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Show brisbane THIS WEEK A Flying VanJcrLilt Communists and Tailors Was EPIC; Now It's EPIA In anJ Out of Who's Who The original Commodore Vander-bilt, Vander-bilt, who ran a little boat from Sta-ten Sta-ten island to the mainland, then became the country's biggest railroad rail-road man and head of the New York Central, would be Interested to know that his great-grandson, William K. Vanderbilt, according to Mr. Maury I'aul, has built a big airplane air-plane for his personal travel. His branch of the Vanderbilt family will be independent of railroads, even yachts, except for ocean crossings. cross-ings. Mr. West of the Junior National Chamber of Commerce says one million five hundred thousand Communists Com-munists are plotting to overthrow this government. The famous "seven tailors of Too-ley Too-ley street," beginning their exordium, exordi-um, "We, the people of England," also planned to change things, but they did not. Mr. West's one million mil-lion five hundred thousand Communists Com-munists will not overthrow anything, any-thing, either. Besides, there are not one million five hundred thousand. thou-sand. The number of real enrolled Communists in this country Is under un-der thirty thousand, and there are perhaps one hundred thousand pale pink Communists. If there were one million five hundred hun-dred thousand there would still be about one hundred and twenty-two million Americans of a different color, determined to change this government In their way, if at all, and do It slowly. Have you heard about "EPIA"? It Is a new arrangement of letters Invented by Harry L. Hopkins, administrator ad-ministrator of federal emergency relief re-lief for President Roosevelt, and It means "End Poverty in America." Your mind hops back to Mr. Upton Sinclair's "EPIC," which meant "End Poverty in California," nntil the election ended "epic." Mr. Hopkins is a powerful man, of strong will, great energy, and nobody will "pooh-pooh" his plan to abolish American poverty. Ho would spend public billions on "subsistence "sub-sistence homesteads" and rural rehabilitation re-habilitation programs, move families fam-ilies from poor lands to good lands, where they might prosper; lend government gov-ernment billions to 'buy tools, equip new homesteads, buy live stock, etc. The new British "Who's Who" gives Hitler two lines. Frances Perkins is not In the book, although Greta Garbo is in, and Upton Sinclair, Sin-clair, with a full account of his "EPIC." Those left out must console themselves them-selves with the fact that Leonardo da Vinci, in all his writing, did not mention Christopher Columbus, and the duke of St. Simon, in his long memoirs, makes only one little mention men-tion of Voltaire, merely because "he was the son of my father's notary." Washington says the President, In a financial imitation of Hamlet, asks himself Just now: "To spend, or not to spend." If he proceeds with the full program of relief, supplying supply-ing Jobs and food, he must ask congress con-gress for more billions, perhaps nine of them, $9,000,000,000. If congress says yes, and the authorities au-thorities foolishly decide to issue Interest-bearing "inflation" bonds, that will mean paying not $9,000,-000,000, $9,000,-000,000, but $18,000,000,000, the original plus Interest. Senator Iluey Long of Louisiana says he has enrolled 1,400,000 Americans Amer-icans in his "share-the-wealth" plan. That seems a small figure for a plan to divide big fortunes. New York and Chicago had thriving "share-the-wealth" organizations before be-fore Senator Long started his. Some original gentlemen with Ehare-the-wealth inclinations are in Atlanta penitentiary, some in a Colorado prison, some on Alcatraz Island, In the bav back of San Francisco. At Tlvoli, N. Y., the courtroom cheered when a Jury acquitted a teacher, thirty-seven years old, for beating a thirteen-year-old boy with a rubber hose and allegedly hitting him with his fist The man admitted admit-ted using the rubber hose, but denied de-nied using his fist. Had he admitted beating a young dog with a rubber hose, the courtroom court-room would not have cheered. Once, reporters tell you, Mrs. Edylhe Townsend was rich, a wit, a beauty, and a lady, who visited at the White House, nnd had aristocratic aristo-cratic ancestors. They found her dead, suicide by gas, In a small furnished fur-nished room. She was Cfty-elglit j years old, and. police said, "111, lone- ! ly, Impoverished, despondent." Those four words wipe out all past grandeur, gran-deur, fine ancestry, recollections of wealth. Senator Borah, a Flneere, lnde- j pendent American, wants the lie- j publican party to reorganize Itself, j giving Its "liberals" control. j He would drive out the "reaction- I aries." If he did that, what Rnd 1 how many would he have left? . klnr Pcfll'i-o Syndicate, Inc. |