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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane No, No Cash Money Won Their Reward To Discourage Murder No Surprise Possible According to solemn agreemen', made between "gallant allies," which the British call themselves and us, the Unl ed States should receive from Great Britain fcfa ARTHUR BRISBANE f pi 1 -T7a sum of $360,000,000. Another considerable con-siderable sum an account of "war debts of honor" is due frcm Prance Will these amounts be paid to maintain, spotless, the honor of nations that borrowed in their troubles? They will not be paid. Nothing will be paid. Three hundred and sixty millions of dollars are more-Important more-Important than "spa'less ho'ior." To the- announcement that she would pay nothing Great Britain frankly adds that "it -vould be useless, and therefore unw.se," even ev-en te attempt negotiations Little Finland, on the contrary, announces her hVentiOn to pr.y the installment. N&pooleon called England "a nation of shopkeep3rs," which annoyed the English anri was inaccurate. Shopkeepers makn it a habit to pay their debts in order to keep the'ir credit. Two life convicts have earned freedom by submitting lo medical experiments, with "tuberculos's vaccine" or "ptreventivie." The "preventive" wi'h which the doctors doc-tors have experimented on Carl Ericson and Mike Schmidt for months past, is not a tuberculosa cure. It prevents those inoculated from contracting tuberculosis, as ordinary vaccination prevents contracting con-tracting smallpox . Doctors of the National Jewish hospital who have worked on the new serum for 15 years past, warned the convicts that they would risk their lives In the experiment, ex-periment, now proved successful. Both braved death in hope of possible recovery of liberty as the reward. They have won the reward. re-ward. On both sides of the Atlantic attempts are made to discourage murder. President Roosevelt takes the lead here, summoning all forces of the country. state, national and lecal to fight private crime, bandi'ry, traffic in narcotics, lynchings, kidnapping, kid-napping, plain ordinary murder. Private crime worries us here. Doctor Dafoe is in New York, first visit, and surprised reporters report-ers note that he shews no amazement amaze-ment when gazing on skyscrapers and canon-like streets. The reporters need not lave been surprised. Doctor Dafoe is the man who introduced the five Dionne quintuplets to the w rid, and kept them alive, breaking all records, after ihey got hare. Who.': ycu have ushered five little girls into the world, one af-er af-er the other, y u can no longer be surprised by a mere skyscraper. D'ctor Rosenbe."h, book special-1 1st, thinks New York City needs a buiding devoted exclusively the works of Shakespeare. It is a shame, says he, that 'Vehciar ' have to go 3.000 miles to fee a quarto of Haml'. i.' " IVsrtunateiv, they can gel a better Hamlet, than that "quarto" in any good bcKk stCTe for cne dollar. To do justice to Shakespeare, ycu migh have one building devoted de-voted entirely to books written about Hamlet, who never lived. Rev. Joseph A. Davis, colored, sixly-five years old, very eloque t preacher, who operates a garage between Sundays, says he is the New York representative of Senator Sena-tor Huey Long's "share-the-weai'h" idea and already has 10,000 members willing to help share the wealth in Harlem. He's only waiting word frrm Senator Long to start in earnest. "Me and the senator will take this town like an epidemic," says he. "Epidemic" is what the French would call Le met juste ("Just the right word") . Fifty men were arrested at a cock fight near Lc$ Angeles. Six hundred watched the fighting. Two fighting roosters were named Greta Garbo and Marlene Deit-rich, Deit-rich, singularly inappropriate names, if ycu know anything a-bout a-bout fighting rocs'ers. The extraordinary thing is that adult Americans, not semi-savago: Malays, should actually enjey Watching roosters driving steel needles into each other's brains. Dr. Leo Wolman, in'elligent, level-headed young man, with Nicholas Nich-olas Kelly and Richard L Byru, is in Detrcit to see that employees in the au'omoblle industry have a chance, "wihout fear of intimidation, intimida-tion, to elect their own represen a-tives a-tives to bargain with employers." If this means that the automobile automo-bile industry thrcugh the power of the United States governmen is to be put in charge cf organized labor leaders, the experiment will be interesting. |