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Show brisbane THIS WEEK Off in tlie Mountains Communists Would Weep Congress Goes Home Disobedient Twice McCLOUD, CALIF. This Is far oil ln the mountains; telegraph oilice closed, you feel like an incurable "shot In." But : I-' - , - t 3 , J 1 ' ' ' ' Jack Adams is here, an old-time telegrapher who can made a message mes-sage go from anywhere to anywhere, any-where, and find wires to carry It. He will "dig up" Percy Thomas, another old-time telegrapher in the Universal Service office in San Francisco, Arthur Brisbane grjg m;,eg down the coast, and this unimportant message will go to many newspapers newspa-pers in many cities. Just as though it were news from Ethiopia, or some dear little Hollywood kidy's explanation ex-planation of what caused her to separate from "Jack, but we are, and always shall be, the best of friends." 1 This is a city that would make a good Communist gnash his teeth, shatter them, hurry to Lenin's tomb, mumble Marxian prayers and butt his head against the walls of the Kremlin. First, the whole city belongs to the lumber company. Nobody else owns or can own a house or any other property. But no worker Is Idle, rents are low, prices in the company store are lower than In any big city, and for mountain climbing your narrator narra-tor bought wonderful heavy socks, striped alternately red, white and blue, patriotic enough to make a true Communist mount his soap box and ask the crowd, If any, what the world Is coming to. It is good news that congress has gone home at last, really and truly gone home to stay, heaven permitting, permit-ting, until early next spring. Until the fire Is out, and yon count the furniture carried out on the lawn, you cannot know Just what the fire has done to you. This session ses-sion of congress seems to have been a pretty good fire. The San Francisco Fran-cisco Examiner tells you that congress con-gress spent, ln its short life, just $10,25G,25S,92S.0G, or spelled out, ten billion two hundred and fifty-six fifty-six millions two hundred and fifty-eight fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and six cents. Who do you suppose got the six cents? Congress disobeyed the President only twice in the session. The senate sen-ate refused to put this country In the World court. Can you imagine what the World court would do to us now, In connection with this Ethiopian marauding expedition? Second, congress in both houses, overrode the supposed wish of the President by passing a neutrality resolution, making It mandatory for the President to forbid shipments of ammunition to any nation at war. Ethiopian rains are ending for this year and Mussolini is ready to go shopping for African land. France and England, now virtuously virtuous-ly indignant, have token almost everything, hut the cool, high tablelands table-lands of Ethiopia offer good territory terri-tory for Italians. To other nations Mussolini says: "Keep your hands off unless you want a war In Europe. Let me do my fighting in Africa. Know when you are well off." He knows that France wants no war; that England, Eng-land, still digesting the anaconda supper of the last war, could not send her young men to war, even If she were foolish enough to want war. The young men would not fight You know, now, why Mussolini assembled half a million fighting men, that could not possibly be needed for an Ethiopian foray that airships can attend to. He wanted Europe to know that he was ready for a real war if anybody wanted it. California's vigilante attack, on extreme radicals Is thoroughly organized or-ganized under a central command, with details of hand-picked rifle marksmen, intelligence squads, and strong armed squads. The American Civil Liberties nnion will bring suit on behalf of alleged Communists, tarred and feathered,, and offers $1,000 reward for the conviction of any vigilant of felony. The vigilantes declare their Intention Inten-tion to wear no masks or disguise, saying, "We shall pick up our men In broad daylight The whole country is behind us." More interesting than anything In tlie northern part of California, only 50 miles from the Oregon border, is tall, snow-covered Mount Shasta, rising toward the sky more than 14.000 feet. When you travel be sure to visit that mountain. C. KlnR Features Syndicate, Inc. WNU survic. |