TO BE OR NOT TO BE : : :
Paine, Robert F.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE : : : By ROBERT F. PAINE rHK oily eyes of greed are taking a sharp side glance at Argentina. She produced 750,000 tons of petroleum during 1926, and her government is developing...
...Private initiative, as to petroleum, means, of course, invasion by foreign capital, Teapot Dome stuff, and all that...
...The Hoch resolution of Congress, empowering the I. C. C. to regulate rates is clearly unconstitutional, because arbitrary and confiscatory, say the lawyers aforesaid...
...She produced 750,000 tons of petroleum during 1926, and her government is developing new fields and applying the most scientific methods at a great rate...
...Very good, says French statecraft, then let us have a treaty fixing the same duties for French goods entering America as for American goods entering France...
...Thus far, cat pelts are usually used for linings...
...Great losses threaten...
...In time, the demand may reach even rats and mice and it will be fatal for any living animal, save man, to wear hair...
...Waldo Schmitt, Smithsonian scientist, but recently returned from a South American expedition, during the course of which he visited Juan Fernandez, the island on which Alexander Selkirk, the supposed original Crusoe, was marooned for more than four years...
...Finally, the sickle is mightier than the sword...
...At any rate, some 145 railroad companies have engaged a large staff of able lawyers to fight the Interstate Commerce Commission's recent cut of freight...
...but, if the demand for furs continues to increase, pussy will come to serve as "Canadian sealskin," or something else equally as good...
...But, meanwhile, France lets in German goods at lower duties than the American and is going to treat British goods the same way...
...for, it is very apt to hurt your pocketbook, and history ought to be definite as to who started this war and who pays for it...
...CRUSOE'S ISLAND ROBINSON CRUSOE% was shipwrecked in one of the most picturesque and fruitful spots in the world and was, perhaps, more to be envied than pitied in his exile...
...WHAT PRICE TARIFF...
...The movie sharps ought to get what is "registered" by the ex-Kaiser's face, as he reads such news in his Holland retirement...
...Nay, says Sec'y Kellogg, that would destroy the protection American manufacturers have against dumping of French made, goods on our domestic market...
...i Now, when a cause involving constitutionality gets into the hands of a galaxy of sincere railroad lawyers, it wends its weary way to and through the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Willett Randall, pheasant farmer, has seen a red bantam mother tackle the big gosha.wk...
...Wise Kellogg, who knows that the tariff advantage consists in having the bulge on the other fellow...
...Under the demand for furs, the rarer and finer-coated fur-bearing creatures are disappearing, and up go prices on hides which woman has, until recent years, scorned to wear...
...MAKINGS OF A CODE GEN...
...But, at once, Argentina is confronted by that old, hot question, "shall the nation do it for the nation, or shall it be left to private initiative...
...Schmitt found almost every imaginable plant growing on Juan Fernandez, including many fruit trees of widely different varieties...
...In the South, musk-rat farming is already a prosperous industry...
...Schmitt brought with him thousand of specimens which adequately prove that Crusoe spent his shipwrecked days in one of the garden spots of the world...
...Kellogg...
...make the profiteers pay the cost in blood and money...
...rates on fruits moving from the Pacific coast eastward, such rates becoming effective on Oct...
...France admits German goods at lower tariff duties than American...
...I do not choose to run," advises Mr...
...Look at Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua and others, whose richest oil deposits were taken over by foreign capitalists...
...BEGIN to get seriously interested in the Franco-American trade war...
...If stealing and lying are wrong and illegal between men, why not between nations ?" The answer lies in the fact that codes, power and plans of procedure often are controlled by oligarchies—certain organized, concentrated "interests...
...What do you think those Germans do, under such circumstances...
...Verily, it appears up to Argentina to decide whether she shall directly control her national career, or look like Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and such...
...Today's market prices for cat's hide are 10 to 30 cents, 60 cents for pure black ones...
...Germany is learning this, while several of her neighbors still worship Mars, the destroyer, neglecting Seth, the hired man...
...Thousands of lobsters, crabs, shrimp and other marine fauna were in evidence and animals of many kinds were abundant...
...The black-breasted Red Game Bantam is such a. good bird mother that the hen is much used-for hatching on pheasant farms...
...Says Senor Luis Colombo, president of Argentina's Industrial Union: "The nation that lacks oil cannot have army, or navy, or national credit...
...What to do, Mr...
...American exporters squeal and Washington sends a protest to Paris...
...The lone wolf is not very dangerous and he is, in fact, a coward...
...Coolidge...
...Application of either such retaliation would surely sour France, German and the British...
...Maybe, one reason is that the circumambient atmosphere is becoming so almighty sour...
...PERSHING, in his speech at Paris said: "Men are wondering why the code of honor that prevails among individuals cannot be made to operate between governments...
...To promote one code of honor among governments, make the "interests" which, in the final analysis, govern, accountable...
...If they would have war to promote their stealing or aggression, conscript them and their dollars...
...SAFETY IN BALDNESS THE women are doing it, with their little "vogues...
...No chicken will battle for its young as this bantam does...
...At least that is the opinion of Dr...
...For one thing, our system of government and justice has got to be protected against unconstitutional relief of farmers and other growers...
...The war having made them shed their militarism, they actually cancel their fall army maneuvers, so that the farmers may have laborers...
...Well, the American tariff act empowers President Coolidge to slap 50 per cent retaliatory duties or a complete embargo on such offenders as France...
...and, a lot of fruit or other stuff is apt to spoil on your hands, it" you don't ship it at rates regulated by the railroads...
...And, the railroad lawyers will attend to this...
...FROM SWORD TO SICKLE IN Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein the soil is so water-logged that harvesting machinery cannot be used and crops must be cut by hand...
...But, running with the pack, he will dare and do 'most anything...
...AT THE BAR OF JUSTICE AFTER all the whooping, legislating, vetoing and platform making, perhaps it is unconstitutional to help the farmer, or other growers...
...Last year, a Denver company bought over $80,000 worth of South Dakota jack rabbit hides and two new companies to deal in rabbit "fur" have just been organized, in Idaho...
Vol. 19 • October 1927 • No. 10
