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Show This Week ' lj Arthur Brisbane Assorted Miracles Grasshoppers a Burden Two Broom Peddlers Queer Advice From f Lawyers The Western grasshopper plague recalls one of the early and gratlfy-. gratlfy-. lng Mormon miracles. In 1847 the first Mormons, mournfully watched grasshoppers grass-hoppers destroying all their crops In Salt Lake Valley. Suddenly great flocks of sea gulls appeared, ate the grasshoppers, ended end-ed the plague. Plainly Heaven had sent them. Nothing so convincing had happened since the dove flew down, rested on . Mohammed's shoulder, whispered In his ear. The faithful saw a message from Allah. They did not know that the pigeon . ,: had been trained to eat dried peas from the prophet's ear. Once in the Northwest, a long way from the Pacific, a plague of field mice was destroying everything In sight, when sea gulls came over the mountains from the ocean and ate the mice. Mr. Bailey, head of Government's small mammals derrtment, In charge of the mice, offere'd no miracle explanation, ex-planation, but admired the sea gulls' intelligence. Doctor Larrlmer, government enty-mologlst, enty-mologlst, says grasshoppers detroylng crops in Northwestern and Central States, are expanding their ravages fifty miles a day by taking to their wings. There is little hope for grasshopper grass-hopper control this season. This reminds you that proud man. dressed fn a little brief authority, may some day find himself wiped out by a combination of plagueSj insects, destroying de-stroying crops, rats and ground squirrels squir-rels carrying disease, ants destroying everything in hot countries, rabbits and mosquitoes. Proud man should devote to the task of protecting klmself against such enemies, some of the Ingenuity that he devotes to poison gas and explosives ex-plosives for killing of other men. Grasshoppers are not as foolish men. Germany thanks President Hoover for his wheat suggestion, low price and long credit, but will need little wheat. The home crop is adequate. That Is the story In nearly every country. But Germany will be glad to buy cotton from us, and copper too, on long credits of the "it may be for years, and It may be forever" sort. That will be good news for copper men, anxious to see the surplus metal met-al exported on any terms. The late Nathan Straus told of one broom peddler asking another: "You undersell me, although I steal the handles, string, broom, everything. How is It possible to undersell me?" The other replied: "I steal my broom ready made, and save labor. You're not a business man." If Germany can get cotton, copper and other raw materials, on a pay-as-you-please plan, she ought to do some business, and possibly interfere with Russia's alleged dumping. Federal Judge R. J. Hopkins, all the way from Kansas, tells New York j lawyers that they "should not defend erlminals they know to be guilty." Several New York lawyers. In their own language, "will get a laugh out of that." A man accused of crime and guilty usually has money. The man accused but Innocent usually has nothing. Does the Judge from Kansas want the New York criminal lawyer to starve to death? Let him remember the young corporation lawye who said, "The only favor a common man can do me is to get run over by the cars. Then I can make something defending de-fending the corporation against the damage suit." So many flyers are over the different differ-ent oceans and continents that it Is difficult to keep track of them. Sufficient Suffi-cient to say that they are all doing "very nicely." You wonder what the old sultans of' Turkey would have said had you told them that in their great city of Istanbul men that had flown the Atlantic Ocean and the European continent would land to drink to the health of "Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey." That would be too much for any sultan. ! : One of the flyers aX the Turkish ; banquet said that he expected Con-; : stantlnople to be a great aviation cen- ter some day. Charles Fourier, the French philos-' j opher, expected Constantinople to become be-come the capital of the entire world,; because of Its central position. But now flying machines make all spots on earth accessible. The world's capital will be wherever the world's' brains are, and the world's money. The oil Industry needs help. Standard Stand-ard Oil of California reports for the first six months of 1931 prove It. j ! . The profit was only 43 cents as against $1.53 for the first six months of 1930. The New York Jewish Board of Guardians teJl this story. Private detectives, de-tectives, hired to protect slot machines irom thieves, compelled boys, once convicted, to persuade other boys to i rob the machine, letting the detec-' detec-' tives know when the robberies would occur. The detectives arrested the boys thus tempted, sent them to Jail, Improving the detectives' records for vigilance. . 1930. br Klaa Ptmu Syndicitt Lot) |