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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Five Little Girls at Once Big Bills Come Back Only Flew the Atlantic Cuba Remembers Mrs. Oliva Dlonne of North Bay, Out., had five children last Sunday and ' "expected" another. She has ten children, her family increased by five girl babies at one birth. Dr. A. U. Dafoe of Callander says: "The five little girls are all well and chirping." This will Interest millions of women wom-en far more than NRA, the Russian-Japanese Russian-Japanese complications or the approaching ap-proaching home-going of congress. Bills of large denomination, from $500 to $1,000 and $10,000, are used rarely In ordinary affairs. When banks began closing and people became frightened, it was observed that bank customers were asking for these big bills in exchange ex-change for checks, and, before long, millions of them disappeared. The federal reserve considers It a good sign that they are coming out from hiding. Just before the bank crisis the amount of big bills in hiding rose to one billion nine hundred millions. Of these large bills, three hundred and fifty millions have recently returned re-turned to the United States treasury treas-ury and to reserve banks, which, according to the federal reserve, indicates in-dicates "better times." Two French flyers, Capt. Maurice Rossi and Lieut. Paul Codos, landed land-ed on Long Island after an attempt to fly nonstop from Paris to California, Cali-fornia, 0,000 miles. The two Frenchmen ar said -to be greatly humiliated by their inability to fly on and reach California, where a glorious reception awaited them. It would seem that flying the Atlantic At-lantic westward, infinitely more difficult than going the other way, is a sufficient accomplishment, considering con-sidering that less than twenty-five years ago Lord Northoliffe was offering of-fering ten thousand pounds to any man that would fly across the little English channel. The day is not far away when men will fly nonstop from Paris to San Francisco as a matter of course, and from anywhere on earth to any other spot on earth. The people and government of Cuba are trying to find four assassins assas-sins accused of attempting to murder mur-der Jefferson Caffery, United States ambassador. The real Cubans, Intelligent In-telligent people, seek no quarrel with the United States. They "remember "re-member the Maine" and what happened hap-pened to Spain after that ship was sent to the bottom. Spain was driven out of Cuba and all the way home across Ihe Atlantic and out of the Philippines as well. Sirs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, an able, energetic and kind-hearted woman, went to Alderson, W. Va., ,to Inspect the federal prison for women and speak to the 400 inmates. For such an address, or any address to any prisoners, the best text Is the well-known well-known remark of the Bohemian John Huss, looking at a poor drunkard drunk-ard In the gutter: "But. for the grace of God there lies John Huss." Mrs. Roosevelt talks over the radio, and for doing so is paid $500 a minute. Others do the same and are paid as much or even more, but Mrs. Roosevelt gives all her radio receipts to charity. Not many of the others do that. Mussolini, observing world-wide preparation for war, and no disarmament, disarm-ament, says, "If I must fight, I must," and gets ready, wastes no time sobbing or sighing. Before 1940, beginning at once, he will spend one thousand million lire on fighting surface ships and the same huge sum on fighting airships. The "Century of Progress" exposition exposi-tion is opened for the second year with a success big enough to please even Chicago. Anything must be big to satisfy Chicago. Already it is apparent that this year's greater and better exposition will eclipse the first year, In attendance attend-ance and in every other way. Ilenry Ford was there to Inspect his new exposition buildings. Before he realized it, half a dozen young Americans, twelve to fifteen years old,-had recognized him, appointed him their guide, without pay, and kept him busy for an hour explaining explain-ing everything to them, while his distracted secretaries tried to remind re-mind him of important business appointments. ap-pointments. Mr. Ford told them: "These boys are more Important. There is nothing serious the matter with a country where the young people peo-ple are Interested In new ideas." Do not fail to visit Chicago s won-derful won-derful "Century of Progress" exposition expo-sition this summer. See what has been done In the past century of progress. See your country, coming and going, and ask yourself what the next century or progress will "cconiplish, when this liuie depression depres-sion slonmeh nolle shall have been forgotten. . Klnt rehires Svm1lo-n(, Ino WNU Servlco. |