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Show This Week' By ARTHUR BRISBANE ! ONE PROBLEM IGNORED ! XO GOD EXISTS, FOR RUSSIA ! THE TOUGH ONE SPEAKS ! i WHY NOT HIRE GUNMEN ! j i We have a serious problem in unemployment, and unfortunately j it is getting bigger. I Nobody in the government seems to know that there is any unemployment unem-ployment problem, or to be actively ac-tively interested in it. No commissions are appointed to inquire into it. ! In England enough to live is given to every man out of work. 'Here we give him nothing, not even friendly interest or good advice. ad-vice. In this country we know nothing noth-ing about the British dole for unemployed un-employed and expect each man to shift for himself. We are a wonderfully rich, pros-oerous pros-oerous nation. Many of us cannot even imagine imag-ine what it is to be hungry or worried about our children. But something can always happen, and it is possible to start something that you can't stop. Can a country live without religion, re-ligion, churches, clergy? Russia thinks it can. Weddings, funerals, baptisms continue there. And Walter Duranty says the people peo-ple do not seem much grieved. Eight thousand enthusiastic atheists ath-eists volunteered to tear down a monastery. Art treasures in the churches confiscated are to be changed into money and the money used to buy tractors for Russian farms. One religious Russian mother whose daughter was married in half a minute in the Soviet marriage mar-riage bureau, bemoaned the absence ab-sence of religious ceremonies until her son-in-law reminded her that a religious wedding cost $15, a Soviet Sov-iet wedding only 30 cents. He had invested the difference in food and vodka. The mother cheered up. Frank McErlane, under the name of Charles Miller, lay in a private hospital, his right leg in a cast hung high in the air. When active, McErlane has the reputation of being one of the most efficient gangsters and gunmen gun-men in Chicago. As he lay on his cot, other gang- j sters climbed the fire escape to j his floor and opened fire. McEr-; lane replied with an automatic i hidden under ' his pillow. ! The gangsters replied, leaving three bullets in McErlane who probably will die. . I "Never mind who shot me," he tells the police. "McErlane takes ; care of McErlane. Remember that ' the next time you find some rat dead in a ditch, like a sieve." j Like a sieve means with many bal- let holes. j Lots of energy and gameness going to waste in our gunmen. In old days, Italian cities hired and paid well the most savage fighters fight-ers they could find, and bunt magnificent mag-nificent statues in their honor. The one to Colleoni is the finest equestrian statue in the world. These fighting gentlemen sold themselves, after careful bargaining, bargain-ing, to various municipalities. With our crime wave too much for the police, it might be worth while to hire some fighters of the McErlane type to work on thj side of the law. New YoTk is mildly interested in a young murderer who calls himself him-self James Eaker,, or James Ba-kerien. Ba-kerien. With dead bodies thrown out of automobiles after a "ride", bombs exploding, and similar features of the crime wave, it is hard for an ordinary murderer to arouse interest. in-terest. This particular young man admits ad-mits that he poisoned seven or eight people because he was interested in-terested in seeing them die slowly. slow-ly. His physical strength is interesting interest-ing also, To prove it, he tore a New York telephone book in two. Try that, to know how strong he is. What a man really wants to do, he can do. Martin Jensen, using the first plane turned out by his factory in Pennsylvania, flew backwards and upside down against a forty-mile wind on Long Island. Francis H. Sisson, vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Company, repeats what has often been said here, that the big problem is not production, but distribution. Business is on the upgrade. Mr. Sisson does not agTee with that distinguished political economist, Solly Wertheim, who says business is looking up, flat on its back, looking up. (Copyright, 1930, King Features.) |