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Show BRISBANE ! THIS WEEK i i Old Age Pensions Docs Lashing Do Good? Those Cosmic Rays 6,000-Year-OU Graves Financial conservatism is agitated agi-tated because old-age pensions as planned, moderately, by the President, Presi-dent, would cost one billion dollars a year. Conservatism might better worry about Doctor Townsend's plan to give two hundred dollars a month to everybody past sixty years of age, and cost at least twenty-four twenty-four thousand millions a year. Conservatism might also worry about billions spent uselessly In state, national or local government costs, and taxes that run above thirteen thousand million dollars a year. At Wilmington, Del., three young men, eighteen, twenty and twenty-three twenty-three years old, were lashed In public, pub-lic, a crowd of one hundred looking look-ing on. After the lashing, on the bare back, the youths began ten-year prison sentences for burglary. The lash frightens criminals more than imprisonment, as was proved In London, where an epidemic of "garrotting" "gar-rotting" ended as soon as the lash was used. But what will be the mental state of those young men when they leave prison after long association with experienced criminals, crim-inals, and constant brooding on the humiliation and pain of the lashing? lash-ing? Can it be hoped that they will be reformed, or be anything except confirmed criminals, and enemies of society? A learned German says he has discovered the source of "cosmic rays" that bombard all space, constantly con-stantly passing through your body, although you don't know It, driven by the terrific energy of billions of volts. The professor suggests that the bombardment may occasionally occa-sionally break clown a few of the atoms in the human body, thus slowly changing heredity. That sounds like a great deal of trouble, to change heredity, which depends, really, on the right girl choosing the right kind of father for her children. Doctor Sukenik, professor of archeology in the Hebrew University Univer-sity of Jerusalem, has discovered graves six thousand years old, that go far back of Moses and Job and others well known. These graves were dug, and filled, long before the Jewish nation had made Jerusalem their principal city, when other, earlier races inhabited the site of "old Jerusalem." Talking Into a telephone In the White House, with amplifiers at the other end, the President greeted six hundred members of the Holland Hol-land society, at dinner In New York. He felt pride in contributions contribu-tions made to this country by the men of Holland through three hundred hun-dred years. The Roosevelts are of Dutch origin, but unlike his distant dis-tant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, the President did not recite any childish Dutch poems about cows In "the kopjes." To know what the old Hollanders really were, as fighters fight-ers and "stayers," read Motley. Karnes that sound strange to Western ears figure in the case of Tony Fon Lew, "Chinese doll bride." She and her alleged father, fa-ther, Mr. Gin Lem, are accused of arranging marriages, taking money, and then not marrying. Mr. Kack Lew Gee, angry Chinese Chi-nese merchant, says he paid $1,S00 to marry the toy bride, but got no bride. Other interesting names figure fig-ure in a discussion that almost caused war between the Los Angeles An-geles Hop Sing Tong and the Four Families Association. Chinese names sound strange to our ears, but Jones or Robinson would sound ridiculous to the Chinese. Chi-nese. Fon Lew and her pretended father ran away to China, but will be brought back and Gin Lem will be tried for violating the Mann act. The Saar plebiscite, as was certain cer-tain in advance, proves to be superficially su-perficially a victory for Hitler. In reality, it proves the devotion of Germans to Germany under any conditions. With the population of the Saar more than 95 per cent German, voters were asked whether they wished once more to resume German Ger-man citizenship, throw in their lot with France, or remain suspended in the air as wards of the League of Nations. It was certain that Germans would vote for Germany. Our national defense authorities are delighted because a great American Amer-ican navy plane labeled XP2H-1 flew nonstop to the Canal Zone from Norfolk, 2,000 miles, ln 25 hours. Amelia Earhart recently flew 2.400 mile in 19 hours, alone, without sleep. And a Russian plane has flown 7,500 miles nonstop. Uncle Sam, to equal Russia, need only multiply that 2,000-mile nonstop non-stop flight by three, and add 1,500 miles to the total. , King Features Syndicate, Inc. VVNU Service. |
