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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Deeds, Not Words Many Kings, Real Ones A Crcat Frenchman $1 a Day and Board Itussia has troubles corresponding correspond-ing with our anxieties about Com-munlsts Com-munlsts whispering propaganda. In Itnssia the trouble Is the other way around. Fascists In Russian factories are spreading - Fascist propaganda among Communist workers, work-ers, telling them that Communism Is a failure. Here we are content to moan, wring our hands, roll our eyes toward heaven. In Russia they believe be-lieve in words, nut deeds only, and three engineers of the "Kuhnet.k" metallurgical works are ordered shot for praising Fascism the Mussolini Mus-solini kiiid of dictatorship, as compared com-pared with Communism, the Stalin kind of dictatorship. Serbians gathered along the line as King Alexander's body passed bemoaned the passing "of the last real king In Europe." Other kings must take orders from parliament. It was the last real king who was passing. King Alexander did make his own laws and enforce them, but in so doing he aroused the hatred of Croatlans, one of whom killed him. He might better have Imitated mild King George of England, and allowed al-lowed his parliament and ministers to carry the load of responsibility. However, plenty of other "real kings" remain In Europe Mussolini Musso-lini in Italy, Stalin In Russia, Hitler Hit-ler In Germany. They do not at the moment wear golden crowns or cloaks of ermine, but any one of them may wear one or both, and, In the meanwhile, they are real "kings" as regards power, greater, more absolute, than Alexander ever had. With the death of Raymond i Poincare, France loses a noble pa- j trlot and great statesman. Four times prime minister of j France, he was war-time president of the French republic. All of France knows that Poincare, Poin-care, a devoted patriot, member of one of the most distinguished intellectual in-tellectual families of France, died of strain and overwork, to which he cheerfully submitted In the service i of his country. Happy the nation that, like I France, can boast of so many devoted de-voted sons, shining with patriotism through the ages. For the first time since Jantfary, ; 1932, according to the Department : of Agriculture, the average pay of farm laborers has gone up to $1 a day and board. j The $1 a day and what you need to eat seems small, but there was a time when a President of the United States complained seriously that he could not hire a really good American for less than $100 a year. Times, bad as they are, Improve. But actual wages mean little. The Important question Is not how much are you paid, but how much can you get for your money? Sir Arthur Schuster, one of England's Eng-land's ablest mathematical physicists, phy-sicists, Is dead at eighty-three. Born in Frankfort, a German of the Jewish race, he chose to live and work In England for many years. Had he stayed In Germany he probably would have been driven out in his old age. The British king conferred knighthood upon him, making him "Sir Arthur" Schuster, In appreciation of his services serv-ices to science and Britain. Germany's Protestants protest violently against the Hitler government, gov-ernment, going so far as to denounce de-nounce the Nazi church as "Satan's agent," The Protestant church demands de-mands the right for Protestants to worship as they choose. This Protestant Prot-estant anti-Hitler demonstration makes It unanimous, with Catholics, Catho-lics, Jews, Protestants united In denunciation de-nunciation of interference with religious re-ligious and racial freedom. The American Federation of Labor La-bor hopes for 1,000,000 more members mem-bers within a year, and President Green, in San Francisco, predicts that Increase In 1935. If new members paid In dues only ?10 a year, which would be very little for the protection that the American federation offers, the new membership would moan an Increased In-creased Income of $10,000,000 a year, a very substantial addition to union labor's war chest. The late Percy Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller's brother, William, said to have left $100,000,-000 $100,000,-000 behind him, gave everything to his widow. Mr. John A. Garver and the National City bank of New York are executor and trustee. Mr. Rockefeller's will mentions no gifts to charity. Perhaps he thought bis widow would spend the money ns wisely as any charity ! could spend It, and perhaps he was right. At least he set a good example, showing appreciation of his wife I and leaving her the "head of th family." Ci. King Fr-aturpf Syndicate, Inrt. W.N'IJ Korvi. |