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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Letting the Court Die Einstein Sees Reality France "Worries Italy Palaces for Uncle Sam According to Mussolini the worid is preparing feverishly for war. Therefore he cannot allow Italy to disarm, although he would Use to save the money and turn liis thoughts and efforts to peace. Every ether ruler in Europe will say the same, excepting some Balkan Bal-kan little countries. They say "fighting is the only occupation worthy of a gentleman." This country, if it would attend to its own business, keep its defenses de-fenses in order and keep them modern could save half what it spends on preparation now, and be well prepared Meanwhile, it is a pleasure to hear that the League Court has been postponed for another year. Perhaps that is "letting the old cat die out." The great Einstein is on nis way to the Facific Coast, going wisely, through the Panama Canal. He will see things there that wall make matters of space and time seem temporarily real. Of course, he can prove that there is nothing there except deceptive aggregations aggrega-tions of electrons and protons, negatively neg-atively and positively charged, the electrons are going around the protons trillions of times in a second. sec-ond. Nevertheless, the very solid looking look-ing locks and cuts are sufficiently real to satisfy the ordinary mortal. mor-tal. The building of five new fortresses fort-resses on the Island of Corsica r.lr.rms Italy, according to report frcrn Leg-horn. The Telegrafo says the ships frcm France are unloading un-loading rifles, mr.chien guns, munitions, mu-nitions, armored cars, field telephones tele-phones and cannon and "arming Corsica in a formidable manner." The Italian, Napoleon Bonaparte, starting from Corsica to the military mili-tary school fh France, finally ruled the French and conquered much of Europe.. It would be strange, if France returned by the Napoleon road to conquer Italy through Corsica. Cor-sica. There is trouble in India also, troops again were called out to stop riots. Hindus don't like cloth made in England. When a large truck loaded with much cloth appeared, ap-peared, the Hindus, who have ideas about fighting that are very un-English, lay down in front of the truck to stop it. It killed one of them. To win liberty with ' 'fighting" of that kind will take a long time. The glorious and prosperous United Uni-ted States is spending one million five hundred thousand dollars of the public's money to buy a very fine palace in Berlin to be the home if the United States Ambassador there. It spends $1,250,000 on an ambassador's palace in the Argen- tine. Is that expenditure necessary? Is is democratic! Would it seem wise to the gentlemen gentle-men that founded the country. It is all very well to give men that contribute to campaign funds, or otherwise make themselves useful, use-ful, a chance to meet kings and queens abroad, and hear themselves them-selves called "Your Excellencies." But is it necessary to add a $1,500,000 paiace to the treat? Benjamin Franklin did very well in France, and also in England, without any such palace. Wouldn't it be better to spend that money on a lew miles of good roads in the United States, thus creating a few jobs. Having given $1,000,000 to the unemployment un-employment fund, John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller and his son now give $500,-000 $500,-000 more from the Rockefeller Foundation. John D. Rockefeller Jr., in his fifty-sixth year, both in excellent health, recalls the ancient Jewish saying: "What you give in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead." A United States judge, in New Jersey, as you know, announced from the bench that the prohibition prohibi-tion law is not legal. Immediately following this decision, prohibition authorities in Jersey City issued three prohibition search warrants and announcd that thy would ig-nor ig-nor th judge's decision. If "wets," following the decision :-f a United States judge, announced announc-ed that they would pay no attention atten-tion to it, they would be criticised. Everything is comparative, even sorrow. The head of a great bank in New York tells of a client "wi'-h the saddest face I have ever seen in my life." One year ago this client was worth at least $60,000,000. And today his fortune is reduced to not more than $20,000,000. "And you can't imagine," said the banker, how that man suffers." |