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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE Only One Woman's Record Pray, and Pray Quick Still a Queer World Don't Neglect Colds Miss Alicia Patterson, fearless young girl whose father, Joseph Medill Patterson, had a machine gun command com-mand in the big war, thought she would like to do something on her own account, and broke the woman's record rec-ord flying from Philadelphia to New York in 40 minutes. She deserves credit, but there is one world's record for women compared with which all others are unimportant. ; A girl, born long ago in Thrace, now called Bulgarfa, had written on her tombstone: I am not of the noble Grecian race, I am poor Abrotonon and born in ; Thrace. Let Grecian women scorn me. if they please. I was the mother of Themlstocles. Those lines will live longer In history his-tory than if she had written "I am Abrotonon, who ran barefoot from Thrace to Athens and back In twenty-four twenty-four hours, then swam the Hellespont eight times, breaking the woman's record in each case." The real records for women are held by Nancy Hanks, mother of Lincoln; Olymplas, mother of Alexander the Great; Bertha of the Big Feet, mother of Charlemagne; the wife of a humble French tanner, mother of the great Pasteur, and other mothers. Another one of ten thousand tragedies trag-edies in prohibition and bootlegging. John Bugelo, driving his car, with his country cousin Joseph Dentice beside be-side him, thought he was bound for a good time at Coney Island, and picked up two friends on the way. When they reached the Church of Our Lady of Precious Blood, in Brooklyn, one of the men on the back seat said "here's a church. Pray, and pray quick." Bugelo and Dentice jumped. Dentice 'escaped with a bulet In his Jaw, Bugelo Bug-elo crumpled up dead with bullets and slugs in his body. The police say Bugeio was "active In the grape racket." Joe Aiello, executed by gangland last week, with machine gun fire coming com-ing from three groups of concealed murderers, could not complain of his funeral.. He lies in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Ceme-tery, in a coffin that cost $11,800. And we talk about "ancient days of barbarism." bar-barism." Prohibition agents report a place in New York where something called whisky is sold for five cents a drink, fifteen cents for a full pint. The art of making spirits, which was unknown to the ancients, never produced anything more horrible than the vile concoction sold for five cents a drink. It is said to be worse even than the product of New York's Bowery Bow-ery "smoke houses," where men pay ten cents a drink for denatured alcohol alco-hol and water. You are living In a world still primitive. primi-tive. Brazil reorganizes itself by violence, viol-ence, just as this country did 154 years ago, and the Brazilian mob in Sao Paulo tears down its Cambusy Prison, as the mob of the French revolution rev-olution tore down the Bastile. In the Arctic, German scientists, traveling peacefully on their dog sleds, were suddenly abandoned by their Greenlander guides, who informed inform-ed the Germans that there were demons dem-ons on the ice. They knew it by the sudden change in the weather. The Germans tried to persuade the Green-landers Green-landers that demons live In a hot country and couldn't stand the ice, but the Greenlanders know better. Their hell Is frozen, not hot. I Dr. I. Stieglltz, of New York, a brilliant bril-liant physician and scientist, rebuked an elderly patient for neglecting a cold. The rebuke should be useful to all men past 50. "Nothing could be more dangerous.", danger-ous.", said Dr. Stieglltz. "When you neglect a cold at 50, or older, you deliberately de-liberately endanger your life. A cold In Itself may be easily cured, with two or three days in bed. Neglected it runs I Into pneumonia. "Mr. Whitney, who died recently, aged 58, had a cold and went about for three days neglecting it, attending to business, and finally went to bed. Pneumonia developed and he died in 24 hours. He hadn't a chance. If he had gone to bed at the first signs of a cold, he would probably be alive and well now." Calvin Coolldge radios his fellow citizens that prosperity can't be guaranteed. guar-anteed. But you can deserve it In his daily "piece," he seems to think the people may have been spoiled by too many toys. "Our people own a large supply of cotton, copper, wheat, petroleum and other raw materials. .They have heavy deposits of money in the bonk and many billions invested in foreien countries." Their automobiles number twenty-five millions. And so. they are feeling very poor." - The British Labor Government savH 12.000,000 are Idle here. Our Gve ment indignantly denies it, but our Government lacks exact Information Government agencies supply as nea7 ly as possible such information as tne Government is supposed to want . i9J0. by King FttuxM Syndic, |