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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE Drink, Credit, Gold. Garbage Made Useful. Happiness Does Exist. Get Yourself an Enemy. Credit and the value of money appear ap-pear to be matters of public confidence, confi-dence, except when a nation goes entirely crazy or becomes financial, ly crafty as Germany did, and issues is-sues thousands of billions of worthless worth-less raper. Gold experts who "know all about money" said President Roosevelt's financial policy was ruining United States credit. Then Uncle Sam said, "I should like to borrow about a billion dollars." And the people promptly offered him three billions at low interest rates. Fact outweighs out-weighs theory. Considering taxes on alcoholic drinks, it would be worth while to review opinions expressed by Thomas Jefferson, who knew the people of the United States and wrote their Declaration of Independence. Inde-pendence. He recommended an English brewer to the Legislature of Virginia, urging that he be well treated, because good beer would conquer drunkenness. He imported his own light wines from France, and urged lowest possible taxation on such wines, saying "no nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." In London in the old days.when distilled spirits were new, and high alcoholic taxes not invented you read over gin shops such signs as "Here you get drunk for a penny." Officials interested in efifcient, honast management of cities might learn of something to their advantage advant-age by communicating with William Wil-liam Sydow, director of public service serv-ice in the city of Miami. Unlike some "highly civilized" Northern cities, that dump sewage and garbage gar-bage into the ocean that their citizens citi-zens may bathe in it, Miami has long got rid of garbage by burning. At first, burning cost money for fuel and labor. Then, Mr. Sydow, who is a competent engineer and a public-spirited man. attached to the burning garbage steam boilers for production of power. With the steam thus supplied, Miami pumps its water supply, saves the cost of power for that purpose, saves also all that it formerly for-merly cost to burn the garbage. True, there is "nothing in it" for politicians, but ther- is something in it for taxpayers, and they may Be interested. There is happiness somewhere on earth, praise Heaven. H. E. Dugan. writes from Glendale, California: Cali-fornia: "I have just returned from a trip through the Mother Lode mining sections of California, and gold sections sec-tions of Nevada and Arizona. And does it look like 'old times' in these places? I'll say so. The large properties prop-erties are daily adding miners and many have given each miner a Christmas bonus in advance and extra dividends to stockholders. The hills, rivers, old workings are crowded with 'young America' all hoping to get rich. Many are making mak-ing good w-ages. Not a speck of depression de-pression in the many mining towns." Colonel Shutts, of Miami, editor and newspaper owner, making a speech on success, said this worth remembering: "One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy." "One enemy is worth twenty friends, in promoting success. An enemy to an ambitious man is like the rhinoceros bird to the rhinoceros. rhino-ceros. When the enemy comes, the rhinoceros bird tells about it. When a successful man is making mistakes, mis-takes, the enemy immediately calls attention and warns the man. "Friends praise you, pointing out good things that you do. You know all about that. Your enemies attack you, point out your mistakes. Get for yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him as an enemy, and when yor achieve success, thank him." Vienna reports from Graz, Austria, Aus-tria, one of the greatest landslides in history. An entire mountainside covering nine square miles is sliding slid-ing toward the village of Wienen and authorities believe the village is doomed. That is far from us, but it may interest our descendants millions of years hence. Mountain slides and mountain tops are constantly slipping down, the crumbling effect of frost and erosion helping the work. A million streams wash soil into the ocean, gradually filling those depths. Volcanic eruptions and land upheavals do little to counteract this eternal "leveling power." In time, within the few hundred million years that men still have to go on this earth, their planet may become absolutely round and smooth. If that happened, the oceans would cover the earth miles deep everywhere, and men could take their choice of living afloat, eating sea food, or digging canals big enough to hold the oceans and lakes. (. 19 33, by King Feature Syndicate. Inc.) |