Show Today T CRUISER NONSENSE A BRIDE TEX RICKARD'S BOOK THE DEAR PEOPLES PEOPLE'S RIGHTS By ARTHUR BRISBANE Copyright 1927 1921 by the Star Co Britain wants many man small cruisers high speed fighting boats to protect her mercantile marine marino from attack on the sea We W say she cant can't have bave them or if it she builds them we shall shan swamp her with an overwhelming naval program What's the th tb use of ot talking about cruisers that could play no part in ina Ina ina a real war var war They The are simply to merchants what sheep dogs arc are areto to sheep A few dozen flying ma ma- machines machines chines that could be built for the price of ot one cruiser would wipe out all an the cruisers that England could build Why not talk sense and especial especial- especially ly why not build flying machines Italy has set up a new earthly trinity which goes Country church and Mussolini l All An three are worshipped with wills patriotic en en- Yale ale men had a similar idea when they Invented what Harvard Hanard calls the champion anticlimax climax For God for country and for tor Yale Italy's new trinity would be pow pow- powerful powerful erful if only Mussolini's life were guaranteed But It is constantly constant threatened and time at least must end it H. Any great enterprise that de depends de- de depends on one life me is always In Ia dan dan- danger ger Restoring the Roman power in all its greatness the task that Mussolini set himself is a big task Organize deputize supervise is a wise program program Mussolini does everything starts everything car car- carries carrica ries rica everything ever under his hat a crowded oa space for imperial restora restora- tion I Prince brother of the mikado is ls to marry and the Japanese Jap lap anese elders are selecting a a. bride He has nothing to say about it which is a violation of ot natures nature's wise Darwinian rule of or natural se se- lection If he be chose for tor himself as did Philip father of ot Alexander when he h picked the wild Olympias or the Norman duke father tather of William the Conqueror the Japanese imperial family might gain gaIn strength A strong Infusion of Tartar blood might help hell Los Angeles Is said probably without important authority to be ready to offer more than Chicago will give for the next nett big prizefight Los Angeles doesn't want ant and doesn't need the mob that a great prizefight fight could bring with it You cant can't have havEa a combination home and dive Los Angeles Angelea will HI prefer to keep out the dive dire and promote the home Tex Rickard will some day write an enlightening book on prizefight prizefight- prizefightIng Ing and prizefighters prizefighters after after he gets through with both Just now he feels that the radio takes part of I I his profits At the last million dol dol- dollar dollar lar fight light there was one seat unsold until quit quite late in the tho afternoon RIckard suggests that listeners in on the radio should pay twenty five cents each for the pleasure sure of en en- enjoying enjoying fight details That would produce a five or ox- ten million dol dol- dollar lar Jar fight tight and enable Rickard Rick to begin sooner writing his book Gloves I Have Ha Put on Others Some unsympathetic suggest that as the government can c n con con- control control control radio It should forbid broad broad- broadcasting broadcasting broadcasting casting brutal and bloody details of ot prizefighting in millions of ot homes bomes Government Gov will not allow moving moving ing pictures of prizefights to be car car- carried ried ned from one state to another Why allow the story by radio to tobe tobe tobe be led carried into G esery state It is the broadcasting of prize prize- prizefights fights lights that eventually will till stop prizefighting Clergymen listening in will combine to stop the brutal brutal- brutality brutality ity and they will be beable able to do It The wonder is that they have not done dOnG so already Prizefighting is isa a a real moral issue more important than Jonah and the whale or Dar Dar- Darwin Darwin Darwin win and monkeys s v Automobiles going to and fro on the earth are no longer allowed to tomake tomake tomake make a parking space picnic or camping ground of the tho land around West Point Some Sonic foolishly indig Indig- indignant Indignant indignant nant say West Point belongs to the people and the people should not be kept out of ot it Quite true But the room in which the tho supreme court deliberates deliberates ates also belongs to the tho people Nevertheless jou ou are not allowed to drive your little automobile through it or eat your our hot bot dogs on its benches West Point is for training officers and should be used for that purpose Those that wish to inspect the college not to pic plc- picnic nic are always welcome v |