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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE Praise Roosevelt In the North Sea Crabs Stopping Is Dangerous Only One Race Some Day Some who said government should not "meddle with industry or private business" may change their minds. President Roosevelt has signed the textile code. That does away with child labor in the textile industry, something that philanthropy and good intention have been trying to do for a generation, vainly. Child labor was profitable. Fathers and mothers supplied the finished products to the employers, without charge, as though an automobile factory fac-tory had supplied them with trucks and passenger cars free. And with trucks and passenger cars, employers must pay for repairs. Not so with child workers. When they are laid up, they go home, others take their places, the fathers and mothers attend to the repairs, without cost to the employer. em-ployer. Thanks to President Roosevelt's belief be-lief that government has power and should use it, tens of thousands of children will have a better chance of life. When you say "crab-meat cocktail" you may be ordering a possible cause of war between Japan and Russia. Huge crabs live in the cold waters that bathe the northern Russian Coast and Japanese go there to catch and ship them in quantities to the United States. Russian soldiers killed three Japanese fishermen because they landed on Russian soil without permission. Japan sent a warship to see about that, and trouble may come in spite of the fact that Russia has formally apologized for killing the Japanese and Japan has apologized for an attack at-tack made by a Japanese on Russia's commercial agent in Tokio. A war about North Sea crabs would Bound like a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, but wars have come frora smaller small-er things. Unless certain that you have provid ed for everything, old age included keep going. It is very hard to be sure and dangerous to stop. In New York Dr. E. M. Weil thought he had enough, retired, found at the age of 60 that he must work again, and tried to rebuild his abandoned practice. The attempt failed and a friend found Doctor Weil and his little dog both dead. The doc tor knew the dog could not make a living and gave it strychnine before taking the poison himself. The moral is, keep on working. Idleness Idle-ness is dull and it is dangerous, since the bottom can drop -out of anything. In Spokane an American Legion prize for the best essay on national defense was won by William Lee, 15-year-old Chinese-American boy. That Is an interesting answer to the question, ques-tion, "What is the result of intermarriage intermar-riage between Chinese and Westerners?" Western-ers?" Eventually, when we stop war and general hatreds, the human race must become all one, one language, one set of laws, thoughts, beliefs, and even one government. There were twenty-two separate kingdoms in England when William the Conqueror ianded there. Now one Is enough. There Is time enough ahead of us for everything. ' Always remember, If discouraged, that scientists say the sun will light and heat the earth for at least one million million years more, namely, one thousand billion years. Men might even get tired of fighting and cheating each other in that time. "Aunt Martha" Mayne, last full blooded survivor of Long Island's Poo-sepatuck Poo-sepatuck tribe of Indians, is dead at 98, on Long Island's little Indian res ervatiou. She died a good Methodist, having long since abandoned the Indians' In-dians' "Great Spirit" and happy hunt lng grounds. She had two husbauds. white, and seven children Only one survives. Her death means another tribe of human beings gone from the ' earth forever. It also makes real estate men pen- sive. wnen auiu Maria was young they could have bought Long Island for a few thousand dollars. To buy it now you would need billions. Our Neighbor, Portugal, facing us across the Atlantic, reports excellent financial conditions. Portugal is "In the black." Her prosperous colonies, Cape Verde, Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique Mo-zambique and Goa, also have their bills paid with surpluses to show. One-half of the countries do noi know how the other half lives. Uncle Sam will be surprised to hear that the total cost of running Portugal, every thing included, is $97,Oun.OOO. That, according to Senator Cope land, Is less than one-tenth of whal this country pays Its racketeers an Dually. |