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Show to find that not a newspaper id France ' printed it. j The minds of men and women work I strangely in emergencies. j One lady, when her house caught fire, locked her jewelry and best ' clothes in a closet, put the key in her ! pocket and ran out of the house, which 1 burned down. j A woman of about sixty decided to : commit suicide in New York and did. You would never have heard of her.'j suicides being common, except for ! certnin details. Before she jumped j seventy-five feet to her death from the viaduct at Riverside drive and One j Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, the ; lady took off her coat, took off her hat, j took off her white gloves, took out her ' false teeth, put them in her handbag, ! arranged all this property neatly in a ' pile, and then jumped. j New York's District Attorney Eayt racketeers and gangsters present a problem in New York that threatens every citizen, even government itself. Louis Sherwin, writing for Cyrus II. K. Curtis, recalls that nearly eighty years ago, in 1S51, San Francisco, facing fac-ing a similar crime problem, knew how to deal with it. A citizens' committee com-mittee of 7000 hanged four men and expelled thirty from the city. Thereupon There-upon 800 of the lawless element left of their own accord, convinced that San Francesco's climate was bad for their health. But today's criminals are of sterner breed, perhaps, and in New York it is alleged that some of them have for partners magistrates and other officials. . t I This is really a nation on wheels.! The number of motors actually reg-1 istered in the United States is 26,-1 500,000 and the number of licensed ! automobile drivers is 32,000,000, more than one for each automobile. The fig- j ures show there can be no "satura-! tion point" on automobile construction. construc-tion. , 1 If every automobile lasted five years, which it does not, because of rough usage, there would still be required re-quired more than 5,000,000 new automobiles auto-mobiles a year. And, not long ago when Henry Ford said he expected, some day, to build 10,000,000 cars a year, conservative builders begged him not to talk so extravagantly ex-travagantly as he would destroy bankers' bank-ers' confidence in the industry. (, Dy Mng t-eacures Syndicate, inc.) i This Week by ARTHI R BRISBANE This Strange World Uncle Sam in Wheat r.2land Goes Borrowing Eefore She Jumped Mr. Thomas of the British Labrt Cabinet says the world's trouble is the auaden end of great, buying power. Four hundred million people in China, 300.000,000 in India, 140,000,000 in Russia, half the buying population of the world, suddenly stopped buying. j Boycotting silver, which India and j China use for money, plus civil war ! and rebellion, are responsible for part ! of the trouble. And the United States' boycott of Russia is responsible for part. This is an extraordinary world in which too much of everything, too much wheat, coal, copper, sugar, and even too much money, mean disaster. Money was loaned freely in Wall I Street recently at 1 per cent on call, and you could borrow for ninety days at 2 per cent. Some financial genius should know j how to use unlimited money, plus un- limited raw materials, plus unlimited labor, to bring back our vanished un- ! limited prosperity. S ; The Farm Board has held up the ! price of American wheat by spending a million dollars a day to buy grain ! and take it out of the market. i Wheat has been selling at Winnipeg and Liverpool as low as 18 cents be- low the American price. This means that other wheat producing pro-ducing countries have been changing j their wheat into money, and sending j it where it can be eaten. I , I The United States has been using taxpayers' money to buy wheat and store it away. Just how that will end j I is something to think, and perhaps worry, about. , One plan would b to send the accumulations accu-mulations of wheat to the Chinese and let them eat it, thus getting rid of the surplus and storing up national credit in heaven. But, while we can afford ten billions bil-lions for nations fighting, we could not afford 90,000,000 bushels of wheat for people starving. The Bank of England, fearful of too great a drop in England's gold reserve, seeks from France a loan of one bil- lion dollars. i Friends of France will be delighted ! to hear that the great republic is in ! a position to lend so much, and the French financial situation may dis-I dis-I courage those that are urging Uncle Sam to wipe out the debt owed by France, on the ground that France can't afford to pay. In that connection one fact, stated clearly by President Hoover, should not be forgotten, namely, that the United States has already forgiven ever dollar of the French debt contracted con-tracted during the war. The only sums that are to be paid are debts contracted after the war. President Hoover made this statement publicly, and was surprised, perhaps, |