Show r- r P i I i C O Opinions pi i I I I I I i e v va a I n g P I n IO o n s I Comment of the American Press Iress Parasite Pension Abuses The collapse of Jf all branches of ot the tho government in the effort eUort to reform the system of ot veterans veterans' pensions and allowances is com coin It staggers th the Imagination imagination imagination nation to attempt a a. financial estimate of the effects after-effects of another major war warin warn in v veterans veterans' t tans tans' benefits and payments Congress has within the p pst past t. t few tew months month surrendered utterly on the bonus which was fought off oft for lor a while only by an executive veto and now this Spanish War Veterans Bill BUl which e embraces in braces braces' In principle every possibility for the tho pension familiar in an earlier generation eases the way for tor continuous raids on the treasury by the soldiers soldiers' lobby in th the future Springfield Springfield Re Republican Business Leadership Indices o pf of every character character- swelling sales les totals increased credit and the resistance of se security as- as prices to the depressing Influence in- in fluence of ot govern governmental uncertainty point point to the fact that busIness business bus bus- iness Iness- is straining at its bonds ready rendy and eager ager to start the upward upward upward up- up ward climb The progress that has been recorded re re recorded corded during the past two years year with governmental aid w will ll b be small In comparison with the upward tip up p- p ward bulge that will be witnessed I soon Atlanta n. Atlanta Constitution Law Lew of the Jungle Baron Pompeo Alois Aloisi speaking for Mussolini states bluntly what Ethiopian program Includes in includes In- In Italy must protect its African colonies against a wild and dangerous dangerous dan dan- gero s nation atlon by disarming it Italy must expand its colonies as Great Britain and France have done Italy is sorely In need of ot raw materials and must develop her own supplies Well theres there's no pious humbug or beating ar around und the bush about that Its It's ns Just the law Jaw of ot the jungle stated absolute candor Ot Ottawa wa Journal Conservative Ag Agriculture American agriculture I la not radical It Is definitely It is 15 capitalist It i is la for private ownership It is normally cautious In the matter pf ot debt But I it is a large part of ot our total national population It is a large Jarge part of of the total market mark t. t for all our industrial goods good If it be not prosperous it cannot buy goods and that means mean prostration prostration pros pros- t to industry and joblessness jobless jobless- nets ness to men To tell the city consumer consumer con con- sumer Bumer that his interest will be served by preventing the tho farmer from getting such a price for his crops as will wilt enable him to prosper prosper prosper pros pros- per reasonably is to tell the city consumer something that tha simply Is 13 not so Des Des Moines Register Stopping Italy There is no n need ed to restate familiar points The pressure England and France both feel feci to preserve the that League League that is prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent Italy's quitting the pressure pressure France is under the friendship friendship friendship friend- friend ship of Mussolini in an unsettled Europe the determination of ot Rome to have what it wants from Crom EthiopIa whether by formal war or general agreement plus necessary necel sary measures for executing that agreement The upshot is that there is no reason now how to suppose that she will be balked The machinery to facilitate and to hallow the grab is now in readi- readi ness Baltimore Baltimore Sun Nuisance Drivers Amon Among the many persons who give us thoi pip is the man who finding a email space e in a procession sion ion of cars turns urns from a side street or r alley into a main thoroughfare thoroughfare thoroughfare thor thor- i directly in front of us causing us to step hard on the brake to avoid hitting him and then as if amazed at his own temerity drives for tor two blocks at 12 miles an nn an hour in the middle of the str street t until a 4 chorus of horns horn behind him startles him Into greater speed eed or induces him to yield the right of oC way There appears t to be no law to check this nuisance As the police say say H He H pays taxes same same as you and Is therefore re entitled to drive as li he pleases s so long as he violates no written no-written written statute or ordinance It might relieve us a a. little if It we thought this fellow was In a hurry to get somewhere d somewhere driving driving to afire a afire afire fire 83 as th the the- police polke Ironically as assume as- as sume so often But ha having vin gained his position in the middle of the ln main in line of ot traffic he appears to forget his erran errand i any and acts as s if it he were ere merely driving for Cor the sake zake of exercising his motor He is Is' merely one of those people peo peo- pl pie whose mental p processes we can to understand De De Detroit troit News ew Gomp Competing With Japan Japan Tapan is making inroads on our trade trado in hi South America for several sev sev- sev- sev eral reasons two of which arc cheap industrial labor and nd a consistent consistent consistent con con- foreign policy We Vc cannot cannot cannot can can- not hope to compete with Japan in the labor market markot but we could at least adopt a sensible and consistent con con- t foreign commercial pol pol- icy Secretary Hull is trying to todo todo todo do that but he will will-not will not get far as ns long as there Is Insistence On high tariff walls and nd an economy of scarcity as a means of holding up domestic prices We must a adopt opt the ideas of ot Hull or see Bee Japan and nd the European countries countries coun coun- tries divide of our Latin Latin- American n neighbors i Dallas Dalla News A AS uth Carolina Protest With the justices of the su supreme au- au preme court determined to U live Uby by their oaths and support th the constitution day by day it becomes evident to the new deal that It cannot be saved without radical amendment if it not virtual destruction of the constitution Hence arrangements arrangement are being q quietly made to pitch the new deal deal or or- Roosevelt campaign of of ot 1936 on constitutional amendment and that seemingly Is the logic logical l land and inevitable course for the new dealers to purs pursue e eIf ei If It these worthy g gentlemen shall succeed in realizing their plans the South Carolinians will in two or three years no longer the United States There will be beno beno beno no United Stales States They will live in the thc United State Charleston News and Courier The States and Commerce The Times Dispatch is no blind and unreasoning devotee to states' states rig rights ts for it it- recognizes that our complex industrial civilization re requires requires requires re- re quires a measure of ot federal control control control con con- which was not needed in the time of the founding fathers when ours was a simple agrarian economy But neither does this newspaper desire the virtual obliteration obliteration obliteration ob ob- ob- ob of oC the states states' Rich Rich Richmond mond Times BARBS According to a a news news 1 ws item an Austrian model living by standing nd d doing ln ing ab absolutely absolutely nothing A congressman moves aroUnd ro l V Mary had a a ittle t lamb m and it nearly broke the fellow who took her to lunch During her recent throat t operation operation opera opera- tion lion Curci GaUl-Curci sang A dispatch describing a similar operation on Hitler failed to mention wf what viat it i idid h he he dictated did but he presumably With Malta In the center of ot the African trouble Dora looks i for foran foran r ran an Increase In the the price of ot her malta milk Young Ethiopian women wear veils so 80 their young men cant can't see lee their faces until after marriage marriage Women In other nations use co cps cps- That bill permitting liquor tobe tobe to tobe be handled bandied in barrels failed to pass pus A similar bill bUr dealing with wilh pop w V o 0 u 1 d d undoubtedly be umpire lobby squelched by an n A nature I item reveals eals that no living Jiving species of birds have teeth No longer lancer is the blue eagle an ex ex- d Copyright 1935 1035 NEA Service Inc |