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just discovered:"
:KING OF UNDERWORLD IS A
MAN OF 3Q YEARS
Al Capone is 30 years old. He is
in admirable health and is worth a
:good many million dollars. He is al-
so at the head •of the greatest `and
-most powerful gang of Criminals in
-modern history. 'He is surely a mod-
el for ail who worship success. Fur-
thermore, he began life in a very
*hunvble way and the first honest dol-
lar he is known to have earned was
:as watch -boy in a bawdy house. His
*duties consisted mainly of watching
through a peek -hole when police were
expected and .giivie timely warning to
the inmates- He would also stroll a-
long the sidewalks on the lookout far
Possible customers and run errands
-for the inmates of the establishment.
`This was in New York about ten
•„ars ago and for the information we
are indebted to Lewis W. Hunt, who
tells the story of Capone in The Out-
look. To do Capone justice he does
not like. to recall such incidents, for
he has grown ashamed of them- At
least he feel's that they are reminis-
cences inapplicable to the role which
he is now trying to fill, namely that
•of big business man. Another thing
he does not like is to have mention
made of his former nickname "Scar-
-face." People who use this word do
it in the newspapers and not in the
.course of conversation with him.
So faithfully did he perform the
rather noisesorne duties that apper-
tained to his first job that it was not
long before he was promoted to the
managership of the red light syndi-
cate's most profitable brothel, and at-
tained the rank of madame, even if
he did not employ the title. For he
bad mannish ideas about how the
place should be run, and one. of the
earliest notices of him taken by the
police was a paragraph in a gangsters
gazetteer which spoke of the fre-
quency with which he used fists and
revolver. In those days he was called
Tony, for the rhyming effect of "Tony
Capony," but whether this referred
-to the Large yellow shoes he wore or
because of .his ride from New York
to Chicago after he had left the har-
lotage and become a Chicago ganster,
is uncertain. He was taken from New
York to Chicago by Johnny Tornio, a
former member of the New York Five
Points gang, and at the time a lieu-
tenant of Big Jim Colosimo, the chief
racketeer of Chicago. Colosimo was
snaking money so fast that he went
in fear for his life, and, Capone was
imported to act as his bodyguard.
In 1920 when Colosimo. was mur-
dered Capone had established himself
as a figure in gangland. The murder
of Colosimo does not appear to have
injured his reputation for the general
theory was that Colosimo was done
in by Capone and Torrio. At any rate
the pair were powerful enough to
take over the Colosimo gang, and wise
enough to see that the beer racket
could be vastly expanded. They bought
idle breweries, made their arrange-
ments with police and dive keepers
end soon the racket was in full swing
supporting three or four hundred
thugs in affluence. The fact that it
was so successful explains for the
most part the gangland, murders in
Chicago, which in seven years claim-
ed 250 victims. In the first two or
three years Capone got the reputation
of killer, but it is supposed that now-
adays it • is only in rare moments of
exasperation that he- ?personalty turns
e machine-gun on anybody. He marks
his victims and underlings remove
them, first arranging with other mem-
bers of the gang for alibis should
they be arrested.
The beer gangs got their first great
start in Cicero, a Chicago suburb
which had an unscrupulous gang in
control of its municipal affairs. It
was only after Big Bill Thompson
had been elected mayor that they re-
turned to Chicago and began to ac-
cumulate, their millions. One of the
most sensational of the early gang
murders was that of O'Banion, a riv-
al of 'Capone's. Two or three flays
later Clapone's car was crowded to the
curb and swept with machine guns.
Unfortunately Capone was not in it,
and only the chauffeur was seriously
wounded. 'Capone bought a new car,
had it armor plated and then called a
conference of rival gangsters to try
to end the shooting. The loader of
the other faction, Bugs Moran, agreed
to a truce, but two or three days later
Tbrrio was attacked and seriously in-
jured. When he recovered he was so
terrified that he left Chicago for Eur-
ope taking a million dollars with him
and handing over his organization} to
Capone. Since then Capone has reign-
ed as king of the underworld.
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would.,' 'taped, ° the probability
its that:. o' he would be glad to drop
the Iter cket, 'and 'begin a respect-
•alble career by joiai'ing the Rotary
Club. But this he fiadsto be an im-
possibility, and the prospects are that
he will continue ,to the end, and finally
resign amid a rattle of machine guns.
WHAT'S A - COW
The following illuminative essay on
the subject, "What is a Cow?" pub-
lished in the :St. John's Record, Col.
legeville, Minn., is attributed to Wil
fred Ludowese, a student at that
school:
"The cow is a female quadruped
with an alto voice and a countenance
in which there is no 'guile. She col-
laborates with the pump in the pro-
duction of a liquid called milk, pro-
vides the filler for hash, sausages and
similar objects, and at last is skinned
by those she has benefitted, as mortals
commonly are.
"The young cow is called a 'calf and
is used in the 'manufacture of chicken
salad, breaded veal and other uses of
whieh no further knowledge is neces-
sary.
"The cow's tail is mounted aft and
has a universal joint. It is used to
disturb marauding flies and the tassel
on the end has unique educational val-
ue. Persons who come in contact
with the tassel have vocabularies of
peculiar and impressive force.
"The cow has two stomachs. The
one on the ground floor is used as a
warehouse and has no other function.
When this one is filled, the cow re-
tires to a quiet spot where her bad
manners will occasion no comment
The raw material thus conveyed for
the second time to the interior of her
face is pulverized and delivered to
the auxiliary stomach where it is con-
verted into cow.
"The caw has no upper plate. 4.11
of her teeth are parked in the lower
part of her face. This arrangement
was perfected by an efficiency expert
to keep her from gumming things up.
As a result she bites up and gums
dawn."
ALFONSO MUST QUIT WHEN
ENEMIES AGREE
Spain's present revolution, if such
it can be called, appears to have come
about accidentally. A few weeks ago
there was a general understanding
that it would not be precipitated at
this season of .the year when the
Spanish people are more interested in
flutes and the Christmas lotteries
than in the fall of Governments, ev-
en the fall of a regime. There was
also su.ppose'd to be a general disposi-
tion to await the outcome of ',he elec-
tions which were to have been held
in January. But as Albin E. Johnson;
a staff correspondent of the New York
World who is in Madrid, wrute re-
cently, "The only danger is that where
there is a lot of powder lying around,
someone may oplay with matches.
Without doubt there . is any amount
of powder—and the political leader.
all have matches—and the two to-
gether constitute the unknown factor
in Spain." The present revolt may
be quelled, and the ,bloodier the re-
pressive measures taken the more
likely it is that the rival politicians
will be driven together and make com-
mon cause against the Government
and also against the monarchy itself.
Well qualified observers far a year or
more have been predicting the down-
fall of Alfonso, who is the last of the
Bourbons. It would have taken place
before this if the warring political
leaders had been able to agree on
what was to follow.
Alfonso and his queen are now re-
presented as having declared that they
will die rather than abdicate. This
was 'hardly their, spirit a short time
ago when Alfonso publicly said that
the question before the people was
"not the question of the continuation
of the monarchy but of the welfare
of Spain." It seems Alfonso is regard-
ed as a mere incident. If the opposi-
tion leaders could agree upon a form-
ula and demanded his abdication in all
probability it would speedily follow•
Alfonso has been king for a long
time. There is a general belief that
none of his children is competent to
succeed him, and certainly there is no
general feeling in Spain that some
outsider should be invited in to reign
over .the people. It is the form of
government that is to take the place
of the monarchy that for some years
past has been perplexing Spanish
political leaders who represent im-
portant opposition parties. If there
were merely) one opposition the posi-
tion would be sampler. The opposition
To -day Capone seems to be "as mild
a mannered man as ever scuttled ship
or cut a thro'at." He affects the gen-
ial manners of a successful business
man• He has 'ambitions of being re-
.eellvled in society. His first attempt
was made at Los Angeles, and might
perhaps have been successful had the
police not ruri him out of town. Then
he bought a place in Florida where
he gave the most lavish and alcoholic
parties. His gates were guarded by
gunmen and we learn that their chief
duty was not to protect Capone but
to restrain his henchmen from wan-
dering out of the premises and per-
haps malting themselves obnoxious) to
the residents whose favor, Capone
traved. With his gangsters Capone
is popular. He is not tight-fisted like
Terrio. He does not hesitate to drop
in at a friendly gangster's house and
drop "ten grand" to shove his benevo»
lent feeling, One reason why the po-
lice have never been able to convict
him of any crime of +vliolenee is that
he is always prepared with* an alibi.
The only piinishntent he has under-
gone so far as We are aware, is the
sentence he served: in Philadelphia
for carrying firearms: It is under-
stood that he coirsented to this so -
Called rap, as a: c'ornprc3ihise With Chia-
. rge aethoritie' who *etc » `ei}'ared to
t;.
"Ys
would be expected to have an alter-
native plan agreed upon. But there
are half a dozen oppositions, each
with a plan of its own.
The leaders seem agreed upon noth-
ing but this: That the fall of the
monarchy shall not be succeeded. by
a period of chaos. The Monarchists
and Conserviatives wish the election
of • the Constitutional Cortes to be
elected under the old constitution of
1876; the radicals want Parliament
free to decade what form of Govern-
ment Spain shall have. The present
outbreak may mean that the radicals
have come to the conclusion that the
Government has already arranged the
outcome of the election and that
Berenguer will be elected. In any
event, it was predicted some months
ago that an armed revolt would follow
any such effort at jobbery. The Ber-
enguer Government is frankly a dic-
tatorship, though it followed a much
sterner dictatorship, that of Primo de
Rivera. Nobody in Spain believes that
a dictatorship can be permanent and
the ‘longer it exists the fiercer will
be the final reaction against it. It
was to save his throne eight years ago
that Alfonso called upon Rivera It
was also to have his throne that he
BerengiYer.
When Iltivena assumed power A.
Santiago Alba retired to Paris, where
he has lived ever since, "Yet he has
eatitinued to be one of the chief forees
in pain, die Was formerly a Mon.
now Itu!bliea and:
,. p r acau glrenp On: 'be earro lis;
gr►ourid if 4k' ets }thous bid apP'rdyP
al Tet Al'�ba �s,'sai�d to :;tbe efi l''
obstacle to .an ipiniogikto Spamsl} xc-
public-, • lie bas ref f s to' :alt Cala;*
tion,. after 04)/tion has binprooa,
ed to him or by him. Th boa,
tates to move decisively until' he is
assured of the support of the ruore
radical leaders of the left wing, name-
ly Marceline Doniin'ge, the Ttepubla
can chief and Tndeltelo Prieto# the
Socialist leader. Other loaders vyhoae
names are 'likely to figure ` in news
from 'Spain When!the censor gives per -
Mission are Sanchez Guerra, Count De
Rarnonottm and Ossareo Y. Gaklardo.
At present they mean little outside of
Spain, but are perhaps the most sig-
nificant of present-day leaders in that
they were formerly staunch Monareh-
ists.
Guerra Pias publicly announced that
he will never serve Alfonso again, and
Gailardo has said that Alfonso must
a'bdiicate. As noted, these chieftains
are all agreed that Alfonso must go,
and it is not considered possible that
the army alone could support him.
Berenguer, it- is true, is a veteran
general, but his military, record loses
some of its impressiveness whet, the
fact is recalled that he has been twice
sentenced to death for tragic bungling
in +Morocco. It is also significant that
it is a man of this type to whom the
King of course, depends •on the army.
It can stave off a revolution or it can
hasten one. In the meantime three
of the most popular figures in Spain,
the airmen, Franca, Romero and Jim-
inez have been imprisoned for their
attacks upon the monarchy. The
strikes affecting cities in all parts of
Spain were a demonstration of work-
men against the Government. The in-
telligencia is almost solidly arrayed in
opposition and there .is no outside
power to which Alfonso can turn for
comfort.
To mention Frohman is to think of
Barrie. They were great pals. At Bar-
rie's flat in the Adelphi Frohman was
a constant visitor during his stays in
London.
"Here he would sit curled up in
one corner on the settee, smoking a
fat black cigar and looking out on the
historic Thames," records J. A. Ham-
merton (in his Life of Barrie). "Here
he knew he would, not have to talk.
It was the place of Silence and Un-
derstanding."
"The man who ' never broke his
word," was Barrie".s beautiful Tribute
to his friend at the time of Frohman's
tragic death.
WIT AND WISDOM
' The evidence that modern man is
in no appreciable degree the intellec-
tual •of his predecessor who lived in
the far fringe of historic time is ov-
erwhelming.—Sir William Pope.
Every form of Christianity con-
demns what it calls "mere" pleasure.
Why ?—.Mr. Bertrand Russell.
The Communist candidates in the
Dominion poll chronicled 5,685 votes
in a total of 3,898,995. This is a
healthy sign.—Brantford Expositor.
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The DO -X seems to be well named.
It docks fairly often.— dCitchen^n Re-
cord.
We -quit trying to understand the
fine points of economics as soon as
we found out that halving too much
gold would bring on hard times.—
Judge.
When interviewed on the geineral
situation, the shorn Iamb was of the
opinion that the wind must have lost
its temper—Boston Herald.
A woman who has got work to do
cannot really get on with it if she has
a man hanging about all day.—Mrs.
Baldwin.
Th'e difference between Scotland and
England is that 'Scotland is educated
while England, relatively, is not. --Mr.
Arnold Bennett.
The new'brake that can stop a sev-
enty -mile -an -hour car in twenty feet
is almost as good as a telephone pole.
—:Virginian -Pilot.
A successful man is one who gath-
ers a fortune he doesn't need to leave
to people who don't deserve it.--Pu'b-
lishers' Syndicate.
And if the farmers ever get back
on their feet, we'll bet they'll think
twice before they ask the government
for relief again.—Judge.
Too many Nelson would spoil a
navy, and one blind eye is enough for
a fleet—Mr. Robert Lynd.
'Germany was so unfairly treated
after the armistice that I should be
half a Hitlerite if I were a German.
—Dean Inge.
I had to travel 3,000 miles to inform
my American friends that my name
is not pronounced as if it were a felt
hat.—Lord Derby.
And the next war we get mixed up
in we should .be sure to fix it up so
we'll do the 'borrowing, and not the
lending. -Judge.
Our whole educational system from
A to Z 'mrust be revised and adjusted
to the needs of the new world that it
come upon us owing to the tipe'rat5on
of the enmity 'which we have our-
selves, created•• -••the machine. �--• Pro-
fessor' H. E. Aarmatr'ong.
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Business bij1ds more than
stores and merchandise, it
builds Faith, Confidence and
Valued Friendships, and we
also feel that your Goodwill
means all of these to us.
To -day it is but fitting
that we voice our apprecia-
tion and extend to you sin-
cerest good wishes t h a t
happiness and good fortune
abide with you at this sea-
son and all throughout the
coming New Year.
STEWART BROS.
Seaforth.
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