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Show This Week hy ARTHUR BRISBANE Prohibition, Farewell Work for 4,000,000? Goody Rays Go Through You Best Plan Is to Run Prohibition is deau, the voters of Pennsylvania, Jhlo and Utah com pleted tho necessary thirty six Slates. Another dangerous experl merit in conlrol of tho majority by a minority, another effort to change by law the customs of men and the habits of centurle:i comes to an end for tho present. Unfortunately, while prohibition dies the crime wave and the boot legging that finances crime sur vive. But will) the cause abolished, the Government, will find a way to remove the results. The Increased price of wheat had something lo do with tho repeal of prohibition. An end of prohibition means Increased demand for grain In addition to the mysterious "general "gen-eral chfeerfulness," that of Itself la supposed to make times better. President Roosevelt announces s plan to find Jobs for four million Idle, taking them off the public dole system, supplying them with work on self-sustaining Federal Slate nnd local public works. The M00.nno.000 to be devoted to this task will he well spent, If the undertaking Is successful. The President hopes that 2.000.000 will be employed on the new work in tho course of this month, and 2. OOO.OOO more before the end of December. De-cember. Hi. ring photographed negative nnd positive electrons, particles of (he atom charged, some with neza live, some with positive electricity Professor Milllk.tn of California says both have "the same mass." It was Fiipposei that electrons positively charged had 2.000 times the mass of those negatively charged. Professor Mllllkan says: "This, with the discovery of the positron by Dr. Carl D. Anderson Is the most fundamental and far. reaching advance of the country." You have to know a great many other things to know why. While you are wondering, cosmic rays roaming through the universe, with an electronic energy of three billion volts, are "drilling holes straight through your body from head to heel." And that cosmic bombardment Is good for you "Fenrfully nnd wonderfully made" Is putting It mildly. In New York's Columbia Unlver sit y 200 young men. representing many groups of students, announced announc-ed that their peaceful convictions would not let them go to war for the Stars and Stripes under any circumstances. These noble young Americans are willing to profit by fighting done In the past, 177S. 1S12. etc.. but would not shod their own ruddy drops. Laws ngalnst Immigration should be changed to admit fathers and mothers able to produce sons with fewer while feathers. These Columbia College Amerl cans will appreciate the wisdom of the old Chinese mother. In Pearl Buck's new book: "My son. to extricate yourscll from the difficulty there are thirty six ways, but the best of them all Is to run away." Sir Phillip Gibhs, who wrote a good deal about the big war says the next will not come for some years, becauso youth, presumably not anxious for Interment In "Flan ders fields." w ill hold It back. Laws of the Iroquois Indians about three hundred years old. have been discovered hy the Smith sonlan Institution, proving the In telllgenco of tho.-.e primitive red men. Constant blood feuds caused so many killings tho tribe threat ened to become extinct. Wampum fines were established for killings and tho fine for killing a man was ten strings of wampum, whereas for killing a woman tho fine was twenty strings of wampum. A wo man, according to tlin wise Iro quels, was worth twice as much as a man. There was nobody there to put Iho Iroqimls "off the wampum basis," and the flues Impoverished many families. But they discouraged murder. In Canton, China, parents of a pretty girl decided she must be man led at once w hile they were1 still alive, llor fiance was away In Singapore, so, and this Is said on the nulhorily of the solemn Asso , elated Press, a good looking roost- er was brought In to act as bride ' groom throughout Hit" elaborate j Chinese marriage set vice. The rooster, technically, remains tho husband of the beautiful IS yoarold girl uii.ll her fiance re turns. If he never returns, she will he heller off than some American girls of large fortunes, that many queer hungry foreign titles. Tho Italian king, his hand gold ed by Mussolini, removed General llalho as air marshal, sending him In North Africa, limiting Mussolini himself hone! of the air force mid also the navy. Mussolini now holds six places In Ihe liatlnn cabinet. (I'J.ra.l I'v Klnu I r.tisir. N, n,li, r, lit,.) |