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Show BRISBANEl THIS WEEK The Crown Remains Veterans Reach the Top The Useful Red Cross Oxygen Is Life Behind the gray walls of TVind-sor TVind-sor castle, on the hill above the r (! ; I s..sL. Eton school, where young England learns discipline and cricket, King George's coffin was lowered into the vault to lie beside his father. fa-ther. King Edward Ed-ward VII, and his grandmother, Queen Victoria. The magnificent magnifi-cent crjTu of England was taken from the Arlhnr BrUbnne coffin hefore u disappeared and placed before the altar. Kings go; the crown remains. The services were broadcast, new feature of a royal funeral. The simple Church of England burial service, read by the Archbishop of Canterbury, was heard far over the earth, wherever Britain's 400,000,-000 400,000,-000 subjects live. Veterans having successfully climbed the long, long road, the government began the biggest "payoff" "pay-off" job in history, the printing of two billion four hundred million dollars' worth of bonds, to be distributed dis-tributed among 3,5lS,191 World war veterans. The mere distributing cost alone will be $7,000,000. Now government wonders what new taxes can be Invented to pay the two and one-half billions. Interesting news from Ethiopia sent by an American correspondent says the residence of Haile Selassie's Selas-sie's sou has on the roof a large red cross, although it has nothing to do with the Red Cross. Associated Associ-ated Press sends news of a Swedish "field hospital," captured by Italians Ital-ians In the South, carrying ammunition ammu-nition on five trucks adorned with Red Cross flags and Insignia. The "field hospital" automobiles contained, con-tained, In addition, 27 cases of munitions. In modern war, the safe plan seems to be bomb everything. The war drums of the Ethiopian hero, Ras Desta Demtu, were captured. cap-tured. He will miss them. "The Blood Is the Life," according accord-ing to an old Hebrew saying, and oxygen is the life of the blood. No oxygen means death, in three minutes min-utes or less; too little oxygen means premature death, Inferior health meanwhile. The Dlonne quintuplets are marvelous mar-velous in their health. The marvelous marvel-ous babies sleep outdoors every morning and afternoon; on one occasion oc-casion the temperature was 30 degrees de-grees below zero. All five walk, all have gained weight during the past month, and have new teeth. Annette has three new ones, twelve in an. ah nave beautiful big eyes, high foreheads, pretty faces and look as French as the Marseillaise; get plenty of oxygen, oxy-gen, but wrap up well. Lloyd George says the new king, Edward VIII, has the magnetism of his grandfather, Edward VII; that he comes to the throne with such great troubles ahead as few kings have ever encountered, but "his courage and his sure Instinct will not fail him." The unnecessary air disaster In Hawaii, two United States bombing planes destroyed In collision while plying "in formation" and six men killed, causes aviators to say that ( they object to night formation flying. fly-ing. They may well object; nothing noth-ing more densely stupid could be Imagined than sending up planes to ; fly at high speed, almost wing to ! wing, Inviting disaster find death, j Even In these busy times there ought to be somebody stilliclentiy , Intelligent to Ftop that nonsense, at night, and In daytime also. Mr. John Ilnran of Milwaukee, called by his fellow workers "Soda ' Ash Johnny." first used soda nsh to clean locomotive boilers, a discovery dis-covery that should have made him rich, hut did not ! "Soda Ash Johnny," a proud man, i refused to let his son accept a pension, pen-sion, told the authorities: "I am still able to work, and no boy of mine Is going 'on the county.'" J It will surprise you to hear that j the son, aged sixty-six, has applied i for an old BLre pension. j The statement that Imagination Is worse than reality applies to , everything death Included, let us hope. 1 When a colony of nudists move on San Diego, Calif., the strongest protest comes from San Diego's Ilraille club, nn organization of blind ppciple. Tliey could not actually actu-ally know wh'-ther the colonists we're dresser or not, but they do not like the idea. 'i Consider liov men hrive persecuted, perse-cuted, torture- nrM burned each other for reli-.-ious di Terences. In matters that they con'd n-IT li'-r fee i nor know. p K'r.ET Vr-"'"'": S'-n !',:ft"e. Inc. J ' WNL" |