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I BRISBANE] THIS WEEK fn Ancient Nile Mud England Keeps Ready Let the Dead Sleep Murder Starts Early Paris.?Reclining on her side, her body covered with gold, gold necklaces on her discover the were tombs for Arthur Brisbane i , , kings, and searchers found the princess in one of them. The Nile mud seeping into the tomb had helped to preserve Scenes and I 1?Comptroller General John City in which Pope Pius conferre during recent marine strike. COLLEGE GOLF CHAMP Charles (Chuck) Kocsis of the University of Michigan carried winning honors for his school in the National Intercollegiate golf tournament at Glenview, 111. Former A. A. A. Hei V : mi i ffmm " iSSHM w I , l. f til a Bp' \ _ ? <l ^ ^ "J > " :'"y . . ,;^L ' 'p ?v < < ..v. . i.x Chester Davis, who was adm here' being sworn in as a new board. Oliver E. Foulk, fiscal agi the oath. Workers Lay Ft KM ** - SftS* < >UJ\I * *?$?". % SMs Wi A$&? ' ^ s f . iV w ' :' '* ;., ';> ?..- ??-l -?1 '' v * ?- Vt .*'- -y.> .. ?: . > ." : " ; 'VvV'-. . ' -*. it'. -'Mi-M i??: ? ' ~ ' _ ' The foundations of the Grai from clift to cliff and rise 550 f her. That princess, living 5,000 years ago, could tell an interesting story for the movies. She "built herself a small pyramid with stones given to her by her many lovers." Where do you suppose she is now? In some strange Egyptian heaven, perhaps, with all those admirers around her. England, alarmed by European war threats, issues an official "white paper" explaining why? "The relation of our own armed forces to those of odier great powers should be maintained at a figure high enough to enable us to exercise our influence and authority in international affairs." Unfortunately for all plans, the airplane in the hands of a desperate nation might upset all national "authority," just as a pistol in the hands of a desperate man upsets individual and police authority. One bullet will stretch individual authority in the dust; 1,000 airplanes, attacking the heart of a great city, might cause national "authority" to end in demoralization. England's new defense increase will be largely in her air force; that wise nation knows that the real "ocean" in future wars will be the ocean of the air. In a desert of southeastern Utah, men and women, belonging to the cult of "truth seekers," were gathered around the body of Mrs. Edith Dakhal, who died more than a year ago. You read about it, perhaps. Mrs. Ogden, leader of the "truth seekers," prayed over the body, which appeared marvelously preserved. The "truth seekers" believe they will bring the woman back to life, but the pathetic fact is that it would not in the least matter if they did. The important thing is to improve the condition of 1,800,000,000 actually living on the earth. For one safely out of it to be brought back would be unimportant, in these days, and perhaps cruel. America holds the world's "murder championship" for all kinds of murder, at all ages?quantity, quality, variety, volume. A New Jersey boy, 16 years old, was sentenced to death. In Wisconsin, a coroner reports that little David Holl, two months old, was killed by two boys four and three years of age. They each held one hand of the younger one, and dropped it on the floor. It cried and would not stop. Then, one of the small boys explained, "We pounded him." These youngest "killers" puzzle the law. You can't "try" a four-yearold child. Railroads tell the interstate commerce commission they would like faro c roHimoH tn Him and a half cents a mile, instead of two cents. The railroads should have all possible consideration, for they have built up this country, but at two and a hall cents a mile they will not compete successfully with automobiles carrying passengers lor one?quarter of a cent a mile. New York proposes to fingerprint everybody, new babies included. The baby of the future will be busy, with finger-printing, tonsil and appendix removal, vaccination for smallpox and a half dozen other diseases. The new treaty with France, reducing the duty on French wines and liquors by 50 per cent, interests California and other wine growing states. It should persuade them to stabilize the productior of wines, establish official guarantees of purity, freedom from adulterations, mixtures, and especially "fortifying" with alcohol. In Europe, notably in France, adulteration of wines is an offense against the law. With us, it is a business. For advertising reasons, a group of men made long distance hike ob a diet of broken grain to prove the superiority of that diet They were surprised when 53 hikers showed a total loss of 211 pounds in weight while one, 66 years old, showed a gain of three pounds. ?) King Features Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service. * THE STATE PORT PILOT, S 3ersons in the Ci R. McCarl who has retired from h d red hats on six new cardinals. 3 Detects "Sour" 1 \ L i . . / 'M The "Oscillograph," a new r Detector" now being used in mus detect a "sour" note, but will pi instrument from which the faulty s of Chicago is shown playing the vi The device was invented by Prof, university. ad Assumes New Job i.-:' ? inistrator of the A. A. A., is seen member of the Federal Reserve :nt for the board, is administering >undations for Gra v'vii id Coulee dam on the Columbia riv eet in height, on which an army oi OUTH PORT, N. C~ WEDNI irrent News ** jlr^ ** ** is post. 2?Conclave at Vatican ?Scene in Marseilles, France. ^otes in Music g!?||i ' 1 I liff b u V ' J ^nSHHr nachine something like a "Lie I ical education. It will not only ove the guilt of the person or Dund came. Miss Doris Whyman olin as the instrument "listens." Gordon Hanneman of De Paul FRANCE'S MUSSOLINI mdsBL MmmStk Danger of a Fascist coup such as overtook Italy 14 years ago when Mussolini's Blackshirts marched on Rome, menaced strike-torn France. Colonel De la Roque, often called the potential "Mussolini of France," who claims 700,000 followers in his Croix de Feu, and 100,000 in similar Fascist leagues. ind Coulee Dam x : ,;.v . - v-x ^ ! Vffm 'v I-* i* <? -? Ja J ?r ^ . h ^ er which will stretch 4,300 feet ! men are now at work. 5SDAY, JULY 22, 1936 Washington.?One of the pieces of legislation enacted by the late seventy - fourth Ship congress was the Subsidy shiP subsidy bill. Residents of farming communities and smaller cities and towns in the Interior probably paid no attention to it whatsoever. Nor was there any outstanding reason apparent why they should give thought to a rather complex and yet far-reaching piece of legislation. But it is important even though the circumstances under which it will be effective may not so appear to the agricultural sections of the country. The new law provides an undisguised subsidy as the basis of encouragement for development of a new American merchant marine. It is the first time that such a policy has been carried out by the American nation and it is. therefore, yet a matter to be tried out before inyone can say definitely that the results will be satisfactory. Those who sponsored the legislation have long contended it was both sound and sensible and their argument prevailed in congress. Advocates of the measure say that it will proviue at least a start for the construction of new and faster and more efficient American owned ships. They contend further that the policy upon which the nation has now embarked as regards shipping will cost less in the end than other disguised and concealed subsidies that have been employed. It may be necessary to recall that the United States long has paid what amounts to a subsidy to ocean going ships in the form ot excessive rates for the transportation of ocean mail. There are 43 such mail routes and the ships operating on these routes, consequently, benefited to the extent of the number of pounds of mail they carried because the payments they reoeived were on a pound basis. This contribution from the federal government enabled many of those shipping companies to survive. But it is only natural that one should ask why a subsidy is advisable or necessary at all. The answer is plain. American owned ships, ships flying the American flag, are required by law to meet numerous conditions that are not required by any other nation of the ships registered with their admiralties. For example, the standard of wages on American ships and tne working conditions laid down by law are the highest of any in the world. Those conditions alone add immensely to the overhead cost of American owned ships. * With these conditions, among many others, it becomes easily understandable what Some difficulties c o nDifRculties front American flag ships in competition with world shipping. Above and beyond the factors just mentioned, it is a matter of record as well that ship construeXI I? 41 TT_:x_ J * nun m uie uimtru oiciied cuoic* uiuic perhaps than any place else in the world. Here again American standards are influential. They bring about higher wages and shorter hours for American labor in American shipyards. Thus, a new ship starting out begins its service with a handicap of greater cost upon which a return must be had if those who invest their money in ships are to receive a profit thereon. Then, there is a further distinct and important reason. I refer to national defense. It has long been the conviction of military and naval men that American freight and passenger ships should be so designed, developed and constructed, that they might be converted to satisfactory use as auxiliary craft in time of war. In this connection it will be recalled that tremendous sums were expended by our government in building ships for use in the World war. There was such vast waste of money at that time uiai u sccma uit-icuiuic anyone should ever make the same mistake again. But to avoid that mistake advance preparations are necessary and that is a point strongly stressed by those who favored the ship subsidy legislation. Now to link the importance of the ship subsidy bill with agriculture: American prodLinA With ucts must have the Farm access to ioreign markets and this access must be under fair and reasonable competitive conditions. Such reasonable and fair competitive conditions cannot obtain if American built ships, constructed at greater costs because of the higher standards of wages and living of American labor, and operated on a basis of greater cost for the same reasons do not have some protection from the government wcose flag they fly. They cannot, for example, meet the freignt rates offered by the Japanese whose labor basis is distressing and whose general construction costs are amazingly low. Nor can they compete with ships constructed with government money and subsidized by special privileges accorded by their governments. So, it is made to appear, at leasl from this line of reasoning, that American firms are left to the mercies of foreign shipping companies in their efforts to expand our export trade?that is, they are left to these mercies unless this government takes a definite stand by which American flag ships are accorded some advantages. I suspect there are many features of the ship subsidy bill which was lathered by Senator Copeland, New York Uemocrat, that will prove unsatisfactory. Indee-1, 1 am sure some of them will be found tc b?. wholly unworkable. But the point is, after all, that a start has been made toward honesty of policy in dealing with merchant marine problems. I think no one can refute the statement that as between concealed or disguised subsidies and forthright payments thai are known as subsidies, the forthright and honest method is decidedly better. Since the United States normally produces a surplus of agricultural products, it becomes highly important to agriculture that the foreign markets are accessible and that the costs of transportation dc not entirely eat up the value of the commodity exported unless the * tnc onrl wneai irom uie piama oww.s the cotton from the South and the corn from the Mississippi valley can be moved at reasonable cost. One might properly inquire why the foreign boats should not be used to handle American commodities if the freight rate is lower There are two very valid reasons why this should not obtain. One is that constant rate reduction by foreign shipping companies would sooner or later, probably sooner, destroy the American merchant marine. With this end achieved, the foreign shipping companies would do as they have attempted tc do on a number of occasions?jack up the rates to suit themselves. The other reason why American goods should be shipped in American bottoms is that a mercantile marine is as necessary an adjunct to our national economy and our national welfare as are the lines of land transportation. This may seem to be a broad statement but 1 believe, nevertheless, it is a truthful one because all fields of industry as well as agriculture would suffer if we were left at the mercy of foreign shipping companies. Further, the commodities that we import would pay whatever rates the foreign shipping companies demanded in order to reach our shores and we eventually would pay the bill. It seems, therefore, that while this legislation probably is far from perfection, probably has entirely too much governmental finger in the shipping pie, it presents a start that eventually will be helpful 1 have heard no answer to this statement. It is going to eost about so much for transportation oh the ocean and if we can maintain an American industry upon that cost plus the aid of a subsidy of the type now initiated, we have laid out a sound unit in our national commercial structure. It goti without saying, therefore, that if it is helpful to one part of the country it is going to be helpful to all others because we are so interrelated. Political students have been en gaged lately in stirring arguments over what possiPests and bly may be a new Drouth influence in the campaigns ol 1936. 1 refer to the disastrous conditions in some of the plains of the middle west resulting from lack of rain. I refer, also, to the presence of pests in sections of the plains states. It has been inter, oting, not to say humorous, to listen to the arguments being advanced, arguments based purely on political phases that may or may not result fromthose conditions. There is no agreement among the Democrats and nc agreement among the Republicans as to the effect of the natural circumstances developing in the middle west. Some Democrats contend the drouth will react to President Roosevelt's advantage. Some Republicans fear that the Democratic contention is true. Some Democrats are afraid that the loss ol crops and the generally bad condition in whicb this leaves thousands of farmers will place them in a state of mind where they will be determined to vote against somebody and of course the only person against whom they can vote .s Mr. Roosevelt inasmuch as he happens to be the man in power ol 1 uie moment. C WMtern Newspa??r UalM. I ! star! | DUST li t Movie ?vadi0H ' By VIRGINIA \'AI|Jl TF YOU'RE interested* 1 watching a . rccr ?l keep your eye on .ung | Blake, who has ! | character inu "^Hl Charles Laught ; p^HS* more, Edward R< Clark Gable at the 1; . of Rockefeller Co you kuow he'll be o:. .,. in the movies; thou. early twenties now. : s good start. He went to BrooV.r-n college, I has appeared in v. smart hotels and nr. i cluba and there about t Congress and the S r.s Chicago featured hir. r,; Landing in the R, . crowns him with access; scouts make it one i t stops in New York. ! no wants to leave town till he'sb^^H ?*? Four members > ' the Players of Dublin, one of the famous tnej^H organizations ig^| mC^F' V ~ j| vers. k they've /' forrrn d on til (it . was thrillediB Barbara death?because S fl ] Stanwyck met JnmesCa^B Barbara Stanwyck will B | starred in this new Irish pictiB | which is being made b . .^^| of us liked "The Informer" so?^| And it will be made by the pi ducers, director and scenarist tl were responsible for "The Irk^B er," so it's going to be good. 1 Seems there's a rumor that Major Bowes isn't so ptp| lar as he once was; people heard that performers on bis pi grams don't get paid much, ii| that he gets plenty. And somtl the people who go to the bmi| casts feel that be isn't digii||| enough. All that may or may not be ti| ?but a high-powered publicity r| ganization has been engage! change public opinion regirtnl the genial Major; his new spossi^H feel that the public most p I liking him, or else! Want to know the lcw-doun how to play bad man on ts| screen? Noah Beery, brother I Wallace, can give it to r&l He's now playing a hired killer "Strangers on a Honeymoon, ? the Gaumont British studios, aleql with Constance Cummings tnl Hugh Sinclair?he's been appal ing as various kinds of murfeal for years and years. He says that, if a criminal il to seem to be a real man 1>I must show a streak of human kbil ness?"A screen killer can motiH guy down with a shot-gun, butbtiH got to stoop and pat a kid on uH head on the way out"?otherw*H he's a madman, not a human i*H ing. Columbia Broadcasting SyiiaH is going to give a lot of young nnH a chance this summer. With "tH ular announcers going on ?? tions, others who have been tioned in the past and are ing here and there od the netrdH will be brought in and given >H chance to show what they canbH in more important spots on the uH ? The most important arm in movies at present is Margaret lavan's. She broke ^| it a while ago. * you'll recalL It /tuBB-fll wasn't healing H|HmI properly, so she m hied her to New |H York for special lijM. XI treatments. Now IlllPf . I i- : she's back again in K Hollywood and Br JrL I hopes to go to work jCt'ijp*' I I soon. But friends J?Su/ I have cautioned her to be careful of Marglret I that arm. Only the ^yUavas I other day she was . . il. flffi^l reported as whizzing to uw side tennis matches on a sm^'M cycle with Willie Wyler. - ? ODDS AND ENDS .. hay I'^M played the role oj a famous her Florence Nightingale pictuM4,1 B now she needs one; has two i"JpcPttH wisdom teeth ... Seems that l/if'"''B about Clark Gable's knocking ua'^B sparring partner was just a publicity yarn . . . Joan Blondtil H Dick Howell seem to be getting H Jel for that long-heruldt d " ^7? I Have you joined one of the jj I Lanny Ross clubs? ... Shirley is cuter than ever ui "Four I Rich Cii-r ... You'll want to Francisco" because of the estintpte scenes if for no other riasoti H Though JeaneUe MaclJonald s H should be reason enough ^ .H Lombard's illness is holding * M .... :.Ji' spawn of the North wtl< I
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