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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Iviiliiapiiig Discouraged Vi e Are Ilighwayiuen Now Poor Baby Orang Slaughtering the Macou Williaru F. Gettle, recently kidnaped, kid-naped, is back with his family. Threa of those that managed his kidnaping are in jail, have confessed, con-fessed, and are given life terms. The little girl, June Robles, heaven be praised, is back with her family. Site was found "in a shallow shal-low hole covered by cactus, chained by Iter ankles, her clothes filthy and her body emaciated." She was too weak to walk or answer questions and could only say '1 want my mamma" to those that found her, nine miles from her home in Tucson, Tuc-son, Ariz. Her kidnapers have not been caught as this Is written. There is, however, no speculation whatever as to what will happen to them if they are caught. The men of Arizona like kidnaping kidnap-ing as little as do the men of California. Cali-fornia. And if they come within reach of those kidnapers, the latter will be taken care-of so thoroughly that they will never Deed any care at any later time on this earth. It Is your duty to hope, piously, that there will be no violence. But you are not advised to bet on it. By the President's decision France and England, not having paid their debts, are officially declared Id default, de-fault, and will not be allowed to borrow in this country even from private sources. This will not be pleasing to England or France or to International American bankers, but it will suit the American people. Europe may not hold American dollars at so low a price, now that she is uo longer able to borrow them by the carload, or Import our United States gold by the neat little barrel bar-rel ful. After the President announced the default and this country's refusal re-fusal to accept any pretty little token, the London Evening Star, In big type, called the President's announcement an-nouncement a "highwayman act by the United States." Considering that the British government gov-ernment Is bullying Germany over a miserable little debt of $120,000,-000, $120,000,-000, the British welshers should not object to the President telling them that they are in default when they are In default and owe over five thousand millions. Human mothers, the young, nervous nerv-ous kind, should be warned by the fate of Betty, -Chicago's two-pound two-pound baby orang-utan, and Betty's mother. Surroundings in the zoo made the loving orang-utan mother intensely nervous and she worried about her baby so much that her supply of milk gave out. The mind affects the mammary glands. She would allow nobody near her baby to feed it artificially ar-tificially and keepers feared that she would kill her baby if they tried to take it from her. It was pitiful to see her try to feed her baby with milk from her mouth w-hich she took from a can in the cage. The first rule is relax, try not to be made nervous. Easy to advise, hard to do. A lot of heavier-than-air planes were sent somewhere, in Imitation warfare, and the big Macon was sent along. This column pointed out the foolishness of that proceeding, sending send-ing such a ship deliberately against a swarm of enemy planes. The intelligent in-telligent "high command" In this enterprise en-terprise displayed all the intelligence intelli-gence of a ground mole. Naturally the high command now reports that the Mucon was put out of commission. If the Intellectual high command will read about the battle of Jutland and the service rendered there by a German Zeppelin, he will know more about the proper use of lighter-than-air craft. Germany's preparations for war in the air, especially the alleged elll-clency elll-clency of her Genua n-Invented "airplane "air-plane predicator," should Interest us. The Germans are developing the world's greatest fighting air fleet, In compelltiou with France, buying engines in the United Stales. England, wherever they can get them, keeping preparations secret. In Brooklyn, boy twins have been fighting pneumonia with oxygen to help them. Little Roy, who weighed only two and a half pounds at birth, died. II is brother, I!o?s, weight at birth six and one-half pounds, lives. Where did that twin go when he lost his fight? Did he return whence he came, to start back here again cs a hum ble little servant of Omnipotence, to help Improve this earth? Iiid he go to heaven, bs nil hope he did. ! to fly around In perpetual Miss? j Or, as some think, coldly, did his Ktlie drr.p of cunscionsncfS en hark to the source of life, whence it came, as the in'.Y.ux raindrop event Bu'.'.y returns to the ocean? K;r,? (-'-!:-(. svr.ilcatfl. Ino. j WNU Sir-, ict |