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Show BEAVER PRESS .eta pan Is (jouncj Much Law, Little Action It Has Got to Work More Cotton Than Ever The Elephant's Chains (thefr representa tive in Congress Is a statesman, not just a Congressman). Now Gainesville, Ca., only gets $301,500". They are just "building practically a shed, and should-en- t be allowed In the same state with Waycross. My late hatutat of California, the old orange squezzers got Into Uncle Sam for a Federal Building at San Francisco for the tidy sum of $2,689,-OSThat first 2 there is millions, brother, them is not thousands. Theres millions in them aire U. S. treasurys. But get poor old Los Angeles. All she got was $03,000 for a quarentine station. Thats a station to dip the people that come in there from the North, or Frisco end of the State. You can build & pretty good dipping vat for $63,000. New England is still in politics rather heartily. Boston got $3,700,000 for a Parcel Post Building. Its going to take many a bale of hay shipped by parcel post to pay for that baby, Cambridge, Mass., nicked em for $363,919 for a post office. That shows what in"aence these Harvard professors in the brain trust has had on practical politics. Harvard should have taken some of that to buy football players, instead cf putting it all in a post office. Holyoke, Mass., got the following desert, $2S2,500. Walth-am- , Mass., $122,792. So you see Massachusetts representatives were not exactly what you would call asleep at the dole bag. Calais, Maine, did you ever hear of that one? Well it just took $100,000 to find it. They got one hundred grand to build a "Border Station." Thats a pretty fancy comfort etation just for moose hunters to check in and out of on their way to Canada. We now jump down to the old Empire State of Virginia and we find that their representatives figured out that everything moving down that way was coming by parcel post, so they are putting in a new $610,000 parcel post edifice. When you go in to get your crate of Dominick roosters, or jug of corn, why you can do it in a building that you wont have to feel ashamed of. While Boston grabbed off three and a half million for their Passel Post Structure, you must figure that Richmond ha3 always been democratic, and Boston is rather new in line, and must be rewarded. Des Moines, Iowa was an ofd Republican stronghold up to the late political change of heart last fall. Well Des Moines commenced drawing dividends on their late investment. They got a new loafing place for the town politicians costing $255,350. I thought I had prowled the width and breadth of that wonderfully progressive state of North Carolina. Their citizens have been mighty good to me in time of need. I have sold em a mighty poor grade of jokes, but which they always seemed to accept either out of sheer generosity, or eimply because they had nowhere else to go. They always patronized my single hand endeavours most bountifully, and how I ever overlooked a town that would demand a mail metropolis ot that fine old state. This structure costing $260,249! Well it just shows that I evidently overlooked the name may hit you too as rather unique as your thoughts. Go to a roster of North Carolina citadels. Its New Bern, N. C. I will reprat that, New Bern. Now as I can tell by my mall, there la an awful lot of people that like to write letters for no reason at all, and they seem to be in rlmiht. nq tn whn In write too, so I wllljjttfj ask anyone in thattf Btalo of mental capacKy to please write to T.'ew Bern, l N. C. 1 bate to see a $260,249 post ofllce not be slightly ued anyhow. Now naturally the town ( or Ia m city rather) being new to you, you wont know who to write too. Well In that case I would wrl'e to their Congressman. 1 dont l;now his name now, but he will become famous l;i a very short time, for he will no doubt have the capitol at Washington moved there. So Just write and compliment this Congressman, and If North Carolina dont properly appreciate him, Claremore Oklahoma, hereby makes him an offer. Why with him as our representative, and a town the size of Claremore, we would have gotten a million dollar P. O., a three quarter million bucks rasrfel post shack, a quarentine dipping vat, and a two hun- dred thousand "markers comfort station. 1933 Miaf' Syndicai: Int. Polly Could Help Jud Tunklns says If profanity all by iUelf helped any, a poll parrot would bo a most Influential debater. British person named Breth-ertotnakea this observation: "Not the number or excellence of a coun. try's laws, but the extent to which they are obeyed is the real test of a civilization. In the last ten years, the United States has passed over five hundred legislative enactments. In the same period Great Britain passed seventeen thousand, Ai the same time fifty murders are committed in the United Slates for every one commit-tein Great Britain." The value of laws doesn't depend so much on "the extent tt which they are obeyed," as on the extent to which they are enforced. Mussolini in Italy has proved that, as Dial did in Mexico before Mussolini. Our people, unfortunately, have little respect for laws that do not please them, as shown in prohibition. And some of our officials do not enforce laws, when the are able to pay for Immunity. A d Office, Wayc roes, Georgia, $1,350,500. i N V Baseball Is Popular In Japan. Prepared by National Geossraphlo 8ocity. Servlca. Washington, D. occidental man first C.-- WNU WHEN about the Far East, and Japan are envisaged as being much alike Indeed, almost as twins. But time enables him to discriminate. Historically, China is old and ethical. The burden of all her literature Is. "What ought I to do?" Japan is young and esthetic. The burden of her thought, as recorded. for a thousand years, is, "What is beautiful?" China is Geologically, Japan is recent Long after Mother Earth had settled down to rear her earlier brood of lands, Japan, the youngster, arrived. Only about threescore years ago Japan shocked her elders in Asia by departing politically and socially from the ancient ways and turning toward those of "the western barbarians." In nature, also, Japan has changed within our remembrance; Bandai san, one of the eruptions on her pretty face, misbehaved. For hundreds of years, so far as known in human records, perhaps during the millenniums of unrecorded time, It had been entirely dormant As suddenly as the discharge of a cannon, it blew off its rocky cap In 1888 and killed more than 400 human beings. Curiously enough, in Japanese the same sound, san, serves to the ear for either "mister" or for "mountain." The medieval village, Yedo, national capiand the tal, Tokyo, which it became, was leveled in 1855 and again in 1923 by destructive earth adjustments. Of old, the rest of the world knew not of these earthquakes. In the era of electric wires, even a tremor is news. Like some vast factory town in which the blazing furnaces take a Sabbath rest, to begin again on Monday, Japan has some 200 dormant volcanoes. How pretty, and of graceful figure, they seem! Yet these mountain forms are liable at any moment to become unruly, and when in these fits of deadly temper they often devastate vast areas of human habitation and alter many square miles of landscape, as we saw in 1923. At least 50 of these sleeping, fariylike cones have the promise and potency of continued activity. Lovely as their outlines often are, their breath may be sulphurous to the point of danger. Even graceful Fuji, seemingly as demure as a virgin In her teens, cannot be trusted. t; e one-tim- swift-growin- g flower-covere- d Lies on a Bed of Fire. Garments of green forests, of grand trees, the veils of bamboo thickets, a tapestry of flowers, or even a mantle of winter snow provide no insurance against direful outburst But, if Japan acts often like a fury, we must excuse her, because the bed on which she lies is one of fire. Go down to Beppu, in Kyushu, for example, where the dally rice Is cooked by subterranean heat, where people resort to bake out or broil out their various ailments. In the hot seashore sand, thousands of men and women for hours, even days, lie covered with the pulverized volcanic debris. By wet baking or parboiling, even to scarification, the patients seek to expel their many Ills. Beppu is a delightful place for a patient with rheumatic or other miseries. While there fs a fair chance of being swallowed up and changed to a cinder by some fresh outburst of melted rock, such as only a century or two ago filled the valleys with scoria and lava, who cares, when no one can foretell the hour? Does not the man of Beppu know that other parts of fair Japan may be visited long before his turn comes? Did not Snkurajlma at Kagoshimn, of old supposed to be solid rock, erupt and bury a whole town of 10,(XK) people? Moreover, how welcome the sequel to these earth's outbursts fertile soil covered with a carpet of lovely flowers and plants and easily coaxed Into luxuriant production of food for man ! "Shigata ga nal" (Don't care) Is the usual verdict on the unknown, with sons and daughters the merry-heartehow fair are the latter! of Nippon. One who had known the sons of the Land of the Gods for more than half a century classifies the two kinds of men Into "Don't cares" and those who, after every repnise of nature, cry "1M us rebuild!" Then, Calob-like- , these hearten others by declaring, "We are well aWe to do It." Like nature's dress, which later clothes In threefold loveliness, with color, beauty, and perfume, what was d once fiery scoria, the maidens know how to add to their physical charms through the witchery of raiment In his Ideas of beauty, and especially of dress patterns and whatever Is applied to bodily wear, the Japanese excels. For variety and originality' he possibly leads the world. Men and women In their garb lovingly copy nature's moods. When a maiden adds to her faultlessly graceful costume a "Fujiyama neck and shoulders," with a superb coiffure, who can do less than admire? Was It lackadaisical In the native poet to write of her: "One glance, and you would give your province; another, and you would barter your kingdom?" Love Their Land's Beauty. Yet, as of glamor for their women, as expressed In strains of admiration, so also and more have their poets written of the beautiful scenery and the special features of their native land. They reckon even clouds, mist, sunrise glow, and sunset glory as part of their country's life and adornment Yet it is not they, but we, who say "her" of nature, for personification Is rare In Japanese literature, art or language. Of a thousand figures of speech In poetry, many of which refer to the moon, scarce a dozen bear any resemblance to the description of that luminary as "a fair maiden with white fire laden." Nevertheless, apart from literature, In Japan all nature is alive with personality. The mountains, especially in the beauty spots, are inhabited by gods and goddesses. To the average native, these personalities in the realm of imagination seem as real as the virgin priestesses at the Shinto shrines. Every year, at the Invitation and under the direction of the imperial court, thousands of the short, poems are sent, for oblivion or glory, by the people, from beggar boy to noble, to the court's staff of literary appraisers and censors. After due scrutiny and appraisement, rewards are meted out not to rhymesters, for there are none, but to the poets. But let us come down to facts and figures of area and population and of facilities of movement by land and artist-design- sea. Travel today In the Japanese empire Is one of luxury and detailed convenience as compared with what existed 00 years ago. Japan proper is now threaded with 15,413 miles of railways and trolleys, rivers are 'crossed by countless bridges, and the ocean paths to all continents are traversed by ships that move with an affluence and punctuality that are akin to the movements of the heavenly bodies. Intellectual preparation for change had been in progress a century or more before the arrival of President Fillmore's peaceful armada of 1S53. Japan's modern history is truly as much one of interior discipline as of any reinforcement from the outside. On the other hand, America's intervention under Perry was really an extension and fresh application of the Monroe Doctrine. It came at an opportune time. The old mikado, or emperor, Komel, was nearlng his demise, and his son and heir, Mutsuhlto, who was destined to rule the New Japan In the longest reign (1807-191known In the nation's history, was soon to take the throne. During his reign the compromise between the personalities and energies representing war and peace resulted In shattering forever the Chinese claim of sovereignty over the Ryukyn (Nansel) Islands and forea and rolled back the tide of Itusslans and European aggression. Honshu the Chief Island. The present-daempire consists of the four large islands of Japan proper, with nearly 4,000 smaller ones; Taiwan (Formosa) ; Karafuto, the portion of Sakhalin below the fiftieth parallel of north latitude; and Korea. The country's life centers on Main Island, Honshu, the chief theater of Its history. Here is the bulk of the population; and here are the chief cities; towns and villages are thickly clustered. Hence, In the minds of for0 eigners, this large Island, with its square miles of area, la practically Japan. To risk a further computation, one fancies that 80 per cent of all visitors to Japan "do" Honshu only. Nevertheless, Kyushu, with busy Nagasaki on Its southwest tip, being the historic home of the Dutch who, for nearly three centuries, kept the world Informed concerning the hermit nation, Is far from unknown to the world a' large. 80,-30- Mr. Medalie, United States Taking out his notebook and pencil he commenced to ask the usual hackneyed questions. "Now, sir,", he said, "how old are Bit One trouble with this country Is that has too much lawmaking, not enough action. towns received the following "Doles:" Post Office at Huntsville, Alabama. $234,000; Post An Insurance agent had found a new life to insure. hj ARTHUR BRISBANE it. The following A This Week RD(HEIR BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know Is Just what I read in the papers, or "what I run into messing about. Here in an Hem that tails under my gaze, and its going to take an awful lot of letter writing to make up for some ot these. QUITE TRUE prescu-tor- , tells Senator Copeland, investigat- ing rackets, that he can name four Important political leaders in New York that, are controlled by gangsters, and work in with them. Racketeers, according to Mr. Med alie, contribute to both of the political parties. The Federal government ought to ask Mr Medalie about his "four leaders." How do you think NRA will work? To that universal question, one man old in business and commercial ex- perience replies: "They have got to make It work." They truly have got to make it work. The downfall of this gigantic, daring experiment could have consequences not pleasant to anticipate. Lloyd George say- - NRA will be the salvation of the world or its ruin. The French some of them say it will be the ruin of America only. "Making it work," changing a national system, suddenly, from free competition to government control of wages, days and hourr calls for much wisdom, tact and caution. The "big stick" will not do it, at least it will not coerce organized labor, in one union, 60,000 men, striking in New York, tell the NRA chairman, "The government guarantees the right of workers to collective bargaining. That means unionism, and we do not want to hear anything about unionism without any union." David Dupbinsky, speaking for 60.000 strikers, said they would not go back to work for anything or anybody until the employers officially recognized the you?" The simple-lookinlittle man scratched his head thoughtfully. "I was forty last birthday," he said, "and I'll be forty-twnext." J. he agent gasped. "But, my dear sir," he smiled, "you've got things a bit mixed. Tf A CERT. you were forty last birthday you'll ne rorty-on- e next birthday." A dear old lady from the country "Oh, no," said the man. "I'm forty-on- e was attending her first race meeting, today." and had backed her first horse. After placing her bet she returned Sex You I to her grandson. The patient schoolmistress was "My dear," she said excitedly, "I'm teaching a number of tiny children so glad my horse Is going to win," their first lesson in a school It was "But why are you so sure, grand- the alphabet. ma?" asked the boy. "Nothing's a After much coaxing they had mancertainty, you know." aged to learn up to the letter "O." "Oh, but this is," said the dear old "Now, Bobby Best," she said, "what thing. "The bookmaker said that my comes after 'O'?" horse was starting at twenty to one Bobby, who for one so young was and the race isn't timed to start un- an ardent film fan, raised his eyetil two o'clock." London Answers. brows knowingly. "Why, teacher. 'K comes next," he Borrowed Plumes replied. The two tramps were trudging wearily along the rough country road. Short Weight Presently Dusty allowed his Imag"I really don't know what to do ination to wander. about Jim," said distractedly. "I say, Fred," he said to his com- "Ever since I met Kitty him last year he's panion, "if you had a dollar In your only given me a bushel of kisses." pocket, what would you think of?" "Bushel?" repeated Jean. "What Fred allowed his hands to stray ever do you mean by that?" Into his trousers pockets. four pecks, of course," ex"Why, "H'm," he sniffed, bringing them Kitty. plained someout empty. "I'd think I had body else's clothes on." Feminine fndependence The Lady at No. 20 What did you Breaking a Monopoly. . "I'm afraid the country suffered a say when your husband objected to wearing French heels? great loss when they failed to send your The Lady at No. 221 told htm I our eloquent and able friend back to wasn't going to lower myself to congress."- "Not at all," replied Senator Sor- please any man. ghum. "The sense of the plain peoDangerous Risibility ple again prevailed. Why should the "If I see anything funny, I simply lecture platform be robbed that the brainy men may be assembled to can't keep a straight face." "You must find shaving rather a listen to one another, where Instructicklish business."' tion is superflous?" ouiuui UU5 g i o CROSSWORD PUZZLE i e I rp T"T3 5 iris rhz r"p v - po """ tf f mhm n is . M M B Ti Of iT 30 3 p J 3i B " " 5T" 35 O 34 union. The biggest industrialists in the country, those employing the largest armies of mechanical workers, including some that have led in paying wages higher than the union scale, will fight against being unionized as firmly, although, perhaps, not as threateningly, as Mr. Dubinsky fights for union-contro- 45 ment said to cotton farmers: "You grow too much cotton, the price is low, you can't make a profit Plow under of your cotton and government will pay you, in cash, enough to make up the difference." The farmers said: "Yes, indeed. Thanks." Plowed up the cotton, and then what? Then this: The money given by a generous government has been used to buy fertilizer for the 75 per cent cot ton crop remaining. Farmers have cultivated the diminished crop more care fully than ever, and wise cotton men predict that the cotton crop this year will be bigger than last year, because production per acre will be more than 25 per cent greater. Government is now persuading wheat farmers to cut their crop for next year, and promises to indemnify them In cash. Will the., find a way to get more wheat out of less land? one-quart- John W. Davis, distinguished American, back from Europe, says: "No man should work less than eight hours. What are they going to do with all the extra hours? Honestly, how many men do you know who will use for reading them for a worth while book, or for studying something they need?" Some prosperous Americans are able to spend tbe whole of Saturday, and sometimes other half days playing golf. Workmen might decide to try that, or polo. In the long run they probably could learn to use tbelr hours of leisure, at least In a way satisfactory to themselves, which Is the Im portant thing. There was a vicious elephant, and his legs were chained so that he could move only twelve inchei In any direction. When he grew old and mild they took the chains off, but it was too late He moved back and fortl. twelve Inches In each direction, as he had always done, and no more Maybe part of the labor world, suddenly getting rid of what the Marxians cal! "Its chains," will not be able to use the hours of freedom as well as It might But tbe next generation will be able to use (.1933, br King rtatutn SynJicttt, lac K 1 150 , ' ssyri I I 1 I 1 1 IS 15 14 16 52 ' Wttro Nwippr ' alotb 17 15 Three-toa- 35 Above 87 Small sailing; Teasel Banner Order of parasltle fungi d I 1 1 1- - Union.) Near 11 Shore toward which wlad blowa 13 Thosa who plunge Into 18 Implement to hold vessel In boat (abbr.) e4 Nortawestera KiUt 1 10 Sudden srnnt of wind Narrow " 153 srtsj i" Horizontal. nlnUh array mineral Beacdlctloa ' i (B by I I , sT 1 7 - ?1 j 0J The best laid plans, as men and mice know, sometimes go wrong. Govern- them. 4l l. Not an easy job Is before the NRA authorities, but they have got to make it work. 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