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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane When Germany is Ready Mussolini Does Not Ask Men Die Strangely Poor Old Capitalism General Kurt von Scheicher spokesman for the German War Ministry, says: "Under the agreement agree-ment at Geneva, Germany has a right to restore her fighting power and will do it unless other nations disarm." Other nations will not disarm, therefore Germany undoubtedly will reenter the list of fighting nations. You can imagine how some of the Allies would feel should they suddenly find Germany Ger-many and Italy united under energetic en-ergetic dictators. What would this country answer an-swer if European countries thus menaced should come to us again saying, "Kindly oblige with ten billion more dollars and three million more men?" H. C. Bywater. British naval ex pert, says Italy is building warships war-ships in secret, cruisers and destroyers de-stroyers "of phenomenal speed." The same Mr. Bywater criticized United States' 10,000-ton cruisers. He also "accused" this country ot experimenting with tne largest, most deadly torpedo in the world, electrically propelled, with high explosive power, to be launched against ships by entirely new methods. me-thods. Let us hope that accusation is sound, and that we are trying to do somehing to defend the country. coun-try. It is not- likely that Mussolini is building his ships "secretly." He has always said to the rest of Europe: "You attend to your business, bus-iness, and I'll attend to Italy's business," and unlike ourselves asks no one's permission to build ships or anything else. When- men decide to. die, usually usual-ly a decision more or less cowardly, coward-ly, they do it in strange ways. One jumps into a volcano, taking a girl with him. Another goes over Niagara, Ni-agara, some Jump in front of locomotives, lo-comotives, some hang, shoot or drown themselves. Roscoe Griffith went about it deliberately. To ambulance am-bulance doctors, called by his wife, to find him eating a hearty din ner, he said: "My wife is mistaken, gentlemen, gentle-men, I have taken no poison," and he smiled. Thf:y took him to the hospital, he walked from the ambulance to che door, and fell dead. So many pleasant things can happen, so many interesting things are sure to happen, "gigantic "gigan-tic troubles" meet so quickly that it is silly not to wait as long as possible and see. The "United F'armers of Canada," Can-ada," through their Saskatchewan president, demand "an end of the capitalistic system," the farmers say: "Competitive production, for profit, under private control, is in its dying hours." It might be well to watch Russia Rus-sia for a while before deciding. The frogs got rid of the dull log, their ruler, and acquired for king a long-legged bird that devoured them. They wished they had not complained. Capitalism is not perfect, but it has been a fairly good-natured old ruler.' It certainly has increased increas-ed wages, bath tubs, automobiles, radios and vacuum cleaners. It might be wise to try it a while longer. The way to rule the air, earth's new ocean, is 'to have airships France and Britain know it. The British have built the biggest land and water fighting airship in existence. The French are testing their "stratosphere plane," planned plan-ned to fly from New York to Paris in ten hours. The plane will travel trav-el eleven miles up, where the "thin" atmosphere offers little resistance. re-sistance. Its engine, thanks to superchargers, superchar-gers, will have vastly increased power at 20,000 feet up, and in the stratosphere, 60,000 feet above the earth, will develop 20,000 revolutions re-volutions a minute. The pilot will work in a cabin hermetically sealed, seal-ed, with an automatic oxygen supply sup-ply system. The French Air Ministry "has generously provided funds for the construction of this plane." We don't do that here, we are too poor, and besides we haven't any air ministry. With us the airplane is merely "an accessory" under the management manage-ment of the Army and Navy. That is as intelligent as though our surface warships were under divided management of sailing captains and canal boatmen. Query: What will be done about power developed by the new St. Lawrence waterway? In Canada, of course, it will be owned by the people as Canada's share of Niagara power is publicly owned. What about Uncle Sam's half of the two million horse power pow-er that the waterway will produce? pro-duce? Will it become the property of the people taxed to build the $600,000,000 waterway, or will It be distributed by "our best minds," among "the . right kind of people?" If you think the American, people will be allowed that water power, you have forgotten Muscle Shoals, and you do not know much about United States methods, me-thods, or about one thing that is the matter of this country. Buried deep in the speech that Premier Bennet of Canada made to visiting Britishers you find this about the new St. Lawrence canal: "This waterway will be free to all ships of the commonwealth." We built the Panama Canal, we acted the part of sentimental dodos, do-dos, and made American ships pay as much as foreign ships pay, giving no advantage to our own. people. The British do not do that. With them it is "the British first the rest nowhere." |