The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-12-26

EsS Xxi all.
s;5$ Who the last,
q ZONES some, re-
S mote, unfriend-
ly, melancholy,
'nur nfiS""he five million dol
lar-a-year-man is may not be told.
The law forbids publishing income
tax names, but the government tells
you there is one and only one.
That "last rose" Of depression's
summer must look around him, sad
eyed, mourning over his old compan-
ions, withered and strewn.
What is important today may be
nothing tomorrow; what was moth
ing yesterday may become all i'm
portant now. Once man was help
less without his horse, camel, OK,
yak, ass, mule, reindeer, dog sled or
tame elephant. Now, I'm civilization,
they mean little, while Lloyd
George tells you, "Oil Is the de-
cisive factor in the Abyssinian
campaign OF all the great powers
whose attitude is being canvassed,
that of King Gasoline s.most i'm
portant. Without Oil, Mussolini
cannot win his war; with oil, VIC
tory is certain.
Japan at the naval conference
will consider nothing less than a
battle fleet as big as any the
United States may build; no $50
ratio.
No American should object to
that, If Japan can afford it.. 1t is
not the size Of the fleet that counts.
Unfortunate Spanish grandees In
charge of the great Armada could
testify to that, after they met Eliza
beth's small fleet and big sea cap
tains.
Also, there is the fact that if
real war started, above the clouds
and under water, every fighting
nation would hide its battleship tar
gets out Of airplane sight, In safe
harbors; many battleships or few
would make no difference.
Senator Borah tells over the
microphone what the country needs:
Support of the Constitution; a
fight against those who would un-
dermine 1t.
The destruction of monopoly with
out necessarily enacting new legis-
lation. .-... -... I .-,
An end of crop restriction.
Senator Borah says restriction
has always failed In depression ever
since the days Of Roman emperors.
The scientific news, gruesome
but important, tells you that the
eyes of the dead can supply trans
parent tissue from the cornea use
full In curing blindness In the living.
Tissue from dead eyes has been
successfully transplanted to living
eyes, and there Is hope of thus cur
ing certain types of blindness.
England has always acted like
, one walking on eggs" In dealing
with Japan, but she does say that
Japan's proposed seizure Of Chinese
territory charms the prestige Of ia
pan and hampers the development
Of friendly future relations between
Japan and her friends" SOD.
Walter G. Teagle, head Of Stand
ard Oil of New Jersey, did not make
deal to supply Mussolini with all
his oil for thirty years, casually ar
ranging to finance the Italian oil
market up to $300,000,000. Mr..
Teagle says so, and 1t is so. But
when the wise John ID. Rockefeller
once said, 81 want to see my mana
gers, their desks cleared and their
feet on the desks studying how to
make money for Standard OIL" he
had men like Walter Teagle in mind.
In Georgetown, British Guiana, a
kindly clergyman sprinkled tiny
negro baby just born, naming him
Roosevelt Selassie Caleb" The
boys parents, descendants Of slaves,
say the name was chosen to honor
''the greatest man In the world,
President Roosevelt"
The little baby may wonder later
why his parents dragged In Halle
Selassie, in whose empire slavery
still exists as a major industry.
An official representative of Rus
STA said to this writer not long
since: sWe have nothing to fear
from Japan. They waited three
years too long," While Japan was
waiting, Russia established a great
submarine and air base at Vladivos-
tok, within short striking distance
Of everything japanese.
Since then Japan and Russia have
got along peacefully. This country
may suddenly wake up to find prob
lens more important than any