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Show r This Week i AN riiim BUlStlANB A Good President Comic Opera in the U. S. A. Hard to Pronounce The Parasite Crab Calvin Coolldce Is dead In the prime of life. Kvery American deeply re- , grets his loss, mid spmpnthlzcs slncer , ely with his widow and his son. They will find comfort In the record rec-ord that Mr. Coolldge- leaves behind hlm a record of public service that ltas put every American In li la debt. Calvin Coolldge was distinctly an American President. His views ou Europe's debts were expressed, according ac-cording to his custom, In few words, "they hired the money, didn't they?" . He was interested, as President hi the welfare of America, and In nothing noth-ing else, allowing foreign countries to worry about their own troubles. He knew that the voters had not elected him to look after any country or any people outside the boundaries of the United States. Our noble country begins the new year with a report on "recent social trends," solemnly handed In by a research re-search committee, supposed to indicate indi-cate what wf have been doing, and whither no fire drifting, filling sixteen hundred pages. One "gjm of purest ray serene," showing t'iat what we need In this country is a submissive "lower class" that will bow down to its betters, will delight you. Here it is: "Modern life is everywhere complicated, compli-cated, but especially so In the United States, where immigration from many lands, rapid mobility within the country coun-try itself, the lack of established classes or castes to act as a brake on social changes, the tendency to seize upon new types of machines, rich natural nat-ural resources and vast driving power have hurried us dizzily away from the days of the frontier into a whirl of modernisms which almost passes belief." be-lief." You will travel far before you find any more choice bit of snobbishness than that. We haven't any "established "establish-ed classes" made up of Americans that take off their caps, or pull the forelock when they see a black coat. We have men from Poland and elsewhere else-where that have built skyscrapers, instead in-stead of being content to live in log cabins. We have changed "dizzily," from nothing at all to our modern civilization, and that is what Is the matter with us. There should be another coiumis slon to report that the Declaration of Independence should never have been signed, since it wiped out "established "establish-ed classes or castes, to act as a brake on social changes," and that Jeffer-wrlting Jeffer-wrlting that all men are created equal. Senator Costlgan, Democrat, from Colorado, says there are twelve millions mil-lions idle now. Governor Lehman says New York State will need help from the government, and it probably will, like many other States. By the time the government finishes "helping," it may need help itself. Our "little depression" still going on, with prosperity just around the corner, is puzzling. It reminds you of a gentleman dragged to New York police station on a charge of vagrancy. Such gentlemen must be "booked," their name written down by the police sergeant. After a couple of attempts, the police serg eant handed the book to the vagrant, saying; "Here, you write it." The vag rant wrqte "G. Qrungennettezzeeaua That describes our depression well. Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, soon to keep house in the White House, Is writing a book on what women wo-men bave done in the past and what more they can accomplish in the fut ure. To teU adequately about the pasl Would be difficult. To tell about the future is, of course, impossible. Fifty thousand or 1,000,000 years hence, when manual labor becomes unnecessary, nothing harder to do than press a button, you may gee wo men twice as big as they are now, and men so small that their wives will carry them about in vanity cases. That has happener1 in nature. The giant sea crab, of which Darwin tells you, is always female. You find her husband under one of her front . flippers, about as big as a ten-cent piece. Men in a few thousand centuries may be living a life as easy as that ol " the female sea crab's husband, no work but handing on genes, no more forehead than a shrimp. Q. M. Bodlngton, of the Kansas City police knows that a faithful wife Is a precious possession. He went into a gas station where two young gentle men were holding up the proprietor, and said ie was a policeman. Tin highwaymen beat, him until his wif rushed in, pulled their bair, madr them let go. He killed one and sho' the pther. In physical courage, espec -tally when those they love are in dans er, women are more courageous than men. There Is no wild animal that a mqther would not defy tq save her baby. Spmp day you ma, see scientists bombarding fhe holy Ganges Riyei with high frequency pur-rent, .to. keep Asiatic iTfs'eases from spreading wesl ward, and you may see New Yqrk vvhlch floods Its rivers on both side1-With side1-With sewage, counteracting the evil by shocking the germs to death. Long ago we learned hqvy to slay the mammoth, wolf and bear. We are Just learning to conquer our more deadly, Invisible enemies. (.1932, ty King F.amtti Syndics, Inc.) |