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Show brisbane THIS WEEK Adolph S. Ochs Russia's New Plane Superstition and Suicide Cocktail Parties The death of Adolph S. Ochs, editor ed-itor and owner of the New York i - Times, Is a great loss to American Ameri-can Journalism and good citizenship. citi-zenship. Mr. Ochs was a good American, whose life and work set an admirable admir-able example to his profession. All his life a hard worker, conscientious, con-scientious, Indifferent Indif-ferent to personal per-sonal profit, Mr. Arthur Brisbane 0chs often Put to this writer and other friends the question, ever in his mind, "How can I make of the Times a permanent and useful Institution?" Russia, according to Lloyd George, Is the world's real flying nation, possesses, probably, the world's greatest fighting air fleet. It is certainly the country that takes flying fly-ing most seriously, with 8,000,000 Russians trained In aeronautics, young Russian girls learning to pilot pi-lot planes and dirigibles and make 20,000-foot parachute jumps, as our young girls learn new dance steps. This makes Important Russia's announcement that she Is manufacturing manufac-turing airplanes on a mass production produc-tion basis, using for air power "an ordinary light automobile engine." The planes, very cheap, using ordinary or-dinary gasoline, will be supplied to collective farms. Russia may be the first nation to do with flying machines what this country did with automobiles. American genius put this nation on wheels. If Russian Rus-sian engineering skill puts Russia on wings, It will make some other countries thoughtful. A young man Is found strangely murdered, or committing suicide in an unusual way, hanging from a low tree. His legs were fastened behind be-hind his back with chains, chains were around his hands and neck, and a medal that he had won In an athletic contest was fastened with a safety pin to one of his nostrils. nos-trils. The man, thirty-one, who had been employed in moving pictures as a substitute for actors under dangerous dan-gerous conditions, Is believed by police po-lice to have .killed himself in a strange way, through vanity, to attract at-tract attention, climbing to the limb of a tree, adjusting the chain, dropping and strangling. Police quote a superstition of certain cer-tain Malays who believe that evil spirits carry off their souls If they kill themselves. When they commit suicide they exhaust their Ingenuity Ingenu-ity in efforts to die in such a fashion fash-ion as to make suicide seem impossible, im-possible, that the spirits after inspection in-spection may decide that the dead man was murdered and leave his soul In peace. During prohibition, the habit of drunkenness was acquired by many, particularly young women. They yield more easily than men to the effects of alcohol and drugs, and once "caught" they are caught for life, usually. American fathers and mothers that give cocktail parties for their sons and daughters, or permit them In their houses, should be told plainly plain-ly that they are using their money to make drunkards of the daughters and sons, and are not fit to have, or bring up, children. In addition to moving 00,000 more soldiers to the German lines, France is hurriedly connecting her steel and concrete line of fortresses, with barbed wire entanglements and trenches. Thirty thousand soldiers are digging In as you read. The French apparently expect the same old thing over again, but they will not see it. Harlem, In upper New York city, with some 200,000 colored population, popula-tion, is stamping ground for many that preach ultra-radical doctrines. Including the theory that whoever has money must have stolen It from those that have no money. This added to race antagonism, and the influence of certain "ex-horters," "ex-horters," brings results reminding citizens of what may happen when daugerous doctrines are preached recklessly. The latest news indicates that Chancellor Hitler is not as anxious anx-ious for "war in a hurry" as wa3 alleged. Sir John Simon, for England, received re-ceived from Hitler a written proposal pro-posal : First, a ten-year nonaggrcssion treaty with Germany's neighbors, nobody to attack anybody else. Second, a pledge to withhold economic and financial assistance from any nation starting a war. Hitler wrote that, and. If he meaps it, Lloyd George is correct id his statement: "Not this time." e. King Features Syndlca-.e, Ino. W.NU Serv-.c. |