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Show brisbane THIS WEEK Redskins and Spartans Where Ghosts Creep She Threw No Party New York Needs Money Mussolini begins military training for Italian boys at the age of eight years, the Idea being to "give boy a passion for military life through frequent contact with armed forces." The red Indians went even further fur-ther back. They developed a passion pas-sion for war and scalps la the squaw even before the little fighting fight-ing papoose was born, providing the females with interesting little stone hammers used to crush In the skulls of surviving enemy warriors as the squaws went carefully over the battlelield at dusk. Sparta trained her boys for killing, kill-ing, even encouraging them to murder, mur-der, for practice, unarmed helots, as they went to their work before sunrise. But Sparta was unimportant compared com-pared to intelligent Athens, and a few white Puritans easily disposed of the Indians. Intelligence and justice win wars. In these days of airplanes and poison gas the warrior with a mere "passion for combat" will soon get more of it than he can digest. Long ago In Venice was built a fine palace, the "Abbey of St. Gregory." Greg-ory." The palace has changed hands and Is now being "renovated," "renovat-ed," with plumbing, bath tubs, showers, show-ers, electric bells, telephones, radio, that would considerably surprise any ancient abbot. No "Long Bear" from across the mountains, no roving Hun from beyond be-yond the Volga, has appropriated the religious palace to other uses. The new tenant Is a very pretty slender American girl named Barbara Bar-bara Ilutton, who brings with her the proceeds of a five and ten cent store system that can quickly change any old abbey Into a modern, mod-ern, fashionable "dilatory domicile." She brings also a husband, a "Georgian "Geor-gian prince," named Mdivani, byproduct by-product of the five and ten cent stores, who will know how to make the old abbey "ring with merriment." merri-ment." Strange old ghosts will creep cautiously over highly polished, pol-ished, newly waxed floors, and say to them : "Well, live and learn." A young lady, christened "Greta Gustafson,'' known to many by her invented name of Greta Garbo, celebrated cel-ebrated her twenty-eighth birthday recently. As a young girl she worked in a store in Stockholm, Sweden, and here she has made and earned ten thousand dollars a week. ITer birthday is mentioned because this queer young lady did not "throw" any great party on the edge of any costly California swimming swim-ming pool. "Just a quiet evening at home," said she, and stayed at home to think of swiftly passing time. That helps to explain her success. Es bildet ein Talent sicl in der Stille. New York city must feed 400,000 and more hungry families, also pay their gas, light and rent bills. The city has been paying out $17,000,000 a month, or at the rate of $204,000,000 a year, almost half what it cost to run the whole national na-tional government before the big war started. The problem, "How to continue getting the money," has been temporarily tem-porarily solved by a three-cornered agreement between the mayor and board of aldermen. Business in New York city will pay a "relief tax" of one-tenth of 1 per cent. Those that pay income tax to the national government will pay to New York city relief 15 per cent of what they pay the government. The world's richest city will also organize a public lottery and invite citizens to gamble, profits to help public relief. Another scientific discovery, most Important If it stands the test of cold experiment, is revealed to the American Chemical society by Dr. Elliee McDonald, director of cancer can-cer research laboratories. The kid- neys of men and animals produce an enzyme, or biological catalytic, called "phospliolaz," that effectively effective-ly resists the action of cancer. Human Hu-man beings afflicted with cancer lack the phospholaz in the kidneys and have too much of it in the blood stream. Man's intelligence eventually eventu-ally will conquer all diseases. Scientists have found what they call the Rosotla stone of heredity. That famous stone, as you know, with the same words cut on Its surface sur-face in various languages, maxle possible the reading of the Egyptian Egyp-tian hieroglyphics. Tlie heredity Kosetta stone Is a giant chromosome, chromo-some, with strings of the queer little genes that control heredity. Many Americans take Communism In the United States most seriously. Governor Green of Rhode Island even says his state is "facing a Communist uprising." Fortunately, under the worst conditions, the state's militia, hacked by the army of the United St.itPs and its air-planer-, should he able to deal with that situation. , King Fi ntTirrs Syndicate. Inc. WNU Sorvice. |