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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Governor Roosevelt's Courage Best Minds Come Back No 10 Per Cent Civilization's Start The country rejoicing at Governor Gover-nor Roosevelt's escape, finds additional addi-tional satisfaction in the fact that statements by the Miami police show the shooting was the act of a mad man, not the expression of any fanatic class hatred. ; The man who fired the shot with such disastrous effects, but, 1 fortunately, without injuring the President-elect, talked at random. "I like Roosevelt as a man, but I kill all Presidents. I don't kill police; they work for a living. After Af-ter an operation, I have bad pains In my stomach. I hate the rich and powerful that oppress the poor, etc." Great business men, heads of all our big industries, with their big brains and solemn looks, are invited in-vited by the Senate to tell what is the matter with us, and how to prevent it and stop it, whatever it is. This seems a good idea. Those that have been hardest hit should knew what hit them. Some may remember, anxiously, how all the great ones summoned to the White House at the beginning begin-ning of our depression, came in squadrons and platoons, with re-, re-, medies ready-made, and how the depression did not stop. The result I of that congregation of "best ; minds" was the Reconstruction ! Finance Corporation which has handed out hundreds of millions to "best minds" and corporations in need oi ready cash, but has not done much for the small individuals individ-uals in i:eed of a job. Washington is waiting for England's En-gland's proposition concerning the war debts. Mr. Rainey of Illinois says one billion or 10 cents on the dollar, the most probable proposition, proposi-tion, is "sheer nonsense." Mr. Rainey Rain-ey must prepare for another shock for the proposition may include payment in depreciated British or other currency, and possibly part payment in silver, at a price about double the present value. Would it not be simpler to say to our European friends "Go a-head a-head and default It will be worth ten billions plus interest to know that your promise to pay is worth nothing," One thing is certain any political party accepting a 10 per cent debt settlement would not stay in power long. Without losing his temper Uncle Sam might say: "You owe us the money, if you don't intend to pay, dont." We could then proceed to collect indirectly. Everybody interested in what we call "civilization" will learn with interest that civilization, or "culture," "cul-ture," in the Nile valley is older than that of China. Settled life, or "civilized," with kings, religions, taxes, engineers and armies, begins where there is a constant, reliable water supply. In the valley of the Nile, ' in Mesopotamia, where the Tigris and Euphrates guaranteed fertility, a-l',ns a-l',ns the Ydlow River, in China, men having rich soil, plus water and therefore r regular supply nf food, could have leisure, use their brains, think and start the human race on its career of settled living in cities and fixed abodes, instead of eternally migrating. That Nile civilization is older by two thousand years than that of the Yellow River, reaching to Southern Manchuria and Mongolia, is important Unpleasant news from Michigan, as regards finance, good news concerning con-cerning the prompt action of the Governor. With a big bank that had just borrowed it little allot- ment. of millions from the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance Corporation in difficulties, the Governor closes all banks for eight days, to protect the depositors of the bank in trouble while plans are made. Prior to this announcement, the public learns of banks to which the Reconstruction Corporation had already sent eighty-nine millions closing their doors despite the "help. That "finance corporation" might wisely take Bernard Bar-uch's Bar-uch's advance given before the Senate committee and stop shoveling shovel-ing public money into ratholes. William Hard in Washm ,.on says Mr. Roosevelt will be a Constitutional Con-stitutional dictator "directing the nation's destinies." Too many conflicting con-flicting opinions delay recovery and the return of normal times, I according to Mr. Hard. The country coun-try needs "drastic, vivid stimu-lnn's." stimu-lnn's." so Mr. Roosevelt is to do whatever he thinks best, Constitution Consti-tution or no Constitution. All verv interesting if you have a plan, if it happens to be the rictit plan, and if you have the will power to carry it out. Mussolini, Mussol-ini, for instance, cculd stop on? racketeering and crime wave. Ke-mal Ke-mal Pasha of Turkey, or Stalin of Russia, could make us do whatever what-ever he chase. He would hang us if we refused. Eut Italy, Turkey and Russia, with populations largely homogeneous, homogen-eous, take orders more readily than the mixed populations of America would take them. The little navies of Peru and Colombia are fighting, and won't last long if it be true that air- planes are dropping bombs on the I gunboats. ! The commander of Colombia's ! planes "came valorously and attacked at-tacked the enemy, Peruvian planes forcing them to retire." Crowds in the street applauded frantically. We had that irantic applause in our streets before 1918. |