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Show brisbane THIS WEEK. Long Live the King I Edward Makes Promises Real Spending Ahead 1 Tribute to T. R. King Edward tbe Eighth, now solemnly sol-emnly proclaimed king, will be remembered re-membered as the ; v.', $ first king of England that ever flew through the air toward the throne. He took a separate sep-arate outb "to respect the Church of Scotland." Scot-land." There Is hard fighting back of that. Edward the ! Eighth will mount the Arth., Url.b.ne throne for , first time at a Joint session of the lords and commons, and solemnly promise to "maintain the true Intent In-tent of your enactments to the best of my' powers." After his coronation the king must formally declare his adherence to the Protestant church, and his obligation ob-ligation "never to marry a Roman Catholic." That dates back to the Stunrts. King Edward, who Is not supposed sup-posed to contemplate marriage, Is the official head of the churches of England and Scotland, and "defender "defend-er of the faith." From all the world, "subjects" of the new king and emperor send greetings. Representatives of divine di-vine power, churches of every religion, re-ligion, Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhist, Bud-dhist, Chinese, Christian and Jewish, Jew-ish, speed the dead king on his Journey and welcome the new ruler. If the soldiers get their bonus money there will be some quick spending, enough to quicken the pulse of business while It lasts. Merchants will get more than $000,000,000 owing on past accounts, and the observer will notice many new overcoats, dresses and automobiles. automo-biles. At the opening of New York's $3,500,000 memorial erected to honor the late Theodore Roosevelt, one speaker praised President Theodore Roosevelt as one who "saw the necessity for keeping both the legislatures legis-latures and the courts In their prop- er places." That perception showed a high uplrit, but If some future Theodore Roosevelt should go too far in that direction It might become necessary neces-sary for the legislatures and the courts to keep that President In bis proper place. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard says this country expects to escape the next war, but Europe plans to drag us In. Besides air bombing and poison poi-son gas, General Bullard expects In the next war attacks with disease germs to spread deadly epidemics In the enemy's country. Bubonic plague, scattered from airplanes, Infected In-fected rats scattered plentifully, might be helpful. Sometimes literature pays. Kipling Kip-ling left several millions. In America Amer-ica alone his ofliclal publishers have sold 3,500,000 copies of his books. At the time of his death "The Jungle Jun-gle Books" alone paid him ten thousand thou-sand pounds a year. When you hear foolish talk about "revolution" and getting rid of the Constitution, a remark made by Washington, as he signed the Constitution, Con-stitution, may be recalled: "Should the states reject this excellent ex-cellent Constitution, the probability probabil-ity Is that an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peace the next will be drawn In blood." Mrs. Allnda French of St Louis, one hundred and four years old, attributes at-tributes her long life to "hard work in her youth and a dutiful son in her old age." She gets along without with-out spectacles, Is "not Interested" in politics. "People get over that," says she, "after they reach one hundred." hun-dred." The human race gets used to everything. Once our ancestors shivered, fell flat on their faces, when lightning flashed and thunder growled. They thought some demon de-mon was after them. Now men put up lightning rods, properly grounded. Once the comet was considered an avenging messenger aimed straight at sinful man. Today Its coming and going are understood and predicted. Its path marked out Something unpleasant Is bound to start somewhere on the earth, with all the new theories, new hatreds, new armaments, new deadly weapons. It might start on the border bor-der between Russia and Japan's Manchukuo. When you read, "Russia "Rus-sia uses force to halt Japanese," you know the explosion might come at any time. All would regret bloodshed, but It would be historically Interesting to see the ancient autocracy of the Mikado at war with the modern autocracy au-tocracy of Stalin. It would be a long fight, probably. C King Fenturea Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service. t |