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Show weeks legal residence drag along, visitors vis-itors leave much of their money In gambling houses that the law encourages, encour-ages, or ignores. However, that is only changing money from one pocket to another; it creates nothing new, and while It may help Nevada, it will not help the Nation at large. Some time ago on the Mayflower, , with President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, General Pershing and your ' narrator on board, someone quoted ! George Harvey's suggestion that Pres-1 Pres-1 ident Coolidge send a commission to London to "discuss Europe's 'ebt to us." Calvin Coolidge looked up from his plate and settled the question. "They came here to borrow the money," mon-ey," said he. "Why can't they come here to talk about it?" This Week by ARTHUR ERISBANE San Francisco's Week i High Wages, High j Dividends I Disarmament, Sweet Word 30 Divorces Per Hour San Francisco celebrates "Achieve- ment Week" and, wisely, it concen-i concen-i (rates on efficient advertising what 1 San Francisco and all of California have done, and wonderful results produced. pro-duced. Achievement today consists in doing something worth while, and letting let-ting the world know by advertising that you have done it. Have what the people want, then tell them you have it. California revolutionized the production produc-tion and distribution of fruits and vegetables, veg-etables, creating a gigantic demand, and supplying it. In the way of achievement, San Francisco Fran-cisco can point to Its steady growth, financial power and prosperity, its skyscrapers and its climate that no San Franciscan would exchange for anything between Heine's "lonesome pine tree" in the North and India's coral strand. No matter what else you may miss on this round, whirling globe, do not miss seeing San Francisco. Berlin has proved that it pays to try public ownership, even if you do not keep at it. Berlin's electric light and power companies, owned by the people, have been sold to private individuals, including American investors, for I $132,000,000. In addition the city gets $7,000,000 of the company's stock and one-half of its excess profits; that is, all profits above a normal return on the investment. That will seem rather bolshevistic to our private power companies at home. Think of paying for a public monopoly, then giving the citizens a share in the company, and half of the excess profits. That is worthy of Lenin and Stalin, at their worst. (, 1930, by King Fturs Syndicate. Inc.) If in search of encouraging thoughts, try this: In 1929 our "grecrt minds" assured us that the depression wouldn't last, everything would be going sweetly in the spring of 1930. They were wrong. Now some change from excessive optimism to excessive pessimism, predicting pre-dicting a long depression. Perhaps they are wrong again. Once wrong, twice wrong is often the rule. Right or wrong, the intelligent clti-sien clti-sien will not waste time wondering when the depression will end, but will get to work in the depression to end his part of it. Sometimes in a beautiful dream you own mountains of gold, fine ladles are playing the harp to entertain you, the world is at your feet. You wake up at seven, realizing that you must be at the office by eight. You don't say: "Put me back to sleep; give me back my dream." You get up, dress, put on your shoes, and do downtown. That's what everybody should do, put on his shoes, go to work, and never mind about the dream that was disturbed dis-turbed in October, 1929. This is a big country, plenty of room, plenty of sunshine, plenty of opportunity, oppor-tunity, too much of all the important things, from money to coal, sugar to oil, cotton to copper, and wheat. To pull success and independence out of depression all you need do is j work. You cannot, as Mr. S. Wertheim observes, "Talk yourself something in." "Disarmament is vital to the revival of business," said President Hoover to the International Chamber of Com- j merce, adding: "Of all proposals for I the economic rehabilitation of the world, I know of none which compares, in necessity or importance, with the successful results of general disarmament." disarma-ment." General disarmament, if feasible, and if those agreeing to It would act loyally, would save many billions a year. But who will disarm first? Why not let those begin disarmament who have started all the important International wars of a hundred years past. This country has never started one. Who will produce the one Idea? Reno, Nevada, has solved part of its problems, while the, rest of the world has talked, with a divorce idea. The divorces now average one every five minutes. Each represents six weeks of residence resi-dence by "liberal spenders." A man anxious to get rid of a wife is more liberal than he was at the start. Lawyers collect large fees, which rernain.jn Nevada, andwhile the six |