Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Newspapers Arc Are Useful A Leisure Class Also A Real American Offense and Defense Th The Supreme court says The liThe free tree pre press s 8 stands as one of the great ins Interpreters Interpreters In In- s between the government go and the people To let x r It be fettered Is to f fetter e t t e r ourselves r Certain Certainly the newspaper news news- s r e paper Is to a nation H Y what speech Is tok to toan tonn k an nn Individual and andi i i It Is to the crowd f V what li hat d t a n looking lookingglass glass Is to the ind Individual In In- d n II History I 1 s t lor o r v y s will wilt Judge a people by Its newspapers Arthur Its tg laws Its tg then then- and It will have reason renson to criticize crit- crit us us Sir Mr J J. J Pierpont Morgan repeating what Aristotle said before him said saltI civilization needs a leisure class and defined as the leisure class those that keep a hired girl Mrs Franklin D D. Roosevelt thoughtful thought thought- ful and wise improves es that definition a leisure class clan for h her r Is 18 made up of individuals that have haye sufficient economic economic eco eco- security an and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions satisfactions satisfactions satis satis- factions In life Charles Fourier French philosopher said It long ago ngo and elaborately Henry Henry Henry Hen Hen- ry Ford said It well advocating a n short work week weel with two days s 's ol off that men might have time to spend pleasantly the earnings of five da days sAll s All that will come and more In Inthe Inthe Inthe the past men worked too hard while paid and fed too little and never dreamed of Mrs Roosevelt's varied satisfactions while the prosper prosperous prosperous us as a rule concentrated too much on foolish sa satisfactions All that knew him learn with sorrow sorrow sorrow sor sor- sor- sor row of the sudden death of Charles Curtis former Vice President of oC the United States lie He was an American a real one proud of the red Indian blood In his veins As a boy he rode horse races well and honestly as a n aman aman man he rode the political race fairly As Vice President he lie was content with the position that the American people and Constitution gave him He lie would have made a good and loyal President had destiny so willed It t The rhe newspaper heading Britain Is redoubling her defense plans to offset Germany should interest somebody In America This country Is not plannIng planning planning plan plan- ning to offset Germany but It has all Europe including Russia and nil all allAsia Asia to think about In these flying Hying days We should perfect our defense plans and particularly our attack plans Then we should ask asle the world to look over our equipment and realize that It would be foolish to attack Senator PIttman of Nevada sees Japan Japan Ja In Ja- Ja pan shutting us out of China even at nt atthe atthe the risk of war says our business businessmen men n have been run out of at Manchuria already Japan might reply that her workingmen have been run out of the United States The map will comfort Senator PItt Pitt- man Gigantic bigger than all of old Japan leans up against Outer Mongolia and antI Soviet Russia Japan will not Invite trouble with those countries and war with the United States would Invite It III If you wonder where all the tax money goes read this In six sis months the state of NewYork NewYork New NewYork York paid for official automobile automobile automo automo- bile expense And that does not Include automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles for the department of mental hygiene One official discharged his chauffeur paid by taxpayers accusing accusing ing him of or cheating the state out of 2600 2100 In one year through dishonest gasoline and repair vouchers That Is almost a business Charlie Schwab may be seventy years old but he still knows his way around The government tried to get from Schwab's Bethlehem Beth lehem Steel company alleging prof prof- Instead of giving the government government govern govern- ment the special master hearing evidence says sas the government go must pay to Schwab and Bethlehem Steel No wonder Carnegie Carnegie Carne Carne- gie gle who was Scotch thought a n good deal of Schwab Dr G G. A A. Stevenson fellow In the University college of Oxford suggests to the London Times that the pax Homana ito Ro- maim maua Roman peace of ancient I times when Rome Home ruled the world and would allow no fighting should be I followed now by a pax British peace pence England land ruling the world telling everybody what to do American Olympic athletes appearing appear tag lug on the field In Germany met with gloomy silence contrasting with applause ap for I European and Oriental Ol Olympic squads The Americans who wIll defeated Germany at hockey hocke score 1 to 0 will survive th the silence Had they been heen wiser they would have sta stayed ed at home borne A Jewish German player Rudl Ball Ban by hy the way was the star hockey C player er for the Ger Ger- mans 0 King Features Syndicate Inc Ino Service |