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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane How Can We Curb Russia? Why the Red Howler? No Bootleg in This The Fight Racket Congressman Fort, of New Jerscv comes from Europe, with a budget cf information and sorrow. All Europe worries about Russian dumping of wheat, and other things, as we worry, and Europe, like ourselves, our-selves, doesn't see any way of fight-.-:g the Russian menace. You can say to Russians: "You shah not sell or buy in our wheat market." J.ui yu can't keep uRssia from cut..ng pries in Europe, which means mat our farmers' surplus cannot sell abroad. Possibly we underestimate Rus-iia, Rus-iia, and hrr ability. The great Agassiz, quoted by Dr. Appleton in ms "Basis of All Life" said: "Every sciratific truth passes through three stages, First: men say it is not true, then they declare it is hostile to religion. Finally, -hey se tn.tt everyone has always known it." First, c.:v high financial mind said that Russia's government ccvldn't last. Then, they said, whirh wr.s quite true, that Russia was hostile to religion. By aud by they may be saying: "Lverycnralways knew that Russia Rus-sia was certain to succeed and teaeh the world things that the wr-.ld did not know." Other lands, other views, in Miami, David Weinberg, tailor, interested in Communistic ideas, uas kidnapped, tarred, feathered, beaten, v.iapped in a white hooded cloak, thrown out of an automobile. in Russia,, forty-eight men, in-cludins, in-cludins, high government officials, accused of not sympathizing with Communistic ideals, are taken, out and shot dead. 'they were accussed of stirring up public discontent by ' interfering .v.-.h food distribution. ;n one spot you are tarred and feathered for talking Communism. In another spot you are shot because be-cause you are not interested in Communism. Com-munism. Herbert Spencer Dickey saw in S..ith America a tribe of "pale jVi'ow" InuTans, named the Qua-naibes. Qua-naibes. And they supplied infor-maiici infor-maiici that, he hopes, will help aim Lnd a tribe of white Indians next year. 1,c jent..v cuior is interesting, suggesting the alleged incoming of .ntaans from Asia. Mr. Dickey brings back, among ether interesting animals, a red howler monkey. Why should a monkey be red, why should a monkey howl? Was he made that way originally to amuse Adam and Eve? A red nuwiing monkey must have been a welecc-me entertainment for a couple that had no movies, radio, talking machines or miniature golf. Science says that natural selection selec-tion decided the monkey's color. The red made him hard to set , among the tropical flowers. And he learned to howl, more and more wilury, as he discovered the howling howl-ing kept away animals that would a, mm. Usually, when you read that it man has killed his family and himself, you find a paragraph about the bottle of bootleg whiskey. In a story from York, Pa., bootlegging boot-legging plays no part. Harry Dietrich, a farmer, hanged himself, after killing his wife and four chil-' dren. - In place of the usual whiskey bottle, there was a note saying the family must die, together, as he could not leave them alone. The farmer's not for $3,000 was cuming due at a local bank the next week, with no money to pay Mr. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who interests in-terests himself in everything from Peking to Peru and all around buci to Philadelphia, 'discovers that the American prize fighting business is 'a racket." He discovers ex-convicts "owning," controlling and exploiting ex-ploiting the best known fighterj. They "fix" the prize fights, and organize or-ganize fouls, when that seems desirable. de-sirable. However, why argue about prize lighting and its rackets? Prize fighting is in a class with bull baiting, badger drawing, dct and cock fighting, only worse, and should go to join the others. Joseph Topiitzky, of Los Ang-ks and the whole Pacific Coasts, te in New ork and tells Easterners thut they "cry too much and plan too little." Things on the coast are improving. improv-ing. And across the Pacific, in Shanghai, there is a genuine real estate boom. Chinese that get millions out of China's upheaval, iearning that the National Citv Eank of Shanghai wouldn't cvcm ,;ive them one and one half per cent on their deposits, decided to f ,..cw wiaii:, anu up went pi ic- I We are twenty per cent below normal now. average normal, not '1929 normal. We shall recover that 20 per cent soon, then star, , g'.ii.'g up again. j So 'ays Tophlzky, which is better, r.s he says, than "crying." I Gasoline prices are cut in Bri.- ain and Holland. Prices tlm' '.uiomobile owners pay in Europe . .'-t'lo one to your million reasons for being glad you live in America. In Holland, as in France, thev I .'til gasoline byt he quart, not by j'he gallon. The price in Holland ," pc;y' t to sixteen cents a quart. Imagine paying thai. |