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Show This Week h Arthur Brisbanb France Gets an Island What We Need Kemal Wins, Allah Loses Doga, Beef, Pork A decision rendered by the Italian Ital-ian King, Emmanuel, in favor of . France, against Mexico, may promote pro-mote better Italian-French feeling. Lost In the Pacific ocean, 870 miles west of the Mexican coast Is a little Island, called by the English. Cllpperton Rock, and by the Mexicans, Mexi-cans, La Isla de la Paslon, "The Isle of the Passion." France and Mexico claimed It and agreed to let King Victor Emmanuel arbitrate. Now, twenty-two years later,- Emmanuel Em-manuel gives the Island to France, ordering Mexicans to withdraw their llttte body of soldiers. It Is a low rock, not able to support sup-port human life. But It has a lagoon In the center, and in war. It might be Important 'as a base for seaplanes. sea-planes. France knows what flying will . mean In the next war, and neglects nothing connected with It That is more than you can say for the United States, which doesn't know what flying will mean, and neglects many things connected with It A big New York bank that shut down, with It many branches reveals, re-veals, recently It lent tens of millions mil-lions without security. Some of Its own directors were among those that borrowed so pleasantly. . The late Vice President Marshall tald "What this country needs Is a good five-cent cigar." What It needs now seems to be honest local government, Including banking supervisors, magistrates and others. New York. like other States, has bank examiners, but needs somebody some-body to examine the bank exam- . lners. . . Kemal Pasha, forceful Turk, disagrees dis-agrees violently with orthodox Mohammedans. Mo-hammedans. They said he was disobeying dis-obeying the prophet's orders, erecting erect-ing statues to himself and others, taking the fes from men's heads, veils from women's faces. They were right. But in the fight with Mohammed, Kemal has won. t I, A string of twenty-eight corpses now swinging on gibbets, In the -cold wind, prove that Kemal is the boss, and that there Is no longer a caliph, direct representative of the prophet, and of Allah. Two or three hundred mole may I be hanged, to swing In the same fashion, as a warning that Kemal Pasha is here, Allah and Mohammed Mo-hammed far away. Mohammedans are fighting Hindus Hin-dus In India as usual. Moham- horrified Hindus, by whom the cow . and all its relations are held sacred. War started, a village was burned , ' and a Sikh officer in the British service was burned alive. i Then Mohammedans threw the ; f beef Into Hindu templos. The Hln- ' ; dus. for revenge, threw dead dogs into the Mohammedan mosques, greatest insult you can offer a Mo- , -hammedan. Hindus won't eat beef. Mohammedans Moham-medans won't eat pork. Englishmen English-men eat both and rule Mohammedans Moham-medans and Hindus. Chairman Legge ot the Farm Board predicts wheat shortage, which may be serious. The carryover carry-over last year was only 40 per cent ot normal. Drought is widespread ' throughout the country, not enough snow . and sub-soil moisture. It would be Interesting If Uncle Sam should make a profit on his corner In wheat after all. The Nation Beige In Brussels has solved mysterious deaths that followed fol-lowed a heavy fog In the Meuse Valley last December. Lungs ot the dead were eaten out by breathing a sulphurous anhydride. anhy-dride. Sulphurous fumes, from a chemical factory, combined with the fog to form an acid that destroyed de-stroyed the lung cells. ' It is some comfort to know that the cause of death Is established and can be controlled. "Joe the Baker," known to his mother and early friends as Joseph Catania, is .dead. With bis mouth ' shut tight, refusing to tell who shot him, he struggled against a flock of machine gun bullets and su-cumbed, su-cumbed, eliminated because he Interfered In-terfered with bootleggers in the ' territory ot "Dutch" Schults, the "Bronx beer baron.' Thus far, not ene of many gang- ? sters shot down has told police who ' killed him, although a majority of t them knew. Perhaps they thought . they would not die.- "Joe the Baker" was one of the New York gangsters that had the honor of entertaining a distinguished distin-guished New York City judge at a welcome home dinner. England sentences Alfred Arthur , Rouse to be hanged for the murder of a man unknown, something that has not happened in 145 years, and the jury took only fifteen minutes to decide. The British believe la punishing murder. We believe la coddling, or ignoring It. It's a crime in England, an industrial in- stltutlon here. (, 1VJO, st Kim Feacuee SrwfeaM, lac) |