Show s ot r rr Tl e eby v j-v T H I his llis Week by hy ARTHUR BRISBANE If All ll D Debts Vanished life he turtles turtle's tut ties tie's head an listens builds 1 ics cs Will viii Remember Mr and aud Mrs James Hennum of Sloan Iowa who believe in forgiving ing and toi etting own a general store stoic and hatie hae cancelled worth of oC bills and refuse to take mone money from those that come to pay What would bo bu o the tile effect on prosperity pros pros- pent t etc elc If all dt debts ls in the United states were eie suddenly cancelled The Nation waking up Ull one morning to find nobody owing a dollar Should we ve be worse off oft or better botter off A friend Informs tho the writer that In ancient times limes the Jewish people once every fifty years wiped out all debut debts everybody starling starting fresh It might not be such a bad idea like taking the tho barnacles off a ship But owners of ot mortgages would not like it Boys Doys of or Fanwood New wed to Lo believe that the head of a snapping turtle cut off did not die until sun aim down Superstition never dies no mailer malter matter mat mal ter ler how often you OU cut at off Its Ita head Port of ot Spain Trinidad tells of a bearded Spanish mystic sud- sud donly coming from the mountains to the village of ot St. St Helena to announce that within six months the tho world will ill willbe willbe be burned up Chicago would say BUr coldly Go Jo lo back to the mountains and nud get bet more wore de do- tails The credulous villagers villager have given shen up work to devote lI ote all their time timeto to meditation and prayer The prophet has 1133 gone gono back to tho the mountains He will be annoyed Ix months hence but havo hR vo a good ex cx x- x cuse Through four rom gates as Bunyan would say you find easy acce access s to the human mind the gates gatea of superstition super greed race hatred religious religion hatred A hundred times the end of the world has been beon announced and ode ed At the tho beginning of the year 1000 many sold their lands land a and goods for next to nothing put on white while robes lobs and went up into the mountain to b bas be beCs cs as near heaven as 8 possible when the end came It did not come and wont won't come In million years earo The late lalo Andrew U. U White president dent dout of oC Corn Cornell Comell ll University tells tolls of a Jewish prophet who long al after r Christ announced himself as aa the Messiah gathered a great following and announced an an- that he could walk upon the wat water r and those that ea In him could do the tho same sarno Ho walked down a steep bank into jy ilc-jy water followed b by a Do big Clow crowd All were drowned I Leaders Lenders Lenders' In supers superstition often believe bellove what they thc s say iy That makes them themI I Continued on page paRe 4 1 This Week Continued from page 1 dangerous While our Government talks sweet nothings about disarmament the British Brit Brit- ish ilah listen Itten murmuring by all means but they continue building bigger and better airplane bombers while we suggest that such wicked machines be abolished Recently the British air minister showed thawed at Hendon a new gigantic bomber secretly built capable of ot doIng doing do do- Ing miles miler an hour four tour miles aboYo the earth Two Iwo hundred and fifty thousand paid admissions a quarter of or a million more gathered outside the airdrome A night bomber was also displayed scores of ot pursuit planes were sent up in mimic warfare to attack the bombing bombing bombing bomb bomb- ing machines Pilots in the airplane squads particIpating participating parti parti- included scores of bank clerks and other civilians almost as aa skilful as Britain's Arm Army and Navy flyers Britain talks disarmament as sweetly sweet sweet- sweetly ly as WI anybody but goes ahead with plans to rule the ocean of at air as aa she ahe has BO so long ruled the tho water ocean The old gold prospector with his slow donkey cautiously tapping rocks on the lookout for tor Indians would wonder at modern prospecting by air air- plane Airplanes are arc flying over oyer the forests for far ests seeking places to land in the th New Yew Yukon gold fields An airplane prospector can stake stakeout stakeout out claims in six hours that the old prospector could not reach in two months The Prince of ot Wales Vales was 38 years old recently and looks back over a busy year earIn ear In it he took up fast motor boating book collecting motorcycle driving Two of his barns in Canada were burned he was ill several days gota got a a. new dog to replace the old one played Santa Claus Glaus with white whisk whisk- era on all Christmas set the fashion for forr spotted ties and turned down soft collars col col- lars lara even with a morning coat and stovepipe hat He met Amelia Amella Earhart discussed flying filing with her installed a radio in his airplane attended the Downer Doumer funeral These things ho be will forget But never will ho he forget torget that In his thirty thirty- eighth year ear he made a hole in one The British Tomm Tommy or Infantry soldier under present regulations carries carries car car- ries in proportion to his weight a heavier burden than that of at the army mule The rhe mule mulo carries third one of at his hia own weight at most The British Infantryman fully loaded carries one- one half halt his weight That is to bo be changed We must not criticize It took us years and the cost of at sending three thre million men urea to Europe to teach us ua to atop stop strangling our soldiers and out off officers CUB cers with idiotic tight woolen collars collar 1 by br KIns F su mm m be Lc |