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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Goodby, IS'RA Wall Street's Dormouse Good Wages, Short Hours Lottery Swindles The Supreme court unanimously declares NRA unconstitutional. ? 1 11 I g U JlHlgKS, whose decision nobody can veto, short of a con-s con-s t 1 t utlonal amendment, say congress must do Its work and cannot abdicate In fator of the Chief Executive. The most Important Im-portant decision in many years, this probably makes further argument about Arthur BrlHbn... extension of NRA unnecessary. You can't extend that which Is dead. American business men may now resume business not led by the kindly light of professors profes-sors and others. Alice's puzzled Dormouse, at the Mad Hatter's tea party, could not understand his watch, that would not keep time, although the Dormouse Dor-mouse did everything. He dipped the watch In his tea, put butter In the works. "It was the best butter," but-ter," he said, "but nothing seems to please it" The stock exchange Is something like that watch nothing seems to please It, either. At first, 6tock broker gentlemen, whose "Kaaba stone" Is the stock ticker, began a weird dance of joy when they heard that NRA was dead, and pushed up stock prices. Then, suddenly, as the day wore on, one broker asked another, and every broker asked every other broker, "How do we know what is coming next?" And then they put prices down. It Is announced, but not by Mr. Green, head of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor, that a great strike will be called In protest against the Supreme court's NRA decision. Mr. Green Is too wise to permit, If he can prevent It, a strike against the United States Supreme court He may, should, and probably will take a wiser course and work, as organized labor has worked successfully suc-cessfully for generations, to Improve Im-prove working conditions. Some nnlon men know that wages, hours and other conditions Improved Im-proved In the old way are more durable than Increased pay based on political flat. It Is necessary for some one to provide as well as for some one to take It. PeTJdlers of tickets In the Havana lottery send out "come-on" letters, trying to sell tickets to foolish Americans. On one such letter this Is printed: "Arthur Brisbane says large sums of money . . . are won by Americans Ameri-cans buying foreign tickets." What Arthur Brisbane has said, and now repeats, Is that through foreign lottery schemes Americans are swindled out of large sums. He who Invests In a lottery throws away his money, adding foolishness foolish-ness to Incapacity. Tiie Havana lottery Is as much of a trap for fools as any other lottery. Postmaster Farley's plan to hasten air mails allows a crowd of 10,000 to see a whirling autoglro drop down on the roof and deliver mall, another autoglro coming to get mall bags and carry them away. Jlr. Farley's plan Is to have the autoglro fly between outlying flying fields, where high-power, fast planes land, nd carry mall bags to the roofs of city post offices, saving time lost In slow street travel. With no sign of smoke, flame, crater nothing to Indicate an extinct ex-tinct volcano a new and live volcano vol-cano suddenly begins eruption In an . out-of-the-way place In Iceland. A great hole appears In the earth, flames and red-hot lava rise. No overflowing of neighboring farms as yet. What would natives have thought had this happened In earlier days, when everybody believed that hell, the devil and all his wickedness were Just beneath our feet and heaven Just over our heads? Postmaster General Farley thinks of printing on all postage stamps, Sursum Corda, which means "Lift up your hearts." ne sees a great summer ahead, "a summer of content." con-tent." "Car loadings," says the postmaster postmas-ter general, "are up," Incomes reported re-ported by our taxpayers "are up," "more people are buying automobiles automo-biles than before." For some, the big news Is that Little, the San Francisco golfer, has defeated Doctor Tweddell, the British Brit-ish challenger. For others, more Important news is the killing of 300 Chinese by Japanese Jap-anese troops. The .100 killed are said to have been professional bandits. ban-dits. The killing of .'500 armed Chinese bandits cost the lives of only six Japanese, which sounds like efliclency. . Klnir Keatvirns Syndicate, Inn. WNIJ Service. |