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Show Prevailing Opinions r- f af th American freu le be, the tighter b clings ta 1 them. What Wallace will think ef next la unpredictable, except that It will have a hole In It. Our secretary of agriculture ia ever normal la that respect Lo Angeles An-geles Tlmee-Mlrrer. Lesson on Rood! Control As If te reemphaaise aad drive home the dire necessity of flood control, raging river water ars again Inundating and carrying death and destruction to areas In the aaat and ia Canada, The government, eae given th power and fund ta launch auch a project, could act aa effectually la this matter as It did In one of Its department during tha last flood. At that time tha food and drug administration condemned waar aiianllllaa af food that had Victim Wi( Sttrt K Whoever It the "aggressor" la tho next war will not be determined deter-mined by wh first Invadea tha territory at another. Soviet Russia Rus-sia announces thst It will start no war and commit a aggreseion. It will fight solely Hi defense, against thoa who would take from it any of Its territory. But It ale announce that It proposes to conduct Its defense en the territory ter-ritory ef the enemy aggressor. On ths very first menace of war, It will at once move out, acroea tha frontier of the "enemy." This means Germany or Japan, or both. Germany baa not replied, but Japan has. It. too, announce that at the first threat ef air attack at-tack it will at once destroy the enemy air bases. This mean Russia. Thus, paradoxically, tha next war will start by tha "victim" invading in-vading tha territory ef the "aggressor." "ag-gressor." It ta a confusing world Into which w hav survived. In which right Is wrong and attack defense, de-fense, and upside down Is right slds up. No wonder most ef us bsvs gons daft and tha real of ua are going that way. San Francisco Chronicle. Ever-Normal. WeBac -Ths comment of tb Brookings Institution that Secretary Vial-lace's Vial-lace's plan far an "ever-hormal , granary" la one which would flue- ' tuate the farmer's Income Instead of the nstion's grain supply Is Just and apposite. That Is precisely whst would bsppea: and if the ever-normal granary scheme ia enacted,- the farmer will be th first te demand It repeal after a year or a ef experience with It That the criticism will have any effect ea Wallace, however, la not te be expected. The more unsound un-sound Wallace s Idea ar ahowa been contaminated by the flood water. Tons ef foodstuffs were destroyed en orders front this yle-partment. yle-partment. If thia hadn't been done. If tha government hadn't the authority te demand and see that it waa dona, there's .no telling bow great aa epidemic ef typhoid, dysentery and othsr diseases would have resulted. re-sulted. -Ths same efficiency, science and authority could bs used for prevention pre-vention of floods as wars ussd for Sreventton of disease which might ava followed tha last hood. Tha Important thing now la to launch tha flood control project, appropriate appro-priate the funds, put It In ths hand of expert who understand the problem thoroughly and get tha job dona. It would be one of America's beet Investments. Minneapolis Star. America's Difficultiet tn Open ' Nasi papers ars pointing with considerable glee to the outbreak of atrtkaa In the United States as showing bow much better Is ths Hitler method of dealing with auch situstlons. If tha great masses of tha German Ger-man workers ware permuted to speak out, thsy would drowa all such xasrrimsat. Sacrament Bee, |