Show buffi NOTES COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters OPPOSES COURT E ENTRY TRY by HIRAM JOHNSON U s S senator from california BECOMING a part of the court officially is the first false step in the complete abrogation of th the e foreign policy from which our republic never lias ims deviated we oppose as vigorously as we can such a new and startling american doctrine we ought not to join this league of nations court because if it Is merely what its proponents insist 1 our entry would be an idle and futile action we have at hand in the hague tribunal the mode of settling every existing controversy we may have we have no controversy with any foreign nation that we cannot settle by arbitration tra tion we have no international problem we desire to be passed upon by foreign judges peace it Is asserted Is brought nearer by the court and by our accession the present state of the world answers this plea the conditions existing in europe volcanic as they are make this thia the most unpropitious 0 of f all times for our republic to join in controversy tro versy there or to be a part in their decision all the high promises that were held out for the league of nations in 1019 and 1020 1920 have utterly failed with the treaty of versailles over europe like a S sinister inister cloud cious those promises of league advocates could not be and never will be redeemed the old diplomacy is 13 the order of the day across the sea SPENDING WILL BRING RUIN by P H JOHNSON new york banker OT notwithstanding WITHSTANDING a dell 11 aided improvement in general business we adhere to our previous statements that no sustained prosperity can obtain without a stable currency and a balanced budget the nation has tried to accomplish in one generation that which under ordinary and prudent circumstances it should take a country a hundred years to bring about the result has been to plunge us head aver heels into debt and we are not going to right our condition by going deeper into debt unless we change our course and within a reasonable time adjust our national expenditures to our income we will unquestionably bring ruin upon the entire body politic A wave ware has swept over our legislative halls to cure all ills by the enactment of more laws in our judgment this course hamstrings ham strings business and lows blows down general progress ANGLO AMERICAN RELATIONS by DAVID LLOYD GEORGE GEORG 1 former premier of great britain I 1 BELIEVE that with a strong policy by great britain we can improve the perilous international situation we must take a very definite and much stronger line than we have done in recent years in insuring the adjustment of questions that threaten peace in the east and the west notably on disarmament and on the chinese situation we have hare no special interest in racial conflicts in europe that Is in our favor the united states I 1 feel confident would operate cooperate co with us in any ally action along broad lines and the file world cannot afford to disregard those two powerful communities that applies not merely to the state of things in europe but also in the pacific which from the point of view of trade development Is more full of promise and from the standpoint of war more full of menace than Is europe engineering PROGRESS by WM wll B STOUT noted engineer WE E FACE a world totally out of date and which must be revised consecutively the automotive engineer has in the largest measure contributed toward creating this new world of greater opportunity therefore it Is both his opportunity and ills his privilege to continue to carry the torch of progress forward and upward in spite of the tha hindrances of ignorance and the warnings of pessimism most railroad equipment of today Is totally obsolete and must go automotive in order to live whether the railroad man bel believes leies it or not other machines whether dishwasher beating and lighting equipment kitchen paraphernalia or methods of travel all will be different within three years if they are not totally obsolete now BONUS PAYMENTS by PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAT to me is very important W WHAT having in mind that the bonus certificate is a paid up tip endowment policy payable either to the veteran upon its maturity or to the beneficiary generally the wife and children in the event of ills hla death Is the fact that of the ve veterans who die approximately 85 per cent of them leave no other asset to their family but the adjusted service certificate or the balance due on the certificate I 1 feel therefore that those who advocate the payment of these certificates at this time for or the purpose of stimulating business certainly I 1 cannot h hae ave given the interests of the vete ve ran much thought |