Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-10-09

- ting Diplomatic
wages. am only getting acting
wages.
But that's got nothing to do with 1t,
what am getting at is the interesting
letters this fellow Brisbane writes. /
am going to show you one he wrote
me that / just got.
My Dear Rogers:
Now that l have established your
credit as mult-millionsaire, and that
you have destroyed mine by making
me out in the public prints as desti.
tute, which by the way regret to say
is an extremely accurate description,
let us talk seriously about Russia.
This country including it's brightest
intellects, even your own, fail to ap-
preciate the Importance of what is
going on in Russia.
You know that when Louie the six.
teenth came back from shooting at
Fontainebleau on certain 14th Of
July he wrote in his diary, "Rein."
meaning in the French language.
Nothing" He hadent shot anything.
and he simply wrote down that moth
ing had happened. BUT that was the
14th of July on which the Bastlie was
destroyed. and later as consequence
OF that Rein" day. they just casually
chopped off his head.
The King Of Persia asked, where
Is Greece?" and said to his royal re-.
membrancer, Remind me sometime
to go down and destroy that little
Country" His descendants learned
about Greece when Alexander came
from MACEDONIA with 10000 men and
sent him flying to his death. went
through his line of war Elephants and
took his Country.
All of which leads up to the fact
that Will Rogers should study and
analize, and understand Russia, not
dispose Of It with a wave Of hand,
like some foolish Wall Street Broker
who buys Kerensky Bonds and belly
aches because they are not paid. We
dident pay the bonds issued by the
South.
have no doubt that the Russian
experiment will fail eventually, being
based on pretense Of unselfishness
and brotherly love, which have no ex-
istence among human beings.
But its experiments In Industry, In
world competition and efficiency may
cost some OF the old Capitalist civil
izatlons dear. If they ignore 1t. Alex
anders Empire fell, dwindling down to
the Cleopatra and Mark Anthony fool
ishness, but not until he had put an
end forever to the old Persia. So you
ought to warn your readers to not
underate Russia. Many years ago
when you was little Boy (Thanks for
that kind compliment Arthur). told
Klaw, Erlanger, Frohman and Brady
that someday Movies would sweep the
country and be in every town. They
thought l was crazy. Well look and
see.
Now you take old Cato with his
Carthage must be destroyed" and
keep saying every day at the end OF
your piece" in diamond type, Watch
and beware of Russia" This is talked
into my phonograRh in my automobile
on my way in from Long Island to
New York, hence the length. Yours
sincerely, A. Brisbane.
Now wasent that fine letter. You
know he is a great fellow. And he is
sincere about this Russia thing too.
He does know enough about 1t to know
that they are going somewhere, and
we better watch out while they are on
the way. l think on the other hand
that he has kinder been Propagan-
dered on EN-, and he has perhaps got
the brighter side. for they were a pref.
ty seedy looking outfit when ] visited
them in 1926. But all that Cato, and
Carthage, and Persia and Greece, and
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