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Acting Governor Butte of Porto Rico last week denied an application by one Manuel Garcia. Señor Garcia wished to arena a bull fight. The acting governor held: 1) That a fight between man and beast was likely to be cruel; 2) That it was likely to have a deleterious effect on public morals. The bulls of Porto Rico will continue to be slaughtered only to increase the world's food supply...
Santa Ysabel. Señor Rodrigo Octavio, the Brazilian President of the U. S.-Mexican Special Claims Commission, held with the support of the Mexican Commissioner, Fernando Gonzales Roa, that no indemnity shall be paid to the relatives of 15 U. S. mining operatives massacred in January, 1916, near Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, Mexico. Judge Ernest B. Perry, the U. S. Commissioner, being thus outvoted, rendered a dissenting minority opinion. The commission forthwith adjourned until September...
...Bruce: "I have stated to you before that many of my neighbors regard with great indulgence the violation of the great lunacy?the Volstead Act?because, as they conceive, that act has no true moral sanction behind it. It endeavors to pronounce something as being criminal per se that is not criminal...
...March "Mercury" with the usual grain of salt. Nor need one. For Mr. Mencken wandering through mazes of contradictions and losing himself in occasional thickets of wisecrackery does arrive at a definite and exact description of existing phenomena. He believes that there is not sufficient training in thought per se afforded by the usual American college education. And he is no doubt right. For the usual American education according to his connotation is not either adequate or honest. Men long versed in the knowledge that half truths are more profitable than whole truths teach the youth of the country...
...what can be said of the Smith student so naive as to get lost? Perhaps it would indicate a need for more rules. It is only fair, however, to state the side of the college authorities. While to the world the lady appears to be lost, she is, per se, travelling. Nor is it well known that at the end of four years at college a person knows how little she (or he) has learned, whereas at the end of travel she realizes only how much. This is regarded as an argument for Smith...