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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Belter Babies, Maybe Good Navy News When You Turn Over a Board Business Comes First In Germany the new broom is sweeping clean, with much new law making and sweeping away some tilings that win be missed later. The most recent announcement tells of a "Spartan eugenics cod" which is to produce better German babies. Fathers and mothers selected select-ed from the eugenic standpoint. Mothers are told to cease filling their brains with useless education and concentrate on producing fine German children. Modern Germany is to be inspired by the example of ancient Sparta. When a cowboy was offered oxtail ox-tail soup he said, '"That's going a long way back for soup." Going back to Sparta arid Draco is going a long way back for inspiration. in-spiration. Delicate children, according to the Nazi idea, are "not worth bothering both-ering with." To produce husky j"u"5 jci intuit, 15 ne great tmng That's going back to the red Indian In-dian who had a habit of killing any baby that was imperfect, Neither red Indians nor Spartans ever amounted to much in the world's hisi-.wv however. . Secretary Kwanson, of our Navy, determined that Uncle Sam's Navy shall be "second to none," promises to build airplanes "to the full complement." com-plement." Airplanes and submarines submar-ines will decide future wars. Floating Float-ing ships are airplane targets, except ex-cept fast cruisers, useful to destroy enemy floating commerce. Secretary Swanson should inspect plans of the l?.test military airboat built by the British, exhibited at the recent air pageant. The world's mort powerful airship, able to land and navigate on rough water, it is the fastest ever built, except actual racing craft. Our European friends, in their agitation over the President's message mes-sage on money, remind you of boyhood days when you turned over a board, looking for fish wuinia, ami an sorts oi queer creatures darted and scampered, annoyer by the sudden light. Small nations, hanging to the gold standard by their eyelids, realize re-alize that they must let go. France, more powerful, because of her hoard, almost equal to ours, is described de-scribed as "raging" and "in wondering won-dering amazement." The solidly important news, for America, comes from England. Prime Minister MacDonald told Senator Couzens, American delegate: dele-gate: "Cancellations are pouring into northern industrial England from aU over the world. These cancellations cancella-tions are coming because of the cheap American dollar." If those cancellations mean more orders for United States factories and farms and more work for U-nited U-nited States workers, we shall regret re-gret Britain's loss, but not regret our abandonment of the gold': standard. The British are business men first of all, and Russia seems to turn in that direction. Russia has released two British engineers locked up for sabotage after one of the English prisoners had confessed. confess-ed. The British Prime Minister and Soviet government representatives representa-tives are having friendly talks, and the two countries will resume "business "bus-iness as usual." Lord Beaverbrook, a Canadian, who owns the London Express and knows the British, says noth ing roll ever keep Britain from trading with Russia as long as Ru.'f-ia is able to buy. 'Why," says he, "we tral3 with cannibals." A busirfts expert says the words most c'tci spiLcd incorrectly in business men's secretaries and others oth-ers are the foUowing: "Procedure, lose, benefit, accomodate, accom-odate, adviser, occurrence, supersede, super-sede, principal, affect." Frequent mistakes are one "M" in accommodate; two "T's" inbene-fited; inbene-fited; occurrence spelled with an "A": supercede, spelled with a "C" in place of the second "S." Miss Hakes, the expert, says there are harder words, but they are looked up in the dictionary. In the average aver-age business office the words mentioned men-tioned would be misspelled at least half the time. It might interest inter-est you to try it. Senator Capper, who lives in Kansas when he isn't working in Wasshlngton and knows about farmers, predicts that a new better bet-ter business era is coming wi'.h our old and sacred "The devil take the hindmost" policy discarded. He sees the possibility of regulating regulat-ing and organizing Industry on a oasis that will protect and benefit the worker. The proposition to reorganize the cotton industry, with child labor la-bor forbidden, is encouraging. A National government able to reach out and take gold from hoarders, should know how to take child workers from heartless heart-less industrialists. Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Temper-ance Union, deploring the approaching ap-proaching repeal of prohibition, offers a plan. She will ask the W. C. T. U. to begin a strenuous campaign cam-paign for "voluntary abstin-iiicj from liquor." That is the best plan since it was shown that compulsory abstinence ab-stinence does not work. |