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Show BRISBANl THIS WEEK I Strangling With Taxes Go See Alaska A 74-Year-Old Heart Iceland's Old Volcano I The Supreme court decides that ! government has the power to tax a thing out of existence. This decision de-cision came with approval of a 15-cents-a-pound tax on oleomargarine. The purpose of that tax ls to make It impossible to manufacture oleomargarine oleo-margarine profitably, and thus compel com-pel people to eat butter, whether they can afford it or not. Doubtless that ls wise, ln fact, It must be wise, since the Supreme court says so. But some day, when we have, as we shall have, one thousand million people in the United States, and lack room for so many cows, It may be desirable to have a good substitute substi-tute for butter, and we may regret today's hostile taxation. See Alaska, and at the same time see the whole United States. Go through the Panama canal on a big boat and see what men can do when they use a nation's power. Or travel trav-el by rail, studying the cities of the country, or take your car, which goes everywhere and stops where you choose, or fly, and see the world from above. See Alaska, a magnificent empire far away In the northwest See what Seward bought for the United States for $7,200,000. A purchase that was called "Seward's folly." They took small change like $7,200,-000 $7,200,-000 seriously in those days. But it was profitable "folly." Alaska has yielded $419,791,000 in gold, more than fifty times Alaska's cost alone. The "Juneau Empire," which ought to know, estimates that Alaska has been worth to the United States $2,-500,000,000, $2,-500,000,000, after subtracting the cost price. The self-supporting reindeer rein-deer alone will more than pay for Alaska. In his poem beginning "Dear friend, thou art lost," Heine reminds his friend that fuersten haben lange arme ("princes have long arms"). Samuel Insull of Chicago learns that Uncle Sam has long arms also, and can reach out far to get what he wants. Mr. Insull thought himself safe on his chartered Greek tramp steamer, steam-er, riding at anchor under the walls of Istanbul, on the little strip of water that separates Europe from Asia. But Uncle Sam reached out 'itS 5ng"Arm' and Mr- Insull is arrested ar-rested by tlTS. Turkish government, and unless t'ffSChicago utilities magnate Is able toXyprform some new wonder, his arrest" probably , means the last active chapter in i.'.o ca reer. Mr. Insull ls seventy-four years old, a man of Intense pride, nourished nour-ished nnd increased by success, through years of unquestioned domination. dom-ination. It will be hard for a heart seventy-four years old to stand the strain that will be put upon him. Nothing is safe, nothing sure. In Iceland, 150 miles east cf Reykjavik, there stood a calm mountain known to have been a bad volcano in Its younger years, called Skeidararjoe-kull Skeidararjoe-kull Cirka, a thick cap of ice covering cov-ering the summit, every sign of reformed re-formed old age. Inhabitants of N'ipsstad village, close by the peak, li Sknptafellsbys-la, Sknptafellsbys-la, felt certain thai Skeidararjoeku.il Cirka's wild orts had all been sown. They bcJ not. Tbe old vn'cano has blown the Ice cap Into cracked ice, and with lightning flrshes and roarings Is in violent er'Ption. Some ce-capped old men have acted a? foolishly, and ns unexpectedly. unexpect-edly. ' John.D. Ro-'kefetler, Jr., gives $2,000,000 for-1 research laboratory that will be 'Pen fo the scholars of the world. If anyone says, "He ! ought to '","d his money In America," Amer-ica," re'nd lllm t,1!t Rockefeller-Stand!-', 011 mm?y bas beeu made' all c'f tne g,obe- i .-remerton, stnte of Washington, Ports six bodies, two women, four ' -Jon found bound, gagged, beaten, ! shot to death In a house ransacked fy thieves. The crime wave hangs on, with prohibition, its foster-mother, gone. ! Tw0 hundred thousand gathered ! n Rome to cheer Pope Pius at tim : c'H1 of a solemn ceremony establish-lK establish-lK and confirming miracles per-formed per-formed by Don Giovanni Bosco, en- sulnu 'liS nmne 11,6 C,1,0,ldar of A humble priest of Turin, !n combatively com-batively modern' times, LCr l.osco took the side of , , e , , r h'o "'J" Poor so violently tl 11 The ""'I'owly escaped being , 1"smu- "s.vlum ns a lunii'0. " The old sn-ugglo between "the i l minor to s,op any sMr ,g (Io. si,U,;0!r'U,lMn 'vrf .o ,, "''J' K,,Kl,"". """ounces the Wi" I""" "f ' ' "'."or of t0 (,,,,,;,u,s ,1""' Syn,lcl, inc. W Ml Sri vice |