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There are dreamers who continually are visioning the brighter day ahead, crystalizing it in not the millennium that is to be the acme of perfect conditions--certainly in a moral way and prob-- ably in a physical and economic and industrial way. And the dreamers have always to announce from advancing time to time a postponement, more or less indefinite, of the glad and perfect day when all the wrongs will be righted. So, too, there are retrospec-- tive dreamers, forever living in the past and investing the sacred departed days with a glamor--and glory that was never quite justi-- fied by the facts in the time when these past times were prosaic and practical present. These reminiscent experts harp grandilo-- quently upon the "good old days" and deplore the decadence of the new--the deterioration of the manners and morals of the day in which we live and with which, after all, alone we have anything really to do. & GOOD OLD, BAD OLD, TIMES j Tomorrow is usually a little further off than yesterday. Both, however, are removed from current discussion and both have a perspective which in some ways shows them up in more nearly their true relations and in some other ways distorts the view and makes them look grotesque. And yet the yesterdays were once the present pulsing and important and imperative in demand. Tomorrow, too, will be just the plain present one of these days. And they are all alike more or less in the essential elements that compose the conditions of any period. 4 That the board means business is indicated from its whole-- sale refusals of parole applications. Since the policy --has been in effect it has been carried out to the letter. This method of attacking the criminal problem holds much promise. The hope of an early parole certainly encourages crimes for big stakes. The armed criminal is a desperate menace. Possession of a weapon gives him an overwhelming advantage over his victim and for that reason false courage. He loses this in face of dan-- ger to himself and does not hesitate, as a rule, to shoot his way out. More and more, public opinion is demanding that the criminal be treated as roughly as he treats his victims. T It doesn't require an enthusiast or an optimist of the profes-- sionally obsessed variety to find the actual facts of the record and learn that the "good old days" were not a bit better than the todays we live through and wrestle with and glory in. Manners were not any better in the time of G. Washington than they are now--for the first gentleman of the land in writing some aphor-- 'z::dlnpon the subject of common etiquette, advised his sup-- y. cavalierish readers to refrain from spitting upon the floors and into the corners of the rooms of polite homes. Henceforth the trustees will not recommend for pardon or parole any individual serving a sentence under a first degree charge. Furthermore, they will reject all applications for relief for prisonérs who used or carried weapons when committing bank or payroll robberies, holdups or burQlaries. For all crimes of violence the board's policy will be to carry out the sentence of the court. workingman for wanting to curtail immigration in that direction, for the Mexican laborer's standard of living, say what people will, is not as high as that of the average worker in this country. Speaking of immigration, the influx of Mexicans into the United States is causing labor organizations to agitate for some means of restricting that trend. We don't blame the American Manners of the people as a whole today are better, gentler, more courteous, more unselfish than they were in those "hazy, daisy, lazy good old days." And if there are crime waves that spread over the front pages of the papers these days now and then the general moral conditions in this and in practically every other country are better today in the main than in those graciously correct days to which the grouches and growlers are harking back forever by comparison and contrast. There are mdre people now than in the less populous days of the century ago and there are more papers and quicker communication and more thorough pub-- licity of the remissnesses and delinquencies of the more people now than when Ben Franklin started his litlte gazetter in the eighteen hunded and something year. NO MERCY FOR ARMED THUGS . The trustees of the Indiana state prison have taken a prac-- *'cal method of discouraging crimes of violence in that state. si:v. be--zlers, thieves, forgers and even burglars will still be pa-- roled when their cases warrant it, but the criminal who uses « *# violence or carries a gun may expect to serve in full the sen tence imposed upon him. Now that Herbert has fired his opening gun of the presidential campaign, we may all sit patiently for a few days until the time for the echo to arrive from New York. Gov. Al Smith is sched-- uled to make his acceptance speech on Wednesday, August 22. After that the G. O. P. will have their turn at criticizing. EDITORIALLY SPEAKING x Herbert Hoover has said, "Yes." As this is Leap Year, it can be expected that many a less important personage will say the same word before 1929 rolls around. "The real profits of this or any other successful company are increased experience, better methods, more skilled workmen, more kighly developed engineering brains. Those are the best profits we gained from the 15,000,000 Model T Fords--money is not the best profit." His public statement on the occasion of his 65th birthday anniversary might serve as the creed of American business. EXPERIENCK The world has ceased to laugh when Henry Ford opens his mouth. Tt has forgotten his peace ship and his brave pronounce-- ment that "history is bunk." The automobile wizard is proof of the truth of his words that if "you take all the experience and judg-- ment of men over 50 out of the,. world there wouldn't be enough left to run it." Entered as second--class matter October 13, 1916, at the office at Mmmmam'&'x'sm Imedt'w"'iuwnkly. PAGE FOUR The Lake County Register FRANK H. JUST, Editor and Publisher | -- Rising gracefully from -- Rocktord, [alrport. the huge blue and yellow | craft, in which the fliers hope . to . demonstrate the most feasible airway between the United States and Eur-- ope. began the long journey at 6:45 ! Rockford, Ill., Aug. 16. --Bert R. znaaseu Rockforg --pilot, and Parker J. ! Cramer, navigator, left here today in 'shf}.':. monopltne""rhe Greater Rock-- Mrs. J. T. Shepherd spent Thurs-- day with Mrs. E. E. Smith of Wau-- kegan. * : > :: 8 A family reunion was held Sun-- day, in honor of Mrs. Carrid Kueb-- ker's birthday. $ * Word was received Wednesday of Russel Shepherd and Alfred Snyder. They were at Minoqgua, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Lester--Jarret and family left Friday morning on their vacation, which they expect to spend in northern Wisconsin. Mrs. Ernest Rita and Mrs. War-- ren Snyder were Waukegan callers on Monday. \, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fountain, of Evanston, visited Sunday at the home of John Snyder. . Russel Jack and Howard Garnet were Waukegan callers Thursday. and Mrs. William Browder were Lake Forest callers Sunday . Miss Ella Smith had the roof of her house shingled one day last week. , Mrs. Rudy Dorfler is entertaining her sister, Mrs. Perry and son; of Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Snyder were Waukegan visitors Thursday. * Dancing and swimming was in-- dulged in before and after eating. Jue Daley was general chairman of the picnic and with the help of com-- mitteemen certainly put on a suct-- cessful event. Pearl Shepherd and Esther Berg-- horn, of Lake Zurich visited in Chi-- CRrdirdirdidbeardinrdinrdiadiadiadr 0244222 4t n 44900048 4404842 j 4 0'%":"0"0"0"0"0"0"0"0"0"0"0":":"0":"0"o"0"0"0":":":"&':":":":":":":":":'-':.'" Leo Durkin, Bob Pearsall, Ed An{-- strom and Do¢ Bullock won the four man relay race after a heated finisn with the téeam headed by Nick L~-- wandusky of North Chicago. Haryv-- ey Mack of Fox Lake, visiting Ek. won the corn eating contest while Judgse Taylor easily copped the fat man's race. F 110q evemmng proved to be one oi ti best in years Swimming.. game: eats and other forms of entertain-- ment featured the activities with Lee ~cDonough winning the tug--of--wa: with Judge Walter Taylor after . a tough struggle. About 900 attendea the picnic. A ball game between Elks with th> biggest feet and the ones with the smallest ~pedal extremities was won by Lee c?om h, the umpire, wio lost tng of the score during the last of the ninth inning. The annual picnic of , the loca} Fiks lodge held at Renehan's resou. Rouni Lake, Wednesday afternoon ranged to radio reports of his prog-- ress to the Burgess Co., here which installed his equipment. * Hassell, who left here. at 6:45 a. m. today flew above White Fish Point, Mich., at 10:58 a. m. accord-- ing to radio -- advices _ received here and a few minutes later was over. ~western -- Ontario. -- Weather reports said flying conditions were excellent. 6 MADISON, Wis., Aug. 16. -- More than three houts after the "Greater Rockford" left (Rockford, IlL, on a flight to Stockhdlim no word had been received here at 10:15 a. m. today from the monoplane's radio. s BERT HASSELL STARTS FLIGHT ROCKFORD, Ill., Aug. 16--Bert R. Hassell piloting the monoplane "Greater <Rockford" -- in an at-- tempt to make the crossing of the Atlantic from the midwest left the United Statets and passed into Canada today. Mrs. Francis Browder and Mr. IVANHOE GREAT AFFAIR , pilot, had ar-- THE LAKE COUNTY REGISTER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928 * --_Dies Suddenly _ psajd. Doctors had considered amputation | Youth Has Watch of his left leg but this was not ~X¥esterday a 19--year--old youth en-- condition became worse and he died} lishment and asked the watchmak-- at 64-- nt. >' \er--to change the initials on a wrist It was a tragic ending to a'career watch from "J. M. C." to "L. T. B." that recently had become glamor0ous}When he returned for it later in in the world's aviation history. 'the day he was confronted by five fed ids ym rrieere io ranimainimmngle .. 'detectives with drawn" revolvers. ADMITS KILLING --__ _ SCHOOL TEACHER David -- Shanks, negro bootblack, admitted killing the woman, giving as his reason that the tips he re-- ceived at his shining stand did not furnish him enough money, and he resorted to robbery. His arrest last night ended a search which had en-- gaged citizens and police of this fashionable Chicago suburb for a week. A small bit of black ribbon with two gold clasps provided the slender clue -- by which the murder was solved. It was the band of a wrist EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 14--A com-- plete confession to the murder of Miss Jennie Constance, 42;year--old postgraduate . student of Northwest-- ern University, was in the hands of Evanston --police today. ' died at 6 a. m. today from injuries he received in a recent airplane crash on the waters just outsidé Rio de Janeiro. -- © 8 Del Prete and his companion . on turo Ferrarin, were injured last week the watch and thrown carelessly to ihen a Savoia monoplane winged-- the Bround. Relatives of Miss Con-- over as the two started an exhibition| stance identified it as hers and gave fl'ght, \Chief Freeman a description of the +Both Del Prete's legs were broken. watch. a His right leg was amputated yester-- "Sooner or later it will turn up in day as gangrene had developed. t'a jewelry or pawn shop," the chief the. Rome--Brazil --flight, Major Ar-- turo Ferrarin, were injured last week i hen a Savoia monoplane winged-- over as the two started an exhibition fl'ght, 5 A "painless dentist" is one who doesn't syffer a tarticle when he hands you his bil . DEATH HALTS RREAT CAREER After the flood old Noah probab-- ly swelled up every time a freshet came. He could remember when the water was higher. . How many -- Libertyville women can remember when they hoped the first one would be a girl so shae could help take care of the balance of them ? : Straw hats were first made by the Romans, but we see a few in Lib-- :gtayville now that look older. than . f f Who would have thought the bathing suit of five years ago would be too. long to wear on the streets today ? is ; Our grandfathers took 40 days to cross the --ocean. That's almost as long as it takes to cross a street in Libertyville on a busy Saturday af-- ternoon. Man may be'the salt of the earth but in a lot of homes the wife up-- plies the pepPt-- . 0. c t * It would be all right to say mon-- ey isn't everything if people didn't treat you like less than-- nothing when you haven't any. Isn't it funny how much the cuff of your trousers can collect with-- out collecting anything -- worth while? .. . * ; Americanism consists in scolding a movie because it is naughty, and then attending it just to see how naughty it really is. . "In God We Trust" was not on our early coin's. Haybe. this country dg%:;'t begin to trust in God until 1 * € f The hardest thing living in a dry . When a woman is worrying over town is trying to act like "a friend her weight it is safe to bet she isn't just: happened to leave a little bot. giving much though to the buttons tle." ;..>: emangts : that are off of her husband's shirt. 1 Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 16. --Major arlos Dei Prete, Italian flyer who 'ALONG THE CURBSTONES + Observations By A MAN ABOUT TOWN _ "I needed money," he said.. "I've 'never made more than eight doMars | inspection of --the murder scene and found the small black band. It os-- tensibly had been torn away from fwat.ch worn by Miss Constance on '~the night she was beaten to death The negro was illiterate and had| come here a few years ago from | North Carolina, he said. i Miss Constance was head of the| English department at the Bradleyl polytechnic institute at. Peoria, IlL, She was studying at the university, summer school for a doctor of phu-'! them he had bought the watch from | a negro who worked in his father's| shine parlors -- . i Admits Guilt Shanks was arrested immediately and admitted his guilt as soon as he was confronted with the evidence. The circumstances of the murder indicated it was committed by a moron, but Shanks denied he had attacked the woman after killing her. | _A European statesman says peo-- ple who speak different tongues and «scorn one another can't be united as a nation. What about America? Virtually every other clue in pos-- session .of detectives had turned out to be worthless. It appeared doubt-- ful yesterday if the crime, which had filled residents and students of the small university city with con-- sternation, ever could be traced. As a final resort, Police Chief Wil-- The new Italian tennis champion is named Gasolini How do -- you suppose 'k':e --ever manages to surviva a match? The prettiest wormnen in the world today are the ones you see in mag-- azines ads advertising some kind of turning home from the university kitchen equipment. No need to hunt for suckers. Just ask someone to point out the Lib-- :lx:t)l"ville men who think they are 1CK. a * Speaking of traffic law obser-- vance, Babe Ruth always makes three left--turns in getting around to We wouldn't be a bit sur?rised to hear of special form of life insur-- ance offered to the people traveling through Chicago. . _ Speakinlg of model husbands, we'll bet that Portland, Oregon, woman who broke 94 glass balls out of 100 with a pistol has one. f What has become of the old--fas-- hioned Libertyyille young man who used to argue that it was "sweat" instead of perspiration ? Still another difficult feat is for a -- Libertyville . father-- of _ several children to look dignified while rid-- ing in a rumble seat. Did you ever stor to think that maybe the other fellow's faults you see so plainly are only refletcions of your own?-- ---- . _ Speaking of supervising elections in Nicauraugua, how much longer must the U 8. Marines remain there before they can vote? degree SMITH'S The convention of the Mid--West Shippers' Association will be held in Springfield, October 10. Twelve hun-- dred visitors are expected to -- at-- tend the convention. TA XI The matter of the hydrant in the driveway on the Wells property on Grant court was brought up and re-- ferred to the street committee to have moved before the paving is | _A fast ball game is promised at the fairgrounds Sunday when the All Nations meet the Tenth Street Businss Mens team from Wauke-- gan. The former team has played several games here this year and are known to the local «fans as a scrappy bunch of youngsters. The tenth stréet» team has been going good on the North Shore and in pitcher Zerk, h#ve one of the best throwers in the county. With Kobza, ithe All Nations left hander in good form, a pitching due!l is expected. Following the game Sunday Nick Keller will take Baker and Kobza and start by motor for Iowa where Ray is to pitch for Dubuque on Monday and Kobza will work for Cascade in a game Wednesday at the Monticello couty fair. service to the new cleaning -- and dyeing plant being erected at that corner. : construct their walks before the roll is filed will save the legal-- costs of the special assessment. . < The president was authorized to make settlement with property own-- ers for easements necessary for the discharge line from the new well to the reservoir. two cars, amourting to $200 and after this had been taken care of Thursday evening the court assess-- ed a fine of five dollars and costs, the court stating that the fine hai been made nominal in viex of the other heavy expense which was born by the wife of the defendent. After paying the fine and court costs and for the services of the doctor who attendei the two injur-- ed women, Sadler was released. A resolution was adopted asking permission from the state to tunnell under the pavement at Fourth street to run storm and sanitary sewer DRIVER CAUSES TRIPLE WRECK FILE CERTIFICATES ON 3 IMPROVEMENTS ALL NATIONS WILL PLAY HERE SUNDAY Stand at Lester's Novelty Atore DAY PHONE 35 NIGHT PHONE i9717 (Coritinued from page one.) (Continued from Page 1) Wm. Walrond's, Fine Groceries --Merle's Battery and Radio Co. Announcement rades have provided exten-- sive automobile park-- ing grounds directly in the rear of William Walrond's Store and ® south of Merle's Bat-- tery and Radio Co. We urge that all our customers take ad-- vantage of this con-- venience. For the convenience of our patrons, we past five years by approximately fourteen million bushels. The apple crop of the state is es-- timated at 4,954,000 bushels or one-- half million bushels in excess of the crop for 1927, but two million bush-- SPRINGFIELD, III., Aug. 16.--8ur-- vey of the Illinois Department of Agriculture forecasts a peach crop in the state of Illinois approximating 65,981,000 bushels This will exceed the 1927 crop by fully twenty million bushels and the average crop for the | Special Sale of Alarm Clocks * one week only PEACH CROP TO BREAK RECORDS mm en nne w n n in en menen en mt n e n Big Ben *2.98 LIBERTYVILLE sWnc --BANK Mress \.EO/ is seldom zl Capital and Surplus $150,000.00 Libertyville, Illinois , IIL., Aug, 16.--SBur--' ly in e 10is Department of is exp asts a peach crop in' els as inois approximating for la . This will exceed| The fully twenty million Orable. average crop for the given JEWELRY AND GIFT SHOP LIBERTYVILLE MeDONALD'S opportunity ---- "arsichted People elways maintain a Savings Reserve and then Gérasp an }';s stt;epu cent--under the avera;> | for ten years' period, but slignt-- | ly in excess of that for 1927.. Illino:s the only thing some politi-- dnm _ fitted for is to _ hel change the tires on theirmb-x Aine grape crop is more than tav-- orable. The conditinn in Lllinois :s C"g at 81 per cent as compared to a per cent crop for 1927. els below the five years' average. _ The outlook for pears in the state is expected to produce 497000 busn-- els as ceomnsarad %n MSA0M huchals eis as compared to 312000 busne!s for last year Oennenennsensssccenns