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Show : This Week ! by Arthur Brisbane ! Fighting Men Are Alike. 1 T. R. on Japan. ' Precious Gold, Keep It. Movie Success Secrets. Out of Tokio, across the Pacific comes the news that Junnusoke Inouye, formerly Japan's finance minister, has been murdered. He :. was killed because he disapproved ; of Japan's war in China. - He : talked peace, and those that do ' not want it shot him three times. That is not "Asiatic barbarism," : it is the usual thing. When the 1 great war began, Jules Jaures, ' one of the ablest men in France, ; was murdered. His crime was the : same as that of Junnusoke Inouye he did not approve of war. I Even in this enlightened country coun-try we were ready to Jail anybody not in favor of hanging the Kais-e Kais-e er, and you were net a good American Am-erican if you refused to believe that Germans were crucifying en-! en-! emy soldiers, alive, against barn doors and other locations conven- ient for driving nails. Human be-! ir.7,5 are much alike, especially when they fight. ! All the talk everywhere is about the Japanese war in which China plays the part of the punching bag. j Newspapers republish Theodore j Roosevelt's letter to President Taft, written in 1910, saying: I "Our., vital interest is to keep ' the Japanese out of our country and at the same time to preserve the good will of Japan. The vital interest of Japan, on the other hand, is in Manchuria and Korea." Warning Taft against "taking any steps as regards Manchuria which will give the Japanese cause to feel that we are hostile to them," Theodore Roosevelt added: ad-ded: "If the Japanese choose to follow fol-low a course of conduct to which we are adverse, we can not , stop it, unless we are prepared to gc to war, and a successful war about Manchuria would require a fleet as good as that of England, plus an army as good as that of Germany." Ger-many." Ecuador abandons the gold basis, bas-is, with a good excuse: It has no gold. The International Bank established es-tablished by the League of Nations, Na-tions, will help weak nations to maintain the gold standard, so it says. More interesting to us are the shipments of small, strongly built barrels, filled with United States gold coins, pouring; steadily into the Bank of France vaults. The way to keep your gold standard is to keep your gold This country should realize that, in time, and forbid gold exportation, exporta-tion, on any pretext. If our supplies of quinine, or digitalis, were threatened we should forbid their exportation. High finance tells you that gold is as important for prosperity as quinine for malaria, or digitalis Lor weak hearts. You may ask why, with the world's greatest gold supply, something seems to have gone wrong with our prosperity. pros-perity. High finance says the question is not pertinent. Young people with their minds and ambitions turned toward this coast, and the Hollywood movies, are warned noi to come now, unless un-less they can bring money enough to take care of them while they seek an opening for their talent. Alfred Santell, one of the ablest moving picture directors, which means that he knows how to bring out and use talent, names three things that make moving picture success. They are, in the order of importance: im-portance: First, appeal the power to interest inter-est the public by force of personality. person-ality. The vulgar, outworn "sex appeal" is not meant. Nor is mere physical beauty meant. Second, ability, the power tc exp;ess emotion, to act. Third, aptitude, power to learn, innate adaptability to the work in hand, to co-operate, understand, express. Women, for stage or screen." saj's Mr. Santell, "are divided in two classes. First the type that men want to own, Garbo, Dietrich Second, the women that men want to protect, Mary Pickford, Janet Gaynor. Between float all sorts, less definite, less successful." success-ful." Kentucky proposes to tax $100 a year all those called "Colonel." Some Kentucky Governors have appointed as many as five hundred hund-red colonels each. In England you are taxed for each footman with powdered hair, and for other luxuries. Chihuahua has a surer plan for money raising. It will give a divorce, after ons day's residence, and the husband and wife need only agree that they want it, no provocation necessary. nec-essary. You realize how real the depression is when told that "trade" has been slow. In Los Angeles a youth of 20, drunk, killed a woman with his automobile. That is hardly news. The public prosecutor demands that the man who supplied the killer with whisky, fortunately identified, be punished as though he had done the killing. That is good news. Hindus and Mohammedans continue con-tinue killing each other in India, making Britain's task easier. Britain Bri-tain discovers with horror that while she has spent one hundred million pounds with us, we have spent only twenty-five million pounds with her. Her new tariff and cheaper pound may remedy that. |