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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane The Pacific and Peace Shorter Days and Weeks A Stalin Story An Eel, Our Relative Welcoming the Japanese Prince, brother of the Mikado, Dr. Nicholas Nichol-as Murray Butler spoke tactfully and in happy vein of Japan's achievements and the name of good augur given to the great ocean that separates and unites America and Japan. The Pacific will be to the world in future what the Mediterranean was once, and the Atlantic is now, the earth's most important body of water. Its name should be typical of .elations between the Japanese and American nations. All competition between them should be competition competi-tion in science, in more efficient methods of increasing human happiness hap-piness and prosperity. Within a generation the flying machine will have made the Pacific as narrow as the Engish channel of 100 years ago, and Japan will be more accessible from America than England was from France when Napoleon sat waiting for a chance to attack. William Green, head of the Federation Fed-eration of Labor, says the working weeks should be reduced to five days, thus ending unemployment." There is no doubt that machinery produces faster than consumer can use its products under our social so-cial system. There is no doubt that in ordinary ordin-ary times machinery, with men waking six days, produces too much, making men idle. And there is no doubt that men have got to live. No nation could "xist, half starved and half fed If all the human beings on earth "frcm Peking to Paris and from Pans to Rome," had all they need food, clothes, automobiles, radios' washing machines, there would be no over-production, in fact not nearly enough. But. while consumption con-sumption slowly increases, some plan must be found to keep workers work-ers fed and contented in this nation na-tion which has "too much of everything" ev-erything" except, perhaps, lntelli- 2ence- , riav shorter wee, The shorter day, suggests, and perhaps as Mi- worldng a shorter yeai 01 u will be months, in many Unes necessary tCey tne worse lor ings would be the earth a little leisure to study cn which we Me surviyed A SaySbuseWaSsheeXPwe Srv, wWch is, presumably untrue, Sa.idMy name is Stalin. I crfuiy Ask what you Uke, and l "Wuieewish boy 1. supposed t0..ryome is Stalin, all I ask is that you don't tell anybody fhUle Jewish boy would be too intelligent to make such an an-wr. Second, Stalm would be too intelligent to expel anybody for an amusing yam- ar,ab,. The lady's husband, a capab.. engineer, says, what is more important, im-portant, that Russia has a giganth, surplus of anthracite coal, acre upon acres, covered with piles of it and the plan is to dump all that ccal on the United States. The Russians will find it nam dumping, what with cheap oil, powdered soft coal, that makes no smoke, we have quite an anthracite anthra-cite surplus of our own. You perhaps never heard of a rare sea eel, which lives in the ocean mud and has for ascientifiC title a name as long as the eel. Nevertheless science says you a closely related to him. iou do not know that you got ycur five fingers from the foot of a salamander that lived in the carboniferous era, millions of years zso. If that salamander had had six toes, you woj.'c have had six fingers, including the thumb, also the duo-decimal instead of the decimal sytem, much better for mathematics. And the violin would have six strings. You owe even more to the little mud eel than you do to the salamander. sala-mander. The brain of- that little eel was the beginning of ' yours. It has five lobes, like yours, and a little cortex like the thick cortex on top of your brain. The five divisons of an eel brain are found only in the full developed human brain, and they fuction as in man. Dr. Conel, at the Boston University Uni-versity is stuying brains in 100 of these eels. To be related to the five-lobe-brain mud eel is interesting. Gandhi, of India, "despairs of lasting peace." Ho says: "I have tried my utmost for permanent peace but I find nature na-ture against me." Big and little men, leaders and .cllowers, have despaired of practically prac-tically everything, since the beginning begin-ning of time. Those that tried to cure slavery despaired often, but slavery is gone, md those that, sges ago, fought against cannibalism, probably de-paired, de-paired, but cannibalism is gone. |