Show I Timely Topics I WEST INDIES FOR DEBTS The talk of trading of British possessions In the West Indies for the British debt to the United States will nat not down It Is being discussed lately more snore seriously than ever Iver There is evidently a good deal of British sentiment senti senti- ment nent In favor of if f it Lloyds Lloyd's the great British insurance company recently took a little flier on it placing a 15 per cent premium on the possibility of such action occurring in 1922 That would mean about one chance in n seven that the islands would be ours a year from now ow An American econom economist st has gone so far ar as to list the he Islands with their acreage and possible valuation There are Antigua Bermuda Barbuda the Barbados Dominica Grenada and the Grenadines Grenadir Jamaica St. St Kitts St. St Lucia St. St Vincent Nevis Montserrat Tobago Trinidad and others which along with British Honduras the one British hold on the South American continent give rive a total area of square miles Figuring these at st at the rate paid by the United States for the Danish West We-st Indies the economist e finds that they would be worth the neat little sum of That would come come ome within a billion of paying the British debt to this country 1 There are only two obstacles in the way of this settlement plan One Is that the average value of the British Islands to the tIle United States would be be- nowhere rt n near ar that of the Danish We Wet West t Indies which were bought not for intrinsic worth but for strategic purposes Theother The Theother other Is that this country Is Is i raU rather er fed up on tropical Islands anyway with their Jungles marshes mosquitoes Intractable natives defensive requirements and International International International Inter Inter- national complications Uncle Sam yearns earns for th the simple life Ute and the life Ufe of a world landlord is far from simple Tacoma Ledger I According to an article In H Harpers Harper's Bazar Dazar ing the coiffure to match the gown is a popular cus cus- tom torn This probably accounts for bobbed hair Newark Newark News Richard Richard Le Gallienne says there Is a a. love of art in inborn inborn in- in born in every man mats Hes He's right Observe grab for forthe forthe forthe the beautiful federal reserve notes Toledo notes Toledo Blade Do not forget forget to send price e tags with your our gifts next I year The new tax law the requires seller of a gift to tc to I return the profit he makes maltes ov over r what the donor paid for It Cincinnati Enquirer English Is the popular language in Moscow Ios ow We have I never quite given up the h hope hpe e of popularizing it In this c country St St St. Paul Pioneer Press There ha has has' been so much much summer ummer weather this winter that we are told fur dealers have done a big business Arkansas Arkans s Gazette |