The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-11-29

your soap box in Hyde Park you may
say what you please, If you do not
advocate crime.
But England does not like free
speech from another country. through
the ether. The British Broadcasting
company will not let Marconi talk
from Rome to Englishmen over the
radio. He might convince them that
It is preposterous to try to starve out
| Italy for doing in Ethiopia what Eng
land has done in many places. The
ruling seems hard on Marconi. consid-
ering that he invented radio. With
out him there would be no British
Broadcasting company"
Those that make betting a business
are often sound in their political judg-
ments. They are at least cold, calcu-
lating; sentiment does not cloud their
vision.
On the Republican Presidential NOM
ination the betting now stands:
Senator William L. Borah, to 1.
Governor Landon of Kansas, 10 to 1.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, 10
to l. Col. Frank Knox of Illinois,
Is to /. Governor Hoffman of New
Jersey, Ogden l.. Mills, Senator David
A. Reed, all 20 to 1.
Professional bettors agree that Gov
ernor Landon is gaining, and will
probably lead the procession at 6 to l
in few days. Band wagon climbers
are more and more polite to Governor
Landon.
The sanctions" wall thrown by Eng
land and France around Italy, smaller
nations cooperating, to "suffocate and
starve Italy," as Mussolini puts it. IS
now complete. Two million young Or
ganized Italians protest against the
effort to punish Italy for doing to
Ethiopia what England and France
have done to other, more nearly civil
LIKED countries.
II. G. Wells, aged sixty-nine, young
er and more brilliant than when he
wrote Doctor Moreau's Island" and
"The War of the Worlds" now in
America on his way to see Hollywood,
says, "The film is a finer art than
the novel, stage or the opera"
Mr. Wells open mind proves his
youth. The moving picture is greater
In its possibilities than book stage or
opera, because it contains all three,
plus the marvellous power of photog-
raphy.
Britain's ambassador is comforting
with our State department concerning
Japan's plan to seize Chinese provinces,
containing 95O00,0OO Chinese, 35,0O0,-
600 more than the total population of
Japan.
If the Japanese could control, arm
and use 100,000,000 Chinese in the air
and on the ground, that would be inter-
esting. But it would not be our bust
ness, and it is to be hoped that the
British will not persuade our State
department that this country ought to
attend to it.
Spiritually, politically and otherwise
important is the proposed merger"
approved by bishops Of the three
branches of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Together. the Methodist Epis-
copal church, Methodist Episcopal
church, South, and Methodist Protestant
church would number 100000 men,
bers, the largest Protestant group.
Young men are coming back into
fashion. DIR. Alan Valentine, only
thirty-four, former master of Pierson
college at Yale. is made president of
Rochester university and starts well
by denouncing the "ballyhOo" of col
lege athletics, football especially. He
speaks with authority, not as weak
ling bookworm. for he was a college
athlete at Swarthmore, member of the
Olympic team at Paris in 1928.
The American Bankers association
reveals the interesting fact that our
banks hold fifteen thousand million
dollars worth of government bonds-in
figures, $15,OOO,OOO, 900.
Well might a most important official
of the government say: Imitation?
We have 1t now, biggest ever seen,
frozen in the banks. Wait until 1t
breaks loose"
After the Tory election In England
prices went soaring on London's stock |
exchange. Companies that make war |
weapons and materials were most |
buoyant. The masses had voted for |
more, bigger and better battleships, |
and war, II necessary
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