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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Comfort for Drys The World Will Last Freedom of the Skies Happy Burro Prohibitionists will find comfort in the Pennsylvania election. Re-cont Re-cont wet and dry polls seemed to indicate that the whole country u wet and longing for beer. Gifford Pinchot ran for governor of Pen-sylvania Pen-sylvania as an ardent dry and won. There is a difference oeiween straw votes and real ones. The Literary Digest wet-ory po;l d scovers that 43 states are moderately moder-ately wet, 5 dripping wet, 5 bone dry. To repeal the prohibition amendment amend-ment would require the votes of 36 states. If the attempt is ever made it will be seen that of those 43 moist" States, half will vote against repeal. Mr. Doran, prohibition commissioner, commis-sioner, finds the prohibition problem prob-lem based on the fact that "people are willing to pay $10 for 15 cents' vvorth of sucker whiskey. "Sucker whiskey," says Mr. Doran, "is put in special bottles, corked with aged corks burned with the right mark, labeled with saltwater-stamed saltwater-stamed labels, packed in saltwater-stained saltwater-stained burlap, and sold to country coun-try clubs as "just off the boat." Here is comfort. Worry no more about the world coming to an end. A Canadian scientist says the sun is about 10,000,000,000 years old and will last at least 10,000,000,000 years longer. Ten thousand million years is a long time. While the sun lasts the earth will last. The human race may be partially par-tially or completely wiped out at intervals, compelled to begin all over again, working its way up from microscopic creatures floating in salt water. We have, by the way, a new ancestor, an-cestor, nothing less than a fish fossil, fos-sil, with a hinged neck, that lived about 200,000,000 years ago. He was found near the city of Buffalo, N. Y., where he used to swim when the northern part of the United States was covered with water. Now we have hinges all the way down our necks and all the way down our spines to the last joint, the os coccyx, all we have left of a tail we once carried around. France permitted the Graf Zeppelin Zep-pelin to sail over her West Indian colonies, except one place on the island of Martinique. British gave permission to fly ov-. er -British Caribbean territory. That nonsense about giving other nations permission to use the air should end. Anybody can use the ocean, of water, and do what he pleases on it, eight miles out. The other ocean, the air, soon to be more important, should be similarly regulated, anfbody allowed to use it anywhere, one mile or two miles up. International law should settle set-tle that. In seventeen seconds twenty men with parachutes jumped from a twin motored Curtis Condor, a new world record. The interesting jumper was Ax-mand Ax-mand Lizotte, Newsreel photographer. photogra-pher. He sat on a wing of an airplane, photographing the jumpers; jump-ers; then he jumped, pulled the string of his- parachute and, sailing sail-ing comfortably downward, continued con-tinued taking pictures of the Jumpers. Jump-ers. Henry Bushmeyer, last to jump, passed the others by dropping several sev-eral thousand feet before pulling the string. An old donkey that worked in Colorado mines so long that few could remember when he started, is dead at last. He was worked until he couldn't work any more, or even eat. Then they shot him. Now he is to be "honored' with a memorial, built of ore samples Irom all the mines in winch he worked. A touching picture, it will be appreciated ap-preciated by many old two-legged workers, including white collar men, superannuated bank clerks and others. , . . They are less fortunate than tne old mine burro. Nobody builds a monument to them and nobody shoots them when they can no longer earn a living. They are turned adrift. Nature, encouraged, works won- dein 1892 the United States established estab-lished a herd of 1,300 reindeer in Alaska. They have grown to more than 200,000 head. The Canadians are establishing a herd in their vast northern tern-torV tern-torV One patch of 15,000 square mnes east of the Mackenzie river S wnl 3PPl razing for 250,00 reindeer and provide food for natives, na-tives, suffering because of game destruction. de-struction. A Gold Star mother, aged 92 yers starts for Europe to visit the ftrave of her step-son, dis-dahnng dis-dahnng the offer of a nurse, per-hapTbecause per-hapTbecause she comes from California Cali-fornia where you dont grow old. f 'rNewYortose rTefore she went on the ship. He did She goes abroad for three r,a to see her step-son's grave, S see rSs before she diesand kiddie to see if those French are as good as they say." That stetement about the French vies will be offensive tojgr, leave her at home. |
