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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Quick Action Days Let's Get All the Gold A Mad World, and Tired Canned Blood For Sale Under President Roosevelt conn days of "quick action." The beer bill is a beer law now, everything signed, anil ready, including Internal revenue stamps and many new beer glasses. Fourteen million dollars' worth of now buildings, for brewers, are now unSer way in New York City alone. You may drink all the beer that is good for you not later than April 7 In all but the dry States, and you may get it, properly made, for five cents a glass. A wise young woman asked concerning con-cerning President Roosevelt: "If he does so much right away, what, in heaven's name, will he find to do through all the rest of the four years?" .'o need to worry about that yet. On the first day after the recent Stock Exchange opening, stocks went up, "kiting" Next day they went up again, but less wildly. The third day they went'down a little. One great change has come over the country. The tail used to wag the dog, that tail being Wall Street. Now the dog, otherwise Washington, D. C, is wagging the tail. That started the tail at first, but it is getting used to it. A President who does somethinj new every day amazes at first, but the human mind longs instinctively for a boss, and Wall Street is human. President Roosevelt's campaign against hoarding gold and gold certificates certifi-cates has produced excellent resulta. This column, as you may have ( noticed, has for several years urged au embargo ou gold to prevent European Euro-pean countries drawing our gold out as fast as we get it. May the Government from now on be as severe and effective in Its attitude atti-tude toward gold-grabbing foreigners and foreign nations as it is toward its own nationals. All the gold in this country should Etay here. And other gold as it comes should sink into that gold reserve and never come out. Eventually this country coun-try would have all the monetary gold on earth, and that presumably would settle the "gold basis" question. We should have about eleven billion dollars dol-lars earning no interest, but at lea.it the army of unimaginative "gold bug" and "golden calf worshippers" would be happy. The world is paying for its big war In strange, serious ways. Depression, lack of money, insane gambling, bursting banks, closed banks, Impoverished Impov-erished farmers, reckless squandering on armaments for other wars,millions of men idle, the greatest number in this "richest country," which had no business in the war. Such are a few items in our paying - for - the - war schedule. Widespread confession of men's inability in-ability to govern themselves is another, an-other, item. The will of one man Stalin, rules 150,000,000 in Russia. Another man's will rules Turkey, another an-other Italy, and now Hitler, imitation of Mussolini, rules with absolute power in Germany. Even in this country coun-try the dictator idea becomes fashionable. fashion-able. Millions believe that Congress, supposed to make laws, should step aside and let one man, President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, do everything, on the ground that the average elected official is more or less an idiot, lazy or dishonest. The Eritish alone retain some confidence con-fidence in their ability to govern themselves, them-selves, as well as a great deal of confidence con-fidence in their ability to manage others, including this bewilderedd nation. na-tion. There are solid qualities ia those Eritish. Most important to medical sclenca is a discovery by Russians announced by Dr. Alan Hirsh, consultant of the Soviet Heavy Chemical Trust, just returned re-turned from abroad. Human blood canned, with a slight quantity of magnesium mag-nesium sulphate, can be used for transfusion after being kept tor weeks. Experimenting first with dogs, the Russian scientist made successful experiments ex-periments with the blood of a man killed in Moscow. Blood transfusion 13 one of the most valuable forces of modern medical science, the only hope in certain cases ' of poisoning by streptococci and other ; Infections. Soon you may see the strange sign, ' "Human blood for transfusion," taking ', you back to the remedies of mediaeval ' days and Macbeth's witches. ; The Harvard Teachers' Association says examinations for admission to colleges, and school examintitlons gent-rally, are based on a false system, bean Holmes usefully pricked one foolish 'durational bubble denying that "all study trains minds." At lea:-t half the study in preparatory schools, hi;;h schools and colleges stupefies minds of boys and girls. France, worrying about the imitation imita-tion Mussolini in Germany, and by the hostility of the real Mussolini, facet) an extra complication, a serious adverse ad-verse trade balance, amounting to more than two billion francs for the first two mouths of this year, with imports Increasing. 1 A man well Informed says France 1 worries about Ihe danger of going off :he gold standard. Strange what power , Ls pofc-:c;:! by the fetish gold. We have our supply safely locked up, like the genuine tooth of Iliiclilha In the oriental temple, and mean to hold on j '.o It. I (.IV'.if. Ly King 1'ituro Syrulwatf. lot.) j |