The Washington times., 1932-08-30

paSspOrtS, AngTO0aXOnS CUSTODY
for the crime of boarding vessels in the harbor to
goodby to friends But the great and fruitful idea lies
in the frank explanation of the police that the real
sons for the fines is that there too many Ameri
in Mallorca obviously the police intend to harry
them and chvvy them and make life impossible for
them thus reducing the proportion of foreigners and
restoring Maorca to the natives.
We, Too
Unconsciously we have been doing the thing in
America for the first time in history the departure
of aliens exceeded the arrivals lost nearly 10000
foreigners hundred thousand departed and only
thirty thousand had the courage to to live
here In the past three years have certainly per-
suaded Europe that the stories it read about milk
and honey and prosperity and freedom and full dinner
pals and two motor cars in every garage were little
exaggerated in familiar phrase lot of hooey We're
not popular any more
Why Limit Ourselves?
But good idea doesn't stop. 1t propels itself onward
by it's power. If Malorca set flies foreigners
and drive them of the country, why limit the treat
ment to foreigners? We have lot of people in America
who aren't working; used to call them idle so as
not to remember that they wanted to work Now If we
began to arrest them and worry them and make lie
really uncomfortable for them couldn't rid ourselves
of them altogether? Or would it be better to find work
for them?
Up in the Air
The word "stratosphere" returns to the newspaper
headlines Prof Picard rises again in his balloon to
study the cosmc ray 10 II miles above the earth.
have quarrel with science but wish inventive
would find way to go further For have been told
have means of verficaton-that far beyond the
12-me limit the events which note day by day have
not yet taken place observer stationed enough
million miles away, and could that far he might
America laboring through the doldrums of the early
General Grant period little lower down, he could OBJ
serve in the Spanish American War, and might
der who going to win Another step down and he
would see in the gilt and golden era of 1928.
Pure Fantasy
have often wished that H. G. Wells, or some COM
parable master of fantasy would write story about
some superior being up there, halfway between and
nothing, who just for lark determined to interrupt the
logic of events. With power cannot describe he
would lean down and flickng his little finger, wipe out
the events of three years. throwing back to start
ing point, in the great days of Calvin Coolidge, and
making us so rich and happy that we'd all to
slider the past three years bad dream. After all,
this demon in the ether would not know what about
to happen the crash hasn't reached him yet All he would
have to do would be to wipe out the future which also
past.
1t to that President Hoover is the
up there He is doing his level best to persuade that
given little luck and Republican victory, will be
transported back to the rich specuatons of 1925 when
all of afraid to sell at profit, for fear would
miss another profit He knows that the present bad
dream, but being of great faith he believes
shake ourselves out of it by not waking up but by dream
ing something else. Which puts him several hundred
million miles away from the solid earth.
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