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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK What Is Ahead? Muscles Soon Old T lie Moon Pulls Us To Touglien Your Legs In 11)14, us the world gradually moved toward war, no one In 10 u -rope realized : what was happening hap-pening or going to happen. In HKilj, us tills country moves toward the re-milt re-milt of various theories, experiments experi-ments and efforts, ef-forts, nobody has the vaguest Idea of what is j really about to happen. Almost a n y-thlng y-thlng might happen. hap-pen. It Is possl- Arthur BrUlxine tile, and fortunately prohahle, that what hag happened before will happen hap-pen a)?uln, that business and Industry Indus-try will gradually find their way buck to normal, and, with officially shortened hours making labor acaree, the slogan may change from "Let the government support me" fo "Give mo a chance to work and climb to the top." That may come, and something very different niay come. Once In bo often It Is necessary I for nations and Individuals to learn wisdom through flrst-clnss failure. That may be on the program for this country at this moment. The wise man will make his arrangements. arrange-ments. Time passes quickly; age comes soon If you depend for success on muscles, legs, arms or eyes. Fifteen Fif-teen years ago I!he Ruth, "home run king," was bought by "the Yankees" Yan-kees" for $H!.r,000, highest price !er paid up to that time for a base- tiall player. Now, only forty-one years old, he Is released and goes to the "1'oston Braves," who are not asked to pay even a penny for the man that has drawn millions of men and dollars to the club that "owned"' him. ! As we go around the sun, with 1 the moon circling round our little earth, and our sun doubtless revolving revolv-ing around some other great central slar unknown to us, the moon Is always al-ways pulling at the earth, as a child pulls at Its mother's skirt. That pull gradually causes the earth to "slow down" In speed, turning on Its axis. Doctor Nicholson, astronomer at Wilson observatory, says this constant con-stant pull of the moon will eventually even-tually make the earth turn so slowly slow-ly that Its day will be 47 days long Instead of 21 hours. "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings." Jack Iempsey, who really seemed Xo like fighting, apart from the profit, prof-it, In his championship days, discussing dis-cussing other fighters ln his "sere and yellow leaf" at forty, says men that refuse to do "road work" should know that "you can't toughen tough-en your legs In a chair or posing for pictures." Legs are not Important, but brains are. Young gentlemen should know that you cannot toughen your drains, or make them work better, without thinking. Chancellor Hitler orders every man In Germany, young or old, to take physical training and be ready to fight. The Spartans trained men early, even taught the young to murder mur-der working slaves for practice. They did not last long. Iu New York a boy of fifteen, his father "on relief," leaves home and a message saying: "I am golnj to get a job of my own and help myself." That expresses the feeling of millions mil-lions of Americans compelled to be on the dole or relief against their will. It Is to be hoped that depression, depres-sion, relief and dole will end before 1 too many Americans lose the habit of work and the desire for It. Senator Carter Glass, who takes money seriously, says, "We are on a flat money basis." Possibly, but we seem to be doing better than : when we were on a gold basis. I Po yon notice much difference? Is money more plentiful, are prices lower? Is not money scarce. la not everything dearer, on the contrary? Who knows anything about money? Nobody. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, for Instance, says the United States Is etlll "on the gold basis." Former President Hoover wants to go back to the gold basis, even If we have to be content with a 59-cent dollar, based on the new kind of "erpen-elve "erpen-elve gold." Wiley Post failed In his effort to fly the continent in eight hours because be-cause of a mechanical accident, nis plan was to travel 40.000 feet up In the stratosphere, where slight atmospheric at-mospheric resistance makes high speed possible. Fie will try It again. American flyers fortunately are not easily discouraged. If they were, the flying machine would not have freen Invented here. . Klnir Features Srndieata, Idq, WNU BerTic |