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Show THIS WEEK Pretending Costs Money A Japanese Widow The Five Babies Are Well Democratic Edward VIII Even imitation war is costly. England's Eng-land's battleships, submarines and V i i-v - ' Sit f i i f airplanes in uie Mediterranean, intended to Intimidate In-timidate ItalJ and keep down discontent in Egypt, represent no real war. England occasionally occa-sionally discharges dis-charges light "depth bombs" In the Mediterranean, Mediter-ranean, "bringing "bring-ing Italian submarines sub-marines popping like corks to ine Arthur Br.Sbane government tells the house of commons com-mons this imitation war costs British Brit-ish taxpayers five hundred thousand thou-sand pounds a month. The twenty-fonr-year-old widow of a Japanese officer who committed commit-ted suicide after the recent rebellion, rebel-lion, sends a letter of apology to "Your august majesty," the Japanese Jap-anese emperor, saying: "I believe the spirit of my husband, whose body lies In a coffin before me, also sorrows for those who fell." A most serious people, the Japanese. Jap-anese. Doctor Dafoe, modest man from Canada, who understands quintuplets, quintu-plets, dropped in to say the five little girls are doing well, fighting frequently, sign of a normal condition. con-dition. They like sleeping outdoors with the weather 30 below zero, but in daytime only. It would delight you to see their red cheeks. Three hundred and seventy-five thousand visitors, nearly all from the United States, came to look through a fence at the quintuplets last year; 500,000 are expected this year. The baby girls are a wonderful wonder-ful advertisement for Canada. Many that go to see them will buy farms and stay. A democratic young person is Edward the Eighth, new king of England and emperor of India. Broadcasting to 200,000,000 that live under the British flag and occupy oc-cupy one-quarter of the earth's surface, he does not refer to them as "my subjects" or "my people," as his predecessors did, but calls them "fellow men." And Edward VIII does not refer to himself as "we," which is customary cus-tomary with other rulers. His father fa-ther spoke of "my empire" and "my dear people" and called himself "we." President Roosevelt submits to congress a plan to Increase heavily heav-ily income taxes of corporations suspected of holding many billions of profits not distributed. The taxes might run to over 33 per cent. You never can tell what Wall Street will think. President Roose velt's taxation program sends stocks up. Perhaps Wall Street has no "undistributed reserves." Great Industries will not be forbidden forbid-den reasonable cash surpluses, presumably. pre-sumably. Such a rule would make expansion and Increased employment employ-ment Impossible. A Joint resolution In the house and senate suggests a congressional medal of honor for the late Gen. William Mitchell, head of the American Amer-ican air forces in the big war. Few congressmen would vote against a tribute to a man who fought so well for his country, and the medal would please his widow and children. chil-dren. Uncle Sam paying rent to Panama Pan-ama for the canal, offering the usual $250,000 rent installment, was told: "No, we do not take 59-cent dollars." Washington admits that while It may try interesting experiments with Its own money, and tell Its own citizens "Gold Is too good for you," it has no right to make the outside world suffer. Panama will get nn amount of money equal to 250,000 of our dollars before we slid oft the gold basis and Into the "inflation bond" era. Sometimes government ownership gets things done. Germany's postal ministry opens the first long-distance television-telephone In the world, between Berlin and Leipzig the charge for three minutes only $1.40. When you call up a "si rung bluish light" Illuminates your face! which Is seen hy the person at the other end of the line. That would have been lmprobahlo when telephones tele-phones were Installed In the big Purls exposition, not so long ago." Four years ago the Llndberch child was kidnaped. Bruno llaup't-maun, llaup't-maun, convicted of the kidnaping mid murder, caught spending the marked gold eortlHenlos that l.lnd. bergh paid In a vain effort to get back his child, is si ill alive. II. is said thai he will have an. oilier reprieve. Our system of Justice Jus-tice Is not IuimI.v. 4 K inn i-v,,,,,,,.., svm.ii,-,ii, i,u, WNU .Sim vU-o. |