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Show I brisbaneI THIS WEEK News of Astronomy Japan Underestimates Air, Water, Power Paradise for Killing Astronomy marches ou. Recent discoveries Include 1,700 new variable varia-ble stars, used as "yardsticks" to measure the depths of space, also a new twin star, a double sun, of which there are many In the heavens, heav-ens, us there are many double protons pro-tons and nuclei Inside of some atoms. The double sun has an eclipse lasting thirty days. Professor Profes-sor Shapley of Cleveland tells all about it. Some of these "yardsticks" of space have a light fifteen times as great as that of our sun. Try to Imagine that. Other suns are one million times as big as our sun, wdiich Is a million times as big as the earth. Japan and England are friendly. Japan will not demand naval equality equal-ity with England, only with the United States. Japan suggests a 5-4-4 ratio, five for England, four for the United States, four for Japan. Ja-pan. In 177G our Japanese friends were locked up In their own islands, no American having gone to dig them out and introduce them to the West. Had they been around this neighborhood neigh-borhood in that year they would now compare, differently, the United Unit-ed States and Britain. Also, if they knew Franklin D. Boosevelt, they would know that lie will build, on behalf of the United States, whatever he thinks the United States needs, asking no permission per-mission from England or Japan. President Roosevelt's words, praising prais-ing workers in the' Tennessee valley val-ley for their efficiency, made one of the most important speeches that he, or any President or ruler of a country, ever made. He promises cheap power. Not all the plans to drive away depression depres-sion could do one-tenth as much as really cheap power for all. Nature gave man free air and free water; not much else is free. If science and wise government can add to free air and free water power pow-er unlimited, as nearly free as possible, pos-sible, that will mean another step toward the desired millennium. Cheap power for farms, factories and homes, cheap power giving the light necessary for study, power that means conquest of nature and her hardships, will free men from slavery. It Is planned, Washington says, to convert millions of acres of uneconomic uneco-nomic land, worthless for farming, into a "hunter's paradise." On the millions of acres wild animals ani-mals will be encouraged to raise their families, that noble white men may have the pleasure of shooting them. Civilization does progress, but slowly, when the richest and an allegedly al-legedly highly intellectual race plans an earthly paradise for killing, kill-ing, imitating the red Indians' heavenly heav-enly hunting ground. What should we think of our alleged al-leged cousins, the gorillas, If they set aside a million acres of land In Africa for the purpose of breeding and killing human Africans? Wise ones tell President Roosevelt Roose-velt : "You can't expect prosperity until you balance the budget" What is the magic in balancing the budget? What is balancing the budget? Do Individuals always balance bal-ance their budgets In times of emergency? emer-gency? If a capitalist Is building a gigantic gigan-tic hotel, to cost millions, does he balance his budget that year or next, or does he borrow, build, pay back when returns come? Must the government, trying to build prosperity, at a cost of billions, bil-lions, spend no more than It takes in? Isn't it enough to avoid spending spend-ing what you can't pay ultimately? What is the great magic In budget balancing? France considers modification of her method of fixing the price of wheat. This country endeavors to increase wheat prices, and the farmers' income, by paying farmers not to plant so much. Make wheat scarcer, thus make It dearer. The French apparently, have some other plan, which Included encouraging the farmer to plant, all he could, France being sometimes a wheat-Importing wheat-Importing country. In London, Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, tells the house of commons com-mons that British troops will not he used to help the French maintain order in the Saar, soon to decide whether It wants to be German or French. The British will want their dear continental friends to be as happy as possible, hut in this decision aiout the Saar (hoy say to France: 'if you get into a fight with Germany Ger-many you may have that, fight all to yourself, wllh our best wishes for holh sides thrown In." War Is painful, pain-ful, expensive, and Uncle Sam has had a' ten-billlon-dollar lesson and s not; lending. CX King F.'pituri'S Syn.llcuto, It-... ; WNUSorrk-o. |
