Show F Opinions Comment of the tho American Press At t Last the Last the Strong Man Publisher Bennarr MacFadden prophet of the Body Beautiful and the Form Divine finds that fasting fasting fasting fast fast- ing one or two days a week haKan has haK hasan hasan an influence on your mentality Last week weel he fasted and conceived a groat idea Ho He will be the Republican candidate for president He will run as a business man He has a platform platform opposition opposition to regimentation fascism extravagance extravagance extravagance gance and all fool laws Jaws especial especial- those supporting blackmailing racketeering crooks and their le legal legal le- le gal leeches He plans a nationwide nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide tour with speeches several times a day Wh Why not the muscular Macfadden Macfadden Macfad- Macfad den For months the G. G O. O P. P has cried In vain for a strong man to bell the cat in the White hite House Bernarr fills the bill Like the late T. T R. R he started life as a puny boy One day at a circus he looked up in admiration at the Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Tra Tra- He resolved he too would become becom strong and graceful He did In time he was able to illustrate illustrate illustrate illus illus- his own writings with pictures pictures pic plc- tures of Professor B. B Macfadden in Classical Poses Hes He's 67 now but says hes he's 25 years young and strong enough for lor any task What other Barkis in the galaxy of oC Republican candidates can boast of oC such strength San San San Francisco News Will History Repeat In the notes from rom the Evening Sun 20 years ago under the headIng heading heading head head- ing When We Ve Were Vere Very I Young appears this Item Politicians in Washington are gravely concerned over William Villiam E. E Borah's open espousal of ot the cause of nationwide prohibition because the Idaho senator Is the leading candidate for the Republican Republican Republican lican presidential nomination That was 20 years ago Today William Villiam Borah is once more moro a leading candidate for the pres presidential i- i nomination and today once more the politicians arc shivering shivering shivering shiv shiv- ering in their boots over his possible possible possible pos pos- sible espousal of the Townsend plan just as they were then shivering shivering shiv shiv- ering eying over his ml of oC that other absurdity national tion Thus far history has repeated itself But 20 years ago it wasn't Borah who got the nomination but another fellow named Charles Evans Hughes Hushes Hughes moreover moreover moreover more more- over took a licking and so in the thelast thelast last Jut analysis did national Baltimore Baltimore Sun Mark Twain on Wealth Sharing This month the world particularly particularly larl the speaking English and English reading world turns from thou thoughts of oC I its troubles to think of oC Mark Twain the humorist from Missouri Mark Twains Twain's thoughts about some of ot our troubles probably would help u. u to o take them less len seriously The numerous schemes for sharing the wealth would amuse him and he doubtless would amuse us with his comment comment com corn ment on such schemes Mark MarIc Twain died four lour years be before before be- be fore tore the World war out of ot which came the most famous of oC share the wealth plans Russian plans Russian com corn mu Yet it was anI only two years after our Civil war that Mark Twain set down this thought in his diary Communism is idiocy They want to divide up the property Suppose they did it it-it it it requires brains to keep money as well as asto asto asto to make It In a precious little while the money would be back in inthe inthe inthe the former owners' owners hands bands and the communist would be poor again The division would have to be re remade remade remade re- re made every three years ears or it would do the thc communist no good Perhaps Mark Twains Twain's view of ot communism like the premature report of oC his death is somewhat exaggerated But this is Mark Twains Twain's centennial centennial centennial centen centen- nial and he is entitled to his say Cleveland News Judges and the Rich RichOn RichOn RichOn On the whole judges while not I dishonest are steeped in iii mam- mam monism As lawyers they have served rich clients The taint clings to them on the bench Such is the accepted liberal view Professor Harold Laski treats us to a bit of oC this moth eaten gospel in the November Harpers Harper's Even the New York Sun could sa say of Mr Justice Matthews that his appointment was waR equivalent to placing Jay Gould upon the su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme court of oC the United States Blatchford Field and Lamar were all the type of or judge who whatever his ability reads into his decision tho the habit of an advocacy advocacy advocacy ad ad- limited b by to the interests of rich men The New York Sun objected to Stanley Matthews because it hated President Hayes who first appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed him and President Garfield Garfield Gar- Gar field who resubmitted the nomInation nomInation nomination nom nom- to the senate Judge Samuel Blatchford had been a federal district judge Inthe in inthe the southern district of at the state before Grant appointed him to the supreme court in 1882 He was a aman aman aman man of great ent learning master of ot ofa ofa ota a number of branches of the law Perhaps his most famous decision was against the Pennsylvania railroad Mr Justice L. L Q C. C Lamar probably never had a rich client Liberal might be a little more little more close r fisted close sted with his his' strictures New New York Times Sweatshops in Homes The only defenders of ot the Industrial Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial homework system are the manufacturers who use it to evade paying rent and factory overhead charges W Ask Ask school teachers about it They hey will tell of little children cn too t tired to sit up at their desks be because because be- be cause they have worked into the I be-I small hours of oC the morning carding carding card card- ing ung buttons or safety pins Social workers find whole families working working working work work- ing in poorly lit tenement rooms weary mothers sitting up in bed bedas as they stitch buttonholes children chil chii- dren who should be playing smocking dresses or wiring artificial artificial arti arti- flowers Their earnings a miserable pittance 3 cents or 4 cents even 1 cent an hour Now the taxpayer comes into this antisocial picture A bulletin recently released by the United States department of labor in Washington discloses the fact that many were on re relief relief re- re lief rolls in 1934 because they were not paid enough to cover the cost of oC living Which is just another wa way of oC sa saying that the manufacturer manufacturer whose products are made in homes shifts the burden of oC manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing manu manu- costs from himself to the taxpayers Unscrupulous employers the departments department's survey declares exploit exploit ex ex- these who rather than lose the work accept appallingly low pa pay The system it maintains results in the jeopardizing of or the health of at women and children the undermining of ot factory factory factory fac fac- tory wages and expense to taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- payers who must supplement by relief these low earnings and also bear the cost of ot homework Inspection Inspection Inspection tion required by legislation in some states for tor protection of oC consumers consumers' consumers consumers' con con- sumers sumers' health There is nothing new In these findings except the additional burden disclosed as falling on the already harassed taxpayers Complete Complete Com Corn nationwide legal prohibition of oC the wretched system is the solution solution so so- lution of the problem urged by bythe bythe bythe the department An awakened public conscience should not rest until industrial homework is either abolished b by legislation or so ef effectively effectively effectively ef- ef controlled that the work worle Is done under decent conditions condition at fair rates rales of pay Christian Christian Science Science Sd- Sd ence Monitor Neutrality vs Profits As Secretary Hull intimated the nation cannot expect to carry carryon on free tree and unrestricted trade with belligerent nations and at atthe atthe atthe the same tithe time keep out of oC trou trou- ble Neither will an embargo on war implements alone serve swerve the purpose we must be prepared to give up trade in all materials that might help to prolong war The League of Nations embargo against Italy go goes into effect on November 18 IS The present neutrality neu neu- resolution giving limited powers to the president expires on February 25 Secretary Hull plainly implied that the administration administration adminis adminis- desires more power power to shut of off all trade in war materials materials materials mate mate- rials that may help the aggressor nation and to cooperate with those nations that arc are trying to bring the war to an early end Albany Albany Knickerbocker Press Pres |