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Show gl BRISBANE i THIS WEEK. The First One Goes Looks Like War ) Don't Stumble 400 Men, 1O0 Mice The death of Mursh.il Pllsudskl, ruling power of Poland, takes (roiti great man and mi able patriot. Re malntng in the background, exercising exer-cising power without with-out display. Marshal Mar-shal Pllsudskl was an absolute dictator, dicta-tor, and lIs death is first among the dictators developed by the great war. The world may learn from his going go-ing what to expect 5 when other dicta- Arthur Brisbane Qne by oae. What will be the destiny of Poland, with her strongest man gone? What, at a later time, will happen in Italy. Germany, Russia, Turkey, as each loses the dictator that now takes the i place of self-government and independent inde-pendent public thought? Italy calls out her "fourth class" fighting reserves and has 950,000 men L ready to crush the king of Ethiopia, Wk If crushing becomes "necessary." Note M Mussolini warns oilier countries not to meddle and not to help Ethiopia. That looks a little like war. Warning to .politicians and others: Don't stumble. In California, Herman Zeigler was Ml putting 18 tame lions through their .: paces. He cracked the whip ; they obeyed, jumping up on stools, sitting up on their hind legs. "Mind over .. matter" was 'beautifully demonstrated. The lions acknowledged their master. Then, unfortunately, the lion tamer, careless, stumbled over a stool, fell ; instantly the lions were upfcn him. forgetting their fear of him. He had stumbled and fallen that was enough. There are among us today, on and off the radio, some lion tamers, mak--: - ing the American people sit up and jump through hoops. Let them take care not to stumble. FT jjj In China, a subterranean river flooded flood-ed the Szechwan coal mine. Four hundred miners were drowned. Old-fashioned Chinese used to forbid, for-bid, and still abhor, any mine digging, "because it disturbs the earth dra-gon." dra-gon." They will think the old earth 9 dragon flooded the mine, ordered the unseen river to enter. This drowning news is less exciting excit-ing to the average American than it would be to have the cook announce: "There were 400 mice drowned in the sink," The sink is near home, China is far off. Seventy-five fighting game cocks and 35 men were seized by state troopers in a barn 15 miles out of Hammonton, N. J. Brutality in men dies slowly, but sinks to lower levels with time. Kings of England once sat delighted around the "cockpit." betting on their favorites, reveling . in the extraordinary extraordi-nary courage of the game birds. Now cock-fighters are driven to hiding in barns, police arrest them, magistrates fine them. Perhaps some day civilization will feel about man-fights, on the battlefield, battle-field, as It does now about cock-fights. Hitler continues his program on the "If you do not like it, lump it," plan. Washington protested feebly against Germany's discrimination in debt payments pay-ments against this country. Germany tells us to take what is given and be grateful, or make trade arrangements to suit Hitler. He hopes to counteract counter-act that boycott against German goods established here. The former kaiser, reported seriously serious-ly ill, is confined to his bed, ordered to avoid all effort ; a hard order for the "all highest." How such names as Hitler, Stalin. Mussolini mjist grate on the nerves of the aging Hohenzollern ! He can sympathize sym-pathize with England's Henry II. who, after defeat, turned his face to the wall, muttering "Shame on a beaten king," and died. Mr. Morgenthau, secretary of the treasury, assures you that your American Amer-ican dollar is sound, which is comforting. comfort-ing. Mr. Morgenthau knows a good deal about money. The British do not agree with him, and some British experts consider the dollar worth about 50 cents now and expect it to go lower. 1 They will probably be disappointed. J John 1). Rockefeller's I. O. U. is as good as gold, and this country is the John D. Rockefeller among nations. A New England gathering approves birth control and .sterilization of the hopelessly insane and habitually criminal, crim-inal, with full dissemination of birth control information. The action was not taken by any "radicals." or other queer fauna but "by the New England y I Conference of Methodist Churches.'' That makes it news. The idea is gaining gain-ing ground that the woman should have ' something to say about "another baby." . KftiR Features Syndicate. Inc. , WNU Service. |