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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK A Iiahy Crows Up Senate's Good News Five Little Cirla $1,JO,000,000 Fifty-three years ago a good American mother, weak but happy, received In her arms a small baby, with pink face and little hair. That baby now lives in the White House, face bronzed by ocean air, hair thick at fifty-three years of age. The baby has grown to be Franklin Frank-lin D. Koosevelt, President of the United State. One hundred and twenty-five million mil-lion Americans are grateful to his mother, who, happily, has lived to nee her son move up, from the cradle cra-dle In which she first placed him, to the earth's most Important place among men. Congratulations and thanks, first of all, to President Koosevelt's mother; good wishes, congratulations, congratula-tions, and a long life to President Itoosevelt. The people of the United States are to be congratulated that by the decision de-cision of the senate they will not lie pushed Into the hack door of the League of Nations through the World court. Mr. Hull, secretary of state, wanted want-ed the United States to go into the World court and submit Important matters affecting this country to foreign for-eign Judges appointed by nations that have swindled this country out of ten thousand million dollars. Why, In heaven's name? Those marvelous Canadian babies, the Dlonno quintuplets, eight months old, are healthy, happy, each one a separate, little lady of Intense ln-. ln-. llviduallty. All pretty, all Intelligent, Intelli-gent, with good foreheads, well-shaped well-shaped heads. What a wonderful family 1 It seemg almost a pity that they cannot remain babies, now, and above, through all eternity. The house of representatives, 329 to 78, gives the President four thousand thou-sand eight hundred and eighty million mil-lion dollars, to be spent In accordance accord-ance with his best judgment to fight depression and unemployment. In early days the little, "small change" eighty million dollars, tacked on at the end of the large figure, would have astounded the country, for In those days millions were respectable units. Now our government unit Is the billion one thousand millions. When will the trillion start its career? The printing print-ing press could bring it. Not content with being reduced from a great empire to a small "backyard" by the last Hapsburg, Austria thinks It wants another emperor em-peror and Prince Starhemberg will say when little Prince Otto shall mount the throne. That will mean unhappiness, eventually for the young prince, and n good actor spoiled for Hollywood. Gen. William Mitchell, commander of all our Hying force in the big war, knows more about national defense de-fense than anybody in this country. He writes to a friend seventy years eld, as follows : "During your lifetime have come the electric telegraph and telephone, the gasoliue engine with Its accompaniment accom-paniment of automotive vehicles, the airplane and submarine. The world is now only one-sixth as large as when you appeared. If this development de-velopment goes on, It Is difficult to say what may take place in the next seventy years. Will the biological bio-logical supremacy of the yellow races dominate, or will the military supremacy, so far, of the white race be able to maintain our culture and standards? The world is growing so small nnd so increasingly populated popu-lated that one or the other will undoubtedly un-doubtedly become master." Mr. J. Tierpont Morgan, whose father collected pictures and other works of art, has decided to sell six pictures. The price asked Is said to be 51,500,000. The older J. P. Morgan evidently bought good pictures. pic-tures. Two of the six pictures, already al-ready sold to the Metropolitan museum, mu-seum, are a portrait of "Anne of Austria," by Peter Paul Rubens nnd an altar piece by Filippo LIppi. Nobody knows how much was paid originally for either picture. A rare ten-dollar gold piece, that sold at auction -for $330, might offer of-fer a suggestion for government profit. At that rate, our $S,000,000,-000 $S,000,000,-000 worth of gold could be changed Into $-100,000,000,000 worth, nearly nil profit. Who could contradict the government if it said that was the value? Col. Roscoe Turner, who does all sorts of things with airplanes, plans a real flight around the earth, 23,000 miles, following the equator all the ivay, starting at Panama. This will be the first real "around the world" flight, the others having been, flights around the northern end of the world, a flight that grows smaller as you go farther north. Equatorial heat will not bother Colonel Turner. In a plane you can pick out the altitude and the temperature that you want. X Kin Features Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service. |
