| Show p Prevailing rev a i I i n g 0 Opinions pin ion s Comment of the American Press Pross Odorless Onions Scientists of the agricultural college experiment stations ns have succeeded in developing what they call an odorless cabbage It Jt Is not really odorless The aroma of odorless cabbage boilIng boiling boil boil- ing tag with corned beef for the janitors janitor's dinner still sUll furnishes sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- aroma to penetrate all the halls in a a story six-story apartment building But as compared with good old rough-and-ready rough cabbage cabbage cabbage cab cab- bage of ot days the odorless odorless odorless odor odor- less is Is' Is mild Now the onion anion breath is to be subjected to analysis Apparently Apparent Apparent- ly the experimental onion work undertaken at Cornell university is is a a up follow-up on researches of a aGerman aGerman aGerman German professor Germans are aro painstaking about experimental work In an effort to find out what and why is the smell of the onion a German chemist distilled more than a ton of onions and got less than a tenth of at a pint of essential onion oil all About all that he learned was that if you boll down downa a ton of at onions and save all the smell you get something pretty fierce Now the Cornell professors rs are making tests to determine what kinds of soil soli and elements in each cach soil are responsible for strong onions They haven't found out much yet but they expect ex cx to determine methods to enable enable en en- able farmers to grow onions of any desirable scent voltage It Isa Isa is isa a a worthy undertaking g anyway Detroit News Wow Dog food lood production In the the United States according to a writer in the Review of ot Reviews runs runs runs' to a year He points out that this is approximately approximately approximately equal to the entire silver production of the United States Alaska and the Philippines forthe for forthe forthe the whole year five period 1928 1923 1932 He Is JI correct as to the slIver silver production for the five years he takes If It he had bad taken the silver output for the five years up to and including 1933 it would have fallen short of the dog food output by nearly Yet the government n is not buyIng buyIng buy- buy Ing lag dog food at an Inflated price and storing It away in the cellars of the treasury building The government has not by a price price- boosting policy polley cornered the dog food market so 80 that the ch chows ws of China and the chihuahuas of Mexico are suffering as ns they search for tor old bones What the bowwows does this mean Why is the government gov gov- D neglectful o the of wel wel- fare and happiness of the dog food producers and the dog food producing states Easy my friend The dog food tood industry has no senators San San Francisco Chronicle Calls It Impossible John Hays Hammond Jr Is Isone isone one informed man who docs does not tremble when he reads the re recurring recurring recurring re- re stories of death ray in inventions inventions inventions' in- in which are arc to make wars more horrible After reading In Liberty magazine magazine magazine maga maga- zine that German scientists have I perfected a ray which can m melt lt steel fortifications and level cities Mr Hammond refuses to be wor wor- ried ned It is the same old story he says ays The Tho report has bas been cropping cropping cropping crop crop- ping up like the seven years years' plague every few years and even before the World war There is not enough energy available to transmit through the ether and if If It there should be b mechanism of the airplane or other object to be attacked could easily bo be shielded It is one of those unscientific stories that keep cropping up As Mr Hammond is one of the nations nation's leading authorities on such matters there Is real backIng back- back In Ing mc to o the hope that he is right War Var ha has given civilization poison poison poison poi poi- poi poi- son gas and terrific explosives There may be some little encouragement in the thought that what would seem to be be- bethe the next step is impossible Oakland Tribune The Wrong Moses On the sternly practical side of ot third party politics all aU that a new grouping of Democrats could achieve w would uld be a a. split hl h would favor the tho Republican n cam cam- It is probable of urse co course that many old line Democrats some of whom have never bolted a ticket will not follow Roosevelt in 1936 if It as as' as seems certain he is 13 again the nominee ee But they are not third party D Democrats To them it seems a little absurd to vision Mr Hearst as a Moose with the route map for tor the trails out of the liberal Democratic wilderness in which the disturbed conservative Democrats find themselves wandering Dallas N News Dangers of Censorship If It we may judge by reports In Inthe Inthe inthe the German Press organ orga of the newspaper profession in that country the government should have consulted German n psychologists before undertaking press press censorship The result of ot the attempted control of news hews W we are aro told has baa been ee een to o multiply a tho thousand sand fold the circulation of ot word of mouth rumor and gossip The authority quoted neglects t to enlighten us as to nature of the matter dealt in by this oral press service but that easily may be left to the imagination If the gossip were favorable to the alms aims and methods of Hitlerism It would not be gossip Intelligent public opinion demands de demands de de- mands truthful news but where this is denied it will wUl take avidly to th the next best substitute If we kno know anything about gossip the censoring regime in Germany has not g gained much by its IUs censor censor- ship Detroit lt News Billions for Veterans We Va are now spending about a billion dollars a year for veterans of ot all wars or about 1 of every 4 S' in the governments government's normal budget At the current rate of ot progression In 10 years or so we shall be spending about two billions billions bil bU- bil- bil lions Hons annually and as ns the veterans get older a greater sum than that Even the e richest country in the world cannot survive exactions like that It lilt is our history says the Springfield Republican that war veter veterans ns get what they de demand demand demand de- de mand sooner or That Is Isan Isan isan an incontrovertible statement It has hns been so in the tho past But it cannot be so in the future unless unless un un- tin tin- less the country turns over its asse assets s to the veterans' veterans lobby Jobby and nd retires into St. bankruptcy St Louis Post Sometimes in Dissent The Fhe Chronicle has not thought Jt Jl necessary to agree with everything everything everything every every- thing the Roosevelt Jion Ion has done It is very much at It odds with some somo of the measures placed on the statute books Many Texans are arc in exactly in-exactly exactly the same same- situation but that thal will not deter them from re recognizing the vast services to the nation which the Roosevelt administration has given Now we have a vast public works program under wa way de designed designed designed de- de signed to give every unemployed person persona a a job and priming the pump of private business and we weare weare weare are committed to a drastic neutrality neutrality neutrality neu neu- program Intended to keep us out of foreign conflicts That some of f these efforts will fall tall short of success that some ome are open to criticism at various points goes without saying but surely no fair minded man can review this record of stupendous effort and activity this striking out on so 80 mapy lines for the benefit benefit bene bene- fit of the nation and nd Its Ib people without a a. considerable feeling of at AW Houston Chronicle Chronic j |
