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Show way ,.:.m i:u'riT,.!i -WoVe In tiu-niV..v land." Mrs. Semplo Mcl'lierson Huttou la IooUIiik for those lepers, and will wash them, spiritually, whiter than snow She mines I ml. mid-obtalnod, two lit lie love birds to decorate her hotel bedroom. Mr. Huttou. who la "separated." "separat-ed." will think about that, with tears lu his eyes, let us hope. I Miss Texas Gulunn. who has followed follow-ed other paths. Is now preparing a "farewell tour In the HtlcWs." She In tends to start saving souls also, just as soon as she can afford it. And when she stops saving souls, she will cultivate a little bnck garden and show people how to be happy, In a simple way. She should be a good revivalist, be-cause be-cause she could tell a wicked audience just what it had been doing, and how near hell Is to bright lights.. There is a lot in the old saying: "The greater the sinner, the greater the saint." Courtland Smith of New York, back from a trip through various countries of Europe, gives you this Interesting information about the new method of telephoning In Germany. A solemn German enters a telephone booth, begins be-gins his conversation: "Hell Hitler," "Hall Hitler," and after his talk re marks to the man at the other end again: "Hell Hitler," and goes his way. Germans, the young especially are described a8 wildly enthusiastic about ; Hitler, more so even than the Italians were after their dictator's first rise to lower. The (iiiestiou is. will Hitler turn out to be ai other Mussolini, or another I Rienzi. who also rose to supreme pow ; er, and come to an abrupt end. Look ! him up in your history for the facts, not in Vagreis opei about him. Postmaster General James A. Farley, Far-ley, as busy a man as ever worked foi l this country, announces that $501), 000. I 1100 have beim out from the nation's I expenses since July 1. in comparison j with the same figure a year ago. ! This is an interesting figure, when you remember that not very long ago. when Tom Reed was Speaker of the House, the Government of the United i States spent only $500,000,000 In a j year for its Army. Navy and every j thing else. Now New York City spends more than that. .l?3. bv King Fttturtj Svndiratt. Inc.) 'This Week iy ARTHUR BlUSIUNH Gladstone's Question Great Arab Funeral Still Killing Witches j Souls Will Be Saved Utility companies are agitated. The government, distrlbuUnK from Muscle Shoals electric power that the people paid for and own, will sell current at reasonable prices, perhaps one ami a half cents to domestic consumers, as against four and half cents charged by private companies. In New York, utility men weep be cause the city will tax them to help pay expenses, including politicians' ex I penses. 1 Gigantic today Is the value of mys 1 terlous electricity, yet It was "only j yesterday" that William E. Gladstone, I England's grand old man and prime I minister, watched the great Faraday, winding coils of wire, showing that men could make direct and harness electricity on a tiny scale. Shortly be i fore, Faraday had written: "I am busy just now again on elec tro-magnetism. and 1 think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't say It may be a weed instead of a fish that. ""1 after all my labor, I may at last pull up." V Gladstone looking on Indifferently, 'a as Faraday demonstrated a discovery F that was to mean billions of dollars ' earned, millions of men employed, and light the whole world asked Faraday: J "Of what use it might be." . Faraday made the right reply for a practical Britisher. "Why. sir, you will seen be able to tax it " New York Vc, . makes that come true. un,''1' When Felsal, King of Iraq, first - leader that widely scattered Arab '"-' tribes have recognized in centuries, iur.i; Wgs put in his grave, one hundred ges - thousand tribesmen wailed bitterly, ork O beating their breasts, -while black. rob ,te .f.. ed women wailed, moaned, tore theii Jr5 hair, threw their veils aside and look ',f " el mournfully toward heaven ,'ca,L To touch Feisal's coffin meant "to P-1 acquire merit," and it was necessary to n:a: a cut the bridge across the Tigris after ?.ei:; the funeral procession had passed, to '.e of : keep back the dangerously big crowd . Human beings crave leaders and ' rarely get them. You can count the really great ones, from Genghis Khan to 1933 on your fingers and toes. rtw n an 'so'ated African village, sev-enty.one sev-enty.one savages haye been sentenced to imprisonment for horribly brutal treatment of two women, mother and daughter, accused of "witchcraft." . In another part of Africa, last Jan -Z uary, sixty natives were sentenced to death. They killed an old woman for - "casting a spell over a man's wife." ; The sentences were commuted. : It is not so long since tens of thou-: thou-: Bands were tortured and burned for witchcraft in Europe, in the name of i religion. Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson Hut-: Hut-: ton, who lives to save souls, I3 in New ; York, where many souls need saving When "Ben Hur" was revived In i New York, years ago, Biily Sunday J writing about it. said: "There are more lepers on n."0;:d |