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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK A Cheerful Briton That German Steel We Go Up to 14 Miles Danger to Their Souls Maj. L. B. Angas, British financier, finan-cier, addressing the American Bauk- : ers association, ; " " T ""1 says : "C 0 11 f i- Js" j deuce has now :: returned to the ; United States, ; fear iis dfr ! N "- tl clined, monetary k " velocity will in-; in-; x crease. There f J will be an imme-' imme-' J dlate boom I first, in consum- er goods ; sec-L sec-L i 1 on(' in P,ant and X. l-1' machinery ; third, in housing Industries." Indus-tries." Arthur Brisbane Thg Britlsh ma. Jor may all he says be verified and multiplied by ten says truly there is any amount of money in America, but It "revolves" too slowly. slow-ly. It will soon speed up and "revolve," "re-volve," or change hands thirty-five times a year. If Lloyds would Insure the accuracy accu-racy of the major's prediction, a good many would buy policies. The particularly offensive plan to buy in Germnny steel to build the Trlborough bridge In New York will prooaoiy not go inruuii. u is explained ex-plained by those concerned that they can buy 1,000,000 pounds of German steel piling for less than half the American price; as a further fur-ther "reason" it Is said "American firms submitted Identical bids." The government's blue eagle was Invented to prevent price cutting; but that is not the question, nor Is the difference in price or the fact that work Is taken from American workers to give It to German workers work-ers the most Important fact Buying Buy-ing steel in Germany, helping to finance the German steel industry and Mr. Hitler's program, with American dollars, would seem to-indorse to-indorse Hitler's program of persecution. perse-cution. That Is the important fact. Officers of the American air corps, Capts. A. W. Stevens and Orvll Anderson, rose above the earth Into the stratosphere to a height greater than any human being had ever reached, with the possible exception, excep-tion, of course, of Elijah going up In his chariot of fire. The American officers radioed : "We are 75.1S7 feet, trying for S0,-000 S0,-000 feet." They did not go higher, but broke all records. Seventy-four thousand one hundred hun-dred and eighty-seven feet Is more than 14 miles, 2,000 feet higher than the unofficial Russian record of 72,200 feet A movie news reel photographer In Ethiopia, Edward Genock, was assaulted when he tried to make moving pictures of warriors at Harar. The Ethiopians beat the camera man, explaining afterward. "We shall lose our souls If we are photographed." That will surprise Hollywood, where the belief Is the other way around. Once It was generally gen-erally believed, even by real Christians, Chris-tians, that If yon made a wax mlnln-! ture figure of a man and stuck pins In It at intervals you would kill the original. Man Is a superstitious biped. Not long ago, when foreign conn-1 tries were starving, America 6ent over American corn, and the foreign for-eign countries would not eat It. Even Russia refused. Now, thanks to various devices for persuading our farmers to produce pro-duce as little as possible, the United States Imports more than 20,000,000 bushels of corn In one year. Shortage of corn means shortage of food for hogs, and that means expensive "hog meat," pork chops and bacon. Somebody always has to pay the bill, and now it appears to be those that eat, a decided majority. Speaking In Arlington national 1 cemetery, the President warned the country that there Is danger of war, urging "adequate defense on land, on sea, and In air." He knows, ns does everybody, that defense, first In the air, and second under the water, Is most Important Im-portant President Roosevelt announced j the "early consummation of a com- merclal agreement between Canada and the United States," referring to' "our two peoples, each Independ- ! ent In themselves, closely knit by , ties of blood and common heritage, I with standards of life substantially ' the same." I While eleven lawyers and clients ; discussed the sale of a window-cleaning window-cleaning business In New York's Brownsville, four young gunmen entered, en-tered, said, pleasantly, "Roach for ' the moon, gentlemen," meaning "Stick 'em tip." The hands went up; the gunmen walked out with ; $2,201 In cash. That was not playing the game, , It is customary for lawyers to get mony from gunmen, although, doubtless, these were not that type! P, Kin? r-M.irf Svnrl!,-m Ic WNL' Sit vice. |