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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK In the Age of Billions Old Bill Did Not Know More Land? What For? If Suddenly Rich, What? Congress number seventy-three goes home after appropriating for variegated spending between six thousand eight hundred million and seven thousand million dollars. No congress ever appropriated so much in peace times. In addition to spending about seven thousand million dollars, thla congress guaranteed approximately seven thousand millions more In home mortgages and farm bonds and set up a two thousand million "stabilization fund." We are living In the era of "billions." "bil-lions." With congress gone home, President Presi-dent Roosevelt is lord of all he surveys, sur-veys, wmVh Is no great change. He was pretty much that before the adjournment. We have no dictator in the United States, and shall not have one unless something strange and unusual happens, but the President Pres-ident has as much of a dictator's power as he chooses to use. Congress, with unimportant exceptions, ex-ceptions, obeyed orders while In session, ses-sion, and the country will look to the President now to Initiate and put through whatever he chooses. That situation probably does not suit him. It Involves great responsibility. respon-sibility. "Old Bill," dead in London, was a carrier pigeon. He carried messages mes-sages during the first year of the big war from British army and air forces in France and Belgium back to London, and lost a leg. Brought back to England by an Invalid 6ol-dier, 6ol-dier, he enjoyed life for many years, and now has laudatory "obituary notices" in English papers. "Old Bill" flew back and forth In the big war and lost a leg without ever knowing why he was flying or why he had to lose that leg. But "Old Bill" was no more Ignorant Ig-norant than a majority of the soldiers sol-diers over whose heads he flew on errands that he did not understand. A member of the British house of commons suggests that, falling cash payment, we might accept something some-thing In the way of territory. The British will not give up any territory terri-tory If they can hold on to It, which they can easily do In this case. And apart from that, what good would It do us to acquire more territory ter-ritory and have some foolish congressman con-gressman insist on giving It away? We could not possibly get from the British anything as valuable as the Philippines, and we are doing our oest to get rid of them. What would you do If you suddenly sud-denly found yourself quite rich, with a prospect of "easy riches" to come? Mr. Max Baer, new holder of the heavyweight prize-fighting championship, according to the New York Evening Journal, bought himself him-self thirty-five new suits of clothes, "in tan, gray and pastel shades." There was a great crowd waiting outside the tailor shop to cheer him, and he wrote his autograph on a one-dollar bill for a young girl. Fame is a wonderful thing. The young "Count of Paris," who might be king of France if the French people suddenly lost their wits, believes that he, so far as he knows a direct descendant of Hugh Capet, will soon be called to the French throne. He says: "You would be astonished if you could know how weary France Is of the present regime." The young pretender to the throne might be surprised if he could know how weary France was of her kings before she got rid of them, and how fortunate he Is that the common sense of the French will keep him talking, not reigning. President Roosevelt, In a letter sent to West Virginia, expresses satisfaction with the achievements of NRA. "We have spread employment, we have raised pay, and we are not through yet. "It Is a notable record of recovery. recov-ery. It has led the way for other nations, and has produced widespread wide-spread aud, I believe, permanent results. re-sults. Certainly we have a right to celebrate this anniversary." Washington Singer, whose father Invented a sewing machine, left a fortune of $.-,,5:u.S!)0 in England, where he raced his horses. ' The I.ntlsl. government takes an "estate "es-tate duty" of about two mill!,,,, dol-ara dol-ara from the heirs. At that rate It does not take long for vast nc cumulations to melt away, especially espe-cially ns "the bigger the esiate, the higher the percentage taken." Our government has borrowed the Idea made necessary by n 8l UU, for spending developed by poll- I'lie big, dangerous stool strike Is or h tl ,0 llvoi.(((li o s resident's wise unobtrusive modi,.- William r KlV" t0 t,m ,,u" VWlllam Green, president of n,. An,e1Mca,,I,Vdera.lon(,fLll,Hr ffi. Kl,,g ,, ., yiiiU(vat V NU Brvie |