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Show , BRISBANE THIS WEEK Propaganda To Influence Men Very Cheap Empire Good Airplane News The learned Doctor I.orge, of Teachers' Teach-ers' college, Columbia university, has been studying hiws r - governing pr.opn- . gnnda that Intlu- , ences human minds, - i epenmeiiling on !!) 3 'educated" adults fumthe lis: orf nn- ' C r H e 111 P 1 o y e d, trom J tw enty to sixty-nine t v v fM e.irs old. These V, i 1 were ftsUed to ex- - pi ess their views of 1 "ome opinions" ut- Vv vi teied by LIncoln' fe U Kosevelt, Hoover, v -2 1 nomas (the Socialist So-cialist candidate), Arthur Brlxl.aiie -' codliclge, Ilea r s t, Karl Marx. Many that reacted favorably favor-ably to the name of "Lincoln" did not ! approve Lincoln's statement: 'Capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not existed." ' Those that "objected" had sound reason rea-son od their side. Capital is not the fruit of labor' any more than labor Is the fruit of capital. Capital and labor are both the .fruit of human intelligence. intelli-gence. The intelligence of Thomas A. Edison Edi-son supplied labor, jobs employing millions mil-lions of men and paying billions in wages, and' that Edison intelligence alone supplied capital to those that knew how to use Edison's ideas on a big scale. The great element in "propaganda," "persuasion," In advertising, is repe titidn.' Say a thing often enough and the average, man believes it, not asking why. Of all human convictions, none Is more firmly fixed, immovable, than those based on supersition,. Ignorance, falsehood and preposterous credulity. Encouraging news : "An aviation program of more than 1,000 new planes tocost approximately $60,000,000 has been mapped by the Army, Navy and Marine corps for 1936."" If we can afford five thousand million mil-lion dollars to prevent the depression killing too many Americans we may well spend sixty million dollars to keep foreigners from shooting at all of us. The Van 'Sweringen brothers had railroad properties that financial wrlt- ' ers called a "three billion dollar empire." em-pire." Perhaps "three billion" referred to bonds, watered stocks and other "securities" "se-curities" of the "empire." In any case, the Van Sweiingens borrowed forty-eight million dollars on that "empire," "em-pire," largely from J. P. Morgan & Co. They did not pay the forty-eight million mil-lion dollars, the whole thing was put up at auction, the Van Swerlngens bought back control of the "three-billion-dollar empire" for three million dollars, one-tenth of 1 per cent of the three billions and forty-five million dollars dol-lars less than the amount borrowed on It. ! The hurricane that spread destruction destruc-tion over Jamaica and Cuba obeyed the suggestion of Miami's weather bureau and went 200 miles out to sea. Florida, Flor-ida, much obliged to that hurricane, wonders whether anybody has any definite plan to control destructive hurricanes. William ,T. Cameron, broadcasting from Detroit, able to Interpret Henry Ford's views hetter than anybody else, finds economic signs "already changed for the better." More important, the "American mind has made a remarkable remark-able recovery of equilibrium." Ethiopia's king has "about" 2,000,-0 2,000,-0 men massed on three fronts, all facing Italians, and ready for anything to happen. Under those conditions ' something probably will happen. Whatever What-ever starts must go to the end. It is. not likely, Witn Hitler preparing for revenge, that France will sever her Present relations with Italy for the sake of distressed Ethiopia. If dear old ' England should sally forth and find herself all alone, she . would probably "sally" back again without firing that first deciding shot. Mussolini knows that. In Nebraska President Roosevelt ad-, dressed hi? first speech of the cam Paln of i;G to 15,000 farmers gath-ered gath-ered around the rear end of his car ; d 20,000,000 other farmers by radio. He talked earnestly, with jesting; he ""demands the silence of farmers who ; applaud little while expressing no dls- I approval. i The farmer, who lives and thinks by "'mself, is not a demonstrative being. 1 Explaining and defending AAA, an j "dmlnistratlon device that tells farru-what, farru-what, where, how much they may P'nt, what animals they may raise. : What prices they must charge, the resident chose this convincing state-! state-! Hent : ., sfree years ago I visited farms In . 's' state and saw farmers threshing V-eerit wheat and shelling 20-cent corn." I t 'th farmers, facts count. There i o 30-cent wheat or 20-cent corn i now. King Features Syndicate, Inc. ! WNU Servlc. |