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Show ' I BRISBANE THIS WEEK The Greatest Deed The Richest Man 8,000 Planes for England What! the Whole World? Universal Service lists the '"ten greatest scientific achievements In 193o," and puts ; first the artifl-cial artifl-cial heart "for keeping organs alive when separated sep-arated from the body." This Invention, Inven-tion, credited to Colonel L I n d-bergh d-bergh and the learned Doctor Carrel of Rockefeller Rock-efeller Institute, may be Important, Impor-tant, letting scientists 6tudy the progress and Arthur Hrlftbnne nature of cancer and other diseases. dis-eases. But that is not the year's greatest great-est scientific achievement, although it la gratifying to know that Colonel Colo-nel Lindbergh, while so young, with no more "air" to conquer, hag turned his concentrated mind toward to-ward science. Vastly more Important than any Invention for studying human disease dis-ease is the new 200-inch telescope lens that will enable men to study the universe more intelligently. That universe Is more Important than any cancer or gland. The Nizam of Hyderabad, one of the numerous rulers whom the British Brit-ish keep on their thrones. In return for a servility that delivers their subjects to the British, is about to celebrate his silver jubilee as ruler. He Interests Americans, because he Is called absolutely the richest man in the world, richer than Rockefeller, Ford or Mellon. His Income is put at $50,000,000 a year, which might be possible, although al-though his real fortune bears no Interest. In-terest. He has 14,000,000 Hindu subjects tinder his rule, thanks to the toleration tolera-tion of Great Britain, and after England has finished with the 14,-000,000, 14,-000,000, they might well yield an average per year of $4 to the Nizam, which would give him $50,000,000 a year of new money. The British who realize what airplanes air-planes mean, as they study Italy and Ethiopia, have more than 2,000 planes ordered for Immediate use, with full equipment and men ready, and, for every plane In the air, England Eng-land will have three on the ground, ready to replace losses. Thus, Britain's program is 8,000 planes, compared with our retail buying. Senator Pittman thinks Japan plans to conquer the United States and the rest of the world. He says Japan will "seize the Philippines as soon as the opportunity offers." That is probable; the Philippines are in Asia. After the Philippines Japan will take Mexico, then the west coast of the United States, according to Senator Sen-ator Pittman, who wants to know whether this country will withdraw within Itself as Japan advances, or make a definite suiud somewhere. The west coast would give him a definite answer about that There Is an aristocracy even In crime. You read, "Hauptmann sings carols In death house." Five other murderers in the same house sang the carols with him, "Jingle Bells," and also "Heilige Nacht" ("Holy Night"), which must have had a strange sound coming from the throats of murderers. There are six murderers in the death house, and all sang together but the other five are merely "also present," no names mentioned. Their murders were not sufficiently sufficient-ly Interesting. "Japanese airplanes bomb Kuy-nan Kuy-nan in China; many killed" including includ-ing civilians and soldiers. Japanese ordered China's soldiers to evacuate the city, dropped bombs when they refused. What will kind-hearted England and the League of Nations do about that? Not much. Premier Baldwin, Justifying the sudden decision to carve up Ethiopia to satisfy Italy, reveals the fact that British ships feared to visit Italian ports during the recent unpleasantness. That brings danger too close. The country has inflation now, with its 59-cent dollar and double the amount of cash circulating compared com-pared with prosperous 19'JO. Inflation is not realized, becauso bankers, their vaults bulging, do not dare lend. Mussolini calls those trying to starve his people with sanctions "egotistical, hypocritical," says Italy can go on in spite of them. Tall Queen Elena, the king's wife, prays at the tomb of the Itallnn Unknown Soldier "for the triumph of Roman civilization In Africa." If it Is possible to talk or think in the tomb, that Unknown Soldier may have murmured: "So. thev aj- BtlU at It." King Pen tine Swtlleata. Ino. WNUBurvlce. |