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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Super-Variable. What of it? To Live 100 Years Roses and Turnips His Heart Cut Out You see a tumble-bug, in a huge pasture, rolling his precious little sphere towards the entrance to his storehouse underground. What could you say that would interest that tumblebug more than that little globe, carefully fashioned for winter nourishment? Nothing. What could you say to the two-legged two-legged tumble-bugs called human beings, that would take their minds from their petty interests here on earth, the price of stocks,, length of dresses? Nothing. Astronomers at Harvard University Univers-ity have discovered a "super-giant ' variable, far out in the Milky Way, in the large cloud of Magellan. That new super-giant flashes with a brilliancy that varies from 12 000 to 33.000 times that of our sun, at a distance of 90,000 light years from the earth. One light year is about 6,000.000,000.000 years. If our earth fell into the sun, it would disappear in dust before reaching the sun's surface. If our sun fell into the huge super-giant super-giant variable, it would vanish like a flake of snow on a red-hot stove. For that reason it is all too big to be comfortable, and we come back to the satisfying contemplation contempla-tion of something that we can understand, un-derstand, to the fact that Max Schmelling has returned to German, Ger-man, or that "Big Steel" closed at 103 and three quarters. John D. Rockefeller says he hopes to live 100 years and his fellow fel-low citizens hope that he will. He has rendered cne great service, proving the foolislmess of unres-stricted unres-stricted competition, the most wasteful thing in the world. And. having accumulaed hundreds hund-reds of millions, he -spends them usefully for science and education The pecple would like to seem him live to 1.000 years, except that it would not amuse him Luigi Cornaro's career proves ' (continued on last page) This Week by Arthur Brisbane (Continued from first page.) that men, to some extent, can control con-trol their length of life. Told by doctors, at 40 that he had only a short time to live, he said he would see about that, and did. He experimented ex-perimented carefully with his diet, Mid wrote his book, Discorsi Sulla Vita Sobria when he was 92 years old, mounted his horse for a daily ride without help when past 90, wrote to the archbishop: "I had to live to be 90 to learn that the world was beautiful." He died at the age of 98. He took twelve ounces of solid food, and fifteen" ounces of light Italian wine every day. Mr. Rockefeller Rocke-feller omits the wine. Miss Camilla Kelly of Memphis, Mem-phis, Tenn., officially known as "Judge Camilla," in a sound speech spys that in women, misbehavior Hi ",iust a little worse than in men." Judge Camilla says that God holds women to a higher degree of responsibility because they are mothers mo-thers of the race. Men, she thinks, "have been a little deceived b their superiority complex." Misbehavior in women is as shocking as the sight of a ros? fioating In the sewer. If it were a turnip or a potato it would not be so bad. Women are the roses, men the turnips and women ought to remember re-member it. But they don't when they drink cocktails, dress indecently, indec-ently, cultivate the use of profanity, profan-ity, drag jewels that foolish husbands hus-bands give them through speakeasies speak-easies where gangsters are quietly taking notes. Another racketeer IciUmg In New iz:.'. City emphasizes, horribly, the b.utahty s.nd bi-.ter hatred that ;.ipue l.ic-:e killing's. Carmelio Lieur.'i. racketeer connected with the Brooklyn Berbers' and Longshoremen Long-shoremen s Ciuon, was the victim. His tlircut had been slashed, the head aim;. :;t severed from the body, and his i:ea:t had actually been jCUf. cut. i Human nature develops hideous-i !ly, when contempt for law becomes! ; universal. it has done recently m! ithp L'nited Sta .es. when officials ; supposed to enforce the law share die pi outs of law-breakers, and !ar of punishment is removed. ! A ne'.v kind of war flourishes ! nmrng cur Iriends in Asia. On jjp:r.cLc soil, the Koreans have I tcken to killing Chinese in violent mob uprisings. Eighty-two killed recently included three women. Chinese, retaliating, destroy Korean Kor-ean n ri'.;;a:on works, ruining the rice fields. Those That expect peace to cover the eanh very soon are too optimistic. opti-mistic. While mere difference of race breeds hatred, there can be n.i safe peace. A f iench cartoon shows a lion and a lamb in a circus cage. The ci.-cus owner says: "Sometimes, they do not agree." Asked, "What do you do in that ase?" he reolies, "We get a new U.mb." Let us hope the United States will lemember that and not play lite pait of the peace Iamb, since t must live among fighting nations. na-tions. Trotsky, exiled from Russia, says only 5 per cent of Russians live as "Socialists," and wants Russia to put Stalin out of power. That suggests a fable in which the mice decided that somebody should put a beli on the cat, that all might know when the cat was coming. No mouse wanted the job of "belling "bell-ing the cat." |