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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Soim'tliinj? About Millions EiiflIiimilvos Marvelous Now Cars News From Ethiopia 1 Sllns II. Straw", once head of the Ami-rii'iiii linr association and nresl- dent of !lu United States Chamber of Commerce, snys the country l spending $7,000 n m I n u t e. and thinks It Is ton much. Your snuill boy will tell you how much $7,000 n minute m a k e s In one year. Once "nil the w o i 1 d wondered," won-dered," or nt lenst we did, when there was talk of spending spend-ing one-nnnrter nf a billion on the Arthur Brisbane panama canal Nllw nny professor could spend that, after three minutes' thinking, and news that the nation's deficit has Increased fifteen fif-teen hundred millions in the past few weeks startles nobody. The world has passed through earthquake earth-quake week. Earthquakes in Montana, greatest sufferer on this continent. Severe shocks are reported in Siam. Earthquakes In Buffalo, N. Y. ; Ottawa, Ot-tawa, Toronto. Guayaquil, Ecuador; a busy seismographic week. And the moon is partly to blame. Its power of gravitation exercises a strong pull on the earth, as It shows in lifting the ocean tides. Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, of Harvard, says the moon causes "sub-surface adjustments of the earth." The new cars of 1936, now on exhibition, ex-hibition, are so extraordinarily beautiful beau-tiful that every American should see them, regardless of intention to buy a new car. Most encouraging Is the determined energy that business men and engineers of the automobile Industry Indus-try have shown in fighting the depression, depres-sion, while improving that which seemed beyond Improvement. Rome gives confirmation of the slaughter of six thousand women and children by Ethiopian warriors taking vengeance on the fathers of the children chil-dren who deserted to Italy. Kotne also reports the killing of five hundred Ethiopians by Italian bombing planes, and "an attempt to assassinate Halle Selassie by an unnamed American negro." ne-gro." Halle Selassie of Ethiopia has "flung the last available man into the battle line," relying on old men, young boys and women to run his government, reminding re-minding you of the late czar's announcement an-nouncement that he was going to send "his last moujik." He did not live to do that. The national effort to "buy ourselves out of the hole" encounters difficulties. difficul-ties. The President, to make his four billions cash spread as far as possible, announced top wages of $93 a month. But union labor says, "No ; you must pay us full union wages," and New York may have a state-wjde strike to back the demand. President Roose- velt. it is said, refuses to concede that public relief is a branch of nnion labor, la-bor, and, even with 1936 looming ahead, may Insist that two governments govern-ments In the country are one' too many. Heavy windstorms in Florida so late In the season are disturbing. Inhabitants Inhab-itants are moved away from the keys. There is no danger, however, to those that occupy houses properly constructed construct-ed and know enough to stay In them during the short time that the storm lasts. Greece Is ready to take back her king and many Greeks are growing "spike" mustaches like his. Many Hermans grew mustaches, curling upward, up-ward, to imitate their former kaiser. There is not much in Imitating mustaches. mus-taches. You wonder why the Greeks cannot find a Greek for king, if they must have a king. In days of "the glory that was Greece" It wasn't necessary tf) go outside among "barbarians" to And a ruler. You may want to know that In England, Eng-land, where good times have really come back, the Tories have made heavy gains at the present election and the Labor party sustains heavy losses. Ramsay MucDonald, head of Britain's first Labor government, rejoices open-fy open-fy at labor's downfall. His work as l'rime minister seems to have changed his opinions. Experience often changes our minds. "It Is a very great rebuff for labor," wys MacDonnld. "The people are not e!ng taken in by wild and reckless promises which they know cannot be carried out. In municipal or national government." Ed Howe, an able writer of Kansas, 's expected to "put aside his pencil nd pen forever," because his doctor warns him that blindness is approaching. approach-ing. . Periiaps Mr. Hpwe will tell his doc-fof:" doc-fof:" "Milton did much of his important im-portant writing after he - was totally bl!nd, and I can do the same." Mr. Howe can use a dictating machine, whereas Milton dictated to his daughters, daugh-ters, who, uneducated, found it difficult to write down his Latin dictation. King Feature? Svndk-ate. Inc. W.N'U Scrvlcn. |