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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Strangling With Taxes Go See Alaska A 74-Year-Old Heart Iceland's Old Volcano The Supreme court decides that government has the power to tax a thing out of existence. This decision de-cision came with approval of a 15-cents-a-pound tax on oleomargarine. The purpose of that tax Is to make It Impossible to manufacture oleo- margarine profitably, and thus coru-j coru-j pel people to eat butter, whether they can afford It or not. Doubtless that Is wise, In fact, It must be wise, since the Supreme court says so. But some day, when we have, as wo shall have, one thousand million people In the United States, and lack room for so many cows. It may be desirable to have a good substitute substi-tute for butter, and we may regret today's hostile taxation. See Alaska, and at the same time see the whole United States. Go through the Panama canal on a big boat and see what men can do when they use a nation's power. Or travel trav-el by rail, studying the cities of the country, or take your car, which goes everywhere and stops where you choose, or fly, and see the world from above. See Alaska, a magnificent empire far away In the northwest. See what Seward bought for the United States for $7,200,000. A purchase that was called "Seward's folly." They took small change like $7,200,-000 $7,200,-000 seriously In those days. But It was profitable "folly." Alaska has yielded $419,791,000 In gold, more than fifty times Alaska's cost alone. The "Juneau Empire," which ought to know, estimates that Alaska has been worth to the United States $2,-500,000,000, $2,-500,000,000, after subtracting the cost price. The self-supporting reindeer rein-deer alone will more than pay for Alaska. In his poem beginning "Dear friend, thou art lost," Heine reminds his friend that fuersten haben lange arme ("princes have long arms"). Samuel Insull of Chicago learns that Uncle Sam has long arms also, and can reach out far to get what he wants. Mr. Insull thought himself safe on his chartered Greek tramp steamer, steam-er, riding at anchor under the walls of Istanbul, on the little strip of water that separates Europe from Asia. But Uncle Sam reached out his long arm, and Mr. Insull is arrested ar-rested by the Turkish government, and unless the Chicago utilities magnate is able to perform some new wonder, his arrest probably means the last active chapter in his career. Mr. Insull is seventy-four years old, a man of Intense pride, nourished nour-ished and Increased by success, through years of unquestioned domination. dom-ination. It will be hard for a heart seventy-four years old to stand the strain that will be put upon him. Nothing Is safe, nothing sure. In Iceland, 150 miles east of Reykjavik, there stood a calm mountain known to have been a bad volcano In Its younger years, called Skeidararjoe-kull Skeidararjoe-kull Cirka, a thick cap of ice covering cov-ering the summit, every sign of reformed re-formed old age. Inhabitants of Nupsstad village, close by the peak, In Skaptafellsbys la, felt certain that Skeidararjoekull Cirka's wild oats had all been sown. They had not. The old volcano has blown the Ice cap into cracked Ice, and with lightning flashes and roarings is In violent eruption. Some ice-capped old men have acted as foolishly, and as unexpectedly. unexpect-edly. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gives $2,000,000 for a research laboratory that will be open to the scholars of the world. If anyone says, "He ought to spend his money In America," Amer-ica," remind him that Rockefeller-Standard Rockefeller-Standard Oil money has been made all over the globe. Bremerton, state of Washington, reports six bodies, two women, four men, found bound, gagged, beaten, shot to death in a house ransacked by thieves. The crime wave hangs on, with prohibition, Us foster-mother, gone. Two hundred thousand gathered In Rome to cheer Pope Pius at the end of a solemn ceremony establishing establish-ing and confirming miracles performed per-formed by Don Giovanni Bosco, enrolling en-rolling his name in the calendar of saints. A humble priest of Turin, In comparatively com-paratively modern times, Father Bosco took the side of the miserable miser-able and poor so violently that he narrowly escaped being confined in an insane asylum as a lunatic. The old struggle between "the shell that pierces sleel armor and the armor to slop any shell" is decided de-cided for the moment in favor of the shell, isheilield, England, announces a shell that will pierce a plate of the toughest ,-,, u- of the thickness of that shells gun caliber and go ou nine miles farther. . KIk I'';'" u..;.H symlloau, lu. NU Scrvic |