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Show I BRISBANE THIS WEEK The President's Guess Headed for the Dole? Writing for Young People How Vi e Prepare A Washington story, more or less authentic, says: 'The President, talking to reporters at Hyde l'ai'k, made guesses on the election results, re-sults, and made 1(3 mistakes." That may be, but he made no mistake in his guess that the people of the United States would support him and his policies by an overwhelm- ing vote, and that was the guess that really Interested him. Sir. Ickes tells Vincent Aster's news weekly that this nation must J face government payment of cash relief as a long-lasting Institution. Also we must face that ugly word ; "dole," so unpleasant to proud ; Americana unemployed, exquisitely ; painful to American taxpayers. j About the dole we shall be like the lady that, "vowing she would ne'er consent, consented." The plain, unvarnished dole Is ahead of us. In his chapter on statesmen In I the "Philosophical Dictionary," Voltaire' Vol-taire' said he did not write for the statesmen of his time, because they were too busy to listen. lie wrote for young men that would be statesmen states-men after his death. That was a sound prediction. Those that were young when he ! wrote got rid of kings and laid the foundation of the powerful French republic after he was dead. Writing for the young, offering suggestions, is a pleasing occupation. occupa-tion. When the suggestions are carried out, after you die, you cannot can-not be held responsible If they prove to be unsound. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who commanded the marines, says: "I'll never again carry a rifle beyond the borders of the United States." Of the 1,600,000 men sent to Europe he says: "I did not come across a single one who knew why he was there." General Butler is right. Any fighting fight-ing outside of our borders should be done from the clouds bombs and poison gas dropped by airplanes air-planes and from below the water with submarines. Concerning the amusing fashion in which a country like the United States manages a great war when it rushes in unprepared, General Butler says: "The war never brought this country anything. A few Insiders made money. International Nickel company earned 1.S00 per cent. The government bought for use In France $20,000,000 worth of mosquito mosqui-to nettings, and there wasn't a mosquito in France. "It also bought 35,000,000 pairs of shoes for 4,000,000 men, and every pair would last a year, and It bought $1,000,000,000 worth of airplanes, that wouldn't get off the ground." The new prime minister of France, Flandin, tells the chamber of deputies dep-uties that he will keep the franc stable and France will have no dictators dic-tators "liberal Institutions will win out over all forms of dictatorship." The French, most logical nation 1 in the world and one of the most determined, will know how to carry . out that program. Senator Borah says he makes no accusation of personal graft In connection con-nection with spending public billions bil-lions for relief, unemployments, etc. It is a comfort to know that there Is no charge of stealing from the poor or the unemployed. But Senator Borah dues accuse the relief administration of shameful shame-ful waste and bad management, so bad that about half of the billions were appropriated In vain. Mussolini decrees all that are capable ca-pable of performing manual labor shall work for a living. A man may be rich enough, In his own opinion, to live without work, but not In Italy. Even aristocracy must work. It appears, kind friends, that this world Europe, at least Is really headed toward war. Who says so? Mussolini does, and he has Inside Information "another "an-other European war is Inevitable," and adds that Italy will get more from this next war than she pot from the last. She Is getting ready, trninlnir even small bovs as soldiers. 1 And Lloyd George, who took Britain Brit-ain through the war that Germany would have won had It not been fr Lloyd George and Clemenccau, says: "War is on the horizon." j I Men wonder that wars should ! start between nations speaking dif-: dif-: fcrent languages, with conllictirg ; nmbitions, religions and Ideals. Let . tliera consider our own state or Arl-I Arl-I zona, calling out troops to stop com- j pletion by the T.'nitd States of the ! Parker water diversion In connec-I connec-I Hon with the great Colorado river project. Arizona says the water now running run-ning to waste must not be diverted by the government or anybody else without Arizona's permission. K!nr KMurfa Syrrl I oate. Iuo, YVXU Surtrlco. |