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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Something About Billions Earthquakes Marvelous New Cars News From Ethiopia Silas H. Strawn, once head of the American Bar association and pres-Ident pres-Ident of the 1 I. E& Arthur BrUbnne United States Chamber of Commerce, says the country Is spending $7,000 a minute, and thinks It is too much. Your small boy will tell you how much $7,000 a minute makes In one year. Once "all the world wondered," or at least we did, when there was taiK or spending one-quarter of a billion on the Panama canal. Now, any professor could spend that after aft-er three minutes' thinking, and news that the nation's deficit has Increased In-creased fifteen hundred millions In the past few weeks startles nobody. The world has passed through earthquake week. Earthquakes In Montana, greatest sufferer on this continent Severe shocks are reported re-ported In Slam. Earthquakes In Buffalo, N. Y.; Ottawa, Toronto, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Ecua-dor; a busy seismographic week. And the moon is partly to blame. Its- power of gravitation exercises a strong pull on the earth, -as It 6hows in lifting the ocean tides. Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, of Harvard, says the Inoon causes "sub-surface adjustments of the earth." The new cars of 1936, now on exhibition, ex-hibition, are so extraordinarily beautiful that every American should see them, regardless of Intention In-tention to buy a new car. Most encouraging en-couraging Is the determined energy that business men and engineers of the automobile Industry have shown In fighting the depression, while Improving Im-proving that which seemed beyond Improvement Rome gives confirmation of the slaughter of six thousand women and children by Ethiopian warriors taking vengeance on the fathers of the children who deserted to Italy. Rome also reports the killing of five hundred Ethiopians by Italian bombing bomb-ing planes, "an attempt to assassinate as-sassinate Halle Selassie by an unnamed un-named American negro." Halle Selassie of Ethiopia has "flung the last available man Into the battle line," relying on old men, young boys and women to run his government, reminding you of the late czar's announcement that he was going to send "his. last monjik." He did not live to do that The national effort to "buy ourselves our-selves out of the hole" encounters difficulties. The President, to make his four billions cash spread as far as possible, announced top wages of $93 a month. But union labor says, "No; you must pay us full union wages," and New York may have a state-wide strike to back the demand. de-mand. President Roosevelt, It Is said, refuses to concede that public relief is a branch of union labor, and, even with 1936 looming ahead, may Insist that two governments In the country are one too many. Greece Is ready to take back her king and many Greeks are growing "spike" mustaches like his. Many Germans grew mustaches, curling upward, to imitate their former kaiser. kai-ser. There Is not much in Imitating Imitat-ing mustaches. You wonder why the Greeks cannot can-not find a Greek for king, if they must have a king. In days of "the glory that was Greece" it wasn't necessary to go outside among "barbarians" "bar-barians" to find a ruler. You may want to know that In England, where good times have really come back, the Tories have made heavy gains at the present election and the Labor party sustains sus-tains heavy losses. Ramsay Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, head of Britain's first Labor La-bor government, rejoices openly at labor's downfall. Ills work as prime minister seems to have changed his opinions. Experience often changes our minds. "It is a very great rebuff for labor," la-bor," says MacDonald. "The people peo-ple are not being tiken In by wild and reckless promises which they know cannot be carried out, in municipal mu-nicipal or national government." Ed Howe, an able writer of Kansas, Kan-sas, is expected to "put aside his pencil and pen forever," because his doctor warns him that blindness blind-ness Is approaching. Perhaps Mr. Howe will tell his doctor: "Milton did much of his Important writing after he was totally to-tally blind, and I can do the same." Mr. Howe can use a dictating machine, ma-chine, whereas Milton dictated to ; 1) is daughters, who, uneducated, j found It difficult to write down hi? Latin dictation. K'.ng Futures Svr.icale, Inc. W.SU Service. j |