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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Explaining to Canada Mr. Morgonthnu's Work A Yi ' 1 Paint for Crime Alfred ilu Pont Canada, hearing of a proposed United Unit-ed States "camouflaged military air- inane oust near ner border," asks for Information: The State department will gladly supply It. No military forts separate the two countries, no battleships bat-tleships on the big lakes. Inhabitants on both sides, being be-ing civilized, have no Idea of attack-ins; attack-ins; each other ; nel- ther craves what Arthur Brisbane the Other 0WI1S. Some clay, let us hope, the two countries coun-tries will be one, by mutual agreement, or Canada might annex the United States in a friendly way, if that were more acceptable, a majority of voters ruling. The North American continent, from the Mexican border to the North pole, should be one nation, or if Mexico and others would come iii, all the way down to the Panama canal, so much the better. bet-ter. There will be no war between this country and any part of the British empire! Common sense forbids it. Any air base of ours would probably be as useful to Canada as to ourselves,: and we should be delighted to see Canada establish a string of air bases to the north of us, especially along her Pacific Pa-cific and Atlantic coasts. Secretary Morgeuthau, never In business as a banker, interested, personally, per-sonally, in farming more than in money, mon-ey, lias shown the outside world, to its surprise, that he can make th6 American dollar keep its place in the procession, regardless of many billions of bond Issues, no gold basis, and other novelties. Gamblers that ordinarily enjoy speculation, spec-ulation, in ' exchange" are afraid of the American dollar. And curiously, while some Americans are sending money to other countries, to make it "safe;" foreigners, for-eigners, and especially Britishers, are Investing more and more heavily in the United States. Washington discusses a "West Point for war on crime," a semi-military school under the attorney general to train fighters to meet the " national crime army, that collects almost as much money as the national government govern-ment itself takes in. The war would be simple If government govern-ment would treat crime as it would an outbreak of yellow fever, or Asiatic cholera, taking it really seriously. Habitual criminals are known, men of ten or fifteen convictions, racketeers, gunmen. Make It clear that onee locked up they would never get out as long as they lived and you would see the crime fade away. -. Very bad news for this country, In which efficiency and energy count as public asset number one, Is the sudden death of Alfred du Pont, stricken with heart disease In his residence near Jacksonville, Fla. At seventy years of age Mr. du Pont was planning, as h should be, all sorts of new enterprises that would have been Interesting tc lilm. He needed no more money, want ed to be useful. Great Britain is excited about the Germans building submarines, especially especial-ly annoyed to learn that the submarines subma-rines are of a "super" type, carrying guns as well as torpedo tubes, able to hunt British or other ships any where on earth, some alleged to carry a small airplane, easily launched. Britain has plane-carrying submarine!, but that is different. German sub marines now finished are about to Start maneuver practice off Wilhelms- i hafen. Nations rise to great heights, glorious glori-ous power, then crumble, disappear ; desert sands cover their streets and I temples. Patient archeology digs them out and wonders. Bead Volney's "rtulns of Empires" to find that process well described. What causes it? Do nations grow old and die 'naturally," inevitably, as individuals do? Sometimes plagues wipe them out: the black death nearly destroyed Europe. Malaria tore down the power of Borne and recently killed some 50,000, following a sudden mosquito mos-quito attack in the Far East. You are not surprised to learn, In spite of pacifist protests and protests from certain Japanese who are tiot pacifists, the President thinks It wise to explore around and see just what this country needs in the way of "defense "de-fense methods" on the Pacific. A crime, unbelievable, has been re-Ported re-Ported from Texas. Howard Pierson, aged twenty, killed his mother and father, then shot himself In the arm, pretending that bandits had done it. After police had kept him. awake for awhile he confessed, said lie did It "for revenge." He did it actually, authorities de I clared, for $17,000 Insurance on his father's life. He killed the niothei I because she would have got the l'nsur ance. . King Features SynUau. |