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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Mussolini Warlike Supreme Court Power All Happy There Learning How to Spend Mussolini lias found the opportunity opportu-nity to show the world what it means when : - J I modern "Uonie" starts moving. He has mobilized mobil-ized an army with air planes to supplement tanks and artillery, artil-lery, and the Emp e tor of Abyssinia, Ilaile Selassie, must discipline his unruly chiefs that have offended of-fended Mussolini by an attack on African colonies. J Arthur Brisbane or so much the worse for Ethiopian Selassie, who, believes that he is the direct descendant of King Solomon Solo-mon and the Queen of Sheba. Maybe he is, but he will encounter encoun-ter a problem that King Solomon's wisdom could not solve for him when he meets Mussolini's airplanes. air-planes. If wise, Selassie will pay the indemnity in-demnity that Mussolini demands. As a practical business man, Mussolini Mus-solini always asks a little soothing cash. He got some from Greece. Also, Selassie must salute the Italian Ital-ian flag, which costs nothing. Mexico Mex-ico would not do that One question may surprise you concerning Supreme court decisions setting aside laws passed by the congress and signed by the President, Presi-dent, on the ground that congress, in passing the law, had exceeded its constitutional authority. This Is the question : Are those Supreme court decisions ln themselves unconstitutional? un-constitutional? When the Supreme court, sometimes some-times by a narrow margain of five to four, declares a law unconstitutional unconstitu-tional and void, ls It exceeding Its constitutional authority? Where In the Constitution of the United States do you find authority for the Supreme court power to overrule congress and the President in the making of laws? This absence ab-sence of authority Is no accident. Those that wrote the Constitution, after long arguing, disputing and many concessions, knew, presumably, presum-ably, what they wanted the Constitution Consti-tution to say. And they did not want it to give the Supreme court the power to veto laws, that It now assumes and exercises. In London, John Puckering, fifty-eight, fifty-eight, apparently dead, was revived after five minutes. Meanwhile, he had gone to heaven. He saw interesting in-teresting things, came back to tell of them. Souls, evidently, travel more rapidly than light, which takes 900,000,000 years to get outside out-side of the universe as we know it, going 1SG.000 miles a second. Mr. Pickering says heaven is filled with a "happy crowd." There were no children. "All were dressed as on earth." No moths in heaven, of course; no depression, either. Mayor LaGuardla, consulting with President Roosevelt about loans for New York city Improvements, again proves that we have at last learned to spend money. Something over $1,100,000,000 would be the preliminary prelim-inary total, for tunnels, highways, public schools, a $150,000,000 housing hous-ing program, $232,000,000 to bring a better water supply from the Delaware, Dela-ware, extension of Park avenue as a broad highway above the tracks of the New York Central north to the Bronx, elimination of slums and the slum character from the East river shores. From Ireland comes Jack Doyle, via Mayfair, London, 6 feet 4. handsome hand-some face, nice smile, big muscles, telling the truth about himself, whatever the damage to his modesty: mod-esty: "I am not like the usual lowbrow low-brow fighter. I'll go up and up and to to the very top." Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., head of Gen eral Motors, announces that ,10,000 employees, under the company's saving sav-ing and Investment plan, will have $1 1,010, OW cash divided among them. The employee who saves $2." a month, the maximum, $:!00 a year, gets bark his $:;00, plus $:i'21..r0 con rrilmted by the company. Including $1M for Interest. It is rather difficult diffi-cult to persuade men to "arise, ye prisoners of starvation," and "throw j off their chains," when one of the j chains Is attached to an $11.0OO.0'M) melon. Germany plans an army of 4'KlKtf) men, small compared with the kal-l kal-l k't's army. Put the real fighting ma-I ma-I chine hereafter will be located In , I the air, and, besides. German re- I I emits for the 4Hl.000 army will j serve only one year. Instead of four, giving a rapid turn-over of trained ! fighters. At the end of five years j Germany will have 2,000.000 mer trained to fight. It Is likely, how ; ever, that whatever is going to hnp ; pen will happen long before five years are up. Kng Ff-a!i:r'i Svn'li-ate. Ino. I I |