Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK A long swim money flows west vest 5 for not so barren the new year 1935 latest con trib ution of 0 father time to the long chain of beads called eternity Is I 1 here and we are in it we shrill shall continue to read opinions and rumors plans and ot of plans la in our slow progress to pros peritus per Ver itys shore it Is a long swim when you are thrown overboard la in the middle of lake superior this country wils was thrown overboard ta in another lake of superior prosperity and unlimited expectations back la 1929 1 farmers newspapers devoted to the turners farmers interest big bankers in the east are interested la in the tact fact that the money tide that tor for so long flowed from producers in the tha west wed to accumulators in the east Is now flowing in the other direction the money tide goes out toward the farms of wheat raisers and stock in the west and middle west and to the cotton farmers la in the south it Is as though the great lakes had been tilted upward at the eastern end and the waters sent rushing toward the rocky mountains the tide will not flow long in that western direction probably men that have the mortgages and collect the interest accumulate the money in the lorg run long ago a man wagered that he would woold stand on london bridge offering genuine gold sovereigns for a shilling each and find few takers the gold sovereigns were genuine but nobody would woold buy met smith a circus official called lucky smith bet that los angeles citizens would refuse to buy genuine 5 bills tor for hundreds walked by looked at the genuine bills some cried fakel fabel only two purchased lucky smith won a wager many americans wish they had been as skeptical about certain stock back bach in I 1 1929 the distinguished george W russell of ireland who signs his bis writings AU AC says 1 I am always struck by the terrible barrenness of rural life in america ile he thinks we must find some way to enrich it and it if we dont then the disease which destroyed ancient italy will eat into america you will no longer feed yourselves and you yon will be struck with palsy of bread and circuses mr russell Il may find greater richness in irish farmhouses but it Is a richness of the character and of the mind not the surroundings there Is little barrenness about other than intellectual in our rural life with its automobile radio moving pictures within easy reach rural delivery porcelain bath tubs mall mail order catalogues cataloguer catal prayer roee meetings tings revivals annual circus the public library soon reached by automobile next summer our bur ships of war venturing almost to oriental waters will engage in far flung war games covering more than square miles of the pacific ocean how interesting that win will be baand and how rapidly those ships would come running home to hide away in port if a few large bombing planes s should hould sat sail out from asia from tokyo or Kus vladivostok over those square miles of the pacific and drop explosive bombs and poison gas bombs on the battleships tle ships 1 geological explorers from the bird expedition near the sout south lh pole report important veins of mineral quartz discovered in mountains along the coast of marle byrd bird land it if the geologists should bring back bach actual samples rich in gold how quickly nien men would find a way to reach those mount mountains how indifferent to death they would be in the effort to get there I 1 in kansas a terrific dust storm biding aiding the sun suggests that the 1141 agricultural department help farmers by developing some temporary cover crop that could be sown on ft heat cheat and corn fields when the crops come olt off a fixing plant if possible it would protect dusty surfaces from high winds and be plowed under tinder contributing humus before the next nest planting in the northwest farmers have used the 11 which cuts it 11 path 60 feet alde ide going through the roots of needs and not the protection of the stubble from wind and the w bishing of heavy rains A wise wase motto of earlier days was when in doubt retrain in russia and other countries where the will of tint one takes tile the place of slow decisions by the mil dority the maxim ailin reads when in doubt shoot moscow reports 14 moie executed to avenge the alling hlll ln or of sergel kirov making les iles taken to that one murder 0 kag rua syndicate lag inc |