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Show brisbane THIS WEEK War Financing France Pays Piper Lottery Millions Ability to Endure One hundred and fifty-three leading lead-ing British economists, mapping out a new plan to I" - - f preserve peace, say "the importance impor-tance of American Ameri-can co-operation In the work of peace - making cannot be overestimated." over-estimated." It is to be hoped that the part that America Ameri-ca will play In future European affairs, such as war financing, may be very easily eas-ily overestimated. Arthur Brlabane If those gentlemen cannot abstain from cutting each other' throats without the assistance and money of the United States, why, then let them cut each other's throats. France Is learning that the people peo-ple always pay the piper, whoever the piper may be a great conqueror conquer-or leading them to war, or a clever politician loading them with taxes. In France, sugar has gone up in price; bread and veal have both gone up; two sous a kilogram for bread, two sous a pound for veal, and the government is held directly responsible by the housewife as regards re-gards the bread, for the French government gov-ernment fixes the price of bread as ours fixes the price of postage stamps. Trailing behind England and the United States the French, with less than 20 per cent of American unemployment, unem-ployment, are discussing great public pub-lic works to absorb the idle. Billions are spoken of, but the "millard," French word for "billion," "bil-lion," means only one billion four-cent four-cent pieces, the franc having been reduced by government fiat to that price. If a billion meant here 25,-000 25,-000 francs, equivalent to the American Ameri-can billion when the dollar was good, the French might well faint away, although they are fundamentally fundamen-tally a rich people. When Bismarck laid on France an Indemnity equivalent to $1,000,000,-000, $1,000,000,-000, after 1870, he thought he had asked for about all France could raise after a hard war. The French government offered bonds to pay Bismarck, and the French people subscribed to the loan 14 times over. Bismarck had guessed badly. bad-ly. France is far richer now than it was then. French labor demands the 40-hour 40-hour week and the government agrees; It also demands wage in-ci in-ci eases from 12 to 17 per cent, and that makes the country a little thoughtful. With a shorter week, diminished production . and higher wages, bread, sugar, veal and many other things must go up In price. Possibly Possi-bly the French worker, who really works, while he is at it, will manage man-age to produce as much In 40 hours as he has done hitherto in 48 or more; even then increased wages will be added to the price of living and even the worker, who must pay, will growl. How long will America continue pouring thousands of millions of dollars dol-lars Into gambling, lottery sweepstakes sweep-stakes and other foreign enterprises? enter-prises? It is Interesting to read that in the banks of Dublin there are 25 millions of dollars undistributed from the so-called "Hospitals Sweepstakes." Hospitals did not get it yet. It might also enlighten this government gov-ernment to know that under the law no mention can be made of the sweepstakes gambling In England. The English are too wise to let their money be drained oil in any kind of gambling enterprise, if it is not ENGLISH. You cannot even send a telegram about sweepstakes over the English telegraph wires, to be published in countries outside of England. All telegraphing about the sweepstakes gambling game must go around England, her government-owned wire system will not handle it. Under Its Constitution, the United States cannot forbid newspapers to print lottery news that breeds more gambling and heavier losses. But the government might forbid transmission trans-mission of such information through the postoffice. That would cut down the "graft." School teachers, business heads, chambers of commerce, even clergymen, cler-gymen, might find a good text in Mr. Son, the young Japanese with the determined face who won the long marathon race at the recent Olympic games in Berlin. Not only could that marvelous Japanese runner go, and keep going, go-ing, but there seemed no ent'. to his endurance. Everybody can run, more or loss, but that by itself never wins a marathon. The race for success in lire is a marathon race, and real success depends de-pends more than anything else on your ability to KEEP GOING. (B King li'ontiii im SymlU'iito. lna WNU Hurvli-. |