Show I 1 I 1 ig zel S WON MOVIES some small european nations have prohibited the showing of A mickey lickey mouse in movie theaters on the ground that this animated cartoon Is mentally unwholesome few intelligent people will agree with that on the contrary I 1 think such amusing productions as mickey mouse and silly symphonies are not only the best sort of comedy entertainment but they are almost the only lorm form of art which the movies have developed in such pictures as those and in news reels and travel pictures the movies give something which the stage cannot otter offer much of the other stuff shown on the screen these days consists of poor substitutes utes for real plays presented by real actors they do bring the drama of a sort within the reach of everybody but that Is not to say that every type of drama Is wholesome tor for everybody I 1 sympathize with the effort ot of mr will hays to clean up the movies but I 1 uon dont t think he is making very much he headway aday to judge by some talkies tallies I 1 have seen lately there Is some excuse tor for a play which deals with more or less delicacy with illicit sex relations when it Is con confined lined to a single theater and audiences of presumably sophisticated adults there Is no excuse for vulgarizing vulgar izing the same play until even a child can sense its rawest implications and then showing I 1 it t to audiences of millions of children in the movies I 1 WIVES not many years ago a wife was the property of her husband not only in turkey but everywhere else in fit th the e world especially Is london cc in england the other day in ili london a man sued a doctor tor for enticing 1 his wife to leave him the judge ae ciacci against the plaintiff he said a wife had a right to leave her husband whenever bhe desired that she ehe had the right to decide whether to bear children and when that she was an independent individual and could decide her own course of life without consulting her hus bard bar not all ot of our states go as tar far as that b but ut it was pointed out in co court urt that in ini england women today also have the best of it in other ways il if f a married woman driving her car injures somebody else her husband can be sued jointly with her and made to pay the entire damages if she gives her husband any money it Is a loan in law but anything he gives her Is a gift no action can be taken against a wife fc tor for deserting her husband but shil can have her husband arrested if he 0 deserts aerts her bar A husband must pay the income tax on his knifes income tt if she falls to do so and it if she owed oved him money before they were married he cannot coi collect it after marriage who said this was a mans Ms a woi id I 1 IRON R ON j A hun hundred dred years ago new england mines and furnaces I 1 producing d alg iron and getting a cent a pound for 1 it eilent v aie years ago pittsburgh began to be the iron center selling casting tor for three cents a pound fifty years ago new kew england found a way of getting ten cents a pound for iron making it into machinery Iron masters of today get fifty cents a pound tor for their and pressed steel alloys allots I 1 every advance in the art of fabricating f abri catIng ir rr r T r feld a higher price for the finished product the new alloys stainless steel chrome plated sheets are being made into new art forms which bring the price ot of iron to the user up to a dollar or more a pound every step away from the raw materials ot of existence raises the economic standard ot of living the more labor goes into the iron the more persons are employed the higher the price ot of the finished product the more that labor can earn the most backward nations are those which use chiefly natural products the most advanced ones are those which put the most labor into the goods they consume JEWS the jewish agricultural society ha has s been engaged tor for years in the effort t to 0 induce jewish families to become farmers today there are of 0 them in america living solely or chiefly on the land most ot of these jewish farmers live in colonies les of their own people they are a clannish race and they operate cooperate co well they are also good business men ns as a rule and make a living and more when their non jewish neighbors are running behind I 1 the latest development of this sort Is the establishment of agro industrial communities near enough to large cities to enable some of the family to work in town while the others cultivate the land I 1 think this solution of the industrial pi problem eblem Is one that Is worth deve developing lopin 9 COLONELS A humorist in the kentucky legislature has introduced a bill taxing each kentucky colonel a year another humorist moved that the bill be referred to the fish and game committee which was done being myself one of the latest batch of colonels I 1 am concerned about this I 1 hope the fish and game committee will wil not report a bill creating an open season tor for 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