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Show brisbane THIS WEEK Many Sleep, Forgotten Kang Teh's Era McGraw Has Gone Britain Claims All What we actually see Impresses us A young woman in Chicago, twenty-six years old, has just finished fin-ished her second year in a deep sleep, puzzling doctors, baffling their science. Everybody is interested in that- wonders what the girls spirit does through the long sleeping hours whether it Is permitted to wander away. In graveyards are millions that have slept for generations, and everywhere beneath the sod endless other millions are sleeping, never to wake on this earth. Nobody wonders about that-everybody takes it for granted. Pu-Yi, Chinese prince once heir to the imperial throne of China, emerged from his "period of purification" purifi-cation" as "Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo." Confucius says "tranquillity "tran-quillity and virtue," are necessary In a sovereign. And Pu-Yi's new t name, "Kang Teh," means tranquil- j lity and virtue. i The years to come In Manchukuo, where Pu-Yi's Manchurian ances- ! tors ruled before they became emperors em-perors of China, will be called Kang ; Teh. How long will it last? How long will the able Japanese' believe it -necessary or worth while to keep up the pretense of independent rule j In Manchukuo? j It is interesting to see the power of Japan demonstrated in her ability abil-ity to set up an emperor on what was Chinese territory, on the edge of angry Russia. That has not beeD done since Napoleon made kings of his relatives, dukes and princes of "nobodies," or at least not since Woodrow Wilson set up various little lit-tle countries in Europe, carving up old ones. John J. McGraw, baseball player of renown, is dead, only sixty. A fiery baseball fighting man, McGraw won victories in the line of. throwing throw-ing a ball, hitting It with a club and running around bases. Every newspaper praises him, and he is entitled to the glory. He knew what interests the people. Great Britain will again remind : Uncle Sam that the "Little Amer- lea" which Rear Admiral Byrd Is exploring and mapping out really belongs to England. j "Little America," says England, i Is part of "three large sectors j around the South pole" that belong ' to Britain because she saw them j first. i There will be no war about It, probably, because the poles, as they shift, move slowly. Our North and South poles require 17,000 years to make a complete sweep of the heavens, and the day is far off . when today's South and North poles will be part of a warm climate, with other spots on the earth, as North and South poles, taking their places. Before the thousands of years shall have passed the British empire, certainly, and the United States, probably, will have ceased i to exist under their present management man-agement and Ideas. j However, there might be gold, and there surely is oil, beneath those cold lands, deposited there in ancient days of heat . Mr. Rockefeller's organization has already located oil wells with- in the Arctic circle, although It is not thinking of- laying pipe lines yet. British diplomacy, like that of the Vatican, looks far ahead. Gilford rincliot, announcing his candidacy for senator from Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania against David A. Reed, now senator, says "as a Republican" Republic-an" he "will work with President Roosevelt to restore prosperity, instead in-stead of snapping and snarling at the President's heels." Senator Reed, who knows poll- ' tics, will study this statement thoughtfully. This country is really beginning to take an Interest in politics and Its own government. The good old party label, with Its "pointing with pride and viewing with alarm," has lost its importance. impor-tance. President Roosevelt makes a suggestion sug-gestion that may be (he beginning of Important developments. lie would have the United Slates consolidate con-solidate control of communications by wire, meaning telegraph, teli phone ami radio. The President says: "1 have long felt that for the sake of clarity and effect Iveness the relationship of the federal government gov-ernment to certain services known ns utillilos should be divided Into three Holds transportation, power and communication." A new agency, to lH known ns I "Hie Federal Coinmnnlonlions ooin-mUslon." ooin-mUslon." would be established, and should have "full power to Investigate Inves-tigate and study the business of ox-isling ox-isling companies, and make recommendations recom-mendations to congress." t'lllllios men will studv these words carefully. K'"i; ''""- svn.il,.-,!., liui. WNU S.'IVK'.'. |