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Show 'BRISBANE1 THIS WEEK Dentil From the Air Burring the Inventor The Kenublieun Odds To Starve Italy Warfare in Ethiopia consists largely In surprising the enemy In some imr- 18111 row gorge or valley. Ethiopians have thus surprised Italians Ital-ians on u small scale. Now the Italians Ital-ians have shown that the thing can be done from the air by killing 2,(KI0 Ethiopian, warriors, of w h o in 20,000 were massed In the Mel Mezold valley, south of Makale. Ethiopians w I t h-stood, h-stood, with fine courage, tne attack Arthur BrUlinne with n,aehine gungi incendiary and explosive bombs. England really has free speech. On yonr soap box in Hyde Park you may say what you please, If you do not advocate crime. But England does not like free speech from another country, through the ether. The British rroadcasting company will not let Marconi talk from Rome to Englishmen over the radio. He might convince them that It Is preposterous to try to starve out Italy for doing in Ethiopia what England Eng-land has done in many places. The ruling seems hard on Marconi, considering consid-ering that he invented radio. Without With-out him there would be no "British Broadcasting company." Those that make betting a business are often sound In their political judgments. judg-ments. They are at least cold, calculating; calcu-lating; sentiment does not cloud their vision. On the Republican Presidential nomination nom-ination the betting now stands: Senator William E. Borah, 8 to 1. Governor Landon of Kansas, 10 to 1. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, 15 to 1. Col. Frank Knox of Illinois, 15 to 1. Governor Hoffman of New Jersey, Ogden I,. Mills, Senator David A. Reed, all 20 to 1. Professional bettors agree that Governor Gov-ernor Landon Is gaining, and will probably lead the procession at 6 to 1 In a few days. Band wagon climbers are more and more polite to Governor Landon. The, "sanctions" wall thrown by England Eng-land and France around Italy, smaller nations co-operating, to "suffocate and starve Italy," as. Mussolini puts It, !s now complete. Two million young organized or-ganized Italians protest against the effort to punish Italy for doing to Ethiopia what England and France have done to other, more nearly civilized civi-lized countries. H. G. Wells, aged sixty-nine, younger young-er and more brilliant than when he wrote "Doctor Moreau's Island" and "The War of the Worlds," now In America on his way to see Hollywood, sara, "The film Is ' a finer art than thf novel, stage or the opera." Mr. Wells' open mind proves his youth. The moving picture Is greater !n Its possibilities than book, stage or opera, because it contains all three, plus the marvelous power of photog-ranliv. Britain's ambassador Is conferring with our State department concerning Japan's plan to seize Chinese provinces, containing 05,000,000 Chinese, 35,000,-00 35,000,-00 more than the total population of Japan. If the Japanese could control, arm and use 100,000,000 Chinese in the air and on the ground, that would be Interesting. Inter-esting. But It would not be our business, busi-ness, and It Is to be hoped that the British will not persuade our State department that this country ought to attend to It. Spiritually, politically and otherwise Important Is the proposed "merger" i approved by bishops of the three j branches of the Methodist Episcopal I . church. Together, the Methodist Epis- i copal church, Methodist Episcopal j church, South, and Methodist Protestant church would number 7,500,000 members, mem-bers, the largest Protestant group. Young men are coming back Into fashion. Dr. Alan Valentine, only thirty-four, former master of Pierson college at Yale, is made president of liochester university and starts well y denouncing the "ballyhoo" of col-lcse col-lcse athletics, football especially. He speaks with authority, not as a weak-U'lg weak-U'lg bookworm, for he was a college athlete at Swarthmore, member of the Olympic team at Paris In 392S. r"e American Rankers association 'Weals the interesting fact that our "auks hold fifteen thousand million Dollars' worth of government bonds In "sures. 515,000,000,000. Well might a most important official the government say: "Inflation? e have it DOw, biggest ever seen, rozea in the banks. Wait until It breaks i00se.. ' - After the Tory election In England 1 ices went' soaring on London's stock ; VPC nge- Companies that make war eapons and materials were most uya,u- 'I'lie masses had voted for re, higger an(1 better battleships, j and war, if necessary. King Features Syndicate. Inc. VVXU Service. |
