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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Too Cheap Money Is Bad To Get Out, or In, Think Best Stories, Not True Leave Starving to Gandhi Your Government, wishing to borrow $250,000,000 fjr one year, offered only 3-4 t 1 per cent interest. in-terest. The off: in j was over-scribed over-scribed sixteen .mes. Uncle Sam was actually offered four thousand millions at 3-4 of 1 per cent interest. Same bidders : ; asked for more of the notes than ' they expected or wanted to make sure of getting enough. Neverthe-; less, the offer is gigantic. Some, foolishly, imagine that it is a good sign. j It is the worst possible sign, showing that hundreds of thous- j ands of millions are held Idle in' this country, owners afraid to invest in-vest in ways that would create labor, promote prosperity and pay a good return. It is preferred to keep money tied up at lowest in-' terest rates. i There are more than twenty thousand millions tied up in government gov-ernment bonds, in which taxpayers taxpay-ers pay in interest near'.y a billion dollars annually. I Government should r.ll in ten 'millions of bends, issuing in their ' place good American mcney pay-I pay-I ing no interest, saving the tax-I tax-I payers $400,000,000 a year and not increasing Government indebtedness, indebted-ness, therefore, not weakening its credit since it would owe $10,000,-000,000 $10,000,-000,000 in currency instead of $10,000,000,000 in interest-bearing bonds. By the time those that now hoard the bonds had finished investing in-vesting their ten billions, you would see business begin to move upward. Two long-term prisoners sawed through Iron bars, escaped from the "escape-proof" section of Sing Sing Prison, and everybody wonders won-ders how they could do it. The prisoners thought and planned for their escape and thought of nothing else. The Jailers thought of many other things, only occasionally occa-sionally thinking of the two prisoners. pris-oners. If you want to accomplish any thing keep your mind on trial thing. It is a good rule, whether you plan to get out of a prison or into a haU of fame. The most interesting stories are not true. William TeU never shot the apple from his son's head. The she-wolf did not nurse Romulus Romu-lus and Remus. George Washington Washing-ton cut down no cherry tree; therefore, never told the truth about it. Now Professor Tyler, teaching history at the University of Kansas, says Pocahontas never saved the life of Captain Smith. Smith was not lying with his head on a stone, waiting for an Indian's cmo to aasn nis Drains out at the order of Chief Powhatan. Pow-hatan. Pocahontas did not rush up and put her head on top of Captain Smith's head to protect him. The thing just didn't happen. Captain Smith ,invented it. None the less, all these narratives, narra-tives, like Santa Claus, stimulats youthful imagination and cause brave deeds in others. Better imaginary heroism than none. Dr. Arthur Kraus, teacher oi philosophy in New York's City College, refusing food, says he wiU starve to death, "to protect against the apathy of intellectuals toward anti-Semitic excesses in Polish universities." Dr. Kraus shows high moral courage, but might better look up the history of the Jewish priest Mat'athiak, who fought against religious persecution more than two thousand years ago and established es-tablished the famous family of Maccabees i The Maccabees had the right idfa. Leave starving to Mahatma Gandhi. There are better methods. Mrs. Emma Hodges, 53 years old, turned on four gas jets in a little furnished room and died. . first removing to a safe distance a i cage containing two canaries. The ! woman was found dead, sitting in ' J a chair, near her a note which ; read, "I am tired," and said noth-' noth-' ing more. ' ! If all those that are tired should ' leave the world, how the popula-; popula-; tion would drop. ( I Fortunately the dominant "in stinct of self preservation" keeps I the majority here. The Lusitania, sunk by a German Ger-man submarine during the war, has been located on the floor of the ocean off the Irish coast. Divers Div-ers plan to go down after what is worth getting, namely, from seven to ten million dollars worth of gold, in the ship's strong room. Wonderful is gold and its hold on men. Divers will find the machinery rusted and worthless; they will find bones of men and women picked bare long ago by fishes not worth collecting. The gold, when they get to it, will be as good as ever and still good 1,000 years hence, when the war and the Lusitania Lu-sitania will be forgotten. In Chicago one day recently, eight died by violence, including one woman, gagged, bound by gangsters, left to suffocate, three policemen, one bandit, one automobile auto-mobile thief, one light-weight boxer, box-er, one woman, stabbed to death. Mayor Cermak, who has ,iust delivered an anti-crime ultimatum to his police captains, might con sider the methods of a vigilance committee organized in San Francisco Fran-cisco in the last century. , It worked. |