| Show Opinions I I Comment of ot the American Press Cities Are Plants To compare the great modern city to a vegetable may not seem apt or Complimentary Still SUll there are points of comparison and analogies All AU of Go s 's creatures who are arc city dwellers cat eat dirt in a manner of speaking Not meaning either the peck of dirt that man consumes during during during dur dur- ing a lifetime according to the old saw referring rather to the fact tact that mankind lives Jives in the last re resort resort resort re- re sort by courtesy of the soil The quart of grade A milk like all aU flesh is grass which derives from plain dirt under the supervision of dirt dirt farmers The same thing is true of steak French fried potatoes and apple pie Moreover they are products of special and rather well wen defined soils the black soil soH of prairies pampas and steppes according to a general article on agriculture by J J. Russell JRussell Smith professor of economic geography geography geog geog- raphy in the Encyclopedia This black soil is the prime grain grainland grainland grainland land of the world Trains and reapers reapers reapers reap reap- ers reached it itin in the last third of the nineteenth derived derived derived de de- de- de century Produce rived from these black soil belts is isone isone isone one of ot the principal factors in the recent growth of cities The human race is now in the golden age of urban food supply because we arc are skimming the cream of this rich accumulation of past ages Imagination seizing on these facts of oC the earth earthy refuses to keep its feet on the ground and sees New York as a a kind of prairie wild flower flow flow- er cr or Buenos Aires as just as especially espe espo- daIly hi high h and thick clump of pampas grass rass Paris London BerJin BerUn Ber Ber- lin Un as great vegetables with wilh their railroad root tentacles thrust out into other distant grasslands that went under the plow for the first time in the nineteenth century New York Herald War Ghosts Haunt nt Rulers If It there were any Americans enough to think tho the world could have a general war without the thc United Stat States s being in danger o of being drawn into it they can hardly retain their simple faith after reading of or the announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment by Prime Minister Baldwin Badwin that he would never sanction a naval blockade by Great Britain unless assured in advance of the cooperative attitude of the United States American sentiment Is strongly against Mussolini's ruthless tactics tactics tac tac- tics it is emphatic in favoring the placing of restraints on the aggressor aggressor aggressor ag ag- ag- ag but just as emphatic in condemning any more for the United States Stales to assume any re responsibility responsibility responsibility re- re for tho the restraints A blockade would be an act of war var and it would be maintained with greatest difficulty if the United States Slates should insist on the right of a neutral to trade with belligerents so far as trade is sanctioned sanctioned sanc sane by the law of nations For example American ships I with cargoes of American cotton copper and oil destined for Italy might unload in German or other neutral ports This shipping would not involve a direct running of the blockade but it would nullify the blockade Italy Itay would be receiving the necessary materials which it would be the purpose of the blockade blockade blockade block block- ade to keep leep out of Italy The American government under under under un un- un- un der the neutrality resolution passed by congress might forbid exportation of arms and munitions to all belligerents in the event that members of the league declare war on oIl Italy and It might warn American Ameri Amen can shippers that they would deal with any of these nations at their risk lisk It would be an entirely different situation if ii the same kind of neutrality neutrality neutrality neu neu- should be extended to the league powers American shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping would be in danger of acts of war or it would suffer heavy losses from being kept in port when big profits might be made Long Beach Press Telegram Synthetic Gasoline At Billingham England Ramsay Ramsay Ramsay Ram Ram- say MacDonald MacDonad formally opened a big plant which is to produce produces s synthetic gasoline It will vill seek seck annually to convert tons of coal with air and water added into tons of gasoline There is ts nothing new in synthetic synthetic synthetic syn syn- gasoline but much that is expensive The British know that it wilt will ill cost them more to make this fuel than it would to go out and buy commercial gasoline on the market The story has a significance beyond beyond beyond be be- yond business one which may be linked with foresight and with war If Europe boils bolls over in the way which military strategy and self-protection self must reckon as within the possibilities England might be cut off from supplies It will be able to make gasoline at ata a little more than twice the present present present pres pres- ent wholesale price What Is more it is going to start at an car early date subsidize the industry and let the taxpayers pay tho the difference difference difference differ differ- ence in costs Obviously the experiment is one which will be watched b by many SIo nations wi with h interest While most of the stories that our oil on supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies were in danger of exhaustion have been promptly denied with the opening of new fields it must be recognized that somewhere there Is a limit Like Britain we have vast coal deposits Assured of plenty of oil on for some years to come we are arc in the enviable position position po po- of letting Br Britain tain make a costly experiment which one day may be of benefit to us us and other nations Oakland Oakland Tribune Lawyers for the Defense The droll droU effort of oC bar associations associations associations or groups of oC lawyers to pose as the specially anointed guardians of the Constitution must be appreciated at its true value by many laymen It is the business of the profession to serve both sides in any legal or constitutional constitutional constitutional argument The court system itself is based on the principle principle prin principle prin- prin ciple th that t counsel will contend against each other in presenting contrary points of oC view vie and elucidating elucidating elucidating elu elu- elu- elu opposing claims Our constitutional history might al almost almost a- a al- al most be written in terms of battles bat bat- tics ties b between n lawyers Spring Springfield Spring Springfield Springfield field Republican n. n |
