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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane A Long Swim Money Flows West $5 for $3.39 Not So Barren The new year, 1935. latest contribution con-tribution of Father Time to the long chain of beads called "eternity." "etern-ity." is here and we are in it. We shall continue to read opinions opin-ions and rumors, plans and criticism criti-cism of plans, in our slow prosr- V" , . vf v ' . .',' ARTHUR BRISBANE ress to prosperity's shore. It is a long swim when you are thrown overboard in the middle of Lake Superior. This country was thrown overboard in another lake of superior su-perior prosperity and unlimited expectations back in 1929. Farmers, newspapers devoted to the farmers' interest, big bankers in the East, are interested in the fact that the money tide that for so long flowed from producers 'n the West to accumulators in the East, is now flowing in the other direction. The mane tide goes out toward the farms of wheat raisers nd stock, in thi West and Midd;e West, and to the cotton farmers in the South. It is as though the Great Lakes had been tilted upward up-ward at the eastern end, and the waters sent rushing toward the Rncky mountains. The tide will not flow long in that western direction, probably. Men that have the mortgages and collect the interest accumulate the money, in the long run. Long ago, a man wagered that he would stand on London bridge offering genuine gold sovereigns for a shilling each and find few takers. The gold sovereigns wer? genuine, but nobody would buy. Mel Smith, a circus official calico "Lucky" Smith, bet that Los Angeles Ang-eles citizens would refuse to buy genuine $5 bills for $3.39. Hundreds Hund-reds walked by, looked at the genuine gen-uine bills. Some crihd "Flake!" Only two purchased. "Lucky" Smith won a $100 wager. Many Americans wish they had been as skeptical about certain stock back in 1929. The distinguished Gecrge W. Russell of Ireland, who signs his writings "AE" says "I am always struck by the terrible barrenness of rural life in America." He thinks we must "find some way to enrich it," and if we don't, "then the disease which destroyed ancient Italy will eat into Ameri- j ca. You will no longer feed your-' selves, and you will be struck with ! palsy of bread and circuses." Mr. Russell may find greater richness in Irish farmhouses, but it is a richness of the character and of the mind, not the surroundings. sur-roundings. There is little barrenness barren-ness about, ether than intellectual, in our rural life with its automobile, automo-bile, radio, moving pictures within easy reach, rural delivery, porcelain, porce-lain, tyth tubs, mail order catalogues, cata-logues, prayer meetings, revivals, annual circus, the public library, socn reached by automobile. Next summer our ships cf war, "venturing almost to Oriental w-turs," w-turs," will cnf.age in far-flung war games covering more than 6,000,-000 6,000,-000 square ml er of the Pacific ocean. ' How latere ting that will be, av.d h'.w rapidly those ships would come running home to hide away 'in port if a few large bombing planes should sail out from Asia, f rem Tokyo or Russia's Vladivostok over those 5,000,000 square miles of the Pacific, and drop explosive bombs and poison gas bcrnbs on :he battleships Geological explorers from the Byrd expedition, near the South pole, repert important veint; of mineral quart?;, discovered in moun tains along the coast of Marie Byrd Land. If the geoligists should bring back actual samples rich in gold, hew quickly men Would find a way to reach those mountains, how indifferent to death they would be in the effort to get there ! In Kansas, a terrific dust storm, hiding the sun!, suggests that the Agricultural department hlelp the farmers by developing seme temporary tem-porary covercrop that could be sown on wheat and corn fields when the crcps come off, a nitrogen-fixing plant if possible. It would protect dusty surfaces from high winds and be plowed under contributing humus, before the nPxt planting. In the Northwest, farmers have used .the "dikfciotf cuf.tiivalien which cuts a path 60 fret wide going through the roots of weeds and not dertriying th prcctinr. cf the stubble from wind and the washing of heavy rains. A wise motto of earlier days was "When in doubt, refraini." In Russia and other countrie: where the will of cne takes ths place of slow decisions by the majority, ma-jority, the maxim reads: |