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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK New Italian Baby By Permission of Unions Some Things We Do Well Throwing Out Kings Italy expects a new heir to the throne in January. If it is a boy, and 1 lives, and nothing noth-ing happens t o prevent, it will succeed in time i t s grandfather, the present King. What rate Lloyds would charge to guarantee guar-antee the succession succes-sion is uncertain. Mussolini's rise from extreme socialism, the trenches and the hospital maintained main-tained the House of Savoy in nom- Arthur llrijiliaiie inal power. "After Mussolini what?" is one of many European questions. Mr. Hull, Secretary of State, sailed for South America six hours late, to help bring peace to the world, or at least help set a good example on these two continents. He left a pier "double-picketed"; the strike tied up his ship, which had to bring six non-striking seamen sea-men out to the secretary's boat, waiting patiently near the Statue of Liberty. After peace is brought to the world, the next step will be to bring peace to United States industry. in-dustry. You may read some day: "The House, Senate and Supreme Court could not meet; the President Presi-dent has moved over to the New Willard; the Amalgamated Order of Furnace Tenders let all the fires go out, while, in sympathy, the Electric union turned off all lights and the elevator men said sympathetically, 'No elevators.' " There must be, for public necessities, ne-cessities, including shipping that carries passengers and mails, some better plan than the strike plan, and one that would be just to workers. This country makes some things better than any other country automobiles, auto-mobiles, and moving pictures, for instance and Englishmen know it. The late Irving Thalberg, vice president pres-ident of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, left 35,000 shares of Loew moving picture pic-ture stock. As soon as the large block was offered for sale, Englishmen English-men bought it all, by trans-Atlantic telephone, for about $2,200,000. Nicholas Schenck, head of Loew's, and its biggest stockholder, stockhold-er, missed an opportunity, and knows it. Everybody across the ocean knows that this country is one NOT to be sold short, regardless regard-less of passing troubles. It is said the royal tombs reserved re-served for Spanish kings have been violated, some or all of the bodies thrown out. It would be a pity to offer insult to what remains of the truly great King, afraid of mice and spicers, but not of any man-Charles man-Charles the Fifth if he also was entombed in the Escurial Pantheon. Of the others, many would be more useful as fertilizer on some Spanish field than they ever were on the Spanish throne, and it is not necessary to weep over them. London, with the biggest floating fleet on earth, is striving to "humanize "human-ize submarine warfare." That is like trying to humanize rat poison. Look at Spain and you see what will happen in the next war; everybody will kill as many as he can, as brutally as possible; you remember the Lusitania? The biggest crowd seen in Washington Wash-ington greeted the President on his triumphant return to Washington, the White House and his job. For eleven days he will see only executive execu-tive assistants and rewind the big machine. Those willing to serve their country for a consideration, or tell the President, free of charge, how it could be run better, must wait, probably until his return from the trip to South America. Voltaire's learned Dr. Pangloss was wrong; it is not true that "all is for the best in the best possible of worlds." In spite of all our wealth and prosperity, pros-perity, more mothers die in childbirth, child-birth, in this country, than in any other "civilized" country in the world. You know that better conditions are needed in America when you see photographs of the wretched two-room log cabin in the swamp bottomlands where Mrs. James Bridges gave birth to quadruplets. According to Science Service, if whisky is subjected for seven hours to "intense sound vibrations," which means "a loud noise," the seven noisy hours will age the whisky as much as "four years in the wood." Think what noise can do to the delicate nervous system of the human hu-man being if in seven hours it can add four years to the age of raw whisky. Mussolini's order forbidding automobile au-tomobile drivers to blow their horns in Rome, "Use your eyes and your intelligence instead of your horns," should be copied widely. King Features Syndicate, Ino. WNU Service. |