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Show erfnlore than the farlTT flgE'fT The grand champion bull Is dead. He lived and died In the Argentine and was sold for $64,539, his name was Faiihful 80, and he was a ahort horn. No other bull ever brought such a price. (, If JO. 01 Ku Punv SyadkaM, la) turn of flic" wheel ui "history 5 'Frrncp pnd other European coun-trlse coun-trlse will keep out of war, if they can. P'.it war comes like a flash of lightning, light-ning, it could come tomorrow, with its hatreds, bkixing patriotism, clergy ' calling: for recrulta, promising God's ' support, profiteers calling for bond issues, etc. l i New York becomes the center of all . kinds of high finance. Secret Service uncovers the biggest counterfeiting t scheme in history. One million dollars ; In counterfeit gold certificates were I seized.. The plant rp.ided would turn out f 5,000,000 such bills in a week, a I simple way of combating hard times. ! Commissioner Mulrooney's New York pcMce; having arrested thieves i with hundreds o thousands of doilars worth of stolen jewelry in a New York hotel, picking up some of the $1,000 bills thrown out of the window, now find in their safe deposit boxes $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 worth of stolen Jewelry. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, on the alert for interesting things, tells you that In Chicago last week Jacques Gordon, famous violinist, carrying a $40,000 Stradivarius, once owned by Paganini, dressed himself in threadbare clothes and played on the sidewalks of Michigan Michi-gan avenue with a little cigar box to collect coins. He got a few one, five and ten-cent pieces, very few, for a concert for which he would ordinarily he paid 51,000. Someone concludes that the experiment experi-ment proves great reputations to be "all ballyhoo." mis Weeix by ARTHUR EiUS3AN3 Mr. Ford Recipe IncUa I TJrecI IilcsccIIai's Wana.iz.3 Henry Ford says people must keep ap .their spirits, American farmers must develop mr.ss production as American factories do, wagoa must not be cut, and everybody must be cheerful. ' Sound advice for everybody except the man out of a job, and the farmer, who doesn't know how to get ma.s3 production out of fifty acres. i Mr. Ford lets the workmen stand still while their work passes in front Df them. The farmer can't stand still and make the rows of corn or cows pass in front of him. v"- But Henry Ford is a genius and may find a way. Bombay predicts an early end to the tight between Gandhi, sincere courageous, coura-geous, shriveled up little Hindu, locked in a British prison, and the power of the British empire. Compromises and concessions that the wise British understand thoroughly, thorough-ly, are expected to end India's latest struggle for home rule and absolute self-government. Thus far in history no country has won freedom unless it was willing to fight for it. Individually the Hindus are brave. Collectively they are not combative. It proves only that reputations are i real, but hearers are ignorant. I In London a man in a crowded street offered, genuine. gold sovereigns, worth ' $5, for' sixpence each. He didn't sell any. The 1 sovereigns were good, the crowd was skeptical. Our intellectual Senators refuse dial telephones. The old fashioned, inferior system will b' restored. Will Rogers says-the Senators lack intelligence to work, the dials. .Carter Glass; says Rogers, thought his dial was a rat trap and baited is with cheese. j I That is exaggeration. But the dial system is far better than the old system. sys-tem. Any Senator is capable of the mental effort necessary. And every Senator should encourage all substitutes substi-tutes for needless human labor. , An intelligent New York doctor said: "I would have .the. dial system if It cost I $100 a year extra." i I . I This will interest tn million farm- nawffiiragi m 'I HI II I CMHJv.ijrIOT.iiiiii: twrx i mini Minillllll I China Is in a desperate situation, according to "the established government." govern-ment." Unless that government can soon win a decisive victory in the civil war now. raging, China will collapse, economically and otherwise. Bandit ;-y on a gigantic scale makes the situation situa-tion unbearable. Imagine this country in our civil wp.r, the North fighting the South, with tens of thousands of bandits on both sides of the line, preying on Northerners and Southerners. China accuses Russia of instigating, and financing bandit kidnaping oper-' oper-' ations. j Talking to a crowd of 100,000 in the ! Plaza del Euomo at Milan, Mussolini ! heard savage cries of "Down with- France." He told his audience he knew what other nations were doing,' how ' they felt toward Italy, ami d'-cl not in- I tend that Italy "should hp sudiienly j awakened with a sirrt by seme tragic i |