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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Paroles and Ransom Vincent Astor's Hotel Mussolini Is So Blunt The Brain Bath Waley, the Weyerhaeuser kidnaper, kid-naper, caught after he sent his wife, like a true 1 1 gangster c o w-ard, w-ard, to change ransom biHs for him, has this record : He had been arrested six times, begin-ning begin-ning at eighteen, and sentenced to terms ln prison that would have kept him ln prison for 75 years If parole boards Arthur BrlBban. ha(J aowe(j t He was repeatedly released until at last, thoroughly trained ln crime and convinced, probably, as he might well be, that American Justice Jus-tice Is a mere Joke, he went to Tacoma and planned there the "snatch," as criminals call it, of the Weyerhaeuser child. Highway patrolmen ln the western west-ern states did admirable work eo-operating eo-operating with the "G-men." The western highway patrolmen are real policemen. Mr. Vincent Astor of New Ysrk has bought In and will operate the St Regis hotel on Fifth avenue, built originally with Astor money, now repurchased for $5,090,000. An Astor running a hotel Is nothing noth-ing new. You need not be very, very old to remember the gray granite gran-ite "Astor House," a block long, opposite op-posite the City Hall on lower Broadway, Broad-way, where they had roast beef such as you find nowhere now. Before prosperous Americans learned to be really "aristocratic" with yachts, race horses and divorces, di-vorces, they thought owning a hotel and putting your name on it was almost aristocratic. The Astor House and the Brevoort House ln New York, and the Palmer House ln Chicago, the Coates House ln Kansas City, a thousand others prove it Mussolini annoys England; he talks so plainly no diplomatic beating beat-ing about the bush. Bluntly he says to old Britannia: "When you were building up your empire, killing off the Boers to grab South Africa, taking tak-ing India from the pot-bellied rajahs, ra-jahs, gathering ln everything that was not tied down, you did not care tuppence what the world thought about you. Now It is my turn to gather in territory, maybe Ethiopia, and I care less than half of tup-rence tup-rence what you think about It. So mind your own business, please." Important to the human race Is Dews of the "brain bath," which, according ac-cording to physicians gathered at a convention of the American and Canadian medical associations, literally lit-erally "washes the brain," freeing It from the poison of diseases such as Infantile paralysis, St Vitus' dance, sleeping sickness and some kinds of spinal meningitis. A solution of salt and water Is Injected In-jected Into the vein at the ankle. After It hns gone through the circulation cir-culation and washed out the brain, It Is withdrawn with Its collected poisons through a needle Inserted In the lower end of the splue. Newsdom, written for newspaper men, says It has questioned all editors ed-itors and publishers that amount to anything, and finds them "overwhelmingly "over-whelmingly certain that radical movements are of no serious trend." The discovery will comfort many, but it Is well to be cautious. There Is always a possibility of underestimating underesti-mating what looks like "radicalism of no Importance." China, because she cannot do otherwise, oth-erwise, yields ln full to Japan's demands. de-mands. This Is the news from Tientsin, and It happens because the 400,000,000 Chinese are not prepared pre-pared for war, whereas the 00,000,-000 00,000,-000 Japanese are prepared. "Yielding" probably will not snve China from another heavy loss of territory. It Is predicted that the young Chinese emperor, Japan's llg-nrehead llg-nrehead In Manchukuo, will be moved over and bark to the old Imperial Im-perial palace, there to Bit again as the Japanese Imperial dummy. "What's ln a name?" Some young Republicans want the old Republican Repub-lican party to change Its name from "Republican party" to "Constitutional "Constitu-tional party." Ixmg ago, when the New Y'ork Herald, Bince dead, reduced re-duced Its price, the late Joseph Pulitzer wrote In a short editorial: "The trouble Is not with your price, It. is with your newspaper. Change that" The trouble with the Republican arty Is not with Us name. A dangerous strike Is called off In Toledo, workmen wisely deciding to deliberate before going ahead with a strike that might bave thrown ters of thousands out of work. . King Frturon R-iKloaU3, Ixrt, |