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Show I brisbane THIS WEEK One Big Catch War Comes Closer More Houses Needed Would Not Eat Ladies President Roosevelt, interrupting his journey to attend to official business, did a Ut- r ' '' X - "N 1 1 tie fishing from a whale boat off Port-of-Spain. It was poor fishing, but the President did not complain; he caught something some-thing worth while on election day to catch forty-six out of a possible forty-eight fish is good fishing. Europe and Asia seem to be . . . getting a little Arthur BrlHbnne , . , closer to war, although al-though many wise ones think it still far off. Germany admits willingness t o side with Japan in a fight against bolshevism. Practical Stalin, man of few words, tells Japan what he thinks of her pact with Germany by refusing to renew a treaty that permits per-mits Japan to fish in Russian water off the coast of eastern Siberia. That fishing privilege is vitally important to the feeding of Japan's surplus millions, increasing at the rate of one million new Japanese every year. Langdon Post, New York's commissioner com-missioner of housing, tells the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor that a great national shortage of houses exists, because there has been no building. New York City, especially, is in a bad way, according to Mr. Post; there the shortage in housing "may have tragic consequences." That is good news for the building build-ing trades, and temporarily good news for landlords; they will not overbuild. As usual, politicians will seize the opportunity to raise taxes, and presently money lenders will be once more selling real estate under un-der foreclosures. Life is a brief game of seesaw now up, that is prosperity; then down, that is depression. The budget bud-get is not the only thing that needs balancing. Our neighbor, Nicaragua, well advanced ad-vanced in modern intelligence, establishes es-tablishes a military flying school, orders fighting planes from the United Unit-ed States, hires a first-class instructor. instruc-tor. There is progress everywhere, and you realize it when you read in chapter 26 of Westermarck's "The Origin and Development of the Moral Mo-ral Ideas": In ancient Nicaragua women were held unworthy to perform any duty in connection with the temples, and were immolated outside the temple ground of the large sanctuaries, and even their flesh was unclean food for the high priest, who accordingly ate only the flesh of males. . What a jump from a civilization in which the high priest would not eat ladies that had been slaughtered to a modern air school in which young Nicaraguan women, once excluded ex-cluded from the temples, will be allowed al-lowed to fly planes and learn how to release bombs! Schumann - Heink, artist of the operatic stage, and a fine example to all women, is dead at seventy-five. seventy-five. Young ladies who say "I can't have children because I must have a career," and sometimes have neither, please observe that Mme. Schumann - Heink had a magnificent magnifi-cent artistic career and many children chil-dren also, including two boys killed in the big war, and one on a submarine, sub-marine, who survived. Winston Churchill, able Englishman, English-man, thinks Great Britain, France and the United States should remain "one in support of democracy," and calls the United States "a child of our blood and ideals." This country coun-try is the child of many different kinds of blood and ideals. Greater New York includes the biggest Italian city in the world, bigger than Rome or Milan; more than a million of Italian birth or descent. The same New York contains two million jews, many more than ever were in Palestine. Colombia has written a new constitution, con-stitution, authorizing its government, govern-ment, among other things, to confiscate con-fiscate private property without paying the owners. Conservative citizens of Colombia call that "communistic," "com-munistic," which seems hardly an exaggeration. More pay increases, more bonuses, bo-nuses, more distribution of accumulated accu-mulated surplus by big corporations. Sixty - five thousand workers in textile and shoe industries learn that they are to have Christmas bonuses and better wages. Two young female geniuses, Misses Fanny Hurst and Agnes Rep-plier, Rep-plier, disagree about book writing. Agnes Repplier says it is "perilously "peril-ously easy"; Fanny Hurst says no, it is hard. Publishers say all depends on the kind of books you write and the brain you have. King Features Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service. |