Show U QUOTES U COMMENTS ON CURRENT CURRE NT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters AFTER THE depression by OWEN D YOUNG american industrialist I 1 QUESTION whether we real ize what we are piling up on our tax budgets for social ansur ance hospitals and health agencies heretofore largely supported by private gifts for schools and colleges which may wake up gome some day to find cot not only their future flow of money stopped but their existing endowment and re serves seres vastly Imp impaired alred if inflationary projects get out of hand we cannot meet these vast and ex tend ng obi ohl nations I 1 eted as they are day by day by sugaring off our ac tivit les by paralyzing our ingenuity and impairing our hopes the only way we can meet them Is to keep our selves alive and active and progressive and cleate more and more out of that vast unknown that unexplored region of wealth that Is necessary to lift all to the highest standards of the most in such a program there will be no place for the slothful in mind or body and we dare not encourage inactivity of body by any substantial subsidy or inactivity of mind by any form of coercion or repression WORLD CO OPERATION by CORDELL HULL secretary ot of state HE experience of most parts bof JL of the world in the last few years in their attempts to promote and preserve political stability dis armament peace and other necessary international relationships undoubted ly by this time has demonstrated the great difficulty of malting making progress in these vastly important undertakings while a large portion of world tion is unemployed and feeling the serious pinch of economic distress the necessity therefore was never more apparent for the various coun tries of the world to give immediate attention to the matter of adopting a sound and an d comprehensive economic program both domestic and internal lional and carrying it forward to the end that the normal processes of do bestic and international finance and commerce may be restored and tens of mill ong on of unemployed wage earners may be re employed this would at af ford a solid foundation on which to re build stable leae and political tures NO by PREMIER MUSSOLINI IN STRESA necessary res response bili ties should be assumed with out worrying particularly about abou t fhe the results of the french municipal elections or the fluctuations of british by elections which seem rather favor able toward labor indicating a race to pacifism purely tor for reasons of in politics stresa rtresa in other words should depre sent a fixed point in the stormy sea of european Lur politics a fixed point which must mean in the first place re nuncia tion of the dangerous utopias of dis armament fascist italy has turned her back on these utopias ever since 1922 it Is understandable therefore that the interest and curiosity of the world should be concentrated on the nent stresa rtresa conference but let us avoid premature enthusiasm let us not expect a mIllen lum IRISH FREEDOM by EAMONN DE VALERA president of the irish republic THERE chere is a very simple test JL as to whether we are free and that is to let the people of this is land freely decide the question let there be a plebiscite of all the people in this country as to whether they are satisfied with the present relations or whether they want to have their freedom expressed in the form of a c the british government has been ed to acknowledge the right of accepting such ft 21 test but thus far the challenge remains unaccepted the majority of the irish people do not want their country partitioned they want I 1 berty to decide whether their own form of government should be monarchic or republican in 1921 the treaty was accepted under duress and the threat of war and for no other reason MUNITIONS FOR PEACE by SIR HERBERT LAWRENCE british munitions magnate 0 SUGGEST because your TO company is engaged in the production of means of defense and of equipment required by the navy army and air force that its directors desire to foster war Is as untrue as it Is unjust the directors and shareholders know to their cost the sorrow and suffering war entails the waste of human life and material the financial loss poster ity must bear and the damage done to the economic structure of the world although armaments for the purpose of national defense in your countr constitute a great part of lour our corn banys production the maintenance of peace Is in the best interests of both your corpany and the community gen brally service 14 |