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Show This Week (l ARTHUR BRISBANE j " Comfort for Dry i vTh World Will Lst j freedom of the Skies ! Happy Burro Prohibitionists will find comfort in Je' Pennsylvania election. Recent wet Wk4 dry "polls seemed to Indicate that whole country li wet and longing r beer. Gifford Plnchot ran for governor gov-ernor of Pennsylvania as an ardent dry ud won. There Is a difference be-. be-. iween straw voter and real votes. ) ' ! ' ' . . The Literary . Digest wet-dry poll Usecvers that 4J State are moderately: moderate-ly: wet,; I dripping wet, 6 bone dry. To repeal ' the - prohibition amendment amend-ment would ; require tie votes of 36 Itatee. If the attempt la ever made It will be Seen that of those 43 "moist" lute, half will vote against repeal. Mr. Doran, prohibition commlsslon-w, commlsslon-w, finds the prohibition problem based m the, fact yiat "people are willing to ay 10 tor 15 Vents' worth of sucker whlsky.l . "Bucker whisky," says Mr.: Doran. Is put 1 special bottles, corked with if ed corks burned with the right mark, labeled with saltwater-stained labels, packed. In . saltwater-stained burlap, ind sold to icountry clubs as "Just off (be boat." ;V . Here Is comfort. Worry no more tbout the world coming to an. end. L Canadian 'scientist, saya the sun Is bout 10,000,000,000 years old and will last at least":,; 10,000,000,000 years longer. Ten thousand million years Is l long time. ' While the ;sun, 'laits the earth will . tst.-.Th human race may be partially jr completely , wiped out at Intervals, . compelled to begin all over again,. Working Its. way up from microscopic creatures floating in salt water. . We have, by the way, a new ancestor, ances-tor, nothing less than a fish fossil, with i hinged neck, that lived about 200,000,-IM.' 200,000,-IM.' years ago. He was found near the city , of' Buffalo, N. .Y., where he used to swijirwhen the northern part of the UBlted States' wma covered with water. Now; we - hive hinges all the way lows our. necks and all the way down out" spines to the last Joint,, the os eofxsyx, all. w .have left of a tall we ,' carried . around. Saace permitted the Oraf Zeppelin to s(I over all her West Indian colonies, colon-ies, except one place on the Island of Martinique. f Sfttaln gave permission to fly over Brttlsh Caribbean territory. That ' nonsense 'about giving other aiIoDs.: ppimlsslon . to use , the air should end. . Anybody can . use the tTetkf '.waterl-r' and do what he plMs .on '1C eight- miles out,. The other oceaa, the alr; soon to be more ' to'pVtaftt should be similarly regu- j lated, anybody allowed to use it any- I where; 'one-mlleror' two miles up. In-' , ternatlonal law should settle that. j tir seventeen seconds twenty men wftli.' parachutes' Jumped from a' twin motored' Curtis; Condor, a new world record.', '-. ' '' The Interesting. Jumper was Armand Llsotte.iewsreel photographer. He sat on the wlhg of an airplane, photographing photo-graphing the Jumpers; theft he Jumpedt pillled the string' of his parachute and, sailing ..comfortably downward, cdn-Unued, cdn-Unued, taking pictures of the Jumpers. f H,enry Bushmeyer, last to Jump, passed the others by dropping several thousand feet before pulling the string. ".:...! ' - T An old .donkey that worked In Colorado Colo-rado .mines so long that few could remember, re-member, when1 he started. Is dead at last , lie. was worked until he couldn't work any more, or even eat. Then they shot him. Now he is to be "honored" with a memorial, built, of ore samples from all tb,, mine In' which he worked. .''' i' ' :A touching picture. U will be appre-cl(ed appre-cl(ed by many old two-legged workers. work-ers. Including white oollar men, superannuated' super-annuated' bank clerks and others. They are less fortunate than the old mine burro! Nobody builds a monument monu-ment to them and nobody shoots them when they can no longer earn a 11 v-lng.;They v-lng.;They are turned adrift. Nature, encouraged, works wonders. . In .1892 the United States established estab-lished a herd of 1.S00 reindeer In Alaska. Alas-ka. 'They have1' grown to more than 200,000. bead. The Canadians are establishing herdt in their vaat northern territory. One patch, of 15,000 square miles east j of :the Mackenste river delta will sup- ' ply , graslng for. 250,000 reindeer and provide food for natives, suffering be-caue-of game destruction. ; . A Gold 8tar, mother, aged 8t years. starts for Europe to visit the grave of j hr;step-son, disdaining the offer of a nutse, perhaps because she comes from California, where you don't grow old. ,Sbe told the young officer who wel- , eomed, her to New York to show her j thevwhole otty before she west on the ship". He. did. ' 8be goes abroad for three reasons: to" see : her step-son's grave, to see Par.ls before she dies, and. said she, "tVeeMf ' those French vintages sre Hftfjbi iS-Hft'ey- say." iTb.at , statement about the French rfntsges will be offensive to our authorities. auth-orities. The lady has sailed or steps might have been taken to leave her at home, 1C two, r Um 5ra |