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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Death From the Air Barring the Inventor The Republican Odds To Starve Italy Warfare in Ethiopia consists largely in surprising the enemy in some narrow Ethiopians have thus surprised Italians on a small scale. Now the Italians have shown that the thing can be done from the air by killing 2,000 Ethiopian warriors, of whom 20,000 were massed in the Mei Mezoid vaney, soum oi Arthur Hrlnbiiiie Mlll;ale. Ethiopians Ethio-pians withstood, with fine courage, the attack with machine guns, incendiary in-cendiary and explosive bombs. England really has free speech. On your soap box in Hyde Park you may say what yon please. If you do not advocate crime. But England does not like free speech from another country, through the ether. The British Broadcasting company will not let Marconi talk from Rome to Englishmen English-men over the radio. He might convince con-vince them that it is preposterous to try to starve out Italy for doing in Ethiopia what England has done in many places. The ruling seems hard on Marconi, considering that lie invented radio. Without him there would be no "British Broadcasting Broad-casting company." Those that make betting a business busi-ness are often sound in their political polit-ical judgments. They are at least cold, calculating; sentiment does not cloud their vision. On the Republican Presidential nomination the betting now stands: Senator William E. Borah, 8 to 1. Governor Landon of Kansas, 10 to 1. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, 15 to 1. Col. Frank Knox of Bli-nois, Bli-nois, 15 to 1. Governor Hoffman of New Jersey, Ogden L. Mills, Senator Sena-tor David A. Reed, all 20 to 1. Professional bettors agree that Governor Landon is gaining, and will probably lead the procession at 6 to 1 in a few days. Band wagon climbers are more and more polite to Governor Landon. The "sanctions" wall thrown by England and France around Italy, smaller nations co-operating, to "suffocate and starve Italy," as Mussolini puts it, is now complete. Two million young organized Italians Ital-ians protest against the effort to punish Italy for doing to Ethiopia what England and France have done to other, more nearly civilized countries. II. G. Wells, aged sixty-nine, younger and- more brilliant than when he wrote "Doctor Moreau's Island" and "The War of the Worlds," now in America on his way to see Hollywood, says, "The film Is a finer art than the novel, stage or the opera." Britain's ambassador Is conferring confer-ring with our State department concerning con-cerning Japan's plan to seize Chinese Chi-nese provinces, containing 05,000,-000 05,000,-000 Chinese, 35,000,000' more than the total population of Japan. If the Japanese could "control, arm nnd use 100,000,000 Chinese in the air nnd on the ground, that would be interesting. But it would not be our business, and it is to be hoped that the British will not persuade our state department that this country ought to attend to it. Spiritually, politically and otherwise other-wise important is the proposed "merger" approved by bishops of the three branches of the Methodist Method-ist Episcopal church. Together, the Methodist Episcopal church, Meth- uuisi i.piscopat church. South, ana Methodist Protestant church would number 7500,000 members, the largest protestant group In America. Young men are coming back into fashion. Dr. Alan Valentine, only thirty-four, former master of Pier-son Pier-son college at Yale, is made president presi-dent of Rochester university and starts well by denouncing the "ballyhoo" "bally-hoo" of college athletes, football especially, lie speaks with authority, author-ity, not as a weakling bookworm, for he was a college athlete at Swarthmore, member of the Olympic Olym-pic team nt Paris In 19-S. The American Rankers association associa-tion reveals the Interesting fact that our banks bold fifteen thousand million dollars' worlh of government bonds in figures, $ 1 5,(KHI,0(K),000. Well might a most important official offi-cial of the government say: "Inflation? "Infla-tion? Wo have It. now, biggest ever seen, frozen (10 ,.,;s vy-t ,M,tll It breaks loose." , After the Tory election In l'ng-'nnd l'ng-'nnd prices went souring on London's Lon-don's slock exchange. Con, panics that make war weapons ami male-rials male-rials were most buoyant. The masses had voted for more, blgge, nd heller battleships, and war, If necessary. KlMK I'Vutin-,' Sviulli'ivus 1 110. U Nil s,,n ,,.. |