Show QUOTES COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY BV NATIONAL CHARACTERS WORLD WAR FEARS FEAR By Dy VISCOUNT SNOWDEN British h Statesman Statman 1 f aim and ambition ambi MUSSOLINI'S tion lion will not stop short with the conquest of Ethiopia If he e is successful In this enterprise his bis next move will be to absorb Austria That attempt will bring Germany Into the war and as 18 European nations are now DOW bound together with numerable pacts and treaties treaties' a general European war would be Inevitable All these terrible consequences consequences' are Involved In the Italo ques ques- tion It If this war cannot be averted averted- and one sees very little hope bope of ot It It It- another world war will result and aDd that will w end human civilization There Is just a faint chance of tt preventing preventing preventing pre pre- venting these consequences It Is II that the great powers wit with the Invaluable help belp of ot America will muster the courage courage cour cour- age to take a firm line with 1 Mussolini and show him the whole moral force torce of the world Is against him The united unit unit ed military power of the rest of tt the world will also be against him PROGRESSIVE SUPPORT By PETER Senator From South Dakota pHE New Deal is full of mistakes mis mis- THE JL takes but the Old Deal is no substitute The old gold standard cannot be revived without Increasing our ur Indebtedness about 40 per cent Government relief must not be abandoned abandoned aban aban- It must be handled better The Dank Bank Guaranty law cannot be deserted deserted de de- deserted because It failed In South Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- kota but It must be changed to provide a more sound plan pIau The Republican m party mu must t offer something more than criticism of Roosevelt and the scare about losing the Constitution Above all they cannot cannot cannot can can- not win without Inviting the Progressives lIves Into the party and ond giving them thema a voice In party affairs for otherwise other northwestern states will Join the third party I movement already controlling controlling con ron trolling Minnesota and Wisconsin WIsconsIn the the states whose votes are needed la in In Inthe the electoral college FEDERAL HOUSING By JAMES JAMBS A A. MOFFETT Administrator SINCE the work began we have already expended in building insurance and the activity has hns resulted In not less than In construction work which Is not part of the government program In one year tar the work has bas grown from nothing Into one of the biggest corporations corporations cor cor- In the United States The fact fart that what we have bave already done dODe toward wide nation construction Is only a beginning makes us feel very happy Our work now represents Individual buildings and IndustrIes Industries industries In In- In communities This work Is not an emergency one but I Iam Iam Iam am confident It ft will continue England started the same thing In 1010 HIlD It has hu resulted In the construction alone of ot homes and ond this Is as much responsible for tor the prosperity of ot England England Eng Eng- land today as any aDY other factor BU BUDGET By Dy DR DIl BENJAMIN M. M ANDERSON JR Nationally Known Economist VIRTUALLY everything in fi finance finance fl fi- nance became unwholesome under the impetus of the gigantic expansion of bank credit from 1022 ID to 1029 1929 but the remedy for this II sort It of ol thing does not He lle In n tuxes taxes on In large Incomes and large lorge but rather In sound Federal Reserve hr lip ilk tk policy Financial measures to balance the budget are are of course very much needed needed need need- ed but the greatest of these must be retrenchment In expenditure Part ol ot the program for balancing the budget will of t course be additional taxation The pending legislation can hardly be described as a measure for balancing the budget or for revenue purposes Its primary purpose Is avowedly noi not revenue but changing the distribution of wealth STUDYING CRIME Dy HERBERT II H. H LEHMANN Governor of New Nw York T THE HE E apprehension and conviction conviction tion of criminals while o of course of outstanding importance Is only one part port of the crime problem Juvenile Ju delinquency education probation probation pro- pro bation ballon the law enforcement agencies criminal procedure In our courts extradition ex ex- tradition p penal statutes prison administration admin admin- parole and rehabilitation rehabilitation all al are closely related Inter and must be taken Into careful consideration In any comprehensive study of crime I believe that a public conference conference devoted to the discussion and conald- conald of the many runny difficult problems relating to crime and the criminal would be of great constructive value PRICE FIXING Dy WILLIAM E. E BORAH DonAU U 8 Senator rom From Idaho Idabo JF Ir 11 THE TIIE E government can fix Ii the wages of a man on works relief projects tilt vit tt 19 a month and monopoly mo mo- can fix III the price of what the I worker must buy In order to live you yot have pretty nearly squeezed out of existence the manhood of the Amen Ameri can citizen You have e made him a peon |