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Show I BRISBANE , THIS WEEK j Fine Now J nil S Newpuper Prestige S Easy to Buy i Who h the Man? J Not niiH'li Ethiopian news. You could hardly expect It with our own white-black prize-ring prize-ring v a r c o in-p in-p e t 1 n g. Whatever happens, Ethiopian tribesmen will benefit. ben-efit. The emperor, Ilaile Selassie, Is working on reforms, doing away with abuses that Mussolini Musso-lini pointed oui and promised to cure. He opened a substantial sub-stantial concrete Jail outside of Addis Ad-dis Ababa to re- Dj. ' place the old jail. Ar.hur Brl.bunc There am,rJlng t0 Mr.' von Wlegand's cablegram to Universal Uni-versal Service, "live prisoners sometimes some-times remained chained to those who had died for days." Newspapers in Pennsylvania, 2G5 of them, have celebrated "press prestige" v this week. Governor Earle tells the edl- tors, presumably shivering with de- light and surprise, about-"the impor- I tant part that newspapers play In the lives of our people." It Is as Important Im-portant as the part played by the peo- J pie's eyes and ears, and might be taken for granted by now. Napoleon knew . about it when he said that, If he allowed freedom of Atlsj the press,' his power would not last six lt weeks. Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini renr- cou'd make speeches about it. ' 8 k The newspaper Is a mirror In which the public sees Itself, the newspa his . per's owner and the civilization of the iry, t moment. Interesting reflections of that civilization may appear soon In dispatches from Ethiopia and from London In case Mussolini should send as his first 500 airplanes In the direction timet! of Buckingham palace, the house of ollar j commons, Downing street and the ansa Ba,lk of EnSland, with the message: "What do you think of explosive and ay " mustard gas sanctions?" The pathetic thing In Journalism, as - in politics, Is the lack of names that the people know. Millions of Ameri- me, cans read newspapers with no faintest conception as to the character of the man whose newspaper they read. It might be called "anonymous nonentity." nonen-tity." There are exceptions, i . The most important and Influential m newspaper by far, in proportion to circulation, cir-culation, Is the so-called "country newspaper,'' smaller dailies and weeklies. week-lies. Their readers know who runs them, and those readers, not living in city apartments, with a can opener, buy everything from the paint on the Toof to the cement in the cellar floor, from the piano and radio In the sitting room to the car in the garage. Berlin says the Nazi party plans, forcibly, to buy out all Jewish firms and businesses, suggesting that "ambitious "am-bitious Aryan business men will get great bargains." One idea is to allow "Aryan" employees to take over Jewish Jew-ish businesses with government backing. back-ing. They might take it over, but what about running it? Anybody may buy a business; making it pay is another an-other Job. The Republican committee will have "an Important meeting" now, a really big, flrst-class, "bang-up" meeting In December, to put "pep" Into the 1936 campaign. The question is, "Who Is your man?" ; Americans want to yell for somebody. some-body. : They have not been trained to yell for an Idea. Who Is your man? What Is his name? Amusing situation In Europe: Eng land sends her gigantic fleet to the Mediterranean, heaviest dreadnaughts, submarines, airships; parks them around the rock of Gibraltar and at the entrance of the Suez canal ; sends additional soldiers to the Island of ;Malta. ' Mussolini puts his convenient Island, off the coast of Greece, In a state of siege, with submarines, airplanes, cutting cut-ting the Mediterranean in two, Isolating Isolat-ing the big English fleet In the western end. Then England, having shown an ardent desire to fight Italy, sends ofll-cial ofll-cial word that she really hadn't any war with Italy In mind, her feelings were hurt bv the Italian newspapers. That Is why she sent her fleet DeWolf Hopper Is dead at seventy-seven, seventy-seven, too soon. He worked to the )last, talked over the radio in the afternoon, after-noon, and was dead at 6 :30 next morn- Ing. He should find a good seat reserved re-served for him in the entertainment that lasts forever, In a better world. He spent his life working to make people smile and forget their sorrows. At Council Bluffs, Iowa, John- Slat-tery, Slat-tery, sevenxy-one, and at present "on relief,"4 sltsMn his one-room "shack," covered with tar paper, wonderltig what he will do this winter with twin daughters, that his tweuty-four-year- Iold wife added to the e-.irth's population popula-tion ten days ago. He married her v when she was seventeen and he sixty ) four. King Feature SytiaSeule, luc. j WNU Service. |