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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK It's Alrcntly Sinaslio.l At Last They Got Iliiu Air Wisdom, aiul Nonsense Forest Made to Order Senator r.oruh denounces monopoly monop-oly as tho cause of all our troubles, and says "Smash the monopolies 1" As it happens, happenings since l'.VJO have smashed the monopolies fairly well. ' If anybody has a monopoly that you would like to own, you can get it at a bargain. It took 15 federal agents, nil expert ex-pert gunmen, to "get" Dllllnger. And they got Jilni by surprise, thanks to a woman's "tip that he was to be in a certain theater," a tip supposed to have been well paid for. It was no "detective work." Dllllnger was killed as he had killed others, without a chance of escape, like a trapped coyote, and now he knows, If he knows anything, that as a profession "crime does not pay." The War department's special aviation avi-ation committee says the army should have 2,320 planes, with corresponding cor-responding Increases in flying men. It also says there should not be one department controlling all air forces, which is pitiful Idiocy. Mr. Baker must remember what happened when he was secretary of war and the flying machines of this country sent to Europe were a Joke among nations, our flying men compelled com-pelled to borrow from France and England planes that would really fly. However, the big men In the army and navy are not flyers, and feel that they should have their little separate flying units to play with. From somewhere In the Pacific President Roosevelt sends an order or-der that $15,000,000 be set aside now, $75,000,000 In all, spent on a "made to order" forest, stretching across the country through the heart of the drouth area from the Canadian Cana-dian border to the Texas Panhandle. Planned as an experiment to counteract coun-teract the drouth by encouraging encourag-ing rainfall, the new forest will be 1,000 miles long, 100" miles wide, 100,000 square miles of forest surface. sur-face. It will be a long time before anybody any-body knows about the plan's success. suc-cess. The President and those around him will have disappeared, will not see the big forest, and before be-fore It amounts to much men may have learned to produce rain when necessary. It Is an Interesting experiment, ex-periment, costing only $75,000,000, a mere nothing In these days. Henry Ford says: "Old-fashioned Americanism, the pioneer spirit that isn't afraid to tackle anything, will save this nation na-tion from Its economic and social afflictions." Perhaps Henry Ford, who lives some distance from the fringe of American foolishness, gives his fellow fel-low citizens credit for too much of the old "American spirit." When you read that 3,000,000 children chil-dren are deprived of schooling In the United States, that this country coun-try spends for "luxuries" twice as much as It spend3 on education, you think that possibly something has happened to that "pioneer spirit" The Talmud says, "Jerusalem was destroyed because the schools were neglected." Conditions in Vienna are bad, with more dangerous riots expected expect-ed as Nazi terrorism continues Its bomb explosions. Nazis In Austria declare that "Roman Catholic priests led Chancellor Dollfuss In his campaign against the Nazis," and a Nazi spokesman "declares that Nazis "have determined to kidnap the Roman Catholic priests as hostages." As soon as any Nazi terrorists are sentenced to death, and hanged, their friends will kill the priests held as hostages. Mr. and Mrs. Peters (he was "night man" In a small Hoboken, N. J., lunchroom) won $25,510 In a sweepstake lottery and felt that they should show that winning, in a lottery, Is a good thing. They drove to collect their money In a rented lG-cylinder car with a liveried liv-eried chauffeur, and "opened" champagne. cham-pagne. Any expert accountant enn show them that 4 per cent on $25,510 will not stand that strain. Some "get-rlch-quick" expert will probably prob-ably show them how to change $25,-(510 $25,-(510 Into $10,000,000 then Mr. Peters will be "night man" again. News that malaria is spreading In Cuba, 6,000 cases reported at Santiago, will disturb intelligent Cubans and doubtless cause an energetic en-ergetic fight against the dangerous malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Mosquitoes spread malaria and also spread yellow fever. Malaria Is the worse of the two, for It makes life worthless. According to scientists, the malaria mosquitoes coming up from the marshes, not rude barbarians from the north or the- vices of the inhabitants, destroyed de-stroyed the power of ancient Rome, Ot lCln Features Syndicate, lno, WNU Servica. |