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Tk« Ban well P—f It 3—It—I. BanwaU. g. C. TTiar^dajr, {WpumSer K 1«M BRISBANE THIS WEEK World's Chemist* Busy The New HeU Broth Oar Huge Gold Pile The great fighters in Asia and Europe in the days of Frederick the Great and Napo leon had little idea of war’s fu ture. But marvel ous things, some of the greatest, Napoleon espe cially, might have done with t o d a y’s inven tions. Frederick the G r e a t’s father selected the tall est men he could find for his guard, probably kept them away from the firing line. In battle they would have been killed first, hit by the bullets that go over the heads of shorter men. Artfcvr BrlsbM* The wholesale killers of the old days prepared their killings by marching men up and down, drill ing them, encouraging them with titles, brass bands to lead them, fancy uniforms. All that means little now. About 100 miles from Berlin there is a station called Leuna. There most useful work is done, in theory and through study of the manufac ture of synthetic petroleum; and there most important, learned men with big heads, spectacles and an amount of education that would make you dizzy if you could imag ine it, concentrate their brains on the preparation of better, more ef ficient poison gases and high ex plosives. Every country has its similar death laboratory; men perhaps as efficient as those of Germany, though Germany is the kingdom of chemistry, the teacher of other na tions. Henry Irving, on the stage of his theater in London, prepared an im- presaive presentation of the witches in "Macbeth.’* old, toothless hags, preparing their hell-broth, with power to summon spints from the dead and make them foretell the future Far more efficient are those sol emn German chemists, physicists and other professors, preparing the real hell-broth of poison gas, upon which the future of civilization and the domination of the earth may depend for many centuries. We had our periods of universal barbarism and cannibalism, our ages of flint, bronze and iron, our many interesting forms of ruler- ship, planned to give one or a few control over all the others. We had the age of military feudalism, and many think that ere are now seeing the end of ‘‘industrial feudalism. ‘ There may be in the centuries ahead of us a period of airplane- poison gas rule, which will make the peoples of the arorid as com pletely subject to a single dictator ship as were the ancient galley- slaves, swinging their oars under the lash. There are a good many tilings we haven’t seen and many to which we devote too little thought. Includ ing perhaps the fact that it is dan gerous to be too rich if you are not prepared to defend yourself against burglars. Those thousands of millions in gold that we are hiding away in a hole in the ground, as ingenuously as any squirrel hiding his hickory nuts, may bring us trouble some day. The thought of those ten thou sand millions’ worth of gold bars and dollars, hidden not very far be low the surface, might cause some ingenious Asiatic or European to say to himself: “For one or two billions I could prepare the necessary machinery, flying ships and poison gas includ ed, to conquer the necessary areas of the United States and frighten the others into submission. Having laid down my layer of gas, I would descend and take the ten thousand millions and go home with a clean profit of eight billions in gold/* “More Babies!” Europe’s Dictators Cry Soviet Russia, Germany and Italy Embark on Programs .Designed to Increase Marriages and Step Up Birth Rate. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY < M ORE marriages! More babies! More people! That is the formula of the three great European dictator ships for more power in the future, plastic laws have been ordered to check declines in birth rates, as well as to whittle down the death rates in Russia, Germany and Italy. In Germany and Italy, the meas-< ures taken produced a brief flurry of success, but this success appears now to be on the wane; indeed, pres ent ihdications are that the birth rates in these two nations are fast slipping back to levels as low as before the program began. Only in Russia is the program succeeding, and there it is going over with a bang. But the Soviet measures are those of a completely communistic society, and most of them would be direct offenses to the morals of a Christian country with the type of society that we know. Further, the Russians are of a stock which they may buy household goods. These are repaid in small installments, but each of the first four children born reduces the loan by 25 per cent. If the government is easy on mar ried couples, it strikes a balance in its attitude toward bachelors. Their taxes were boosted 100 to 150 per cent. Some cities (and occasionally the Reich, if the case is very urgent) pay premiums in the form of mer chandise certificates for children. They amount to 100 marks for each child, with a maximum of 1,000 * it it * * * * * * it it it it * it S it it it Malt*** Marriage al la 1»U. more suited to Increasing the pop-1 marks for i ulation than the other two m The Soviet Russians ere mulU- ptying more rapidly today than any other people of the world. By the I time the eighth Five-Year Plan ends in 1MT, It Is expected the nation’s population will reach 300 000.000 It j t* 1T3 000 000 now. Including e net creese of births over deaths equal ling 4,000.000 to ins Sociological experts believe that ut of a the Soviet birth rate wi In Increnan. Taken by am Reda are Just coming primitive period end are naturally prolific. There lo plenty of apace In Rus sian territory for any populate ex pansion of which the Reds ere ce- pebie. and there an food w everybody. Mussolini races his big Italian built automobile, the engine burn ing alcohol, made of Italian farm products—no gasoline. Some law makers in America suggest com pelling the use of 10 per cent alco hol in all fuel for American auto mobiles. Fuel alcohol can be made from corn, and the ^aw, it is said, would give work to 2,000,000 men on 30,000,000 acres of farm land. It seems impossible to believe the hideous accounts of the maltreat ment and cruel deaths inflicted upon qfomen in the civil war now raging in Spain. That men should fight and mur der each other is to be expected, since they are at best “half tiger, half monkey," and often the mon key gives way to the 4jfier. But that they should inflict shameful ill treetment and hideous death on de fenseless women seems utterly un believable. even when you know are. in a mob. be pknty of Famine* in past days destroyed million* of Rus sians m e year, but there will be no more of those. Irrigation projects are quenching the thirst of the drouth regions. CoUsctive farming has been stabilized. Moat important of alL agriculture has been spread over many areas, far apart, so that a drouth in one area would affect only a comparatively small portion of the crop. Soviet laws encourage the mar riage of persons we would hardly consider of the marrying age. They also permit relations between men and women which allow women to have children under conditions which would bring them shame in western countries. It is not con sidered s disgrace for a single wom an to have a child. An unmarried father who disappears is disgraced, though. Many unmarried girls in Russia have children just because they want them. Cara ef Expectant Mothers. A state of legal marriage exists in Soviet Russia simply if a man and woman are living together. Civ il registration offices—the ZAGS— will perform a simple ceremony for those of formal preferences, al though there is no sentiment con nected with it. The registration gives the girl some added protec tion and increases her chances for alimony if her husband leaves her. Communistic nurseries aid work ing women to care for their chil dren. When they are with child they are permitted to leave their posi tions for awhile, but their pay goes on. As a result of these policies the U. S. S. R. in five years showed an increase of 11,500,000 persons, as compared with 850,000 for England, 1,300,000 for Germany and 650,000 for France. While the death rate is declining the birth rate is estimated at between 35 and 50 per thousand. The program undertaken by the Hitler government in Germany is intended to control marriages and births. Definitely fixed classes suf fering from hereditary diseases are sterilized. To insure the quality of its population, Germany requires persons intending to marry to go to the bureau for heredity and race supervision for a marriage-health certificate. They are forbidden to marry Jews. family. Some municl- palutes give financial aid amount ing to 30 or 30 marks a month for a child until It reaches fourteen Families with children are gtveo preference in the distribution uf Jobe and in housing. The Natl Mother and Child or ganization gives advice and money and provides rerreotioa end vaca tions for poor mothers. Vast Propaganda MIR. While the married couples are given every advantage. the govern ment deliberately attempts to make life more or less difficult for the unmarried. Married men get the Jobe first. And often on unmarried man under 25 years of age la forced to ‘‘exchange jobs’* with a married man. This simply means that the married man gets the Job and the bachelor is sent into the labor serv ice or ‘‘Land Help ’* Large families get first call on homes and benefit from greatly reduced railroad fares Germany Is in the throes of a mild “back to the land" movement at present. Thousands of persona are being removed from “white col lar** Jobe and placed in manual rate has slipped back to below the 1932 level this year. The birth rate, which rose .9 per thousand last year, is running below the levels of 1933 and 1934. The death rate is on the increase, and the growth of population, computed by subtracting the number of deaths from the number of births, has slowed up to below the 1934 point. For nine years now, Italy has pursued a program which it hopes will make the nation’s population 60,000,000 by 1950, with questionable success, at least. For a short while in 1930, signs were encouraging to Mussolini, but with the exception of that period, the birth rate has been steadily falling for fourteen years. Death Rate Well Reduced. The marriage rate also is believed to be declining. The growth of pop ulation is proceeding at a slower pace than at any time within the last fifty years, with the exception of the years between 1916 and 1920 when it was affected by the World war. Yet the Fascist dicatorship is trying steadily to improve the situ ation, chiefly by using methods similar'to those of Germany While the campaign to increase the birth rate has fallen far short of its mark, Mussolini’s efforts to cut down the death rate have been better rewarded. The death rate stands now at the lowest point with in the scope of Italian historians. This is so far offset by the falling birth rate, however, that the popu lation of the country has remained about the seme for some years. Vest propaganda measures have been supplemented by measures of reward for the prolific and penalty for the unprokfle, much as they have in Germany. There la a tax I on bachelors, who can never say in Italy that “they know when they ere well off." This not only makes marrying more attractive to them, but the revenue from the tax ta used to give a sentence to poor mothers Prises far TripWt* Parents of children are every where given privileges Honeymoons to Rome ere paid for by the govern ment Persona of smell means con tempiAting rriAlrimoejr ere offered “nuptial prizes ’ which range frem 1135 to 340Q Birth prizes ere given on a scale which increases with the number ef children fient SJS let the first child lo 1390 tor the sixth end each succeeding one There ere special prizes tor twins end triplets An Italian Pape Dionne would be ee lucky as e winner ef the Irish sweepstakes. Married men, ef course, always get the best government Jobs first, end single men have little keener to expect pfmtHim The drrhne to the death rate, which might erdinanty have been expected to occur with the strides made mi me die el science during the lest few years, has been expedited by government measures. Much credit Is due the NsttonaJ Institution for the Protection ef Motherhood end Infanthood. which STAR DUST JViovie • Radio * ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE H ENRY FONDA'S marriage to Frances Seymour Brokaw will increase the little circle of smart society women who, mar ried to motion picture actors, re side in Hollywood. Richard Bar- thtlmess, Gary Cooper and Fred Astaire all married into the Social Register. Incidentally, Mrs. Brokaw’s life story is rather like that of a movie. Bom in a small town in Massachu setts, she was the poor cousin of the wealthy Rogers family. Very pretty, very charming, she had ev erything but money. She met George T. Brokaw, who had both wealth and social position, fell in love with him, married him, in 1931. Mr. Brokaw died nearly two years ago, leaving his widow and their small daughter well pro vided for. She never forgot what it meant not to have plenty of money. She has done notable things in charity work. Henry Fonda, whom she met this summer in Eu rope, is a fortunate young man. Bette Davis may seem to be a temperamental star when it comes to battling over sto ries and salary, but away from the stu dio she is most de cidedly just another human being. Not long ago she ind her husband were traveling through the Canadi an Rockies, on the first part of that va cation trip she etak* mg She did rattier startle the other Mapta at the hotel la Lake IfiMBfi by wearing a very low-cut evening gown—but she startled them still more by taking the bus to fisnff the nest day, instead of being exclusive and going m a private car. —♦ ■ ■era's a aaw way to break tola Marlsrto Gage, a yeuag i.-SMILES Bill — Hava you ever realised any of your childhood hopes? Pete—Yes; when mother used to comb my hair I often wished I didn't have any. Collecting 'Eat Henry—I’ve a good mind to pro pose to you. Mabel—Oh, please do. I need one more proposal to beat my Last year’s record. Sees Through If "My Daddy’s so tall he can sea right over the garden fence." “So can mine — when he’s got his hat on.” Too Well Stranger — Is Shortleigh well known around here? Native—I’ll say he is. He is so well known that he has to go out of town to borrow a quarter. Crying Need Mary Jane—All my mistresses have admitted that I’m full of “go," madam. Employer — That’s very nice, but what I want is a girl with some staying power. If you feel... -tired Bette Davis 'pHXJU^kMdfjre lii*Ri n tomans Simon does so wed hi "Girls’ Dormiu ry that she m ha- lag pushed right ahead. Aa Ameri can girt who. just tor ton, acted hi a French film made In Inlzhwrg summer before last, declared whan she came hack that Banana wee the cutest Hung she ever sew “Her face and her figure are heth cute, she announced “And her mind's cute tea “ Take that aa a compliment or the reverse Just aa yen please. Aaywey. tomoae win be seen nest to “White Hunter," with Warner Baxter. Po-Ai-O l.ppod terced menyl teas «e s a good repw PAINS feartteael aolai Jean Muir More Youngsters Like These Is Mussolini’s Aim. encouragement to offered to stimulate marriages. Couples are ffdwea labor. Manual laborers generally have larger families. By no means least important of all the measures Hitler is using to build up Germany’s population is the vast propaganda mill of the Nazi government. H is at work night and day to shape the public mind toward the favor of large families. Hitler’s program started well, but shows definite indications of failing to attain its goal. Germany had 516,973 marriages, or 7.9 per thou sand population in 1932; these fig ures grew to 739,449 or 11.1 per thousand in two years. ' Thflre were 971,174 births, or 14.7 per thousand in 1933. These were increased to 1,261,273 or 18.9 per thousand in 1935. The growth of population in 1933 was 233,297, br 3 5 per thousand, and in 1934 was 472,074, or 7 per thousand. Italy's Pregram. And then something began to slip There were only ttl marriages or f.t per thousand in 1195. Ac te estimates of is endowed and operated by the government. Its recently - built maternity hospitals, expertly staffed and equipped with the most modern devices, are to be found throughout the nation. In them, ex-* pectant mothers receive the utmost in medical service. This organiza tion has been responsible for a sharp drop in Italy’s infant mortality rate in late years. ® Western Newspaper Union. Different Forms of Lightning The world has been slow in learn ing that lightning assumes a large number of different forms. As re cently as the middle of the Nine teenth century the lesding scientific authority on lightning—the French physicist Arago — recognized only three varieties of lightning, and his list found its way into textbooks in all countries. Strange to say, ef the three kinds enumerated by this authority, one — zigzag lightning— certainly does not exist, end the ex- by b N will appear George Raft. Cary I Grant. Randolph fieeto and Fred MacMarray. -b- We re to he vs still more Dickens on the screen. “Pickwick Papers'* will be the next Dickens picture. Paramount intended to make it with W. C. Fields, but that plan has been abandoned, and Metro has | taken it on. Jean Muir decided recently that she'd like her heir better if it were brown, instead of blonde. Also, she cut off her bangs. Then she made some tests for War ner Brothers. They objected to the changes. And as a result of a lot of ar gument, the hair stayed brown but the bangs returned. Some movie fans are betting that eventually Jean will return to blonde hair. They point out that it was as a petite blonde that Jean first attracted attention and that its appeal is one of her big assets. —k— The cycle of war pictures is well under way. Twentieth Century-Fox launched it with “The Road to Glory," and eontinues it with the forthcoming “King of the Kyber Rifles" and "The Splinter Fleet." ODDS AND ENDS . . . The young Dionnes ere learning some English words for "Reunion* their next picture . . . Eleanor Rowell plans to drive East in October, see some new plays in New York, pick up her grandfather end grand mother and drive beck to the coast . . . Pretty good for e girl who loomed to drive so recently . . . William S. Hart may return la the screen . . . Did know that ike John D. If. is eo pramim it a brother of Hale Hemtltam, ? . - Rod ikte fall, mo Try OardaL Of btop joo, am ym — IS The Difficulty Anger is useful, but who esa keep a rein on it? Miss REE LEEF says Capudine /uiievci NEURALGIC RAIN (fuuket because iti liquid... ALREADY DISSOLVER* Wintersmith’s Tonic MALARIA AND A Good General Tonic USED FOR 65 YEARS WNU—7 lUTItURA