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BRISBANE THIS WEEK. Pretending Costa Money A Japjpese Widow The Five Babies Are Well Democratic Edward VIII Even Imitation war is costly. Eng land's battleships, submarines and air planes in the Medi terranean, intended to Intimidate Italy and keep down dis content in Egypt, represent no real war. England occasion ally discharges light “depth bombs’’ in the Mediterranean, “bringing Italian submarines popping like corks to the surface.” Yet the government tells the house of com mons this imita tion war costs British taxpayers five hundred thousand pounds a month. Artkur Brisbane The twenty-four-year-old widow of a Japanese officer who committed sui cide after the recent rebellion sends a letter of apology to “Jour august majesty,” the Japanese emperor, say ing: “I believe the spirit of my hus band, whose body lies in a coffin be fore me, also sorrows for those who fell.” A most serious people, the Japanese, particularly where their emperor Is concerned. Doctor Dafoe, modest man from Canada, who under^ands quintuplets, dropped in to say tne five little girls are doing well, fighting frequently^ sign of a normal condition. They like sleeping outdoors with the weather 30 below zero, but in daytime only. It would delight you to see their red cheeks. «Three hundred and seventy-five thou sand visitors, nearly all from the Unit ed States, came to look through a fence at the quintuplets last year; 500,000 ore expected this year. The baby girls are a wonderful advertisement for Canada. Many that go to see them will buy farms and stay. A democratic young person is Edward the Eighth, new king of England and emperor of India. Broadcasting to COO.OOO.OOO that live under the British flag and occupy one-quarter of the earth’s surface, he does not refer to them as “my subjects” or “my peo ple,” as his predecessors did, but calls them “fellow men.” . , And Edward VIII does not refer to himself as “we,” which is customary with other rulers. His father spoke of "my empire" and “my dear people” and called himself “we.” President Roosevelt submits to con gress a plan to increase heavily In come taxes of corporations suspected of holding many billions of profits not distributed. The taxes might run to over 33 per cent. You never can tell what Wall Street will think. President Roosevelt's tax ation program sends stocks up. Per haps Wall Street has no “undistributed reserves." Great Industries will not be forbidden reasonable cash sur pluses, presumably. Such a rule would make expansion and increased employ ment Impossible. A Joint resolution In the house and senate suggests a congressional medal of honor for the late Gen. William Mitchell, ‘ head of the American air forces In the big war. Few congress men would vote against a tribute to a man who fought so well for his coun try, and the medal would please his widow and children. If congress wants to honor the mem ory of General Mitchell as he would wish, it will build more airplanes and lead the world in aviation Instead of trailing. Uncle'Sam paying rent to Panama for the canal, offering the usual $250.- 000 rent Installment, was told: "No, we do not take 50-cent dollars.” Washington admits that while It may try interesting experiments with its own money, jjnd tell its own citizens “Gold Is too good for you,"1t has no right to make the outside world suffer. Panama will get an amount of money equal to 250,000 of our dollars before we slid off the gold basis and into the •’inflation bond” era. 1 Sometimes government ownership gets things done. Germany’s postal ministry opens the first long-distance television-telephone In the world, be tween Berlin and Leipzig—the charge for three minutes only $1.40. When you call up, a “strong, bluish light” Illuminates your face, which is seen by the person at the other end of the line. That would have been improbable when telephones were installed in the big Paris exposition,, not so long ago. Four years agd the Lindbergh child was kidnaped. Bruno Hauptmann, convicted of the kidnaping and mur der, caught spending the marked gold certificates that Lindbergh paid In • vain effort to get back his child, is still alive. It is said that he will have another reprieve Our system of Justice is not hasty. Tbe post office shows that efficiency '!■ government Is not Impossible. No private concern would send a letter from Florida to Alaska for three cents, calectlng and delivering the letter, c King Feature* Syndicate lac, WNU Sere lea. A Sandal Shop in Tokyo. Prepared by the National Oeof-raphlc Society. Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. N OT many years ago it was held up against the Japanese that they never indulged in ath letics. Today there are in Tokyo two huge stadiums, one origi nally seating 05,000 people, but en larged in 1031 to accommodate 80,000. the other 30,000, and on the days of baseball games there are few- vacant seats. With the exception of wrestlers, there are no professional athletes in Japan. Teams are made up largely of undergraduates in the various univer sities, and it is the intervarsity games which draw the largest crowds. Baseball, skillfully and intelligently played. Is as popular In Japan as in the United States, but It is not the only popular athletic sport. Rugger football is played everywhere and played well. As It is part of the army training and ns something like 100,000 young men go through tills training annually, rugger may well supersede baseball in popularity. Hockey and association football are played more and more and boxing is becoming pop ular. Wherever there is space in Tokyo, there is a tennis court. The Y. M. C. A. pool Is always full of swim mers, as are the great outdoor pools In summer, and Japanese swimmers hold some world records. More and more rowing crews in racing shells are appearing on the rivers and lakes. Golf clubs are springing up and, as in America, the links are used largely by business men. At the army ma neuver field, on the outskirts of the city, you can see magnificent riding. So the old accusation of lack of in terest In athletic sports can no longer be made. These modern games have not en tirely driven out the old, purely Ja|>- anose sports. Thousands gather, as of old. to watch the wrestling matches, where the Immensely fat men so well known in Japanese prints carry on their strange matches 'under the an cient rules. Archery is also popular among the chosen few, and the great matches are almost always sponsored by some of the imperial princes. It takes a strong man even to bend some of the tough old bows. Athletics Build Up the Race. It would be impossible to estimate what athletics are doing for the Jap anese as a race. The Bible says that tio man by taking thought—ran add a cubit to his stature, hut there is no doubt that succeeding generations of Japanese are teller. When you meet young men in Tokyo, dressed in gym nasium costume, running through the streets; when you see the finely pro portioned bodies of the boys in the Y. M. C. A. pool; when you go to a university graduation and see the stu dents all together, you no longer think of the Japanese as a particularly “lit tle people." With a better-regulated and better-balanced diet and with phys ical training from the earliest years, through all grades of school, the Jap ; anese are growing up physically. They grew up mentally a long time ago. ,, It is said that the generation now reaching maturity Is, on an average, an inch taller than the preceding gen eration. As a generalization, one shohld doubt this, but at the same time one feels sure it is true in the cities where modern ideas of exercise and diet are prevalent. There Is probably no phase of life Tokyo w’hich more clearly shows the contrast between the old and the new Ihao do the theaters. You go to the Kabuki-za or to the splendid Tokyo theater and there see aucient dramas given in the old style of acting; or you go around the corner to a movie theater and see the latest Hollywood producflon."“Y)he seems just ns popu lar as the other and just as crowded. ' The Kabnkl and Tokyo theaters are enormous, thoroughly modern, hand some buildings. The orchestra seats are like those In an American thea ter, except that they are lower. The boxes have no seats, because people seem to prefer to sit »>n the floor. In the old style. The plays begin—there are generally three or four given tn succession—from two until four o’clock IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI 'chool Lesson By REV P. B FITZWATfcR. D. D.. Member of Faculty. Moody Blbla Institute of Chicairo. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for March 22 JESUS TEACHING TRUE VALUES LESSON TEXT—Luke 12:13-34. X GOLDEN TEXT—Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his rlahteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.—Matthew 6:33. PRIMARY TOPIC—God's Good Gifts. JUNIOR TOPIC — When Is a Man Rich? INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—What Is Most Worth Living For? Slip and Pantie Set Made in Quick Time in the afternoon and last until ten o’clock at night. Huge Theater Stage. The stage is enormous, the lighting and scenic effects superb. It is prob ably true that the Japanese were the first to have a revolving stage for quick . shifts of scenery. The actors strut In the ancient style and. chant their lines. In fact, if the lines are emotional, they are sung by the musicians at the sides of the stage, since it is not considered proper to show too great emotion. Rut, in spite of all this, the actors— men, of course, take the women’s parts, and a Japanese lady explained this as being necessary “because men are so much more graceful”—are really great and make a profound impression on any foreigner who has tbe intellgenee to rise above the “queerness” of the performance. It may be true, as some have said, that the living actors of the stage adopted their stilted style from the puppet shows of old. but the style cannot hide their power of character portrayal. Y'ou feel, on leaving the theater, that you have been living in ait tbe color of past centuries. And then tbe movies are Just as crowded ns tbe theaters. There Is a movie industry in Japan, but this does not detract from ’the popularity of tbe Hollywood productions. Talk ing pictures were bard to deal with at first, hut now a' solemn individual sits at the side of the picture and translates, apparently to the satisfac tion of the audience, as the play progresses. The translator's endeavors to keep up are more interesting to the for eigner than are some of the plays. The contrast between the two types of entertainment is merely character istic, like all the other contrasts. Tbe Japanese are voracious rend ers of newspapers. Newsboys run or bicycle throughout the city, dropping their papers In every shop. At Im portant street corners stand women with bells, which they ring contin ually to show that here are news stands with tbe latest papers. Where fifty years ago the newspaper was unknown, they now are read far more generally than in tbe United States, two of the great dailies hav ing a larger circulation than any stand ard-sized papers In tbe United States. These great papers are thoroughly up-to-date. They have regular air plane services of their own to carry pictures from Osaka to Tokyo, and transmission of pictures by wireless or by wire is as much used ns in the United States. Moreover, the papers carry on large humanitarian work in the maintenance of hospitals or wel fare enterprises. Lots of Gay Cafes. Toyko is full of cafes, always crowd- ed, modeled somewhat on the cafes of 1’aris. In former days people gave geisha parties, those rather solemn af fairs at which geishas danced their symbolic dances. They were very ex pensive, and those who coud not afford the expense contented themselves with picnics. Now the cafes are crowded, their principal patrons being, perhaps, the “mobos” and the “mogas.” The Japanese, more than any other nation, love to abbreviate, and “mobo” is tbe abbreviation for modern’ boy, and “moga” is the abbreviation for modern girl. Indeed, these mobos and mogas, dressed almost always in Eu ropean clothes and trying to adopt the freedom of European manners, are about the most modern aspect of Tokyo. One might go on almost Indefinitely in pointing out the various contrasts of this city.' where at every point the contrasts between the old and new, between the occidental and the ori ental, is so striking. It shouH never be forgotten that both the old and the new, both the western and the eastern, are real In Tokyo. Somewhere in the fusion of the two lies the truth of Tokyo. When one remembers that the western Ideas have been naturalized for less than a centurjr.'one can under stand the inevitable outcropping of iental ideas. ? The common tendency of men Is to be engrossed with the gifts of God in stead of knowing him as the heavenly Father and enjoying ids blessed fellow ship. Man's supreme need is to know and enjoy God himself. I. A Warning Against Covetousness (vv. 13-21). 1. Tiie occasion <vv. 13-13). One of the company requested Jesus to he umpire in a disputed estate. Two brothers were in trouble over an in heritance. Christ refused to enter the sphere of the civil law and warned against the spirit of avarice. His mis sion was pre-eminently spiritual. 2. The warning enforced (vv. 16-22). This was done by the parable of the rich man. He showed most- clearly that to be concerned with earthly riches while neglecting God is the highest folly. Concerning this man, note: a. His increased goods (v. 16). Ui*- rlches were rightly obtained, for the ground brought forth plentifully. A man may be rich because the Lord’s blessing Is upon him. b. His perplexity (v. 17). His lands were producing more than his barns would hold. He did not want It to go to waste. No frugal man wants to see the fruits of his toll perish. If he had possessed right views of life and a sense of stewardship before God, he would have seen that his barns had enough for his personal needs, and would have distributed the surplus to the needy. c. His fatal choice (vv, 18, 10). He chose to enlarge his barns, and give up his life to ease and luxury. It ought to he a delightful task for men whom God has made rich to devote their time and energy to the distribu tion of their possessions to benevolent objects. U. The awful indictment (vv. 20, 21). God calls him • fool and tills is no arbitrary Judgment. Riches furnish neither contentment in life nor guar antee of the continuance of life. It is not only foolishness but madness to for get God while engaged in heaping up riches. Soon the man must die and his riches may get Into the hands of unworthy men or even curse the lives of the children who Inherit them. II. The Certain Cure for Anxiety (vv. 22-34). Having shown the folly of the rich man who gained gold and lost God, he now urged the disciples to trust God and dismiss all anxious cure. 1. The argument (vv. 22, 23). This Is summed up In one brief sentence: “The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.” 2. The illustrations (vv. 24-28). ''a. God’s care for the fowls (vv. 24-26). The ravens do not sow nor reap, they have neither storehouses nor barns, yet they live, for God feels them. If God does not forget the fowl, certainly he will do more for his chll- drsn who have been created In his likeness and Image and redeemed by the precious blood of his Son. h. God’s care for the flowers of the field (vv. 27, 28). If God is so careful of those (lowers which appear hut for a day, how much more will he clothe ids children? 3. Tiie exhortations (vv. 29-34). a. The getting of food and clothes should not he man’s chief concern. b. Seek the kingdom of God (v. 31). Those who make God's kingdom first shall have all of their needs sup plied (Phil, 4:19). c. Re not afraid (v. 32). God's good pleasure is upon his own and ail good tilings he will give them. d. Practice selfdenial in order to give gifts to those in need (vv. 33, 34). III. - Be Ready for the Coming of the Lord (vv. 35-40). — Having warned the disciples against the acquisition of worldly goods, while forgetting God, and shown them the needlessness of anxiety for food and clothes, he shows them the blessed ness of being in a state of readiness when the Lord shall come. Conviction as to the certainty of tiie Lord's com ing is a sure cure for worldliness and anxious care. This attitude of heart he made clear ny two parables; that of the return of the Lord, and that of the thief. Tha Lord will be so pleased with those who ara waiting for him that lie will take delight In sitting at the banquet wfch them, and he will even serve them. PATTERN 9662 FOOLS USEFUL Wise men learn more from fboto than fools from wise men.—Cato. Sleek comfort’s written between the very seams of this slip and pantie set that's dedicated to smooth fitting and easy making. They’re withig everyone’s reach, and their low cost makes them an out-and-out economy. The slip does a nice Job of molding the figure, with Its fitted bodice and all-in-one straps that can’t slip. The netkiine’s cut low enough In back to allow It to be worn with your low est cut frocks. And could anything he smoother than wmistband panties which lie flat? A non-shrlnkable rayon or crepe is nice. Pattern 9662 may be ordered only In sizes 12, 14, 16. 18, 20, 30. 32, 34, 3C, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires 3% yards 39 inch fabric. Complete dia grammed sew chart Included. Send fifteen cents in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this pattern. Be sure to write plainly your name, address, aiyle number and size. Send your order to Tiie Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 367 W. Adams St., Chicago. 111. © B*ll Syndicate.—WNU Service. *U> - — • Alaskan Eskimo Is a Fast* Vanishing Race, Doctor Says The average life »pan of Alaskan Eskimos is only 24 }varg, due chiefly to the prevalence of tuberculosis, says Dr. Victor PL Levine of the Creighton university school of medi cine in Omaha, Neb. He has com pleted his third trip to the Arctic to make medical studies of the Eskimos. Unless more physicians are pro vided In the Arctic to guard the health of Eskimos the race will be come extinct in little more than a generation, Doctor Levine predicts. Beware Coughs from conufon colds "That Hang On No matter how many mediriiw you have triad for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion- Berious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomnl- Efion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the Inflamed mem* branes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened end expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee Creomulslon and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. Get Creomulslon right now. (AdvJ. Off and On He who’ “swears off" has more money to spend on his other habits. Lady “Much Relieved” After ^Taking Cardui Although they may be very active and apparently in good health, many women, at certain times, will do well to take Cardui. Mrs. F. T. Foster, of Greensburg, Ky., writes that she has “derived great benefit” from Cardui. “Before taking Cardui, I was weak and extremely nervous, and suffered from sleep lessness. This made me tired and worn in daytime. My back ached continually. Being an active woman, I did not want to con tinue in this condition. Having heard a great deal about Cardui, I found, after just a few bottles, I was much relieved. I con tinued taking Cardui and was so much helped.” Of course, if Cardui does not benefit YOU, consult a physician. >TART A REAL ^BUSINESS fOH 15 CENTS Why wish, wait and worry for raady cash? Start NOW soiling “PR6SS-ON” WASHABLE MONOGRAMS for sheets, shirts, handkerchiefs, blouses, pillow cases, srarls, undervesr Instantly applied with hot •ton. 25 cents foe 12 Everybody needs, buys them. PROFIT for AGENTS Selling instructions and sample 15c si Ivor or stamps. Ststo initial dosired. 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