Show I BRISBANE THIS WEEK Old Age Pensions Does Lashing Lathing Do Good Those Cosmic Co mic Rays Raya Year Old Graves Financial Financial conservatism Is 8 agi- agi agitated agi agitated because old age pensions as planned moderately by the President President dent would cost one billion dollars a year Conservatism might better worry orry about Doctor Townsends Townsend's plan to give two hundred dollars a month to everybody past sixty years of oC twenty four age and cost at least twenty twenty- tour four thousand millions a year Conservatism might also worry about billions spent uselessly instate In Instate Instate state state national or local government costs and taxes that run above thirteen thousand million dollars a year At Wilmington Del three youn young men eighteen twenty and twenty twenty- twentythree twentythree twenty three three years old were lashed In pub pub- public lie lic a crowd of oC one hundred look look- lookIng lookIng looking ing on After the lashing on the bare bareback bareback bareback back the youths began year ten ten prison sentences tor for burglary The lash frightens criminals more than Imprisonment as ng was proved In London where an epidemic of oC gar gar rotting ended as soon as the lash was used But what will be the mental state o of those young men when they leave prison after aner long association with e experienced crim Grim crImInals criminals and constant brooding on the humiliation and pain of oC the lash lash- lashIng lashing lashing ing Can It be hoped that they will willbe willbe be reformed or be anything except con confirmed criminals and enemies or of society A learned German says he has dIscovered the source of oC cosmic rays that bombard all space con con- constantly constantly passing through your body although you dont don't know It It driven by the terrific energy of oC billions or of volts The professor suggests that the bombardment may occa occa- occasIonally occa- occa occasionally occasionally break down a n few of oC the atoms In n the human body thus slowly changing heredity That sounds like a great deal of oC trouble to change heredity which depends really on the tight right girl choosing the right kind or of fattier father for her children Doctor professor of archeology logy In the th Hebrew v University University sity sUy of or Jerusalem has lias discovered graVes six thousand thousand years old that go far back of or Moses and Job and others well known l These graves grayes were dug and fined filled long before the Jewish nation had bad made Jerusalem their principal city when other earlier races Inhabited the site of old Jerusalem Talking Into a telephone In the White House with amplifiers at the theother theother theother other end the President greeted six hundred members of oC the Hol- Hol Holland Hol lIol Holland land society at nt dinner In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York He lle felt pride In n contributions contributions contributions made to this country by the themen themen themen men of oC Holland through three hun hun- hundred hundred hundred dred years The are ar of Dutch origin but unlike his dis- dis distant dis distant tant cousin Theodore Roosevelt the President did not recite any childish Dutch poems about cows In the kopjes To know what the theold theold theold old Hollanders really were as fight fight- fighters fighters fighters ers and read Motley Names that sound strange to Western ears figure In the case of oC Tony Fon I Lew w Chinese doll bride She and her alleged ta- ta tather father fa father ther Mr Ir Gin Lem are accused of oC arranging marriages taking money and then not marrying marrIng Mr Ir Kack Back Lew Gee angry Chi Chi- Chinese Chinese nese merchant says he paid 1800 1500 to marry the toy bride but got no brIde Other Interesting names fig fig- figure fig figure ure In a n discussion that almost caused war between the Los An- An Angeles Angeles An Angeles geles Hop Sing Tong and the Four Families Association Chinese names sound strange to our ears but Jones or Robinson would sound ridiculous to the Chi Chi- Chinese Chinese Chinese nese Fon Lew and her pretended father ran away to China but will willbe willbe he be brought back and Gin Lem will willbe willbe willbe be tried for violating the Mann Iann act The plebiscite as was certain certain certain tain In advance ance proves to be su- su superficIally superficially u a victory for tor Hitler In reality It proves the devotion of Germans to Germany under any conditions With the population of oC the SaarI I more than 93 95 per cent German voters oters were asked whether they wished once more wore to resume Ger Ger- German Ger- Ger German German I man citizenship throw v In their lot with France Fronce or remain suspended In the air as wards of oC the tho League I or of Nations It was certain that Germans would vote for Or Germany I Our national defense authorItIes I are arc delighted because a great Amer- Amer AmerIcan Amerlean lean Ican navy plane labeled 1 1 I flew nonstop to the Canal Zone from Norfolk 2000 miles mlles In 25 hours Amelia Earhart recently flew Hew 2400 mile In 19 hours alone without sleep And a Russian plane has flown I 7 00 miles nonstop Uncle Sam to equal c Russia need I Ionly only multiply that mile 2000 mlle non non- nonI nonstop stop non I stop flight ht by three and add 1 oo I miles mUes to the total co KInc Ing Features Fe tur i f inc I S I |