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Show brisbane THIS WEEK Yes, a Queer World Supply and Demand If All Worked Hard i The Biggest Brain How Queer is our world! Fascists, led by Sir Oswald Mos-ley Mos-ley of the English Blackshirts, who ' 1 think they ought to change the British govern-m govern-m e n t, learned from a mob that fascism does not suit England yet. The Black-shirts Black-shirts were driven driv-en home. Next day, bands of the Fascists Fas-cists invaded the London Jewish quarter, smashing smash-ing windows. In . , the first day s Artlmr Brisbane ... , . noting between Fascists and the crowd that does not want fascism, hundreds were hurt. England is becoming modernized. One of her race track gambling-gangsters, gambling-gangsters, murdered "American fashion" in the course of gangster business, was honored with a funeral funer-al that would make Chicago or New York stare. Mussolini does not believe that old "supply and demand" is necessarily neces-sarily omnipotent. While cutting four per cent from the value of Italian Ital-ian money, he forbids any increase in prices, any rent increase for two years. That experiment will be watched with interest. The word "money," most important in the world to many, has less real meaning mean-ing than any other word in the dictionary, dic-tionary, nobody knowing anything about it. A new Jaw in Paraguay compels every able-bodied man to work, whether he wants to or not. Here men that want jobs can't get them. There men can get jobs, but don't want them. The general idea is good, but if all able-bodied men had been compelled com-pelled to work always the human race would still, be far back in the dark ages. One of the greatest Greeks said truly that bodily slavery slav-ery was necessary, because it gave leisure to a few, leisure made thought possible and thought created cre-ated progress. If all men had worked hard, by compulson, there would have been no deliberate thinking. Slavery would be necessary now for the world's progress had not machines taken the place of slaves. Scientists of the Smithsonian Institution In-stitution announce discovery by Dr. Hrdlicka in the Aleutian islands, oil the coast of Alaska, of a skull that once held the biggest brain on record, rec-ord, excepting that of the Russian novelist Turgenieff, who had a brain cavity of 2,030 cubic centimeters. The biggest American brain belonged be-longed to Daniel Webster, 2,000 cubic cu-bic centimeters. But brain size and' weight are not everything. Beethoven, with a 1,750 cubic centimeter skull, will outlive in importance Webster, the French naturalist Cuvier, and other "big brains." Adaptation to usefulness is the important im-portant thing. It is said that the eye of the eagle is twice as heavy as the eagle's brain. Wine bottled in Germany hereafter here-after will have, instead of a cork, a plug of German wood. To help make Germany independent indepen-dent of the outside world, the use of cork, that does not grow in Germany, Ger-many, is forbidden. This will save 10,000,000 marks a year, spent abroad for cork. German wood, according to authorities, au-thorities, is cheaper, better, resists j breakage, acid, alkali, and elimi-, nates cork taste. One question is, will tha wooden j cork swell up at the lower end suf-1 ficiently to overcome the pressure ; of gas in a champagne bottle? At Jonesville, Va., Rev. T. Ander- : son, in a demonstration of faith, al-1 lowed poisonous serpents to bite him three times, assuring his congregation congrega-tion that they could not harm him. A copperhead moccasin snake bit ; him twice on the right hand; a rattlesnake once on the left. Unfortunately Rev. Mr. Anderson, member of the Holiness persuasion, died soon afterward. We go up and down quickly in the j United States, particularly in new enterprises. William Fox, once one of the most energetic, successful of moving picture men, now . . bankrupt, bank-rupt, tells the court that in 19o0 he . v.as worth one hundred million dollars' dol-lars' now he has only "odds and nds," meaning only a few hundred ; thousands, here and there. j Our South American neighbor,; Nicaragua, forbids all slot machines ma-chines and other gambling devices toat country. All must be de-. stroyed. , j Nicaragua's government says !such machines teach children to camble, and their owners are para-fltM para-fltM of the worst kind, making a ; , profit of 68 cents on every dollar. , |