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...firing on two Harvard coaching launches by the Coast Guard brings us face to face with an intolerable state of affairs. Setting out to enforce one law we have virtually abrogated other laws, in glaring violation of the whole principle of law enforcement. The blame cannot be laid directly on the Volstead law. There is nothing in that act which directs reckless firing on boats, regardless of whether there is evidence of law-breaking. The Coast Guard has created this situation on its own motion. Charged with a certain duty, it has made its own rules...
...protest of the Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce shows, anxiety has become widespread, and, as Senator Edge of New Jersey gives warning, casualties may be expected to follow. In that event, the Coast Guard in the eyes of every sane person will be guilty of nothing short of murder. It lies in its power to forestall any such eventuality and modify its tactics to restore rights of citizens. Its duty perhaps includes the stopping of many boats, but there must be ways of stopping them without shooting at them. And even if it means a few boats get away...
Along the low Ayrshire coast it is all boats and fishing and drinking your ale or "whusky" and going to the kirk. Between times, it is golfing. Everyone plays. The courses string out among the dunes like a ribbon spattered green and gray-green with the white flecks of bunkers through it, so that they say you can play a ball all the 20 miles from Ayr up to Ardrossan without leaving the fairway. Last week, at Troon, which is hard by Prestwick* and not so far southwest of Glasgow, Britain's golfing women inarched among the dunes...
...itinerary this summer will lead up the Connecticut Valley to the White Mountains, then across to Portland and down the coast, including the North Shore, South Shore, Cape Cod and Long Island. This is a very ambitious circuit in comparison with that of the first year which confined itself to southern New England...
...armada itself was the presence of a bolder, more ferocious spirit. Hitherto, U. S. vessels have sighted rum runners scurrying to shore, have urged them to stop, have even fired a wild shot. But the rum launches, faster than the average picket boat, have simply scurried on. The Coast Guard seamen have not been shooting with intent to kill...