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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK You Have Inflation But Don't Worry Flying Too Low New Way to Travel A law will presently become the "law of the land" compelling the nation to buy fourteen hundred million mil-lion ounces of silver. It is announced an-nounced that the President will issue is-sue fifteen hundred million dollars of paper money to buy the silver. Conservative old fojtylsm yells "inflation," "in-flation," akhi. It Is not Inflation, since the money will have silver back of It. It will have more back of it than the government's bonds on which the nation pays interest. Rack of those bonds there Is nothing but a paper mill, and the government's name. There are no longer any gold bonds; you can't get any gold. Back of the silver money Issued to buy silver will at least be silver, and you can always buy something with that in China, Mexico, India elsewhere as well as here at home. Conservative old fogyism may as well realize thatwehave left the gold basis, and that a government bond Is worth exactly as much as a piece of green paper with the government govern-ment name on It, no more, no less. All you will get for any United States government bond is pieces of green paper, when you come to sell it For your comfort remember that this nation, which has actually lost, according to careful statistics, more than one hundred thousand millions of dollars since the depression began, be-gan, can well afford another hundred hun-dred thousand millions to get out of the depression, if that amount Is necessary. This Isn't any little country, or any poor country. One hundred thousand millions to the United States Is less than ten millions would be to John D. Rockefeller, Rock-efeller, and you know or you can Imagine how much that would be to him. An airplane of the "American Air Lines" was wrecked and burned In the Catskill mountains, with all on board, seven four passengers, two pilots and the "stewardess" dead. The government is careful about Inspecting planes and testing pilots. Is it sufficiently careful about stipulating stip-ulating the height at which passenger-carrying planes must fly and what pilots must do In dangerous weather? A seagoing vessel sails in "deep water." It does not skim along the tops of rocks near the surface. There is plenty of "deep water" In the atmosphere above this earth. Is there any reason why airplanes should skim as near as possible to the surface of the earth, frequently colliding with mountainsides and hills? Mr. Ben Smith's traveling methods meth-ods show what flying machines can do. He recently started around the world with his family by floating steamer. On the way, In Java, he thought he would like to see the grand national steeplechase, and flew back to England from that point, saw the race and flew back to join his family and their ship at an African port. Landing in New York, he flew to California, took another plane to British Columbia, Co-lumbia, flew back via San Francisco to New York. He thus saves months of old-fashioned "high-speed travel." The most important document since the Civil war, more Important Impor-tant than any act of government in the big war, Is the message that President Roosevelt sends to congress, con-gress, outlining plans of his administration. admin-istration. The government pledges Itself to enable citizens to live "as Americans should live," to provide jobs for those that want to work or, falling jobs, unemployment Insurance, In-surance, and to guarantee "the security se-curity of the home." Dr. James Bryant Conant, youthful youth-ful and Intelligent new president of Harvard university, tells graduates of the Stevens Institute of- Technology Technol-ogy that no matter what "social and economic order lies ahead of us, society so-ciety will demand the luxuries and conveniences afforded by modern technology." Therefore, two professions profes-sions will survive any troubles "the engineers and the doctors." Engineers will be needed to provide what people want, and doctors to repair re-pair human machinery. When Doctor Conant says "society "soci-ety will want" he means human society, so-ciety, the whole race, not the silly by-product commonly described as "society." Sailors with friends on the big ship Leviathan are worried because that boat went to sea with no cat on board. To sail without a cat, ae- j cording to sailors, is "the worst possible pos-sible luck." And, most curiously, the same sailors consider it bad luck to sail with a clergyman on board. Why the presence of a clergyman or the j absence of a cat should be danger- ! ous to a ship is a puzzle. j . King F.-'arurs Syndicate, Inc. I KNU Servlca. |