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...business is much more highly organized. To handle the product roads have been built, heavy trucks imported; railroad tracks have been laid. The only primitive factor remaining is the labor-cheap labor that can be bought for about 30? a day. Loinclothed natives do most of the work. They slit the rubber tree's bark, gather the soft flowing latex, load it into tank cars. This type of worker has no pride in his job, nor does he become devoted to the boss directly over him. Yet last week perhaps a few of the natives working on some...
...condemned-of men waiting for the electric chair. The first act is an agonizing crescendo leading to an execution. The murderer is given a lavish meal which he cannot eat, cigarets which he is unable to finish. His temples are shaved for one electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak...
German editors last week reminded their readers that agents of Der Konsul were once not only accustomed to throw bombs and assassinate their political opponents, but also did not hesitate to slit the gullet of any of its own members who were "untrustworthy." Anxious to wipe out Der Konsul once and for all, German police arrested 40 suspects last week. Members of the German Reichstag, behind hastily reglazed windows, prepared to vote heavier penalties for persons "guilty of offenses against the security of the Republic...
Down here we don't care if all the Negroes are lynched, or even burned or slit open with knives. The outrageous, damnable, unbearable spectacle of lawlessness of the Negro is infinitely greater than would be the entire extermination of the cursed race by the white man. The Northern "nigger-lovers" are going to be forced to see our position some day. ELDON O. HALDANE Atlanta...
...unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King Zog's coronation last year, only the expressed intention of genuine Scanderbeg descendants to slit Zog's royal gullet dissuaded the new King from adopting the title of Scanderbeg...