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Show X brisbane V THIS WEEK !' Washington Said It 'j Soaring Mussolini jj Ethiopian War Fever jj Not Even a Nest Egg jr One hundred and thirty-nine years ago George Washington made Ills fare- sit r . yi Pfc n v x N ? well address. It' is nild-"VlctorIan" to drag in George Washington now, when So many are prepared to write a better Constitution Constitu-tion than the one he signed. Nevertheless, Never-theless, some of the old-fashioned may tolerate a reminder that In his farewell address George Washington said : KJlk Arfliur Brisbane policy to Steer clear Ftj of permanent alliances with any portion por-tion of the foreign world." Also, with apologies to pacifists an J high-spirited young college gentlemen who say they would not fight under any circumstances, you are reminded that George Washington said in 1700: "To be prepared for war is one of . the most' effectual means of preserv- r Ing peace." I I If Mussolini can be scared by Brit ish gestures, he will be scared, with 4 England sending her great battleships to the Gibraltar harbor. Other battle ships and thousands of soldiers are - sent to ber island of Malta, 'and, as,." Imitating real war, site is putting "sub marine booms" in the Gibraltar harbor har-bor on the assumption that wicked ( Mussolini might send submarines to blow up her battleships; and that Is Mft exactly what he would do If it came mij to war. like Mussolini Is not alone in his desire for war. On Sunday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, according to the ire ji Associated I'ress, "2,000 shrieking Ethl-tij Ethl-tij ' opians," yelling "We want war," gath-3jj gath-3jj j ered before the imperial palace de ers , manding weapons. The Associated Press says: "The scene was so vlo-w vlo-w lent that police confiscated motion picture pic-ture films of it." That was wise, because be-cause films might have convinced the outside world that Ethiopians and Italians are much alike "under the im skin." Sewell L. Avery, head of Slont-gomery Slont-gomery Ward & Co., will tell you that the work of the tax gatherers In Amer- ica Is done thoroughly. His company, M on Its regular business In six months, J made $4,349,766. Taxes on this business busi-ness amounted to $4,600,000, or $251,-000 $251,-000 more than the concern earned. You might almost call that "discouraging "discour-aging business." When you take the eggs from the nest of the hen that would like to set, you always leave one egg, or at least a door knob, "to go on with." Dispatches from Tokyo tell of planning plan-ning political murder wholesale. The "god-sent troops" that have committed occasional murders In highest high-est places are tired of "occasional" murders, and decided to wipe out the Japanese cabinet In an air raid with bombs, destroy the financial district of Tokyo, assassinate hundreds of Industrial In-dustrial and financial leaders and "reestablish "re-establish imperial despotism." The burning of buildings to put the throne and Tokyo In a state of chaos was part of the plan. Sir Malcolm Campbell, who took his giant English-built automobile to the smooth surface of the Great Salt desert, des-ert, west of Salt Lake City, and drove the car faster than 300 miles an hour, returns to New York advising motorists motor-ists to "drive carefully." Sir Malcolm, who has surpassed every ev-ery speed record on the surface of the earth, selects the right place for speeding. speed-ing. At home he belongs to English organizations established to promote safety. Sir James Jeans, British astronomer and physicist, whose "The Mysterious Universe" and other books you should read, has changed his mind about the age of the universe, and, like Professor Profes-sor Einstein, when he changes his mind he tells you. He thinks the universe Is about 10,000,000,000,000 or ten trillions of years old. That Is a long time to Sir James Jeans and us, but, for all Jeans or anybody else knows, It may mean less than one hour In the life of some "super-universe." Hitler, talking to his army about "Iron discipline," blames Christianity and the Hohenzollerns for the rise of - Communism that "I crushed when I came to power." Whether he crushed It or not remains to be seen. A sailor from an American ship Is locked up In Germany for humming "The Internationale," Communist hymn, and making the hymn worse by saying say-ing something unpleasant about Hitler. 5 Palmetto, Ga., reports negro tenant farmers selling their salt pork and eating eat-ing chicken instead; because prices for pork are higher than for chickens. The drouth, lack of feed and the professor pro-fessor who Invented the Idea of kill- !lng mamma pigs before the little pigs were born are highly appreciated by Georgia's "hog raisers." King Features Syndicate. ln, WNU Servlc. 3 |