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Show Prevailing Opinions Commtnt of th American P'Tti . cently quarantined as disease car- , rlr. j 4 Th legal Issues Involved ap- -pear to be somewhat complex: in any case they ar for th court Ditcovery Cost $7500 Whil Russia Is spending a small soviet fortune to plant flags at the north pole, it might be interesting to note that It cost Columbus and his backer only ITSOO to discover th West Indie and get credit for all America. . Record show that th admiral himaelf on that voyag netted only MJO per year. The captains and pilots received enly S193 and. S130, respectively, for the same period, whil th common tar earned exactly $2 48 per month. But exploring coata have gone up since then. Four hundred and Ight year later Captain Scott cast hia shoe on a smaller and much leas interesting bit of real estate In th antarctic for l0.-000. l0.-000. Sir Ernest Shacktoton, following fol-lowing in hla footstep, manased to par th budget dowa te 100,-000. 100,-000. The north pale haa always been a ten expensive proposition than Ita southern sister. Admiral Peary spent only 8300.000 In racing rac-ing Dr. Cook northward while mare recently the backer plunked down an all-time high of 8800.000 for Admiral Byrd'a trip to Little America which makes Columbus look lik a piker. Th Commentator. Public Health Right Firtt On of th many difficulties which boaet th campaign to stamp out venereal diseaae haa arisen In San Francisco an attempt at-tempt to set free three women re- to settle. Th larger issue, and -.the only one of any great Interest to the public, is the question whether In mattera of this kind ths liberty of the individual Is more Important than the public health. To that question ninety-nine people out of on hundred would reply promptly that th publle health should be the first consideration. con-sideration. And so it should be. Sacrament Bee. Canned Mutic end th Union . Threats of the musicians' union to strike against the commercial us of "canned music" hav been heard before; and what will result re-sult this time remains to be seen. No doubt if all music heard was executed by human hands, mare handa would be employed If the public were to enjoy Ita present volume of harmooioua sound. But that the publio would get th present volum of music under such conditions by no mean follows. If th musician succeed in banning "canned music" they might merely knock themselves out of a Job making record. - The tight rules of the musicians' . union probably keep more musicians musi-cians from working than does th us of "canned music." The union practically killed the-custom of having orchestras In theater by making them too costly. Lo Angeles An-geles Tunas, I |