Show JAMES PRESTON Some of journalism's sanest thinking takes place during the I holiday which is the inevitable practice among Wash Wash- 1 i n g t ton o n correspondents Their thoughts stimulated by the issues CS of the tha current political campaign the highly trained who report events for the folks back home homo continue among themselves to discuss national qu questions at Informal in informal informal In- In formal gatherings at the Press Club and in friends' friends homes The Tha results of these discussions frequently leads leads to clearer conI conceptions conceptions con con- I of national nation questions that result in more accurate appraisal appraisal appraisal ap ap- of events in their daily dispatches Recently a group of ot journalists were engaged in shop shoptalk shoptalk shoptalk talk at the National Press Club The Tha discussion sion developed the fact to the surprise of many that some politicians were doing all they could to build up a belief that profits were improper that it wa against the best boot Inter interests interests in In- ter ts of all the people for some to make profits 0 O That in itself was a surprise so the correspondents went further furth furth- er in their discussion trying to decide decide decide de de- de- de cide what a was They reached the inescapable conclusion that everybody who has an income in in- come whether come whether it b be coupons clip clipped ped from bonds or a weekly or daily wage wage wage-is is making profits The Individual wage earner they concluded invests his ability and in some cases his brawn His investment brings a profit back to him in the form of a wage or salary When the profit accumulates accumulates accumulates accum accum- he in turn invests it and the profit goes to work for him making 1 him m more profit 0 O Some of the correspondents had been relaying political criticisms of profit to their papers From now on though their dispatches ar are likely to 0 be tinged with a little little little lit lit- tle doubt They have no desire to see their personal profit disappear pear pear pear-it it comes cornea to them in the form of a weekly wage and it tt en en- ables them to eat Dont Don't be startled ed if it you find some Washington dispatches implying that a profit profit prof it Is la all right 0 O These same correspondents are extremely interested in what Is la happening in the Canadian province province province ince of Alberta Premier William Aberhart of Alberta was elected on a promise promis to pay pensions ito to everybody That plan wouldn't work out out so he initiated a scheme of inflation through the use of monetary scrip The newspapers predicted the pension scheme would fail it did Now they are are- criticizing the scrip plan Ab Aberhart touchy threatens to require the licensing of news news- papers He would of course grant licenses license only to the papers which were nice to him Washington correspondents are Interested for two reasons OIlS First it shows what happens when a Wealth the Messiah fails falls second it reminds them of the under which newspapers could have been required to get federal licenses 0 O The Census Bureau has put some other federal agencies on the spot Recently it announced that since 1900 the average span of life for men in th the United States increased in increased increased in- in creased from 48 to 59 years and ana for women from 51 to 63 years It added that increase was due in part to labor saving inventions inventions inventions in inthe the home Some other agencies ar are seeking seeking seeking seek seek- ing to picture labor saving M devices de as destroyers of oC jobs and life |