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O K SAYS SATS COOLIDGE BAD IDlES FOR SOCIALISM THEY WANT CRUISERS SQUANDERING OIL By ARTHUR BRISBANE E Copyright 1927 by the Star Co President COOlidge surveying na na- national national na- na national conditions finds them excellent As 1 5 regards business and prosperity Secretary Mellon Mellow says sn'S there is cap cap- capital capital ital Hal In abundance for all new yen ven ventures tures worth while Crops are good mail mall order houses are increasing their business and automobiles are ex expected ex cx- peeled to set ut new sales ules records Secretary Hoover reports that our exports are arc Increasing This year Is ahead of the same period last l t year jear and our imports have one pleasant feature We are not paying England the high prices for rubber that we did last year You may reply to ques ques- questions questions about the business outlook as follows Nothing the matter matler if busi busi- business business ness does not become afraid of its own prosperity Victor Berger Berber only socialist in iri con con- congress congress congre gress gre and on ens of the ablest best in informed In In- formed men in n congress is chosen head of the Socialist party to suc suc- succeed Eugene V. V Debs Nobody knows better than Berger that these times are bad for socialism When bricklayers ers era make retake 15 a day or more and rough labor tabor in the building ng trades gets nine dollars for eight hours work Karl Marx fades Into the tl e background Urging men to throw off of their chains is one thing Urging them to throw off of their radio set automobile and talking machine is another thing Berger would probably tell you jou pet pet- privately atel that if socialists each in inherited In- In Inherited there would not be bemore I snore more than Socialists left and they would be a little queer Such Is hu hu- Isu- Isu man nature Berger by the way could have been a rich man had he chosen to work wort for money Instead of the thing that he believes to be right Such is human nature also occasion occasion- occasionally occasionally occasionally ally but not so often You wonder that sane une men ds- ds demand band mand a great eat fleet of expensive bat bat- battle battie tle tie cruisers for this country and you ask Dont they know that enemy enem- airships would sink a thousand fast cruisers if we hod them as fast as we could send them to sea Dont Don't they know that it is idiotic to talk tali about Britain's cruiser fleet compared with ours Britain having a real commer commer- commercial commercial cial nay navy needing convoys in war war Those that want the fast cruisers for our navy know that they would mean nothing in war and mean only wasted asted money now so far ar as national defense goes But there are underground lakes ot or oil In Venezuela the greatest in the world perhaps There are valuable in Nicaragua a and In other countries to the south and there are millions of United States money In Invested In In- Invested vested there You can scare a small republic with battleships flying Hying the American flag nag You could not scare them then with flying machines especially if you TOU did not know how to make your jour flying machines fly Our prosperous gentlemen that noiselessly run the government know what they are do do- doIng doIng Ing when then they demand plenty of fast fighting cruisers They may ma be obsolete obsolete lete lets for war but not for bullying The oil business through representatives representatives gets together in Ponca City Oklahoma They have b en seeking see a way to protect their business with with- without without out government Interference or compulsion com corn compulsion That they will find the way is 15 Is doubtful The country's oil wealth is 15 being squandered oil oU is wasted hun bun hundreds hundreds of millions of o barrels of It by reckless exploitation Warnings that the supply cannot last forever are dis dis- dis- dis regarded Oil for automobiles ships and work of Innumerable kinds is a necessity nc And It is the business of government to o prevent ent a reckless waste of that which cannot be replaced once it is gone To protect the th public from out out- outrageously outrageously high prices for oil and gaso- gaso gasoline gasoline line Ine sure to follow the present waste It t is necessary for government to do something now The nation would not tolerate wholesale burning of na national na- na national national forests It should not permit deliberate rate waste of oil Reports from Maine received out here iere on the Mojave desert indicate that voters oters mean to keep the direct primary system for a while at least Professional politicians will not be beable beable beable able to deliver delver nominations in pre pre- prearranged arranged conventions And poor mil mil- determined to be somebody will have a hard time to buy the di direct dI- dI direct primary first and the election afterward Hard on politicians who hate ha lave less to edt sett and on office buyers burelS that must pay high prices for br an un un- uncertainty certainty Toronto university proves that sun sun- sunshine sunshine sunshine shine will cure rickets of which many children die A German wrote more than years jears ears ago God may forgive you for not giving children bread that costs money but lIe He will not forgive you jou ou for depriving them of fresh air and sunlight that cost nothing To prove that sunshine cures rickets does not mean much when millions of city children cannot have the sun suu- sunshine shine Mussolini In I t tells Us Italy Ital and the tile rest of or the world that his country is Is' filled with peace prosperity and energy Nothing causes him hint worry and the anniversary of his march on Rome at atthe attile tile the head of the will ill be cele cele- celebrated celebrated this year jear ear with extra asset Mussolini mixes deeds with words and decides that Italy shall borrow no more money except to build up Industry What will happen when Mussolini fades from the scene no one knows That is the big problem problem lem of dictatorship But he is a blessing to Italy Just now as a a. source of will and discipline |