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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK 103 Billions. Be Calm 103 Eyes for an Eye , The Unexpected Pleases Fourth Place for Us Secretary Ickes has a real plan, and possesses what might be called iion In spending. He has confidence confi-dence in this country and Its wealth. As chairman of the resources re-sources board, Mr. Ickes favors spending $105,000,000,000 In the next 20 or 30 years on public works. Do not "stand and gaze," or fall backward ; that Isn't so much money mon-ey for Uncle Sam. Mr. P. EL Eck-er, Eck-er, whose Metropolitan Life Insurance Insur-ance company, biggest In the world, has assets of $4,000,000,000, will tell you that In really good times the United States' income was $00,-000,000,000 $00,-000,000,000 a year, N$GO,000,000,000 for wages, $30,000,000,000 of other income. "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" may suit old-fashioned "capitalistic" countries. It does not appeal to Russia. There, to avenge the killing of one man, 1 Kirov, Stalin's friend, 28 more have been shot, making a total of 103. "A hundred and three eyes for one eye, a hundred and three teeth for one tooth," Is a high price, and the number killed may be Increased. In-creased. The unexpected is Interesting and Is the essence of humor. Two old gentlemen, falling in their attempt at-tempt to strike oil, retired to the poorhouse. In the poorhouse backyard back-yard they found, first, a good coal deposit, then struck oil. Louis Mosenza of New Jersey went hunting deer, walked 20. miles, found nothing. At night he found a large deer hanging In his kitchen. It walked into the front yard, Mrs. Mosenza shot it. Charles Dana Gibson, able artist, with friends went moose hunting, traveled far, by buckboard In the Maine forest, found nothing, packed guns, drove back to the station. A fine bull moose and two cows walked across the track. They could not get out their guns In time. An NRA report says the United States comes fourth among nations in the march toward recovery and is gratified. There was a time when fourth place did not particularly gratify Americans, but "small mercies mer-cies thankfully received." Interesting in the report Is the statement that countries still on the gold basis France, Italy,-Belgium, Holland, Switzerland show least evidence of progress. . Rumania's parliament discussed a young lady with red hair named Magda Lupescu, for wdiom the Rumanian Ru-manian king, Carol, has shown some partiality. It was suggested in defense of King Carol that "his critics are too weak to be immoral." That new view of Immorality would surprise several well-known characters, including the good St. Anthony. It was not understood that the man who said he could "resist anything except temptation" was a person of unusual strength. Mr. Joseph J. Fiske observes that among the "one hundred and eighty-one who had Incomes of a million dollars a year during the war, the Jews may be counted on the fingers of one hand." He thinks this Interferes with Hitler's theory that members of the Jewish race control the world's money and own most of it That theory, of course, Is nonsense. non-sense. There is no Jew among the richest men in the United States, who are, or were until recently, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Ford and George F. Baker. Wise King George of England knows which way the straws are blowing. Friends wanted to give him, by subscription, a new yacht costing $150,000. He thanked them, said he could get along well with his old sailing boat, and advised that the $150,000 "be applied to people peo-ple out of work." That kind of king stays on his throne. The marquess of Donegal tells the London Sunday Despatch that Chancellor Hitler, flying over east Prussia, was attacked with gunfire from another airplane, that fled at high speed after missing. Perhaps that did not happen, but It might happen. United States cotton growers decide de-cide by a vote of 9 to 1 that they want an extension of the Eankhead act, limiting the production of cotton. cot-ton. Consequently, production will be kept down and prices forced up. So far so good. Another result will be that foreign for-eign countries will gratefully increase in-crease their cotton production, safe from competition of United States surplus cotton, and this country's cotton export trade will gradually fade away. Perhaps that Is "all right." Cotton growers should know. . King F"n"irn S-nrllc&te, Inn. WNTI Servic. |
