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Show BRISBANEl THIS WEEK Supreme Court Says Yea Faces, Not Legs Profits Second F. D. R. Mother-in-Law's Day Tlie Supreme court, five to four, decides that the New Deal Is a good deal, and the old law of supply and demand, the sacred right of the Individual In-dividual "to do what he chooses with his own," are not as important as they used to be. Specifically, the Supreme court sustaining New York state's law to control milk and milk prices, says a state may fix prices by law, and the citizens must submit. Tlds decision, de-cision, taking from individuals and giving to the state the right to run business, was handed down just as President Roosevelt, broadcasting, was urging national support of the new plan. In the long run congress, and even the mighty Supreme court, go as the people go. The Supreme court once declared for slavery, ordering or-dering the abolitionist protector of a runaway slave to return him to his owner. It decided against the Income tax, and a Constitutional amendment was necessary to over- come that. C. L. Theed, justice of the peace in Coconut Grove, announces a new beauty contest In honor of the "legions" "le-gions" gathering In Florida. Young ladies in the contest will be fully clothed; Judged by their faces, not by their legs, a blessed relief. If bullfrogs on frog farms in Louisiana had a beauty contest, only the legs would count, legs being be-ing all of the frog that counts. You don't care about the frog's expression expres-sion or Intellect, and only ask for fat thighs. Something more Is asked of a young woman, destined, presumably, presum-ably, to become a mother, and her brain is the Important thing, since, according to Huxley, it puts her above a savage bushman as far as the latter is above a blade of grass. Well-shaped legs and a simpering face do not make a beautiful woman. wom-an. In any beauty contest the forehead fore-head should count CO, eyes 20, mouth and figure each 10 per cent. Speaking from Constitution hall in Washington, the President told 4,000 code delegates, and the whole nation, about his first year's work, emphasizing his conviction that humanity hu-manity is more Important than profits. One year has made him fnmili.'ir with intense nonularitv. and the bursts of applause did not surprise him. The President read a message of congratulation from the head of the American Bankers' association assuring as-suring him that the banks are in absolutely sound condition and heartily approve the President's financial policies, also indicating that "super-liquidity" no longer seems so Important to banks, and lending in the old way will soon begin be-gin again. Amarillo,Texas, celebrated "Mother-in-Law's day." Husbands, by request, re-quest, brought flowers to their wives' mothers. Part of Main street was roped off, as a "parade ground for mothers-in-law." There were "contests for the fattest, leanest, youngest, and oldest, and the one having the most in-laws, also a beauty contest." Amarillo seems to have made the most of its holiday, which should remind a certain type of American that it is most stupid and unworthy to ridicule the mother of his own wife, and the grandmother of his children. If they have any good qualities they probably Inherit them from that grandmother. Gilbert White, painting a mural for the agricultural hall In Washington, Wash-ington, seeking female models In France, found no perfect female figure, fig-ure, and declared the French women wom-en Improperly proportioned "Their Intra nrp too short." Short French legs did not keep Suzanne Lenglen from playing tennis ten-nis better than any long legged Anglo-Saxon female ever played, and they do not Interfere with the fact that long legged females of England and America borrow their styles from French women and try to look like them. Besides, perfect figures In France may not be looking for work as artists' models. If you worry about an occasional airplane accident, and ever feel Inclined In-clined to doubt the ultimate, absolute abso-lute conquest of the air and of weather conditions, stop thinking about a few rare accidents, and consider con-sider what progress flying has made within a few years. Soon ships will fly around this earth In 48 hours, and flying will be as much a matter of course with everybody as railroad travel Is now. To prove that she Is "coming back" despite the Versailles treaty, Germany plans a mass flight of powerful pow-erful planes from Berlin to the former German colonies In West Africaperhaps Af-ricaperhaps to remind the pres ent owners of those colonies that something disagreeable might happen, hap-pen, some time. , Kins Fn.turcn Syndicate, Inc. WNL" Service |