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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Bin Fiis'mcss Ahead Nullii-lil, IWkelYlW Govprmiient Steps In Sing Sing This is the last column by the late Arthur Brisbane. It was found on his desk after his death December Decem-ber 25. The old-time spirit broke away the hounds of the last remnant of the depression years. The great boom in air travel, railroads and all forms of transportation trans-portation during this Christmas period augurs great things for the coming new year. Prosperity and optimism are the forerunners o f this Christmas period to usher in the New Year. Arthur nrlxbnne Lord Nuffield English, is a generous gen-erous giver; his automobile manufacturing manu-facturing makes .it possible.. He gave $10,000,000 to the University of Oxford, has established a trust of $10,000,000 for his employees, and has given $10,000,000 to the British government "to help the needy." His giving in the past eleven years amounts to about thirty-seven million mil-lion dollars. If Lord Nuffield were to multiply his gifts by ten, he would stiU oe far from the giving record of our home-grown John D. Rockefeller; also, he would be surprised to know how much prosperous Americans contribute to their government "for the needy" in the form of income tax. The governor of Pennsylvania spent three days, carefully investigating investi-gating illegal coal mining and selling sell-ing by idle workers, "bootlegging" property of coal corporations, selling sell-ing more than thirty million dollars' worth of "stolen" coal each year. At the end of his investigation, the governor "took action," but of a kind that probably will surprise mine owners. He ordered the arrest of four executives ex-ecutives of the Philadelphia & Reading Read-ing Coal & Iron company, accusing accus-ing them of involuntary manslaughter man-slaughter in connection with a coal mine disaster three years ago that killed thirteen. The officials and company are accused of employing eighty-five men in a mine section on which only seventy-five could be legally employed. An explosion killed thirteen. Mine owners with grievances will think carefully before be-fore calling on Gov. Earle again. There are twenty-seven murderers murder-ers in the death house at Sing Sing prison, nearly all boys or very young men. Six of the twenty-seven young ruffians, of assorted races and religions three of them under un-der twenty-one years of age surrounded sur-rounded a defenseless man, murdered mur-dered him in cold blood to get a few dollars, all in subway nickels. Governor Lehman of New York is urged to pardon the six murderers, some because they are young, some because they did not fire that fatal shot. The governor replied he ought not to pardon any murderer under twenty-one years of age, because "I frankly see no difference in the guilt of the man who is twenty-two and one who is twenty." The "big shot" gangsters hire men, usually very young and well supplied with drugs, to do their killing for them. It would be too easy for these employers of killers if they could take boys from sixteen to twenty and guarantee them, "in the first place, they won't catch you; in the second place, if they do, they can't execute you; we'll get yoa acquitted or get you out of jail." Murder has become a "business," and businesslike murders must be made dangerous. Suggestions for Lloyd's insurance. In the United States, where some business is rather timid, accident insurance companies automatically terminate accident policies when the beneficiaries reach the age of seventy. Yet, at that age, men are often safest from accidents. They stay a'; home, wall; slowly, take few risks. The British Lloyd's might find a good field in a selected list of United States citizens past seventy. This would be no hardship on American companies, since they do not want the business. Mexico plans to establish 2,000 new primary public schools, in the coming year, having established 3,-000 3,-000 such schools in 1936. Representatives of the Catholic church, which includes in its membership mem-bership 95 per cent of Mexico's population, pop-ulation, object strongly and officially official-ly to the kind of education alleged to be offered to Mexican children. France figures up a deficit of four thousand three hundred and thirty-six thirty-six million francs; divide that by twenty-five, and you find that it is just "chicken feed" in dollars. In this country, $133,000,500 is no deficit, defi-cit, only petty cash. King l'Viitiin-n Symllcule. inc. WiN U Service. |