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Show This Week by Arthnr Brisbane Earth's Biggest Bridge Killing as a Pleasure One Kind of Freedom To Fly Mt. Everest . From this depression will come many things much needed, and in the long run more Important than the depression. Our Government, tn its process of "shoveling out millions" finances many useful enterprises. en-terprises. It will buy $62,000,000 of California bonds to help finance a bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, which will be the biggest big-gest bridge in the world. Six thousand men will be employed em-ployed directly on the bridge, 6,000 more indirectly, in industries supplying materials and equipment. equip-ment. The total cost will be $70,000,-000. $70,000,-000. Long after this depression is forgotten that bridge will be serving people from all over the United States, and paying its wav. Four gentlemen of the West, bored by life's dullness, bought two lions from a bankrupt circus, planning to turn them loose in a big heavily timbered tract of land, there to enjoy the pleasure of hunting and killing them. Citizens of that region object, saying the lions might escape and live to kill on their own account. The Miami Herald calls this "mighty nimrod" expedition "asinine." "as-inine." You would have a poor opinion of four lions if they caught two men and turned them loose to hunt and kill them, especially es-pecially if the lions didn't intend to eat the men. And the four men have all the advantages. They can climb trees, lion's can't. And in addition they can kill a lion " at 200 or more yards. The lion must bite or scratch. Bad as it is, the brutality of men in dealing with animals is mild compared with man's brutality brutal-ity toward his own kind when he has power over them. In Florida, you may drive an automobile legally without taking out a license and paying for the privilege of using your own car. Florida's strange theory is that if a man owns an automobile he has a right to drive it without anybody's any-body's permission. It is a pleasure to mention this, in a country where everything is taxed, house, income, personal property, real estate, profits, if you make any. If politicians in the past had been as ingenious as those of today, to-day, you would require a license to push your baby carriage, a license li-cense plate for the baby carriage and a license for the baby. The Marquess of Clydesdale, energetic en-ergetic young member of the British Brit-ish Commons, tells his constituents they must excuse him while he flies his plane over the top of Mount Everest, earth's highest peak. He thinks he may bring back information useful to mountair climbers if they must struggle up on foot, also hopes to increase British prestige, especially in India. In-dia. If Hindus know that an Englishman English-man has actually been flying over and around the sacred "unconquerable" "uncon-querable" mountain they will b impressed. Nebraska reports a return of the prairie hen. Once so numerous as to be also a pest, the "prairie chickens" had practically disappeared. disap-peared. Two men on horseback would drag a long wire between them along the prairie brush, a third man walking behind them slaughtering the birds as they flew up. Better than Scotch grouse, partridge or any other game bird, the prairie hen could be brought back In millions with a little common com-mon sense. A letter written by Benjamin Franklin in 1768 reveals the interesting in-teresting fact that the wisest of the early Americans believed in taking air baths. The "sun bath" had not yet arrived. "I find it agreeable to my constitution con-stitution to bathe in cold air. I rise early and sits in my chamber without any clothes whatever, for half an hour." Franklin's remedy for insomnia was to have a second bed always ready and move to the second bed to change the mental attitude in case of sleeplessness. President Hoover has a twelve point program ' and Governor Roosevelt a twelve point program. Before stopping to consider Senator Sena-tor Borah's abbreviated four point program, you might like to hear about the most bitterly disappointed disap-pointed man in all our depression. His name is Robert Reidt, his business predicting disaster. He had arranged positively for the world to end October 11 and was not guessing, for he had "checked the book of Revelations" with numerology and astrology, and it worked out perfectly. But the world did not end. New England's textile industry, already in a bad way, will not rejoice re-joice in the news that cotton mills in the South, a comparatively recent re-cent creation, used in the last year more than 4,000,000 bales of cotton, almost equaling the consumption con-sumption of all other American mills combined, according to the Manufacturers' Record. Some of the largest rayon plants In the world recently installed in the South increase its dominating strength in the textile field. Since 1925 the number of spindles installed in-stalled in the South has increased 1,500,000 which now passes 74 per cent of the nation's active spindles. Mills next to the cotton fields, with cheap labor plentiful, form a powerful combination. j |