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Cold-blooded murderer Ignatz Potz killed a Waukegan, Ill., motor-cycle policeman to avoid arrest for running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor...
...witness that I, in order to avoid war, went to the uttermost limit compatible with responsibility for the security and inviolability of my dear fatherland...
...Yesterday a freakish stunt, today it is a mode of travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...
...president of the United States, one supposes, can hardly avoid being put to the necessity oftentimes of issuing public statements when he really has nothing to say. Such apparently was the case last Friday when the Eucharistic Congress met at Chicago and Mr. Coolidge discovered that the etiquette of the occasion demanded a message from the White House. He might, as he has been known to do have sent a message which said nothing. Or he might, as is his more common custom, have sent one which did say something, but something which everyone knew before. Instead the President...
...however, not risk too much of the fortunes of France on our illusions. Let us avoid at all costs the mortal error of making any premature reduction of the other forces of our national defense...