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Show If- lr Arthur Brltban s . - j . To Europe for $8, Maybe j Radio Can't Answer j Leprosy Conquered ; Why So Many Suicide. 7 ' flERE la real firing news, lmport-( lmport-( (3 " ant to all Interested In moving : about the earth. 4 Henry Ford hu perfected all all-metal all-metal airplane driven by three Packard Dleiel motors, burning crude oil. The t machine la expected to carry eleven ll pasRengen 100 mile at a fuel cost of , ' 11.18. Thla mean that the fuel coat of ! taking eleven paaiengers across the i continent or across the ocean would be 984.80. less than $6 each. There Is ao cost for right of way, little for ter- mlnals and for wear and tear. 69: - I What Is more Important, In Ford's ', opinion, la the fact that fire hasards, I . explosions, carburetor adjustments, I ; electric ignition, all dangerous ele- ! menu In flying, are eliminated. 1 . "The pilot sits In front of an lnstru- I ; ment board Uke that of an automobile I and talks over a radiophone without I . Interference from the motors." I ' Concerning flying, it is apparently f true that "we haven't seen anything : , rt". I The President appeals to the Nation, , . by radio, to support the League Court ' This Is, in part, a reply to the State of I Illinois, which, with 100,000 votes to I apare, nominated Mrs. Ruth McCor- I . , - . mick for the Senate. Her campaign jj ' was an attack on the League Court i Her opponent, Mr. Deneen. favored It J ' ' The radio gives you no answer. Talk I' ' as earnestly as he may, the President cannot know what bis hearers think. If "lUteners-ln" would' write to "Preei- - dent Hoover, Washington, D. C, I do t not want the United States in the Lea- I ,. gue Court (or I do want the United J - Butes m the League Court)" that 'v would be enlightening. ' - ' c Doctor Dostal, bacteriologist of ' . Vienna, Isolates leprosy germs and ! . : . produces an effective serum. Once that would have comforted millions1 of lepers and those living In fear of leprosy. It means little today. Leprosy Is one of many "filth" dls- - - eases, dying out as civilization and soep ljpf distribution progresses. Cleaning up a ; stagnant pond will free a neighborhood ": of malaria. Cleaning up the world's filth spots would free the earth of many diseases. - If Nations that recently spont hundreds hun-dreds of ' billions killing each other, would spend a few billions to rid the , earth of mosquitoes, files, rats and , (. . ; , 'mice, the worst diseases would vanish. I V Doctor Price, scientist of Cleveland, r v . . -'r says "vitamin D" prevents diseases v called "degenerative," such as cancer, heart disease, Influensa and pneumonia. . Dairy farmenr will be Interested to hear that Doctor' Price recommends ' spring1: butter, from the milk of cows - ' grazing ta the sunshine. This vitamin ,' . D he calls the "sunshine vitamin." ' CowI Bet the vjtamln, stored up by the h '. ,.-aun.: la Hng grass, and return It la .I . ' thelrmllk., ... . Mayakovsky, ealled Russia's greatest poet, committed suicide one day last f 1 week in Moscow. . " - Thousands of mites away, in New j York, a rich young Harvard student and . '.' a prosperous woman more than 80 . ' years old, killed themselves. v " '- In London, the Duchess of Lelnster . , is sent to prison for trying to kill her- , ,elf. . " ' ' ; Nobody knows how many thousands , of others, on the same day, left the world prematurely and violently. , Life js short enough, hope Is never .; one, duty is not fully discharged, unless un-less death takes us. : And everybody appearing in the next , world will feel foolish If obliged to say, - 1 killed myself," when asked. "How dldyouoomehere?"' t PI5"?. W. 'K.'WhUfleld wants everybody to 1 . 'know that the Mediterranean fly has 'disappeared from' Florida, only two samples of the larvae found In the ea-, ea-, 'tire State since-last August Mr. Whit-v Whit-v ' field represents 70,000 acres of Florida .' ' citrus fruit. .. -v-. Vf' J. . Howey, representing 80,000 . ' citrus fruit acres in Lake County, Florl- . 'da, say the fly Jia vanished, anyhow " M' K wouldn't amount to much. They have t i . bad It in Spain for nearly a century, ' yet today Spain produces 30,000,000 . . : boxes of oranges against Florida's V . . 8,000.000 to U,000,00b boxes. ' , Good news from; one part of the .. - 'country is good -news for all of the : ' V 'country. - ; .'." : i ; 1; About the Italian giant Camera many things are lnterestlag, but most Inter-1 's, estlng is.the difference between his : -waist and his chest' That wide dlffer-ence dlffer-ence will appeal, pathetically, to middle . aged. Americans that nut their feet on . i chairs to tie their shoes laces. "- V Caroera measures thirty -eight inches , r around the waist, fifty-eight Inches : - around the chest, expanded. Tell that to your "successful" friend, whose meaa-. meaa-. . j urements are ti othr way round. , . Undo Sam's , census shows the ool- ki ored population. of the United States duulnlshlng. The percentage of negro population. In this census, will be the lowest on record, and that percentage t uuw la only half what It was la 1TJ0. w h & bf Km tmutm Snrffcm, tacj |