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BRISBANE THIS WEEK Pleasant Newa Air Fleet Contrqls Nordic Max, Jewish Max Gen. Dawes Sees Joy It Is pleasant to read a Washington dispatch saying that the government will establish a great airport In Ha- wall near Fort Kamehameba, named for thp iast k l n.g of Hawaii. The Idea Is to keep enough bomb ing planes there to take care of unwel come flyers or sur face ships arriving from Asia. FincJ Scrolls Thought to Link China With Babylon —i— Interesting Find Made in an Ancient Monastery. Washington.—In Central Asia, scien-' tists agree, many “missing chapters” In the story of mankind await explor ers who are courageous, of lucky, enough to escape the bandit hordes, earthquakes and pestilence that render the area less accessihle lo the foreign er than the far away~Antanrtlc. Arthur Brisbane It will be more pleasant to read, as you may do later, that the govern ment plans to establish a powerful air base on the island of Guam, which we are free to fortify, now that the Wash ington conference agreements have been repudiated and our silly pledge not to fortify Guam is wiped out. I Thanks to airplanes, the Greek re bellion is crushed. The old Greek pa triot Venlzelos, leading the revolt at the age of seventy-two, fled from his home on the Island of Crete across the Aegean sea to an Italian island for refuge. —7— Weeping, the old man vowed that he would never again set foot on Greek ■oil. A rebel cruiser took Venlzelos to the protection of the Italian flag. Then, last of the fleet that had re belled, the cruiser 'Averolf surrendered to the government Max Schmellng, German heavyweight prize fighter, beat Mr. Hamas with ease and says, “Now we get Baer." Baer, you know. Is the'world’s heavy weight \champIon. The fact that he Is a Jew, and not a blue-eyed Nordic, with the back of his head as straight up and down as a board fence, is said t/> annoy Mr. Hitler. It will Interest Hitler and others. A hard-hitting “Nordic” meets Max Btfer, a tall young Jew, who laughs while he fights. The meeting will settle noth ing. Racial supremacy does not de pend on the fist. But In New York city it ought to draw a crowd, gigantic, and a “gate" of about one million dol lars. A,cable dispatch from Lanchow, in western China, reports that hundreds of rolls of Buddhist classics, musty with age, were recently dug up in the Wind-swept courtyard of a monastery that flourished more than 1,500 years ago. The scrolls, written in both Sans krit and Chinese, mention a far away city, believed to have been Babylon; but, more Important, hits of pottery, strik ingly similar to the earthenware then in use in Mesopotamia, were found near the scrolls. T The ruins of this monastery were discovered accidentally by a Taoist monk about 30 years ago. Struggling through the sand dunes of the Tung Huang district, he came upon what ap peared to be a brass table top. Later excavation revealed It to be the crown of a huge statue of Buddha, with the monastery and sacred caves nearby. Findings of Expedition. During its tractor-car crossing of Asia along the trail of Marco Polo In 1932, the Citroen-Haardt expedition studied another of Central Asia’s most interesting ancient sites—Bazakllk, in Sinklang (Chinese Turkestan), a few hundred miles west of the scene of the recent Lanchow discoveries. Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, Na tional Geographic society representa tive with the Citroen-Haardt expedi tion, describes the experiences of an archeological group which spent more than a week studying and reproducing strange frescoes and cave temples of this hidden corner of the world. “We spent eight busy days in the vi cinity of Bazakiik,” Doctor Williams writes, “while .TacovlelT, the expedition artist, with a gasoline heater keeping his color palette from freezing, copied frescoes and the rest of us shivered n dark, dusty.caverns behind,our mo tion picture and natural color cameras. “In Bazakiik we found that exca vated grottoes bearing Uigur inscrip tions had been taken over by the Bud dhists, who roofed them with mud bricks, forming new’ arched ceilings. One fresco was evidently Manlchean— an ascetic religion, founded by a Baby Ionian, which spread to Rome, China, and India. Mani taught that light and goodness fought, against darkness and evil in the souls of men. v Fresco Bady Damaged. “As copied by Jacovleff, the Manl chean fresco has something of the deli cacy and charm of a back drop from some graceful scene of oriental life, but the faded original was’'dark and badly damaged and the writing indis tinct. “How long a time elapsed between the Manlchean and the Buddhist fres coes is still a mystery, as is much of Central Asia’s story, but there Is enough Buddhist art remaining to in dicate relationships reaching far to the west and south. Chinese art seems not to have Influenced the Bazakiik fres coes. “A celestial Jazz band, a Mona Lisa smile, a bull-riding Siva, and a red- bearded ‘barbarian’ were clear enough to have popular interest. These blue- 50 Tons of Silver Reported in Cave Tashkent, Turkestan.—Fifty tons of silver are now estimated to.be deposited In the rocks of one of the world’s biggest caves—the “Kon- Yon-Goot Cave” fn the mountains of Shaldymlr, Central Asia. For centuries, legends have grown np about treasure which is supposed to be hidden in this "Bottomless Pit.” Soviet scientists have found rich treasure there—but not all ready to be carried away. Analysis of rocks taken from ^he c fl ve are declared to reveal silver, lead and manga nese In high percentages. WATER FLEA OF GREAT VALUE IN SCIENTIFIC WORK Dr. Anno Vlehoever of Philadel phia has been experimenting with the water flea. . That tiny creathsa- • Is transparent Under the mlscroscop# / one can watch Its muscles Contract and relax. Its breathing go on. Its meals get chewed, digested and dis posed of, Its heart pulsate, and its eyes gleam ah it glances this way and that A wonderful eye It has, this tiny relative of the shrimp, lobsters and crabs. Human brings have but ♦ single lens for each eye. The water i - ■& , ERH SEE a you grow ONLY what you plant All, the stmshine, good soU, eyed barbarians held up their soft boots by suspenders, fastened to their belts. So did the Scythians and others whose graves mark a route from Crfbifea, on the Black sea, to Mongolia. 7 Here history may not hang by but these boot-suspenders offer another clew to since-forgotten Indo-European relations and commerce with Cathay. “Not only commerce, but art and re ligion, politics and wood block type (one of the rudiraelts of printing), moved along the age-old ‘silk routes’ between East and West. recalled today only by neglected ruins and ‘lost’ mon asteries and shrines.” Boring-30 Feet Below Hudson River Here is a scene 30 feet below the bottom of the Hudson river, and 170 feet out from the Weehawken shore line, as engineers and sand hogs, work ing under 13 pounds of air pressure, thrust the giant tunnel toward Manhat tan, at a rate of 30 inches at a time. This tunnel is meant for Interstate mo tor traffic. General Dawes, once Vice President, always busy, now visiting General Pershing st Tucson. Ariz., says: Build Great Shipping Port on Caspian Sea ••America is on the verge of real eco nomic recovery. Its natural force, and human nature, are definitely working for recovery, and in May of this year, positively not later than July, the na tion will know the depression is over." Well, it is a pleasure to have some body at least say so, even though they may have to say it over and over year after year. <$- Persians Hope to Open Exten sive Trade Routes. The California assembly votes 58 to 17 in favor of the Townsend plan. The state senate, however, revolted and de feated the resolution calling on con gress to enact the old age pension bill If is not possible for the United States to pay twenty-four thousand million dollars every year, the total cost of giving $200 per month ‘to every man past sixty. It does not cost the assemblyman anything to vote for the impossible, and it makes him feel politically safe. H. G. Wells Is In America to .write about the New Deal. He will find some good applicable descriptive copy In his book, written long ago, “Doctor Moreau’s Island.” Doctor Moreaa performs some Strange and horribly cru61 v operations In the effort to make animals speak and otherwise act like human beings. Mr. Wells will find the new era per forming strange operations on business men, to make them speak the new busi ness language.' Amsterdam.—Netherlands engineers, working in the heart of Asia, are bring- ng ancient Persia days nearer to the modern western world, by constructing a great new port on the world’s largest Inland sea—the Caspian. When It is completed the harbor of Deh-No In Persia \vlll open up new trade routes in central Asia and form '6ne of the chiefs Units between the Persian capital, Teheran, and the West The actual construction of the port was ordered by the shah of Persia, Riza Khan. ^ ^ ” The Netherlands company which won the contract had to compete with firms of |world:Wide reputation from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece and Sweden. The work, which will take four years to complete, will cost about 5,000,000 guilders, or nearly $3,500,000. Netherlands engineers and foremen will direct the construction throughout, and all the plant and material used will come from Holland. Deh-No, once a tiny fishing village with a perfect natural harbor on the northern shore of the Caspian sea, is already taking shape as the future port of the,, capital. A modern hotel has been erected and a broad automobile highway now spans the 100 miles be tween Deh-No and Teheran. When the harbor of Deh-No is com pleted goods from Europe and across the Atlantic will be able to travel by steamer to the Black sea port of Ba- tum, in Russia. From Batum they will be carried by rail to Baku on the Cas- pian and then transshlppecT stralght tcr Deh-No and the Persian, hinterland. Merchandise, from Russia Itself will be conveyed by steamer down the Vol ga to the Caspian and so directly to Deh-No. Hitherto freight for Persia had to be carried by a circuitous route across Turkey and Iraq or by way of Palestine. * The construction of Deh-No Is re garded as the first step In Riza Khan’s plans for modernizing Persia and bring ing her into line with the western world. Studying Cheese Keeps These Two Experts Busy Monroe, Wis.—Robert Harden and Charles A. Buck, operators of the state-federal cheese laboratory here, daily relieve the headaches of thou sands of Wisconsin cheesemakers, - The.two men constantly study vari ous specimens of cheese through mlcro- scoi>es and other scientific processes, t is their business to Isolate thousands of bacteria in an effort to learn whether they are conducive or detrimental to the manufacture of gooff dieeaer Thanks to Harden and Buck, “niss- ers,” “presslers” and “stinkers” ap pear less often in the cheesemen’s “makes.” flea’a well-nwweled eye' has twenty lenses. No fish can catch It un awares, for it can look In virtually every direction at once, and dodge away from threatenejl danger. The water flea even responds to ultra eyes. Drugs act on the water flea vfery much the same way as on human be ings. Doctor Vlehoever administered chloroform to one of these almost Invisible creatures. Then, with the aid of a camera and a microscope he took motion pictures showing Just how the chloroform was slowing down the action of tbe water flea’a heart Then he administered the active Ingredients of digitalis—and brouglft “back to normal the ac tion of the water flea’s heart Such au investigation as that means opportunity to study the chemical and physiological mechan ism Involved In the action of drugs. It means opportunity, for Instance, to try to find out what combination of substances the physician must use to regulate a misbehaving heart beat In human beings and to try td bring it back to normality. 1 : The “Normal Child” The conception of the “Inner na ture” of the child In progressive edu cation Is actually so Idealistic that It Is entirely unfair to most normal boys and girls. For It assumes quite blandly that the average child Is by his very nature Intelligent, talented, self-reliant, reasonable and sociably Inclined. That he has within himself the ability to make Ibglcal Judgments and form sensible opinions. But the sad and sober truth Is that the aver age healthy child has very few of these essentially adult traits of mind and character. ^ The average child Is selfish, he Is stubborn, he Is forgetful, he is cruel, he is illogical. His sense of humor Is of an .extremely low variety. And his inherent taste, Judged by civilized adult standards. Is rather atrocious. The child is like this not because he has been poorly trained or badly conditioned, or harshly repressed, but simply because he is a normal child. —Dr. Grace Adams in Scribner’s Magazine. fertilizer and cultivation in the world won*t help poor seeds produce big* tender, flavorsome vegetables. The quality most he in the seed. And that quality must he in herited from generations of parent plants and seeds of the same quality. Ferry** Vegetable Seeds are pure bred. They reproduce what their parents and great great grandparents so lav ishly bequeathed them. YOU? NEIGHBORHOOD STORE i F l L S THEM IN FRESH DATED RACE'S FOR ONLY Says Cardul Soon Helped "My mother was such s believer in Cardul that she gave it to me," writes Mrs. Sam Ferrara, of Hammond, La. "I was suffering with my back and side. 1 would get so dixzy-I could hardly stand and then have a weak feeling in my back. This mad* me very nervous and I did not rest wt& at night I felt better after my first bottle of Cardul I took two bdttlaa and felt a great deal better. It tainly is a fine medicine." Successfully used over fifty j Thousands of women testify Car diff benefited them. If it does not benefit YOU, consult a physician. nu» YOURSELF Mm ov*r moo»y mittvrs. unique 60-60 plan. It never to r. O. BOX SSI. BB1DGEFOBT, Foatily Bout Send (or my • folio. Send $1 SPORT, comv. Sod Comment Sally, aged five, while helping mother with the dishes, remarked, “mother, I don’t believe Dorothy's father is a married man.”. Mother, much surprised, asked | why she thought that, and Sally replied, “Well, I don’t think he looks Tired enoughr^-The Parents’ Mftg- azlne. AGENTS, cell Aapirln.Rosor Bladoolodlno. Combe, assorted boxes soap, extracts, rub ber rood*, auto accesaorlM; prleea lowifroe list. National Supply Co.. BickaeonS. Va> FLORESTON SHAMPOO-1 connectionwiu«i hem »n*ireh hair aoft and fluffy. 10 cento by maflorWi data. Hiecox Chemical Works. Fatehora* N.1 GOOD LUCK MADDENS New Yorkers are told that all work ers pay In taxes In various ways the earnings of one day every week. The man who has $5,000 a year pays $1,000 -toward- the support—of -government Some men with bigger Incomes, busy Just now borrowing money with which to pay taxes, could tell a more inter esting story. When watches were first made a Frenchman said It was strange that man, with genius and Intelligence enough to make s watch, should be superstitious enough to believe in ghosts. It’s more strange that the human race with sufficient Intellect and will to fly, travel underneath the ocean, and talk around the world, without, wires, should be feeble and foolish Enough to believe In a per manent depression. The belief la ghosts is slowly disappearing. Let's hope and believe the depression will disappear more rapidly. The national ladies’ hairdressers’ convention, gathered In Toronto, Is In formed that platinum blonds are on the wane and red-haired women, politely called Titian,” are rising In favor The platinum blond la a modern in- T"ventlon, a passing thing, whereas the 1, woman with red hair antedates all the governments and civilization that ws know, and may outlast theip. A Xlac Feature* Syndicate, In, WMU SffYjM. Frank Gegas, New York sandwich man, who found and returned a wallet containing $42,000 In securities, sad was given a good Job and showerea with attentlona, went suddenly Insane. He Is shown on (he way to Bellevue psychopathic ward In company with a policeman. ^ s Christm&s^M&il of 1933 Just Received in India New Delhi.—A bag of Christmas mail has only Just reached the' British consulate in Kashgar (Sinklang) from Peiping—and It Is the mail of Christ mas, 1933! For the last two years Kashgar has been practically Isolated from the world on account of the Moslem re bellion In Chinese Turkestan. The British consulate has been able to keep in touch with India, however, by means of runners over the high mountain passes, one of which Is IS,- 000 feet. Under favorable conditions about a fortnight or three weeks is heeded for’TTruhner to reach the first British outpost in Kashmir. The two mail bagh were held up for months at Urumchi, the capital of Sinklang, which Is connected by road with Peiping, although much of It is in poor condition and infested with bandits. * Mill in Sweden Weaves Record Size Tablecloths Gothenburg, Sweden.—The world’s widest tablecloths without seams have just been finished at the Dalsjofors Linen mills, nefir Gothenburg., They are close to ten feet square and are In tended for the official tea table in the golden room of the famous town hal of Stockholm. Special looms had to be built and over 17,000,000 perfora tions had to be made In the master copy for the design. 1 For the banquet tables, used to en tertain Noble prize winners, among others, two dozen tablecloths have been woven of damask. They are abont S3 feet long, but only 71 Inches wide. Altogether the new linen closet of Mrs. Town Hall will have 64 tablecloths o ’ various sizes and 1,500 napkins. The designs Include architectural motifs from the building Itself, Milk Plane* Predicted by Agricultural 'Expert Ithaca, N. Y.—Transportation of milk cargoes by airplane In the near future is visualized by H. R. Varney of the department of agricultural economics at Cornell university In a bulletin-on progress in milk transportation.. “It requires no greater stretch of the Imagination to visualize an airplane carrying milk to New York city In the future than It would have been for the farmers, say in Oronge county 90 years | ago, to have visualized the present milk business in New York,” Varney declared. Wpoden Indians Saved From Chopping Block Beloit, Wis.—A pair of wooden In dians, rescued from the chopping block are Jalued at $100 to $300 as rare ex hibition pieces hr W. B. Carr, antique shop proprietor here. __ They stood In front of a Mineral Point (Wis.) store for more than 50 years before a son of the shopkeeper who prized them tdssfed them Into the basement Carr heard of them barely in time to save them * from being chopped up for kindling wood. Log Cabin School in Um Camdenton, Mo.—A log cabin school house Is still doing service for pupils of Chappell Bluff, near here. The one- room structure was erected 60 years ago and still Is In good condition, and its facilities adequate, for the number of children in the district \ . - -1—— ^ Scientists Find Fast Way to Relieve a Cold Ache and Discomfort Eased Almost Instantly Now 1 Take 3 BAYER Aspirin Tablets. Make sure you get the BAYER Tablets you ask for. ' - O Drink a full glass of ^•treatment in 3 hours. A- 'K) MOTS MMIMSCTIONS PICTUMSSW ? . .. The simple method pictured here is the way many doctors now treat colds and the aches and pains colds bring with theml It is recognized as a safe, sure, QUICK way. For it will relieve an ordinary cold almost as fast as you caught it. Ask your doctor abont this. And when yon buy, be sure that yon get the real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. They dissolve (disintegrate) almost instantly. And thus work almost in stantly when yon take them. And for a gargle. Genuine Bayer Aspirin Tablets disintegrate with speed and completeness, leaving no irritating particles or grittineas. BAYER Aspirin prices have bean decisively reduced on all sizes, as there's no point now in accepting other than the real Bayer article yon want. <1 If throat is sore, cruA and stir S w# BAYER Aspirin Tablet* in a third «f a glass of water. Gar tie twice. ThB throat aorenea almoet iaatantiy. TT om AS Find .Italics of Old Rnca Sitka, Alaska.—Relics of a vanished, primitive race were uncovered by worji men of a mining company near here. They Included copper spearheads, pestles, mortars and other ancient weapons and ut How Calotabs Help Nature To Throw Off a Bad Gold City Did Not Havo Fir# Loss Dllley, Texas.—According to a re port made by the city 0^ Dllley to the state fire insurance commissioner, there was not * cent fire loss during 1934. Mmions hare found In Calotabs a most valuable aid in the treatment of colds. They taka one or two tab lets the first night and repeat the third or fifth night If needed. . HOw do Calotabs help Nature throw off a cold? First, Calotabs are on* of the most thdrouah o»wi de pendable of all Intestinal ellmlnants, thus cleansing the Intestinal tract of the germ-laden mucus and toxlms. bmvwvI; are dlurotlo to the kidneys, promoting the of pftimwMi from tbo fiiii* serve the double £mpoM of a purgative and diuretic, both of which are needed tn the of Calotabs (Adv.) ft*