Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK the souls of oysters in the coffin lie ile pays polly has a tombstone suicide la Is folly mr kokichi Mi kimoto able japanese gentleman once a peddler of noodles is now giganti gigantically call rich thanks to his oyster pearl idea fa 4 lie ile makes r real e a I 1 pearls by forcing m the oyster to work at pearl M 3 production of diving instead for oysters hoping to find ci one n e with a pearl in it t pearl iri ir he puts put lit little irritating ri grains of sand inside the shells of millions arllier n of oysters and 1 each oyster proceeds to deposit the pearly substance on the sand to I 1 i escape its irritating scratching these pearls are real although experts can tell the dillu 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 ligion teaches that each has its little separate soul in fact the soul of his g great rl at gra grandmother rid mother 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 clead 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 coffin A green parrot with red tipped wings buried in a respectable grave will have a granite headstone with here lies polly coddington ding ton sixty ight eight years old engraved on it exactly how old polly was no one knows born in brazil the she was 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 co convinced li vinced that life was no not t wo worth rth while hanged himself and then still conscious doumad 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 is hope chiang kai shek dictator of the government warns china no nation can ruin us unless we first ruin ourselves emphasizing the fact that the short road to national ruin is neglect of prep preparation ara t ion for war some patriotic american radio sponsor might arrange to broadcast that talk in was washington D C we need it here almost almost ai as much as china needs it england f fears e a r s that quarrels among 1 union men may cause strikes in airplane factories and delay britaina Brit ains effort to get ready for her next war such strikes would probably bring welcome orders for planes to american factories nevertheless I 1 th eless it is only fair to remind british workers quarreling among themselves that when foreign bo bombs abs begin dropping on their families any strike against national safety will seem to have been foolish in retrospect and those words chiefly women and children should be remembered borrowed money is cheaper and it ought to be since the dollar is only worth 59 cents A cheap house or cheap dollar should bring a cheap rent even so it surprises you to learn that mayor laguardia borrowed from J P morgan co thirty million dollars for the city spread over a five year period for one and one tenth per cent interest here myron C taylor head of big steel greatest steel company in the world announces increases in wages also ru of full dividend payments on the preferred united states steel stock also earnings in three months of more than thirteen million dollars biggest in six years thirteen million dollars in three months may not be big money but it is better than being hit on the head with a sharp stone 0 king features feature syndicate line inc service |