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BRISBANE THIS WEEK Big War or Little? LaGuardia'* G-Men She Took It Seriously Pretty Bluebirds War is not comine; it Is here. It' may or may not be a war “setting, f hi tvnrld nn Arthur Brisbane Are." Italy had an unpleasant experience In Abyssinia In the. last century and wishes to repair that It also wishes to keep Japan from gathering In A b y s s 1 n 1 a's trade and con trolling Abyssin ia. Britain can understand how Italy feels, since Britain found It really necessary to gather in the Transvaal and other vast areas thronghont the world. Italy used to send 500,000 Immi grants a year to the United States. Now they are shut out They must go somewhere. They would con siderably Improve Abyssinia 11 they went there. Mayors of other cities will watch New York’s Mayor LaGuardia fight ing racketeering and crime In gen eral. Besides training his own po lice force to shoot straight and “to kill,” Mayor LaGuardia will get some government “G-men,” If pos sible, from Washington, to come and set the example. If Mayor LaGuardia, who has an honest and energetic police com missioner, cleans up crime In. New York, he will deserve a statue next to that of Hercules, who cleaned the Augean stables, and a bigger statue. Women, before and since Helolse, have taken heart affairs more seri ously than men. Margaret Jordan, an Irish girl, lonely, fell In love with a Mount V'ernon, N. Y\, policeman, because he came from her home town. He was married, with eight children, and after he had seen the girl for two years he decided that he must reform and see her no more. He told her about this pious resolution as he sat In his police car, and did not notice that she took his service revolver from the pocket of the car. - - • ** He learned what had happened next day when told that the girl had killed herself with his revolvfff. It was embarrassing for a married rtllceman with eight children. At Fort George Wright, tiny blue birds built their nest in the mouth of a big cannon, and mother blue bird laid four pretty blue eggs. Our kind-hearted heroes at the fort are protecting the nest. Sentries do not come too near, cats are discouraged and to the orders of the day MaJ. George S. Clark added these kind words, “and keep an eye on those birds." In American churches Sunday, August 18, will be a day of prayer for peace in Africa and safety for little Krhlopla. which confronts war with powerful Italy. That Is the right United States Interference In foreign affairs. The prayers will reach their destination, and the Supreme Being to whom they are addressed knows what Is best, and has power to arrange mat ters in Ethiopia as he chooses. To pray: "Lord, possessor of om nlscence and omnipotence, we leave 'all In your hands,” is right. To send a million young Ameri can men, and several thousand million American dollars, to meddle In hot Africa would be wrong. The country will welcome Presi dent Roosevelt's statement that the "four thousand million dollar works relief fund” will actually be In vested In such a way as to In crease the nation’s capital assets. Many times four thousand million dollars could be spent advan tageously, If It were really invest ed In wise, permanent Improve ments. A financial letter from London remarks, casually, "Credit was plen tiful at one-half of one per cent Interest.” Americans that cannot borrow anything, on securities onee considered good, wonder how the British manage. The American government borrows at three and a half per cent, seven times the cur rent English Interest rate, money manufactured by itself, and thus adds one hundred per qent to taxes for Interest that need not be paid at all. Queer finance, dearly be loved. r St. Louis reformers say women should not sit on high stools with their feet on a rail and drink at the bar. And. reformers rejoice to hear, the saloonkeepers say: “Amen.” Reformers and saloonkeeper* are right. The saloon was bad enough before women moved in to make it worse, hitching up their dresses, climbing high stools, readjusting their dvesses, or not readjusting them, calling for roollsb drinks to show how foolish they could be. THE ALLEGHANY TIMES MAGAZINE SECTION Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—First traffic passing over the $2,350,000 Rip Van Winkle bridge which crosses the Hudson river between the city of Hudson and the village of Catskill. 2—Scene in an army recruiting station in New York city as the army began the drive to increase Its size by the addition of 46,250 enlisted men. 3—Miss Fannie Meg ahee, queen of the Colquitt county annual watermelon festival in Georgia, presenting to White House Secre tary McIntyre a prize winning melon for President Roosevelt World’s Oldest Stone Arch Railroad Viaduct liuim.SM?. ■auMii dafasi At Relay, Md., stands a viaduct that has rendered one hundred years of steady daily service carrying the heaviest trains. It is the Thomas vlatfcict of the Baltimore and Ohio line, the oldest of its kind in the world, spanning the Patapsco river outside of Baltimore. The 103-year-old Atlantic locomotive and Imlay coaches in use in the 1830s are here contrasted with the new streamlined train—the Royal Blue—that began using the bridge the other day on the Washington-New Xork route. Matanuska Colony as Aerial view of Matanuska colony, the new settlement In Alaska consisting of people sent there under the auspices of the United States government. Note the road In the foreground and the farm buildings above the camp. The dark patches are plowed ground. Bi axil's Venice • Pernambuco Is called the Brazil ian Venice because of Its canals, deepened to obtain filler for low-* lands, The city is the easternmost In South America and the white-! crested surf of the clear Atlantic, never ceases beating upon Its, shores. In the old part of the city i the streets are narrow and the houses tall, the Idea being to obtain( the maximum of shade. Ancisnt Guatemala Guatemala, with Its large Indian population, and spectacular setting' of volcanoes and lakes. Is the most, urban of all Central American capi tals—a city of modern buildings set' among evergreens anti feathery, palms with a temperature of per petual spring. atari and Stripes Short Lived Any patriot will tell you that "Old Glory” wave* forever, but those more practical minded souls—the statisticians—know better. The na tional park service, which has charge of the flags that fly over most gov ernment buildings, estimates the life of the Stars and Stripes at six weeks In inclement weather and three months under clear skies Burial Place* General Lee's body was Interred lb the chapel of Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va. Jef ferson Davis Is buried In “the cem etery of the Presidents," Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va, which con tains the graves of Presidents Mon roe and Tyler Lincoln Memorial Pool The reflecting pool near the Lin coln Memorial In Washington Is 1,922 feet long, and 18Q feet wide. The average depth Is about 314 feet. The pool was completed In the fall of 1922 and cost about $600,000. The water In the pool Is still water. It Is filled, then emptied and. cleaned and refilled. Famous "Rainbow Hill” “Rainbow HUI.” Ladysmith, Is so called because Its soil Is composed of sis bright colors. Farmers who want to paint their homes collect some of the clay, which Is dried, powdered, and later mixed with wa ter or oil. They can choose from red, pink, cream, green, brown and yellow.—Tlt-Blta Magazine Venezuela Honors Major of Marines MaJ. Chester l„ Fordney, Dnited States Marines (left), who Is on duty In Chicago as commanding officer of the Central Reserve area, has just been decorated by the republic of Venezuela with the “Medallo de Honor, de Instrueclon Fubllca.” The medal was presented to the major by Senor It. Carlos l.ebret (right), consul of Venezuela In Chicago, at a dinner In the Adventurers’ club. The decoration was awarded In recog nition of the scientific results of the Settle-Fordney stratosphere ascen sion In liKtS. of which Major Fordney was the scientific observer, and also In recognition of the contributions to education of the mathematical exhibits at the Century of I’rogress exposition of which the major was executive officer. Job Hunters Flock to California For weeks before the apple season opened In Sonoma county, Call fornia, families seeking employment were swarming into the state and crowding the auto camps. Many sold their ramshackle cars for a few dollars and were soon stranded. Here Is a typical out-of-state family in the orchard country. Hitler’s Double Strolls in Nice Hi i A strange character bearing a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler, German chancellor. Is sl)own here strolling the promenade at Nice with the escorts who always accompany him when he ventures outdoors. Shoot Dico for Bible* At St. Ives in Huntingdonshire, England, annually on June 11 chil dren throw dice for Bibles which are purchased under an old will with rent of an orchard called Bible orchard. Copyright Not for Fact* Copyright Is not for facts, but for literary forms. What Is protected Is the compiler's arrangement and so long as the work as a whole rep resents original effort, It can be copyrighted. Peach Stone Poison 1 A chemist, studying papyrus manu scripts, says that Egyptian priests who revealed secrets'of their order were killed with a poison made from peach stones. Deny Moon Affects Weather Weather forecasters say that, contrary to popular opinion, the moon has no effect on the weather. “Ruble” Russian Money The“ruble" la a unit of Russian money. BEVERLY HILLS.— Well all I know is just what I read In the pa pers, or what I see here and there. I _ have been work ing pretty hard (laugh) on some movies. It just happened that I almost had three right in a row. Now that dont mean that they will be released as fast as we made em. They only come out about every four inonths, but we got a coupie aueau oncouj u“»*0 and that means that I will have lit tle time off to do a few things I been planning on, and that I wont look like I am trying to get in front of every camera that is grinding. We run one the other night called, “In Old Kentucky," and its got a lot of laughs. Had a lot of awful fine people in it, and they sure made good. You know the old idea of one person trying to be the whole thing in a picture is all washed up. Pic tures are like a ball team, the pitcher cant do it all. Its got to be the whole team. You just watch pictures close and see how well done are just small parts, or what they call “Bits." Its because they are done by real actors, actors that anyone of them could go in and play the leading part. They may ohly get two or three days work out of it, but they do it like it was a star part, and you never hear em whining either about the part not being in keeping with their ability. No sir, I believe there is more real nerve and gameness ut^der the most disscouraglng circumstances in the picture business than any other place on earth, course the stage is not far behind, its a heart breaking racket but they dont sit and tell you about it. Their heads are always up. They keep neat, they hide a lot with a great smile. Well after I finish a long siege I sorter begin to looking up in the air and see what is flying over, and Mrs Rogers in her wise way will say, “Well I think you better get on one. You are getting sorter nervous.” Well this time the Fourth of July was coming on. I had had a lot of invitations to a lot of places where I would have liked to have gone on the Fourth. So 1 went to a real cowboy reunion in Texas on one of their most famous ranches. Not a professional rodeo like you see everywhere else, but a real celebration'in a real cowtown by real old timers. I wouldent have missed it for anything. You know the way planes run, its almost impossi ble to think of a place that you cant be to by morning or at the latest next day at noon. It was getting along late in the afternoon. I had just played a little polo game at my place. Jimmy, the youngest, was “Hot,” and he made a sucker out of me. I was on the other side. Bill b - the measels, and had to stand off on the side of the hill in front of the house and watch it. He was just a getting over what they call the Ger man Measels. (Irvin Cobb said they were now called Liberty Measels.) He was a mighty big old boy to be measeling. Then the Mother who had been taking care of him thought she bad em, and wanted me to get away to keep from catch ing em, so as I say it was late in the afternoon about five thirty and' I called up the plane com pany and booked me space to leave at seven. And it takes an hour to go to the field. I w a s e n t ll&UV BUiO * TTO.O ~ —w— celebrations but I can be ready to go to Africa In ten minutes. Left at seven, arrive at Abilene Texas at six the next morning, and its only forty miles out to the town union is, Sanford, Texas. Why you can leave Califorr the evening on any one of the lines, and arrive in New York and see a matinee the next afternoon and a night show and leave after the night show and be home by the next night for dinner. But they are mov ing plenty fast in cars too, and trains are picking up and their busi ness is picking up. There is so much to many good places to stop, I never in my life saw as many of state cars as there is in Californl this summer. That big fair ont them is drawing a lot of em, but every state has something that everybody ought to see. From what I can gather from everyone I talk with, things are deflnatley picking up. If they just get more folks to working which they are doing now too. there is no way to stopping this Country. Just qnitj listening to the politicians. They have to make a noise the nearer it copes to next year. Roosevelt going to ruin the Country. The ' stltutton will remain as Is. ' elans are not going to take us. 1 where I have been on this I IS a fine feeling. Let folks quit ing oyer who did It, or ( Just join in It • i r
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