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This Week h Arthur Brisbane There Is Hope, Says Babson Repeal? No. Sales Tax? Yes Big incomes Melt Prof. Henderson on Beer Roger W. Bab80D talked to the Phil adelphia (Pa.) Athletic club about the depression. To encourage you he says, "Deflation has largely been completed." A I so, "Consumption Is today exceed ing production." Also, "The people of America are npw turning over a new leaf." Mr. Babson says: "Prosperity will return In spite of anything that the government or bankers could do to prevent It. As people were 111 and re covered centuries ago. before there were doctors or hospitals, so business will some time recover without any more legislation or artificial aid." All encouraging, therefore useful. The effort to take prohibition out of the Constitution and get beer for you and hundreds of millions In taxes for Uncle Sam fell flat. But, If you are interested in national finance, you will be glad to hear that the sales tax Is coming, also a cut In extravagant government expenditures. President Hoover In his annual mes sage demands both. There Is no doubt that the sules tax will do more to balance the budget and put Uncle Sam back on his finan cial feet than anything else, beer In cluded. Big American Incomes have melted like thin snow with a cow lying on It. More than ten thousand Incomes of $100,000 and more have dropped to fewer than four thousand. The na tional deficit In June will be more than $1,100,000,000. Expenses must be cut, no choice about that. There are big Items In our national budget, more than $800,000,000 for veterans, $300,000,000 for agricul ture. $300,000,000 for the navy, $400, 000,000 for war. Uncle Sam can tell you that war doesn't pay, especially somebody .else's war. Prof. Yandell Henderson of Yale university, who teaches physiology and ought to know the Inside working of a human being, tells members of con gress: "I am an expert on poisons that include alcohol." He says that 4 per cent beer Is no more Intoxicating than a cup of coffee and less Intoxi cating than a cigar, That should enlighten congressmen who hesitate to legalize beer with 3.2 per cent of alcohol. "The cocktail habit," according to Professor Henderson, "Is a form of drug addiction." But It would be dif ficult to drink enough 4 per cent beer to become Intoxicated. If there were nothing stronger to drink than that kind of beer, there would be no alco hol problem. The League of Nations hasn't much authority when dealing with a nation of power. Japan warns the league that "60,000,000 of Japanese are behind the military leaders who took Man churia away from China In self-de fense." The league can do nothing about Manchuria unless It chooses to fight Japan, and it will not choose that, for the *good ? reason that somebody must do the fighting and nobody Is ready for It. Frankness Is admirable. Lndy Astor, young American woman who showed her British sist^* how to get into par liament by having Intelligence and en ergy, studied the "hunger army" in Washington and talked to the march ers as they passed. Several that asked her, "Are you a Communist?" were sur prised by her reply: "No; T am a red hot capitalist." Such complete frank ness appenled to the marcherR. Each of us Is what circumstances make us. Ninety-nine per cent of fchose marchers would also be "red-hot cap italists" If they had an .Income of a million dollars a year or more. i Capitalists all over Europe and a chosen few In America will become suddenly Interested In three little Aus trian villages, Zlstersdorf, Duernkrubt and Poysdorf in lower Austria. tlnderneath the beautiful vineyards of that wine country engineers have discovered Important oil deposits. Oil Is more Important than wine now, and the Austrian discovery may be worth ah much as the territory stolen from Austria after the war. If the Eighteenth amendment of the Constitution Is repealed It is proposed to Insert In the repeal amendment a clause prohibiting return of the saloon. Saloons should not come back, but repeal of prohibition should not be complicated by any saloon clause that would perpetuate expensive enforce ment, with Its blackmail and bootleg ging. Prohibition couldn't prevent the es tablishment of morn thnn 40,000 speak easies In New York city. ' Sometimes others' troubles make our own easier to bear. It might cheer the r4A) farmer to know what happens to MHAlled "gentleman farmers" who hfre others to do their farming for Onb such farmer writes from west ern New York: "My farmer sold some that I had been fattening for a year for lass than I had paid for them II year a*o.* * if??. bjr Kl ng P?Aturt? Syndicate, Ins. whxj . ? HllLSTMAS festivities, as tiie modern world observes them, owe much of their warmth and charm to the survival of pnguu customs, I'rof. William Warren Sweet of the Divinity school, told a University of ChlcaifO group. Speaking at a noon-time serv* Ice in Bond chapel ud the campus, Doc tor Sweet, who Is professor of the His tory of American Christianity, analyzed the history ?f the Yuletlde celebration, and asked that the small Christian ele ment In It be kept uppermost. Exchanging gifts at Christmas time Is a practice taken over from the Ro mans, and the Christmas dinner, the holly wreaths, and even the Chrlstmnp tree customs can be traced hack to the barbarians of northern Europe, Doc tor Sweet said. America's contrlbu tlon to the occasion has been chiefly Its commercialization. "It was not until about the middle of the Fourth century after Christ that a day was formally set aside by the church at Rome for the observ ance of his physical birth," Doctor Sweet pointed out. "As It was flrst observed by the church. Christmas was purely a spiritual festival. There was no ga.vety; no bells announced the com ing of the glad morn ; there were uo garlands; uo tables heaped with good cheer. "But It was not to remain long In the upper air of pure devotion. There were too many pagan Influences about It, >ne of the most Important of which was the feast of Saturn, which began on the 17th of December and lasted until the 24th. Saturn, was the oldest and most benign deity of ancient Italy and his fabled reign on earth was sup posed to have brought peace and hap piness to mankind, and so the feast dedicated to him was full of Joy and Voraeloua Feaatlng Ancient Precedent for Modern Chrletmas Dinner. feasting. The Bchools were closed, public places were decked with flow ers, and presents were exchanged. "Another festival which Influenced the celebration of Christmas was the feast of the Kalends of January, which marked the beginning of the Roman civil year, and three days of merri ment followed It. Mummers clad In women's clothes and animal skins pa raded the streets. Presents were giv en to dear ones. 'Honeyed things, thnt ! In the year the recipient might be full of sweetness, lamps that mlglit be full of light; copper, silver and gold that wealth might flow In.' " Among the early colonists In Amer ica Christmas wns observed as a festi val only by the Church of England ad herents and the Roman Catholics, Pro fessor Sweet said. The Puritans, ob jecting to It becnuse of Its pngnn ori gins. banned nn.v observance of the dny. On May 11, 10r>0, the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts passed the following law: "Whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by for bearing of labor, feasting, or any oth er way, as n festival, shall be fined five shillings." This statute wa$ repealed twenty years later, but for more than one hundred years the great "evangelical" religious groups, the Baptists, Congre gatlonnllsts and Presbyterians official- i ly refused to recognize Christmas. Professor Sweet reported that he has been unable to flnd any reference to the festival of the nativity In the liter ature of thefte churches up to th? Civil war. Shortly after the war a religious organ objeeted to the observance of the day on the grounds that there was no evidence to establish exactly the date of Christ's birth and that there was nothing In the New Testament to Indicate that the birthday should be celebrated. "Ten years later, or about IRflO. Christmas Issues of church pa pers show a decided change In their attitude," Doctor Sweet said. "Christ mas advertisements make their appear ance, Christmas poems, and editorials. From this time onward the religious significance of ('hrlstmas has been growing In all evangelical churches. "The Christmas with which we are familiar today Is a strange combina tion of Imported pagan and Christian traditions. Though I dislike to say It, It seems that about all America has added to Christmas Is Its commer cialisation. Certainly all of ns have every humanitarian and Christian In centlve to make Christmas less pagan, less commercialised, mo're Christian.** NOTORIOUS SPY IS NOW TIBETAN MONK ? . * ? No More Adventure* for Trebitsch-Lincoln. , Berlin. ? I gnu 7. Trebltsch-Ltncoln, Europe's most colorful adventurer, hated and elusive spy during the World war, one time member of the English house of commons, rabbi, bishop of the Church of England, press chief of the Knpp Putsch in Germany, intimate associate of Trofz ky in Russia, adviser of Amanullah, found wherever u revolution is brew ing, today Is walking the streets of Berlin dressed in the long, peaceful robe of a Tibetan lama of Suddah. Every newspaper man on four con tinents. every detective, in dozens of cities has at one time or other been either Inspired or fooled or amused by Trebitsch-Lincoln. Dyed In the wool news gatherers tell wild Into an airplane, and dropped miles out on No Man's Land. He was heard of next In Petrograd. When the Kapp Putsch was brew ing Trebltsch was In China, a country that has always appeuled to him he cause of Its transcendental mysticism. But he managed to get hack to Ger many and put his services at disposal of "Chancellor" Kapp. During the war l?e served more than one nation, his enemies declare. Recently tho colorful character hod disappeared. Nobody knew what had become of him. In reality he was In Tibet, was actually made a priest by the nation that is most reluctant to make friends ? the Tibetans. And suddenly be Is agalu In Berlin, to the utter and whole-hearted de light of all lovers or adventure. lie wears the little black round cap of the Tibet priests, his black silk coat Opening the New Highway in Rome (ienenil view of the ceremonies which marked the opening of the broail highway cut !>y Mussolini's government across the stones of nnclent Rome. The hew road, which links the Colosseum and the Piazza Venezln, was opened on the tenth anniversary of the march on Rome of Mussolini's legions. stories about hlin. For Trebitsch- i Lincoln at one time devoted himself to adventure with the nir of a fanatic, a man out for revenge on a civilisa tion that killed his son as a spy, al though he hastened from thousands of miles away to save him. There is hardly a nation that he has not served and there Is no coun try he .has not visited. He has tangled with Colonel Lawrence of Arabian fame. He has been hunted like a dog by leading politicians. He has es caped the noose. I he bullets of a tir ing squad, and the guillotine by Inches. Berlin corresppndents met Trebitsch when he was press chief of the "Kapp" government, when this ruled Prussia for a few days. They fought with him about freedom of the press. Later when the adventurer was be ing sought by the police, a corre spondent refused to reveal Tre bltsch's wherenbouts and thus helped him escape. It was a rather tense moment when a bearded man stepped Into the newspaper ofllce Just a few minutes after a detective had called looking for Trebitsch, nnd the man said: "Don't you recognize me? I'm Trebitsch." Ten minutes later an other detective marched In. "We know you know where Trebltsch-Lin coln Is. We'll pay a high price If you'll speak." But the newspaper force did not speak and Trebitsch Lincoln was not hoard of In Germany for years. There Is the story of his stumbling Into a German camp on the bleak plains of Lithuania, during the war. He was arrested nnd would liave been shot, had not the German general peeped Into the bottle a bit that night, and been feeling too gay for a court martial. Trebitsch was bundled Official Hat Decoration but He Cannot Wear It New Orleans, La. ? Because TJncle Sam say* a government employee can not accept a foreign decoration, Kd win Klrwln, customs Inspector here, Is kept from wearing the Talmeh d'Academle which he received ^oni the consul general of France In New Orleans two years ago. He never has been able to wear the decoration, awarded for his se searches nnd study of French on tlqultles, because soon after he re ceived It the government locked It up In a safe In Washington. "For two yeara I have tried to get It back," said Kirwln, who has made n study of antique* for 30 years. *"I"he only way they'll return It Is through an ?ct of congress. There's a regula tion that prohibits a government em ployee from accepting a foreign deco ration." Klrwln received the decoration July 14, 1980. It la his duty to examine all Imported antiquities to determine If they are dutiable. comes up high under ^is chin, his feet are clad In sandals. He Is rec ognized by all those In the political and social swim. And he is not loathe to be recognized. Hut he will not shake hands. Ills high dignity as a priest of Buddah forbids him to touch ordinary human beings. He Is not here to devote himself to political Intrigue, or to mere financial undertakings. It is his present ambi tion, his only ambition, according to his own words, to build In southern Germany a Buddhist temple and n monastery for devotees. Me does not yet have the devotees. But he Is certain that there are many who will prefer the peace and mental hnrmony of the Buddhist faith to the turmoil of present-day life. He admits he has no money, but he Is certain faith will move some one to endow the organl zation he is planning. Turks Are Ordered to Acquire Names Istanbul, Turkey. ? Millions of Turks are racking fhelr brains to choose family names for them selves while the minister of In terior prepared a law to enforce this latest western reform. Any names may be chosen as long as they are consistent with Turkish customs. Heretofore family names have been nonextant In Turkey, thou sands of women being simply "Fa tlmas" and thousands of men "Mustaphas" or "Husseins." Some times men have added names In dicating they are the sons of a six lingered man or a fishmonger ? just for distinction. 300,000 Canadians Quit U. S. for Native Land Montreal. ? More than 300, 000 Cana dians who went to the United States in search of better conditions, have returned to the dominion In the last eight years, It was learned at the Im migration department Of these. 202, f>S0 were Canadian-horn and about 24,000 were British subjects with Canadian domicile. The peak of the movement back to Canada was reached in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1927, and, curiously, the smallest number of Canadians have come home since the depression set in. Information received by the Depart ment of Immigration shows that the nunfber of Canadian-born persons in tho I'nited States last counted is 1.27.8,421, an increase of only l.r?3,4{H> in ten years. Of these. 370.S-V2 are French-Canadians and 907, ."GO are Canadians of British, Certnnn and other racial origin. The fryeign born population of the United States was given as 13.3G0.407, an Increase of only 111,013 in ten years. There was a decrease in the English, Welsh and Irish people in the United States, but an increase of 39 per cent in the number of Scots. The report also shows there were in the republic 73.">.307 persons whose fa ther or both parents were French Canadians and 1,323,017 whose father or both parents were of other races born in Canada. Rat's Gnawing Causes Police to Investigate Vlsalla, Calif. ? A sleepy telephone operator sat before her switchboard at 3 a. m. Suddenly the lights began to flash in an alarming manner. She plugged in the police station and screamed for help. officer Paul FInley buckled on his revolver and set out to find the cause of (he trouble. He thought It must be caused by a bank robbery at least. Back In the exchange, the lights ceased to act queerly. The operator called the police station. "What was it?" she asked. "O, rats," said Officer Finley, who had Just returned. And that's what It was. The officer found a rat gnawing on the telephone wire in a downtown store. Motorists Spend Two Billion on Vacations Washington. ? American motorists paid a bill of $2,000,000,000 for vaca tions with automobiles, according to figures compiled by the American Au tomobile association. The expenses consisted of car operating costs, -In cluding gasoline and oil, $400,000,000; miscellaneous retail purchases, $500, 000,000'; restnuronts, $420,000,000 ; con fections. $120,000,000, and amusements, $100,000,000. 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The commltto estimated that two-thirds of government costs result from state and local taxation. Specific steps to accomplish this purpose were recommended by the committee, headed by Junius 1?. Fish hurn, president of the Times- World corporation, Ttoanoke, Va., and will be brought to the attention of business organizations throughout the country. "Definite and substantial progress In the reduetloh of the routine expendi tures of state and local governments," the report said, "comes from every section of the country. In many places where actual reductions have not yet been made, definite economy measures are pending. "The steady Increase In the Intensity of the public demand that taxes bo reduced Is significant. Much of this demand, however, and much of the activity of new agencies advocating tax reduction, are directed at the large expenditures of the Federal govern ment. This may tend to obscure the urgent nerd for general reduction of state nnd loenl expenditures. 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