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Show BEAVER PRF.SS BRISBANE THIS WEEK - The Steamship Fire No Shooting Santa Claus You Need Not Read Billions and Billions officers of the Morro Castle suggest that "Reds" set fire to the ship. I'e rhaps they did ; "Reds" are notori- On the other hand, ously wicked. "Reds" might be a convenient and profitable excuse. Havana reports 26 Cubans arrested for plotting to destroy the life of Mr. Cattery, United States ambassador to Cuba. Of course, they were "Reds." This seems to be the "Reds'" busy season. But, when you read about "wicked Reds" setting Are to the Morro Castle for the pleasure 'of remember that burning people, while nothing may be too wicked for "wicked Reds," it is also the fact that owners of the Morro Castle would be free from all damage suits If it could be proved that we ship was sot on fire. distinguished gentleman, former cabinet member, asked what he thought about this fall's elections, replied, "As you know well, can't shoot Santa Claus," you Dunning that President Roosevelt is the national Santa Claus. Maine's election indicates that "shots" aimed at "Santa Claus" will be few for the present The Repuba lican state of Maine Democratic governor and also went wet by a big vote. And Maine was the first dry state with a prohibition law passed 80 years ago, in A 1854. New York's Supreme court, Appellate division, decides that it is not necessary to be able to read or write in order to vote, a sound decision. Abraham Lincoln's mother couldn't read. She would have voted wisely. Shakespeare's mother probably couldn't read, his wife and daughter certainly could not More Important the ballot is given to the ordinary citizen not to let him show how learned a person he is, but to let him put dishonest rascals and Incompetent geese out of office. It isn't necessary to know how to read or write in order to know that you have been badly governed and are hard up. National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington. I heard a middle-westerbusiness man say on a visit to Washington the Tariff other day that there Negotiation was one thing about the pew deal which made him feel at home. His visit was In connection with some of the State department negotiations for new tariff treaties with foreign countries. He spent several days In those discussions, and the nature of the conversations was such, he observed later, that he felt a conservative tinge remained in the new deal. Oordell Hull, secretary of state, and perhaps one of the most thorough students of tariff questions, recently described the tariff bargaining negotiations as "stepping backward" to what he considers as a sound basis for solution of tariff problems. Mr. Hull always has favored low tariff rates, but from all of the Information coming out of the tariff negotiations. It Is made to appear that the secretary of state is willing to see some high tariff rates established where those rates do not engender retaliatory action on the part of foreign governments with the result that a high tariff wall surrounds the several nations. The observation of the therefore, must be accepted as some reassurance. It is undoubtedly true that there are' many manufacturing Interests in this country who are figuratively scared to death over the prospects of the administration's tariff treaty program. Nevertheless, there are factors influencing the results of the various negotiations which, many observers believe, will react to the benefit of American Industries long used to high tariff protection. This does not mean that the new rates worked out by the negotiators are going to be comparable in any or the way to the Fordney-McCumbHawley-Smoo- t rates. I am Informed also that It does sot mean the new rates applying between Individual countries that are now parties to the new treaties will be comparable to the low rates of the Underwood tariff bill. In other words, while I am not making the statement that the new rates will be applied scientifically, I feel that the opportunity is available for establishment of sound as well as scientific tariff charges. n middle-westerne- The government will refund one thousand seven hundred and sevenmillion dollars' worth of ty-four debts, and rejoices government The progress of the negotiations has that it will pay only 314 per cent Interest Why issue more fiat bonds been accompanied by the usual amount when plain fiat money would be exof alarm that always AroaseB occurs when states-Usuactly as good? Neither is worth more than the paper it la printed Alarm men are tinkering on, except for the government's with the tariff. I hear signature. talk, however, purely from a political During the 12 years for which the standpoint "that the administration new government debt obligations would not dare to frighten business will run taxpayers will have to pay generally Just in advance of an elecIn Interest unnecessarily $692,151,-bltion. There have been too many deor, compounding the Interest mands for reassuring statements from $838,500,361. the administration, something on which business would feel free to proceed, to Furthermore, the government will cause administration spokesmen to take have to refinance this year altosuch a chance at this time. gether $3,369,086,400 of IndebtedIt is to be recalled In this connecness and will presumably Issue fiat tion that the Treasury has been smilbonds bearing at least S1 per cent ing on prospective bond buyers by Interest. This foolishness will cost making guarded statements that there United States taxpayers In the 12 will be no early inflationary steps. In years following the Issue addition, the National Recovery AdTwo thousand ninety-thre- e ministration virtually has abandoned million dollars! Its "crack down" policy and the AgrWhy Insist on Issuing flat bonds icultural Adjustment Administration when you can Just as well Issue fiat has said In several languages lately money? that crop restriction will not be as rigid next year. It would seem, thereThe mother of Thomas J. Mooney, fore, that the whole movement Is Just sentenced to life Imprisonment in a little bit to the conservative side, San Quentla prison, hut to be re- but, as has been suggested, this may leased If Upton Sinclair is elected be due to the forthcoming election. Is Now it governor, died recently. Whether that is correct only time will proposed to take her body, em- tell. balmed, of course, out to San Qnen-tl- n election appeal Reyond the prison, that her son may look of assurance superficial on tariff questions, howonce more upon her face. The warden does not think he can "per- ever, there certainly Is a feeling in mit" such a thing." He ought to Washington that Mr. Hull can travel a long way In working out the tariff permit It problems if he Is permitted to do so. Is to be remembered always that a On Long Island the mother of It are three children took poison, as many thousand and one Influences This brought to bear any time an adminismothers do, unfortunately. suicide was unusual because the tration seeks to revise the tariff. It mother, after taking poi3on, stood does appear, though, that the various on her front porch screaming that committees working under Mr. Hull's she was sorry she had taken It It direction are examining each case on was too late. She was dead when Its merits. Of course the conclusions they reach will not satisfy everybody ; her husband arrived. no tariff rates can perform that funcMatthew VVoll, vice president of tion, and there will be much walling the American Federation of Labor, and gnashing of teeth before It Is all considered by those that ordinarily over; but If there Is anything In prosthink little of labor leaders, "an ab- pects, the current prospects seem to solutely honest and very able man," hold forth more hope for a reasonable says capital and labor should Join adjustment of tariff questions than to control the Reds. They might have appeared on the horizon for some time. , buy a mouse trap, pay In Mr. Hull has been discreetly vague bnt after they got the Red mouse In the trap It would go on squealing In enunciating bis policies and has not about the prisoners of starvation. given business generally a definite Idea That little mouse has not had so what measuring rod he Is using. It Is much fun before in all Its life, or at assumed In many quarters that he will least not since Lenin died. employ something of the same policy used in his pronouncements In the Greeley said. "Go West, young world economic conference In Montevideo last fall. In these pronounceman." Wall Street young men and old ments Mr. Hull suggested that tariff are going north to Toronto, where protection ought to be extended to they find a new gold rush most commodities the Importation of which profitable. It Is not a rush to reach Is less than 6 per cent of domestic remote mines, only a rush to the consumption. He also suggested that Toronto Stock exchange, where new there was no sound excuse for mainfold and silver stocks are pouring taining a high rate of protection for out every minute and "Wall Street Industries which, as he said, had such nouses." disgusted with their own protection "for a considerable period cold, cruel country, are opening of time" and had not been able under that protection to develop their branch offices rapidly. C Ktng Fttir Syndteat Inc. production to the point where the outWNU g.rvlca. put amounted to less than 15 per cent 5, $2,003,-843.69- fifty-fifty- ii miun iMtr HlLLSl BEVERLY Is just what I read inth ' I ever tell you about the of the amount of such commodity consumed in this country. Lately Mr. Hull has made some statements which indicate retention of the earlier pronouncements as his guide. He contended recently, for Instance, that the application of these principles could hardly be said to constitute a crippling factor upon any major Industrial enterprise in this country. That Is, he said, the minor groups who had failed to develop behind a wall of tariff protection should not longer expect to be milk fed. At least that Is the construction placed upon his words. Treasury experts have gone to work in preparation of a new tax bill. I reported to you a Prepare New month ago that this Tax Bill could not be avoided. The question now Is how much revenue will the administration attempt to raise. At the outset It must be remembered that there are tax levies raising five hundred million approximately dollars annually due to terminate next year. This revenue must be replaced. But there Is much more money needed, because the program of spending our way out of the depression probably will be expanded during the coming winter. Secretary Morgenthau will have the benefit of reports of his own experts and of a study under way by a special subcommittee of the house of representatives. He also will have the benefit of a survey of the British taxing system that Is being made by a group of tax authorities sent abroad especially for that Job. But I gather from the discussions heard around Washington that It Is not the question of size of tax rates on the scientific basis under consideration that is considered most Important Frankly, unbiased observers contend the significance of the present tax study lies in a fact that will not be disclosed until later, namely, whether the administration Is preparing to balance the budget at an early date. The resignation of Lewis W. Douglas as director of the budget links straight Into this question. Mr. Douglas Is variously reported as having Insisted strongly for curtailment of recovery expenditures and an early balance of outgo and Income. He left the Job as a gentleman and did not criticize his former chief. Nevertheless, signs are numerous that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Douglas did not see eye to eye In the matter of easy release of cash in the manner that has been followed since the recovery program got under way. Some observers here contend on what they Insist Is unimpeachable authority that Mr. Douglas was urging a curtailment in expenditures and a sharp Increase in taxation so that the next federal budget would be in balance with the beginning of the fiscal year next July 1. That would represent a tremendous Job. Mr. Douglas knows what the problem Is and he also knows, as a big business man, how necessary it Is to assure holders of federal bonds that their funds are safe. It is to be assumed from all of the straws which the wind has blown that the break came on that question. If that assumption be correct, wiseacres are saying, it means that the next tax bill will be held to the minimum. Although It may be a bit ghoulish, it is a fact that speculation has begun v..n.s a i Jl to the Supreme Court mms I II I- - preme court of the United States. At present all of the nine Justices are In good health despite their advanced aj;e. Five of them are in their seven ties and only one Is younger than sixty. The appointment speculators, therefore, think that President Roosevelt will be called upon In the course of a year to name another Justice. The circumstance sterns to have developed as a psychological result and as an aftermath of the death of Speaker Henry T. Ralney of the house of representatives. Mr. Rainey's death, of course, has political significance and once the speculators were started they carried on. The present assumption Is that Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, will be named to the Supreme court when there is a vacancy. It would fulfill Senator Rob Inson's ambition and It would be a compliment to him for the yeoman service he has performed for the new deal. Rut the elevation of Senator Robinson would leave In the senate something of a battle for leadership there, and that Is the thing about which the politicians at the moment are giving some thought. The majority leader In the senate or the house nee essarily must be something of a "yes" man. Without detracting from Senator Robinson's ability. It is generally known that he has acquiesced in all of the new deal proposals without having In his own mind a conviction that they were the best pieces of legls latlon that could be drafted; so if and when he Is elevated to the Su preme court there will he a scramble among some of the senators who crav the honor of leadership and who also desire for political purposes to demonstrate their fealty to the new deal C. Watern NawtpaoCT Union .BBV I nio ti. 1 ".iao Well. n nut.. win- t.i, "V 'Jon There U quite &B J In th tK '"Toil ily sn t of the ZS o,- in the world was round. I It was flat, the same i Hudson River Vista From West by National OoKraphfc Society, Washington. D. C WNU Servic. Prepared have New ARCI1EOLOGISTS and welllike enclosure ten feet underground which is something of a mystery. Who dug it and for what purhispose it was used. Is a problem torians are attempting to solve. New York, the Empire state, from colonial times has been a state of startling discoveries and marvelous development More than 11 years before Plymouth Rock and less than three years after figure In Jamestown, a sword-gir- t stood helmet and steel corselet plumed proudly defiant before a band of hostile Indians. The scene was the shore valof a lake In a mountain-bordereley, the time the morning of July 30, d 1609. As the redskin warriors rush toward him with bloodcurdling war cries, the intrepid adventurer is unperturbed. Not until the savages approach within bowshot does he move. Then he raises his arquebus and fires. Three of the four leaden slugs find their mark. Two chiefs fall dead and flaring-muzzle- d one of their braves clutches at a mortal wound. Samuel de Champlain, the great French explorer, to win the favor of the Hurons of the St Lawrence country, thus brought war Into that delectable land which we now call the state of New York. The Immediate result of that shot on the shores of Lake Champlain was victory. Though the martial Iroquois for generations had schooled themselves to face death In every form that savage cunning and barbaric cruelty could Invent still, for the moment, they could not stand up against this new, strange weapon that spoke with the voice of thunder and flashed with the tongue of lightning. Shot Gave Region to the English. Who can measure the full consequences of that shot I The enmity toward the French It engendered In the breasts of the Iroquois forever sealed that land to French colonization and made the Iroquois lifelong allies of the English, who were soon to arrive. It made northeastern New York tiie Belgium of the colonial wars, with the fertile Champlain valley as the immediate objective, but with all America as the ultimate prize. It raised Crown Point and Tlconderoga, and led Wolfe and Montcalm the one to victory and the other to defeat, but both to death to that fateful field on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec. That shot. Indeed, led to the lowering of the flag of France from the para pets of New France and to the hoist Ing of the Union Jack of lirituin over the latitudes above the St. Lawrence. One well might believe New York would speak French today Instead of English ; that there would be no United States, if Champlain had come first to the forest at the foot of the Adlron-dackwith pence Instead of war. Statistics seldom sparkle, hut once in a while some of them tell so eloquent a story that they are actually dramatic. Their measure of New York's place in our country's economic situation discloses that the slate, with of the nation's land only and only of Its population, contributes of Its bank of Its taxable clearing; earns Income; possesses one fourth of Its bank deposits; produces of Its manufactures. In scores of other ways they add to this brilliant record of human achievement. Whoever wanders from the overpowering roar of the mighty, man made canyons oi Manhattan, up the Hud son and through the Mohawk valley to Buffalo, and thence to the Inspiring thunders of the waters of Niagara, noting as he goes the mighty artery of commerce and Industry that ties them together, discovers that within ten miles of this most traveled lane In America 80 per cent of the state's population work like the beavers that once roamed where they live, to serve varied needs of the nation. What the Erie Canal Meant New York's people have ever been ready to capitalize every advantage of geography. They built their chief city at the crossroads between New England and the seaboard colonies farther south. Presently foreign shipping came In Increasing volume, and counting houses flourished. s h one-tent- h s one-thir- d Point Then the trade of the Mississippi valley grew consequential and the several states began to battle for it Even George Washington lent his prestige to the endeavor to hold it for Virginia. But De Witt Clinton outwitted them all. Never had old Cato cried out more earnestly or more persistently, "Delenda est Carthago," than De Witt Clinton urged that "The Erie Canal must be built!" It was a momentous undertaking In those days to raise $50, 000,000 for a waterway. "Clinton's Ditch" won, and presently the lion's share of the Mississippi valley trade was moving through the Mohawk country and down the nud son, because It could float to the sea on lake and canal and river, while other states labored and tugged ovei the mountains in Conestoga wagons railroad Inclines, and the like. Gone Is the glory of Erie canaL The elite, who once traveled through the state atop its leisurely moving barges, now roll at high speed in modern motor cars on superhighways, rush express trains, along on world-fameor fly like birds along the sky paths, seldom giving It either glance or d thought But New York, both the state and the city, whatever their unrivaled position, will ever owe homage for their primacy to De Witt Cliutou and that symbolic ditch. Never has a state possessed a clearer title to Its sobriquet than the land of the Hudson, the Mohawk, and the Genesee holds to its name of Empire state. Measured by the hosts of Its people, by the magnitude of Its wealth, by the extent of its Industry, by the splendor and variety of it's scenery, or by the magnificence of Its program for the public weal. New York Insplringly lives up to that title. Really an Empire. With more than twelve and a half million people, It Is Indeed an empire, outranking Canada by a margin of two million and coming close to doubling Austria. It has two people for every one on the entire continent of Australia and three for every two In the Union of South Africa. With $37,000,000,000 of wealth. It stands ahead of half of the nations of the earth. Even the whole United States, as recently as 1870, could not match that figure. Most assuredly In the variety and spiendor of Its scenery It Is an emAfter rambling throughout the pire. entire state grldlronlng Long Island; checkerboarding Westchester county; zigzagging up the Hudson and down the Champlain country; crisscrossing the Adirondaoks and Catskllls; skirting the St. Lawrence and Lakes Ontario and Erie; peeping Into every corner of the Niagara front; exploring the Genesee area; threading in and out among the Interior lakes, from little Conesus to big Cayuga, and from beautiful Skaneateles to gorgeous Otsego; reveling In the many beauties of the valleys of the Mohawk, the Chemung, the Susquehanna, and the Delaware, one thinks he knows something of Empire state scenery, and Is ready to say of It, as Wallace Nutting says of the Hudson, that here we find "civilization set In beauty." The magnificence of Its park system, the perfection of Its parkways and boulevards, the fine quality of its schools, the care it gives Its dependent population, and the plans It for the future, all stamp it as projects Imperial alike In understanding, vision, and purpose. There Is no finer chapter In the history of any state than that which deals with the deep concern New York shows In the conservation of Its scenic historic, and recreational resources ' This concern Is a fitting companion Piece to the ever growing care with which the state educates Its youth a growth represented by a tenfold Increase In expenditures for elementarv and high school education In the last 30 years. From Lake Champlain to Niagara falls, from the western end oft'hautmi qua county, on Lake Erie, to the em tip of Suffolk, at Montank east Point New York has set up a series of GO of parks, varying type and area to provide recreation centers, to save scenic regions, and to safeguard historic shrines, and Is developing them n a manner that no great has ever surpassed and community few havi equaled. r Urn : -. u. ."Si as 3 else now. Not being a horse WJ in the argument in anv . younger one took no interest ii ." sail into the setting sun, am J keep sailing into the setting i if we land back into Santa MMU boy Is right But if we go "piir we get around, then 1 am right, He was still in a miutsn J J get out for another week. Well tv of us couldent wait. We hadon. uuu weiejusi warning Up and W hunk, and myself got the ide4 q' Deiier gei out now, or tne be liable to have some retakei They then hadent shown thepiJ ana i ngurea it was better to escat. fore they did. There is nothing J make a picture worse than us generally oaa enougn the trstty und its better to let it go at that. times we retake scenes to whatm J "Uiear up a siuation . But iu known to the audience that e i Its Just as confusing to them as It is have been In the first take. Then for the "Acting", there is no usett take it for that. You cant learn b in that short a time. About tie 3 thing you can do with a picture a you finished It is to run then take out every third reelPJ will do more to satisfy an aik than anything I know of. The and sixth reels are the ones the; d erally get muddled up over. get them out and you generally p. pretty clean fast running picture, You see we take scenes where t; J in one door and come out on the& side with another suit on. Or with our hat In our hand where It on our heads. Well we know that. we do that to see If they are ear attention, inow u tney aont notice w and we dont get letters, why wetJ that they were asleep, or thattheja J ' ent go to the picture at alL But J get letters, why that tickles u death. We know that they are t( with us. That they have seen flea ture, and that they are awake, soda lowing the story every mlnuta shows that we got their interest An audience loves to pick out ttia ana i tell yon it keeps us an worra to get em little new things and Ms to pick out. Now take scenei when horse has quite a lot to do. We m use five or six different horses in U, picture, one to Jump the fence, anotte that will open the gate, another tin! will make a wild run down hill u other Just for the close ups. But tfc dont do a bit of good, an audieta wont pay a bit of attention to lt,ui wont write us a single letter about till somebody conceived the Ides having one of the horses white and other black. Then they picked null little thing like that away. Out that one was big and one was little never seem to Interest em. They Just sleep right through that. So II Just keeps a dlree tor worried pretty near nuts to think up something tub tie like that, that they will keep their minds on. 1 tell vou this thing of trying to keep the amused Is a tough Job. And now that thev are elewtt wo everything up so, its making it still. Now they wont pay any attend to em at all, no'matter how many takes we put in. I hope the whole thltl clears nn before I eet back. In t,A thats why I sorter had to duck out"1 to let this morality wave kinder W over. Well anyhow Its good to get f from It all for awhile. Maby they s get onto something else by the tln get back. We are a people that stay with one thing very long. ' Btayed with the Republicans to than we ever did with anybody but that taueht n a lesson, and ' will see that that dont happen M So here we go steaming Into the ba tlful Pacific Ocean. IVS4. HcN.ttkt Synduti: II Hj right n io raienu Tor ouroari" Luther Burbank. who crossed teloupe with a watermelon and tn duced the luscious boneydew nel could have obtained a patent for lb" P1"1 popular fruit bad there bien law In effect at the time. Or thl would have given him a monopoly 'ot his creation of the loganberry. |