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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Watch Your Eye-Lens Frightened to Death All Possess Language Eating Bark and Earth Important news for life insurance companies. A tendency to old age or early deatu Is inherited, according ac-cording to Dr. Kellx Bernstein of Columbia unl-v unl-v e r s 1 1 y, who talked to the National Na-tional Academy of Science ia Chicago. A scientist sci-entist can tell how old you are physically, by examining the lens of your eye. It always shows signs of harden-lnjr harden-lnjr before fifty ; the extent of the hardening decides how old you are. The rest of your body brain, heart and all the rest grows old about as rapidly as the eye-Ions does. Leaving out accidents and attacks at-tacks by disease germs, there is a sort of "pre-destination" In the length of life. Two brothers, fifteen and ten years of age, with a young friend, were going to an entertainment last Christmas night. George Bond and Carl McMurty of Poplar Bluff. Mo., thought It would be amusing to frighten the children by running run-ning after them, telling them, "You will never live to get there." The two older boys "got there." The little ten-year-old boy, James Aiuley, dropped dead of fright as the men pursued them. A sensible jury decided that the two nni shall spend six months in jail and pay $100 fioe for their "Joke." The jury might well have made it ten jniikj, Lin ll nos siufiu iiiu nam ut, liter. li-ter. There is nothing more brutal, cruel or more completely worthy of a genuine "yahoo" than frightening frighten-ing children. Secretary of Interior Ickes, who also possesses the gift of forcible speech, calls Senator Long "a ranting rant-ing demagogue," describes, more gently, one other well known broadcaster, broad-caster, and rebukes, without mentioning men-tioning his name, Doctor Towusend, whom he accuses of arousing false hopes in the "underprivileged." Senator Iluoy Long, his language never failing him, able to speak hlsi mind freely in the senate, addressing address-ing that august body, describes the secretary of interior as "Lord High Chamberlain Ickes, the chinch-bug of Chicago." Secretary of Agriculture Wallace he called the "Lord Destroyer, the Ignoramus of Iowa." We complain of our depression Willi good cause. We might find queer consolation in reading about miserable inhabitants of Formosa, property of Japan, inhabited chiefly by Chinese, who made up 80 per cent of the sufferers and victims In the recent earthquake. In Formosa, men, women and children have been stripping the bark from elm trees and eating It and they may be seen on barren fields, pulling up wild grass by tha rnnk nrnl)lnff nnfl nnHnr (hp rontfl. as well as the grass Itself. Many hnve died from eating bran mixed with earth and water, the earth causing death by intestinal stoppage. stop-page. These poor creatures have a real depression, with n rich government govern-ment to pour out billions for jobs, relief, dole, etc. The American Philosophical society, so-ciety, gathered In Philadelphia, learns from Doctor Sllpher, director direc-tor of the Lowell observatory at FlagHlaff, Ariz., that to people on the plnnet Mars, If any are there, our earth Is a blue planet. If those Martians will conllnue watching us, until some European or Asiatic country Fends a few thousand planes In our direction, they will see this corner of tlm earth a deeper and darker blue than ever. What a lesson wo shall loarn some day if we continue with our eyes shut I Some boys In hl'h school, and bigger boys In colleges, recently organized a "strike" to express their horror of war. War is horrible; It should be, and eventually will he, unnecessary. Hut there Is pome good In all evil, and young students and others should reflect on past wars nnd what modern civilization owes to them. Germany wants colonies, and It embarrassed by the fact that this would mean taking In a great many black ladies nnd gentlemen that by no stretch of the Imagination could be called "Aryans.- The German Ger-man government announces that, while It could not admit negroes to German citizenship, as Britain does Id her colonies, black colonial co-lonial negroes would be "Sdiutzbc-foblene," "Sdiutzbc-foblene," with every right except the right to adopt Aryan Mrnt. 7' Kins Krriturrfl Syndicate, Inc. ,1 W.iNr'lvit;-. |