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Show MISBANEl THIS WEEK Such Fears, Such Worries Tlie President Sueeeetled Jlan Prosaic, Woman Soars A Bandit Face Lifted The government once kept out of nil business, now It runs every business, Including farming. Senator Bailey of North Carolina says of the liankhead cotton 1)111 limiting crops: "If the Supreme' court passes that, 1 should know the end of all things had come in America, and I shall prepare pre-pare for the Socialistic regime and dictatorship." However, facts count. American farmers In UKiM received In cash $3,-! $3,-! 271.000,000, an Increase of $1,15S,000,-000 $1,15S,000,-000 over 1982. Much oratory and Socialism So-cialism would be needed to wipe out g fact like that. This increase of more than a billion bil-lion Included cash of Innocent taxpayers, taxpay-ers, paid by the government to farmers farm-ers for plowing under crops instead of letting them grow. But, farmers are not particular about how they get It, If they can get It honestly. Austria, a little country, whittled down by the Versailles treaty, managed man-aged by Oollfuss, of size to match, now is planning "muzzling" of speech, press, theater, radio. That kind of gov-i gov-i eminent action leads to revolution, as surely as sitting on the safety valve leads to explosion. Men not allowed to talk, print or broadcast will do something worse, and you can't prevent pre-vent that. This country shows an occasional disposition to muzzle something, radio being the object of a muzzling desire Just now. Radio should be as free as the printing print-ing press. If radio had existed when our Constitution was written, its freedom free-dom would have been guaranteed, as freedom of the press was guaranteed, perhaps more emphatically. Thanks to President Roosevelt, and the wise attitude of employers and employed, the automobile strike that would have taken millions a day In wages from the workers is adjusted. The President has set up a "board of conciliation"; one labor man, one representative rep-resentative of employers, one "neu-: "neu-: tral." The main point is the statement that "the decision of the board shall be final and binding on employers and employees." That means compulsory arbitration In place of disastrous strikes and Inevitable violence. Credit Is due to the President for I tactful management, and Mr. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, not boasting of victory, as less sensible men would do. says: "There is no basis for a claim that either side, employers or employees, has gained a victory over the other." Man's inclination is to follow the rut. Woman craves independence. Adam would have been satisfied with doing nothing forever. Eve would eat the apple. Dr. Mary Walker would wear men's clothes. She once called on this writer while wearing them, and the sight was startling. Now, when you see fat ladies waddling In purple combination pajamas and "pants," you long for thin Dr. Mary Walker, with tight trousers, cutaway coat and stovepipe hat. The latest cry of independence Is t protest against the hair-dressing nuisance. nui-sance. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, married mar-ried four times, who knows her mind, announces a "one-woman revolt" ; she has shaved her head and will wear wigs, any color she likes. Says she: "Tills hair-dressing business has become be-come a racket. They get a woman In. give her a shampoo and a wave, and for the rest of her life she is their slave." I Ordinary crime, and supercrime. which Is war, adopt swiftly modern i Ideas and inventions. War seized on f the airplane and poison gases. We might not yet be flying In earnest had planes not been needed for killing. Dillinger, the bandit now at large, his hand broken up, two sentenced to denth, a third to life Imprisonment, Is said by police to have had his face "lifted," changed In various ways, by plastic surgery, a mole and a deep scar taken from his chin. Police show hertuty parlor receipted hills found in Dllllingcr's abandoned lodgings. Mussolini held an election recently, the businesslike idea being to let voters vot-ers vote patriotically "in their own tiiiii'," nut interfering with work. It ws a plebiscite, the opinion of the people was desired, and Mussolini simplified sim-plified matters by writing out the program pro-gram as he wanted it, pntling no other Program on the ballot, thus saving ink "Hi paper. Ills judgment was sound. ut of 1(,(K),W)0 votes, he got about I 8,!HX),nw), showing "a machine In good working order." ! Some dethroned bosses in this conn-! conn-! tl7, Democrats and Republicans. ! elmkl sit at the feet of the Mus- ElhH Gamaliel for a while. They Would learn something. t- ' ' ' " . Dr., Walter Williams,' University of I Missouri president, head of one of the v ttost ably managed schools of jour-? jour-? inlism, back from a trip around the 1V01'ld, says, "War, anywhere, is a Ions W!S' off. No responsible statesman o! V I 8n" country wants it, and the peoph I of most countries are warsick." Jt . King Features Syndicate, Iu. W.NU Servl |