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ROOSEVELTIAN REVOLUTION

President Roosevelt seeks to impose a drastic remedy in ask-

torship," "the doom of the State" or as any other fearsome bogey, but we doubt whether the President's judgment courage will be found at fault.

* * *

Hirsute Diminuendo

Baldness, like the common cold, looks like defeating the wise men of science to the end of time. Indeed, some of those wise men are among the baldest members of the population, which is as it should be.

Though the majority of men and in ing Congress to authorise go bald sooner or later radical reform of the machinery these days, despite the hatless sooner of the United States Supreme cult, it is generally

baldness Is Court. The steps proposed are rather than later but one stride removed from still looked upon as something direct changes in the Constitu- that should not be, à reproach to tion, at which the President the victim thereof, to his family baulks; and wisely baulks, real and ancestors, and to the com- ising that the one is virtually munity in which he dwells. sacrosanct in the eyes of the

efforts have

American public, while there is Though various widespread feeling that the been made to represent it as Supreme Court has latterly been evidence of superior intellec- carried, perhaps without its de, tuality, that trick has never yet sire or consent, into fields out- deceived anyone. No one rises side its legitimate scope of in his own or in anyone else's operation.

estimation by having a hairless scalp.

The wearing of wigs, scal-

To assess the situation accur

The whole thing is outrage- ately, the President's recom- mendations need to be read ously unaesthetic. A massed collection of petrol stations or of against the background of re- cent American politics. Large grain silos is not uglier than volumes of legislation have pass- rows of bald heads, especially if ed through Congress, through they be seen from above. the House and the Senate, have received the President's sanction and have forthwith been thrown Pettes, toupees, and suchh

camouflage ought to be obliga- out by the Supreme Court as "unconstitutional," at the in-tory on all victims of cranial

denudation. stance of powerful private inter- ests with money to carry on

An American expert has been litigation indefinitely. Most of the laws thus summarily censor declaring that there is no cure ed by the judicial body have or preventive of baldness. De- been the essential constituents spite various methods that have of the Rooseveltian New Deal been tried to check its ravages, policy. His most important it is still on the increase Pre- thing schemes for social betterment, sumably that deadly for State control of the nation's which we call the pace of life is economic resources, for intro- responsible for this also. ducing a higher wages and

shorter working week system, Even a healthy scalp drops have been nullified in spite of about forty hairs a day. The the fact that they have come scalps that have begun to drop into being with full legislative 42 or 45 a day are already doom- and administrative authority. ed: nothing on earth can save

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it is that President now seeks

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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

NAZA VIEW: The Comintern now feels that the time has come for lighting a fire in the Far East.

The Boersen Zeitung.

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The Dail

frect FORMULA:

IEW- The intrigues

imperialists

China

gle

world that

his problem. But travels is likely to be world at obably guaging the peace The Duke of Kent.