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Show "I BRISBANE THIS WEEK A Long Swim Money Flown West $3 for $3.3 Not So liarren The new year, ltjfjj, latest con-tiiljutloa con-tiiljutloa of Katiier Time to the lung chain of Loads cnllt-d "eternity," Is here, nd we are la It. We uliall continue to read opinions and rumors, plan and crltlclHin, of plana, la our Blow proi;ren8 to pros-ix-Tlty'a shore. It la a lung swim whi-n you axe thrown overboard la the middle of Lake Superior. Thin country waa thrown overboard la another lake of superior prosperity and unlimited expectation buck In l'JJii. lurnxtrg, newspapers devoted to the farmers' Interest, big bankers la tli Kimt, are Interested In the fact thut the money title that for so long flowed from producers In the Went to accumulators In the East, la now flowing In the other direction. direc-tion. The money tide goes out toward the farms of wheat raisers and lock. In the Wt and Middle West, and to the cotton farmers In the fconth. It Is as though the Great ILakes had been tilted upward at the eastern end, and the waters sent rushing toward the Itocky mountains. moun-tains. The tide will not flow long In Hint western direction, probably. Men that Iinve the mortgages and collect 1 the Interest accumulate the money, In the lor.g run. Long ago, a man wagered that he would Bland on London bridge offering of-fering genuine gold sovereigns for a shilling each find find few takers. The gold sovereigns were genuine, but nobody would buy. Me! Smith, n circus olllclal called "Lucky" Smith, het that Los Angeles citizens would refuse to buy genuine $5 bills for $3.39. Hundreds walked by, looked at the genuine bills. Some cried "Kaket" Only two purchased. "Lucky" Smith won a $100 wager. Many Americans wish they had been as Bkeptlcnl about certain stock buck la 19-9. The distinguished George W. Russell Rus-sell of Ireland, who signs his writings writ-ings "AB," says, "I am always struck by the terrible barrenness of rural life In America." lie thinks we must "find some way to enrich It," hud If we don't, "then the disease dis-ease which destroyed ancient Itnly will ent Into America. You will no longer feed yourselves, and you will be struck with palsy of bread and -circuses." air. Hussell mny find greater richness rich-ness In Irish farmhouses, but It Is a ridiness of the character and of the mind, not the surroundings. There Is little barrenness about, other than Intellectual. In our rural life with Its automobile, radio, moving pictures pic-tures within easy reach, rural delivery, de-livery, porcelain bath tubs, mail order or-der catalogues, prayer meetings, revivals, re-vivals, annual circus, the public library, li-brary, son reached by automobile. Next summer our ships of war, "venturing almost to Oriental waters," wa-ters," will engage in far-flung war gomes covering more than 5,000,000 square miles of the Pacific ocean. How Interesting that will be, and bow rapidly those ships would come running home to hide away In port tf a few large bombing planes should sail out from Asia, from Tokyo or Russia's Vladivostok, over those 6.000,000 square miles of the l'ucitie, and drop explosive bombs and poison gas bombs on the battleships bat-tleships I Geological explorers from the Byrd expedition, near Oie South pole, report important veins of mineral min-eral quartz, discovered in mountains moun-tains along the coast of Marie Byrd rjind. If the geologists should bring back actual samples rich in gold, how quickly men would find a way to reach those mountains, how Indifferent In-different to death they would be In the effort to get there I In Kansas a terrific dust storm, biding the sun, suggests that the Agricultural department help farmers farm-ers by developing some temporary overcrop that could be sown on wheat and corn fields when the crops come off. a nitrogen-fixing plant If possible. It would protect dusty surfaces from high winds and be plowed under, contributing humus, hu-mus, before the next planting. In the Northwest, farmers have used the "duckfoot" cultivator, which cuts a path 00 feet wide, going go-ing through the roots of weeds and cot destroying the protection of the stubble from wind and the washing ot heavy rains, A wise motto of earlier days was : "When in doubt, refrain." Ln Russia and other countries Tfhere the will of one takes the place of slow decisions by the majority, ma-jority, the maxim rends: "When in doubt, shoot." Moscow reports 14 more executed to avenge the killing of Sergei Kirov, making 117 lives taken tc sviiiite tli at one murder. Q k" 't Features Syndicate, Ina. W.NU Servic. |