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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Quick Action Days Let's Get All the Gold ,A Mad World, and Tired Canned Blood For Sale Under President Roosevelt come days of "quick action." The beer bill is a beer law now, everything signed, and ready, including internal inter-nal revenue stamps and many new beer glasses. Fourteen million dollars' dol-lars' worth of new buildings for brewers, are now under way In New York City alone. You may drink all the beer that is good for you not later than April 7 in all but the dry States, and you may get it, properly made for five cents a glass. A wise young woman asked concerning con-cerning President Roosevelt: "If he does so much right away, what, in heaven's name, will he find to do through all the rest of the four years?" No need to worry about that yet. On the first day after the recent Stock Exchange opening, stocks went up, "kiting." Next day they went up again, but less wildly. The third day they went down a little. One great change has come over the country. The tail used to wag the dog, that tail being Wall Street. Now the dog, otherwise Washington, D. C, is wagging the tail. That started the tail at first, but its ge'Jfng used to it. A President who does something new every day amazes at first, but the human mind longs instinctively instinctive-ly for a boss, end Wall Street is human. President Roosevelt's campaign against noartiu.g gold and gold certificates has produced excellent results. This column, as you may have noticed, has for several years urged urg-ed an embargo on gold to prevent European countries drawing our ?old out .is fasL as we get it. May the Government from r-rw on be as severe and effective in its attitude toward gold-grabbing foreigners and foreign nations as it is toward its own nationals. All the gold in this country should stay here. And other gold as it comes should sink into that gold reserve and never come out. Eventually- this country would have all the monetary gold on earth, and that presumably would settle the "gold basis" question. We should have about eleven billion I dollars earning no Interest, but at ! least the army of unimaginative "gold bugs" and "golden calf wor shippers" would be happy. The world is paying for its big war in strange, serious ways. Depression, De-pression, lack of money, insane gambling, bursting banks, closed banks, impoverished farmers, reckless reck-less squandering on armaments for other wars, millions of men idle, the greatest number in this "richest country," which had no business in the war. Such are a iew items in our payingior-the-war schedule. Widespread confession of men's inability to govern ' themselves is another item. The will of one man Stalin, rules 150,000,000 in Russia. Another man's will rules Turkey, another Italy, and now Hitler, imitation im-itation of Mussolini, rules with absolute power in Germany. Even in this country the dictator idea becomes fashionable. Millions believe be-lieve that Congress, supposed to make laws, should step aside and let one man, President Roosevelt, do everything, on the ground that the average elected official Is more or less an idiot, lazy or dishonest. The British alone retain some confidence in their ability to govern go-vern themselves, as well as a great deal of confidence in their ability to manage others, including this bewildered nation. There are solid qualities in those British. Most important to medical science sci-ence is a discovery by Russians announced an-nounced by Dr. Alan Hirsh, consultant con-sultant of the Soviet Heavy Chemical Chem-ical Trust, just returned from a-fcrc-ad. Human blood canned, with a slight quantity of magnesium sulphate, can be used for transfusion transfu-sion after being kept for weeks. Experimenting first with dogs, the Russian scientist made successful success-ful experiments with the blood of 1 a man killed in Moscow. Blood transfusion is one of the most valuable forces of modern medical science; the only hope in certain cases of poisoning by streptococci strep-tococci and other infections. Soon you may see the strange sign, "Human blood for transfusion," transfu-sion," taking you back to the remedies re-medies of mediaeval days and Mac-beth's Mac-beth's witcheB. The Harvard Teachers' Association Associa-tion says examinations for admission admis-sion to colleges, and school ex-I ex-I animations generally, are based or a false system. Dean Holmes usefully use-fully pricked one foolish educational educa-tional bubble denying that "al study trains minds." At least hal the study in preparatory schools high schools and colleges stupefle - minds of boys and girls. i ; Fiance, worrying about the iml i tation Mussolini in Germany, am by the hostility of the real Mus solini, faces an extra complication, a serious adverse trade balance, amounting to more than two billion bil-lion francs for the first two months of this year, with imports increasing. in-creasing. A man well informed says France worries about the danger of going off the gold standard. Strange what power is possessed by the fetish gold. We have our supply safely locked up, like the genuine tooth of Buddha in the oriental temple, and mean to hold on to it. I |