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Show brisbane THIS WEEK War Possible, Four Kinds 10,000 Million Questions Our Large Gold Pile Knows Too Much at Fonr Russian newspapers, speaking officially, accuse Japan of stirring im trouble nlnnr I v 1 Uie Russian border, bor-der, to "bring on grave complications." com-plications." A protest carries car-ries Stalin's warning to Julian Ju-lian tliat a con-t con-t i n u a 1 1 o n of these Incidents "may have serious se-rious t-onse qnences In the relations of Russia Rus-sia and Japan. and peace in the Arthur IlriNbnnc ... I' ar Last." If Russia and Japan should have a serious disagreement, Russia's equipment in the way of submarines subma-rines and airplanes, all within 400 miles of Tokyo, would probably enable en-able other countries to stop worrying worry-ing about Japan's military plans. England does not approve of Mussolini's plans in Abyssinia, and the question arises. Would England close the Suez canal, the short cut for Italian troops and supplies to Abyssinia? Will Italian airplanes be forbidden to fly over the Suez canal area? The answer as to closing of the Suez canal by Britain would probably prob-ably be no. England would not voluntarily vol-untarily provoke hostilities with Italy. She really wants peace. But, how easily war could come French against German or English against Italian or Japanese against Russian Rus-sian I Germany undertakes to establish a "family tree" for each of Its 00,000,000 Inhabitants, which means asking, answering, writing down ten thousand million questions. The sensible answer would be, "I descended from Adam, with heaven knows how many mixtures in my blood on the way up," but Hitler would not accept that Young couples getting marriage licenses are questioned: "What were your eight great-grandparents like? Did they have any Negroid or Jewish blood? "Were they fond of telling the truth? Did they have Imagination, driving power?" Ten thopsand million foolish questions ques-tions would seem to set a new record. rec-ord. The "greatest" country in the world, supposed to be the most intelligent in-telligent owns some tons of gold, called "worth" nine thousand million mil-lion dollars. We do not use the gold, or even Invest part of it in adequate national na-tional defense, that would protect it We are afraid some one may come, with better airplanes and sub marines than ours, and steal it; an the government will dig a deep hole, far from the coast, put In It a huge safe, and hide away the gold lump, that is used only to impress the financial Imagination of the world and keep foreigners from knocking down our currency. Dolores Anne Diamond, only four, surprised teachers in a Schenectady kindergarten. She said the games for little children bored her, and she could recite the alphabet backward. back-ward. Dolores was moved to the first grade, and could have gone higher. She has the intelligence of a child of fourteen. Usually it Is better for a child to develop slowly and normally. The Infant prodigy Is usually dull later. Perhaps little Dolores will be an exception, like Mozart, and, at eighteen, as wise as Ilypatia, with a happier ending. Lloyd George, in spite of his seventy-two years, returns to active politics. He hates the "arid atmosphere atmos-phere of political controversy" and returns to active politics only because be-cause he believes that world conditions condi-tions are growing worse, and "from the point of view of peace are worse than before 1914." Miss Kotitanova, Russian, twenty-one years old, jumped 25,420 feet from an airplane without oxygen apparatus and landed In a cabbage field after turning over four times before her parachute opened. She claims the female record. Russia Is teaching millions of young people to use parachutes, the first step in curing nervousness in flying. Here we have only a small ; handful of excellent pilols. but the ; masses of our population know as little about aviation as they do about "geometry In space." Mr. Werner Kuhn, district leader of "Hitler Youth," says Nazi doctrines doc-trines have become Germany's real religion, and "the time must come when entry Into the Hitler Youth organization will take the place now occupied hy Catholic or Protestant Prot-estant confirmation." Furthermore, the young gentleman says, "I declare de-clare to all enemies of Hitler Youth ; that the fuehrer Is our faith and , national socialism Is our religion." 1 i fii. Kins Fpitur Rvnrilcate. IDC ' U Ni; S'jrvice. |
