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Show This Week h Arthur Brisbane Our Country Is Intact What Ails Us? Playing at War ' Science and Crime Traveling across this country from west to east it is difficult to believe that anything serious is the matter with it, except the foolishness of. its Inhabitants. A few hundred millions of acres of land cultivated, a billion acres waiting to be developed, mines from which billions bil-lions have been taken in gold, silver, copper and other mines with more billions bil-lions waiting to be developed, millions of cattle, sheep, swine, millions of able and patient farmers, millions of skilled mechanics, the ablest engineers, greatest, great-est, most perfectly equipped factories la the world, such are a few of our national possessions, to which should be added waterfalls, oil and coal deposits de-posits apparently inexhaustible, to produce pro-duce the power that Industry demands. What Is the matter with us? The ancient dinosaur, enormous in build and power, possessed everything except a brain strong enough to direct and protect his great body. Has this dinosaur nation the same trouble, do we lack a national intelligence intelli-gence as wide as the country, a governing gov-erning intellect capable of managing manag-ing it from Alaska to Florida? Is our trouble a lack of Intelligent interest among voters? Do we need a dictator to govern those that will not govern themselves? The nation has more of everything than Its people can use, more coal, oil, cotton, wheat, food and wealth of all kinds, land, machinery, skilled workers. work-ers. And millions of the people have nothing, but worry and fear for the future. What Is the matter with us? Chamberlain, England's Chancellor of the Exchequer, tells the British that they can solve all economic problems with "work, economy, courage and patience." |