The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 24

PAGE 24 SUNDAY, SEPT. 27, 1931 Published daily by The Sun Company of San Bernardino, California, corporation, Robert C. Harbison, Jamea A Guthrie, Harry S. Webster, Thirty-eighth year. Robert C.

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Q. Mclmtyre More Children Attend Schools France and U. S. Financial Allies United States and France now- share jointly the responsibility of curing; the in Illiteracy in this country is slowly but steadily decreasing. School attendance figures indicate one of the ways by which this is being accomplished.

In 1930, according to Government statistics, of all the children in the United States between the ages of 7 and 16, inclusive, 93.9 per cent attended school at ltast some nart of the vear. For the ternational financial ills of the world. In recent years there has been an increasing suspicion in the United States of the selfishness of France. It would be best that we now put that suspicion behind us. The financial collapse of both Germany and Enpland leaves France and the United States as the two great creditor nations faced with the responsibility of restoring; order out of international finance chaos.

We will have to work together. France was not greatly concerned with the financial plight of Germany. It was not as heavily involved financially in the affairs of Germany as the United States i and England. It may have been France's hesitancy in heartily cooperating with President Hoover's proposal for the one year's debt paying- holiday in war debts that reduced the effectiveness of the i proposal. France did ret seem to real- i ize that Er.c'.ar.d was so heavily involved shows now seen are a parade of women undressing up and down aisle runways to complete nude-ness.

Also blackout sketches that would hang heads in the most shameless brothels. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW has become a tiresome bore. His epigrams and odd outlook upon life used to be topics to brighten dull dinners. But In late years he seems to have become publicity mad. Anything for a laugh.

That has been the finish of many capable comedians. But more than anything else Shaw has be'en laid low by his feeling of superiority. Such a feeling leads first to arrogance and inevitably to stagnation. A great crltio recently and fittingly observed: "Shaw now automatically eays the same things that would be said by a low grade small town wit." SHORT shavings: Flora Zlabelle, Raymond Hitchcock's widow, has returned to the stage. "Shine On, Harvest Moon," Nora Bayes" old song, is having a big sale.

Josef von Sternberg wears a beret. Newport, R. I. police talk like British actors Robert Garland, dramatio critic, sees a good show a second time on hlghts off. Two office buildings, Just recently erected, haven't a single tenant.

French line ships serve table wine free. (Daddy) Browning has his name in the biggest lights on Broadway. NEW YORK, Sept. 26. Things I would not care about: Being one of the prominent New York bankers these days.

Attending a "personal appearance" of Polly Moran. Seeing another performance of the "Band Wagon." Telling King George a funny story. Watching Beatrice Lillle miss a step and sing off key In another revue. Owning Peruvian government bonds. Spending a season at Newport Catering to the jewel wants of Peggy Joyce.

Trying to get a job In France as an American citizen, Looking at the finest ballet In the world. Doing Hal Le Roy's dance every warm evening. Selling imported motor cars this season. Collecting bills for tailors. (Or anyone else.) Opening a Jewelry store for the "Xmas rush." Most radio programs.

Being responsible for the present tariff laws. Reading Vallee's mash notes. The nomination for President on the Republican ticket next election unless something happens In a hurry. Being a child with no plice to play but New York sidewalks. ONE of the strangest business reversals of the panic was that of the shoe repairing industry.

It was believed it would naturally ages between 7 and 13, the showing was better, being 93.3 per cent. School laws raising the compulsory attendance ages have helped to bring this about. So, too, have continuation schools and the growing community will toward education. This school year, 1931-32. should be even better.

There is a definite "back-to-school" movement which will help much in spite of the fact that its purpose is two-sided to promote education and to keep children out of jobs which adults need. In a Nebraska community teachers have subscribed to a fund to provide for children whose parents could not afford to send them to school this year. In other states and cities clubs and associations of various kinds are making special effort to provide schooling for every child. In time attendance may approach 100 per cent. When every child in the land is assured the schooling he needs, it will be easier to take care of the adult illiterates and to reduce their numbers through education.

A lot of people who are kicking themselves now because they didn't buy stocks at the bottom will be kicking themselves after a little because they didn't take advantage of bargains in automobiles, radio sets, furniture, clothes and other commodities. in the German rizar.cial situation tnat Erg-land itself would become involved. But with Er.r.ar.d involved France is very much interested, for its finances are closely interwoven with those of England. The man in the street to whom foreign finance may be so much Greek suddenly has discovered that he, too, is involved. We have preached our independence of European affairs and now discover that we are in up to our eyebrows.

The war debt3 bv themselves mean sufficient but prosper. People would not buy shoes but they would have old ones repaired until skies cleared. Yet a chain of more than 100 shops plopped Into bankruptcy and scores of others have been forced to close. -7-OU," writes Ex-Customer's A Man, "have been hitting only the obvious side of the giant investment business swindle In there is involved about $4,000,000,000 in other debts bonds of foreign states, cities and corporations that are held in the United States. Many of these bonds are listed in the legal reserve of the big financial institutions of New York.

The market price of these bondshas been depreciated by the European financial turmoil. Thus the whole nation is involved. Timely Views France and the United States hold three-fourths of the gold of the world. And gold may be supplanted as the standard for money. Gandhi Sets England by the Ears If France and the United States must By Will Rogers- Clayland Morgan and his wife are motoring in France.

Sam Gold-wyn enjoys the stories about his dialect. Incidentally, he hires most of the boys who tell them. Polly Moran was born Pauline Therese In Chicago. Gene Markey and Ashton Stevens exchange insulting letters weekly. They are old pals.

Glenn Hunter Is Leonard Bergman's management. One block running off the East 50's from Madison avenue has 29 speakeasies. Black coffee late at night puts Julius Tannen to sleep. John Horgan, managing director of the Slnton In Cincinnati, used to sing on Ohio river show boats. Nick Blair and George White have an apartment together.

Anna Fltzhugh was the late Dave Montgomery's only Fred Stone and his daughter Paula will appear in a Shubert show this winter. Tony Sarg was born in Gautemala and christened Anthony Frederick. A E. Matthews, the English actor, Is 68 years old. Among high pressure security salesmen prospects who took the salesmen's word were known as "Investment Illiterates." And among the widows they defrauded they are now known deservedly as scoundrels.

Many movie atari are professionally through but will not know It until the first of the year. The St. Morltz houses more theatrical celebrities than any other hotel In New York. Eddie Cantor says that on the Boston commons the pigeons are now feeding the people. Edward G.

Robinson was born Emmanuel Goldenburg In Bucharest, Rumania. Frltzl Scheff, on tour, Is under management of her divorced husband, George Anderson. The most hilarious book of the year: Corey Ford's "Cocoanut Oil." solve the problem by working together, then we will have to be less critical of the motives of our partner. There will have to be mutual trust. By DR.

CHRISTIAN F. REISNER (Pastor of Broadway Temple Methodist Church) Society itself is responsible for the creation and glorification of the ganster through social conditions, the stage, motion pictures, tabloid newspapers, magazines and certain types of fiction. Beasts are created by current plays, publications, and permitted and condoned customs and then we wonder why heartless gangsters murder ruthlessly. Remove the spiritual from men and they are only tigers; in Africa they are cannibals. Lewdness Is glorified on the stage and in pictures, while tabloids, magazines and fiction books encourage loose living and exalt the gangster's courage.

Reno divorces are welcomed, moral standards are reduced to a whim, barnyard practices are adopted. Rich people create gangsters rather than unselfishly reject a dangerous appetite. Gangsters are warning symptoms, offshoots of current customs and neglect. There is no panacea to cure them, but a religion that will restore moral health and open men's spirit to God. Newspaper Folks Do this country.

Great New York banks knew a year before the market crash It was coming. Yet they urged trusting customers to hold on, knowing they would be ruined. It was one of the most astounding displays of heartless-ness the world has ever known. And this time the world will not forget. They went too far.

Watch my prediction." A HIGHLY successful New Yorker rates the successful influences in his life as follows: Wife, 25 per cent; love of work, 50 per cent; ambition to be somebody, 15 per cent; efficiency private secretary, 10 per cent. IT Is reported that the talented Katherine Brush's current novel In a weekly magazine and titled "Red Headed Women," resulted in the only circulation rise In that periodical since the panic. Incidentally, Miss Brush was "discovered" by H. N. Swanson, of College Humor.

AFTER viewing filthy burlesque exhibits on Broadway and Forty-second street observers are more than ever convinced of that oft-whispered charge that Earl Carroll was the victim of spite work, induced by the power of rival producers. The burlesque Honor to John E. King Newspaper editors and publishers of Riverside and San Bernardino counties last night honored John E. King, the publisher of the Hemet News, the event marking his fiftieth anniversary in newspaper work. just like a backfield can.

They are fine Boys, and everyone of them are making good as Coaches. That must be a great school. I sometimes wish I had gone there instead of stringing along with Brisbane and going to Oxford, Course I made the Cricket team and knocked a couple of hundred runs In one game one scries. But after all Tea and Cricket dont do you much good when you got to get out and battle Republican made depression. Its all right as long as Democratic Prosperity Is with us why an Oxford diploma will get you by, but when Steel hits a new low, and Radio quits splitting up four for one, why you got to have some real learning.

Going to Claremore this week end. We going to have big blow out. Did you know Claremore has Polo now? You bet your life she has. We got one of the best Military Schools in the west, and they have Government Horses, and a fine bunch of young boys there that can really ride. We will be giving Roawell New Mexico a tough go pretty soon.

In a few years Polo will be as big a sport In schools as Football, and its a great thing for the Horse raisers. Ranchers, Feed raisers, everything. Well will see you at the World Series. So long. Athletics in the World Series dident try to win.

But St. Louis is a glutton for punishment, they are getting ready for another sock in the jaw. I want to make that If I can, I havent seen one of the World Series games in three or four years. I used to have some great friends playing ball In the good old days, Speaker, Walter Johnson, Cobb, Duffy Lewis, Harry Hooper, and a host of others. I never have seen one of these night games.

I just can Imagine how they can get it light enough to see how to play ball but they say its great, and is drawing a lot of people out here. Los Angeles and Hollywood are fighting it out for the Pennant. They call the Hollywood team the "Shieks" out here, and Oscar Vitt another old friend and Ex Detroit Player is their Manager. Football Is coming so fast that its not leaving much news for depression. The Four Horsemen of the great Notre Dame fame have been out here donating their time to the making of a great picture called the Spirit of Notre Dame, Including all the famous Stars of past and present, and one afternoon they did me the great favor of coming up to my little ranch and playing around, riding horses To have devoted oU years 01 one me ALL OF US to the newspaper business is an accomp lishment in itself, but to have attained the success that has been John E.

King as a publisher, an editor and outstanding citizen of his state is indeed a mark of distinc tion. In Hemet, Mr. King's work is best known. There for more than 20 years he has published one of the finest weekly OUR OWN BUSINESS' newspapers in the nation, a publication frequently referred to by newspapermen -New York Times- WELL all I know is just what I read in the papers. With Aimee marrying out here a couple of weeks ago, there just dident leave much else to be said.

They hadent any more than finished saying "I Do" till the breach of promise suits commenced pouring in. Poor Ma Kennedy she hadent got the bridal veil off till old Wives commenced showing up all over the country. It looked like she had married a professional marrier. Well her old "VVhataman" was Just kinder getting their license straightened out when Aimee grabs a Earitone, one of those old Choir loves. Weil then everybody that had ever slept through Church started in saying he had deceived em in some part of the country or the other.

One was a Nurse and she claimed that she was an old flame of his when she wasent nursing. Why dont they let the Woman alone? She does a lot of good with her Church. She is what every Preacher In America wants to be' and is trying to be, and thats a good showman. She has got some kind of a musical show on at her church now, based on the Bible, and this old Boy she married is Pharaoh, and. they got the saee or pulpit all litered up with Bull rushes, and Girls.

But Its good clean wholesome entertainment, if you dont get any religion out of it it keeps you out of some other devilment. Next to Aimee the biggest head-liner lately has been this little fellow Gandl. He just blew into London with nothing on but a Diaper and he has had the whole Eritish Empire bringing sticks out of the water for him. They look on him over in India as almost a second God and I guess he does come nearer living and acting like our Saviour than any one else ever did. He Is different from Aimee, she believes in the Lord but she believes in some luxuries aloig with it.

She don't deny herself anything. While this Gandl he actually lives like our Saviour. He couldent figure out England being so hard up, and yet spending so much money. You know there hasent been a case like that little fellow in our By MARSHALL MASLIN Yesterday I found myself talking about Patsy. Talking about her just as if she'd been like any other little dog that plays about a house and wags her tail frantically and chews up things and scratches the front door and is a great joy and a lovable little nuisance until she learns her manners.

I talked about her in an ordinary tone of voice and explained that Patsy was a little golden-red cocker spaniel who lived in our house for hardly three months and then was killed by an automobile. And I think there was nothing In my voice that revealed how much a family suffered when Patsy died. But as I heard myself talking, I could hardly believe it. If you had told me, months ago, that I'd ever talk so calmly about that pleasant tease who was Patsy, I would have denied it bitterly. And yet, it happened.

I have read many stories about dogs, but I have never read anything that completely describes what a dog can mean to a human being. I have seen people try to make plain what their puppy meant to them, but always they have failed. When they try to communicate the last essence of the wiggling creature to a sympathetic friend, thev miss entirely and thev can only describe The second expression which Mr. Davis gives In homely phrase to the historic opposition to "entangling alliances," and to the various interpretations of the Monroe Doctrine, is that Americans Intend to "mind their own business." But exactly what this business Is will necessarily appear differently a different times. Colonics struggling to their feet must have had a conception of their own business un THE HEAVY BURDEN as a model of small town journalism.

Previously he published newspapers in Iowa, Minnesota and Montana. During the administration of Gov. Friend W. Richardson he served California as the state printer, a task which he handled with efficiency. John E.

King is of the old school of newspapermen. But he has not permitted himself to live in the past. His half century of work has been marked by progress, accomplishments and a sane view of life. His home city of Hemet and Riverside county as a whole is a better place in which to live because of his service. New York Herald-Trlbune- nnrnnses one can lump them In Belter Musicians Are Forecast for the Future their own emotions, their own joy, their own grief.

It was thus with Patsy. 4 People knew about her and when I told them she was dead, so soon, before she had hardly begun to live, they looked sympathetic and they told me of little dogs they, too, had lost. And some said they had never dared to get another dog, and pome said, "Get another dog as soon as possible." One quoted Kipling, who bitterly advised men and women against giving their hearts to a dog to tear. One mentioned Byron, who loved a dog more sincerely than he ever loved a woman. And one quoted Sir Walter Scott.

None of them helped much. When I went home and saw those fiont door scratches that Patsy had made, all of her presence flooded back upon me and I missed her everywhere, in the house and In the garden, and it was almost unbearable to see her empty leah hanging limply on a hook. It made me 1 bitter. An interesting comment on the music In the October number of Foreign Affairs, Mr. John W.

Davis writes on "The Permanent Bases of American Foreign Policy." His article Is largely and fittingly historical. He epitomizes and explains the attitude and motives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and President Monroe, who gave the first impulses and motives to the American conduct of foreign affairs. For the circumstances of their time, principles which they laid down and the purposes which they defined were such as this country obviously needed. But they would have been the first to repudiate the notion that they could foresee the entire future of the United States, or that they could wish to fasten forever upon our Government and our people a policy in the nature of a strait-jacket. Mr.

Davis does not omit to point out variations and modifications which the years have necessarily brought In what Americans long considered the almost sacred original doctrines. Yet the essential spirit and aim have persisted to this day. They may be summarized, as Mr. Davis, in fact, states them, in two main objects. One is that In our national life and development the United States should be "let alone." This Is another way of saying that we, like the French at present, have been much concerned with "security." We have kept our hands off others partly In order to prove to them that we were determined that they should keep their hands off us.

We have looked to our national defense. We have resisted, as we did in the Civil War, even the most covert attempts at foreign intervention. Americans have felt that their nation wus their own, and that they must be allowed to direct Its growth and activity without let or hindrance from ubroad. That has been on admirable and successful pttrt of American foreign policy, and remains unchanged today. like that of Americans today.

A generation of pioneers with vast new territories to explore and settle had a business to engage In very dissimilar from that of a country built up into the greatest creditor-nation of the time. Today our own business has Inevitably become a part of the business of the whole world. This has been, during the past two years, often rather tragically forced upon the attention of Americans, They perceive that they are not and cannot be shut off in a fortunate region of the earth immune to all the financial troubles that afflict othe.r lands. A good part of our own business Is now visibly tied up with the business of Europe and Asia and South America. We are, therefore, not neglecting our own-rather, we nro caring for It nil the more sedulouslywhen we are concerned with what goes on in the great markets of the world, and do everything that wo may be properly called upon to do lo cooperate with them In their struggles against adversity.

To do this has truly become a wise way of minding our own business. Although the most Interesting feature of the British economies is the great slash In the "dole," the precise details of what has been done are a trifle difficult to disentangle from the cabled summaries. Announced as a 10 per cent cut, the actual reduction contemplated must be very much more drastic, for It is estimated that a saving of $129,000,000 In total benefit payments in the full year will be effected, and this comes to nearer one-quarter than one-tenth of the total present payments. The standard rates of benefit have been reduced roughly by a tenth; presumably this slash has been accompanied by very rigid rules as to time through which benefits can be drawn, qualifications for benefit end so on. The figures (provisional) for the fiscal year ended last April 1, show that the unemployment insurance fund paid out $493,000,000 in benefits and expenses.

Against this it received about $145,000,000 in premiums paid by employers and employes. The taxpayer contributed $70,000,000 more In premiums. In addition to that he contributed about $100,000,000 to support the "transitional" benefitsthe "dole" proper which is paid to those Who have not made enough contributions to be regular participants in the insurance scheme. The total of these contributions came to $317,000,000, leaving a deficit for the year of which had to be met by "borrowing" from the Exchequer. The chance of these borrowings ever being repaid Is at present bo nebulous that for practical with the taxpayer's contributions; the result showing that in the last fiscal year the state subsidized its unemployed to the extent of nearly $350,000,000.

The deficit of $175,000,000, when added to those previously accumulated brought the total debt of the fund to $358,000,000 last April 1. The borrowing since then has run at the rate of $5,000,000 a week, indicating that had nothing been done the debt would have stood at more than $600,000,000 by next April. These figures are sufficient to show how little a cut of 10 per cent In total expenditures (that Is, about $50,000,000) would have achieved. What Is actually reported Is a cut of In expenditures and an increase of $50,000,000 (roughly one third of which will come out of the taxpayer) In contributions. This would better the balance by $179,000,000, which Is slightly greater than last year's deficit of $175,000,000.

It will not begin to repay the huge debt already accumulated. Nor Is It clear that It will even balance the fund, for the present fiscal year has been producing larger deficits week by week than did the last, Moreover, the present year Is already nearly half over. As for the coming fiscal year, it will take a marked revival of business to avoid a deficit If economics are only $179,000,000, for the unemployed registers now are larger than they were during 1930-'31. Teacher: What type of water power is known to every man? Pupil: A woman's tears, sir. Answers.

al outlook has recently been made by Walter Damrosch. He believes America will have fewer professional musicians but better ones from now on. He says: The laws of economics are often very cruel. The invention of machinery has frequently acted as a tragic factor In the lives of those who earn a living creating with their hands what a machine can do more cheaply and quickly. It Ik very possible that the wide-spreading of music by Found devices will result In few musicians, but these will be more highly trained and poscssed of greater musical gifts, and what they have to Rive the world can never be replaced by mechanical devices.

A happier prospect even than this of finer professional musicians is his prophecy of fine amateur playing. "People will want to play instruments for their own personal enjoyment, making music their avocation rather than their vocation." When that prophecy is fulfilled it should be a golden age for music in all its phases creation, interpretation, performance and appreciation. lifetime. If he is not sincere then he is the World's best Actor, and say Old England as big as he is Is sho paying some attention to him. Everybody thinks he Is a great man but jimmy Walker and Jimmy had never heard of him.

Gandl is not what you would call a Tammany man. Jimmy got home from his investigation cure, and those dumb Republicans In New York are no nearer getting anything on him than they ever were. They always talk In generalities and not In any specific case where they can prove something. World Series will be on pretty soon and thats when depression will end for about sixty thousand every day. Philadelphia plays St.

Louis as usual. St. Louis dident win for years then they accidentally won one year, and saw what a cinch It was, they have practically kept it up since then. Mont teams when they found out they had to jlay tho But yesterday I heard myself talking calmly about Patsy. She had become a little golden memory in the autumn of a year, just a tiny dog who knew part of a green spring and a golden summer and something of an autumn and never knew a winter and never knew a particle of peevish un-happiness Time, which has Its blessings, had taken away the pain and left only the richer part of memory and because of Time I was able to talk without apparent emotion about that little dead dog.

And now, remembering Patsy, I am grateful because Time can do such things, because Time does that to almost all of our griefs and losses. Because, if Time could not wipe some ef the bitterness from our lives, existence would be intolerable and present Joy would be overwhelmed by all the sadness of the past and the dreaded evils of the future So I am glad and even, in some strange way, grateful because Time has done this to the memory of that lively sweet morsel of life whose name was Patsy. MISTAKEN IDENTITY "Do you know, darling, your eyes glisten like pearls," he murmured to his sweetheart, "Oh, do they? You despicable, two-fneed creature," sho said scornfully. "You promised me faithfully you would have nothing ti) do with any other girls.".