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SHAVE HEADS 0F B
S —————
Argentina’s Method Proves
to Be Effective.
New York.—Down in the Argentine
republic if a boy is bad and you whip
him he forgets the whipping but re
members the badness. But if you cut
off his hair, shave it right down to the
scalp, it hurts, and he forgets the
badness and remembers the hair cut
ting,
With which interesting homily on
South American discipline, Jose Ama
tuzzo of Buenos Aires, who is in
America now to study reformatories,
discussed recently the “reform camp”’
he has built out of a real peniten
tiary in three years.
Officially, Jose is a Y. M. O. A. sec
retary on leave, loaned to the Argen
tinian government. Actually, how
ever, he is a sort of big brother to 350
“bad boys” of his country. He has
taken the juwenile malefactors of the
Argentine out of chain gangs into
homes,
Started Work Three Years Ago.
“I'hree years ago,” said Senor Ama
tuzzo, “the minister of education
asked me what I could do with the
boys who have received sentences for
crimes from the courts, Then they
were all housed in one building and
they were treated like prisoners, They
were always handcuffed or big chains
were placed on their ankles, So I
didn’t know what I could do. But I
told him I'd try something,
“I demanded three things. First,
that there be no politics if I tried to
help the boys. You know there is
nothing but politics in everything in
my country. Then I insisted on run
ning my own budget and last that 1
should not take any men or women
workers who came to me recommended
by officials. I knew that type in my
country.”
It’s a long story this bright, black
eyed young Argentinian had to tell.
In three years, for instance, his in
stitution has produced $200,000 worth
of various goods in his 17 shops and
18 farms, It has spent the money for
more and better equipment. It has
produced, too, one boy who is cer
tainly going to represent his country
in the coming Olympic games and an
other who has a pretty good chance
to do it.
Knows His Boys.
It has produced carpenters and ma
son® who built 35 houses for them
selves. It has brought out a furniture
maker who sold a chair and desk to
the President of the republic—"at a
good price, too”—for his use in the
official headquarters of the Argentine.
Lots of other things have been done.
The thing that was most impressive
about the youngster who in three
years changed the system of handling
boy criminals is that he knows so
much about boys.
“I read the football stories in the
paper every day. I've learned the
boys are football crazy. So I know
the names of all the stars, and I ar
gue with the boys. That makes
friends.
“] don’t preach a sermon. I get
out and play with ’em. I pat them
on the back and shake hands.
“T haven't whipped a boy since I
took the place. It isn't necessary.
You can joke with a boy and get him
to do more than you can when you
force him,
“When a boy is a little bad I deny
him the swimming pool. When he
is very bad I cut his hair. They
love their hair and that’s what hurts
them most,
“Let them plan things themselves.
They figure out their own menus, for
fnstance. They do whatever kind of
work they want to do.
“Take them places. I try to give
them little outings whenever I can,”
Jose got his training in the Y. M.
C. A. schools here, He's back now
officially representing the government
to study reform schools.
Influence of Health
on Progress Studied
Washington,—The history of health,
and how health conditions influenced
the progress of Americans for the last
800 years, is being studied for the
first time this summer, The American
Historical association has commis
gloned Dr. Richard H. Shryock, re
soarch scholar appointed under the
£30.000 memorial fund established in
honor of former United States Senator
Albert J. Beveridge by his widow, to
do this job,
Mistorians often mention spectacu
lar epidemics or strange medical prac
tices, and medical men record the tech
nieal progress of thelr sclence, but
none heretofore has made an attempt
to relate the status of the nation's
health with its soclal background.
Doctor Shryock will work this sum
mer among scholars of Washington
and Philadelphia,
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Lapis Lazuli Monopoly
Given to German Firm
Idar, Germuny.—As first evidence of
the much heralded trade development
with Afghanistan expected to result
from King Amanullab’s recent vish,
a loeal firm announces that it has been
granted by the Afghan monarch the
monopoly for importing Afghan lapls
lazull,
It is elalmed that nowhere In the
world I 8 lapls lazull found of ruch
good quality as in Afghanistan, [dar
is n small town on the River Nahe, 0
tributary of the Rhine, and has n
special Industry connected with the
getting aad mounting of semi-precious
stones,
QUITS SOLITUDE
AFTER 30 YEARS
Western Hermit Back to So
ciety of Fellow Men.
Fort Morgan, Colo.—After living for
30 years in the mountains of western
Colorado as a primitive cave man,
shunning human society, hunting for
his food, and wearing the skins of ani
mals for clothes, Reuben Dove, sixty
two years old, has at last been forced
to seek the society of his fellow men
and has decided to spend the rest of
his life in that human society that
formerly he avoided.
When Dove was a young man, dur
ing the early '9os, an agent for a rail
road that was building in the Cen
tennial state contracted with him to
furnish a large number of railroad
ties. For these he offered Dove a
good price. The young man labored
hard during the winter, and when
the agent came around he had a con
siderable supply of ties on hand. But
the railroad man rejected about one:
fourth of the ties, saying that the com
pany would not take such poor stuff.
Dove thought this a grave injustice
and he declared on the spot that we
would never do another day's work
for any man. This vow he has kept
for nearly a third of a century.
Before leaving the pile of ties he
made & bonfire of it, and with some
of his belongings went back into the
Rockies, where he dwelt in a cave for
more than 30 years.
When he had been missed for sev
eral months a forest ranger went to
his cave and found him ill with a
raging fever, He was taken to a hos
pital and later to the home of a rela:
tive, where he will spend the remain
der of his days. He was known as
the “hermit of Hubbard Park.”
Moslem Maidens Win
: Right to Inheritance
Aleppo, Syria.—Mohammedan maid
ens henceforth will have a right to
share the inheritance of their fathers
with the sons of the family. !
The court at Aleppo recently ruled
that the French law concerning open
successions should apply in the part
of Syria under French inandate.
Heretofore the Koranie law provid
ing that everything should go to .the
sons of the family, leaving the girls
to look out for themselves—or for
husbands—has applied. During the
court trial, the rights of women to
have a slice of the family financial
pie in Syria were upheld by Henry
Lemery, senator from Martinique in
the French parliament. It was esti
mated that $3,000,000 were repre
sented by the claims of women that
would be affected immediately by the
court decision.
The men of Syria have not taken
kindly to the decision. In order to
put their women folk back in their
old places they have appealed from
the Aleppo decision before the Su
preme court at Beyreuth.
Bicycle Is Main Vehicle
for Holland’s Population
Leyden, Holland.—Bicycles are more
frequent in Holland than automobiles
in the United States, There is a
“rijwiel,” or bike, to every 2% inhab
itants. In a university town like Ley
den virtunally every student, male or
female, owns a wheel,
The great popularity of the bicycle
is attributable to the fact that there
are practically no hills in Holland.
The importance of the bicycle Is
recognized by the authorities in that
they provide separate “rijwiel pads”
or bicycle roads running parallel to
the automobile and horse-drawn ve
hicle roads,
The pedestrian in Holland must
take far greater care not to be run
over by a bicycle than by an automeo
bile.
Woman Scents Thieves
by Scent They Stole
Berlin, — Three bold gentlemen
burzlars, their puckets bulging with
booty, were leisurely descending the
stalrease of an apartment house in
the Berlin suburb of Steglitz one
night when a couple, occupants of the
apartment just rifled, came walking
up.
The thieves excited no suspicion
until the wife sniffed the alr. “Why
that's my own scent,” she exclaimed.
Then the m>n started to run, On
being eaught they confessed haing
in the course of their operations lih
erally dosed themselyes from the
scent bottles In the woman's boudolr.
Live Tortoises Worn
by Paris Women
Paris.~Enameled and bejew:
eled tortolses are being sold at
£3 aplece In one of the big de
partment stores of Parls, The
little animals are alive and there
i a lurge demand for them be
cause the latest decree of the
sorceresses I 8 that the tortolse
brings luck.
A painter goes over the baek
of the tortoise with a fine brush
putting on highly colored tints,
He I 8 followed by another
nrtist, who places multi-colored
pleees of glass resembling pre
clous stones all over the anl
mal's armor, The tortolse Is
naturally lazy, and once he Is
fised to milady's bag or at
tached to o fur neckplece he
stays there,
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
FORCE REFUND QUT
OF LAND SWINDLERS
More Than Ti.ree Millions
Paid Back to Victims.
Washington,—More than $3,260,000
has been refunded to viztims of un
scrupulous real estate agents through
the operation of the real estate li
czuse laws in the twelve states which
have kept records of such refunds
since the law went into effect, accord:
ing to a compilation made by the Na
tional Association of Real Estate
Bourds from reports of oflicials admin
istering the license laws.
To the figure in quesiion must be
added several hundred thousunds of
dollars returned to victimized clients
through the activities of real estate
commissions in the ten states which
have kept no statistical records.
More than 10,147 complaints have
been investigated and adjusted by the
commissions administering real estate
license laws, the reports furtheér show.
$329,930 Refunded in 1927,
A total of $320030 was refunded
during the year 1927 alone in the
eleven states where commissions kept
record of such refunds. Complaints
to the number of 2,234 were adjusted
during the year by the eighteen real
estate commissions which kept such
a numerical record.
Commissioners in a number of
states have been active in suppress
ing the sale of lots by what is known
as the “free lot scheme,” Real es
tate commissions in Ohio, New York,
New Jersey, Illinois, and California
have taken the stand that operation
of such a scheme of sales is sufiicient
ground for revocation of license,
The real estate commission of New
Jersey reports that the aid of the
commission was sought during the
year by 2,000 or more persons, muany
of whom were making their first pur
chase of property located in the state.
A very important service of the Cal
ifornia real estate department is its
examination of and report upon rural
lands subdivisions., During the last
year the department has made 24 such
inspection reports. A questionnaire is
sent to the subdivider to fill out and
return. The questionnaire inquires
into financing, title, how held, incum
brances and releases, water sources
and general adaptation to expected
uses. The department then follows
the inquiry with personal inspection
by agricultural deputies. The find
ings and recommendations are dis
cussed with the subdividers. The de
partment where necessary broadcasts
written reports on projects using in
flated advertising, mailing them to
chambers of commerce and realty
boards.
Developers Halted.
Last year the California depart
ment stopped the sale of over 20,000
acres being sold in ten acre plots, ad
vertised as likely to enhance in value
when the Boulder dam project was
completed. The department placed an
altimeter at various points, and found
the lands to be several hundred feet
elevation above the highest possible
point of canal reach from the Colo
rado river. Another of 12,000 acres was
found to be so poorly financed that
they must depend upon sales with
which to install necessary improve
ments, including canals, roads, ete.
The stopping of these sules is esti
mated to have saved 'he public the
loss of several millions of dollars,
The earliest real estate license iaws
became effective in 1919. Such laws
are in operation in 1928 in 22 states
‘anc one Canadian province,
Widow of Italy’s War
Hero Given Million Lire
Naples,—The widow of Marshal Diaz.
who led the Italian troops to victory in
the World war, is to have a million
lire from the country in addition to
a special pension and whatever other
pensions he enjoyed at the time of
his death last winter,
His will, written on his deathbed,
was pathetic in its simplicity., “I have
nothing to leave my wife and children
but the house in Naples, which the
citizens gave me; my swords, my war
decorations, and a few shares in an
industrial concern.” o
The shares proved to be of littie
value and the war hero's widow and
three children found themselves In
straits when the magnificent state fu
neral was over and the household billy
began to come in,
His widow’s pension will now be
equal to $5,000 a year, but the million
lire, about $50,000, will be given her
ut once,
Dinz who was created Duca della
Vittorin, left two pretty young daugh
ters and one son, who Is now working
in & bank in Rome,
Americans Buy Home of
Ampere as Memorial
Poleymieux, France.~The old home
of Andre Marle Ampere, one of
France's electrienl wizards, has been
bought by Americans and given into
the keeping of the French Soclety of
Eleetricinns,
Sosthenes Behn, president of the In:
ternationnl Telephone company, and
his brother Hernand, were the donors
who made possible the establishment
of the home as & permanent memorinl
to the man whose name Is used as o
unit of measurement in electricity,
In keeping with the spirit of this
event, there was celebrated simul
taneously the Innuguration of eleetrie
service in this mountain village, near
Lyons, one of the few places in France
that still relied on candles and kero
sene.
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Away With Precedentis
There was a time when in the chan
cery courts written evidence in the
form of aflidavits was considered by
the practitioners who drafted and
settled these statements to suit their
clieuts’ contentions, as having supe
rior value to the oral testimony of
our common law trbunals, Mr, Jus
tice Mathew abolished this heresy in
a phrase when he said, with con
temptuous irony, “I'ruth will leak out
even in an affidavit.”’
The same learned judge, too, gave
a witty repropf to a learned counsel
famous for prolixity who applied to
him for an order that the other side
should file “further and better partic
ulars,”
“H'm!"” said Mathew. “Further and
better particulars! ‘Further,” I sup
pose, because they are further from
the point than the former ones, and
‘hetter’ because they cost more, Cer
tainly not."—London Tit-Bits,
Study
“Why at the zoo?”
1 study my parts” explained Dim
ple Simple, queen of the screen,
“Eh?"
“The seript says T weep erocodile
tears. Where I 8 the crocodile tank?”
The Inevitable
“1 am perfectly satisfied with our
car,” sald Mr, Chuggins, “but we ure
going to get a new one,”
“How do you know "
1 saw my wife talking to an auto
mobile salesman"—Kansas City Star,
An Oriental rug will slip and throw
you as readily us If It were made in
Philadelphin,
o « It costs only
half as much. Aad
it is the deadliest
insect-killer made.
[Mouey buck if it doesn’t prove se.)
Imagine
Black Fiag Liquid, only
23 cents for a full half-pint.
And others cost 30 cents,
Binck Fing comes in twe forms Liguid nad Powder, Roth
nre sure denth to Mios, monquitocs, renchos, unis, hed bugs,
flons, eto, © 1928, 1. ¥, G
Snapshots in Colors
Through New Process
A new process whereby amateurs
take snapshots that can be printed in
color was recently shown in London.
An ordinary camera is used and from
three black-and-white negatives posi
tive prints are made in the primary
colors, produced by the direct action
of light on specially sensitized mate
rial, By superimposing these prints,
the original colors of the objeet taken
are obtained, Various tones can be
produced by a slight variation and
blending of the primary colors in
volved,
The process will not only enable
reproduction in color of old masters,
but, as has been suggested, may be
used for making half-tone blocks suit
able for magazine covers. Some of
the pictures thus made have been ex
hibited,
Misunderstood
Theater Patron (to couple In next
row who are conversing audibly)-—lt's
impossible to hear a word in back of
you,
The Husband—What business is It
of yours what 1 say to my wife?—
Munich Meggendorfer Blaetter,
Prominence
“You have succeeded in attracting
gome attention In the country.”
“Yeu," answered the professor. *)
have sought fame, And I may at least
claim that there Is not a financial
‘sucker list' in the country that doeg
not include my name,”
Chronic
*“What kind of a fellow is Jones?"
“He is one of those chaps who have
spring fever all the year round !
Hair and Electricity
While the use of the electric eur
rent is recommended and being exten
sively used in this country and in Eu
rope for the removal of superfluous
hair, the barbers of Latin America are
recommending-itg use for the purpose
of growing bair on beardless faces,
Green Apples, Perhaps
Three-year-old Jimmie was suffers
ing with a pain in his midsection, lils
complaining finally received attention
and he was asked what was the mat
ter.
“T think,” said Jimmie, *“I ate
something that didn't concern me,”
Busy Emma
Hal—Do you have a dictating mu
chine in your office?
Emma—Yes, darn him.—Life,
The Realist
Nurse—“ You should beg your litlite
brother's pardon,” Jimmie—"Aw, he
ain't old enough to have ene.”
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