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Show cEange purchases and gives Eer stock exchange full swing again. Theoretically, it seems barbarous for the world's different nations to live inside in-side a tariff wall, each shutting out his neighbor. But practically, if you have money to spend, it is a good thing to spend it with members of your own family, first; your own nation, second. The new cry in England: "Buy British," Brit-ish," is yielding results. If Lord Beaverbrook can carry through his plan to free trade inside of the empire, all of its units trading with each other without restrictions, as our forty-eight States trade with each other, no custom houses between, be-tween, there will be a new British boom. Have you any money, put away, waiting for "something to turn up?" If so, put it to work. Buy something, good securities, real estate, an automobile, auto-mobile, anything you need. Or at least put it in a bank where it can be used to finance new enterprise and give employment. "" Those that wait, while opportunity passes, can buy "United States Baby Bonds." Secretary Mills, new, young and able Secretary of the Treasury, appointed ap-pointed by President Hoover, in place of Secretary Mellon, will sell Government Govern-ment bonds in small denominations, that will pay 2 per cent, and be worth par always, because they come due at the end of a year, and can be redeemed redeem-ed at any time on sixty days notice. Put your money in those baby bonds and let it go to work for the country. Japan with a polite smile accepts the League of Nations' plan for a pleasant discussion of ways to end hostilities, also agreeing with China on a "temporary truce." That's in one part of the news. The other part of the news is headed "Japanese storm whole line. Chinese give way, fighting fight-ing in dogged retreat. Mines imperil Japanese flagship." In other words, while talking peace they are fighting more savagely than ever. One encouraging word comes out of Asia's trouble. Secretary Stlmson, after aft-er sending many warnings to Japan, tells Senator Borah that the United States, which "surrendered its commanding com-manding lead in battleship construction, construc-tion, and agreed not to fortify Guam or the Philippines, at the Washington conference," may cancel all that foolishness fool-ishness of the so-called "Nine-Power Treaty." Heaven speed the day of cancellation. can-cellation. Robert P. Lamont, Jr., son of our Secretary of Commerce, has been Invited In-vited to go to Russia and show the Soviet government how to reorganize and improve production of cattle, j Young Mr. Lamont will visit .Moscow to look the job over, much interested, not in the $50,000 salary said to be offered, of-fered, but in the problem. Russia wisely wants her people to eat 100 pounds of meat each a year, which is the American ration. Young Mr. Lamont raises white-faced white-faced Herefords on a 13,000-acre cat- ! tie ranch in Colorado and thinks the Russian job could be done in about twenty years. I, 1951. by King Feature Syndicate, lac.) , This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE Ford's Plans. Britain Enjoys Her Tariff. 1 Welcome Baby Bonds. Talk Peace, Fight Hard. An important announcement comes from Henry Ford, about his plans. He will start things moving, if it can be done, by throwing into purchase of raw materials, and employment of labor, all that he has. He has not piled up any great reserve, re-serve, but is ready to put three hundred hun-dred million dollars of his own into the task that confronts him. He will employ, as a start, 100,000 men in Detroit, not one paid less than $5 a day. That means a minimum Detroit De-troit payroll of $150,000,000 a year. Workers and stores will be glad to hear of that. I,n addition to paying his own men. Ford will buy parts and materials from 5,000 different employer" through-out the country, thus giving work to 300,000 other workers. His expenditures for his own labor and labor paid for by his purchases ol raw and manufactured materials will 1 total $30,000,000 a month, ?600,000,OOU a year. Mr. Ford expects to make 5,000 cars a day, 1,500.000 a year, of four and eight-cylinder engines. He has orders' for S4.000 cars now, before models are shown or prices announced. When you consider that a few years ego, Henry Ford was hoping that some dify he would do something, you real-, real-, ize that opportunities still exist In j America. And when you realize that. ' at the same time, he was "pottering around with a new idea," as his neighbors neigh-bors called it, you realize that it pays to have ideas, and stick to them. j When Great Britain had "free trade" ' anfli this country was living inside of taritv' walls, tariff seemed wicked to the British. Xow they have tried protection, and it seems to agree with them. They will repay one hundred and fifty millions of the two hundred million dollars ' borrowed from this country last Aug ust, to bolster the falling pound. Evidently Evi-dently confident that the pound is all K-jht, Britain has lifted the. bn on. ejt |