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Show ' ' ' BRISBANE THIS WEEK Pass the Putman Bill They Love King George Parachutes? Puzzle for Solomon The senate votes, 55 to 33, to pay the veterans their bonus In cash. That vote, not being h two-thirds vote, would not overrule the Presidential veto, which is expected. ex-pected. The Patman bill, wisely approved, gives the veterans their money to spend in their way for things they want. Under that bill veterans are to be paid with new money. That money as soon as received Arthur Brl.bune would a van,sh ,n purchases In every corner of the United States. New United States money Is exactly as good as new bonds, since paper dollars and paper bonds get all their i value from the name of the government govern-ment printed on them. There are no longer any gold payments promised or Implied. If government money is nol good, government bonds are not good President Roosevelt, congratulating King George, says: "It is gratifying to contemplate the wise and steadfast Influence which your majesty has ex erted for a quarter of a century." That was about all 'that the President with the best of intentions, could say. for the British ruler's popularity Is based on sticking to his job, which is letting his people alone, while they at tend to their business in their own way. The. king seems to think that those who have built the greatness of the British empire to its present height may be trusted to continue building It. Some "best minds" here feel that any success or progress In the United States has been more or less of an accident, under bad management; and needs to start again on a new plan. Time will tell whether a government policy of "let them alone"or "tell them how" Is better. Five killed, eight injured, in an airplane air-plane crash. The dead include Senator Cutting of New Mexico, who will be deeply regretted by his state and by the senate. Flying In fog, fuel gave out. The last radio message was: "Fuel's getting get-ting low. We can't find a break in the fog. It looks like a forced landing." Both pilots were killed; they did their best. An occasional disaster will not discourage dis-courage flying, but this particular accident ac-cident raises again the question. Should not airplane builders concentrate on parachute protection for passengers? King Solomon never solved any such problem as this: A New York manufacturer manu-facturer wished to advertise "invisible panties," In usual words small trous ers worn by modern women. NRA rules say that if the article advertised is not invisible, the advertising is "false and misleading and violates the code." If those panties are invisible, NRA cannot pass on them, and their manufacturer must not attempt to dls play them on models, for evident rea sons dealing with morality. Eight million young women in Ger many are unmarried. The government invites 333,000 of them to marry "healthy, virile, hereditary fanners." To lead the unmarried German girl to the "virile, hereditary farmer" may be easier than making her marry him A labor law compels women under twenty-five years of age to serve one year on farms before they can take other jobs. Once you begin to tell human beings how they must live, life becomes com plicated. Pope Pius, addressing 130 G?rman Pilgrims, spoke plainly about Ger many's present Hitler government : "They wish In the name of so-called positive Christianity to dechrlstlanlze Oermnny. and they wish to conducl the country back to barbaric paganism, nnd nothing is left undone to disturb Christian and Catholic life." The pope's words referred to the un Pleasant welcome home of 2,000 young German pilgrims that went to Rome to receive the papal blessing. Harry 1 Hopkins, federal emergency relief administrator, uses language as l'laln as that of Mussolini or Stalin. He finds that we have In America a class of "oppressors," rich men, and promises that that small, oppressive, business minority "who extol poverty nnd profits In the same breath" shall te made outcasts in the "new order" that is coming. ne English town will celebrate the king's -Jubilee by distributing free beer. Might It not be a good Iden to make light beer part of the regular food sup Ply of men In this government's CCC camps? Minus government tax, It would cost little, keep men contented, abolish or diminish complaints of some workers spending their small supplies of money with bootleggers. . Ktnjt Features Svndlcatt. Inc. WNU Servloe. |