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Show j This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE . J Lipton's $400 1 Singing; in the Drought I He Will Steal No Mora J The Right Idea , , Sir Thomas, Llpton will soon arrive It v,to see bis yacht win or lose. H Is -I 80, and the cup that he seeks was won '4 y by an American boat, when Llpton was p a 1-year-old baby, f It would please everybody, it the genial old Irishman could take the cup back with him. We don't need It, and our young millionaire yacht buflders would enjoy going over after It. , Yacht races mean little to the average man, but a few words that Llpton said to reporters mean everything every-thing to millions. He told how he first came to thta country, at 17, In the steerage, adding: "I went to work in the South, saved j money, and returned hom with $400 In' I my pocket, and I thought I was the 4 richest man in the world." ' He wasn't the richest man, but he was rich, because he knew how to save. ' Llpton has business ability, under- stands advertising, and trade. But all i . bis business intelligence would have done him no good without the first $400- That money enabled him to start something. j And starting, he succeeded. A great I majority of all Americans die worth ' less than $100, 85 per cent of those i past 65 are dependent on others, and I that In a country where average Intelligence, willingness to work, add capacity to save, mean Independence . In old age. Miss Marlon Talley, "Girl of the Golden West," cultivated her voice, sang In the golden Metropolitan Opera ! House, made money, returned west and bought a farm. The drought has ! ruined the corn on her 800 acres In Kansas, and she thinks she will come back to the Metropolitan Opera House for more. There is no drought In the Metropolitan diamond circle. Other farmers, unfortunately, can not do that. In ancient days food was usually given to anyone In need. The law allowed an expectant mother to take . fruit from any orchard, none could Interfere with her. Customs and laws ) have changed. Near Toledo, Ohio, Elmer Tilton, 45 years old, out ot work for seven months, went out with his oldest son, Lewis, aged 17, to get some food Unfortunately thoy tried the farm , of Lester Coy, 23 years old, who farms single handed, supporting a blind father, and Is frequently annoyed by crop thieves. He was sitting up late with a gun, when Tilton and his son ! began digging his potatoes. Father and son were both shot dead. Someone else will have to supply food for Tilton's six other children. i All countries except Russia, Italy and France complain of unemployment. unemploy-ment. Canada is worried about 200,000 out of work. Their trouble Is small compared with our Idle 5,000,000. The worst Is not Uie unemployment, - but the fact that nobody, from the government down, knows what Is the matter with the world. In 1914 Europe went on a murderous debauch, killing millions, spending tens of billions. Then thanks to the billions poured out, there was a great "prosperity boom." Now apparently the nations are paying for the debauch. You can't kill millions and burn up billions without regretting It soon or late. However, this country has more money thut it can use, its industries are more highly developed than ever, its people have learned to need things and buy them. The right idea probably could put this country back into its stride. But nobody seems to have that Idea. On the Hudson, near 8lng Sing prison, four persons in a sinking boat were in danger of drowning. Pour convicts, sentenced to long terms, with many years of prison life ahead of them, asked for a chance to save those in danger, saying: "We will come back." The guards wisely consented. The conviots saved the four men, and they did come back to serve out their terms. There are thousands in prisons that with a better chance In youth would have been useful men. There are , thousands living in luxury that would be In prison it their childhood had been the same as the average convict's childhood. Captain Hawks is now the world's champion flyer, and has beaten all records across this continent westward - ij. and back again. Flying from Los Angeles to New York In 12 hours, be beat Colonel Lindbergh's record by 2 hours and his engine was never "wide open" on the trip. Doctor Swallow la dead, aged 91 Formerly a Methodist preacher, he ran for president as a prohibition candidate, candi-date, in 1904, and was ridiculed. But he lived to see prohibition the law, and to see Herbert Hoover as a prohibition candidate, get about 20,000,000 votes, Governor Smith, on a wet platform, getting about 15,000,000 votes, many millions more than any other Democrat ever got. The improbable happens. r |