Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK suddenly polite why lie he Is Prep prepared arcil thought for atheists atheist strange Hang hannings hangings Han ginga ings how politely germany Is treated suddenly denly by the victorious al allies liest recently germany was kicked around all her money taken by the allies french and english soldiers carn ping on her territory at her expense the versailles treaty sternly enforced what a change chance now F england sends a clever statesman to talk it over with hitler uie the moment he throws the ver sallies allies treaty on to arthur onion the rubbish heap france la Is almost polite in messages to germany no more threats no more D do 0 as we say bayl I 1 1 you know what causes tills this littler hitler lets it be known that eliat he has been preparing for a war in case anybody wants one that germata has a well drilled army of half a million men and nn an enormous fleet of commercial airplanes that could drop explosive bombs bomba and poison gas most conveniently in other words Geri gennary Is prepared willing ready and able to fight it if anybody insists on it IL so nobody insists there may be a lesson there for this country that it if attacked could only throw a few lumps of gold at the enemy and plead please be nice flying Is like human life in this you do not see what it Is that pulls you along through the upper air you look at the three engines sticking out into space ahead of you and see no sl sign n of power nothing to explain the speed and climbing power or what it Is that keeps you aloft the propellers move at a speed that makes them invisible you know that you move but do not see what moves you A clergyman might find a text for atheists in that your atheist or gentleman from senegal sene ambia would say do not talk to me of a trinity of propellers that haul baul roe to my destination and my destiny it there were any such propellers I 1 should see them in austria nazis are supposed to have murdered the austrian chancellor dollfuss now the government that succeeds dollfuss will ban hang 17 nazis as a start there Is nothing novel in that where you have dictatorship torsh lic you have wholesale killings they go together the interesting thing Is the method of han hanging ID in austria they have no drop which causes the criminal to break his neck by the jerk of his own weight A noose la Is put around the criminals neck and as lie he hangs assistant executioners execution ers pull at his feet until he chokes to death it must be a disagreeable spectacle even for the assistant executioners execution ers learned professors tell you the saying beautiful but dumb Is silly untrue on the contrary beauty and intelligence telli gence go together also there Is no do intelligence that Is not beautiful in itself I 1 follow intelligence up through the animal kingdom king dom your female gorilla gorill Is a horribly ugly creature the chimpanzee more intelligent Is less ugly the lowest female savage horrible to look at Is less atrociously ugly than the female chimpanzee and so on all the way up tip convicts at work in a california county road camp in elizabeth canyon rebelled because they had no DO hashed brown potatoes for breakfast it was a substantial breakfast prunes cereal griddle cakes but no hashed brown potatoes men change when Parn Par for whom the eve excellent ellent potato soup potage Par Is named brought the first potatoes to france nobody would eat them an intelligent king ordered the nobles at court to wear potato blosso blossoms 9 in their buttonholes in the spring in immediately ame mme the common people said potatoes must be good and ate them the name suggested for a new state that would be number forty nine Is a name and state to be created by putting together western north dakota the northern third of 0 wyoming and one row of count counties les along the southern border of montana that dreadful name chosen tor for this forty ninth state Is tho the name came of the crow indian nation As long as it Is to be one of the united states why not select a united states name lincoln edison or some other with a meaning two americans mr and mrs switz from east orange N J T with twenty alleged accomplices accused of spying tor for russia will be tried in paris within a few days the and others are accused of informing a foreign power of french secrets concerning high explosives planes built to fly ly through the stratosphere and across the atlantic in six hours and chemical warfare secrets sc which means rec ipes tor for more deadly gases 0 kinc I 1 eatores syndicate lao ber bertics bartlo |