Show I r p e y L Opinions ion s I Comment o 1 of f the he Am American a Press ps Huey Long Wealth Sharer Huey P. P Long U. U S. S senator de facto head of ot the Louisiana state government grand master of the national wealth share-our-wealth movement and last and last but not least counsel extraordinary to the Louisiana state tax commission is letting no grass grow under his feet in his named last-named ca ca- ca Dispatches from the Delta say he already has begun beun legal action to collect in back taxes from tram the three lumber firms which happen to bo ho first on his list in a campaign to purge Louisiana Louisi Louisi- ana of tax dodgers Other corporations corporations corporations corpo corpo- rations and individuals will re receIve receive re- re his attentions later for his field of operations includes the entire tax roll of at the tho last three years while his diligence is in insured insured insured in- in by the thoughtful provision of a private contract with the tax commission which will give him third one-third of ot all aU moneys collected Under the beneficent auspices of ot this contract Senator Long should confound In short order o the critics who have held his wealth share-our-wealth scheme to be im im- practical The senator is getting his share while the getting still is good good Detroit News Memorials Memorial Where They Belong We Ve heartily favor the decentralization decentralization of our historical and cultural Interests which happily is being heing accomplished through local pride and zeaL All AU over the country there are being es established established es- es memorials of at the American past With the coming coming com com- ing hug of the automobile these memorials memorials me rae- are available for the in instruction instruction instruction in- in and inspiration of a large and increasing number of ot Americans and their influence is unifying The Tho events and persons persons persons per per- sons that have made our history history history his his- tory are arc not in any center but scattered all over the land We Ve should preserve their memories where they were born where thc they are most significant and appealing Our attempts at pantheons are dismal affairs and cannot inspire the deep emotion we feel fecI at some humble shrine or modest monument in the scene associated with an event or personality personality personality per per- that made his history or or stands for tor something cherished In Inthe Inthe Inthe the nations nation's memory Let us have in our great centers centers cen cen- tens our memorials of or the men and women whose lives have enriched enriched en en- riched the nation and of at great events that have been significant in our national progress The great centers need them them perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps more than the small places But our main service in preserving preserving ing the lessons and inspirations of Americas America's past must be where they sprang sprang Chicago Chicago Tribune ping Doesn't Pay While George Georgc Weyerhaeuser abducted in Tacoma was being held by kidnapers for tor a ransom J. J Edgar Hoover ace man G-man announced that federal agents had recovered of the more than paid in ransom money in about half halt halfa a n dozen cases in which they had hadi Interested themselves 3 The largest ransoms paid up to the time of ot Mr Hoovers Hoover's announcement announcement an an- were each eachin in the Urschel and Bremer cases Of the Urschel ransom the agents had recovered although In the Bremer case they had succeeded succeeded suc sue in finding less than Altogether the men G had taken nearly 50 per cent out of the tho profits from these kidnap- kidnap Ings ing's in addition to capturing and indicting the tho principals At that rate it looks as If kid kid- naping paid no better than any other major crime on the cal cal- New New York Herald Trib une The Primrose Path It is no secret that the presidents president's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's ability to obtain from congress congress con con- gress unprecedented sums to spend as he chooses derives primarily manly marily from the publics public's readiness readiness readiness readi readi- ness to be sprayed refreshingly with funds which it has not earned Expenditure of income by a n nation or an individual may be regarded as a normal process even though it be done unwisely Expenditure of at credit on top of income is a different matter By that process future earning power is hypothecated distrust is engendered engendered engendered en en- gendered a and n d discouragement slows down or destroys destros effort and enterprise The most nearly neary accurate measure measure mea inca sure of what has been accomplished accomplished accomplished by the administrations administration's policy of converting the nation into a vast Christmas tree consists consists consists con con- of at the persons now on relief plus the manifest weakening weakening weakening weak weak- ening of the moral fiber of mil mu- lions Hons We Ve have for our heritage a marvelous country won for us b by the pioneers through decades of or struggle and hardship We Ve profess to do them honor whilo while demanding for ourselves easy lives We Ve arc are encouraged to tal take cand e c and maintain that attitude when we behold billions in cash cascading cascading cascading cas cas- cading from tho national treasury for the satisfaction of individuals So why work and why worry That is the spirit which is spreading through the land in disconcerting fashion What will follow when the administration is forced to replace the bung of ot the national treasury lest the national credit be exhausted The great minds in Washington Va must change their methods wisely wisely wisely wise wise- ly and soon in ways to reassure and stimulate the nations nation's productive productive productive pro pro- forces If those minds are areto areto areto to avoid a rude interruption to their pleasant reveries on the sweets of popularity and power Chicago Daily News The Tha King as a Husband In his recent address to parliament parlia parlia- ment meat King George referred to Queen Mary not as the queen but butas as my dear wife ICe I have been blessed he sa said d these five and twenty years by having my ray dear wife beside me King George is not alone the dutiful husband but the one At the recent air force torce dinner dinner din din- ner ncr to the king he was served with some fine tine strawberries from South Africa Calling the head headwaiter headwaiter waiter waller he asked ked if it he might have another order to take home to the tho queen She enjo enjoys s 's these special treats he said in explanation Such little human traits have deep deeply strengthened the hold the royal pair have on the affections of ot the people Boston Boston Post j |