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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane A Baby Grows Up Senate's Good News Five Little Girls $4,880,000,000 Fifty-three years ago a good American mother, weak but happy, received in her arms a small baby, with pink face and little hair. That baby now lives in the White House, face bronzed by ocean air, hair thick at fifty-three years cf age. The baby has grown to be Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt, President of th3 United States. One hundred and twenty-five million mil-lion Americans are grateful to hit mother, who, happily, has lived to see her son move up from the cm-die cm-die in which she first placed him, to the earth's most important place among men. Congratulations and thanks, first of all, to President Roosevelt's mother; good wishes, congratulations, congratula-tions, and a long life to President Roosevelt. The people of the United States are to be congratulated that by the decision of the senate they will not be pushed into the back door of the League cf Nations through the World Court. Mr. Hull, secereary of state, wanted want-ed the United States to go into the World Court and submit important matters affetcing this counry to for-'eign for-'eign judges appointed1 by nations that have swindled this country out of ten thounsand million dollars. Why, in heaven's name? j Those marvelous Canadian babies, the Dionne quintuplets, eight months old, are healthy, happy, each one a saperate little lady of intense individuality. All pretty, all intelligent, with good foreheads, well shaped heads. What a wonderful wonder-ful family! It seems almost a pity that they cannot remains babies, now, and above, through all eternity. The house of representatives, 329 to 78, gives the President four thou- ?r . : f i r "Sa ,"", sV ARTHUR BRISBANE .-and eight hundred and eighty million mil-lion dollars, to be. spent in accordance accord-ance with his best judgment to fight depression and unemployment. In early days the. little, "small change" eighty million dollars, tacked on at the end of the large figure, would have astounded the country, for in those de.ys millions were reepectable units. Now our government un-t is the billion one thounsand m'Uions. Whetn will the trillion start its career? The printing print-ing precs could bring it. Not content with being reduced from a great empire to a small "backward" by the last Hapsburg, Austria thinks it wants another emperor em-peror and Princ; Starhemberg will say when little Prince Otto shall mount the throne. That will mean unhapp'ne's, eventually for the young prince, and a good actcr spoiled for Holloywood. Gen. William Mitchell, commander command-er of all our flying force in the big war, knows mora about national de fenss than anybody in this country. He writes to a friend seventy years "Id. as follows: "During your lifetime have come the electric telegraph and telephone, the gasoline engine with its accom-pan'ment accom-pan'ment of automotive vehicles, the airplane and submarine. The world is now only one-sixth as large as when you appeared. If this development de-velopment goes on, it is difficult tc say what may take place in the next seventy years, Will the biological bio-logical supremacy of the yellow races dominate, or will the military supremacy, so far, cf the white race1, be able to maintain our culture audj standards? The world is growing so small and so increasingly populated popu-lated that one or the other will undoubtedly un-doubtedly become master." Mr. J. Piepont Morgan, whose father collected pictures and other works of art, has decided to sell six pictures. The price aoked is said to be $1,500,000.' The older J. P. Morgan evidently bought good pictures. pic-tures. Two. of the six pictures, already al-ready sold to the Metropolian museum, mu-seum, are a portrait of "Anne of Austria," by Peter Paul Rubins and an alter piece by Fillippo Lippl Nobody knows how much was paid originally for either picture. A rare ten-dollar gold piece, that sold at auction for $530, might offer of-fer a suggestion lor aovarnment profit. At that rate, cur $8,000,000 ,-000 ,-000 worth of gold could be changed into $400,000,000,000 worth, nearly all profit. Who could contrid ct the government if it said that was the value? |