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Show bogey now silting at their bedside would vanish. Chamberlain, British chancellor of the exchequer, repeats Great Britain's policy of "a general cancellation of reparations and war debts in order to settle the debt problems permanently." permanent-ly." " Many a struggling American would like to settle his problems permanently permanent-ly by repudiating debts, mortgages, I. O. U.'s, etc. However, call it by what name you please, welching is welching, and sooner or later, some President of the United States will find a way to collect- debts made to "highly honorable" statesmen, "standing with their backs to the wall," as a British chief general gener-al expressed it. A few pages from the history of Andrew Jackson would supply useful suggestions. This country could discontinue issuing is-suing passports to all European countries, coun-tries, welching on their war debts of honor, and at the same time notifying . Americans living and spending abroad that unless they returned to the United States within six months they would not thereafter be admitted, and appropriate stops would be taken in the line of special taxation that would interest them. This would keep in the United States enough money, now spent abroad, to offset the war debts satisfactorily. satis-factorily. It would bring back to the United States Americans that prefer living in some other country, or compel com-pel them to stay out permanently, in-eluding, in-eluding, one American who has invested invest-ed American millions in another Riviera Riv-iera gambling house that was not necessary. . Many will regret that ex-Secretary Fall's appeal for a pardon has been finally rejected. He must serve his term of a year and a day, and then pay $100,000 fine, or it will be necessary neces-sary for him to take the . pauper's oath and serve thirty days more in jail. Because he is old and ' in weak health, and especially because those that gave him the bribe suffered no punishment, although they 1 were the greater criminals, many would have liked to see Mr. Fall released, had it been possible. , 1i1931, by King Features Sjfcdiiate, Inc.) This Week ly ARTHUR BRISBANE Nature and Man Some Have Money To Protect Air Mail Mr. Knudsen's Aspirin The sympathy of the United States goes out to Cuba and any assistance that may be needed will gladly be given. Nature strikes suddenly, unexpectedly, un-expectedly, blindly, now in one corner cor-ner of the earth, now in another. Compared with man, nature is a feeble killer. Her greatest acts of violence vio-lence amount to little, compared with his. As is usual in modern days, Cuba's earthquake shows no indication of a "special providence" interfering in earth's affairs, or any miraculous intervention- to minimize evil. The great Cathedral of Santiago is in ruins. A special providence would have protected that sacred building. And worse, the roof of the mater- nity ward in the city hospital fell in, killing women and their babies. A special spe-cial providence would have taken care of those poor mothers and new born children, even before protecting the Cathedral itself. Some of us Americans will have money. The noble Marquis of Lothian sold some of his books in New York City, and forty-six of them sold for $'305,000. One, an illuminated psaiter of the fourteenth century, brought ?61,000. The ultimate owner of the beautifully illuminated psalter, after Doctor Rosenbach, dealer, resells it, will pay more than ?S1,000, look at the book two or three times, show it to friends occasionally and put it away, perhaps in a safe. , For ten dollars he could have bought books by Jeans and Eddington that would give him information worth while. Some men feel that they buy culture when they buy expensive oid books. They are mistaken. Duringthe recent storms, fog, heavy snow ' on the mountains, there have been numerous distressing airplane accidents, great courage shown by pilots as always. One air mail pilot fell with his plane, it took fire, the mail was burned. Nothing could be done for the brave man gone, but something could be done to protect the mail by providing X fireproof containers for mail planes. The Johns-Manville Company, collaborating col-laborating with the Aluminum Company Com-pany of America, could provide extremely ex-tremely light containers of duralumin interlined with asbestos that would save the mail from tire. W. S. Knudsen, president of the Chevrolet Company, told eleven hundred hun-dred agents and salesmen at Los Angeles An-geles recently that a good way to . treat present conditions may be borrowed bor-rowed from a story published in "Life." "A man went to bed the worse for wear, and awoke to see, at his bedside,' bed-side,' a monster with horns, a spiked tail, and smoke coming from its nose. At first he was alarmed, then sum nioning courage, he said to the monster: mons-ter: 'If you do not treat me properly, I am going to take two aspirin tablets and swear off drinking. Then where will you be?' " " 'If a few millions of American take two aspirin tablets and swear off drinking, then where will you be?' " If a few millions o Americans could swear off shivering, the business |