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Show I This Week h Arthur Brisbane ; American in Mexico And a Big Copper Mine Four Things You Need Can Uncle Sam Afford It ? It may Interest you to see United States citizens, working with Mexican Mexi-can associates and employers, installing in-stalling American machinery on Mexican soli. Across the Sonora river, opposite Hermoslllo, is a long high mountain of solid , limestone, and at its foot unlimited supplies of good clay. American engineers have called the raw materials per feet for cement, and sufficient in quantity to supply a big plant tor about nine hundred years. , In six to eight weeks, a modern American plant only cement factory fac-tory on the west coast of Mexico, will begin production. The MacDonald Engineering Company of Chicago has the general gen-eral contract for the works. The big firm, reaching out for business in the American way, ia also installing in-stalling in Russia cement plants as big as any on earth. William Reynolds, Rey-nolds, who comes from Stockton, California, ia in general charge of construction for MacDonald. He is a blue eyed young person, representing repre-senting his country well. If you own copper stocks, you are engaged by proxy in an interesting, changing business and might learn about it by visiting the Cananea copper mine, a little south of the Mexican border, near Douglas, Arizona. That mine had stock selling at $8 a share. Copper was found and the stock jumped to $200 a share. Now the Anaconda Copper Cop-per Company owns it Cananea in normal times pays the Southern Pacific Railroad a freight bill of one million dollars a year. Mr. Weed, manager of the mine, a young American from the Michigan School of Mines, with his forehead leaning out above his eyes, learned the real business working in a mine after graduat- -lng. He continues learning the business by running one of the greatest mines on earth. If you have four things, intelligence, intelli-gence, energy, money and Interest in the welfare of others, you can do good work. Mrs. Qreenway of Tucson, Aril., haa the four. She started a furniture furni-ture factory for ex-service men, not sick enough tor a hospital, but needing recuperation in a perfect climate. That did much good. Then she built and is running a Tucson hotel, made up of separate bungalows, bunga-lows, all furniture made by the -service men, and all for sale to i guests. Just at present the place is packed, but try to go there any- . how, If you go to Tucson. If you do not 50 you make a mistake. ' Such a woman as Mrs. Oreenway finding a way to help men injured in their country's service, working hard with no profit and little thanks to herself, should be at least praised. Mr. "Pepper," Tucson's Tuc-son's king of all newsboys, assures you that Mrs. Oreenway is "an Incomparable In-comparable lady," putting the accent ac-cent on "Incomparable" on the antepenultimate ante-penultimate syllable "par." - "She gave me," says he, "two tickets for the opera that cost at least $5 apiece. It was called The Walker' and say, you never heard that kind of music in your life." This endorsement of his Wal-keure Wal-keure would gratify Wagner. President Hoover's veto of the soldier's bonus bill expressed his sincere conviction that the bill would be harmful to the country and the men. Repassage of the bill over the veto will, perhaps, de- clde whether the President ' and Mr. Mellon or Congressmen and service men were right. Many believe that making it possible pos-sible for three million men to spend a billion and a halt of dollars quickly will help business and not ruin Uncle Sam. He found ten billions, quickly enough when foreign for-eign nations wanted the money, and survived that, although many of the billions will never come back from Europe. ... News of bread riots threatening in Paris proves that conditions can change as suddenly, in prosperous France, as tbey did not long ago in prosperous Wall Street The wise men asking what causes the world trouble are as foolish as a drunkard, drunk-ard, unable to understand what causes his headache the next morning. morn-ing. The world is paying for the ; " war, for the butchering of twenty million men, at a cost of two hundred hun-dred and fifty billion dollars. The interesting magazine Asia prints a pathetic picture of a mis- r erable creature in rags, haggard, timid. His father's fortune had made him rich. Opium made him a beggar. The big war was the world's opium. But the world will struggle . out of its trouble and perhaps know better next time. In any case, this Nation should keep out of European leagues, world courts and everything every-thing else that could drag us Into the next debauch. (&. 13. T &M fmsmw, iniiaH. Iac.1 |