| Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK In the Age Ape of fo BillIOns Old Bill Did Dd Not KnoW More Know More Land What For If Suddenly Rich What Congress number seventy three goes home after appropriating for tor varle variegated spending bet between betseen cen six thousand eight hundred million and seven even thousand million dollars No congress contess c ever eter er appropriated so 60 much In peace times limes In addition to spending about seven thousand million dollars this congress guaranteed seven thousand millions more In home mortgages and farm tarm bonds and set up a two thousand millIon fund We are 11 living ising Ing In the era ern of ot lions Mons With congress gone home homo President dent Roosevelt Is lord of or all he sur surveys surveys vets veys nh h h Is no great change lIe He aas as pretty much that before the adjournment We have hate e no dictator In the United States and shall not have one unless something strange and unusual but the Pres dent has as much of ot a dictator dictators s Po poser er as he chooses to use Congress with unimportant ex- ex exceptions exceptions ex exceptions obeyed orders while In ses slon Sion and the country will look to the President now to Initiate and put through whatever er he chooses That situation probably does not suit him It Involves es great grent Old Bill dead In London was a ac c c pigeon lie He carried mes mes- messages mes- mes messages messages sages during the first year of ot the bIg war from British army and air forces In Prance France and Belgium back backI I to London and lost a leg Brought rought back to England by an Invalid sol iller he enjoyed life for many years and now has laudatory obituary notices In English papers Old Bill Ill flew lIew back and forth In Inthe Inthe Inthe the bigar big war sar and lost a leg lea without eter eer e er knowing kno Ing why hy by he was flying or why ho had to lose that leg But ut Old Old Bill was no more Ig Ignorant ignorant Ignorant than a majority of ot the aol filers over o whose who e e heads he flew on errands that he did not understand A member of or the British house or of commons suggests that falling cash payment we might accept some some- something something something thing In the way of territory The British will not give up any teal territory tory If It they can hold on to It whIch they can easily do In this case And apart from that what good would It do us to acquire more ter terrItory territory territory and have some foolish con congressman congressman gressman Insist on gl giving glIng Ing It a away wa 7 We could not possibly get from the BrItIsh anything as valuable as the Philippines and we are doln doing our nest oest to get rid of or them What hat would you do It If you sud suddenly suddenly suddenly denly found yourself quite rIch with a prospect of or easy easy riches to come Sir Mr Ir Max Mu Bier er new holder ot of the heavyweight hea prIze fighting prize prize fighting championship according to the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Evening Journal bought hIm himself himself self thirty 11 the Ove 0 new v suits of or clothes In In tan gray and pastel shades There There was a great crowd waling I I outside the tailor shop to cheer hIm and he wrote his autograph on a aone aone aone one dollar bill for a young girL fame rame Is a wonderful thing The young Count of Paris who might be Ling king of or Franco France It If the 1 French rench people suddenly lost theIr wIts believes that he so far as he knows a direct descendant of ot Hugh Capet will soon bo be called to the French throne lie He says sa s You You would be astonished If It you could know how hos ho n weary eary France Is of the present regime II The young pretender to the tho throne might be surprised If It he could know how weary France was of her kings before she got rid of ot them and how fortunate he Is that tho the common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense of ot the French will keep Leep him talking not reigning President Roosevelt In a letter sent to West irginia expresses satisfaction with the achievements ot of We We have hate spread employment we have raised pay and we are not through yet It Is a notable record of recovery ery It Ins led the way vay for other nations and has prod produced aced wide wide- widespread widespread widespread spread and I believe perm nent re-I re re- re re results suits Certainly we se e have hll a right to celebrate this anniversary annl Washington Singer whose father ather Invented a sewing machine left a fortune of ot In England where he raced hIs bis horses The British government takes an es estate tate duty of or about two million dol dollars dolLars dollars lars from the tho heirs At that rate It does not take long for vast fast ast ac accumulations accumulations accumulations to melt welt away aw y espo- espo as aa the bigger the tho estate the higher the percentage taken It Our government has borrowed the Idea made necessary by a strange fac faculty for spending developed by poll The big dan dangerous erous steel strike Is lafor for the time a averted alerted thinks to the Presidents President s also Iso unobtrusive e medIa and thanks especially to the wise advice adlee ad lee gh given ghen en to the men by WIlliam Groin Green president of or the th American Federation of or Labor 0 Co C hing I lne Features lyn llo t k Ino IDO 4 i |
