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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Childhood TugweU's Little Girl Holland Buy Plane. Rev. Webber Know. Childhood , lasts longer In Franca than in America and Ut, s. si Z3 their teens, writing writ-ing letters, call their fathers Cher petit pap-pa, pap-pa, "Dear little papa" imagine imag-ine that from an American "prep" school. Little French girls play innocently inno-cently with Toto, their little dog, hardly knowing that such things as francs exist, when much old- Arthnr Brisbane er than Assistant Secretary Tug-well's Tug-well's intelligent young daughter, Marcia, aged twelve, who, in partnership part-nership with her friends. Mary Frances Cottrell and Joyce Hel-mick, Hel-mick, organized "a laundry for washing dogs." They advertised: "Small dogs, 30 cents; middle-sized dogs, 35 cents; groomed and washed. Dogs not good-natured must be sent with muzzles, and we cannot wash large dogs." Too bad that parental severity broke up the dog laundry. It had announced working hours "10 a. m. to 5 p. m. on Saturdays," the studious stu-dious little girls' only holiday, "all hours after school on other weekdays." week-days." What a good example for government govern-ment enterprises: the little girls really meant to work to "groom and wash" the dogs, not merely stand around and collect the 30 cents. Plucky little Holland and her wise queen seem to have decided that the 1914 "war to end all wars" did not finish its job. Holland went through the big war safely, selling butter, cheese, eggs, not disturbed, not making any bad $10,000,000,000 loans. Now Holland is buying 13 heavy bombing planes in Baltimore, spending $1,500,000 for the 13, and spending many other millions for other killing machinery. That means work and wages in Baltimore; it may mean poison gas and death for some of Holland's neighbors. Foreign countries read everything every-thing said about them in America; not that foreign countries care what Americans think, or attach importance to American opinion, as such; but America has money, raw products, and governments that are sometimes whimsical, changeable and boyish. Europe, Asia and Africa watch with equal interest statements of Americans that count and more numerous Americans that float like feathers in the air. One simple - minded Russian popted with pride to the statement of a clergyman in our Union Theological The-ological seminary. That gentleman, Rev. Charles C. Webber, has a plan for a better government, not based on the text about rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. The big idea is to take away what is Caesar's. Eight hundred young people were told by Reverend Webber: "God, who is not content with things as they are, is a revolutionary revolution-ary Being, constantly i seeking to make all things new." Rev. Webber, "recognizing this," about God being a revolutionist, has a plan to help God in his efforts; ef-forts; a plan as simple as A, B, C. Capitalism, he says, must be abolished. abol-ished. Rev. Webber wants a planned and planning social economy econ-omy in the United States. Under the Charles C. Webber plan, people peo-ple would own and manage such things as industry and property; no money would be spent for war, and youth would rule. Those brought up with the old-fashioned old-fashioned idea of God might ask Rev. Webber, respectfully: "If God really is a revolutionary 'constantly 'constant-ly seeking to make aU things new,' why does He not carry out His will and 'make all things new' every few minutes? Can it be that He needs the help of Rev. Webber? Lenin and Stalin got along without that help." Also arises this question: With capitalism abolished, who would build the churches, the Union Theological The-ological seminaries, and pay salaries sal-aries to Rev. Webbers for reading the mind of the Divinity? Dean Swift should have known Rev. Webber when he wrote his tale of a tub. France calls Paris the "aerial port of Europe," proudly. In America' the still prouder title "Chief Air Traffic Port of the Whole World" is claimed by Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Cleveland, and with a great deal of reason by San Francisco and Oakland, thanks to the magnificent bay, and to the fact that the greatest air line, running from America to Asia, starts from that neighborhood. Klngl.v,u,,r0aayn,llculo. Inc. WNUaol'vioo. |