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Show I BRISBANE THIS WEEK Fascism Next? Healthy Policemen Is the Craze a Blessing? The Shotgun Marriage Dictatorship and Fascism hold Italy, Turkey, Russia, Germany, and threaten France and England. There is no reason why Fascism should not come here in the wake of industrial chaos. If It does come, it will appear in the shape that will not please either capital or labor capital, which wishes comfort, luxury and increasing profits, and labor, that wants to rule comfortably comfort-ably out of harm's way, through union politics, and would have no stomach for the game as Mussolini and Hitler and Stalin play it. Six thousand policemen, members of the Holy Name society in New York, pledged never to take the name of God in vain, are evidently all healthy policemen. They breakfasted break-fasted together after attending mass Sunday, and this is what they ate: 3,000 grapefruit, 1,200 pounds of oatmeal, 24,000 scrambled eggs, 2,500 roast chickens, 4,500 pounds of potatoes, 12,000 sausages, 1,000 pounds of sugar. With this breakfast they drank 000 gallons of coffee, 800 quarts of milk, 1,250 quarts of cream. Mr. Octavus Roy Cohen, writer, says : "The craze for contract bridge hurts social life, It has eliminated the art of social conversation." It grieves Mr. Cohen that women should "play bridge five afternoons and five nights a week." If he had heard some of these women engaged in what he calls "the art of conversation" he might be glad that the bridge craze came along. Bridge Is simply one of many substitutes sub-stitutes for thought, a painful process proc-ess for nearly all human beings, and one of the mildest substitutes. Other substitutes are drugs, alcohol, alco-hol, tobacco and various kinds of sports that take men back to the monkey period and let them comfortably com-fortably down on all fours. A dog, taught to walk on Its hind legs, likes the task no more than a man, recently taught to think, likes thinking. Salvation army authorities In Florida announce a new view of a'n old moral question, sometimes described de-scribed as "doing right by our Nell." Mrs. George A. Stephan, wife of Adjutant Stephan, whose work Is helping girls out of trouble, no longer believes in the old "shotgun" marriage idea. Ideas have changed, Mrs. Stephan finds, and public opinion, that of women especially, Is not as cruel as It used to be. The young unmarried mother may find a place in life. Mrs. Stephan helps her to find It, and does not advocate the compulsory marriage, which was once thought a cure for all such troubles. John Curry, sentenced to life Imprisonment Im-prisonment four years ago, when only fifteen, for helping In a "witch murder" in Pennsylvania, Is developing devel-oping artistic talent In prison. His pictures have been exhibited, Important Im-portant artists visit and show Interest In-terest In him. The young 'convict-artist says, "The work means a great deal to me because it makes the outside world, which I may never see again, real to me." The French government, disturbed dis-turbed by recent riots caused by financial corruption, In which government gov-ernment officials shared, worries about unemployment, although compared com-pared with others, French Idleness amounts to nothing. Young men leaving the army are Invited to re-enllst, re-enllst, and not swell the ranks of the Idle, and men out of work who have been In the army during the last five years, which means practically prac-tically every sound man under forty In France, are invited to go Into the army until times are belter. Men In the French army work on roads and otherwise, and they are used, which would horrify labor In this country, as strikebreakers In case the employees of the government-owned railroads go on strike. In fact, French strikers have been conscripted and ordered to work, or be shot. Attorney General Cummings asks congress for new legislation to help crush the crime underworld, and you will hope that congress will consent, In view of official statement state-ment that organized crime "has more people under arms than there are in the army and navy of the United States." It not only has more people under arms than the army and navy, it has more than the army and navy In aifd around New York city alone. President Roosevelt will not be altogether pleased with statements by able young commercial flyers, telling him what he ought to do. F. D. Roosevelt, after all, Is head of the army and navy, and also of the Post Ollice department. I (; King Features Rvnrllcat. Ino. W.NV Service |