| Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Press Chase Out the 1 The criminal absurdity with the law providing for the deportation of undesirable aliens from the United States Stales is administered admin appears in two recent items of news A man has just been ordered out of the country who was born here 85 years ago who forfeited his citizenship when he lie took up a soldier r homestead in Australia after the war and who reentered the United States illegally in Ia 1934 The other case was that of or Bruno Richard Hauptmann an escaped convict from Germany who not only entered this country I illegally with a long crime record Involving moral turpitude but was allowed to remain hero here for years unmolested Crazy is a mild word to apply to a law and Its administration which permits such things to hap hap- pen Without reflecting upon the millions of ot Immigrants who have come to this country and made valuable contributions to its Us de development development development de- de the fact cannot be ignored that not only are life and property constantly menaced by criminal aliens illegally in the United States but the very institutions institutions of ot tho the country are aro threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened from the same quarter The act of illegal l entry is in itself a violation of one law and presumptive evidence of contempt for other laws All aliens in this country should be registered as they are in most other countries and compelled to carry identification cards as Chinese Chi Chi- nese in the United States are arc re required required re- re to do The law should bo be tightened to put out and keep out the Haupt Haupt- manns And then it Its should be divorced from politics and sob stuff Detroit Detroit Free Press What Whet the A. 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A Paid Pad Tho The size of some of ot the payments payments pay pay- ments made under the A A A Athe Athe Athe A- A the checks running Into int the tho hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of thousands thousand of dollars- dollars is at first glance a shock But Buton Buton Buton on the analysis it it becomes plain that so long as 3 the A A A doctrine doc doe trIno trine of paying for tor tion was in force torce there was no reason for tor not paying th large largen n non o n p pro r o 0 d ci proportionately with with the small ones To To havo have done otherwise would have been unfair discrimination Rather does docs the tho of these figures lie Jie in the way they illuminate the true scope of at the philosophy of ot scarcity When the public first realized that farmers were being paid to raise fewer hogs or to reduce their wheat acreage or plow under a part of ot their cotton tho the feeling was not uncommon that such a system however sound in the tho long run might be justified as a basis of extending temporary assistance to the farmers The obvious conclusion Is that Senator was right in insisting that the tho public is entitled to k know ow all about these payments It should know much more than Mr Wallace has yet divulged Let Letus Letus Letus us have names and and sums and numbers so that tho the public may judge for tor itself the results of this vital part of ot the new deal poli poll cies New New York Herald Tribune Gov Governments and nd Prices It is an impressive contrast that B. 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M Anderson Jr economist economist economist mist of ot the tho Chase National bank made between economic planning planning plan plan- ning fling by government and the automatic control exercised over overproduction overproduction overproduction production by the play of prices in a free tree competitive market Even a government ideally organized organized organized or or- for controlling economic life ho he believes and with an ideal set of officials masters of the best economic thought though could not work out a conscious control of tho the economic life of ot a great people peo peo- plo pie which would approach In ef efficiency efficiency er- er tho the unconscious automatic auto auto- matic coordination and control which free tree markets and freely treely changing market prices give Those who believe that economic economic eco ceo planning by government represents a great social advance talk of the necessity of reorganizing reorganizing reorganizing economic institutions to tofit tofit tofit fit tho the new needs of the time But our most backward economic economic economic eco eco- institution lr ir Anderson believes is government itself This backwardness lies not merely in its organization but in its atti aW- tude Under the influence of the war and of war post-war conditions which greatly strengthened its powers government has reverted to medieval and early modern policies trade policies trade restrictions ns currency currency currency cur cur- rency debasement and price fix in ing Its policy regarding re the last has been particularly shortsighted shortsighted short short- sighted and atavistic Dr Anderson Ander Ander- son contrasts the tho medieval notions notions no no- of or just price with the modern conception of ot functional price It is the former that governmental policy Is always trying to fix It strikes directly at prices rather than at the causes causes ot of prices Higher prices at which little can be produced produced pro pro produced and sold do not mean economic ceo eco welfare even for tor the tho group that gets them High wages at which few men can be employed employed em em- played do not not mean high income for tor labor From the functional p point int of view yiew right prices are prices that move goods right are wa wages es that give full employment to labor Government planning in other words tends almost inevitably not merely to fasten on the the correction correction tion Lion of particular situations to i the neglect of ot wider problems but it commonly does docs the wrong thing even in the particular ular sit sit- New New York Times For the Sa Sale Sake e of Your Heart Here is a a. serious warning froman from au an expert to those who think that because an automobile is Hs a blessing and aid to efficient life liCe the they no no longer need to use their legs The expert is Dr John J. J Upham Upham Up- Up ham barn dean of the medical school of Ohio State univ university who says Most present day deaths from heart diseases may 7 be traced directly to a lack of oC graduated graduated graduated grad grad- regulated exercise th the death rate from heart attacks has doubled in a decade Through use of our automobiles most of ofus ofus ofus us ha have ve lost much of the regular regula ex exercise we Ve formerly had walk had walkIng walk walk- Ing to and from our offices to the stores store and on on visits In short while Dr Upham recognizes recognizes rec rec- the necessity of the automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile in modern life he also recognizes the necessity for using some leg power too top if It we are areto are arc areto to live and enjoy the wider life the automobile has made possible Detroit Free Press But Keeps Name While Philadelphia is still sUU called the Quaker City only onefour one- one four fourth h of oC 1 per cent of oC Its population population population lation are of the Quaker religion according to a recent t tabulation Schools in that city were built by the money produced from a lottery in 1712 J. 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