Show I. I I Pre Prevailing V Comment e 1 of the American Opinions Press ion s I The Only Earth We Have Speaking before Britain's Navy league at its Trafalgar day dinner dinner dinner din din- ner the first American envoy ever to do so Ambassador Joseph P. P Kennedy took occasion to make some particularly particularly and and under the circumstances unusually circumstances unusually pertinent pertin pertin- ent remarks on the state of the world There is simply no sense common common cornmon com corn mon or otherwise he said in inthe inthe inthe the growing habit of nations to snarl at one another all the time Unless they can break themselves of it and proceed to arms limitation limitation limitation limita limita- tion they are all headed straight toward a major disaster No truer words were ever spoken It is all perfectly natural al as Mr Kennedy pointed out that recent events should stimulate stimulate stirn the already frenzied race of ot arms Considering what we have just been through it is hard to quarrel with the decision of any nation to build up its forces In fact we can only commend commend com corn mend such action on the part of those sincerely committed to a policy of peace Unfortunately those sincerely committed to a policy of peace are not the only nations whose armament efforts will be For while some of the nations nations nations na na- na- na like the United States Great Britain and France are presumably better able to finance an armaments race others not so well fixed like fixed like Germany Italy and Japan will Japan will likewise speed ahead as fast as they can Which unless stopped will lead to war as certainly as night follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows day The logic if it is ele ele- ele- ele Will Herr Hitler sit twid twiddling his thumbs thumbs' on his Bavarian Bavarian Bavarian Ba Ba- varian mountain while German arms are put once again in a state of Inferiority He will not Before he lets that happen he will start the long-dreaded long war It is just as obvious that to avoid war war- warthe the major powers must soon find a way to compose their differences and agree on a method method meth meth- od of arms limitation If ever world statesmanship was wason wason wason on trial now is the time For thus plainly is marked out the road to peace New New York World- World Telegram Wo Worth th Worrying About Probably the most misguided person in Christendom is the citizen citizen cit cit- izen who thinks h he is tax-immune tax because none of the money he pays out has a label on it saying This goes for taxes of course pays taxes taxes tax tax- es Cs directly or indirectly And everyone pays a healthy chunk of J every dollar he spends in hidden taxes he doesn't realize are there thereat at all Nineteen cents out of of every spent dollar according to the Northwestern National Life Insurance Insurance Insurance In In- company goes for federal federal federal fed fed- eral taxes which no one ever thinks about That 19 cents is wholly aside from all income excess profits inheritance or realty realty realty real real- ty taxes It doesn't take into account account account ac- ac i count any state taxes That 19 cents should put you and every other citizen in direct touch with the national debt which if yo you haven't worried about until now you can worry about henceforth Worriers in incidentally incidentally incidentally in- in can do more about government economy and tax re reform reform reform re- re form than those who dont don't care Minneapolis Star |