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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Press ' Trailers' Clouds of Glory . Soon the trailer tourist will have to trundle a two-room apartment behind his automobile as he tours the United States. One room of his wheelhouse will be the conventional combined com-bined parlor bedroom -kitchen-bath and behind that on another set of wheels will coma his law library. For the National Highway Users Us-ers conference reports the 48 state are making 48 different sets of regulations for the prosperous itinerant and his roving home. The lawablding tourist will have to possess a ropy of each set of laws, and will need the library trailer to carry them. In the matter of lights alone the interstate tourist's home will have to be illuminated like a theater the-ater marquee, as few states agree on what colored lights must be used. 8ome states- call- for as many aa 10 lights, trailing clouds of glory along the highways. The trailer ia a new and sudden phenomenon. It would seem it offers the states a rare opportunity oppor-tunity to experiment with concordant con-cordant interstate legislation. Why not . standardise the laws governing the operation of the standardised trailers hauled by ' standardised automobiles over standardised highways? San Francisco Examiner. Bigger Incomes To Increase incomes, to creste buying power in millions who now have none, to balance the budget by finding greater revenues reve-nues in the more abundant means of the now underprivileged this program outlined by Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt in1 his' press conference sounds encouraging. Yet the means by which It appears ap-pears that these things are to be done, as indicated by the philosophy of such measures as have been disclosed in the agricultural agri-cultural and other policies to be offered to congress, are less heartening. The adjustment it. appears, is to be done by the simple process of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. This is an undeniably popular method. Unfortunately there are few rich and this method works only so long as the rich are rich. When they, too. are made poor there Is none from whom to take in order to give. If there ia to be truly 'abundance, 'abun-dance, and lasting, it must coma from the creation of more wealth, not m mere leveling by redistribution. redistri-bution. San Francisco Chronicle. .' ' ' 'A Model City Council It sounds like Utopia. But It actually worka in London. So might wondering Americans react re-act to the explanation by W. E. Adolph. councilor of the Corporation Corpora-tion of London ef the plan by which the British capital ia run without politics. In London, ot course. It is noth-' noth-' Ing to get excited about because the system in use has been employed em-ployed for generations. In the first place, the 104 members do not get any salary. Each represents repre-sents a ward and ia a well known business man there. He has plenty of time to carry on his private business while devoting his recognized rec-ognized talent too. to the efficient effi-cient conduct of municipal government gov-ernment So marked la the contrast presented pre-sented by cities in this country that the London plan, old aa it is. at least can be atudied with envy if not with profit Most city council Jobs in the American metropolis are plums of such Juicy character that the rush to get them crushes out all hope of a "no politics" regime. It might be a good idea for American councilmea to ponder the London situation. If things go on getting more muddled in American cities some drastic changes may be invoked. Los i Angeles Times. |