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Show BRISBANE I THIS WEEK "All Is Finisluul" Cood Yours l'reilii'teil Depression Ended Ford Army Airmail The king of liclglum, who climbed niiiiiiitiiins bemuse kings In those days have little of the old kindly executive excitement left, took hold of a rods ! loosened by t lie frost mid rain, fur up, fell and vv,ls killed. His sons sorrowfully sorrow-fully walked behind their father's coffin; cof-fin; his widow murmured, over uud over, Tout est Hid "All is tirilslied.'' The older sou takes his father's place and all Is finished. It may be true, as Mussolini, Hitler ' ami Kemal agree, that human beings, In their republics and democracies, have shown Inability to govern themselves. them-selves. I'.nt government by kings has failed also. Whether a king lives or dies makes little difference except that sometimes the change from one king to another may excite Communists and other "Reds,"' causing unpleasant demonstrations. France, needing Belgium as a buffer state, so useful iu delaying the Germans Ger-mans In the big war, worries a little about Belgian Communists. Otherwise, Other-wise, the death of the good-natured, friendly Belgian king means nothing. Mr. Richard II. Grant, who understands under-stands business, having distributed many hundreds of millions of valuable merchandise, believes that "America Is due for three or four years of pros- - perlty, induced by the stimulus of gov-s gov-s a eminent spending." At the end of the eB.(.. three or four years of prosperity, more or less artiflcally provided, Mr. Gram thinks "the natural world recovery will come itself and I think be well under way when government spending stops." Nine out of ten business men feel mv-i as Mr. Grant feels, but they all know that when you change a patient from strong medicines, stimulants, digitalis to drive the heart, morphine to deaden pain, etc., you must do it carefully. WE,; The change from Uncle Sam's money ts: to money "that you earn yourself" will ttJ!. have Its difficulties. a he Henry Ford has dismissed the de- pression from his mind. "It is ended," . said he, "not for this or that one of a I hundred reasons, but because the people peo-ple have got tired of it. When they get really tired of a thing, they go to ' work and end it." j If every man will do the thing that I he knows how to do, as well as he j possibly can do it, there will be no TTZ more trouble, in Mr. Ford's opinion. ! - He believes that President Roosevelt has made no mistake thus far, and j says, "The American dollar will al ways be a good dollar and a real dol lar, not a 60-cent dollar, either. You can no more compare our money with other money than you can compare our country with other countries. "The value of money depends on what It will buy. The dollar will always al-ways buy anything." The antics of gold, rising and falling, fall-ing, rushing in here when we go "off" i It, amuse Mr. Ford. He never had any high opinion of gold. Men, Ideas and i work are what count, for him. Army planes are carrying the mails, j Army pilots are doing the work, not any better than the highly trained airmail air-mail pilots, but just as well. It is ' to be hoped that army air mail pilots will be well paid, at least as well as the commercial pilots, and that as many of the latter as care to do so will find employment in the army alf mall service, with pay as good as that which they had received, or better. This use of army planes and flyers for carrying mails, made necessary by the conviction of President Rooseveli and Postmaster General Farley that private air mail contracts have been vitiated by fraud, may prove of great value toxthls country. President Roosevelt means to do something about the sugar problem, which disturbs the world from Utah to the Gulf states, from Asia to Cuba via Hawaii and Porto Rico. An attempt will be made to allot to each sugar-producing territory Its rightful share of the United States sugar market. We cannot or do not here grow any but a small part of the sugar this country needs, and must rely on other countries, particularly on Cuba, so important, in case of war, because of its nearness to our -shores. It seems fair to protect the producing produc-ing countries from disastrous over-pro- ' duction and competition by allotting to each a share of our market. Cutting down the number of CAVA workers and government-made jobs In one state from 85,000 to 56,000, the government says, first, to drop work ers in whose family another member is working, leaving only one person In each family making money: second "Prop workers thnt have other re sources." and, third, a welcome order ! "Make sure that needy women receive equal consideration with needy men." The order might read, "more consider-' ation than needy men." California evidently intends to make kidnaping dangerous within her borders. bor-ders. A colored man who kidnaped a I butcher's employee and took 07 cents I from him Is sentenced to imprison- , ! ment for life. That will discourage ! others. (1 Kln Futures Syndicate Ino. WNTJ Servlc. |