According to a certain party in this country who have axes to grind, Japan will be read; for war, years. Peculiarly, the scare is. be-credited to a British publica tion which deals with air matters, The Jupanese mean to. control the Pacific; they will control the Pacific through the air; the world docs not know, but Japan is setting ready and will succeed America is not ready in three yours to meet that Meet. "Thus runs the general statement, Several years ago. the Japa Government brought oura number of English rt flyers and builders, their people how to build machines and use them, more votes than he would lose from all other faure: combined, America's Prosperity:
Twas interested, 4 good deal of trouble ut that La Follett out flying machiives for The editor of the Brit sh publication referred to is to Ihave said that some of dhe machines the Japanese are "manufacturing machine they recendy Vought {rom the tae an
German builders, Dut" they are impoverished.
The oral income of) specializing. in the "one man, one the country ix $20,000,000,000, and tomb, light niachines."
These no less than six-tenths of that vast planes are reported to be terrific amount is distributed in wages to ly swift, "that could be sent out those who corn less than $2,000 clouds like mosquitoes." per annum 'Americane hold 72 Thix sounds" something Vike th rirance policies, for 55 pilotless plane that your rea billion' dollars. No. less than' 50,- may be aware the British Gover: 000,000 Americans tive in their own homes—I have no means of telting ment is interested in to the poi at the moment how this compares making considerable exper mentation. with Great British, but Tam aura that a very much smaller percent-According to the assertions made fuge than one-half of the popd here, Japan hax now the World's tion inthe British isles own' the second biggest fighting air fleet, houses they live in. All the farm That may or may not be true; land. of this country f+ divided personally I believe that it is. But among 3,800,000 farmers. T find in this country, and expecially up that the railways of America are und down this coast, there owned by something ike 2,000,000 People, and half-a-million share-believe anything other than that school why refuse holders own the telephone and tele-Japan means tom: eeaph companies. "Ownership America at some time in the he" electric Hight companies future when she ix ready. The Aivided among a million and a. halt recen Japanese—leyristation people, and, according to a state-naturally does not help matters, mont that stems (o be authorita it would be better for all Tust.siear 250 electric if the facts could be panies sold 3,500,000 shai widely disseminated, for if Japan ployees. Turning to a is believed to be building at the Avene of finance, T found that last feverish pace the war fanatic year 13,000,000 people put 123 Ddildeelures she is, there ix no doubt. lions of dollars more in the any 1&6] that America will go and do like-accounts. than they withdrew—though this seems so stupendous to be incredible. Moreover, loss than the per dent, of the manutactared In view of the rapidity with which reduc of this enuntry are made your Shanst electric Wepariment has grown of Into years, yeo may be interested in a Folletic had hoped to have a knowing that the growth of Calingiold among the transporta. fornia's electrification goes ahead tion workers of the country, but by leaps and bounds, This state! they do not like the way he speaks produces: es more of their improvidence. For I see, electricity per fant thun from a recent report of the "Atlan: Great Britain, The industry was tie Monthly" that the Amalgamated established in Great Britain, of Association of Railway Workers long before it was taken up. has now a surplus of same $0,000,- lifornia, but in Great Britain showing the United Mine Workers of America had on deposit in Indianapolis over a million dollara and the dues of the union bring in A quarter of a million dollars monthly. In eight months from the first of the present year the Amalgamated Clothing Workers 'Showed a tenfold increase in deposits. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers now controls: over $10,000,000 through the nine banks in' which it is interested. it has got into the hands of municipal ities, and now, while Great Britain produces 134' kilowatt hours per inhabitant, the per capita production in California is 1.310 kilowatt hours per inhabitant, Moreover, the percentage of California families supplied with electricity ix more than double that of the families of the United States receiving such se!
The figures are $4 for and only 45 for the United States a whole.
And I hear thet a new labour bank, recently opened in New York, took' $5,000,000 the first day nnd.
any could wot get near the receiv 1g windows.
"Straw" votes are giving La Folette an advantage in Wisconsin, while Coolidge is overwhelmingly carrying Washington, Oregon, C: fornia, the Dakotas, Minnesota,
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