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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Vs lio and Where Are They? 1.000,000 Jumpers Hitler Keeps His Grip Baby Lama Is Found Clarence Darrow, most successful criminal lawyer, says NRA Is led by amateurs that do not understand political polit-ical economy. Who does understand political economy econ-omy ? Mr. Darrow rebukes the President for "failing to call in men versed in statesmanship." Who are those men in this country? Mr. Darrow should name them. You can do things, when you control con-trol a country absolutely, as Stalin controls Russia, with all money, earned by everybody, spent to carry out government plans. Having trained millions of young men and women in aerodynamics, as preparation for flying, the Russian government plans to train one million parachute jumpers, not ten thousand or a hundred thousand, but one million, mil-lion, by the end of this year. Russia does things in a big way. That Hitler still retains his power in Germany and his grip on the German Ger-man Imagination Is shown in his latest I reichstag speech. Hailed with frantic I acclaim in the streets of Berlin, loudly I applauded by the subservient reichstag, reichs-tag, with army and people under his ' thumb, it is difficult to see what can destroy his power short of a collapse In Germany's economic resources. The plot that, according to his own state ment, Hitler punished with seventy seven "traitors' " deaths, evidently did not have the people back of it. Thibetan Buddhists have discovered the reincarnation of their late lamented lament-ed Dalai Lama. The last Lama, ruling- Thibet as spiritual and temporal head from the crimson and white palace of Lhasa died last December. It then became the business of Buddhist priests to find a baby born at the exact minute of the Lama's death. The baby musi have certain marks on his head to prove that he is the reincarnation o the dead man and contains his spirit The right baby with the right mark: has been found in a humble home fa1 from Lhasa. A clever Buddhist pries will rule until the baby Lama reache the age of eighteen. Meanwhile, tin baby will e carefully looked afte and highly honored. Unlike the ancient Buddhist rein carnations, he is not expected to sil in the air without any support and deliver a sermon at birth. The wise merchant tells his clerks: "The customer is always right.'' James J. Dooling, new leader of Tarn many hall, tells those under him, tin entire human machinery of the bij; gest city : "If public opinion Is agains: anything there must be changes, be cause public opinion is always right." Mr. Dooling as leader of Tamman; Is very young, only forty-one. Tani many has always thought a leadei should be over fifty. Croker and Mur phy were over fifty. Some Tammain men feel that Mr. Dooling is "too high ly educated." At Fordham college, be studied Greek and Latin as well as law. We have troubles in this country, but look at China. Her chief wheal regions are burning up under a tern perature as high as 115 degrees, man are dead, cholera is killing others Locusts in many places destroy wha: intense heat and drouth have left o; the crop. Widespread famine nex; winter is inevitable. Here, we manufacture our troubles To unfortunate China, providence oi nature sends them. Bertrand Russell says the British, ruling India, "act like Nazis." For the crime of desiring self-government, ac cording to Bertrand Russell, Hindus have been deprived of "the elemental-.', liberties that make life tolerable." You wonder when the Hindus possessed pos-sessed any such liberties, except, to a limited extent, among Hindus of th e highest class. Among them "liberty"' Included the right to inflict horrible injustice on the miserable outcast untouchables, un-touchables, also the right to marry little girls ten years old and younger, and the right to have young widows burned alive with the corpses of their old husbands. The big telephone company In the first six months of 1934 earned $C1, 090,000. net, after charges and federal taxes, which seems a good deal of money. But it Is only S3.32 a share on the company's 1S,6(i2,275 shares of stock. Prospects are Improving for the telephones, tele-phones, however, and a net Income of SGI .000.000 for six months is "some thing." Mr. John Jacob Astor. interesting youth of Newport, cuttlne short his travels, returns to New York unexpectedly unex-pectedly and announces that he will take a joh and go to work "Just as soon as the hot weather ends." Ar riving In New York's Grand Central tertwr.al, he was met by "forty rail toad detectives and six private detee lives." This seems a good many detectives de-tectives for one ycting gentleman, wfcn. so far as the world knows, has never done anything to make detectives necessary. . King Pratu.e Syndicate. Iua. WNU Servlco. |