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Show 4 This Week ARTHUR BUISUANU Are We Coins Downhill? Our Foolish Meddling Girl or LJoy, Choose One Lived Long, One Died More sad news concerning our late comes from an important U&riiuui magazine culled "Queisehnitt. It says: "We don't believe iu America auy more." "Querschnitt" agrees with other European authorities that we have lost our energy, our resources are limited, we nuvu become conservative ami are ou the road to decadence. As for our resources when you consider con-sider that this couutry within a tew years will have paid out twenty-one thousand million dollars to war veterans veter-ans alone, you realize that we have soino resources. And when you consider further that our oil is practically inexhaustible, while our gold and silver supplies have been barely lapped, you are inclined in-clined to assure "querschnitt" that we shall probably go along as "the t- land of opportunity" lor some time to come. Une day Europe tells us: "You are so rich that you ought not to ask payment pay-ment ol ten thousand millions thai we owe you." Next day we are told that we are decadent, on the down jjiade, "We have tost confidence in you." Very puzzling. This country annoys Japan with criticism, unjustified, concerning matters mat-ters not our business. We irritate .Russia, refusing to recognize rec-ognize one of the most strongly established estab-lished governments ou earth, presumptuously pre-sumptuously telling the Russians what kind of government they must not have. The result may be to force an alliance alli-ance of Russia and Japan against this and other western countries, perhaps a concentration of the two on this particular par-ticular country. Why not let Japan attend to her business in Asia, and let Russia have what government she chooses? There is no proof that the Lord made this country to instruct Japan or Russia in moral truth. We have enough business here undone un-done and plenty of incompetency. Why not try to attend to them? Scientific important news of today, inaccurate let us hope, announces that the use of lactic acid by the mother moth-er will cause a girl baby to appear, whereas bicarbonate of soda will produce pro-duce a heavy plurality of boys. Dr. Jacob Sanders of Rotterdam, Holland, tells the international congress of genttics that seventy-eight mothers using bicarbonate of soda gave birth to seventy-seven boys. Farmers will be interested to learn that the use of lactic acid on six cows produced six female calves. That would help farming, but it would be a misfortune if the sex of human beings could be controlled. The vanity of fathers and the affection of mothers would soon make girls scarce. One above the other on a front page you read two news items. First, "A gray haired man sat on a bench in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, shot and killed himself." He had twenty-seven cent3 concealed conceal-ed in the band of his hat and left a note asking to be "dropped into deep water." Pie dropped into deep water when he pulled the trigger. Second, you read, "Spaniard dies at 108." Felip Juare Valie Kspinoso had seven children, fifty grandsons, sixty-one sixty-one great grandsons, if babies did not die, how soon the world would be overpopulated. Why do some of us hang on to life grimly, urging death to stay away, ' while others beckon death to come? Britain worries about the strike of textile workers, 9U per cent of them, with posisbility of a strike so great as to afflict 10,UOU,000 people. Lincoln said no country could live "half slave and half-free." Britain discovers that it is troublesome to have a country half labor and half capitalism. in Bolivia Professors Bennett and Phillips of the American Museum of Natural History, found deep in the forest a huge Monolith twenty-four feet long. Men struggled over that heavy stone long centuries ago, in Bolivia's forests, for-ests, succeeding in excavating and .v moving it. Today men are struggling to harness har-ness the tides, to harness the sun, and trying to retrain from murdering each other in war. Man; now and in the future, will succeed with his problems prob-lems as those Ancient Bolivians did. Struggle is born in us, and victory is stored away in ambition. Bandits with deadly weapons in automobiles au-tomobiles have appeared near London and that old fashioned city is excited. Scotland Yard puts a ring of detectives detec-tives and policemen around the big city, examines cars on bridges and highways, really shows interest in the fact that crime is organizing itself. We don't take things as seriously in the United States. It appears that newspaper publishers publish-ers have some value, iu hard times. The University of Southern California discovers that subscribers to newspapers news-papers buy from 12 to 21 per cent more merchandise from local stores than non-subscribers. According to the university's investigation, business would be 25 per cent smaller without newspaper advertising. by King t-ejutfes Syndicate, Iac.) |