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Show This Week ly Aft rum BRISBANE Watch Mighty Russia Torture, Ancient Custom I'.RA or Dictator Watch Elbow and Thumb Wlia'ever our haughty American opinion or XiolHln-vik Kuveniment. there 1.1 no iloiihi thai Kusniit Is lh moat lu teK-Ml la( country op. earth today. The rnott ii:i:.-i tain in possibilities and one tin t oilier nation should watch closely close-ly Our Admiral Fiske warns Europe that Itu.Hiila is aimluK at war and rep-regents rep-regents "an actual threat to over, wh'.'liii lOurope." 'Inis, Hay Admiral Flske, Is "not the weak threat of a weak and pur-posdeha pur-posdeha nation but the threat of a Btroru; nation, which governs a larger number of contiguous square miles than any other nation In the world." And Hu.-:rtia, Admiral Fiske reminds you, Is "not only strong, but fanatical." fanati-cal." Much power In fanaticism, aa Kurope learned from revolutionary France. Admiral Flske speaks of Russia Rus-sia us Mirabreau did of Robespierre. "He will succeed, for lie believes all he says." Russia believes all she Bays, whatever we may believe. Why the Fulled States refuses to recognize the government of Russia Is a puzzle to many Americans. We may not like their Bolshevik government govern-ment but they do not like our capitalist capital-ist government, ns they call It. That is no reason for not selling them poods and giving work to Americans. The Lord certainly didn't put us on earth to regulate nations across the ocean, or tell them how to run their government. President Sujasa of Nicaragua forbids for-bids lien after torture of political prisoners to make them confess sedition sedi-tion Some In this country that will shudder shud-der at the thought of torturing helpless help-less prisoners mlr;ht be enlightened If they could look Into some police stations sta-tions and prison cells. : Torture, an old institution among human beings, still prevails In many places. It was once a matter of course everywhere. Well-meaning judges, when forbidden to torture witnesses, even though accused of no crimes, protested that justice could not survive sur-vive the abolition of torture. In Rome at one time certain per sons could not be tortured. These Included In-cluded soldiers, children under fourteen four-teen and pregnant women, unless they were accused of treason' or sorcery. When the French revolution abolished torture, that was called a radical, dangerous, unwise and altogether rep-' rep-' resensible attack on justice. Old China forbade torture of children chil-dren under fifteen and adults past seventy. Nicholas Murray . Butler, head of Colim.bla College, says we are going I to have "NRA or a dictator." We might have both. Mussolini combines dictatorship and NRA In himself, dictating dic-tating hours, wages, labor, and bust i ness absolutely. . Hitler is another and Stalin Is a third. Some think a dictatorship difficult diffi-cult In the United States, with population popu-lation so different stretching from Seattle to Key West. If it can be doue In Russia, twice as big as the United States, with a bigger population, you V may ask why can it not be done here? The answer is that Americans are not Slavs, have never been ruled by Romanoff families, a Peter the Great, or an Ivan the Terrible, and it would be hard for them suddenly to bend in submission. Doctor niake, teacher of dramatics at Columbia University, tells poker players: "Don't watch your adversary's face, look at his elbows. If he holds them close, he is trying to control emotion and that means 'bluffing.' " Another who knows more about poker than Doctor Blake could pos. sibly know, M. L. of Chicago, who knows many things, says: "When you play poker, watch the other man's thumbs. It cost me money to learn how to keep my thumb from jerking nervously when I bluffed." In Hindoo courts, when barefoot natives testify, lawyers watch the witness's big toes. When they move ; Involuntarily, the witness is" lying. . The face is always calm. j There is a third piece of advice, better bet-ter than the two given above, namely, don't gamble. In Los Angeles lives a young flyer, Lorraine Bowman. 12 years old, who' ' has severr.l solo flights to her credit. Her mother is also a flyer. To start flying at 12 will be as much a matter of course in years to come as j a child of 12 driving an automobile, j Flying is safer than the automobile, for there is more room to turn out In the air, and perfect balance, possessed possess-ed by children, will help. Attorney General. Cummings suggests sug-gests something be doue about the gang of sharks culled "lawyers," making mak-ing it their business to protect criminals crimin-als whom they know to be criminals, dividing, their earnings with them and some times to planning crimes for criminals too stupid to do their own planning. I The national government is lookin for some lawyer, name unknown "who plotted the Chicago Federal Re serve holdup and directed the Kansas City Union Station massacre " This "mystery lawyer" planner of crime ought to be fined and made an example exam-ple to discourage his thousands of brother lawyers in the same line. O-SU'JS, b, Kinjj F,-.,r Sy.ndic.te, Inc. 1 |