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Show , I This Week lj Arthur brisbanb Strange Curiosity. Government Opportunity Four Times Nothing. Poland Goes Ahead. Curiosity, an Important, useful part of human nature, you meet in various forms, through history and literature. There was the man who had one eye blasted, because he foolishly peeked when Godiva rode through the streets; the Lady of Lohengrin who might have been happy ever afterwards if she had taken Lohengrin's advice not to question him, and the Lady of Shalott, who grew tired of shadows. There was Eve, who couldn't help wondering why it was so important im-portant not to eat the apple, and let her curiosity win, when the serpent ser-pent added his argument to her curiosity. All these you understand,- but you are puzzled by Louis Kenneth Neu, tried for murder in New Orleans. Or-leans. He requested a deputy sheriff sher-iff to introduce him to Henry Meyer, Mey-er, New Orleans professional hangman. hang-man. Said Mr. Neu: "I want to meet him socially, before be-fore I meet him officially." That may be the real American "get-together" spirit, but wishing to meet "socially" the gentleman who is going to hang you later, would seem to be a new high mark in socialability. In a Southern city with about 100,000 white people, 30,000 negroes are housed on the edge of the city, In filthy, disease-breeding vile shacks, crowded together, sometimes some-times ten on a single lot, with no bathrooms, no privacy. No opportunity oppor-tunity for better living conditions is a disgrace, not to them, but to the whites that make them pay one hundred and fifty-six dollars a year rent for a two-room shack, not worth one hundred and fifty-six dollars. The Government will include in Its housing expenditure funds to supply decent living quarters for the thirty thousand colored workers work-ers and their families, now living under conditions that would be interfered in-terfered with by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Ani-mals, if dogs instead of human beings be-ings lived in such quarters. This offers an opportunity for the Government to promote building, build-ing, invest some money and get It back. The colored people pay their rent. In Pennsylvania, 35,000 candi-Jates candi-Jates for State liquor jobs protest because the examination is difficult diffi-cult and foolish, truck drivers are asked to parse and spell. They might better be asked to back up, turn around and prove their acquaintance ac-quaintance with truck machinery. One question much resented was "Four times nothing equal3 what?" Many applicants answered "Four." They might have answered that, In politics "once nothing" often equals a good salary and the right to help make foolish laws. Poland, with newly recovered national na-tional existence, leads in its birth increase, which is three times that of Germany, double the Increase in Italy, four times the British increase, in-crease, more than eight times the increase in France. The figures will worry Mr. Hitler with his Polish corridor problem, and please France with her polish alliance, carefully financed. In France the births exceed the deaths only slightly, but when you have the biggest fighting air fleet, you don't depend on mere numbers. If those new little Poles have the qualities of Kosciusko, who made freedom shriek when he fell, or Ponatowski who jumped with his horse into the river and to death . to get at the enemy, Poland is to be congratulated. The Dalai Lama, supreme religious relig-ious head of the Buddhists of Tibet, and other Buddhist populations In Asia, is dead, aged 60. His followers follow-ers believe that he is a reincarnation reincarna-tion of the original Buddha, the young Prince Gautama, who left his dancing girls, his new wife and baby, and went into the world to make it better. A small boy, carefully selected, will take the place of the Lama, whose spirit is supposed to take up its residence in the boy's body Tibetan Buddhists believe that the Lama is not dead, and has simply "discarded his mortal envelope to be born again." How interesting, if that should happen to all of us and le t us watch this earth in its future career of hundreds of millions of years. Nebraska banks having lost this year $100,000 in holdups, the Amcr ican Legion organizing a sharp shooting-anti - bank robber cam paign announces that bandits wii do well to select some other State In one Stale, bank bandits arc first punished with the lash, then 'iailed, and one experienced banli bandit announces, "I keep out o: that State and so do others thai know 11, eir business, although then are several banks in it that couli. asily be robbed." f.1933, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) j |