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COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS WORLD WAR FEAR8 J By VISCOUNT SNOWDEN British Statesman. MUSSOLINI'S aim and am bition will not stop short with the conquest of Ethiopia. If he Is successful In this enter prise, bis next more will be to ab sorb Austria. That attempt will bring Germany Into the war and as European nations are now bound together with numerable pacts and treaties a general European war would be inevitable. All these terrible consequences are Involved in the ItalO-Ethiopian question. If this war cannot be averted—and one sees very little hope of It—another world war will result and that will end human civ ilization. There is just a faint chance of preventing these consequences. It Is that the great powers, with the invaluable help of America, will muster the courage to take a Arm line with Mussolini and show him the whole moral force of the world Is against him. The united military power of the rest of the world will also be against him. PROGRESSIVE SUPPORT By PETER NORBECK i Senator From South Dakota. TpHE New Deal is full ol JL mistakes, but the Old Deal is no substitute. The old gold standard cannot be revived with out increasing our indebtedness about 40 per cent. Government re lief must not be abandoned; it must be handled better. The Bank Guar anty law cannot be deserted be cause it failed in South Dakota, but It must be changed to provide a more sound plan. The Republican party must of fer something more than criticism of Roosevelt and the scare about losing the Constitution. Above all, they cannot win without inviting the Progressives into the party and giving them a voice in party affairs, for otherwise other northwestern states will Join the third party movement already controlling Min nesota and Wisconsin—the states whose votes are needed in the elec toral college. FEDERAL HOUSING By JAMES A. MOFFETT Administrator. KINCE the work began we have already expended $250, iXX),000 in building insurance, and the activity has resulted in not less than $600,000,000 in construc tion work which is not part of the government program. In one year the work has grown from nothing hto one of the biggest corporations in the United States. The fact that what we have al ready done toward nation-wide con itructlon is only a beginning, makes is feel very happy. Our work now represents 500,000 Individual build ings and 5,000 Industries in 8,000 rommupities. This work is not an ergentry one, but I am confident t will continue. England started the same thing in 1910. It has re tailed in the construction alone of 1,500,000 homes, and this is as much rsponsible for the prosperity of ngland today as any other factor. BUDGET-BALANCING By DR. BENJAMIN M. ANDERSON, JR. Nationally Known Economist. rIRTUALLY everything in finance became unwhole some under the impetus of the gigantic expansion of bank credit from 1022 to 1929, but the remedy for this sort of thing does not lie |n confiscatory taxes on large ln omes and large inheritances, but ather In sound Federal Reserve |>ank policy. Financial measures to balance the budget are, of course, very much ded, but the greatest of these oust be retrenchment In expendl ure. Part of the program for bal ncing the budget will of course be Additional taxation. The pending gislatlon can hardly be described fs a measure for balancing the ndget or for revenue purposes. Its primary purpose Is avowedly- not venbe, but changing the dlstrlbu lion of wealth. STUDYING CRIME By HERBERT H. LEHMANN Governor of New Tork. 'HE apprehension and con viction of criminals, while |f course of outstanding im tance, is only one part of the □e problem. Juvenile deUnquen educatloa, probation, the -Jaw forcement agencies, criminal pro duce In our courts, extradition, nal statutes, prison admlnlstra on, parole and rehabilitation—all closely Inter-related and must taken into careful consideration any comprehensive study of □e. | I believe that a publl oted to .tiiftliai atlon of the conference WHUStrviw. Scenes and Persons irf ^me Current News Going After Old A1 Capone Taxes 1—Florida National Guardsmen firing volley over the coffins of war veterans killed In the recent hurricane .before the bodies were cremated. 2—Two companies of South Carolina militiamen guarding the plant of the Pelzer Manufacturing company In Pelzer after a strike riot In which a woman was killed and more than a score of persons were Injured. 3—Democratic Representative Michael K. Reilly of Wisconsin and his bride, who was Miss Mary Isobel Hall of Washington and New York, a noted concert soprano. She Ran Aground, but No Life Was Lost This Is the Morgan liner Dixie which, with 260 passengers and a crew of 140 aboard, lashed In a terrific hurricane, went aground on a reef off the Florida keys, about 50 miles south of Miami. The Dixie was New York bound from New Orleans. Coast guard cutters and other vessels went to the rescue and everyone was taken off In safety. The Dixie’s officers and crew won high praise for their gallant* behavior. “Traveling Family McDaniel” Fills the Deck Here'* the line-up of the “Traveling Family McDaniel.” Getting, the E. R. McDaniel family on board the Matson liner Lnrline at San Francisco for Honolulu was something like loading the ark. Noah wasn’t there to do the checking but they came by two and two from Ardmore and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Abilene, Texas. They were not all McDaniels but they were related one way or another and when they assembled on the deck they occupied the major portion of It. ... mmmm «CP men moat keep physically fit, for their duties frequently are strenuous. Here are a number of these Department of Justice men doing their dally doaen setting up exercise* on the roof gymnasium of their head quarters In Washington. Joseph Lawrence, administrator of taxes and penalties of the Depart ment of Justice, Is pictured at his desk poring over documents which furnished information for the assessment of $120,000 In old liquor taxes against A1 Capone and some of the members of the old Chicago syndicate with which he was connected in the days of prohibition. A matter of some 19,000,000 odd barrels of high power beer, seized by authorities be tween 1021 and 1932, furnished the basis of the assessment. British Prince and His Fiancee H. K. H. Prince Henry, duke of Gloucester, thirty-five, third son of the king and queen of England, and bis fiancee. Lady Alice Scott, thirty four, whose engagement was announced In the official court circular. Lady Alice Is thg third of five daughters of duke and duchess of Buccleuch and Queensbury. Chiefs of the Young Democrats Here are the president and vice president of the Young Democrat Clubs of America who were ejected at a meeting In Milwaukee, Wla. They are Frank WIckhem of Sioux Falls, S, D, and Mrs. Louise Galleher of Leedsburg, Va. Anythin* Will Help *T» In favor of (complainin’ as much as possible about de weath er," said Uncle Eben, ‘‘If It’ll take ■our minds offn some o’ de other troubles we can’t get away from." Feather Work of Hawaiian* The feather work of the old Ha walians on their capes, helmets, lets and kahilis has never beep ex celled, experts say. Dot* and Dashes From Star* There are some stars which seem to be sending a regular series of dots and dashes—Ujce the Intermit tent light from a lighthouse. Improvement in Moral Tone It Is on general Improvement In the moral tone of the world that wise men build their hope of a better world. Some People Believed ThUt If yon sleep with a piece of wed ding cake under yonr pillow, the one of whom yon dream will be your mate. Cat Island One of Bahamas Cat Island Is one of the Bahama islands about 86 miles In length from north to sonth. Lightning and Crops The weather burean says that lightning la not affected by any kind of crop In a field. Indians Used Mint Indians and the early settlers collected, and also grew, mint for their nse. PrsmUrm Worn Woman In the early days of the Ha waiian monarchy, the premiers A BRISBANE THIS WEEK. Huey Long Is Dead Power in Personality A Ship of Horror Bathtub Danger Huey Long Is dead at forty-two years of age. x ii e w uriu says: “How young, how piti ful, to die with out full oppor tunity r Everything Is comp a ra 11 v e, Alexander the Great, who died at thirty-two, was ruler of half the world at twenty-five; Keats died at twenty-six; Shel ley at luiriy, Arthur Brisbane Today, men do not develop as rapidly as In old days, when Napoleon thought ot suicide because he had done noth ing at an age that found Alexander ruler of the world. The death of Huey Long, regret ted throughout a nation that loathes cowardly assassination, Is important not alone because of Sen ator Long’s powerful personality, but also because of its possible ef fect on the national election of 1936. Senator Long Is gone; his power ceases, as though he had never lived. Others will pick up the reins of power, in New Orleans and Loui siana; another will take his place In the senate. Efforts, futile, will be made to find “another Huey Long.” There is nothing left but the memory of a powerful man, again emphasizing Goethe’s definition of “personality,” “as the highest good fortune of earth’s children.” France discourages crime, and really discourages it. The dreaded prison ship, La Martlniere, is on her way to the criminal colony in French Guiana with 773 convicts locked in eight strong iron cages in the hold, with iron bars, cement floors, wooden benches, hammocks, and overhead a criss-cross of pipes that would fill the cages with dead ly live steam if mutiny broke out. No parole board sits in French . Guiana. Each man ordered to the ship receives a new suit of clothes, a blanket, an extra pair of wooden shoes. That, with perhaps a few books and packages of chocolate from relatives, constitutes his wealth as, wrists chained, the con victs march, single file,' up the gangplank, between rows of bay onets. They go to prison, to stay in prison. It is a hard system, but being murdered on the American plan is also a hard system. " Within a few days two women, one past sixty, the other seventy years old, have been found dead In their bathtubs, apparently drowned. The slippery surface of a porcelain tub Is dangerous for older persons. They should observe the greatest care; a slip, the head striking the edge of the tub, can easily cause unconsciousness, followed by drown ing. Rubber factories should make and extensively advertise rubber mats for the bottom of bathtubs, with a suction arrangement to pre vent slipping. While the League of Nations talks peace and arbitration Mussolini re calls his consuls from various places in Ethiopia, reminding you of the clergyman who had a call to a large city. His little daughter said, “Papa Is in his library, praying for light, and mamma is upstairs pack ing.” Mr. Max Baer, of the Jewish race, will fight on September 24 Mr. Joe Louis, of the African negro race, and already $300,000 worth of tick ets have been sold. The price for a good seat is $25. Mr. Baer, who gave a pitiful exhibition, not long ago, when he permitted his “heavyweight cham pionship of the world” to wriggle off of the hook, now promises to “chase that boy (Joe Louis) out of the ring in two rounds.” Publicly Mr. Joe Louis gives an Imitation of “Br'er Babbit,” and says little. Maneuvers demonstrating French war power, as It stands today, con vince European experts that France possesses “the strongest military machine in the world.” She sesses, also, men willing to as shown at Verdun and The government, floating 1 dred million dollars more o est-bearlng note*- -*-■— they are ‘
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