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Show This Weekl kj ARTHUR BRISBANB When Germany U Ready Mussolini Does Not Ak Men Die Strangely Poor Old Capitalism General Kurt you Schleicher spokesman spokes-man for the German War Ministry, says: "Under the agreement at Geneva, Gen-eva, Germany has a right to restore her fighting power and will do It unless un-less other nations disarm." Other nations will not disarm, therefore there-fore Germany undoubtedly will reenter reen-ter the list of fighting nations. You con Imagine how some of the Allies would feel should they suddenly find Germany Ger-many and Italy united undor energetic energet-ic dictators. What would this country answer if European countries thus menaced should come to us again saying, "Kindly "Kind-ly oblige with ten billion more dollars and three million more men"T H. C. BywBter, British naval expert, says Italy is building warships In secret, cruisers and destroyers "of v phenomenal speed." The same Mr. By-water By-water criticized United States' 10,000-ton 10,000-ton cruisers. He also "accused" this country of experimenting with the largest, most deadly torpedo In the world, electrically propelled, with high explosive power, to be launched agaiubt ships by entirely new methods. Let us hope that accusation Is sound, and that we are trying te do something to defend the country-It country-It is not likely that Mussolini is building his ships "secretly." He has always said to the rest of Europe: "You attend to your business, and I'll attend at-tend to Italy's business," and unlike ourselves asks no one's permission to build ships or anything else. When men decide to die, usually a decision more or less cowardly, they do It In strange ways. One Jumps Into a volcano, taking a girl with him. Another An-other goes over Niagara, some Jump In front of locomotives, some hang, shoot or drown themselves. Roscoe Griffith went about it deliberately. To ambulance doctors, called by his wife, to find him eating a hearty dinner, he said: "My wife is mistaken, gentlemen, I have taken no poison," and he smiled. They took him to the hospital, he walked from the ambulance to the door, and fell dead. So many pleasant things can happen, hap-pen, so many interesting things are sure to happen, "gigantic troubles" meet so quickly that It i silly not ta ----- wait as long as possible and see. The "United Farmers of Canada," through their Saskatchewan president, presi-dent, demand "an end of the capitalistic capital-istic system," the farmers say: "Competitive production, for profit, under private control, is in its dying hours." It might be well to witch Rwilt for a while before deciding. The frogs got rid of the dull log, their ruler, tad acquired for king a long-legged bird that devoured them. They wished they had not complained. Capitalism ii not perfect, but It has been a fairly good-natured old ruler. It certainly has Increased wages, bath tubs, automobiles, radios and vacuum cleaners. It might be wise to try It t while longer. The way to rule the air, earth's new ocean, is to have airships. France and Britain know It. The British have built the biggest land and water fight lag airship in existence. The French are testing their "stratosphere plane," planned to fly from New York to Paris In ten hours. The plane wiil travel trav-el eleven miles up, where the "thin.'' atmosphere offers little resistance. Its engine, thanks to superchargers, will have vastly increased power at 20,000 feet up, and In the stratosphere, stratos-phere, 60,000 feet above the earth, will develop 20,000 revolutions a minute. The pilot will work in a cabin hermetically herme-tically sealed, with an automatic oxygen oxy-gen supply system. The French Air Ministry "has generously gen-erously provided funds for the construction con-struction of this place." We don't do that here, we are too poor, and besides be-sides we haven't any air ministry. With us the airplane is merely "an accessory" under the management ol the Army and Navy. That Is as intelligent intelli-gent bs though our surface warships were under divided management of sailing captains and canal boatmen. Query: What will be dona nhnm power developed by the new St. Law-rence Law-rence waterway? In Canada, of course, it will be own-ed own-ed by the people as Canada's share ol Niagara power Is publicly owned. What about Uncle Sam's half of th two million horse power that the waterway wat-erway will produce? Will it becom the property of the people taxed to build the $600,000,000 waterway, oi will it be distributed by "our best minds," among "the right kind of peo pie?" If you think the American people will be allowed that water power, you have forgotten Muscle Shoals, and you do not know much about United States methods, or about one thing that is the matter of this countiy. Buried deep in the speech that Premier Bennett of Canada made to visiting Britishers you find this about the new St. Lawrence canal: "This waterway will be free to all - ships of the commonwealth." We built the Panama Canal, we acted act-ed the part of sentimental dodos, and made American ships pay i much ai foreign ships pay, giving no advantage advant-age to our own people. The British do not da that. With them It Is "the British first, the rest nowhere." (,l)m, by Kim FutiitM Srs&cut, inc.) |