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Show misbanS . THIS WEEK. Lhtwclt Lives Long Eves, Abo, Vork japan Will Oblige The Russian Letdown Gilbert K. Chesterton Jend at sixty-two, weighed and 5 i -.I I -- i ' fifty pounos. everv doctor will surmise, he died of heart disease. His weight, explains ex-plains the unnecessarily un-necessarily early death. A pump breaks down it you overwork it ; a sixty-two-year-old heart breaks down if you compel com-pel it to supply with blood .l rtrink. OXy- Arthur Brisbane gen too many bi Klllln the body must have from 7n heart, Its supply o food and oxygen, pumped every sec The brain, alone, contains thirty thousand million separate cells, ac cording to Doctor Carrel In h100 surplus pounds, Chesterton carried - scores of billions of useless eel s, each making an unnecessary de- mand on the heart. Do not let yourself remain fat after forty if you would hve to . be old. To become thin and stay thin requires some effort of the will, often more disagreeable than dying. At one of the ultra-radical workers' work-ers' meetings in France, the red flag displayed and the communist International" In-ternational" hymn sung, there was radical and determined talk. Monsieur Mon-sieur Thorez told the meeting the factories of France would soon belong be-long to the workers. If the plan is sent through some workers would discover that It takes mnr-p than a red flag and a hymn to run a factory and make It pay; If factories did not pay there would be no pay rolls. Brains count as well as hands. The eyes carry no load, but they direct the feet and hands. South China thought she wanted a war with Japan, and will probably prob-ably have it. Troops from a Japanese Jap-anese naval squadron land at Amoy, Fukien province, accompanied by the usual convincing flock of airplanes. air-planes. W7ar with Japan is the easiest thing to have, if you really want it. In Canton, South China's big city, parade3 and mass meetings were organized to increase and express ex-press hatred of Japan. The outpouring recalls Voltaire's description of a glass of English beer "froth at the top, dregs at tue bottom." Russian sovietism came quickly, and might go quickly; signs of a breakdown are seen already. Those that do more and better work get special rewards; engineers, chemists, chem-ists, scientists occupy fine apartments apart-ments compared with those of ordinary ordi-nary workmen. That is hardly "straight communism." Now Russia Rus-sia will have a constitution and house of parliament, important steps in the direction of conservatism. Tell your little boy and girl to Include In-clude in their prayers the following : ".And please, Lord, do not send us any more wars." Uncle Sam recently began delivering deliv-ering hundreds of millions of bonus bond dollars to 3,518,000 veterans of the war many veterans and a big bonus, for a war in which we were not concerned until foolishness I pushed us in. The French Premier Blum, first Jewish prime minister in French history, his-tory, is a man of unusual ability, combining common sense with the radicalism of his Socialist party. Mr. Birchall writes to the New York Times that there is fear of anti-Semitic anti-Semitic outbreaks in France; observers ob-servers "see a ground-swell of an anti-Semitic movement in the vicious vi-cious attacks of the right against tne new jewisu premier. ji rencn anti-Semitism, according to Mr. Birchall, has survived the Dreyfus case, which should have ended it. Our railroads find it hard to make money, but at least they are safe railroads. W. Averell Harriman presented a gold safety medal from the fund established es-tablished in memory of his father, E. H. Harriman, to F. E. Williamson, William-son, president of the New York Central, which has not lost one life in 12 years. It is interesting to learn from Mr. Eipley that the first Cunard steamship steam-ship did not carry as many passengers passen-gers as could be carried by one of the lifeboats on the Queen Mary. What is more important, each lifeboat life-boat has wireless apparatus. The last chapter in the Lindbergh murder and kidnaping tragedy la written with the return to Colonel Lindbergh of $14,005 held by New Jersey as evidence against Haupt-mann. Haupt-mann. ) King Features Syndicate, lno WNU Service. |