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Show This 'Week by Arthur Brisbane Three To Be Off. With Keats As A Text. Japan Looks Ahead. Another High Trip. Little English boys, preparing for a dive, screwing up courage, say. "cue to be ready, two to be steady, three to be off," then they dive. ' That is how we dive into the new year, January first to be ready, January Jan-uary sc-cend to be steady, January third to be off. January third :': gone, the year has begun, and w . fKe cfl. The President has t"!d Coivues; and the Nation just exactly what he has been doing since the Fourth of March, and evnr RcrmbUw.is will admit that he has something to tell. Time dors not v. ait", but tha. :uf;l not "Tiry those t'p?,t dn thrir bes'.. If you do your b and hrvi. "i.r- the vorld v.'i'l knowledg? your work The Aulob-r,iT-piv of J lv Keats, compiled by E. V. Welter, from Keats' letters ana essnys, -published by Stanford Univc-siiy Prcs;. ofi'ers comfort to the discouraged, h.ope to the ambitious. He was poor, his life a brief, unhappy un-happy strup.rie, and he died only 25 years old, but his wrrk will live rr long as the English language ol tuoay is spoken. ! Mrs Charlr-s Dilke. writing to h": lhvs!-nr.( in 1813. sai.i "Jhn Kea(.? Isrrivcd hc-'e l;'st niglrt, as browi iand rhabby as you can im.ir.'.n-. ; ! r.U torn at the back, a fur c;,). : I'.HS-- I'i.iid. a:H! iili knnpsuc;:. Ca..-!n-.f tf;l v-hat he locked like." j Not a premising picture cf o?v: ' - the vorM';; f. uc rmmses. iv.i j Krats. in spit? cf vicious r.twU' !:y ipac;in:t critiw. vas not cii -, c!T.i::cr!. At that vrry t!:. svf.... .'n;: ti aUfks vpen him in m: .:: er cf :!:e moment. T t'niyk T :-;v ! b-.r amo'ig the English pxt; afl.r my d?.l!i." !o lies !-;sitl his friend Sw n, ii the gra'. ryarci in Komo. on 'v i ;!.:-. cue there words that I:. writ in water." Aisi lI': t a:i:ir :il c'.'r tiic I.':!:1, iish.psa!:i:i3r wo;-l;l, ai.u : " . ii --! m LtLevs ( f gold. I Let that cncsunre the real w::i':. ieis that begin the i;ew Year dN-- :'iraL:ed. nd let .vou'h; prople, U'..-t v.r.u to write well, ret:c:r.fcov tl::tt K-.ai-,- O.ci.iu.s developed "as he ste-.g- ! himself mere and move in th Oiks of Milt' n and Shake pjare." Young Henry Pu-Yi, o-.ce lr.;:- to Lhe imperial throne cf Ch.ina, descendant de-scendant cf the Manchns that c:i;n- down from Manchuria aud laud themselves rul::rs cf China l:ng a-go, a-go, is now slated to be Emperor v t'ne old Manchurian homeland, re-christened re-christened Manchukuo. j The Chinese Republic took away th.e ycuthful Pu-Y'i's imperial pre.-;- : pcots in China, but treated hi:::'; kindlj-, supplying )lcnty cf money for his elaborate hcus: hold. J;:p-;-i. seising Manchuria, and wishing t ; do it tactfully, made the yomr; prince, whose ancestors nee we'e rulers of Manchuria, the nominal head of the new Japanese possession. posses-sion. The ambitions of Japan are not small, and perhaps selecting Pu-Yi. as Emperor in Manchuria, is part cf a far-seeing plan. By it Pu-Yi would be restore."; to the throne of his ancestors in Manchuria. Later it might be desirable to restore re-store him, as dummy cf Japan, t-the t-the ether -throne of his later ancestors, an-cestors, as ruler of all China. A bag containing 600.000 cub'.-feet cub'.-feet of gas carrier Major Fordrr-y of the Marine Corps and Lieuten ant Settle of the Navy more th;:'-Gl.ono th;:'-Gl.ono feet into the air. They plan an-Mhcr flight into the stratosphere, with a balloon of 1 ,-50C.OOO ,-50C.OOO cubic feet ti.d hope t" .. up 15 miles, or more, pessibiv penetrating- the "ozone layer" which encloses the earth about 15 mi'.":-up. mi'.":-up. That exploration may had t-' plans for bringing down supplies cf that, which is the life-giving qua1-ity qua1-ity or the atmosphere, for distribution distribu-tion as needed. Real explorations of the air o-eean o-eean above us will begin when men i go up between four and rive nunc!-' red miles and Icok out from our! attenuated atmosphere Into the "absolute zero" of the ether, or whatever the substance is that fills all space between this group of solar so-lar systems and the nebulae. Governor Talmadge cf Georgia insists thrt in his State owi-eis shall not pry more than three dollars dol-lars each fcr licensing cars and! truci-s. California wisely, long ago. J adopted (he same rule. The the'ry is to avoid di:,"Ouraaing the auto-mobi'e auto-mobi'e industry or automobile owners own-ers by excessive I'cense fees. Car -big and little pav only $3. The mere of them the better, siR-e the State derives income, lor "road building, from gasoline consumed. The bigger big-ger cars, using more, pay more. Scientists be'ieve thit "ccr.sci u ' life" as ve earth-microbes know if, would be impossible on ether planets, plan-ets, because of excessive heat or cold, er lack of water or oxygen. But if nature can arrange eart.n life to survive under water as fls'.; I do, under the earth as worms d . at the equator and in the Arctic regions, why hot on the sun. m fpite or Jeans' statement that th? solar temperature reaches forty million degrees centigrade? |