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Show THIS WEEK. 160.000 Horses A New Democracy Thin Men Live Lon?er Must Ve Have Tar? The well .avertlsed Queen Mary, looking very big J represented in reality the quintessence quin-tessence of compressed com-pressed power. On the way over she developed one hundred and sixty thousand horse power. That number of horses hitched in pairs, one ahead of the other, would ' make a "team" 4.1, n r. tWil mure LiiaLi Arthur Brisbnne hundred and fifty fif-ty miles long. Still more remarkable remark-able power compression is that of the flying engine, which compresses the power of a 1,000-pound horse into less than three pounds of metal. The government offered for sale six hundred millions of 2 per cent bonds, four hundred millions of 1 per cent notes. The whole issue is oversubscribed. It Is a comfort for those that have money and want no risk to invest even at low Interest rates, free of Income tax payments. Such an investment is much simpler sim-pler than running the risk of a business enterprise with pay rolls and jobs attached. To tax heavily the man who uses his money and brains to give work to others, and free from taxation those that buy bonds and take their ease, is a brand-new kind of democracy. democ-racy. Men of middle age and older may learn from Civil war veterans in the Memorial day parade, some ninety and some ninety-three; one, who led New York city's G. A. R. procession, past ninety-six years of age. All the old soldiers are very thin men, averaging in weight less than 140 pounds. Had they been fat they would be in the grave, not in any parade. General Pershing cut a big birth- day enke with a general's sword, ' Mrs. Roosevelt looking on, and on Memorial day he warned America against another war. To believe that this country can be dragged into a war without a repetition of our big war folly is not complimentary to those in charge. No foreign nation would force war on the United States, and thus put United States resources, and any fighting qualities that Americans Amer-icans may possess, on the side of that foreign nation's enemies. The unfortunate Congressman Zioncheck, from the Northwest, is locked up in Washington, his sanity san-ity to be investigated, after he visited vis-ited the White House with a present pres-ent of empty beer bottles for the President. The unfortunate congressman's antics are not important In themselves, them-selves, but you wonder what qualities quali-ties were seen in him by voters that . sent him to congress. The United States Supreme court declared unconstitutional a New York state law that would permit New York to fix a minimum wage for women and children. Chief Justice Hughes, who did not agree with the majority opinion, wrote: "I find nothing In the federal fed-eral Constitution which denies to the state the power to protect women wom-en from being exploited by overreaching over-reaching employers." Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., who ought to know about American Industry, says enormous building operations are needed in the United States to replace re-place out-of-date equipment, and that the door is .wide open for "plenty of jobs and then more jobs." American cotton growers fighting the boll weevil will sympathize with Argentine growers, attacked by vast swarms of devouring locusts far worse than any weevil. The Argentine Argen-tine ministry of agriculture announces an-nounces 10.000 tons of cotton devoured, de-voured, 60,000 acres invaded. Farmers fight the locusts by erecting erect-ing walls of sheet iron or digging ditches, into which the locusts swarm, to be sprayed with gasoline and burned. Tons of the pests are thus destroyed. Mayors of Arab cities in Palestine Pales-tine warn the British that they must stop Jewish immigration and the sale of land to Jews In Palestine. Pales-tine. The British answer to the warning will probably not be satisfactory satis-factory to the Arabs. It is reported re-ported also that the central committee commit-tee for Palestine of the "Communist "Commu-nist party" is distributing literature urging British soldiers in Palestine to mutiny. President Lewis of Lafayette college col-lege thinks wars would end If nion-archs nion-archs who voted for It were put In front line trenches. That might prevent pre-vent some wars, not all. KICK Features Syndicate Ino ...WNU Service. ' |