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THE UNITED AMERICAN
close the account of the funded debt. These certicates drew
interest at 5% and 4% per cent, and were paid in full with
interest, making a total payment to France of $9,176,796.
JULY 1925
sources of revenue where those of less practical perspicacity
are missing many a golden opportunity.
EVERYWHERE BEAUTY
If Mr. Cannon is correct it is certain that those
By Martin F. Tupper
who claim that the United States owes it to France to
There
is
beauty
in
the
rolling clouds, and placid shingle beach,
cancel the debt France now owes this country, as a
In feathery snows, and whistling winds, and dun electric skies:
recent
war,
should
begin
to
revise
their
result of the
There is beauty in the rounded woods, dank with heavy foliage,
opinion.
In laughing fields, and dinted hills, the valley and its lake:
America’s claim against France is just and right, There is beauty in the gullies, beauty on the cliffs, beauty in the
sun and shade,
America did not evade its financial obligations to In rocks and rivers, seas and plains—the earth is droned in
France and there is no good reason why France should
beauty.
evade its honest debt to America at this time, now
that the position of debtor and creditor has been
RADIANCE OF THOUGHT
reversed.
A dreamer dropped a random thought; ‘twas old and yet
‘twas new;
The penalty of war rests today as heavily upon
the victor as upon the vanquished. France must A simple fancy of the brain, but strong in being true.
shone upon the genial mind, and lo! its light became
learn this little lesson as well as all other nations have It
A lamp of life, a beacon ray, a monitory flame;
had to learn it.
The thought was small! its issue great! a watch-fire on the hill;
If France can get rid of its war malady, pay more It sheds its radiance far adown and cheers the valley’still.
attention to its domestic peace and prosperity, which
— Clarence Mackey.
is conducive to happiness and individual and national
ability to pay honest debts, and become less interested
in the Riffs and its present policy of foreign agression,
then, and then alone, will French thrift again be able
to cope with the retirement of the obligations of the
nation. The french war lords should be due for retire
ment pretty soon or they will stir up more trouble
and—more debt.
While some people are developing a taste for
extreme make-ups in uniforms or garments others are finding
it to their liking to discard every vestige of covering. Members
of the “Society of Eden,” men and women who believe in “the
simple life,” recently offended the inhabitants of the neighbor
hood of Rapperswill forest, near Zurich in Switzerland,
because of their indifference to the conventional customs of our
day. In this forest they were seen walking nude among the
trees. For this unseemly conduct they were arrested and brought
into court. Defending their simple and clothesless mode of life in
the forest these men and women of many nationalities and social
stations claimed “the earth” as their home. The judge who
fined them for their conduct, warned them against “playing
Adam and Eve in public” around Rapperswill. Mentally the
members of the Eden Society and the members of the KKK
Society have much in common—they don’t give a tinkers d....
for propriety or the feelings of the rest of the human family.
If the gullible Ford fans are ready to make
Henry Ford, or his son Edsel, their banker they have now
the opportunity, for Ford et al is back of the Guardian Trust
Company of Detroit which opened its doors in July. A Branch
bank of the same name was opened simultaniously in New
York. Ford’s face on the American dollar should improve
the coin and if the government could be persuaded to change
the timeworn inscription “In
T" God we Trust” to read “In
Ford we Trust” it would help to remind us of Ford long
after we have forgotten the tin-can rattles that are housed
behind a certain radiator crown bearing the imposing imprint
“Ford.”
The French are keen for penetrating the veil of
the future. They established the first national forecasting
service in France in 1855 and have ever since been giving
altogether too much time to the doping out of future possi
bilities. Much of the post-war forecasting of the “frenchies”
has been inflated and shown them to be in a highly nervous
state more influenced by superstition and fear than by cold
logic and calm reason.
Thirteen million gold marks (about $3,000,000)
flow into the coffers of the German post office, annually,
in the form of radio license fees. Practical people find
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