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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane This Strange World Uncle Sam in Wheat England Goes Borrowing Before She Jumped Mr. Thomas of the British Labor Cabinet says the world's trouble is the sudden end of the great buying power. Four hundred million people in China, 300,000,000 in India, 140,000,-000 140,000,-000 in Russia, half the buying population pop-ulation of the world, suddenly stopped buying. - Boycotting silver, which India and China use for money, plus civil war ' and rebellion, are responsible for part of the trouble. And the United States' boycott oi Prussia is responsible for part. This is an extraordinary world in .vhich too much or everything, loo much wheat, coai, copper, sugar, and even too much money, mean disaster. Money was loaned freely in Wall Street recently at 1 per cent on call, and you could borrow for ninety days at 2 per cent. Some financial genius should know how to use unlimited money, plus unlimited raw materials, plus unlimited labor, to bring back our vanished unlimited prosperity. The Farm Board has held up th price of American wheat by spending spend-ing a million dollars a day to buy grain and take it out of the market. mark-et. Wheat has been selling at Winnipeg Winni-peg and Lverpool as low as eighteen cents below the American price. This means that other wheat producing pro-ducing countries have been chang-.ng chang-.ng their wheat into money and -.ending it where it can be eaten. The United States has been using us-ing the taxpayers' money to buy wheat and store it away. Just how that will end is something to think, and perhaps worry, about. One plan would be to send the accumulations of wheat to the Chinese and let them eat it, thus getting rid of the surplus and storing stor-ing up national credit in heaven. But, while we can afford ten bil-.ions bil-.ions for nations fighting, we could not afford 90,000,000 bushels of ."heat for people starving. The Bank of England, fearful cf ceo great a drop in England's gold reserve, seeks from France a loan of one billion dollars. Friends of France will be delighted de-lighted to hear that the great ic-public ic-public is in a position to lend so much, and the French financial situation may discourage those that are urging Uncle Sam to wipe out the debt owed by France, on the ground that France can t afford to pay. In that connection one fact, st.it-,d st.it-,d clearly by President Hoovei should not be forgotten, namely, that the United States has already foi given every dollar of the French debt contracted during the war. i Thc only sums that are to he 1 paid are debt contracted arter war. President Hoover made this statement publicly, and was surprised, sur-prised, perhaps, to find that not a newspaper in France printed it. The minds of men and women work strangely in emergencies. One lady, when her house caught fire, locked her jewelry and best clothes in a closet, put the key in her pocket and ran out of die house, which burned down. A woman of about sixty decided to commit suicide tn New York a.ici did. You would never have heard of her. suicides being common, except ex-cept for certain details. Before she jumped seventy-five feet to I her death from the viaduct at Riverside Riv-erside drive and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, the lady took off her coat, took off her hat, took off her white gloves, took out her false teeth, put them in her handbag, hand-bag, arranged all this property in a pile, and then jumped. New York's District Attorney says racketeers and gangsters present a problem in New York that threatens threat-ens every citizen, even government itself. Louis Sherwin, writing for Cyrus H. K. Curtis, recalls that nearly eighty years ago, in 1851, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, facing a similar crime problem, prob-lem, knew how to deal with it. A citizens' committee of 7000 hanged four men and expelled thirty from the city. Thereupon 800 of the lawless element left of their own accord, convinced that San Francisco's Fran-cisco's climate was bad for their health. But today's criminals are of sterner breed, perhaps, and in New York it is alleged that some of them have for partners magistrates magis-trates and other officials. This is really a nation on wheels. ! The number of motors actually reg-I reg-I istered in the United States is 1 26,500,000 and the number of iic-j iic-j ensed automobile drivers 32.000.000. 1 more than one for each automobile. The figures show there can be no "saturation point" on automobile construction. If every automobile lasted five years, which it does not, because cf rough usage, there would still be required more than 5,000,000 new automobiles a year. j And. not long ago when Her.ry Ford said he expected, some dav, to build 10,000,000 cars a year, conservative con-servative builders begged him not to talk so extravagantly as he ! would destroy bankers' confidence. I in the industry. |