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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Socialists in Ollicc New Deal Complete Religious War iti Mexico War Changes Rapidly Americans, old-fashioned, surprised to mid old professed Socialists selected by the government to supervise mid criticize plans for industrial recovery, may find comfort In Europe. Socialism lias become, In many places, au important part of the world's political machinery, and without serious seri-ous damage to what Russia calls "capitalism." "cap-italism." Ramsay MacDonald, formerly a worker In the British mines, now prime minister, Is a Socialist, always lias been. In his cabinet working with him harmoniously, are some of the most conservative men In England, Including In-cluding old school Tories. Socialists have been prominent In the French government for years, even "extreme Socialists." Old Clemenceau himself, the aged "Tiger," who kept Germany out of France and sent the kaiser to Holland, was a Socialist, enemy of aristocracy and the church. It was his hostility to the church that prevented Ids being chosen President Presi-dent of the French republic after the big war. Socialists, like others who believe they could make the world over and better, often Bud when power comes that the world Is doing about as well as it can and that the wise plan is to go along with it. Professor Raymond Moley, who ought to ..know what is what In the new era, writes : "With the passage of the stock exchange ex-change bill, the New Deal is practically practical-ly complete. There is nothing that the President or any responsible member of the administration has said to indicate indi-cate that any important further development de-velopment of governmental authority Is contemplated. This will be reassuring reassur-ing not only to business, but to the vast masses of people who do not want democracy to undertake too much. "The problem now is one of administration. admin-istration. It Is the practical business of operating the structure that has now been built. That means a problem prob-lem of getting men to do It, for good men make good administration." Mexico witnesses the beginning of another war against the Catholic church, in the important state of Sonora. The governor, Rodolfo Ellas Calles, has ordered every church in Sonora closed and gives the priesti It hours to leave Sonora. Already religious services had been reduced to an absolute minimum. Governor Gov-ernor Calles of Sonora Is the gon of P. Elias Calles, who years ago closed churches In many places In Mexico. Peiping reports Soviet Russia "rap-Idly "rap-Idly placing the entire area of outer Mongolia upon a wartime basis," getting get-ting ready for Japanese Invasion. Conditions have changed since the last Russian-Japanese war. About 100 years before that war started, Charles Fourier in France predicted that Japan would fight Russia, and Russia would lose because of difficulty In transporting troops across Lake Baikal, and so it turned out. There will be no question of transporting trans-porting troops across Lake Baikal In the next war. Flying machines, with poison gas and explosive bombs, will fly high above Lake Baikal. That lake, like the English channel, once so important, is now as though it did not exist. Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, sec-retary, says Great Britain will not undertake to preserve China's territorial terri-torial integrity or her "open door" and I will not participate in any action "against Japan or any other power ; In other parts of the world unless the United States gives its full co-operation." You ask yourself : "When did Uncle Sam Volunteer as world-wide policeman police-man and chief chestnut-puller-out for the British empire?" Secretary Hull, seeing war In the distance, says milititarism must be curbed. The best and only way to deal with foreign militarism is to have here in the United States the machinery machin-ery necessary to curb It, in case It should turn In our direction. You can't curb militarism with soft words, but you can make It harmless with sufficient flying machines, sub-j sub-j marines, and common sense, eliminat ing tired old official minds from control. con-trol. In the noble world of "sport," which fills so many American pages and occupies oc-cupies the intellects of millions except ex-cept when they are listening. to the radio or sleeping, the noble red man easily adopts the white man's "sport ethics." In New Orleans, Tommy Marvin, Indian wrestler, was wrestling with Chief CiiewcUi. also Indian. "Clamping "Clamp-ing a chin .(.eel; on the chief. Marvin I calmly niled Cliewi-ki's eye with to- tmcco juice." Chewckl. confronted by J "a condition, not a theory,'' conceded 'he fall. It Is almost a pleasure to read farther far-ther on: "Chew ki won the last two falls and the bout by knocking Marvin aneonscious." , Kit. pr.t syndicate, lae. j - WNU Servloo. . . . |