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Show This Week by Arthur UrlsbaJie Mr. Morrow Starts Fine Girls Many Bull, Donkey, Goat Race Toi turing Witnesses Dwlght W. Morrow, a national character, lornier oartnor in J p Morgan & Co., who has since done exte.'jfttt work as ambiussador to N-.ia .ic. has start I his campaign tor the Senate in N-j.v Jersey. Mr. Morrwo is i.ble. if he goes to the Senate, he ran pet for his State anything '.hat 1.. to be got He undersands tho art of getting' Many will vote for him because he wonts to go to the Senate himself Men as rich aa M-. Morrow huve usually sent dumm e.? to the Senate, to do what they wanted done. To see such a man willing to go himself him-self is a pleasant hango. The ambassador says the federal government is too lar away to attend at-tend to prohibition details " In the States, says the pro .Hi ulc.n law should be repealed, and prohibition prohibi-tion taken out of the constit itlon. Each state should be allowed to handle its own lri.is problems, just as it deals now wtt.i Its horse thief problem, and divorce problem. It will be an interesting campaign. cam-paign. The Stace Is notoriously wet. Mr. Morrow would probably be elected but for tr-e fac: that be is in favor of the League of Nations. Na-tions. Difficult situation for a man. honestly reski-ij an opportunity oppor-tunity .to prove -Jiat one successful ln business couli be uset.-I in public pub-lic Ufe. Twenty American girls went to play golf in Englanl. Eleven have already won British golf matches. Not a bad ave.-ige. All parts of the United Statss produce eirls with extraordinary mental and physical powers. California, where you grow In sunshine summer and winter, produces the unequaled Helen Wtfla. This country has no monopoly on fine, adventurous young women. Amy Johnson, golden-haL-ed 22-year 22-year old British girl, flying from England to Australia alone, landed in India two days ahead of all masculine mas-culine records. Miss Johnson, safely saf-ely past the dangerous Indian desert des-ert s beating all world records, in a tiny moth plane, smaller than iyjiciDergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Her trip covers 11,000 miles and she expects to fly back in the same plane. To save weight, the young lady, every time she lands and takes a bath, borrows a change of underclothing. under-clothing. That is racing. Ralph Sanders started from Har-lington, Har-lington, Texas, bound for New York riding a large black bull He will ace with Benjamin Stack, who starts thirty days later, drivins a ioat and a donkey. Mr. Stack bets that he will get to New York first in spite of Sanders 30 days start. That is unimportant in days of airplanes and automobiles, but everything strange interests us Fashionable ladies in the Medici days liked hideous dwarfs; old kings had their "court fools"; the great astronomers, Tycho Brahe, made a'l at his table be silent when an idiot eating scraps at his feet mumbled mum-bled words supposed to have deio .neaning. . . :..yja The Jugo-Slavian King Alexander is accused of allowing police to torture political prisoners, Ont brought to court in a wheel chair, says he was beaten, tied with ropa, whipped with canes, at intervals, all night long. Other prisoners were treated in similar fashion. Civilization, backward In some places, in others makes progress. Not long ago, men accused were tortured everywhere, to make them tell what they knew. Torture u .10 longer legal When Queen Elizabeth decided to sut off the head of her lover, Essex, Es-sex, she was praised for her restraint re-straint in not having him put to the torture. His abject submission, and fear of things he might have said, under torture, about the woman wo-man he indiscreetly described as an ugly old hunchback, may have caused the unusual gentleness. Many remember when the Panama Pana-ma Canal was suggested, how the ;ganfcic sum staggered imagination. We sent forty times that sum to Europe to help the processes of icilling, and staggered nobody but little people that sold Liberty bonds far below par. Now the War Department studies the plans for a bridge over the Hudson River at Fifty-seventh jtreet in New York. It would cost $190,000,000, But :hat agitates no one. We have passed into the billon bil-lon dollar era. Mere millions attract at-tract little attention. Dr. Sundstroem of the University of California has cured cancer" in rats by keeping them in tanks under un-der low atmospheric pressure. The "low oxygen tension" does not kill the rats, but cured S3 per cent of the rats subjected to it and afnclicted wih cancer. |