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Show I BRISBANE THIS WEEK Find Comfort in Greece The British Wake Up ISew Civilization? I Fremont Older Americans, with comparatively small troubles, may find comfort In reading about ... , v,t,-o1j. v.. -, G reece, where government airplanes air-planes are bombing bomb-ing government battleship s, seized by rebels. From the Aver-off, Aver-off, pride of the Greek navy, "flames rose high" when a 250-pound baby bomb struck her deck. What would happen if a 5,000- ... ,, pouna o o m o Arthur Brisbane struck a ship? Ancient names taking yon back to school days are scattered through Greek civil war reports. Venizelos, a true Greek patriot, supporting the revolution, dwells on the little island is-land of Crete, where the Minotaur, half human, half bull, used to live and devour youths and maidens from Athens. In this world of trouble, something some-thing must explode somewhere. Ramsay MacDonald tells the commons that Germany's military activity compels Britain to extend her boundaries of "imperial air protection" pro-tection" to the banks of the Rhine. Armies of men mean nothing. Floating Float-ing ships mean little. A while ago Lord Rothermcre, warning his country usefully, as his brother, Lord Northcliffe, did in the big war, was telling the British that they must have at least 5,000 fighting planea. His advice, at first ridiculed, ridi-culed, Is now taken seriously and Britain will have the planes. Old American methods that have built up this country, such as It Is, are called out of date by leading lead-ing minds In Washington. Mr. Richberg, supposed to bo closest to the President in thought, tells a Miami audience "the World war marked the passing of a civilization." civ-ilization." What kind of civilization civiliza-tion will take Its place? With all possible respect for professors pro-fessors and reformers, you wonder If they can, offhand, manufacture a better one. The death at seventy-eight of Fremont Fre-mont Older, for more than fifty years a courageous fighting newspaper news-paper man In California, recalls Victor Hugo's words: "The death of the just man Is like the end of a beautiful day." Fremont Older's life, character and work were worthy of his Impressive Im-pressive stature and benign expression. expres-sion. It may be said of him, as was said of Gladstone, that "his heart was ever with the weak and miserable poor." Every good cause found a defender in him; the most miserable convict, released from prison, might find a friend In him. There Is a heaven, of course, and Fremont Older Is there. If there were no heaven, his character and merit would "make It necessary to invent one." Alabama voted dry, stands with Kansas, one of the two dry states of the Union. Northern racketeers and bootleggers must not hastily conclude that Alabama offers a paradise of profit. First. Alabama knows how to make corn whisky at a price per gallon that would discourage any bootlegger; second, the men of Alabama are not as- long suffering as men of New York. Racketeers would find Alabama Is bad climate for their health. Paris and American dressmakers tell woman that she must now dress (n a fashion "revealing the outlines and curves of the human form." To know exactly what the outlines of the human form are, take a walk through the streets of Miami near public or private bathing benches. You will see strolling to their homes, as free from care or self-consciousness self-consciousness as little birds, hundreds hun-dreds of ladies, some tall and thin, a majority short and fat, Willi literally lit-erally nothing on from the waist up that could not be replaced by two half coconut shells fastened to the chest with a string around the buck of the neck, and below the waist a wisp of material that would make Eve's skirt of leaves look like a ball dress. Such costumes are unwise "salesmanship." "sales-manship." The old-fashioned muslin dress down to the ankle, up to the neck, aroused romantic interest and uncertainty. On an Island in the Pearl river, Inhabitants of a Chinese fishing village vil-lage dreaded and disliked a small Settlement where 21 lepers lived nearby. A dispatch from Hongkong says the villagers have solved their problem by a massacre of the 21 lepers, lep-ers, followed hy the destruction and burning of their settlement That shocks us now, but such barbarity bar-barity was once the rule. The old were killed and sometimes eaten In primitive days. Kind FfntMrfK Syndicate, Ino. W.N'U service. |