Show QUOTES COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters LETS GO HOME by BRASWELL DRUE DEEN US representative from georgia the THERE HERE are arc many reasons why hy the house and senate should quickly adjourn this session of the seventy fourth congress chief among the reasons Is the fact that more than 20 of our colleagues to be exact 20 26 are now either in hospitals or at their homes suffering sui from heart trouble or a nervous breakdown this congress lias has worked long and faith fully and well and personally I 1 I 1 insist that the senate bring its business quickly to an end so that we may agree on the matters that must de be agreed upon between the house and the senate and that all future hearings on house bills many of which I 1 am for be extended until a session in the fall or the next session beginning in january this share the wealth soak the th rich eri and s save aye the poor legislation some of which I 1 am in favor of can wall six months longer because the rich will not get too rich in a few more months and the wealth can then be shared and the poor are being taken care of now and I 1 am ain personally appealing to the membership of the house to let us adjourn this session immediately THE SANE LIFE by DR HAROLD WILLIS DODD president princeton university THE HE devastation of the world war and its cata catastrophic strophic aftermath have been interpreted by some as revealing the emp emptiness tines 8 of accepted values and the need tor for n newly fabricated loyalties it if one Is to be modern and free but every man needs something to live by and to live for and those who have jettisoned Jetti received standards perforce turn to strange gods most astonishingly bizarre and fanciful in the look ahead which today I 1 urge you to take be sure to flud find a place for intellectual and cultural cultura I 1 lia interests outside your dally daily occupation it Is necessary that you do so it if tills this business of living Is not to turn to dust and ashes in your mouth moreover do not overlook the claims of religion as th the explanation of an otherwise unintelligible world it Is not the fast tempo of modern life that kills but the boredom a lack of strong interest land failure to grow that destroy it Is the feeling that nothing Is worth while that makes men III and unhappy BRITISH RECOVERY by STANLEY BALDWIN prime minister great britain WE E ARE bein being 4 censured for not having any considered plan I 1 have never been a slave of a word it if there Is a word thai that has been ridden to death today it Is the word plan I 1 have seen nothing of 0 planning ln in any foreign country that would lead me to think it Is a universal panacea I 1 dont exactly know what plan Is for some kinds of plans there are books and pamphlets undertaking to cure unemployment I 1 have never promised to cure unemployment I 1 have taken risks for unemployment I 1 threw away an office and an election because I 1 was convinced that among things necessary to help check growing unemployment were tariffs I 1 never promised to cure unemployment and I 1 shall never stand on oil a platform with anybody who does promise it I 1 think I 1 can say of our action during the time we have been in office that we have made a considerable contribution toward it AMBITIOUS NATIONS by NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER chairman carnegie Carn cyle end endowment for international pe peace ace T HAS become clear that treaties I 1 IT count for nothing in the face of national ambition and of what the ruling statesmen regard as national security therefore japan Is moving steadily toward the extension of her control over a vast portion of asia therefore italy Is feeling her way toward the acquisition of new territory and new economic opportunity in africa while germany Is so to speak tossing in her bed stirred with ambition to extend her authority toward the south and the southeast to deal with a and very real situation such as this will tax the worlds wisdom and the worlds statesmanship to the utmost these conditions serious as they are become more so when it Is realized how closely they are bound up with the various revolutionary movements now actively going forward in the fields of economics politics and the social order PREPARING FOR WAR by DAVID LLOYD GEORGE former british prime minister H u s situation from the viewpoint THE int of peace is in in many respects boise worse than before 1914 I 1 was in the business before 1914 then every one as now was talking about peace but every one just as now was preparing feverishly for war the nations were maneuvering for war positions watch for it Is going on now each of them was as certain as now that their conduct was actuated actual ed by a sincere desire for peace abd aad that their armaments were intended escle lively tor for defense |