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Show I n ir Arthur BrUban I Sits Up. FeU Better Edison's Happy Day j Tie President's Plana I Tainted Football I 17 ALL STREET feK better, sat up I ' TT and took notice, feebly. , ' The quMtloa is not "What bad happened to those that gambled, la spite of warnings," bat "What, U eay- I thing, has happened to the Nation, I sad Its general prosperity." 5 A. James Simpson, of Chicago, heed of Marshall Held Co somes into contact with thousands of merchants all over the country, knows what bus- I inets thef are doing, and understands I general conditions as well as any man In the United States. Be re- I plies to a Question, thusi 1 "I am a firm believer la the doe- I trine which 70a preach.: Doat buy I oa margin sad don't sell America I short The present liquidation la the stock market Is not due to nor does j it reflect general business conditions I throughout the country. la the long f run prices of securities must be do I Urmlned by their yield sad earnings I oa aa Investment basla ! belters basis business conditions sound sad I that production and consumption of I goods la most lines hare been fairly I well balanosd. Beyond this there ap- peers to be no evidence of specula- f Uoa la commodities such as that f which oeurred in 1120. The present I tlauidatlen in the stock market was ;. Inevitable and unless it goes too tar I and becomes too drastls I am ia- I ellaed to think will be helpful to the t . - business situation rather than hurt- f I The Nation reads wtlh affectionate f sympathy of Mr. Edison's visit to I Dearborn, where Henry 'Ford has re I built as It was la old days, the sin I pie Edlsoa lsbortary to whioh men owe so much. I Mr. Edison was deeply moved when I he saw his old tools, the chair la I which he sat in his early youth, his I primitive paraphernalia reassembled I as used fifty years ago when he do reloped the Ides that now lights the J world. ; I Every eld man can share Mr. Edl- i son's emotions. , The human heart is v- the same, with or without genius, to a. . lead it a great nama A million among those that see this column today carry with them memories of youth e shell bark hickory hick-ory tree standing alone in the field, a grove of chestnut trees with yellow-Ub yellow-Ub green burrs open, showing the - brown nuts within, s pond tht held :'" ' . "shiners" and catfish, a swlnuninf ' 4ole, heppjr memories of a free life , sjm boundless hope. . President Hoover, with professional deUaht, in a fine engineering work, praises the all-rear-round navigation development of the Ohio Hirer, now completed. That development of the Ohio River la t beginning of maar similar pro-. pro-. Jects that need attention . IU- ss&&7 will President Hoover pat through f No man ever had greater opportunity, oppor-tunity, or better equipment for aslag H. The Oulf of Mexico should be con-' con-' . nccted with the Great Lakes, vis the ; Mississippi, the Lakes with the atlan- the Ocean, D7 canals suited to eoeea-:!; eoeea-:!; going ships. . y Discussions ss to "all-American or I pertly American, and other canal technicalities should not delay action, j Engineers might ret be discussing the I choice of a sea level or lock canal I si Panama, or the comparative ad- I vantage of Panama and Nicaragua s . Roosevelt, brushing all that aside. (went ahead and built the easaL Building Is whet eounU. The Carnegie Foundation says 00Y f lege football is tainted with money." I free teaching Sad cash bonuses are I given to rouag men that can kick I f hard, run fast, and tackle savagely I It would be more pleasing if ool- -1 leges sought great teachers as eagerly eager-ly as they seek great quarterback. But no great harm is dona The - games sad great crowds arouse ff. rouag men's interest is oollege life v . and give oollege education to young , men from rolling mills and rear ends of ice wagons, that might otherwise remain uneducated.' Haldaae, eminent British biologist, says the negro race la Anierloa will gradually die out because negroes move to big cities. Had they remained re-mained in the country, says Haldaae. they might gradually have equaled the white in number. But dty We kills them. That statement appears to be eoo-- eoo-- - firmed by statistics in New Tori City. . The death rate la the negro section is 40 par cent higher than throughout through-out the city as a whole. There are 100,000 negroes in New York City, and the health problem Is ! a serious one. ' Those that have been watting for the "1100 automobile" are now advised ad-vised to buy another dearer ear that they can really get tor - ductus s cheap car are vague and win not materialise la any case for a leng lime. Nobody able to rua a ear should be without tt. even for see |