, Schaff is still in the hospital. I doctors The say he has a concussion of the brain. Ano that makes the fight look rather painfully genuine rQTEri SPOTTS x ^ haa a strange, to me, almost incredible experience la.-t rii-.at. In coffipanj^ v.'ith ^arry Seamans of the Faculty of Penn State and Professor "Ace” Martin, I attended the inter- coil eel ate boxing' meet between the boys of the University of North Carolina and Penn State, Most of the fichts were fast and furious. If the affair had been in Madison Square Garden or in any professional arena the place would have been in an uproar all the time. But those four thousand students at Penn State kept their feelines under perfect control. They did no cheering and no shouting while the fights were on. Not a sound except the swish and thud of cloves and the tap tap of the telegraph key sending out the press report from ring side. It was a magnificent illustration^.of^good sportsmanship, 1—aao>a n-on to fo . Winter sports have reached their high point this weekend• In New york at Madison Square Garden and the Ice Club Rink the # North American Figure Skating championships were decided, skaters SPORTS - 2 executing a dazzlim- array of spirals, jumps, whirls and spins. Apparently the chief sensation was the performance of Robin -L.ee, a thirteen year old school boy from bt.Paul skating wizards,as well as a few more that he had invented himself. At Salisbury, Connecticut in the berkshires, they were struggling for the National Ski championship yesterday and^today, Magnus Satre won the nine and a half mile ski run. The jumpin'" events have been going on this afternoon and tomorrow will come the thirty kilometer race. At Lake Placid they had a thirteen inch snow fall and the bobsled teams are racing for the National championshio. Up in New Hampshire, at Hanover, the little town has been transformed into a fairyland of snow and ice. The 23rd Annua^Urt^r Carnival is on. Most of the spectators «re spectacular who did all the ax feats performed by Eur ones nil A foot steel jump skiers from many colleges have -one sailing through the air, and then down, down JHHMi ifjjlTSR EPQHTg— ~ _A : the steeD slide into the vale of* Tempe. One skier irorn the University of Maine lost control, shot down the hillside and catapulted head-lone into the cro " ^ bowling over a dozen spectators. A few minutes later he v/as back in the competition again. And that to my mind is the most thrilling of Winter sports. At. 1 - uh v + «a±3—tn—Uw l,i^acr.r hirf. Tne sporting columns of your favorite newspaper will carry thrilling stories of all these events at Lake Placid, Salisbury and Hanover, tomorrow morning. ROBBERY One of the amusing of the week comes in the form of an attempted robbery. Mr. and Mrs. Samuels have a grocery store in Brooklyn. With them live Mrs. Samuels 1 father. Grandpa Kuntz. Grandpa^ is not so active any more. His customary occupation is sitting down. As the New York Herald-Tribune tells the tale, Mr. and Mrs. Samuels were getting ready to close the store. Grandpa was sitting over to one side in his favorite rocking chair, stroking his Ion;, white beard. Three robbers came in with drawn guns and said: "Hands upi« Mrs. and Mrs, Samuels obeyed. Grandpa adjusted the spectacles on his nose to get^what was going on. "Such silly b&^ss," he muttered, as he observed the pistols JU-&SL. He got up, shuffled forward slowly, wagged his whiskers, and shook a reproving finger at the robbers. "You get out of here," quavered Grandpa, Juch silly business. You get right out of here." ROBBERY - 2 The bewildered robbers backed away from the singular apparition, Grandpa followed them, berating and scolding. In fact he scolded them right out of the door. Then he locked the door % m and toddled back, still muttering, "such silly business.” And I guess I*d better toddle out too, still muttering .SO LORG UNTIL TOMORROW