Show Preva Opinions I Comment of the American Press Sunday Regimentation That foxy statesman Kemal has ideas about how to take an accurate census Last Sunday the second count of ot the population of ot the Turkish republic lic lie took place On that day everyone had to remain Indoors except those with permits to b be abroad the abroad the police physicians newspaper men and a few others When tho the enumerators had finIshed finished fin fin- their work cannon were fired as a notification to the public pub pub- lie lic that they could once more roam abroad Inasmuch as our government plans a number of ot census activIties activities activities ties through the theT W T P E A and other branches the notion may occur to someone in Washington that the job can be facilitated and made more accurate by adopting Kemal plan We Ve offer U the e suggestion to some of the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican propagandists that they attribute the idea to someone in inthe inthe inthe the administration and then at attack attack attack at- at tack it ruthlessly That would lend a little variety to their output out out- put Detroit pul-Detroit Detroit News Landon of Kansas Probably at the national convention convention convention conven conven- tion Governor Landon's friends will present him and his record for consideration They will not claim that he is a superman They will not point to him as a miracle worker They will not compare him either to Loncoln for wisdom or Coolidge for parsimony They will say to the nation here is a Kansas product a straight diligent diligent dili dill gent prudent conscientious young Republican who was a good soldier soldier sol sol- dier and has made a public record which has held Kansas in line lino for tor the Republican ticket In a time of Democratic tidal wave We believe he will wUl grow under the terrific ter ter- ter- ter rifle force of his higher responsibilities responsibilities into a competent prest- prest dent We Ve dont don't know lenow and he doesn't know lenow No one knows what he or the times will develop But ho will go forward and not back That we know Emporia Gazette Benito vs Benito The New Leader Lender socialist journal journal journal jour jour- nal published In New York Yolk appeals appeals appeals ap ap- ap- ap peals from Mussolini drunk with power to Mussolini sober in the fresh morning of his life The New Leader quotes an editorial editorial edi edi- tonal written b by Mussolini January Janu Janu- ary arr 1 1912 when he was the young oung editor of oC the socialist daB dally daily Avanti antl I Attacking Italy's war In Libya a North Africa Mussolini said 23 years ago The nationalist conservative and clerical Italy of today wants to make the sword her law and tho the army the school of the na na- na- na tion We foresaw this moral de degeneration degeneration degeneration de- de generation and therefore are not surprised by it But those who believe that this dominance of oC militarism is a sign of strength are arc mistaken Strong peoples have no need to suffer such rubbish as the Italian press indulges in with foolish delight Strong peoples peoples peo peo- ples plea have themselves in check Nationalist and militarist Italy I shows that she has herself not in check A l little war of conquest is celebrated as a Roman triumph San San Francisco News For France to Ponder Who Vho was foremost in establishing establishing lishing the League of Nations France Who Vho has been the most ardent advocate of the system of collective security France Is it now conceivable can it really be true that the defense of France will be destroyed by the hand of France True she has to choose between Mussolini and the league It is not necessary to remind the French above all people that ItIs it itis itis is impossible to make omelets without breaking eggs If It the league cannot protect Ab Abyssinia against the aggressor of today how can It be expected to protect France against a possible possible pos pos- sible ible aggressor of tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow- London Dail Daily Herald Stop Your Nonsense Stop your nonsense If It Adolf Hitler made this speech to the pagan cults of Germany German It is not only the shortest but the best in his career er Seeking to build a new religion as as if it religion could be changed with rulers these rulers these cults have peopled peopled peo peo- pled their texts and speeches with figures out of mythology and Wagnerian operas They have ha sought to fasten faith upon the tho folk folit tales of medieval days to turn back the calendar and the thc minds of the people to the thc time when gods sods strutted in fine feathers feath feath- ers shook swords at nt the heavens and uttered mighty cries of war Though there Is some question as to whether the new attitude against t this impious is a temporary expedient or or orl an actual change in policy the evident evident evi evi- dent necessity for lor the tho Hitler speech would indicate that the cults have grown sufficiently strong and vocal to demand re re- re proof Realization that religion cannot be uprooted to make male room for play playacting acting and hocus-pocus hocus is inevitable The Hitler expression expression expression sion may be the first sign of a wholesome change in his country Oakland Tribune Federal Aid and Economy Thc The American Liberty leaguers demand rigid econom economy If they can make rigid economy popular with no favorites being played may God bless them Even President dent Roosevelt admitting that he likes to spend as extravagantly as they say he docs does would start a second economy drive like the abortive one in his lila first year ear if he saw that the country demanded or would stand for it For one thing he could throw back upon the states stales the whole burden of re relief relief re- re lief and thereby balance the federal federal fed fed- eral budget in almost no time Yet what would be the effect upon the state coun county municipal and town budgets of the country Even the publicized much-publicized state budget of Kansas the balancing of which has brought great gleat credit to Governor Landon could not have been balanced without federal federal federal fed fed- eral aid granted from Washington Washing Washing- ton tori In recent years ears It needs no argument to show that the states and local subdivisions would violently violently violently vio vio- protest against taking over at this time on in the near fu future future fu- fu ture the whole burden of unemployment unemployment unemployment relief Springfield Re Re- publican West in Revolt It is a striking phenomenon of American politics that three eastern eastern east east- em ern men Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt have won the hearts of the west all of ot them men of exceptional exceptional ex ex- learning culture and in intellect in- in educated in tho the east cast governors governors governors gov gov- of ot eastern stat states s. s If the cast regards the tho west wesE as inhabited by an ignorant uncouth electorate electorate electorate electo electo- rate it has only to observe how the best it can offer attracts votes out there Then it might observe that the only living JIving Republican statesmen of national repute are arc westerners and that they all aU are arc in revolt re against the old guard manipulators manipulators manipulators ma ma- whose whoso men in congress were ousted and replaced by Dem Dem- Louisville Jour Courier our our- nal |