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Show brisbane THIS WEEK IS'o, No Cash Money-Won Money-Won Their Reward To Discourage Murder No Surprise Possible According to solemn agreement, made between "gallant allies," which the British call themselves and us, the United States should receive from Great Britain the sum of $300,-000,000. $300,-000,000. Another considerable sum on account of "war debts of honor" Is due from France. Will these amounts be paid to maintain, spotless, spot-less, the honor of nations that borrowed bor-rowed In their troubles? They will not be paid. Nothing will be paid. Three hundred and sixty millions of dollars are more Important than "spotless honor." To the announcement that she would pay nothing Great Britain frankly adds that "it would be useless, use-less, and therefore unwise," even to attempt negotiations. Little Finland, on the contrary, announces her intention to pay the Installment. Napoleon called England Eng-land "a nation of shopkeepers," which annoyed the English and was Inaccurate. Shopkeepers make it a habit to pay their debts in order or-der to keep their credit. Two life convicts have earned freedom by submitting to medical experiment, with "tuberculosis vaccine," vac-cine," or "preventive." The "preventive" "pre-ventive" with which the doctors Lave experimented on Carl Erlcson and Mike Schmidt for months past, is not a tuberculosis cure. It prevents pre-vents those inoculated from contracting con-tracting tuberculosis, as ordinary vaccination prevents contracting smallpox. Doctors of the National Jewish hospital, who have worked on the new serum for 15 years past, warned the convicts that they would risk their lives In the experiment, now proved successful. Both braved death in hope of possible pos-sible recovery of liberty as the reward. re-ward. They have won the reward. On both sides of the Atlantic attempts at-tempts are made to discourage murder. mur-der. President Roosevelt takes the lead here, summoning all forces of the country state, national and local to fight private crime, banditry, traffic In narcotics, lynchings, kidnaping, kid-naping, plain ordinary murder. Trivate crime worries us here. Doctor Dafoe is In New York, first visit, and surprised reporters note that he shows no amazement when gazing on skyscrapers and canyon-like streets. The reporters need not have been surprised. Doctor Dafoe is the man who introduced the five Dionne quintuplets to the world, and kept them alive, breaking all records, after aft-er they got here. When you have ushered five little lit-tle girls into the world, one after the other, you can no longer be surprised sur-prised by a mere skyscraper. Doctor Rosenbach, book specialist, thinks New York city needs a building build-ing devoted exclusively to the works of Shakespeare. It is a shame, says he, that "scholars have to go 3,000 miles to see a quarto of 'Hamlet.' " Fortunately, they can get a better Hamlet than that "quarto" in any good book store for one dollar. To do Justice to Shakespeare, you might have one building devoted entirely to books written about Hamlet, who never lived. Rev. Joseph A. Davis, colored, sixty-five years old, very eloquent preacher, who operates a garage between Sundays, says he Is the New York representative of Senator Sena-tor Huey Long's "share-the-wealth" Idea and already has 10,000 members mem-bers willing to help share the wealth In Harlem. He's only waiting word from Senator Sen-ator Long to start in earnest. "Me and the senator will take this town like an -epidemic," says he. "Epidemic" Is what the French would call Le mot juste ("Just the right word"). Fifty men were arrested at a cock fight near Los Angeles. Six hundred watched the fighting. Two fighting roosters were named Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, singularly sin-gularly inappropriate names. If you know anything about fighting roost- , ers. The extraordinary thing Is that adult Americans, not semi-savage Malays, should actually enjoy watching roosters driving steel needles Into each other's brains. Dr. Leo Wolman, Intelligent, levelheaded level-headed young man, with Nicholas Kelly and Richard L. Eyrd, Is in Detroit to see that employees in the automobile Industry have a chance, "without fear of Intimidation, Intimida-tion, to elect their own representatives representa-tives to bargain with employers." If this means that the automobile Industry through the power of the United States government Is to be put In charge of organized labor leaders, the experiment will be interesting. in-teresting. Kinr Features Syndicate, Ino, WNU Service. |