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Show savage TiTiYlng, The word ""jealousy" ! arpears in them often. "Love Is strong as death; Jealousy ip cruel as the grave; the coals there- : of are coals of tire, which hath a most vehement flame." Oklahoma unveils a fine statue U the pioneer woman. Women have al- i ways been earth's real pioneers, In j Ideas and In action. ! Kar back in the Stone Age they had produced all the grains we know by developing the seeds of wild plants. They tamed female buffaloes to provide pro-vide milk for their children, planted gardens, changed human beings from a nomadic to a settled life. They are the pioneers of the frontiers fron-tiers and pioneers In ideas and In religion. re-ligion. The Influence of motheu on their sons in the last million years has changed men from prognathous cannl-hals cannl-hals to semi-elvilized money-grubbers. It Is a great improvement. Jack Dempsey, once heavyweight champion, will go to Africa to kill lions, elephants, giraffes, hippopotamuses hippopota-muses and rhinoceroses. On one of his "safaris" (that's what the British call a hunting expedition) Mr. Dempsey Demp-sey thinks he may pick out a colored heavyweight. Plenty of Zulus that could fill Madison Mad-ison Square Garden. The difficulty would be to make them endure prosperity and bootleg products after they got there. If Mr. Dempsey should meet one of the big red-haired, eight-foot tall gorillas gor-illas of the gaboon country, he'd be surprised. That kind of heavyweight could stroll along dragging Dempsey with one hand, Camera with the othr. (, 1930, tr King Features Sfndlcm, Urn.) fcAithur Brisbane Russia Buys Luxury War Truths Displease Don't Make Yourself Sick Women Always Pioneers INTERESTING news from Russia. , Stalin, boss of Bolshevism, cele-1 brates the new commercial treaty with Britain by ordering nine British auto- ' mobiles, costing $13,000 to 515,000 ; each. I In America, only Paul Block, distln- j guished publisher, feels that he can afford nine Rolls Royces. And with him It Is business. He uses them to take Important advertisers wherever they are going. When Stalin and other Russians feel that a $15,000 car Is necessary ' that's a sign bigger than a man's hand. It means that somebody Is beginning be-ginning to enjoy wealth, and means nothing good for Communism. ' Long ago this column said to Wall Street boy bankers, unable to collect money lent to Russia, "Help them to become rich, their ideas will change, and tfcey will be more like you." j Ib war, everything on your side ia beautiful, patriotism, on the other side, horrible brutality. Later you look at war from a distance dis-tance and things seem to change. The British are outraged by a book called "A Brass Hat in No Man's Land,'' written by the British Brigadier Crozier. He describes revoltingly the execution execu-tion of a British soldier for cowardice, coward-ice, describes drunkenness among of ficers, and widespread Immorality, among men of all ranks. General Crozier tells how British soldiers were made bloodthirsty by lying ly-ing tales of German atrocities to bring out the "brutelike bestiality so necessary nec-essary for victory," and adds, "the Christian churches are the finest blood lust creators we nav and of them we made free use." The London Chronicle and other papers refuse to review the book. The Intelligent people of this country coun-try are grateful to President Hoover Hoov-er for his constant warnings against Congressional extravagance. In dignified dig-nified Presidential language he says to them what David, Warfield said to Lillian Russell In the old Weber and Field days. Mr. Warfield, in the play, meets Lillian Lil-lian Russell In Paris, invites hr to supper, and says: "Go as far as you like." Beautiful Lillian orders ten or fifteen different dishes. Then War-field War-field says: "Missus, because it don't cost you nothing, don't make yourself your-self sick. It doesn't cost Congress anything to spend billions, taken from the people, but if Congress goes too far. It will make the country sick. Prosperity will not boom, If you persuade the ra&a with money that it ia better to Invest in tax-exempt se-entitle se-entitle than ia enterprises giving employment. em-ployment. That will happen If government gov-ernment reaches In and take3 too meh from incomes. A woman 50 years old, formerly an actress, murdered her best friend, a woman twenty years younger, then killed herself. The police say "jealousy." The younger woman, according to their theory, was invit-ed, the older woman not invited, to some social function. That probably does not tell all the story. But if the Angel Gabriel has j in his records any pages devoted to |