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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Such Fears, Such Worries The President Succeeded Man Prosaic, Woman Soars A Bandit Face Lifted The government once kept out of all business, now It runs every business, busi-ness, Including farming. Senator Bailey of North Carolina says of the Bankhead cotton hill limiting crops : "If the Supreme court passes that, I should know the end of all things had come In America, and I shall prepare for the Socialistic regime and dictatorship." However, facts count. American farmers in 1033 received In cash $3,271.1X10,000, an Increase of 51,-158,000,000 51,-158,000,000 over 1032. Much ora tory and faoeialism would be needed to wipe out a fact like that. This Increase of more than a billion bil-lion Included cash of Innocent taxpayers, tax-payers, paid by the government to farmers for plowing under crops instead in-stead of letting them grow. But, farmers are not particular about how they get it, If they can get It honestly. Austria, a iittle country, whittled down by the Versailles treaty, managed man-aged by Dollfuss, of size to match, now is planning "muzzling" of j speech, press, theater, radio. That kind of government action leads to revolution, as surely as sitting on the safety valve leads to explosion. Men not allowed to talk, print or broadcast will do something worse, and you can't prevent that. This country shows an occasional disposition to muzzle' something, radio being the object of a muzzling desire lust now. Radio should be as free as the printing press. If radio had existed when our Constitution was written, Its freedom would have been guaranteed, guar-anteed, as freedom of the press was guaranteed, perhaps more emphatically. em-phatically. Thanks to President Roosevelt, and the wise attitude of employers and employed, the automobile strike that would have takn millions a day in wages from the workers is adjusted. The President has set up a "board of conciliation"; one labor man, one representative of employers, employ-ers, one "neutral." The main point is the statement that "the decision of the board shall be final and binding on employers em-ployers and employees." That means compulsory arbitration In place of disastrous strikes and inevitable violence. Credit is due to the President for tactful management, and Mr. Green, president of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, not boasting of victory, vic-tory, as less sensible men would do, says : "There is no basis for a claim that either side, employers or employees, em-ployees, has gained a victory over the other." Man's inclination is to follow the rut. Woman craves independence. Adam would have been satisfied with doing nothing forever. Eve would eat the apple. Dr. Mary Walker would wear men's clothes. sne once called on this writer while wearing them, and the sight was startling. Now, when you see fat ladies waddling in purple combination combina-tion pajamas and "pants," you' long for thin Dr. Mary Walker.with tight trousers, cutaway coat and stovepipe hat. The latest cry of independence is a protest against the hair-dressing nuisance. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, married four times, who knows her mind, announces a "one-woman revolt"; re-volt"; she has shaved her head and will wear wigs, any color she likes. says sne: "This hair-dressing business busi-ness has become a racket. They get a woman in, give her a shampoo and a wave, and for the rest of her life she is their slave." Ten million husbands and fathers, right hands raised, will swear to that. Ordinary crime, and supercrime, which is war, adopt swiftly modern J ideas and inventions. War seized on the airplane and poison gases. We might not yet be flying in earnest earn-est had planes not been needed for killing. Dillinger, the bandit, now at large, his baud broken up, two sentenced 10 aeatn, a third to life imprisonment, imprison-ment, Is said by police to have had his face "lifted," changed in various va-rious ways, by plastic surgery, a mole and a deep scar taken from his chin. Police show beauty parlor receipted bills found in Dillinger's abandoned lodgings. Mussolini held an election recently, re-cently, the businesslike idea being to let voters vote patriotically "in their own time," not interfering with work. It was a plebiscite, the opinion of the people was desired, and Mussolini simplified matters by writing out the program as he wanted want-ed it, putting no other program on the ballot, thus saving ink and pa- per. His judgment was sound. Out of 10,000,000 votes, he got about 9,900,000, showing "a machine in I good working order." I Some dethroned bosses in this country, Democrats and Republicans, Republic-ans, should sit at the feet of the Mussolini Gamaliel for a while. They would learn something. i . King Features Syndicate. lac ! WNU Service |