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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK "All Is Finished" Good Years Predicted Depression Ended Ford ' Army Airmail The king of Belgium, who climbed mountains because kings In these days have little of the old kingly executive ex-ecutive excitement left, took hold of a rock loosened by the frost and rain, far up, fell and was killed. His sons sorrowfully walked behind their father's coflin ; his widow murmured over and over, Tout est fini "All is finished." The older son takes his father's place and all Is finished. It may be true, as Mussolini, Hitler Hit-ler and Kemal agree, that human beings, in their republics and democracies, democ-racies, have shown inability to govern gov-ern themselves. But government by kings has failed also. Whether a king lives or dies makes little difference dif-ference except that sometimes the change from one king to another may excite Communists and other "Reds," causing unpleasant demonstrations. demon-strations. France, needing Belgium as a buffer state, so useful in delaying the Germans in the big war, worries wor-ries a little about Belgian Communists. Commu-nists. Otherwise, the death of the good-natured, friendly Belgian king means nothing. Mr. Richard H. Grant, who understands un-derstands business, having distributed distrib-uted many hundreds of millions of valuable merchandise, believes that "America is due for three or four years of prosperity, induced by the stimulus of government spending." At the end of the three or four years of prosperity, more or less artificially ar-tificially provided, Mr. Grant thinks "the natural world recovery will come itself and I think be well under un-der wTay when government spending stops." Nine out of ten business men feel as Mr. Grant feels, but they all know that when you change a patient from strong medicines, stimulants, digitalis to drive the heart, morphine to deaden pain, etc., you must do it carefully. The change from Uncle Sam's money to money "that you earn yourself" will have its difficulties. Henry Ford has dismissed the depression de-pression from his mind. "It is ended," end-ed," said he, "not for this or that one of a hundred reasons, but because be-cause the people have got tired of it. When they get really tired of a thing, they go to work and end it." If every man will do the thing that he knows how to do, as well as he possibly can do it, there will be no more trouble, in Mr. Ford's opinion. He believes that President Roosevelt has made no mistake thus far, and says, "The American dollar will always al-ways be a good dollar and a real dollar, not a 60-cent dollar, either. You can no more compare our money with other money than you can compare com-pare our country with other countries. coun-tries. "The value of money depends on what it will buy. The dollar will always al-ways buy anything." The antics of gold, rising and falling, fall-ing, rushing in here when we go "off" it, amused Mr. Ford. He never had any high opinion of gold. Men, ideas and work are what count, for him. Army planes are carrying the mails. Army pilots are doing the work, not any better than the hig'dy trained airmail pilots, but Just as well. It is to be hoped that army air mail pilots will be well paid, at least as well as the commercial pilots, and that as many of the latter lat-ter as care to do so will find employment em-ployment in the army air mail service, serv-ice, with pay as good as that which they had received, or better. This use of army planes and flyers fly-ers for carrying mails, made necessary neces-sary by the conviction of President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley that private air mall contracts con-tracts have been vitiated by fraud, may prove of great value to this country. President Roosevelt means to do something about the sugar problem, which disturbs the world from Utah to the Gulf states, from Asia to Cuba via Hawaii and Porto Rico. An attempt will be made to allot to each sugar-producing territory Its rightful share of the United States sugar market. We cannot or do not here grow any but a small part of the sugar this country needs, and must rely on other countries, particularly on Cuba, so Important, In case of war, because of Its nearness near-ness to our shores. It seems fair to protect tli e producing countries from disastrous over-production and competition com-petition by allotting to each a share of our market. Cutting down the number of CWA workers and government-made Jobs, In one state from S'j.OOO to 50,A the government .'ays, first, to drop workers In whose family another member is working, leaving only one person in each family making money; second, "Drop workers that have other resources," and third, a welcome order, Msike sure that needy women receive eq'ial consideration consid-eration with needy men." K'.r.s F'-"irr S--r'l!cat, Ico. V.'.NU Service. |