Show I L P Prevailing rev Opinions Opinio i 1 ren reni ons Comment o eI of the A American Press Press Press- A Timely Warning Load limit five tons The legend legend leg leg- en end pa painted on a signboard at attached attached attached at- at to the approach of one of those somewhat flimsy bridges associated with the horse and buggy era is familiar to all auto- auto The warning is never taken seriously An engineer how however ver might suggest several alarming questions If If sufficiently interested the in inquirer inquirer in- in might turn back to the history history history his his- tory of the highway It will occasionally occasionally occasionally occa occa- i If not usually usually- be discovered discovered ered that the capacity of the bridge was the subject of serious discussion at the time the roadWay roadWay road road- Way was slated for improvement S The money available was limited and highway authorities desired to to make it go a as as- asfar far as s s. s possible Rebuilding a bridge would cost more than a amile mile of surfacing so the old structure was permitted to remain After all it had not outlived its usefulness It was highly desirable to extend the highway to some announced obJective objective objective ob ob- ob- ob and the warning would p protect the department from criticism criticism crit exit in the event of accident Must each of the frail fraU structures produce a fatal latal accident perhaps to a school bus before something Is done them about-them Would it not be better policy to curtail road extensions for fora a year or or two until until all bridges are brought up to standard and the meaningless ss and oft violated warning aming signs signs signs' re removed re- re moved moved Chicago Chicago Tribune Spinach R Rapped as Food There will be consternation In Inthe Inthe Inthe the ranks of the nations nation's small boys who have been eating spinach spinach spin spin- ach in the belief that it is a great muscle builder when they hear what Dr Walter C. C Alvarez of the Mayo clinic at Rochester Minn says Here it Is Spinach isn't the marvelous food we w have long thought it to be It Isn't digestible unless it Is heavily creamed We Ve have found out that the body cannot dl digest est spin spinach cn sufficiently to benefit from the calcium and iron content of the vegetable Of Ot course the boys have visual 4 J i 4 t tY i f J il t. t evidence of what Popeye has been able to do on a spinach diet so probably they will not believe the doctor Los Los Angeles Angeles' Herald 1 and Express New Mori Monroe oe Doctrine Needed Again as a hundred years ago we seem entering on a 8 conflict of systems rather than of f na na- na- na When the holy alliance Ce was formed In Europe after the Napoleonic Napoleonic Napoleonic Na Na- wars its real purpose behind its high hig pretensions was to perpetuate the the system of monarchic legitimacy When that alliance began plotting plotting plotting plot plot- ting to retake the South American Ameri Amen can ean countries which had declared their independence of Spain President Monroe In his famous doctrine warned it its Ith members against extending that system to this conti continent ent The word word may have hav meant mean In part the system of or colonial Im Imperialism imperialism im- im which Europe was spreading over the world and from which the Monroe doctrine Insisted on exempting America But It also meant the system of ot the rule of autocratic autocratic- kings We defended the American nations nations na na- not merely because they were American American- and independent but because they were republics republic And we extended our sympathy sympathy- and our recognition all over the world to the peoples that were achieving constitutional government govern govern- ment and offered our hospitality to the refugees from those countries countries coun coun- tries when their efforts failed In the battle of the systems We we were openly on en one side Now instead we have two new nelY systems systems' of dictatorship both more absolute than shy aby absolute monarch monarch monarch mon mon- arch had ever been and they are lining up not only to overrun the remaining democracies but to de de' each other This time we are aze against both sides 5 They shall not extend either of or their systems to us us nor invade any Part of or the two Americas WJ with It Ik except c Pt by W the free choice of or the peoples concerned If It we stand with anybody in this new battle of the systems it will wll will be with the few p peoples oples wh which ch like ourselves uphold free institutions against eith either r of the rival systems of dictatorship p. p San Francisco Chronicle r. r i r 1 r. r t t t 1 t t |