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Show This Week h Arthur Brisbane Americans in Mexico And a Big Copper Mine Four Things You Need Can Uncle Sam Afford It? It may interest you to see L'nitet Stated citizens, wurking with Mexicai assO'yiates and employers, installing American machinery on Mexican sol Across the Sonora river, opposite Her mosillo city, is a long high mountaii of solid limestone, and at its foot unlimited un-limited supplies of good clay. American Ameri-can engineers have called the raw ma teriais perfect for cement, and sufficient suffi-cient in quantity to supply a big plani for about nine hundred years. In six to eight weeks, a moderr American plant, only cement factor) on the west coast of Mexico, will begin be-gin production. The MacDonald Engineering Company Com-pany of Chicago has the general contract con-tract for the works. The big firm reaching out for business in the American Amer-ican way, is also Installing in Russia cement plants as big as any on earth William Reynolds, who comes from Stockton, California, is in genera: charge of construction for MacDonald He is a blue eyed young person, representing repre-senting his country well. If you own copper stocks, you are engaged by proxy in an interesting changing business and might learn about it by visiting the Cananea copper cop-per mine, a little south of the Mexican border, near Douglas, Arizona. That mine had stock selling at $8 a share n.nnnpr nmnine ns hieh as 40 per cenl . ( a-pece". Tr-rc!:-ledrThe Walker aiTJ tay, you never heard that kind of mus-; lc in your life." j President Hoover's veto of the Sold-1 iers' bonus bill expressed his sincere, conviction that the bill would be; harmful to the country and the men j Repassage of the bill over the vetc; will, perhaps, decide whether the President and Mr. Mellon or Congressmen Con-gressmen and service men were right i Many believe that making it pos-j slble for three million men to spend a billion and a half of dollars quickly , will help business and not ruin Uncle; Sam. He found ten billions, quickly j enough, when foreign nations wanted, the money, and survived that, although; many of the billions will never come back from Europe. News of bread riots threatening in Paxis proves that conditions can change as suddenly, in prosperous France, as they did not long ago in prosperous Wall street. The wise men asking what causes the world trouble are as foolish as a drunkard, unable to understand what causes his headache head-ache the next morning. The world is paying for the war for the butchering of twenty million men, at a cost of two hundred and fifty billion dollars. The interesting magazine Asia prints a pathetic picture of a miserable miser-able creature in rags, haggard, timid His father's fortune had made him rich. Opium made him a beggar. The big war was the world's opium. Bui the world will struggle out of Its trouble and perhaps know better next time. In any case, this Nation should keep out of European leagues, world courts and everything else that could drag us into the next debauch. j In Hollywood, where everything if stupendous, a lady is suing a well-known well-known moving picture director and producer for $601,000. She charges that when she kept an appointment, tc discuss her desire to rise in her profession, pro-fession, the gentleman was guilty of a serious social affront. Everything in the lawsuit is taken for granted, except ex-cept the $1,000 tacked on the $600,000 An insult might be worth $600,000 or a million, but how can it be worth exactly ex-actly $601,000. A cynic suggests that a press agent added the one to make the suit interesting. (. I9JO. bv King heaturei Svndicatt, Inc.) was found and the stock jumped tc $200 a share. Now the Anaconda Copper Cop-per Company owns it. Cananea in normal times pays the Southern Pacific Railroad a freight bill of one million dollars a year. Mr Weed, manager of the mine a young American from the Michigan School of Mines, with his forehead leaning out above his eyes, learned the real business working in a mine after graduating. He continues learning the business by running one of the greatest great-est mines on earth. If you have four things, intelligence, energy, money and interest in the welfare wel-fare of others, you can do good work. Mrs. Greenway of Tucson, Ariz., has the four. She started a furniture factory fac-tory for ex-service men, not sick enough for a hospital, but needing recuperation re-cuperation in a perfect climate. That did much good. Then she built and is running a Tucson hotel, made up ol separate bungalows, all furniture made by the service men, and all for nolo tn o-iiests Just at nresent the place is packed, but try to go there anyhow, if you go to Tucson. If .you dc not go you make a mistake. Such a woman as Mrs. Greenway finding a way to help men injured in their country's service, working hard with no profit, and little thanks for herself, should be at least praised. Mr. "Pepper," Tucson's king of all newsboys, assures you that Mrs. Greenway is, "an incomparable lady," putting the accent on "incomparable" on the anti-penultimate syllable "par". "She gave me," says he, "two -tickets for the .opera that 0st at least .$5 |