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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK The Gold Decision Beheading Women Murder With Germs The Atom. Absolute Zero The Supreme court upholds the President and congress in their legislative leg-islative and ex- ' "'" y v- ' ' - ' ' ecutive action outlawing gold as money in the United States and invalidating "gold clauses" In private contracts. con-tracts. The Supreme court's decision Is all the more Important and gratifying, be-cause be-cause every American knows , that no consid- Arthur Brlsbnne eration outSide the letter of the Constitution could have Influenced Chief Justice Hughes or his associates. The Supreme court decision disposes dis-poses of the statement that President Presi-dent Roosevelt's administration has been proceeding "regardless of the Constitution." The decision will be reassuring to business and the public pub-lic generally. From every point of view the beheading be-heading of women by Mr. Hitler's government seems to have been a painfully disgusting performance. The women's hands were bound with steel chains in fear, perhaps, per-haps, that they might bite through strings or straps. The agile headsman, heads-man, In full dress, cut off both heads in six minutes. The women were beheaded out of doors In the night, just before dawn, with floodlights flood-lights for the headsman's work. Witnesses of the killings praise the composure of the two women. Each walked to her death erect, wrists chained behind her, showing no sign of fear. An eyewitness said: "They set a good example to our men, whom we usually have to drag to the scaffold." You have read about "war with germs" in the next great outburst. India proves that It could be done. At Alipore two are condemned to death, convicted of "germ murder." mur-der." As rich Amarendra Nath Pan-dey Pan-dey walked along the street he felt a sharp stab. He cried out. A germ poisoner had Injected plague germs into his blood. Amarendra died. His murderers were his stepbrother step-brother and his doctor. Two other doctors, accused, were acquitted. A well-organized germ war could be disagreeable, distributing disease dis-ease germs above great cities and in reservoirs from planes. At Leyden, in Holland, scientists have produced a degree of cold said to approach within one five-thousandth of a degree of absolute zero. A gigantic electro-magnet, In combination with liquid helium, produces the lowest temperature ever known on earth. The lowest possible degree of cold, the absolute zero, would be minus 273 degrees centigrade, or minus 459.6 Fahrenheit. At least science thinks so. It used to call the atom "smallest fragment of matter." Science needs "absolute zero" to help In tearing apart the atom, now known to be a miniature solar system. sys-tem. Doctor Steinach of Vienna, whose business lias been transplanting glands of lower animals to the bodies bod-ies of men, to prolong youth and extend ex-tend the years of possible parentage, parent-age, announces now a "chemical substance" that makes transplanting transplant-ing glands unnecessary. The chemical, chemi-cal, called progynon, possibly a compound of "progeny," Is available avail-able for men or women. Henry Ford views money philosophically philo-sophically as merely an abstract "Indefinite, Incoherent tiomogene-lty." tiomogene-lty." as Herbert Spencer might have called It. Mr. Cameron, brond-castlng, brond-castlng, mentioned casually the fact that Mr. Ford In one year lost $GS,-000.0110. $GS,-000.0110. When this writer asked nenry Ford what was the most money he had lost In any year while "changing type" and reorganizing, he replied: "I didn't lose Rny money. I only distributed some money." Tt has been customary at executions execu-tions In New Jersey state prison to admit relatives of a murdered man. that they may witness the killing of the murderer; very considerate. If relatives of one murdered really desire de-sire to see the murderer as he sits In the chair, straining against thp straps and frothing behind the mask. Tt Is safe to predict that Colonel Lindbergh will reject the Invitation In-vitation to see ITauptmann put to death for the kidnaping and murder of his child. That Is probably not Colonel Lindbergh's Idea of a pleasant pleas-ant sight. .Tames A. Moffett, federal housing administrator, says the country Is out of the depression hut does not know It. In the West he "found business conditions definitely Improved." Im-proved." , King Feature? Svndlcate. Ino. ( WN"U Service |