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Show by Arthur Brisbane A Wave of Hysteria 3,000 Miles in 30 Minute Life Futile, She Jumped Women's Colleges Starved IN October this country sold to other countries merchandise amounting to five hundred and thirty million dollars, dol-lars, a record for the year and for eight years, excepting two months in 1928. In October we bought from foreigners foreign-ers thre hundred and ninety-two millions mil-lions worth of goods. Business is good, money is cheap. Then, what is the matter with us? Two things, a period of reckless gambling gamb-ling and a ware of hysteria. On an island in the Baltic, Germany's Ger-many's able Professor Oberth will experiment ex-periment with high altitude rockets. Using for fuel benzine and liquified oxygen, the rockets will go up fifty miles into what Professor Oberth calls "planetary space." It is believed that such rockets, steered by Robot gyroscope pilots, descending lightly, restrained by automatic auto-matic parachutes, will carry mail from Berlin to New York, in thirty minutes. Twenty-five dollars worti. of fuel will carry 1,300 letters. The same pocket body can be used 100 times. Jules Verne never thought of that scientific possibility. A girl of 18, well educated, handsome, hand-some, hired an airplane and Jumped to her death, when 2,000 feet up. Her farewell note said, "Life is futile, to go on living 13 wrong," and asks "what shall I find in death?" Whatever Bhe finds, the young lady, on arrival, should not go up in a plane and jump out. She found an Interesting Interest-ing world with great possibilities here and should have stayed. Had she married at 17 and had a baby at 18 she would still be here, fussing about .the baby. Too much introspection, an unnatural unnat-ural life filled with vague theories producing temporary Insanity are re- , sponsible for the sad tragedy. I We are here to work, help others around us, and make the world better for those that follow, as our predecessors predeces-sors made It better for us, do our duty and not ask fate questions. Fate never answers, earnest work always answers, satisfactorily. j Charles E. Hughes made a good speech the other day, demanding more generous endowment of women's edu- ( cation." j Seven leading women's colleges have not one-tenth the endowment of the seven leading men's colleges. That is extremely foolish, for the mothers of the human race are at least ten times as Important as the fathers. What women learn they remember and tell to their children. What men learn they forget in business and don't tell anybody. J Good news for rabbit breeders In California and elsewhere, and for farmers that grow "rabbit hay," green alfalfa, cut when the blossoms are fresh and blue. i Mr. Simon, one of New York's wisest wis-est merchants, tell customers "for warmth, there Is nothing in the world like rabbits' wool." He mixes the fur with silk and gets ?9.50 for bodice top vests, f 10.50 for "yoke-front cufl panties." i How many rabbits go to one "pan-tie" "pan-tie" Is not told. But if Mr. Simon will start a rabbit fur cuff pantie factory In Los Angeles that region will supply the fur, the power, the workers, and profits. J Senator Borah, who carries the farmer in his arms lovingly, like the father of the child In the "Earl King," i will find that you can't separate farm-i farm-i crs and stocks. Wheat, cotton, corn drop in spite of loving care and tho $100,000,000 government fund. That reflects re-flects the drop in stocks. ; j Senator Borah suggests that Con-i Con-i gress should "investigate the Ex-I Ex-I change and give the people the real l facts." If the Senator would do that and I give Wall Street the real facts, the Exchange vould be much obliged to ' him. Nobody Is half as muoh puzzled I as that pocr Exchange at this time, j By way of comfort, a Wall Street ; writer tells you: "The panic of 1837 j came to an end." j I The panic of 1S57 came to an end. j The panic of 1S73 came to an end. j The panic of 1S93 came to an end. The panic of 1D07 came to an end. i And the panic of 1929 will come to an end. ! Certainly it may have ended now. ' ; It wasn't a panic based on bad eco-I eco-I nomlc conditions that usually cau.se i panics. It was a toppling over of pyra i raided gambling that hnd to topple. Panics come to an end, but unfor- tunately human foolishness does not ' come to an end. j There is one fortunate thin? !n all the Waii Street moaolne. Working 1 r.ien and women are cot affected. They : take in sixty billion dollars a year In 1 pay, livn on f-r'y billions and hav i twenty b;r'.o . to Fpend every year ! for aMtro.cbi'.i . vacuum cleaners, rv-j rv-j a:o st-'s. tuiking machines, etc. (S. 1929. bv KiaR Features Syadicia. lot- |