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BRISBANE THIS WEEK War Possible, Four Kinds 10,000 Million Questions , Our Large Cold Pile &nows Too Much at Four Russian newspapers, speaking -oni clally, accuse Japan of stirring up irouuie along tne Russian border, to "bring on grave .complications." A protest carries Stalin's warning to Japan that a con tinuation of these Incidents "may have serious conse quences in the re lations of Russia and Japan, and peace In the Far East." If Russia nnd Ja pan should have a serious disagree Arthur Brisbane ment, Russlu's equipment In the way of submarines and airplanes, all with in 400 miles of "tokyo, would probably enable other countries to stop worry ing about Japan's military plans. England does not approve of Mus solini's plans in Abyssinia, and the question arises, Would England close the Sues canal, the short cut for It al Inn troops and supplies to Abyssinia? Will Italian airplanes be forbidden to fly over the Suez canal area? The answer as to closing the Suez cnnal by Britain would probably be no. England would not voluntarily provoke hostilities with Italy. She renlly wants peace. But, how easily war could come ? French against Ger man or English against Italian or Jap anese against Russian ! Germany undertakes to establish a "family tree" for each of Its 00,000, 000 inhabitants, which means asking, answering, writing down ten thousand million questions. The sensible answer would be, "I descend from Adam, with heaven knows how many mixtures in my blood on the way up," but Hitler would not accent that. Young couples getting marriage licenses are questioned : "Whnt were your eight great-grand parents like? Did they have any Ne groid or Jewish blood? "Were they fond of telling the truth? Did they have Imagination, driving power?" Ten thousand million foolish ques tions \vould seem to set a new record. The "greatest" country In the world, supposed to be the most Intelligent, owns some tons of gold, called "worth" nine thousnnd million dollarB. We do not use the gold, or even In vest part of It In adequate national defense, that would protect It. We are afraid some one may come, with better airplanes and submarines than ours, nnd steal It; so the government will dig a deep hole, far from the coast, put In It a huge safe, and hide away the gold lump, that Is used only to Impress tbe financial Imagination of the world nirl keep foreigners from knocking do- n )Ur currency. Dolores Anne Diamond, only- four, surprised teachers In a Schenectady kindergarten. She said the games for little children bored her, and she could recite the nlphabet backward. Dolores wns moved to the first grade, and could have gone higher. She has the Intelligence of a child of fourteen. Usually It Is better for n child to de velop slowly and normally. The In fant prodigy Is usually dull later. Per haps little Dolores will be an excep tion, like Mozart, and. at eighteen, ns wise as Hypntla, with a happier end ing. Lloyd George, in spite of his -seven ty-two years, returns to nctive politics. He hates the "arid ntmosphere of po litical controversy" and returns to ac tlve politics only because he believes that world conditions are growlnp worse, and "from the point of view of pence are worse than before 1014.'' Miss Koutanova, Itusslan, twenty one years old, Jumped 25,420 feet fron an airplane without oxygen apparatm and landed in a cabbnge field at torning over four times before he parachute opened. She claims the f< male record. Itussla Is tenchlfig millions of youn people to use parachutes, the first stej In curing nervousness In flying. Here we have only a small handful of excel lent pilots, but the masses of our popu latlon know ns little about aviation as they do about "geometry In space." Mr. Werner Kahn, district leader of "Hitler Youth," snys Na/.l doctrines have , become Germany's real religion, nnd "the time must Come when entry Into the Hitler Youth organization will take the place rtbw Occupied by C,ath ollc or Protestant confirmation." Fur thermore, the young gen'tlemah says. "I declare to all enemies of Hitler Youth that the fuehrer Is our fnlth and national socialism Is our religion," Millions of us go through life getting little suhahlne, ratfely If over looking at the Atars, our Interests not unlike that Of the entomological ly Interest ing tumblehug, that spends its life In the field, rolling little ball* of manure Into a burrow. lie doesn't even realise that there Is a sun, or stars, and msny men sro like him, Although they may . ??own flue country places." 6, Kin* r?ftt?ro Syndtoat*, 1m, * WNUfwrftea. * . ' ' V. ' '*?' ?> V. ' ?? : %i lifc.. ? r ' W ? V ? < - Scenes and Persons in the Current News A > . i t. ' 1 ? - ' - ^ 1 ? Flags of the thirteen original states carried as the Pennsylvania Sons of the Revolution dedicated at Valley Forge a replica of one of the huts occupied by Pennsylvania troops In the winter of 1777-78. 2 ? Single women of Boston peacefully picketing emergency relief headquarters. 3 ? Vice President Garner administering the oath to Rush D. Holt of West Virginia who took his seat in the senate on reaching the constitutional age of thirty years. BANNERS of Colonies Revived; Today's Jobless^ Women PARADE The thirteen brlgut flags of Amer ica's earliest days unfurled to the breeze once more at the scene o one of history's most noted spectacles when Pennsylvania Son: of the Revolu tion met at Vn'.ley Forge. It was the liVTth anniversary of the evacuation of Philadelphia during the Revolutionary war. Pannsylvanla's men of today uedlcated an exact replica of one of the rude log huts occupied by the brave soldiers fron that colony during the winter of 1777-78. Women's War Almost at the same time another kind of wariare, serious but more peaceful, was going on In another city replete with memories o; the Revolu tion? Roston. Ujimarrled women, tid ly In need of Jobs, picketed the head quarters of the emergency relief ad ministration In the home of the brown bread and beans. Their plea A'as for a revolution In employment thnt would prohibit mar ried women, prosperous and In no need of Jobs, from being given work. Noted Runner Catches a Bride William A. Ronthron, former Princeton track cnptnln and one of the outstanding middle distance runners of the century, and his hilde, who was Marlon McLennan LIneaweaver of Montreal, Que. They were married at 1'rlnceton. ? ? Naturally Milk Is Their Favorite Beverage Mere are the officials of the National Dairy council photographed at the nnntial convention at Old Point Coju forl, Va. Left to right, they are: M. D. Munn of Chicago, president of the National Dairy council ; Cliff W. Gold smith of the Philadelphia Interstate Dairy council; C. I. Cohee, secretary of the Philadelphia Interstate Dairy council; B. It. Quackenhush of Hudson. Ohio; Oarl K. Deysenroth. executive secretary of Milk Foundation, Inc., (Chicago ; N. D. Rhodes; and Hobert W. P.alderston of Chicago, general manager of the National Dairy council. Diamond Star Goes "Left" Fred "Flrpo" Mnrberry, Rlnnt for mer Amerlonn longon pitcher. used to yell bloody murder when the "ump*" called a close one nRnlnst him. Now he'll have a chance to hear nuch RqiinvvkN from the other Hide. The league has made him an unmlrel Win Agricultural Scholarships * Here jUre Ruth l.ohmann of Zumhrota, Minn., and .lamos W. Pott* of A*spermont, Texas. winners of the 1'ayne Fund fellowships for 1035-80. The award consists of $1,000 each with which they are to Study for nlno months nt the Department of Agriculture In Wfifihlngton. These fellowships aro awarded each year for outstanding 4 II club achievement?. SEEN--* HEARD around the National Capital 1 By CARTER riELDaaS W nshlugton. ? Crave concc ^ is felt by high administration officials over the lack of eagerness of so many peo ple, all over the country, to get off re lief rolls, even when fairly good Jobs are offered. It is Impossible to obtain accurate figures about Uiis phase of the situation, all the bureaus, adminis trations, agencies, etc., being very much publicity shy about this disturb ing development. It Is known, however, that reports from all over have been received, and that President Roosevelt's hopes of get ting everybody off the relief rolls as speedily as possible' have run 'up against a very stiff resistance. In many cities young men eligible for the CCC camps are refusing to take the examinations. In one large city families are Insisting they do not want their boys to be trained as sol diers that they hear beer Is sold at the camps ? that their boys would have to associate with low characters. Professing entire ignorance of the situation In that city, the CCC officials here insist they do not believe the objections cited by the parents are genuine. They say that the talk about military training was very widespread when the camps were first started, but that it broke down of its own weight a long time ago. They believe the sole and only reason Is unwillingness to get off relief rolls. In other cities, In fact In most cities enrollment in the CCC camps has been way below what was expected, and the answer Is believed by officials here to be Just unwillingness to get off relief. Hue In every Instance officials say to inquiring reporters from the city in ^question : "Please don't mention that you talked to me about this." incidentally the Veterans' bureau has been having its troubles along the same line. A Real Problem The whole question brings up the point whether the United States is now going through what England went through a few years back. Ih England the dole brought some interesting con sequences, and, as they occurred be fore the depression hit this country, there was quite a 6e)f-righteous feel ing In this country that Britain was bringing her troubles on her own head by pampering the dole collectors. Then came the depression, and the New Deal. Whereupon It became pro gressive in (his country to insist that It was the duty of the government to take care of the cold and hungry, and reactionary to point to Britain's troubles on the same sort of problem. Now It i9 being realized that It Is a problem Involving fundamental traits of human nature, and that the United States Is not very different In the character of its people from Britain. No one, not even the most bitter critic of the administration on Capitol Hill, Is advocating that people should be al lowed to starve or freeze. But a very interesting mental transformation Is becoming apparent in New Deal cir cles. For example, n high official of the Federal Emergency Belief administra tion was tol.d that his agents in a large middle western city had threatened to take families off relief If they refused to permit their sons to go to the CCC camps, or If able bodied men In the families refused to take Jobs which were offered. "I have not heard about that," he said shortly. "You see it Is a purely local problem. The man on the ground handling the relief situation has au thorjty to handle the matter In any way he sees fit." "You mean If he turns families off the relief rolls for such reasons as that. It Is entirely up to him?" he was asked. "Exactly," he replied. "Would the local officials make n report to headquarters here about It?" the questioner persisted. "Nothing of the kind need be re ported." he replied. And his whole manner Indicated, what some of his underlings told the writer In confidence, that he did not want any such reports! Cut Huge Fortunes President ftooosevelt's objective Is to reduce n 1 ! large fortunes to a maxi mum of $7,000,000? all large Incomes to a maximum of $00,000 a year, lie said this In a conversation a few da.v< ago with a very rich Democrat, who Incidentally had been a big campaign fund contributor, and the gentleman is still sputtering about it. In another most Interesting on versation with a Wisconsin man who had backed him when Roosevelt really needed hacking. In the pre-con vent Ion days, the President advised his caller to "go bark to Wisconsin and make your peace with the I.a Folleltes They are our kind of people." Which of course Is purely corrohorn five of what the President lias been saying about his tax program that It has two objectives, a better social order, as well as revenue. Meanwhile business men as a whole are nghast at the prospect, for they see In the drive against bigness almost surely further boosting of the rates to apply against all corporations which have big earnings. Most business men do not agree with the wisdom. entirely aside from their selfish Interests, of this policy. .Most of them admit that there Is some merit In the contention so often made In prl vale Conversations by Just Ice Brandels against bigness In privately owned corporations. Frequently, they admit, many of the faults which characterize all large scale government operations creep in when a corporation attains unwieldy size. They even admit that Instances can he cited where the mere size of the corporation Increases the cost of whatever unit It may manufac ture. >r the item of service it may render. Take the Automobile Hut tliey Insist that lor the most part the<e instances are the excep tions, and not the rule, a favorite illustration of the reverse is the auto mobile. Anyone who knows anything about manufacturing admits that if the automobiles of this country were produced by say 2<H> manufacturers of fairly even size, the cost per auto mobile to the purchaser would be more than double. The best illustration of this Is the Ford car now manufactured by a fair ly good sized plant In Strassburg, France. That car costs the purchaser In Paris about $1,700. This is not due to the protective tariff. for the car Is made In France. Actually of course. If the cars were made In the big Ford plant at Pearborn. they could pay 100 per cent tarifT and still save the purchasers a good deal of money. Is the French <juota system on lm^B ports which forces their manufacture on a small scale at Strassburg. Manufacturers contend that if Ford cars were produced by separate plants of small size In this country, each owned by a different owner and oper ated independently? In short If the J policy desired by the administration in tbls use of the taxing power against bigness were forced into effect? the cars would cost purchasers in this country more than the * 1.7(H) charged in France. For It so happened that wages a the Strassburg plant are lower than In the Dearborn plant. All of which helps to explain what some critics of the plan mean when they Insist it Is ? "distribution of pov erty" not a "distribution of wealth." One Real Danger Only one phase of the huge "share the wealth"? level off the big for tunes" and "pass prosperity around" ? taxation program of President Itoose ve't seems In any real danger. This is the sliding scale tax aimed at l?Ig corporations. Thetv seems no doubt whatever that the big levies on inher itances. and the boosts in the upper income tax brackets, will be approved by congress substantially as desired by the President. Alieady a .trickle of protests has begun arriving from holders of com mon stocks in the big corporations. A few of them have already realized that heavier taxes on the companies in which their savings are invested hits them, and them alone. For the bondholders, and the preferred stock holders, will continue to get their in terest and dividends, if they are earned. Additional taxes will lilt the equities, not the debts, of these cor porations. Except of course such as are not earning enough to pay divi dends nt present, and have no prospect of paying any In the near future. If the big companies should do any thing like as thorough a Job in rous ing their stockholders as the utilities did, there Is little doubt that this phase of the progratA would be In serious danger. For there Is nothing like the spontaneous appeal to this levy that there Is to the proposal to tax big for tunes. both when In estates and in in comes. Some lawyers are contending, how ever, that the big Inheritance taxes are unconstitutional. They contend thnt the object of the fax Is not to raise money for the needs of the gov ernment, but Is purely social In char acter, with the object of leveling off fortunes. This, they contend, runs J| counter to the Constitution. Not mtwh attention Is apt to he paid to this by the senators and representa tives. "Soak the rich" has always been a popular slogan, politically, and the theory that If Is good politics to vote for such legislation Is strong!* held. h 3 Question of Politics I.ots Of men !n both housf and sen ate will vote for these levies who do not really approve of them. Hence I lie comparative certainty that (hey will pass. Oppositi,,,, to them might prove very hurtful at the next ejec tion. 'I he opposition Is based chiefly not on any theory that If |H a had lde? to cut down the big fortunes ? though there are a few who Insist that many big fortunes have proved far more beneficial to the public at large than If the same amount of money had been spent by the government but on the old Mellon theory of .Tlclency. Andrew \V. .Mellon, when secrctiu^^ "f the treasury, frequently contenj^B thnt lower percentages of taxes for t^^ high brackets would bring more money Into the treasury than higher per centages. I If. pointed to the fact that every time faxes were reduced on big incomes, receipts from big Incomes In crease.). Critics of the Mellon regime always Insisted fhaf the re.u;on for this was merely that It occurred dur ing n rapidly rising t|i|?> of prosperity. As there was undoubtedly such a ris ing tide during fhaf period, there Is no conclusive method of d<>mnnst ratlniM that Mellon wax right, itut there Is tf strongly held view that he was. This theory- and It Is the one entertained today b.v many men In congress who will vote for the new levies despite 'heir views Is that when tax rates are too high, ways of evading them will he found. Those holding this view Insist thnt fhose with big Incomes are either smart themselves, or have smart law yers. and that they will have no scru- <j pics whatever about finding methods of evading both Inheritance and Income- 4 levies if they regard them ns confl#- f cntory. CopyrlKht? WNU Strvlr*. >4