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Show I ' I This Week i by ARTHUR BRISBANE Mr. Wells' Chimpanzee , Pagodas Shaken I 18,000-Foot Building Shaming Dime Novels Did you read IL 0. Wells' interesting , , statement about the higher apes? The) can "think ahead" a little. No other anlmul except man, not even monkeys I with tails, can do It I Without belnp taught, a chlmpansee I will take one stick. Insert it la the hoi- J low of another stick, and, with the 1 added length, draw a banana into Its cage. Since the beginning of time no other animal but man could think as much as that. Consider what man does now, weighing weigh-ing the stars, measuring the eleotrons inside of an atom. And only twelve thousand years ago he was using sharp flints for weapons, not far ahead, mentally, men-tally, of the chlmpansee. What will he do 10,000,000 years hence? News from Burma tells of many deaths by earthquake and tidal wave. Ancient pagodas were rocked to destruction. de-struction. From the top of one, the Shwe-Dagon pagoda, there fell a huge weather vane, of solid gold, said to be " , worth $1,200,000. Many devout Burmans doubtless asked themselves what particular God had become annoyed, just what had annoyed him and bow he could be j placated. ' Educated Burmans know that it was only this old earth trying to settle down ' Into permanent shape. That process I will continue for thousands of cen- j turles. If The Pacific Coaat sends news of snow I four feet deep near Los Angeles. In New York, on the other ocean the I theniometer stands at 80, and rising, j as this Is written. I Forest fires continue in the East, I hundreds of them in many States. Some, unfortunately, are believed to be Incendiary. , Why any man, whatever his grlev- -j ance against an individual, society as a whole or himself, should set fire to a j countryside and burn beautiful trees that could not offend him, is beyond comprehension. r Engineers in Charles M. Schwab's 4 organisation, figuring out stress bearing bear-ing and weight carrying capacity of steel construction, say it is mechanically mechani-cally possible to build a skyscraper 18,000 feet high. Such a building would have 1,800 stories and require a large base. ' With modern building conditions, all the ground floor space in the building ; . would be for elevators. j But human intelligence wlil over- j oome that, and Mr. Otis of elevator fame is working now on the problem of multiple elevators In one shaft '; This writer once rode in such an ele- r vator in London. It moved slowly, the I cars attached in an endless chain that I turned around and came down without : turning upside down. i There is a great deal of action In modern killings, now so frequent that it is hardly worth while writing about them. Near Chicago, Chief Mitchell, of the La Orange police, sitting with two other policemen in a lonely spot, wis wondering why a machine ahead stopped by the road and put out He ltehta Investigating, he saw a man, hands and feet tied, sitting against a tree, begging: "Give me a break." The reply wan: "I'll break your head," and one of the gang struck the victim over the head with a pistol butt There was a rope around the man's neck, thrown over the limb ot a tree. It was to be a banging. , ' Three policemen, with three flashlights, flash-lights, yelled: "Put your hands up I" and, having the drop, they were obeyed. Two of the Intended murderers had been in Jail and were paroled. There Is a little too much paroling. f The victim, Holmes, a wood carver, bad met a woman belonging to one of the gang, wanted to marry her and "make an honest woman of her." The gang decided to make corpses of both. If you saw that in a dime novel you'd ay: "Impossible nonsense." Celebrating his twentieth anniversary anniver-sary as King of England and Emperor of India, King Oeorge, laat week, went , to the races for the first time since his serious illness. Buckingham Palace and the government govern-ment buildings were decorated with flags. His subjects rejoiced. He has been a good king, aware that the business of a British ruler is to listen to bis ministers, chosen by the people, and say "Amen" when they f have spoken. Looking back over twenty years, King Oeorge must feel grateful for the firmness of his throne, one of few. Involved In-volved in the World War, that sur-r sur-r vlved It. In the Ohio penitentiary, where nearly near-ly four hundred convicts were reoently burned alive, two long-term prisoners ended their imprisonment suddenly last week. They were asleep with other convicts In the blockade, when a machine ma-chine gunner on the roof discharged his machine gun accidentally and killed them. " i "im-"" -4Such accidents are bad for prison Jcipline. iC 1M. kf Kiaf htm if-, |