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Show unfamiliar with that tongue might think that Mr. C, urley wag through and ready to depart in a hurry, whereas he is very much inclined to stay and put up a stiff fight for re-election as mayor of Boston. The well known words "way down the Swanee River", carefully considered must leave a foreigner in a confused stats of mind. How is one going to be away, up, down and on, all at the same time? Everybody knows about that home on the range, "where the skies are not cloudy all day". Are they cloudy every day perhaps, but for a part of the day only, or does day after day pass without a cloud in the sky? Every- thing considered, however, we get along fairly well with English, and shall not have to learn German or French In order to get by. Besides, what would the courts do If everything every-thing which was spoken or written wer capable of but one interpretation? interpreta-tion? The people of Russia are warned warn-ed that Germany and Japan are ready rea-dy to sciaa Soviet territory, and the King of Rumania does something that is said to be a snub to Italy and Germany. We have our troubles to be sure, but they are all In the family and can be patched up. Canada Cana-da Is Just a country to the north and Mexico a country to the south. We are neither suspicious nor suspected. sus-pected. It Is worth something after all to be living on this side of the Atlantic. Harping on an old subject Is not Interesting, but It Is to be wondered whether the nations of Europe would have time to be planning plan-ning future wars if they were genuinely genu-inely and sincerely busied In an effort ef-fort to wipe out some of those debts represented by the twenty year old papei that Uncle Sam holds. Current Comment It seems as though Congress had no more than begun Its work, yet speculation as to the date of adjournment ad-journment already has arisen. There Is nothing out of the way in that, since anyone, at the inception of a job, naturally wonders when it will be completed. If Speaker Bankhead Is correct, and he ought to know, an early adjournment is out of the question. He even goes so far as to state that the legislators may be here when cold weather rolls around again. Perhaps the hardest nut that Con-gresi Con-gresi will have to crack Is what, If anything, is to be done, with the Supreme Court. Hearings on that ' subject will begin before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the 9th of March. Hearings of themselves take up a great deal of time, to whlcn Is to be added the period consumed by floor debate, possibly prolonged at the end by a filibuster. It Is reasonably rea-sonably safe to assume that the warmth of a June day will be here before it is settled definitely whether wheth-er the court is to be augmented continued as is, or modified along the lines of a middle course, the last-mentioned expedient, by the way, being something for which White House support at present seems lacking. Half a billion dollars a year comes In by way of what are commonly called nuisance taxes. Nobody likes them, but the government is slow about throwing over Its shoulder that much painlessly collected revenue. re-venue. The nuisance taxes will die a natural death shortly, unless re-enacted. re-enacted. The stand that the federal government will take with respect to the provision and distribution of power will have to be settled. Crop insurance and aid for farm tenants need attention: and it there is anything lacking to point out to Congress how it can earn its pay, there Is the matter included under the broad head of reorganlzating the government Such are believed to be the subjects that the White House would like taken up by Con-gresi, Con-gresi, and If that body really wipes the slate clean of all that has been written upon It tentatively, Mr. Bankhead may not be mistaken In his surmise that the falling of the yet unsprouted leaves will find the legislators still looking forward to a holiday. The papers say that the former Governor of Massachusetts is going to run, an item of no great general interest, aside from the fact that it indicates the flexibility and mystery of the English language. A person ( |