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Show 4 This Week h Arthur Brisbane Governor Roosevelt's Courage Best Minds Come Back No 10 Per Cent Civili7ation'a Start The country rejoicing at Governor Roosevelt's escape, finds additloual satisfaction in the fact that statements by the Miami police show the shooting was the act of a mad man, not the expression ex-pression of any fanatic class hatred. The man who fired the shot with such disastrous effects, but, fortunately, fortu-nately, without injuring the Presidentelect, President-elect, talked at random. "I like Roosevelt as a man, but I kill all Presidents. I don't kill police; they work for a living. After an operation, oper-ation, I have bad pains in my stomach 1 hate the rich and powerful that oppress op-press the poor, etc." Great business men, heads of all our big industries, with their big brains and solemn looks, are invited by the Senate to tell what is the matter with us, and how to prevent it and stop it, whatever it is. This seems a good idea. Those that have been hardest hit should know what hit them. Some may remember, anxiously, how all the great ones summoned to the White House at the beginning of our depression, came in squadrons and platoons, with remedies ready-made, and how the depression did not stop. The result of that congregation of "best minds" was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which has handed hand-ed out hundreds of millions to "best mind;;" and corporations in need of ready cash, but has not done much for the small individuals in need of a job Washington is waiting for England's proposition concerning the war debts. Mr. Rainey of Illinois says one billion or 10 cents on the dollar, the most probable proposition, is "sheer nonsense." non-sense." Mr. Rainey must prepare for another shock for the proposition may include payment in depreciated British or other currency, and possibly part payment in silver, at a price about double the present value. Would it not be simpler to say to our European friends "Go ahead and default. It will be worth ten billions plus interest to know that your promise to pay is worth nothing." One thing is certain any political party accepting a 10 per cent debt settlement would not stay in power long. Without losing his temper Uncle Sam might say: "You owe us the money, if you don't intend to pay, don't." We could then proceed to collect indirectly. Everybody interested in what we call "civilization" will learn with interest that civilization, or "culture," in the" Nile valley is older than that of China. Settled life, or "civilized," with kings, religions, taxes, engineers and armies, begins where there is a constant, con-stant, reliable water supply. In the Valley of the Nile, in Mesopotamia, Mesopo-tamia, where the Tigris and Euphrates guaranteed fertility, along the Yellow River, in China, men having rich soil, plus water and therefore a regular supply of food, could have leisure, use their brains, think and start the human race on its career of settled living in cities and fixed abodes, instead of eternally migrating. That Nile civilization is older by two thousand years than that of the Yellow River, reaching to Southern Manchuria and Mongolia, Is important. Unpleasant news from Michigan, as regards finance, good news concerning concern-ing the prompt action of the Governor. With a big bank that had just bor rowed it little allotment of millions from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Cor-poration in difficulties, the Governor closes all banks for eight days, to protect pro-tect the depositors of the bank In trouble while plans are made. Prior to this announcement, the public pub-lic learns of banks to which the Reconstruction Re-construction Corporation had already sent eighty-nine millions closing their doors despite the help. That "finance corporation" might wisely take Bernard Ber-nard Earuch's advice given before the Senate committee and stop shoveling public money into ratholes. William Hard in Washington says I Mr. Roosevelt will be a Constitutional dictator "directing the nation's destinies.' des-tinies.' ' Too many conflicting opinions delay recovery and the return of normal nor-mal times, according to Mr. Hard. The country needs "drastic, vivid Btlmu-lants." Btlmu-lants." so Mr. Roosevelt is to do whatever what-ever he thinks best, Constitution or no Constitution. All very interesting. If you have a plan, if it happens to he the right plan, and if you iiave the will power to carry it out. Mussolini, for Instance, could stop our racketeering and crime wave. Keinal Pasha of Turkey, or Stalin of Itussla, could make us do whatever he chose. He would hang us if v,e reTused. i;ut Italy, Turkey and Rusnla, with populations largely homogeneous, take orders more, readily than the mixed population of America would take them. The little navl(:H of Peru and Colombia Colom-bia are fighting, and won't laHt long If It he true that airplanes are dropping bomhs on tlio giinhoalH. The coiumari'b-r of Colombia's plancH "carrie valoiou ly and attacked the enemy, Peruvian plamH, forcing them to n l i i " " Ci o .'.' Ih In Hie hi r :t applaud ap-plaud H lr.i!ii'.;il!..'. We had that fitinlir: jpplau ;e In our MUvi-tn before niS. I |