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I Li Prevailing Opinions j Comment of the American Press I i I Italy Importer Of Ot the more moie important countries coun oun- tries of ot Europe few arc are so su susceptible sus susceptible sus- sus as Italy to tHe tho pressure of an economic b boycott Particularly Particularly lady is that country dependent on imports for the materials most for maintenance during a period of warfare Regularly Italy's Imports exceed ex ex- ce d exports exports- in such essential com commodities as live livo animals meat animal l and vegetable oils oUs eggs sugar cotton wool iron and steel copper heavy machinery mineral oils medicines and pharmaceutical phar phar- Of these the materials materials' counted most necessary necessary necessary essary for preparation of means of ot modern warfare such as iron and steel copper oil coal animal foodstuffs and oils oUs Italy imports heavily Of the ten leading countries with which the principal commercial commercial commer commer- cial relations of ot Italy are arc maintained maintained main main- tamed the United States Great Britain Germany CzechoSlovakia Slova Czecho-Slova- kia and Austria all aU sell more than they buy in their I commerce with Italy These facts however by no means menns prove that Italy cannot carry out a a. purpose to make war on Ethiopia without the consent of ot the nations named The rhe present present pres pres- ent complications have not devel developed developed overnight and Mussolini doubtless has bas undertaken to have on hand necessary supplies s' s measured measured measured mea mea- by the length of ot time he thinks will be required to get what he wants in Ethiopia San San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco o Chronicle I Within the tho Budget The most interesting feature of ot Secretary effort to explain away vay the increase in the current budgetary deficit is the fact that he ho thought fit to offer a a defense of ot the administrations administration's spending program His evident desire to minimize the he size of ot the tho deficit Is significant even though the exposition n is far from con con- Mr points out for instance that the d deficit for the two months months' period ts is below be be- low the presidents president's budgetary esti esti- mates But if it that fact carries reassurance confidence in our fiscal future could be engendered v very ry easily by simply increasing budgetary estimates without re regard regard regard re- re gard to needs The further assertion that 25 of ot the deficit represents recoverable loans Joans is highly optimistic optimistic in view of the fact that liberal advances ma made e by the Commodity Credit corporation arc arc virtually certain to result in con con- losses Nev Nevertheless itis it I is cause for that that Secretary au U SI giving Iving some thought to the Impression produced by the steady rise in the tho deficit Eventually he may actually actually actu actu- ally any attempt to harmonize expenditure cx- cx with income instead of merely trying to persuade the public public public pub pub- lic that the budgetary situation is less serious than the figures indi Indi- cate Washington Washington Post Getting Up I I forget who it was writes Somerset Maugham that recommended recommended recommended mended men for their souls' souls good to do ea each h day two things th they disliked It was a wise man and it was was' wasa a precept that I have followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed scrupulously for every day dayI I have got up and I have gone to bed Although going to bed re requires requires requires re- re quires decision and is Js therefore unnatural it is not a heroic act like getting up Although thousands thou thou- sands sands perhaps perhaps millions millions ot of people people peo peo- pie get up promptly every morning morning morning morn morn- ing without complaint they are simply creatures of habit or necessity Its nice to get up in inthe the ilie morning Harry Lauder used to fo sing but its it's nicer to lie in bed It certainly is It is observable that small children children children chil chil- dren who have had very little experience experience ex ex- with life can get up early y yawn y wn on once e or twice and then plunge cheerfully into the before breakfast run But grown folk with mature minds who know that getting up is only a prelude to going Jo to work are frequently attacked by dizzy spells when they first open pen their eyes The day looks positively dangerous There is one illogical aspect about this morbid subject After Alter Altera a man is up washed dressed and breakfasted the morning looks glorious for morning I is by all aU odds odds' the tho best part of the tho day excepting ex ex- the afternoon and evening eve eve- e. e ning In the morning the world looks refreshed it has bas not been soiled by careless handling To Tobe Tobe Tobo be bo up and about before sunrise is tobe exhilarated by the chief chiet event of the tho grand pageant of tho day for the sun comes up blazing blazing blaz blaz- ing and brisk as though it meant business and to see the sunrise is to have complete confidence Inthe in inthe inthe the day The day always starts right If It men could only let jt it alone alorie It would march straight down the hours without making a single false step for the sun is incapable of ot error What keeps thousands of ot people from realizing it is the daily crisis of ot getting up It shatters a manat manat man manat at the time of ot day J I when he is least able to summon his strongest strong strong- est resistance Of at course ourse urse the degree degree de de- gree grec of pain varies with the in individual in- in With some Bome people it-i it T Tonly only an unhappy little squirming and stretching before they spring out of bed With others the tor torment torment ment is so excessive that they wear themselves out trying to overcome it After a man has over over a period of two hours made several sincere and courageous attempts to get up and failed the better part of ot prudence would be beto beto beto to remain in bed He is in no fit condition to meet the rigors s 's of the tho d day y If It that that sort of ot thing happens for several days in succession succession suc sue cession getting up is suicidal By Bythe Bythe Bythe the time he is 80 or 90 years old od a aman aman aman man in that critical condition is played out New New York Times Labors Labor's Problem Labor proposed a remedy for r unemployment which while opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed by some employers is beIng being being be be- ing more widely accepted by all aU classes of ot people We Ve hold that the permanent solution of ot our Unemployment unemployment unemployment un un- employment problem can be brought about only through a re reduction reduction reduction re- re in the tho hours worked per day and pe per week so that the amount of ot work available may maybe maybe maybe be more widely distributed and through tl the c development of mass purchasing power so that the consuming ng ability of the nation may more nearly correspond with its facilities facilities' of production The Tho mechanization of at industry and the extended use of at power which in operation increased th the efficiency efficiency effi ei- and productivity vity of ot individual hull indi vidual workers n have ve displaced e d working men and women and have constantly increased the army of unemployed Vil William lam Green president of ot the American Federation of ot Labor speaking Ofa of ofa a solution at the annual tion lion Sound Taxation If a ta tax be fairly and equitably levied upon Individuals and undertakings undertakings under under- takings In accordance with their I ability to pay and with the tho lowest lowest low low- est cst possible exemption to the end that everyone who votes for those who are arc to spend public money shall be tax-conscious tax and therefore therefore there there- fore toro quick to resent and rebuke governmental extravagance we weare weare weare are on sound and wholly defensible ble When n however the power to tax is used for t the purpose of ot punishing individuals ls or groups or fo for fo the purpose of ot effecting whether consciously or unconsciously unconsciously c economic social cir or 01 po political pa- pa revolution then every principle prin prin- prin ciple which the tho American f people hold most dear is under attack and andin in danger of ot fatal damage or overthrow Rr Dr Murray Butler a tle in his I annual address nu la atthe at the Parrish Art mus museum um So Southampton South SoUth- th ampton L. 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