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Show f L .' I .. -mm ... This Week h Arthur Brisbane Much in Five Words Poor Old Britannia Brave, Patient China R Brings the Oyster Colonel Lindbergh t a 1 k d In Japan recently. Many heard hlra here, across the thousands of miles. The American flyer put an Important Im-portant fact In five words: "There are no distant countries." The world Is so small you are Inclined In-clined to ask, Impatiently: "How long must we wait to go to Mars and see something new?" j You read "American and French bankers grant a lnnn M Flrltnln " That word "grant" must sound strange to British ears. When the war was on, Britain was rushing billions to Prance and elsewhere on the continent, sending other billions bil-lions here to our industrialists' and bankers. Now, French and American bankers bank-ers "grant" to Britain a loan less than one-tenth the amount that the British poured out to win the war. They won It. but war does not pay, and they know that now. An American from China adrriires "the Chinese dogged patience and courage even in terrific floods that hare made thirty millions homeless, home-less, fifteen millions destitute." It seems strange that after five thousand years of civilization, China has not learned to control the Yangtse and other great rivers. Then we remember humbly that with all our machinery and money, we haven't learned to control the Mississippi. ' Machinery will Jo It eventually, however, and as the late William Boyce Thompson predicted, will store up surplus flood waters In some inland sea, saving them for use In drought. SeDtember. with Its R. brines back the oysters, and to many, that line is more beautiful than Sappho's Sap-pho's about the evening that brings back the child to its mother. I Somebody said the man who first ate an oyster was brave. He is unwise un-wise who doesn't eat them now with their value in food, vitamins and easy digestion, so well established. estab-lished. As Important as food and aesthetic aesthe-tic value of the oyster, according to William H. Rayo, of the General Gener-al Foods Corporation. Is the fact that the oyster season opening provides pro-vides employment for 40,000 additional addi-tional men. That is welcome. This year, the United States oyster oys-ter crop will be about eighteen million mil-lion bushels, and by 1933, according to Mr. Raye, "the yield will be stepped up to more than 20,000,000 ' bushels." The female oyster never heard of birth control, and lays millions of eggs at a time. Big business is co-operating with her, to make those eggs survive to appear on the half shell and otherwise. other-wise. Thanks to modem refrigeration, refrigera-tion, "quick-freezing," and other methods, the oyster is delivered everywhere In prime condition. And, thanks to the prolific mother oyster, with proper care, the crop need never be less. In New York, public schools, wisely, will probably postpone opening day because of infantile paralysis. "When in doubt, refrain," is sound advice. But how children get Infantile paralysis, nobody knows exactly. Fortunately, It is proved that a serum, made from the blood of patients that have recovered, and the patients may be monkeys, will save children's lives. Dealing with such a mysterious disease, you are reminded of Upton Sinclair's aneedote about the man down South, determined not to get yellow fever. He stood ontside the store until everybody had left it. then entered to do hie purchasing. While he was outside, a mosqult bit hlrn, and gave hira yellow fdver. Our best minds should pay atten- tlon to Deterdlns, Dutch-British oil man, who advocates bimetallism, bimetal-lism, letting silvtf resume its placa aa money, instead of making gol't the only standard, thus destroying the buying power of eight hundred! million human beings. High finance cannot sneer at Det-erding, Det-erding, for " In finance, Ina3try. business and the power to grab things, all over the world. .Doter-ding .Doter-ding has taught not cats, but 100 lessons to our hardest boiled tlnan-cial tlnan-cial geniuses, tho oil men., The shiver anr show their upper canines ca-nines when they hear the Dutchman's Dutch-man's name. Karl N'aumestnlk, f Austria, walked acros3 tho English Channel on "water skis." That would have been very important when Napoleon Napo-leon was awaiting for a favorable wind to take bis soldiers from France to England. , He never made the crossing and might have tried to get an army over on "water skis." Now, with planes in the air, euV marines under the wave9, the Austrian' Aus-trian' school teacher's invention Is-Interesting, Is-Interesting, but unimportant, as- .' though aomo one should invent a hansom cab. (, 1930, by f.m ruNm Srodlcaa. toe) |