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Show BRISBANEl THIS WEEK Two March Side by Side Once All Walked In 75 Years, Much Done Another Milton Needed Germany and Italy, meaning Hitler Hit-ler and Mussolini, are said to be working together closely. -They are to control Austria, Aus-tria, and Hitler's share in the control con-trol might not please that intensely in-tensely Catholic country too well. Germany's influence in-fluence will increase in-crease along the Danube. Germany Ger-many and Italy combining make that possible, with nobody in-Arthur in-Arthur Brisbane clined to fight about it. In return for recognizing Italian sovereignty in Ethiopia Hitler is to have important Ethiopian concessions. con-cessions. A million years ago, when our ancestors went out seeking something some-thing to eat, preferably some feeble fee-ble human being easily killed, everybody ev-erybody walked. Now nearly everybody every-body rides. Across George Washington Wash-ington bridge over the Hudson river, opened five years ago, about 100,-000,000 100,-000,000 human beings have crossed in 31,000,000 automobiles, while fewer than 1,000,000 have crossed on foot. Busses alone carried 11,638,000 over the bridge. How rapidly "progress moves once it starts! Seventy-five years, ago, both sides of our country were connected con-nected by telegraph for the first time. Now men talk around the world by radio. Seventy-five years ago they only talked across the con- tinent, now they fly the continent and on beyond, across the Pacific ocean. Those hostile to new ideas might remember that a little more than seventy-five years ago men were beaten for re-election to congress because, as the voters put it, "they were foolish enough to vote money to experiment talking over wires." They -were defeated for willingness willing-ness to have the government try out Morse's electric telegraph idea. Berlin reports that German booksellers book-sellers must sell, and Germans must read, only books that the government govern-ment thinks they ought to sell and read. The public will be compelled with "loving force" to read what is good for them. That takes Germany back to the Seventeenth century, when the English Eng-lish government decided that Englishmen Eng-lishmen must read only what the government thought was good for them. All books must be submitted and wait for approval before printing. Along came a man named John Milton with his book the Areo-pagetica, Areo-pagetica, printed by him without anybody's permission, denouncing an infamous law that would control men's minds and freedom of thought. That settled it; the law died. Somebody will kill it in Germany, in time. In the Spanish civil war, hostages have been seized, on both sides, including many women, and are held with this threat: "If you kill hostages taken from my side, I'll kill yours." England and other countries almost al-most tearfully are begging both sides in Spain to exchange hostages instead of murdering them; the British government officially expresses ex-presses the fear that women "are in danger of wholesale massacre." Nice civilization, is it not?" Dr. Bakst, young teacher of mathematics math-ematics at Columbia university, thinks he has a sure formula for winning on horse races; "he tried it and won, 1,000 times, not with money, just mentally." Anybody can win mentally, they do it constantly at Monte Carlo and elsewhere, but nobody can win money, except accidentally never in the long run. A brave truck driver, name unknown, un-known, saw a lady with a difficult name, Mrs. Anastasia Adiuszkie-wics, Adiuszkie-wics, hanging from the ledge of a second story in Jersey City. Rush-ing Rush-ing to help, he caught her in his arms as she fell then left, wanting no praise. He makes up for many that do not give their scats to ladies in street cars. An eighteen-year-old girl, alone and in agony, gave birth to a child; and, according to police, immcdiate- i Is killed it, dropping it from a roof. ' A jury convicted her of manslaughter, man-slaughter, and the judge let her go on probation; she must report once a month to prove that she is be- ; having. Four jurors that helped : convict her told the judge they re- I grettcd their verdict. J Every mother knows that the unfortunate un-fortunate girl, after her horrible ex- ! pLrknee and solitary agony, was at least as nearly insane as any i sh-dl-shockcd soldier. 4, H.nie I'-f;tur. Sy r,l ica te. lnc j U .N L Service. |