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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK More Years, More Cares Monkeys and Yellow Fever The Kins Sees Poverty Ancient Koran Found The French have a saying, referring re-ferring to a man's age, "One year more, one care .: 1 : ' X j ! , ' j more In an de plus, un soin de plus. European nations na-tions might take for their motto, "One treaty more, one more danger of war." Italy, Austria, Hungary have a three - power treaty under which Italy guarantees Aus- triaa independ-Artliur independ-Artliur Brisbane ence ngainst any attempt by Germany to absorb Austria, Aus-tria, for instance. There is possible pos-sible cause for war If any cause were lacking. Sao Paulo, Brazil, worries about reports brought by health officers from the forests of the upper Soro-cabana Soro-cabana area. In that region, where mosquitoes are thick, explorers frequently fre-quently saw "monkeys with high fevers" drop out of trees and die, dozens of them, victims ef yellow fever. Fortunately for Brazil cities, the jungle mosquito that bites monkeys and gives them yellow fever keeps away from cities. The fight against disease-bearing mosquitoes and rats would keep men busy, If they were not busy already killing each other in war. Edward VIII, new king of England, Eng-land, visited the magnificently luxurious lux-urious ocean steamer Queen Mary In Glasgow, then went from house to house, knocking on doors, visiting visit-ing some of the worst slum dwellings dwell-ings in all hi3 kingdom. Later, talking to Lord Melchett, the king put the problem of England, Eng-land, this country and the whole world In these few words: "How do you reconcile a world that has produced this mighty ship with the slums we have just visited?" vis-ited?" A marvelously illustrated ancient manuscript of the Koran, found in a shop of an antiquity dealer of Cairo, Egypt, was bought for fifty pounds' Heaven knows how many thousands of pounds it Is actually worth. The Koran Is said to have, been written by a highly educated Jew, who suggested ideas to Mohammed, the latter being unable to write. It is possible, however, that angels, an-gels, supposed to have revealed divine truth to Mohammed, also taught him to write. Good news for tree growers, fruit trees or others. You may get rid of insect pests by hammering the trunks of trees with a riveting machine, ma-chine, such as is used in driving rivets in city skyscrapers. A California inventor patented the process. This writer proposes to try It on a New Jersey orchard at the earliest possible moment. The riveting is said to loosen the Insect pests, after which it is easy to wash them off with a strong spray of water, no chemicals needed. need-ed. To save the tree from injury, it is probably desirable to put several sev-eral thicknesses of old automobile tires or tubes between the bark and the riveting machine. There is plenty of money In this country, billions of it, Jesse Jones will tell you, but It is not circulating, circu-lating, as unhealthy for money in a country as for blood in your veins. You know the strange, perhaps true, story of. a man who unwittingly unwit-tingly passed a counterfeit $10 bill. It went through the hands of ten Individuals, paid for $100 worth of goods, and came back to the man who originally passed it. He identified identi-fied and destroyed It. One hundred dollars' worth of debts had been paid, nobody was any the worse. Money is a queer thing. Do not give "living toys" to your children for Easter presents. Many parenU and friends thoughtlessly give children helpless living creatures, crea-tures, easily hurt live chicks, or newly hatched ducklings. The helpless creatures are roughly rough-ly treated, mutilated, fortunate if they happen to be promptly killed, by children that know no better. The hard-working, Intelligent Swiss nation is said to be disturbed by the prospect of another war as by none other. Every Swiss under fifty Is nrmed, trained , and ready, i Even in the big war nobody . tried to invade Switzerland too much ha -d climbing,. climb-ing,. and1 the conqueror would not know how to run the. hotels, even If he acquired them. The immediate business of this country Is to find some way of controlling con-trolling flood waters probably not Impossible. Kins Font'iroH Svndlciu- inc. WNU service. |