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Show brisbane , THIS WEEK I i A Cheerful Hiitoti , That German Si eel Wc Go Up to 11 Miles Danger to Their Souls MaJ. U B. Angus, liritixh financier, finan-cier, addressing the American llank- ... ers nssoeiaiion, says: "O o u f i-diMice i-diMice has now returned to the United States, fear has declined, de-clined, monetary velocity will increase. in-crease. There will be an imme-d imme-d 1 a t e boo m first. In consumer consum-er goods ; second, sec-ond, in plant and machinery ; third, in housing industries." indus-tries." The British ma- I Arthur Brisbane jor may all he says be verified and multiplied by ten says truly there is any amount of money in America, but it "revolves" too slowly. slow-ly. It will soon speed up and "revolve," "re-volve," or change hands thirty-five times a year. If Lloyds would insure the accuracy accu-racy of the major's prediction, a good many would buy policies. The particularly offensive plan to buy in Germany steel to build the Triborough bridge in New York will probnbly not go through. It is explained ex-plained by those concerned that they can buy 1,000,000 pounds of German steel piling for less than half the American price; as a further fur-ther "reason" it is said "American firms submitted identical bids." The government's blue eagle was Invented to prevent price cutting; but that is not the question, nor to tha rtiffprence 1ti nrlce or the fact that work is taken from American workers to give it to German workers work-ers the most Important fact. Buying Buy-ing steel in Germany, helping to finance the German steel Industry and Mr. Hitler's program, with American dollars, would seem to Indorse Hitler's program of persecution. perse-cution. That Is the important fact. Officers of the American air corps, Capts. A. W. Stevens and Orvll " Anderson, rose above the earth into the stratosphere to a height greater ' than any human being had ever reached, with the possible exception, excep-tion, of course, of Elijah going up in his chariot of fire. The American officers radioed: "We are 75.1S7 feet, trying for S0,-000 S0,-000 feet." They did not go higher, hut broke all records. Seventy-four thousand one hundred hun-dred and eighty-seven feet is more than 14 miles. 2,000 feet higher than the unofficial Russian record of 72,200 feet A movie news reel photographer In Ethiopia. Edward Genock, was Bisnultpd when he tried to make moving pictures of warriors at . Harar. The Ethiopians heat the camera man, explaining afterward, "We shall lose our souls if we are photographed." That will surprise Hollywood, where the belief is the other way around. Once it was generally gen-erally believed, even by real Christians, Chris-tians, that if you made a wax miniature minia-ture figure of a man and stuck pins in it at intervals you would kill the original. Man is a superstitious biped. Not long ago, when foreign countries coun-tries were starving, America sent over American corn, and the foreign for-eign countries would not eat it. Even Russia refused. Now, thanks to various devices for persuading our farmers to produce pro-duce as little as possible, the United States Imports more than 20,000,000 bushels of corn in one year. Shortage of corn means shortage of food for hogs, and that means expensive "hog meat," pork chops ; and bacon. Somebody always has to pay the " bill, and now it appears to he those that eat, a decided majonry. Speaking in Arlington national cemetery, the President warned the country that there Is danger of war, urging "adequate defense on land, on sea, and In air." He knows, as does everybody, that defense, first in the air, and second under the water, is most important. im-portant. President Roosevelt nnnounced the "early consummation of a commercial com-mercial agreement between Canada and the United States," referring to "our two peoples, each independent independ-ent in themselves, closely knit by ties of blood and common heritage, with standards of life substantially the same." While eleven lawyers and clients discussed the sale of a window-cleaning window-cleaning business in New York's Brownsville, four young gunmen entered, en-tered, said, pleasantly, "Reach for the moon, gentlemen," meaning "Stick 'em up." The hands went up; the gunmen walked out with $2,201 in cash. That was not playing the game. It is customary for lawyers to get money from gunmen, although, doubtless, these were' not that type. King Features Syndicate. Inc. WNU Servleu. |