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Show National Topics Interpreted j by William Bruckart Washington. It now appears like-1 ly that the Eighteenth amendment will be out of Ponder Liquor the Constitution , Control thmWd?n0' ' December, and Its Imminent repeal baa set many of the wiser beads to thinking about control of liquor sales which thereafter there-after will be legal. It Is an Important Impor-tant problem; It is recognized as one that is exceedingly serious, and those who are really seeking to perform per-form the proper functions of public pub-lic office In state and nation seem to be moving in the right directions when they give consideration to ales control and to minimizing admitted ad-mitted dangers In legal liquor sales. The drys, of course, have not given up. They think they still can block repeal of the amendment There are only halt a dozen more states needed on the affirmative side of the proposition to get the amend ment out of the Constitution, however, how-ever, and whenever thirty-six states have expressed their views, It Is made to appear as unlikely that a last-ditch move by the drys will defeat de-feat the repeal program which President Pres-ident Roosevelt pledged In advance of his election. Dry leaders here In Washington have guarded their plans with the utmost secrecy. They will not dls close what they plan to do to hold up repeal. Undoubtedly, It will Include In-clude resort to court proceedings designed de-signed to prove that the votes already al-ready taken have been void on some technical ground. And I say it Is possible they may find such a basis, but Inquiries among nearly all of the recognized legal authorities have failed to disclose that any of them see how the drys can be successful In view of the reports from some dry quarters that the method of voting vot-ing will be attacked as Illegal, it might be of Interest to recall that United States District Judge Clark of New Jersey held a few years ago that the Eighteenth amendment never was In the Constitution at all He decided that since the states had voted through their legislatures rather than through conventions, the amendment never had been ratified. But the learned Judge was promptly overruled by the highest tribunal, which determined that the Constitution Consti-tution Itself gave congress the utmost ut-most freedom in choslng between the ratification of a Constitional amendment by legislatures or by the convention system. So it would seem, according to legal experts, that the drys have little hope In that direction. It is quite possible, of course, that some one or two of the states scheduled sched-uled to vote between now and mid- December may upset the applecart by voting for retention Instead of repeal, of the amendment. In which event, there would be delay. Government Gov-ernment officials tell me, however, that repeal is almost certain. So the question for consideration, then, obviously Is, "how will Its sale be controlled to avoid the old-time old-time saloon and Its attendant evils?" In this matter, the wets will go a long way with the drys In seeing that restrictions are thrown about the sale of liquor that will remove some of tiie curse that admittedly was tied up with the corner saloon. An Important wet leader told me that he wanted to prevent return of the saloon and Thumbs Down wanted to see on Saloon "om "sensible means' provided for distribution purely as a matter of long-range policy. If such action ac-tion Is not taken, he said, there will be another fight against prohibition staring the wets In the face at once. Since the wets want repeal, therefore, there-fore, they can be counted upon, generally gen-erally speaking, to propose as well as support, any system that will make for elimination of those embarrassing em-barrassing features of liquor sales that brought on prohibition la the first place. There are numerous schemes and systems under discussion. Thus far, none of them seems to have crystallized crys-tallized Into a program behind which majority of the strength ran be mustered. Having seen prohibition fights In numerous Instances In congress; con-gress; It appears that there Is likely to be much hauling and filling in the state legislatures on the questions centering around control. That statement, state-ment, however, must not be understood under-stood as applying to the real leaders on either side of the probllem. The small fry and the politicians who will want to feather their own nests ant the folks who are going to make enactment of control legislation difficult. diffi-cult. And while we are discussing prohibition pro-hibition repeal It may be reported that there has been a decided difference differ-ence of opinion as to bow It will become be-come operative. Some argument has been advanced that repeal will not be operative, even after thirty-six thirty-six states have ratified the new amendment, until the Department of State, here In Washington, Issues a proclamation to that effect Others have claimed that action by tfietsir- ty-eixtb stste automatically will relegate rel-egate the Eighteenth amendment Into the limbo of things that are gone but not forgotten. The Department of State, aware of a potential controversy, has made up Its ponderous mind, I am In formed. While officials say there Is no announcement to make at this time, the Information I get Is that the department has determined there must be a proclamation Issued when the necessary number of states have voted repeal. But It seems to be preparing to ward off trouble by an arrangement providing for the date of the proclamation to be the same as the day of the last vote. It appears, therefore, that when the last convention bas been held, a day or so will elapse before a certificate of Its action reaches Washington, and then the proclamation, pre viously drafted and signed, will be formally Issued. As a practical matter, of course, the country will know pretty well what It can or cannot do long before the last convention Is held, and prohibition pro-hibition repeal likely will be celebrated cele-brated before the machinery In the Department of State gets around to grinding. As the campaign to repeal prohi bition approaches an end, another campaign, backed "Buy Now" by the admlnls- Campaign On tratlon ana ,ed by Nit A, Is get- ting under way. Just now, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, is trying to get the country to buy, or those who still have money are being urged to "buy now." It Is st part of the general scheme to set commercial and Industrial Indus-trial wheels In motion, because if those millions who still have Jobs and who have been holding tightly onto their money will let loose of some of It for the things they need, there will be a big difference In the total sales In the country. It Is a fact beyond peradventure of a doubt that thousands of per sons, their confidence shaken, possibilities pos-sibilities of lost Jobs, funds tied up in closed banks and that sort of thing, have simply refused to buy their normal quantity of merchandise. merchan-dise. They have been denying them- selves many things which they ordinarily or-dinarily would buy, because of the uncertainty of the times. General Johnson is simply asking them to re turn to their normal ways of living. It Is not confined to the Individ ual consumer, this holding off from buying. Retailers have been run ning with Just as small a stock as they can, and Jobbers and whole salers have held down their inven tories to the minimum. The wait ing policy which the retailers, the Jobbers and the wholesalers have followed, necessarily has reacted on the manufacturer. General Johnson has a dual pur pose In bis "buy now campaign. He has been promising those businesses that sign the NItA codes that efforts would be made to encourage new business, or a revival of old busi ness, for them. Resides, It Is Imperative Im-perative to most of them that they obtain a greater volume of business. They cannot meet the needed ex pense of higher wages and other code costs unless something like old- time trade recurs. General Johnson Is trying to push the "buy now' campaign on that account as much as to force business upward. If business revives, of course, It means more Jobs, and more Jobs means restoration of prosperity. President Roosevelt's procram to buy farm surpluses of food for the country's poo Surplus Food and destitute la N1 probably abou the most popular thing he had attempted. I have heard little criticism around here. Most of tbi folks with whom I have talked have praised him for the move Just as vigorously as they crit icized him and Secretary Wallace, of the Department of Agriculture, when they announced their scheme to pay a premium for pigs and for sows about to farrow In order to force hog prices higher. A large part of the pork from that wholesale, whole-sale, and I believe ridiculous, slaughter slaugh-ter of pigs went Into fertilizer. It was the most wasteful thing that I have seen a government do. I believe be-lieve the consensus among observers here Is the same as my own. But the program of using that meat nd portions of the surplus wheat and cotton and dairy products and fruits, eta to relieve suffering, la quite a different matter. In the first instance, in-stance, everyone regards the latter course as human, a course that will do some good. The same can hardly be said of the former arrangement J despite the claims of the "brain trust" economists who argue that higher prlcea will prevail as a result of the plan. Present plans call for the use of about $T5,000,000 of federal money, funds contributed to the treasury by taxpayers of the nation, na-tion, in the purchase of the food and clothing materials. That ought to buy many meals in any language yon may speak, and food is food however It Is obtained. & III!. WMra Kmcpr Cnioa. Howe About: Moth and the Flame New York Men Question of Truth , tilt. Bell Syndicats. WNU Strvlc. By ED HOWE ANYONE who reads what I write will have to stand a good deal of repetition, so I ask Indulgence for saying again that old maxims have significance as representing the best wisdom there Is. Another virtue In maxims Is they are always well and simply written. A very old one tells of the dis position of a moth to hover around a candle, and get Its wings singed. There was once a man named Henry Holt who bad high Intellectual equipment and as much education as the best universities, and long association with the best people, could supply. lie was a book publisher, pub-lisher, with such rare critical taste that his firm was outstanding. He owned and edited a quarterly maga zine so excellent I have preserved nearly every Issue as an example of perhaps the best average writing ever displayed in a magazine. He wrote a good many of the articles himself, and ranked as one of the best American writers. But in every Issue of Unpopular Review there was an article (usu ally by Mr. Holt himself) about spiritualism. This hovering about a dangerous flame finally resulted In the failure of the best printed and best edited magazine la our long list and bad scars on the reputation of the brilliant editor. In the use of Ink, pen, type, here was a master comparable to Na- poleon Bonaparte In the use of guns, powder, soldiers, but Henry Holt could no more keep from hov ering around the flame of his most dangerous candle than Napoleon Bonaparte could keep away from Moscow In the early winter of 1S12. . A long time ago a New York man called on me, and requested that I Introduce him to William Jennings Bryan. A few minutes after the men met, the New Yorker said something that Infuriated Mr. Bry an, and he displayed a rage I did not know was in him. The encoun ter took place In the Bryan home In Miami, Fla. Before I was out of bed next morning, Mr. Bryan telephoned, tele-phoned, and apologized for so completely com-pletely losing his temper. His ex planation was that all New York men Infuriated him, they so gener ally believed themselves superior to others, because of their residence In the big town. I understand that the depression bas greatly chastened New Yorkers ; travelers Inform me they now display dis-play considerable respect for men from other sections. 1 once published a war story on the authority of a common soldier of 1862. At the time I wrote the former private had become a bank president, and an exceptionally In telligent and reliable man. The general In command denied the an thenticlty of the Incident outlined by the private, who, In his defense, said he witnessed it with his own eyes, heard with his own ears the conversation reported, and In person per-son participated In the charge de scribed. Was not the evidence of this witness worthy of considers tionT . . . In describing a famous ancient battle, a leader reported that a river left Its bed, and charged up-hill after a regiment of retreating retreat-ing soldiers. Had a hundred rell able common men participating in the same action declared no such marvel occurred, I believe the testimony tes-timony of the majority should have been considered with that of the leader who wrote a book. Spartans practiced health, effl clency, that they might become good soldiers; history tells some terrible cases of butchery practiced by them. Tiie Pennsylvania Dutch practice good habits that tiiey may become good citizens, and thus avoid war, poverty, drunkenness. Idleness, and other of the extravagances of civ ilization. In the upper middle class In the United States there are millions of men I admire more than any Spar tan. In cultivating good habits, the Spartans made too much of bravery as exhibited In fighting. The Penn sylvanla Dutch, and other citizens successful above the average, are not fanatical about any one thing, but try for a reasonable average In all good habits. Do you recall how the American people were forced to advance the money loaned to foreigners during the World war, and which the foreigners for-eigners now Impudently refuse to pay back? In hundreds of comma nlties the newspapers printed dally lists of those citizens who were slow Is producing money to be loaned abroad; the American who refused to make a loan to his foreign broth er was everywhere denounced by the nbble, and publicly insulted. . Some women do not believe it Is ladylike to get along cordially with men, and constantly engage in efforts ef-forts to keep them In their places. Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing yon the right to say anyung la re buttal. r overed Bridge Era Passing Requirementa of Modern Transportation Doom Pictur esque Old Structures So Long Landmarks in -Vermont; Many Date From Revolution. Well In the foreground of the rugged Bceuie beauty of Vermont are the covered bridges, which lead many roadways over turbulent streams and link the Green mountain past with modern transportation. Thousands of motorists who have passed through the state will remember the rumble from floor planks which echoed into the roofed spans, as they passed from sunshine Into gloom, then out again into the sunlight. These quaint structures often served as landmarks, some dating hack to days of the Revolutionary war. Previous to 1927 there were be tween 500 and (500 bridges of the cov ered type In Vermont The flood of that rear, however, destroyed more than half of them. Today there are only 240 remaining. Approximately fifty have been replaced with modern mod-ern structures during the last six years. , The Vermont department of high ways, being aware not only of the picturesque appeal of these ancient structures, but of the sentiment attached at-tached to them, bas shaped a policy to retain as many as practical from an engineering standpoint However Increasing volumes of travel and mounting traffic speed have necessitated necessi-tated the removal of some of these spans' especially those on main-line highways. Almost all of the covered bridges have exceptionally strong trusses, but the floor systems are usually too weak for heavy motor traffic, It has been reported In state-wide surveys. Often times new floor systems may be installed without great expendi ture, It has been found, but the chief locations of serious disintegration are at the ends of the structures. where wood supports have been In .a""" 5 . w f t i-- - a ft vt r St ftrtM Gmm-Dlpp4 Jlni f "rutM at a ! wrt'f.f?r Camt -SiWgr - j h - V lc!?vH till jIya?-; V? A- GO TO YOUR LOCA, FIRESTONE WToTLm TODAY BEFORE contact with earth. In a number, of cases. It has been discovered, that disintegration bas progressed to such an extent that the bridges must be rebuilt These structures are, of course, very old and as time goes on more and more of them will become unsound. The principal reason stressed for the replacing with modern, cpen structures Is the guarding of traffic safety. The old bridges were built during times when traffic was light and slow In almost every instance they were constructed at right angles to the streams which they crossed, with the result that dangerous, sharp-angle turns existed at eacb end of the structures. This, togetb er with the fact they were narrow and often low arched, made many unfit to meet the requirements of modern travel. Pride In these covered bridges has become deep rooted in the state, how ever, ant when safety requirements are fulfilled the spans are not re-placed re-placed unless the expense connected with necessary repairs or maintenance mainte-nance becomes prohibitive or loca tion or design cause traffic hazards which cannot be remedied. An Important move toward the preservation of the bridges was made by the Vermont legislative assembly this year, when a law was enacted which specified that the state might pay two-thirds the cost of maintenance mainte-nance on state aid roads. Although there Is distinctive attractiveness at-tractiveness to the covered bridges, traffic experts now declare that their days are numbered. According to unofficial figures motor travel In Vermont Ver-mont this year bas established a new peak, and an increasing interest bas been evinced by motor vacationists EI. IF EHE """'UwhiibwiVJ P3 GIVE 58 GREATER PROTECTION vVER six million people have seen the Extra patented Firestone construction features of Gum-Dipping and Two Extra Gum-Dipped Cord Plies Under the Tread at "A Century of Progress." These millions know nou more than ever before why Firestone Tires hold all world records, on road and track, for Safety, Speed, Mileage, and Endurance. If you have not seen how Firestone Tires are made if you do not know what is under the tread of a tire Let your nearest Firestone dealer show you the Extra Strength Extra Safety Longer Mileage and Greater Blowout Protection built into Firestone Gum -Dipped rA i urea. 1 You are this fall ' i 4 t EVERY FIBER IH EVERY CORD IN EVERY PLY IS BLOWOUT PROTECTED BY GUM-DIPPING art .-. w- I -i throughout the nation to tour the Green mountain territory. With these facts It- mind, road builders have asserted as-serted that In order to meet ever-mounting ever-mounting traffic conditions, main line covered bridges will have to be replaced re-placed In the futile. Yet there will bf a great many on secondary and town roads which will continue to support traffic and which will be preserved pre-served as long as possible. However, as no covered wooden bridges are now being built, there will come a day when these types of structures will become extinct as far as Vermont Ver-mont Is concerned. 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