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Show This Week tj Arthur Brisbane Stabbed for a Picture Useful, Excited Molecules Wise Japan If, How Sad A Word With Gandhi in jail, and Hindu disturbers dis-turbers that worry Britain Quiescent, Mohammedans in India begin making j serious trouble. It started strangely. A Hindu bookseller in Calcutta sold a book containing pictures of Moham-I Moham-I med. The Koran, largely inspired by the Hebrew Old Testament, takes seriously ser-iously the order: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness ot any thing that is in Heaven above or that is In the earth beneath." A young Mohammedan, shocked by tie sin committed in showing Mohammed's Moham-med's picture, stabbed the Hindu bookseller book-seller to death. British law condemned the Mohammedan to death. That is why the Mohammedans are threatening threaten-ing England and demanding commutation commu-tation ot the murderous Mohammedan's Mohammed-an's sentence. A Russian scientist, Dr. Frankel, developing de-veloping a theory that other scientists 1 take seriously, attributes light to "the excitation of molecules." The atoms get excited and light is produced j somewhat as when a player excites the chords of a violin, sound is produced. pro-duced. Light is a phenomenon produced produc-ed by excited molecules. We should all be grateful for this molecular excitement. Without it, we could not see each other, the sky, the Sistine Chapel, the Taj Mahal, Pike's Peak or Dempsey and Tunney. Japan ha its crime organizations. But unlike our racketee r-bootleg gangs, they work for what they call "patriotism;" not for profit. A "blood brotherhood" recently em-j em-j ployed two Japanese peasants to assassinate assas-sinate two conspicuous Japanese officials, offi-cials, disapproved by the "patriots." There were in this brotherhood only three. One is jailed; the others, sought are a teacher and a Japanese priest. It must add excitement to know, as officials do in Japan, that if they do not please their constituents there is a patriotic society ready to murder them when they leave office. Imagine the feelings of "lame ducks" if that system sys-tem prevailed here. Some Wet enthusiasts in Congress say if we could have beer with 2.75 per cent alcohol in it, the Government would get $350,000,000 in taxes. There was a man who said : "If I had a little milk, I would have some mush and milk, if I had some mush. Mr. Tardieu of France announces much suffering In his country because "the economic depression involves ! over-production and underconsumption underconsump-tion of French wines." He implores foreign countries to discontinue their heavy duties on wines. To avoid false hopes, Mr. Tardieu should know two things concerning the United States: First: It will probably be a long time before this csuntry legalizes light wine and beer, or either. Second: Such legalization would apply only to wines grown on United States territory. For his comfort, it may be added ; that this country probably consumes now as much French champagne as j any country in the world and pays a high price for the bubbles that interfere inter-fere with digestion and ruin the kid- , neys. j The first "Baby Bonds" were sold ' recently. Those hoarding money should investigate those bonds and invest in them. The bonds pay two per cent and the government will pay them in full at the end of a year. If you want your money you can get it back at any time on sixty days notice. Any bank will get the bonds for you. 1 And remember this, if those bonds were not good, the money you have hidden away would not be good either. Both get their value from Uncle Sam's promise to pay. It is a good promise. The House Ways and Means Committee Com-mittee indorses aales tax of 2M per ceut. This, it is to be hoped, does not mean interfering with the business of retail shops, or of business men generally. gener-ally. The right plan is to tax manufactures manufact-ures at the source, which would automatically auto-matically increase prices by the amount of the tax. j Since the government cannot get the ; money that it must have, otherwise, this tax probably is necessary. Nine billion dollars' worth of railroads, rail-roads, namely the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio, may be merged in one great system. The Interstate Commerce Commission would have to ' give its consent. This it will do, if it has the intelligence of one full grown mosquito. j What this country needs is to save money, avoid waste in overhead and otherwise. The combination of these great railroads would mean the sav- ing of hundreds of millions a year. Aristide Briand, who dreamed of creating cre-ating a "United States of Europe" is dead at sixty-eight. He was a French statesman and he worked for France, j He did not worry about the United j States, would not have sent a French I soldier or a French franc to this country coun-try if it had been on fire, from Alaska to Florida. He was French, worked for France, aud had no thought for anything any-thing else. The power of France, her domination domina-tion in Europe, the fact that she is the , greatest "gold country" in the world, is , due to the fact that she produces such men as Briand. 1 ((.1931, by iuns Feilurci Syndicate, lac) |