The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-12-04

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side with Japan in a fight against
bolshevism. Practical Stain, man
of few words, tells Japan what he
thinks of her pact with Germany by
refusing to renew a treaty that per-
mits Japan to fish in Russian waters
off the coast of eastern Siberia.
That fishing privilege is vitality
important to the feeding of Japan's
surplus millions, increasing at the
rate of one million new Japanese
every year.
Langdon Post, New York's COM
missioner of housing, tells the Amer
lean Federation of Labor that
great national shortage of houses
exists, because there has been no
building. New York City, especially,
is IN bad way, according to Mr..
Post; there the shortage in housing
"may have tragic consequences"
That is good news for the build
ing trades, and temporarily good
news for landlords; they will not
overbuild. AS usual, politicians will
seize the opportunity to raise taxes,
and presently money lenders will
be once more selling real estate I'M
der foreclosures.
Life is a brief game of seesaw
now up, that is prosperity; then
down, that is depression. The bud
get is not the only thing that needs
balancing.
Our neighbor, Nicaragua, well adj
vanced in modern intelligence, es-
tablishes military flying school,
orders fighting planes from the Unit
ed States, hires first-class instruc-
tor. There is progress everywhere,
and you realize it when you read in
chapter 26 of Westermarck's ''The
Origin and Development of the Mo-
raj Ideas'':
In ancient Nicaragua women were
held unworthy to perform any duty
in connection with the temples, and
were inundated outside the temple
ground of the large sanctuaries, and
even their flesh was unclean food for
the high priest, who accordingly ate
only the flesh of males.
What a jump from a civilization
in which the high priest would not
eat ladies that had been slaughtered
to modern air school in which
young Nicaraguan women, once ex-
cluded from the temples, will be al
lowed to fly planes and learn how
to release bombs!
Schumann Heink, artist of the
operate stage, and fine example
to all women, is dead at seventy
five.
Young ladies who say 81 can't
have children because l must have
a career" and sometimes have
neither, please observe that Nine.
Schumann Heink had magnifi-
cent artistic career and many chill
dren also, including two boys killed
in the big war, and one on a sub
marine, who survived.
Winston Churchill, able English
man, thinks Great Britain, France
and the United States should remain
zone in support of democracy,
and calls the United States "a child
of our blood and ideals" This coun-
try is the child of many different
kinds of blood and ideals. Greater
New York includes the biggest
Italian city in the world, bigger
than Rome or Milan; more than a
million of Italian birth or descent.
The same New York contains two
million jews, many more than ever
were in Palestine.
Colombia has written a new con-
stitution, authorizing it's govern
ment, among other things, to con-
fiscate private property without
paying the owners. Conservative
citizens of Colombia call that "com-
munistic," which seems hardly an
exaggeration.
More pay increases, more Boz
muses., more distribution of accu-
mulated surplus by big corporations.
Sixty five thousand workers in
textile and shoe industries learn
that they are to have Christmas
bonuses and better wages.
Two young female genluses,
Misses Fanny Hurst and Agnes Rep
plier, disagree about book writing.
Agnes Repplier says it is peril
ously easy; Fanny Hurst says no,
it is hard.
Publishers say all depends on the
kind of books you write and the
brain you have.
O King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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