Show I BRISBANE THIS WEEK Old Men Still Useful Fists and Razor Blades lades Y Youngest Grandfather Science Works Two Ways Even in this day of flaming youth mature age still has its usefulness The average age u b bb b bof of our Supreme Court justices is iss is s seventy eve n t y one oney I y yea years e a r s. s Twentysix Twenty- Twenty a six sL yea years I sago ago Chief Jus Justice tic e p Hughes took his seat on the Sur Supreme Supreme Su- Su r preme Court bench President r s T Taft a aft f t rendered public service by A S appointing him to tok k succeed Justice Brewer He left t the h e Arthur bench to run f for or j President against Woodrow Wilson and and would doubtless have been I elected had he lie not go gore gOIC c to California Had he been elected he would have I remained in the United States and andI I probably would have saved the country country coun coun- I try ten thousand million dollars that I Woodrow Wilson shoveled out in his i ecstasy of self Rioting in London's Mile End EndI Road in which the faces of men I and women were slashed with razor blades and one man was thrown I through a shop window etc seems rather it mild mild- un English to put ly Fist fighting has been encouraged encouraged en en- by distinguished Englishmen English English- men including judges on the ground that it is better than using knives It is better doubtless but what about the razor blades Germany honors its youngest grandfather Herman Jahnke farm l laborer brer thirty six years year old Mar Mar- var- var ried at seventeen his eldest daughter became a mother at seven seven- teen If all you want is children that record is satisfactory although any mouse family could beat it by per cent and almost any microbe by bya a billion per cent If good children were desired it would have been better for Mr lIr Jahnke to have his first child at 36 and his first grandchild at 60 or 70 at least that was Platos Plato's pinion opinion Justice uses science the science the electric chair the lethal chamber chamber to to punish criminals The criminal uses science to carry carryon on his trade An SOS signal purporting to come from a yacht in distress drew the coast guard away from the coast of Hawaii making it convenient for smugglers of narcotics to bring in their cargo Tear gas comparatively modern was used to empty a New York theater where there was labor trouble Japan until recently convinced mistakenly that this country is her enemy and for excellent reasons keeping close watch on Russia and her Japanese anti-Japanese Vladivostok airplane airplane airplane air air- plane and submarine base now turns suspicious attention on dear dearold dearold dearold old John Bull Britain is supposed to have asked nine nations to protest against J Ja Japans Japan's Japans Japan's Ja- Ja apan's a- a I pans pan's demands on China That should not worry Japan too much I The same old John Bull got fifty- fifty one nations to protest Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia but paying no attention the able Italian went I ahead swallowing Ethiopia sending the little Haile Selassie o o live in Switzerland In his villa at San Remo th the Duke of Borea DOlmo D'Olmo celebrate his one hundred and sixth birthday in excellent health He has been active active active ac ac- ac- ac tive in Italian court circles sinca 1841 before the beginning of the theUn Un United ted States Mexican war Mussolini tells farmers and industrialists to prepare for a decisive decisive decisive de conflict that will be necessary necessary necessary sary to preserve order against an an- archy Those that favor the present civilization he said will have to preserve it We Ve are at the dawn of a decisive conflict between the representatives of order and an an- archy Dr Irving Langmuir brilliant Nobel prize winner announced a life produced chemically chemically chemically chem chem- chemI I interesting probably not im im- im- im I Until some professor can produce some counterpart of life able to think manufacture telescopes telescopes telescopes tel tel- explore the universe and j run for office mans man's domination will not be threatened A cigar store Indian is a counterpart but not an Indian European nations are preparing to recognize the Spanish rebels when they take Madrid and set up upa a national government The idea is to take prompt action and forestall the victorious Insurgents Insurgents' insurgents insurgents' insurgents insurgents' gents' gents giving Spanish territory to Italy or Germany the thc Balearic is islands islands islands is- is lands to Italy for instance to use as naval and air bases with Ceuta for Germany This would upset the balance balance balance bal bal- bal bal- ance of power in m the western and disturb old England with Egypt and the Suez Canal on her mind a t King Features Inc I |