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Show brisbane THIS WEEK Divide and Rule Big Men, Light Eyes Why Go Naked? Borrowing a Blimp Mr. Green, American Federation of Labor bead, warns the miners' union not to smltfr nn ttio fail. fcfj "$ i j eration. Mr. Lew-Is. Lew-Is. lender of the miners, tells Mr. Green, in substance, sub-stance, "You mind your own business." A labor la-bor split seems near. Union labor should consider the fable of the dying peasant who snmmonpd his sons and Artk.rBrUI.an. , h 0 w e d th,.m how they could break small sticks separately, bnt could not break them when all were tied together. Louis XI's motto, Divide et lm-pera lm-pera ("Divide and rule"), In dealing with powerful nobles, Is not unknown un-known to the enemies of union labor, la-bor, or Goethe's Divide and rule I Powerful word. Unite and lead I Better word. A lonely English soldier living on an Island in the Indian ocean w rote that he wanted a wife, saying, "I have hazel eyes," nothing else about himself. Already 250 English girls have offered to marry him. The 249 disappointed may find comfort in a better marriage, picking out somebody with blue eyes. It annoys an-noys many, but it must be said that practically all the great men in history his-tory had blue or gray eyes, even men from dark-eyed races, like Napoleon Na-poleon from Corsica, Caesar from Rome. To save answering questions, here is a short list: Washington, Jefferson, Jeffer-son, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Edison, Henry Ford. Ixok up the others. Near Tampa, Fla., a schooner loaded with men, wornen, children, on the way to establish a nudist colony in the Virgin islands, ran aground. Navigators were unwilling to sign for a nudist enterprise, afraid, perhaps, of catching cold, so the ship ran ashore. Nudism is a queer atavistic craving. crav-ing. The human race began that way in the Garden 6f Eden, and each of us starts out as a nudist at birth. The struggle is to keep clothed thereafter. It is a strange demoralization that makes some long to run about undressed ; the more strange because be-cause they look so hideously ugly. - Discouraged by Incompetence that wrecked two dirigibles, this country coun-try decided that lighter than nlr machines are not necessary. It was necessary to borrow a small privately pri-vately owned blimp to take food to 3,000 Tangier Islanders, cut off from relief by Ice. No heavier than air plane could land there before thfr blimp, which landed easily. Mussollni threatens to leave the league if it includes a ban on oil in its sanctions. In modern war, no oil, no war. Mussolini may buy old American ships to use as floating float-ing gasoline storage tanks. Had he come a little sooner he could have had plenty of them at a bargain, about one thousand million dollars' worth of expensive steel floating "Junk" built when this country's foolish entrance into the World war found It unprepared. England and Russia were getting along nicely, and now the Russian envoy, LItvInoff, attending the late king's funeral, commits the British unpardonable sin. After talking with the new king, LItvInoff, Instead of expressing admiration ad-miration for the overwhelming royal Intellect, remarked that the new kins:. Edward VIII. was M1nst a mediocre young Englishman" and repeated what the young king had said to him, something "not done." Mr. Norman' Jhoinas of the Socialist So-cialist left wing runs for President sometimes and says the "New Deal" Is leading to Fascism, a dictator. dic-tator. In Italy Socialism, and doctrines even more radical, led to the rise of Mussolini, aided by castor oil and other methods. If our dictatorship comes, some radicals will look back sadly to the good old days when you could speak your mind without being be-ing shot or put to work. One man's frostbite Is another man's good news. New Jersey fruit growers say the extreme cold, frees-lng frees-lng the ground two feet deep, will destroy orchard pests, Including the gypsy and coddling moths. The cold, which has not Injured trees, Is expected ex-pected to discourage larvae of the Japanese beetle. Col. Charles A- Lindbergh spent his thirty-fourth birthday In Wales bis wife and one son with him. He must have felt that he had already lived 1) years, and have wished . almost, that he had been content to remain In the airmail service, apart from the limelight C King Features Syndicate, In. WNU Sarvlas. |