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Show strictly up to date, but when they got ready to move on ancient an-cient Rome It was all off with the Caesars. Japan seems to be able to have her way with China, but the future may make it plain that what now looks like safe aggressive ag-gressive conquest really amounts to the dangerous practice known as monkeying with the buzi saw. Notwithstanding the fact that the Families of Miss Dupont and young Mr. Roosevelt do not pull well together tn the same harness, according to common report, the persons mentioned got married a few weeks ago, and enough time has passed for the general public to forget the matter. The noble army of prophets of disaster have made a careful note of the circumstances, cir-cumstances, however, and if all does not happen to go well, a year, five years or ten, will not be too long to wait so say: "I told you so." r faction when thtT name of Mr. Barkley was first suggested, because be-cause it was alleged that he had been selected by the White House before the Senate had a chance to make Its own choice: but the President's prompt dental of any intention to dictate smoothed the way for the selection of Mr. Bark-ley Bark-ley as leader of the Senate Democrats. Demo-crats. Over In Oermany a man gets three months In Jail for criticizing critici-zing Mr. Hitler adversely. Taking former President Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt together, If we had laws similar to those of the Fatherland, Father-land, there would be nobody left to put everybody In the Jug. Miss Earhart has been taken off the front pages of the papers and It is highly probable that she will be seen no more until the great day the sea gives up its dead. As an aftermath of the disaster, dis-aster, there is talk about the a-mount a-mount of money spent In an attempt at-tempt to resuce her. Outside of condemnation, those who do their best and fail, get little or no at- tentlon, as a general rule. Regardless Re-gardless of whether or not Miss Earhart acted wisely, did those things which she ought not to have done, or left undone those things which she should have done, it is refreshing to note that the world departed from its usual custom and accorded such recognition recog-nition as it could to a courageous if not altogether successful endeavor. en-deavor. Japan and China are at It a-galn. a-galn. The'r differences have been so numerous and of so frequent occurrence that perhaps It would be more correct to state that they are "still at It. China has been a little slow in getting into action, but if her large population is taken tak-en into consideration, one cannot escape the conclusion that when she reaches the point where she can cut loose, there will be something some-thing doing. The tribes in the forests for-ests of middle Europe were not CURRlf COMMMENT Although the ordinary run of mine work la going forward in Congress, that body of late has been chiefly concerned with two problems, both of which have received re-ceived intensive attention. Perhaps Per-haps of first importance to the country at large, and certainly of first importance to the peace and quiet of the legislators, was dis- j posing of the Supreme Court bill, which has been creating some unpleasant un-pleasant divisions, both general and intra-party. No final agreement agree-ment has been reached, but latest la-test advices indicate that court legislation proposed up to the present time, does not exactly answer the purpose. There will come a sense of relief when the Court matter is out of the way, one way or the other, although that Is not exactly the attitude which should be taken by the intelligent in-telligent citizen having the common com-mon welfare at heart. Next to the Court bill in interest was the picking pick-ing of a new senate leader to succeed the late Joseph T. Robinson, Robin-son, lamented alike by those of his party and those of a different political cast. Senators Pat Harrison Har-rison and Alben Barkley ran an even race, Mr. Barkley pulling out ahead by a margin of one vote.. There was a little dissatls- - 1 |