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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Press ' and that the boy amy go to the Olympic games. The fact that these contests were finally concluded con-cluded last August does not weigh In the matter, Lea Angoloa Times. Save That World k Crazy Except that everybody la sura that everybody else la a Har and a bluffer, Europe would be In war tomorrow. Ia fact It already la. Germany and 6 pain are committing com-mitting acta ef war against each ether, and both announce that they win continue to do ae. Britain Brit-ain aaada warships Into the Mediterranean Med-iterranean with instructions te shoot, if either government or rebel forces do .to British shipping ship-ping what both have already done and threaten to keep on doing. The British government has information in-formation of the landing of more Italian troops. The Italian government gov-ernment officially demea that there were aay such troops. Whereupon "authoritative sources- in London In other words, the government spokesman "off the record" retort that the Italian government la a har. If words and acta meant any- ' Haywire In Art ' Probably there Is no poiat la expr easing surprise at what a awrreallat msy say or do. Ha and hia group have been exhibiting astounding pictures te pondering, posturing and auaaled crowds la New York. Fur aaed teacups, a watch which, drips over the side of a table Ilk a blob of molasses, and a woman with a window la her chest through which one may look at a a see capo, are samples of what a surrealist may da whan h wishes. The exhibition which started In New York and waa te be shunted ever a circuit may sow be halted or detoured because of ths anger which la occupying the mind and vocabulary ef en ef the exponents expo-nents of what tha unltiated call "haywire art" Someone had the Idea te place beside the pictures of the auirealiata drawings made by children and by the Insane. Thereupon soma ef theae modernists modern-ists puffsd in a great puff and refused to lead their works for further exhibition. Surrealism, they Insist ia being made subject te derision. Surrealism's one claim ia that It achieves by pretending to be outside the mind, or Insane. Why ahould It not welcome minds not developed, or minds definitely insane? in-sane? It looks aa if surrealism has confronted that which It haa .sought te approximate Oakland Tribune. thing, and if rational processes were valid In considering the situation, sit-uation, the war, which has already started In acts, would be ia full formal force. First It would be open war between Spain and Germany. Ger-many. Italy would Join ea the German aide and Russia on the Spanish government aide. Then France and Japan would be ia and Britain would follow. Germany, Ger-many, with Its treasury exhausted, exhaust-ed, without munitions enough and without food for Ita people, would commit suicide to save the dignity dig-nity ef Corporal Hitler. The Spanish government would likewise like-wise coram it suicide. Russia would reverse Its policy of keeping keep-ing Its communism at home, and would thereby unite the world against It except that In the me-Ise. me-Ise. European civilisation might perish and there would be no world left to do tha uniting. Thia would be the Irrational re-auH. re-auH. If it were possible to draw logical conclusions from Irrational premises. The hope and It is a probable one Is that even the crasiest of the dlctetara will be too craxy to live down to his own craainess. San Francisco Chronicle. Our Speedy Courts There ss an eld saying that the purist possible settlement Is always al-ways better than s good lawsuit Believers to this adage get coa-siderable coa-siderable reinforcement from tha decision hast handed down by the district court of appeal la a ease Involving Welter Christy Walsh. 11 years of age. Young Walsh wanted to go to the Olympic games ia Berlia and hia father wanted te take him, having bia custody for six months ef the- year by a divorce decree. The boy's mother objected and a superior court judge forbade the trip. Now the appellate court haa held that the judge waa wrong |