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Show . . BBlSBANEl THIS WEEK NoIimIv. Was Frozen One Strike Subsides The Emperor Has Lions 1.000.000 Tiny Pigs Several have written to this column offering to let themselves be "frozen stiff and then returned re-turned to life" In the Interest of science, sci-ence, as suggested by a Los Angeles chemist, R. S. Wil-lard. Wil-lard. They will he sorry to hear that the American Medical Med-ical association calls Mr. Wilhird's alleged freezing "a vicious hoax." It accuses Wll-lard Wll-lard of freezing a dead monkey and then substituting n Arthur BrUbnne ,ive one supp()Sefl to have been frozen and thawed out. Doctor Fishbeln, editor of the Amer-.ican Amer-.ican Medical Association Journal, sas anybody frozen stiff would surely die. It was an interesting yari while it lasted. New fork's strike of union men against President Roosevelt, General Johnson and the WAP ("Works Progress Prog-ress administration") seems temporarily tempo-rarily to have collapsed. Mr. Meany, New York labor leader, said all union men would go out and stay out and nonunion men would follow. The news I is that the nonunion men did not follow, fol-low, and the union men went back 1 to work. ' Robert Moses of the park department, depart-ment, who employs 25,000 workers on park projects, reports only 110 deserters. de-serters. An Interesting photograph from r Addis '.baba shows two servants of r the Ethiopian emperor, riding on lions, one female, one male, in the palace garden. The emperor's liona are trained in this fashion for use as "watch dogs." You can easily be-lieve be-lieve that Intruders "keep out." 6 For war purposes, however, lions are e not particularly valuable. Tear gas i. and deadly poisonous gas would dis-; dis-; courage the lions, as they would men, and lions cannot jump as high as an airplane. In Chicago's stockyards half the hog pens are closed, prices are soaring, men have lost jobs, all for lack of hogs to push around and butcher. The yards are suffering. And only a little while ago an ear-1 ear-1 nest government, determined to help the farmer and promote prosperity, was butchering tens of thousands of "farrow sows" to get rid of them before be-fore their little pigs could be born. "Too many little pigs will make too many big pigs," said the government. You can Imagine the ghosts of a million mil-lion pigs floating over the stockyards, squeaking in their baby voices, "We told you so." i War talk continues. Mussolini an-! an-! nounces a new air weapon "over-! "over-! whelmi-ngly powerful," but does not ', say what it Is. Plain TNT and poison ! gas are powerful enough. ! Hitler, announcing that his country ! Is "ready to meet any outside peril," adds: "No power on earth can attack ! us." That seems a little overeonfi-J overeonfi-J dent. A prosaic financial telegram suggests that the public debt of Germany has been Increased by 20,000,000,000 marks. That might represent an interior enemy of considerable proportions. Uncle Sam, with all his speudln?, makes a little something for himself. ; His money-Issuing privileges, paper dollars worth about 50 cents, and !; silver coins containing less than half I heir value in silver, have given the ! treasury a profit of about $3,000,000,- 000. ! And at this moment it does not appear ap-pear to have hurt anybody. Who un-!; un-!; derstands money? t Stocks are better, prices higher, In London and in Wall Street. The London Lon-don Daily Mall says: "A stock exchange ex-change boom seems to do more for world trade than anything. The reason rea-son is that it gives confidence everywhere." every-where." Strange and powerful Is "confidence." "confi-dence." You cannot see It, feel It, weigh it, but you can easily destroy it. Lovely woman, led by Paris fashion fash-ion designers, Is still trying to find out what she really wants. Universal Service dispatches from Paris describe "dresses as transparent as lace curtains cur-tains from the knee down; skin-tight evening gowns with cut-out designs as big as elm leaves from under the arms to the hip-line. Cape coats of white fur, slit wide open on both sides." One gown is made entirely of "plaited gold braid." When will women settle down finally to some one style, as men have done? Interesting Items In taxation news. For Instance, government will collect Income tax on "public relief." If yo.ir generous Uncle Sam gives you $04 month, the amount that unions ivnv spurn, he will take back $13.12 in Income In-come tax. That seems like giving your litt'e boy a stick of candy and biting off the end of It. Klnc Feature Symlvale, Ino, |