Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK the souls soula of oysters in tile coffin ife he pays polly has a tombstone suicide Is folly mr kokichi Mi kimoto moto able jap anese gentleman once a peddler ol of noodles Is now gigantically rich thanks to his oyster pearl idea C ile he makes r real c a I 1 pearls by forcing the oyster too to work work at pearl production instead of 0 diving for oysters hoping to find one 0 n e with a pearl in it he puts little irritating ri grains ol of V sand inside the s hells shell of millions arthur of oysters and each oyster proceeds to deposit the pearly substance on the sand to escape its irritating scratching these pearls are real although experts can tell the difference they annoy jewelers and have hurt the value of the other accidental pearls but they make it unnecessary for the unfortunate pearl diver to go all naked to the hungry shark as the poet has it mr Mi kimoto has been obliged to kill hundreds of millions of oysters which is serious his buddhist religion teaches that each has its little separate soul in hi fact the soul of his great grandmother might have resided in one of the oysters an american who recently died left a fortune of between and thirty million dollars chiefly in tax exempt securities on which the owner while he lived paid no income tax now that he is dead inheritance taxes will take about two thirds of the many millions the lack of a dead or alive tax exempt securities offers opportunity to some able lawyer if the government has no constitutional right to take any income from tax exempt bonds how can it legally take half merely because the owner is in his bis coffin A green parrot with red tipped wings burled buried in a respectable grave will have a granite headstone with here lies iles polly coddington ding ton sixty eight years old engraved on it exactly how old polly was no one knows born in brazil the ans presented to the grandmother of mrs joseph E hunt sixty eight years ago parrots like eagles elephants and other intelligent creatures that eat wisely often pass one hundred A higher race thinks up foolish things for itself gruesome details which no one seems to have put into a movie or a horror story are published in connection with a recent suicide the unfortunate victim convinced that life was no not t worth while hanged himself and then steil still conscious found he was mistaken and made desperate unsuccessful efforts to cut the rope those that think of suicide should remember that they must leave the world soon in any case and might as well remain to see what will happen while there is life there therb is hope chiang kai shek dictator of the government warns china no nation can ruin us unless we first ruin ourselves emphasizing the tact fact that the short road to national al ruin rilin is neglect of preparation for wari war some patriotic american radio sponsor might arrange to broadcast that talk in washington D C we need it here almost as a j much much as china needs i england tears f e a r s that quarrels among union men may cause strikes in a airplane factories and delay britaina Brit Bilt ains effort to get ready tor for her next war such strikes would probably bring welcome orders for planes to american factories nevertheless th eless I 1 iti lf is Is only fair to remind british workers quarreling among themselves that aba t when foreign bombs begin dropping on their fa fam illes any strike against national m safety will seem to mohave have been foolish in retrospect and those words chiefly 1 w wo 0 m men e n and children should remembered be borrowed money is chen cheaper per and it ought to be since the dollar is only worth 59 cents A cheap house or cheap dollar should bring a cheap rent evenso even so it surprises you to learn that mayor laguardia ardla borrowed from J P morgan co thirty million dollars tor for the eity city spread over a five year period for one and one tenth per cent interest here my myron ron C taylor head of big steel greatest steel company in the world announces increases in wages also resumption of full dividend payments on the preferred united states steel stock also earnings in three months of more than thirteen million dollars biggest in ax six L years thirteen million dollars in three months may not bo be big money ironey ir oney but it is better than being hit on the head with a sharp stone done C king features ft uri Syn dicato lav ink |