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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane The Strong Love of Home Two Kinds of Dole And Plenty About War Lady Astor Not Flogged I Some birds fly away fifteen hun dred miles, and return, never failing, fail-ing, to the nesting spot of the year before. Eels leave stagnant ponds in tne United States, wriggle across the' grass, down to the ocean, swim to the Sargosso Sea, where they breed, come back and return to the same pond. Passionately strong is the love of home. And fortunately that applies to human beings as well as to birds and eels. In the Nassau county jail on Long Island, John Miller, grateful ; for permission to sleep at night, i does odd jobs in the day to save a little money. He has walked all the way from Kellog, Idaho, because he wants, after sixty-five years in America, to see once more the little country, Luxembourg, where he was born. That longing, strong all his life, is undiminished although he is 104 years old. Europe puts on the dole, so many shillings or lire per week to families famil-ies without work. In America, we shudder as perhaps we should at the thought of a dole for human beings, "so degrading, harmful to their manhood." Here, on the other hand, we put corporations on the dole, and not for any few shillings or lire per week. We hand to one bank in difli-1 culty ninety millions of dollars be-; longing to the public. Later we learn that this de-erving bank, by a violation of "good banking principles," prin-ciples," put millions in the Insul rathole. Therefore public money also goes intio the Insull rathole We hard money to financial institution'; in-stitution'; to prevent its closing and banks that have borrowed $89,000,- 000 have closed since they borrowed. borrow-ed. Guers who will pay that bill. Western gentlemen wanted to 1 build, and make money out of a ! new gas line. You can't borrow from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to build a new gas line, that would be too easy. But you can hook up your gas line plan with a mortgagei company in difficulties; the mortgage company gets money belonging to the public pub-lic from the Reconstruction Finance Fi-nance Corporation; and the mortgage mort-gage company then proceeds lo build the gas line. Do you think that could happen ? Ask and learn. Strange that it should be so degrading de-grading to a family with hungry children to take' fifteen shillings a week in the way of a dole, and not in the least degrading for a gigantic corporation with a yawning yawn-ing rathole to take ninety million dollars of the public's money in one lump. Our "best minds" lapprove that, leaving it to Europe to keep up the "socialistic, dangerous" dole system. How long can the United States keep up the system of doles for corporations, which, of course, if not Socialistic but a little expensive? expen-sive? There is war in the air, in Europe, and there may be literally war in the air since the air is to be the location of future wars. The French send severe orders to Austria Aus-tria forbidding . arms shipments through Austrian territory to Italy. This order of the French to beaten and humiliated Austria Germany calls "one of the most brutal ultimatums ulti-matums in history." The French message to Austria is taken as a blow at Germany. An anti-French combination of Italy. Austria and Germany's great commercial air fleet and Italy's powerful fighting fleet, might be serious news for Paris, despite the fact that France is far ahead of all Europe in the air. Germany and Italy combined have more trained pilots than the French. All three are equipped to produce planes, explosives and poison gas on short notice. In the British House of Commons, Com-mons, George Lansbury, annoyed by Lady Astor's fighting Qualities, exclaimed "your mother should have flogged you." Lady Astor immediately im-mediately wanted to know whether the honorable member "really be lieves in flogg-n' children." Whether he dees or not, 'he hcnorakle mem'X.r is foolish. If Lady Astor's good Virginia mother had flogged her, instead of praising her and showing her "now to make herself look even prettier, .the first few blows of the flogging would have broken Lady Astor's spirit, which is her mainspring. The one thing that can help ;3rcur child to success in life is j courage, and that is easily destroyed destroy-ed by brutality in childhood. Lady Astor would not have shown English women how to get into Parliament if she had had her mainspring broken by a severe mother when she was a little girl. London insists on talking about what "Britain and the United States could do against Japan in case of conflict," and London says, solemnly: "There is some doubt as to the ability of the combined British and American navies to crush Japan Ja-pan quickly." The British even say that th'ej could net do much, but the could and would let the United States use British naval bases, including in-cluding Singapore. How very kind. President-elect Roosevelt will t doubtless let the British know f that this country doesn't intend to f pull any League cf Nations chest -j nuts out of the fire. i 1 , '. i i |