Show i I This 1 his TT Week T i h ky ARTHUR BRISBANE To Kill or Not to Kill Yes r We Are Docile Guessing Population Muscle Shoals Veto Veta I While Governor Brucker signs a n abill abill bill to re establish re-establish capital punishment In Michigan l California discusses and will adopt it Is hoped a bill abolishing abolishing abolish abolish- ing capital punishment i The State cannot discourage murder murd murd- er sr by imitating murderers and killing as they kill Instead of oC death the extreme penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty should be life lICe imprisonment and It should mean life imprisonment with eight hours for work eight hours for sleep eight hours for regret and and re re- 10 Two criminals recently received sentences aggregating more than years and it was announced officially that they would actually stay In jail about fourt fourteen en years That makes a Joke of oC justice Other nations lack the docility that so Impressed the late Lord Northcliffe Northcliffe Northcliffe North- North cliffe when he came here The American people said sald he are very docile He was impressed by our obedience when ordered to stop eating sugar because because because be be- cause Europe wanted it What North- North cliffo said of ot our people is also true of oC our government which takes orders orders orders ord ord- ers about Its navy war gas gas etc very humbly Not Not so with Japan The London naval naval naval nav nav- al treaty allotted to Japan tons of oC submarines Now it develops that France is to have tons of sub submarines mar lues and Japan says Wait a minute not so fast we need time to think that ov over over r Uncle Sam like a good tar baby says nothing Whatever they allot is good enough for tor him He was not like that before international finance eager eager eager er to curry favor l. l abroad road did his thinkIng thinkIng thinking think think- ing for him Rolph extremely popular governor of DC California tells a gathering of oC that California will have a population of ten millions That of course curse is true and California will in time have a population of forty mil mil- lons and more Bigger and more fertile fertile fertile fer fer- tile than France or Italy California's Califor nia's nias population will exceed th theirs And the airplane will enable everybody every everybody everybody every every- body to live on hills and mountaintops mountain mountaintops mountaintops tops keeping all the low flat land for cultivation Governor Rolph says the greater population will help solve our problems lems hems That Is wisdom and this whole country even its near sighted lawmakers law makers will realize eventually how wise I It is When this country had fewer than Four Cour million people in Washington's day it needed more population Ion to consume what it could produce More people came wages increased and prosperity with wages President Hoover has vetoed the Muscle Shoals bill and Congressmen many of them glad to see their votes for Cor the bill vetoed will probably make no effort to put the bill through The public investment of oC a hundred and fifty millions will continue to remain idle and nd wasted Farmers could get cheap fertilizers from that pJ plant nt But Dut that would not suit the fertilizer com com- panle Manufacturers and householders household household- ers could get cheap electricity from that public investment but that would not suit the power companies And even even the weaning child should know that those companies and a few tew others are arc our actual government That Is not a complaint only a n statement statement statement state state- ment of fact It is probably desirable on the whole that feudal Industry should govern until the people people peo peo- pe develop signs of intelligent thinking thinking think think- ing pus plus will p power Dr C. 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G Shaw who specializes in culture art and such things says women women wo wo- wo- wo men soon will write all nIl the best books boos and paint the time best pictures The statement t pleases ladies ladles does no harm Is absolutely inaccurate and will remain inaccurate for centuries Nature arranges our work Men work externally women work internally Women will continue to produce the time capable men and the men will continue continue continue con con- to produce the greatest books and pictures That need not annoy annoy women Michel Angelo creating his Moses or 01 decorating tho the Sistine Chap Chap- el Is no greater than the mother that produced him Ho He is l her er work as the Moses is his work It is at the same time her mental grandchild Idle workers rioting in in Albany Alban seeking to influence Now Yorks York's legIslative legislative leg leg- assembly made it necessary to call out the State police pollee They cameto came to suggest a dole 25 a week weck for married married married mar mar- ried 15 a week for tor unmarried idle men inen Our best minds fear tear the dole and with returning prosperity will find tind a way to avoid it It Otherwise direct giving of ot money to families in need might eventually seem wiser than handing it out through charitable charitable charitable charit charit- able organizations that need 30 to CO GO COper GOper per cent of the gross for tor overhead which means menns salaries hotel bills traveling traveling traveling trav trav- eling and investigation expenses foran for foran an army of ot Hopi Hop Indians of the Grand Canyon Arizona have adopted Professor Elen- Elen steIn giving him for a tribal name The Tho Great Relative as tribute to his relativity theory In spite of his bes pathetic struggles it seems impossible e for Professor Protessor Einstein to keep out or of the tho limelight or avoid publicity 1930 by K King Kind Feature Syndicate lilt Ira |