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Show "This Week" hy Att niUR BltlSBANB 40 Well Spent Millions Before the Red Indian A. I. Sloan Jr.'s Problem We Have Money Left From Los Angeles, Mr. John G. Bullock Bul-lock telegraphs to New York this excellent ex-cellent news: "The Metropolitan Water District ot Southern California bus Just closed with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Cor-poration to take forty million Metropolitan Metro-politan Water District bonds. This enables en-ables the city to start work on our two hundred and twenty million dollar dol-lar aqueduct to bring Colorado River water over desert through the mountain moun-tain tunnels a distance of three hun-dredviniles, hun-dredviniles, to the metropolitan area of southern California, including Los Angeles and twelve other member cities. The work will employ an average aver-age of ten thousand men over the slx- year period of construction. In addition, addi-tion, materials used will result In employment em-ployment of labor throughout tha nation." That is good news in these times. It means work for ten thousand. In addition, ad-dition, these forty millions of government govern-ment money will be paid back easily from earnings. Mr. Bullock, with other citizens of Los Angeles who have devoted de-voted time and energy to the aqueduct work, deserves highest praise. Campers near Elrama, Pa., digging ' Into a hillside, uncovered skeletons of human beings that lived in America thousands of years before the noble rednian came, supposedly from Asia. These earlier Americans, according to scientists, examining their skulls, had more intelligence than the Indians that followed them. They were "dolichocephalic," "dolicho-cephalic," which means "long headed," and their skull bone was thin, which Indicates that they had been thinking for a long time. But their jaws were heavy and primitive, showing lack of balance. Invaders from Asia, probably better fightsrs, wiped them out. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, has been appointed head of a committee to study "the problems arising from war debts owed by European nations to the United States." A better man could not have been chosen. Mr. Sloan will probably report about as follows: "Europe owes us the money, billions of dollars. United States taxpayers were forced to pay that money and are paying interest on it now. European Euro-pean nations should repay It, or continue con-tinue owing it under such pressure as we can probably bring to bear 10 force payment." Many tell us that our kind of civi lization, or "industrial exploitation," as some call it, is nearing an end. Stuart Chase, forceful, intelligent young man, who wrote a good book on Mexico.'tells you in his book, "A New Deal," that "drastic revision of our entire economic structure" is necessary. neces-sary. Also, says he, "We are living on our economic capital, where other ages have lived on economic income." Our children will have a bitter bill to pay. No worm In the dust should contradict contra-dict a deep thinker, but to one such worm hope appears without the unpleasant un-pleasant necesiity of tearing everything every-thing to pieces. We may be living on our capital, but it is not 'exhausted Recently the government asked subscriptions sub-scriptions to seven hundred and fifty millions of Treaury notes at three and a half per cent interest and four hundred hun-dred millions of certificates paying only one and a quarter per cent. The offering was oversubscribed six and a half times, seven thousand four hundred hun-dred and twenty million dollars, the total offering. That is a good deal of money. More important than our available cash are our undeveloped resources, In material, wealth and brains. All that Americans have ever had, automobiles, auto-mobiles, houses, bath tubs, radio sets, electric washers, etc., could easily be supplied and multiplied by ten. There is no limit to what this nation might enjoy, if it could do four things: First, place covetousness with emulation, emu-lation, meaning by that word a desire to render public sarvice. Second, instill honesty, by fear or . coaxing, in public officials. Third, make the people take an Intelligent In-telligent interest in their government, every day in the year. Fourth, and most important, solve the problem of distribution, as the problem of production has already been solved. If your boy is "going out" for athletic ath-letic honors in his high school, preparatory pre-paratory school or college, determined to "make" this team or that, you will be interested in an insurance survey which shows that College men live long, but the athletes amoug them do not come up to the general average. He who uses up his heart in early youth with unnaturally violent exercise exer-cise will not have a good heart to carry him through the later years. "Moderation in everything." You can't use up your heart, and have it. Now in far Japan the army says it is absolutely certain that China's General Gen-eral Ma Chan-Shan was killed near Harbin, in spite of Chinese denials. To prove that the great Chinese general is dead, Japan shows a collection of articles that include three opium pipes, a package of opium, more than twenty bars of gold, Japanese and Chinese bank notes and General Ma's military decorations. (i),y:i. l King heituio Sviuiiiitt, let.) |