Show BR BRISBANE THIS WEEK idle acres idle men alen av f the townsend plan mrs Roosevel ts enterprise another slave of man ten tell million idle men and more in the united states ten million idle acres and more on either side of 0 this railroad running along the atlantic coast from southern florida to now new york two of the acres intensively cultivated would feed a family texas alone under intensive cultivation could feed the entire population 0 of the earth as it exists now and oil underneath texas would run all the automobiles there la Is an empire for you in one single state and we talk about over tion with so much land not used and none of it used with full intelligence the townsend plan a month to everybody sixty years of age Is solemnly discussed by congress which ought to be passing a sound reasonable old age pension now the townsend plan Is an interesting plan in many ways by taxation on every transaction on producer jobber wholesaler retailer manufacturer buyer it would practically absorb all available aral lable money to turn it over to deserving or otherwise persons aged sixty it would soon become necessary tor for some other townsend Towo send to organize a awa a month plan for all paupers haupers pau pers there would soon be twice as many pauper 9 as there are people sixty years old mrs franklin D roosevelt Is meanly criticized because having interested herself in providing better homes for poor people it appears that the undertaking may involve some slight financial loss trifling in united states finance sirs mrs roosevelt caused families to be moved from miserable hovels into comfortable homes A woman with children living last year in two rooms without windows with nothing but raw carrots tor for her christmas dinner told mrs ills roosevelt that she did not dare tell her children it was christmas day on this christmas day when mrs roosevelt went to see her the mother with a new born baby and her children all happy were living in a decent homestead with modern improvements including a cellar full of canned goods if that did cost a little money it was money well spent other ladles ladies and gentlemen who have spent money for the united states government have not done so well A steel gate 12 feet thick weighing pounds was closed one day recently and the colorado river its water and power definitely harnessed made slaves of man the stream that had wandered as it pleased for millions of 0 years through the magnificent mlle mile deep canyon of the colorado through boulder canyon and black canyon was now tied fast in black canyon the boulder dam Is a reality hereafter the colorado will flow as man shall order lighting cities irrigating deserts supplying power far away man ilan eventually will control the earth completely tie ile has made a good start at Nl niagara agara panama ran iuna muscle shoals boulder dam chicago reports the latest american type murder thomas B E maloy veteran head of Chi cagos motion picture operators union was killed in the usual way us ns he sat at the wheel of his automobile the government says mr mallys career as a union labor leader was profitable ue he had been indicted in and released on ball on a charge of failure to report three hundred and fifty thousand dollars income before the assassins slugs canceled that and aird other accusations it the leader of a motion picture union got that income you wonder how bow and from whom he got it also what wha t other motion picture operators who got no such sum think about it it was time for somebody to say what mr Kl Elc chberg liberg says now that he does not propose to put the interest of 0 the unions above loyalty to his government ern ment it Is a friendly act to remind union labor again that it if it wants to know what hali peas when separate organizations lations claim the right to run the country they should study conditions in italy there are no italian union leaders collect collection in g millions a year in dues former leaders are working with pick and shovel or tractor or lathe according to their mechanical ability kenneth neu killer of two men hanged in new orleans entertainer and singer by profession sang gaily the day before his hanging sang ta in the morning before going to the gallows said be would sing all the way to the scaffold love in bloom and when the trumpet sounds but when he saw the hangman and the noose lie stopped staging singing and only did a feeble tap dance on the scaffold it may comfort california which dislikes reading about florida to be told that when you yon buy cauliflower and many other green things in florida you buy things grown lo in california ft 0 kloff king PeA turea 6 syndicate meets ino inc gu a ice |