Show PA E fia fourteen years ago the american and allied armies were m making king desperate efforts ela efa forts to check the advance ot of the hindenburg line on the western front germany came nearer to victory in the spring g ot of 1918 than at any ny other moment mog ot of the whole war today america and the allies tire are rejoicing that general ion on hindenburg after seven years as president ot of the german republic has been le elected lor for another seven years I 1 nothing could demonstrate better the fact act that we were not finking war on the german people but on the kaiser and his system hindenburg has won the respect ot of the whole hole world it he lives out hta his new term he will be 91 before it Is finished A grand tough old mani man I 1 VOTERS I 1 the united states has a population ot of about million G germany L amany has a population ot of less leas than 63 million about half as many as we have I 1 the largest vote ever polled in the uni ted states was million in the presidential election ot of 1928 out ut halt ot of americans eligible to vol did not trouble to go to the polls 1 at th the e presidential election in germany on march there were more than 37 4 million votes castl cast I 1 halt half ot of our population but more voters out than any election has ever brought out in america no now w somebody ought to find an issue that w will III bring all of our 72 million qualified american voters to the polls next november MONEY I 1 mon money e Y the economists tell us Is anything w which aich people freely accept la in payment f tor 0 r services and commodities accordingly the wooden money v which aich the chamber of C commerce 0 mmerle of tenino wash has issued Is really money though it Is printed on plywood 1 A local ban bank k failed with frozen assets to relieve the distress caused by so much ot of the community money being tied up in the bank the chamber ot of commerce issued script certificates based upon the expected 25 per cent dividend out ot 0 I 1 the banks assets and because tenino 0 I 1 Is in the lumber country its people cleverly got a lot publicity by printing this script on wood numismatists which means coln coin collectors are interested and have bought specimens of this wooden money tor for more than its face value its only drawback Is that it accepted as money outside of the territory served by the ten alno business houses bouses TRAVEL to make it easier tor for americans to travel some me ot of the big atlantic steamship lines s are offering a plan whereby I 1 annb anybody 0 dy can pay tor for his european tripi trip on instalments installments pay a quarter ot of thel cost of the tour la in cash and then onel ot of the big finance companies will put up the rest of the money and the tourist can pay it off in ten monthly inseal ments ot of course the finance company wants to know all about the people it does business with on that basis and ot of course the tourist pays interest on the deterred deferred payments but it looks like a good scheme any kind ot of travel that takes one into strange lands where people have different ideas about life and different customs and manners Is good tor for anybody the only really intelligent people are the ones who realize that the whole world ls Is not just like their home town CANALS government engineers are surveying alternative routes for a sea ibis level evel ship canal across the upper par part t of the florida peninsula connecting the atlantic ocean with the gulf 0 of f mexico I 1 can think thank of nothing that can be done so cheaply that will be worth so much it will be valuable not alone to florida but to all ot of the gult gulf states and their ports and to the rest of the atlantie atlantic seaboard in making commerce quicker and easier between the eastern states and the gult gulf states our experience with canals has been uniformly good some of the canals which were built before the railroads are le ie carded as obsolete today but it was the erie canal from the hudson river elver to lake erie which opened up the west T when hen it was nas finished in 1823 and so long as it Is kept navigable it keeps railroad rates down between the west vest and the port or of new yorktee York the panama canal has more than paid for itself and its ita value to the nation Is recognized by everybody in the world it Is to be hoped that the nicaragua canal between the atlantic and the pacific will shortly be begun making water communication between our two coasts even speedier than now |