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Show BRISBANE, THIS WEEK We Know How to Spend Only the Electric Chair Anglo-French Rift Surprise for Blue Eagle Uncle Sam is learning to spend. A few lines tell you that the Bank-head Bank-head bill, mak- 1 lng the government govern-ment guarantee a loan of one thousand million dollars to help tenant farmers buy their farms, Is passed. No fuss or excitement excite-ment about it Senator King wanted to cut the one thousand thou-sand millions to lions, but was Arthnr Brisbane ..shoutej down." Do you recall the excitement when Theodore Roosevelt wanted to build the Panama canal for two or three hundred millions? Now "one billion" Is almost "small change." Some young criminals, apparently, can be adequately managed only by the electric chair. In their case It seems useless to talk of reform, or "another chance." They are distinctly dis-tinctly of the rattlesnake class. Consider a twenty-flve-year-old machinist, captured In Peoria, who confessed to murder when the clothing cloth-ing of a dead girl was tossed into his lap. "Yes, I did It," he sobbed This young murderer kept a diary, which In one month recorded 18 attacks at-tacks on young women. The electric elec-tric chair should cure his sobbing. In the lute of Anglo-French friendship and understanding ther comes a rift, wide enough to let a coach and four drive through. England, Eng-land, dealing directly with Germany and Hitler, now rejects the French suggestion of a "consultative pact," which would compel Britain to con-stilt con-stilt France before reaching any Important Im-portant diplomatic conclusions. That ought to Interest this country, coun-try, which agreed to consult everybody every-body on earth before building more ships, or tilting Its big guns to the most effective angle. It is stated, bluntly, by British officials: of-ficials: "Britain Is placing greater stress on friendly co-operation with Germany, closer consultations with the British dominions, and a steady drift toward co-operation with the United States." News from the Department of Commerce would surprise the recent re-cent deceased Blue Eagle, and others: oth-ers: "Business shows sharp upturn throughout country since death of lilae Eagle." This Is the skeleton announcement; announce-ment; the details show retail sales Increasing, In spite of abominable spring weather, In some of the big cities. Union labor demands that all United States railroads be nationalized, national-ized, owned by the people, run by the government Reason? Private owners do not know how to run them. The roads would be bought, not confiscated, presumably, which would mean twenty to thirty more billions of national debt Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Laura La Planter surely you know her after work on the set near Monte Carlo's gambling room dressed tip and presented themselves for an evening's entertainment The doorkeeper said bluntly: "You work In Monaco, so yoo may not enter the gambling rooms. That's the rule." Monte Carlo wisdom Is In that rule. The Casino spreads money among Monaco's Inhabitants, but will not take the Inhabitants' money, and so avoids trouble. Another wise ruler Is Mr. Bradley, Brad-ley, who owns the tourists' "wide open" gambling house at Palm Beach, but will not allow natives to lose In his place. When yon gamble, you know, you lose. If yon do not know It, try. Mussolini has a habit, annoying to Britons especially, of digging op past history. He la expected to tell the British : "I want a protectorate over Ethiopia, with a free hand, and I Invite you to remember what happened hap-pened to Germany's colonies aftei the war. You promised to give Italy her share lf she joined the allies, which she did. The war ended, and you British gobbled up all the German Ger-man colonies worth having." Sheriff Miller of Martinez, Calif, knows that the weakest thing In superstitious man Is his mind. Attack At-tack that and you have him. An-acleto An-acleto Torrest said he had not killed Area Cabrera. In a locked drawer In a cell occupied by Torrest the sheriff concealed a loud speaker, muffled to make It sound ghostly, ; and continually Torrest, not knowing know-ing whence It came, heard a voice saying In Spanish: "You killed me. I am Area's ghost You had better confess. You know you killed me." I Torrest thought It unwise to Ignore Ig-nore the advice of a ghost and confessed con-fessed accordingly. C. King Feature Syndicate. Iim, W.NU iiorvic. |