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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Nobody Was Frozen One Strike Subsides The Emperor Has Lions 1,000,000 Tiny Pigs Several have written to this column col-umn offering to let themselves be "frozen stiff and then returneu iu life" In the Interest In-terest of science, as suggested by a Los Angeles chemist, R. S. Willard. They will be sorry to hear that the American Medi-c Medi-c a I association c a 1 Is Mr. Wil-lard's Wil-lard's alleged freezing "a virions vi-rions hoax." It accuses Wil- Arthnr Brisbane ar(j j freezing a dead monkey and then substituting substitut-ing a live one, supposed to have been frozen and thawed out. Doctor Flshbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal, Jour-nal, says anybody frozen stiff would surely die. It was an Interesting yarn while It lasted. New York's strike of union men against President Roosevelt, General Gen-eral Johnson and the WPA ("Works Progress administration") seems temporarily to have collapsed. Mr. Meany, New York labor leader, said all union men would go out and stay out and nonunion men would follow. The news Is that the nonunion non-union men did not follow, and the union men went back to work. Robert Moses of the park department, de-partment, who employs 25,000 workers work-ers on park projects, reports only 110 deserters. An Interesting photograph from Addis Ababa shows two servants of the Ethiopian emperor riding on lions, one female, one male, In the palace garden. The emperor's lions are trained In this fashion for use as "watch dogs." You can easily believe be-lieve that Intruders "keep out." For war purposes, however, lions are not particularly valuable. Tear gas and deadly poison gas would discourage the lions,. as they would men, and lions cannot jump as high as an airplane. In Chicago's stockyards half the hog pens are closed, prices are soaring, soar-ing, men have lost jobs, all for lack of hogs to push around and butcher. The yards are suffering. And only a little while ago an earnest government, determined to help the farmer and promote prosperity, pros-perity, was butchering tens of thousands thou-sands of "farrow sows" to get rid of them before their little pigs could be born. "Too many little pigs will make too many big hogs," said the government. You can imagine the ghosts of a million pigs floating over the stockyards, stock-yards, squeaking in their baby voices, "We told you so." War talk continues. Mussolini announces an-nounces a new air weapon "overwhelmingly "over-whelmingly powerful," but does not say what it is. . Plain TNT and poison poi-son gas are powerful enough. Hitler announcing that his country coun-try Is "ready to meet any outside peril," adds: "No power on earth can attack us." That seems a little overconfident. Uncle Sam, with all his spending, makes a little something for himself. him-self. His money-issuing privileges, paper dollars worth about 50 cents, and silver coins containing less than half their value in silver, have given the treasury a profit of about $3-000,000,000. $3-000,000,000. And at this moment It does not appear to have hurt anybody. Who understands money? Stocks are better, prices higher In London and Wall Street. The London Lon-don Dally Mail says: "A stock exchange ex-change boom seems to do more for world trade than anything The reason Is that It gives confidence everywhere." Strange and powerful Is "confl-dence." "confl-dence." You cannot see It, feel It weigh It, but you can easily destroy de-stroy it. J Lovely woman, led by Paris fash-Ion fash-Ion designers, is still trying to find out what she really wants. Universal Univer-sal Service dispatches from Paris describe "dresses as transparent as Zl TZa'ms from the knee skin-tight evening gowns with cut out designs as big as elm leaves from under the arms to the hlp-llne Cape coats of white fur, sm wUIe open on both sides." One gown s made entirely of ..p, flnrnvV'" Wmen SetHe haveydone?SOme S FoTn''"" ttlon news. For instance, government will col oct Income tax on "public vl That seems i;P ..;,. . t'e bnv a stloi Z P V0,,r ,,f" teSenLff,;?"y "lt- |