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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Along the Big Ocean Building a Turtle Shell Prohibition Talk The early morning drive from San Simeon to Santa Barbara along the edge of the Pacific Ocean, about one hundred and sixty miles, might make you take a more cheerful view of our depression. It certainly would make that depression depres-sion seem less important. Into that vast ocean, stretching in a curve thousands of miles to the west, ten thousand Old Man. Mississippi Rivers might pour their waters, and not change the ocean level one hundredth part of an inch. It is an ocean to make worrying human microbes, along its shores, ask themselves what they are worrying wor-rying about. AU of the two thousand million human beings on earth might be gathered on the hills that roll away to the east, and they would not be noticed by the wide ocean, or the brilliant rainbow thrown Dy the rising sun on great white clouds, piled up to the northwest. Clouds are not satisfied to be straight, commonplace, orderly clouds, out here. They must be heaped in great fluffy balls, one above the other, far up into the blue sky until they make the mountains look like small pedestals for cloud majesty. Two men on foot walk the highway, high-way, before you, each carrying a blanket-roU on his back, and in it, everything that he owns on earth, except the clothes that cover him. You might unroll those blankets and behold everything accumulated in this richest country, in two life-times. That is not as sad as it sounds. Spinoza, greatest abstract philosopher, philoso-pher, left to his sister a bed and a smaU silver penknife, no money, no land, no house, but his thought has taught and inspired the world's greatest thinking men. And those two men walking the road have no apartment houses, with mortgages on them, taller than the apartments; no bank loans, always coming due; no payrolls pay-rolls to meet; no wondering about today's ticker news, or tomorrow's message from tne Droxer. They represent the only real freedom, absence of possessions, as they stride along. Prosperous man is a turtle, who spends his life building around him a heavy shell of proprety under which he must always crawl. Speaker Garner has prepared a prohibition resolution demanding, subject to legal ratification, that "the eighteenth article nf Amendment Amend-ment is hereby repealed." That would allow each of the forty-eight States to deal with drink in its own way, as in old days, before bootlegging and crime became the greatest industry of the United States. Whether that amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the Eighteenth Eight-eenth Amendment would be ratified rati-fied by thirty-six of the States is the question, and the answer, now is no. If Congress wants to do anything about prohibition, it must change the Volstead law. The Ministers Association of Los Angeles adopted a resolution calling call-ing on Congress not to repeal prohibition, but to enforce prohibition prohi-bition more vigorously, alleging that crime will increase with the return of beer and wine. An association of ministers can hardly be mistaken, but it is not easy to imagine how the crime could increase much. Does any clergyman believe that there is less crime now, than before be-fore prohibition started? Billy Sunday, always sincere and forceful, made an impassioned plea for more and better prohibition, revealing what he called the source of our ills. "Infidel evolutionists, university teachings, modernism and liberalism" liberal-ism" are responsible for our troubles. Poor Darwinian monkey, there is a heavy load on that . primate's back. Senator Wagner of New York demands that men employed on government construction projects shall work only thirty hours a week. That would mean five days of six hours each, or any other arrangement of days and hours agreed upon. Contractors should be consulted as to distribution of hours, in connection con-nection with effective use of building build-ing materials and machines. Let machines work as many hours, men as few hours, as possible. In days to come, a six-hour day wiU seem long. It is not very long since women in New England mills worked from daylight to dark. They would have worked longer, had there been electric lights then. i A woman's patriotic organization asks our government to bar Prof. Albert Einstein from this country, on the ground that he is "affiliated with more Communist and anarchist anarch-ist groups than Stalin himself." Mrs. Randolph Frothingham, who makes the request, wants Trotzky barred, also, if he tries to come in. This will surprise Professor Einstein, Ein-stein, mildly, and perhaps cause him to develop new theories on the relativity of common sense. To clear up such situations, some ladies' organization should list the things that foreign visitors and natives, may and may not believe. |