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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
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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
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★★★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.
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■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.
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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.
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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
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The Difficulty
Anger is useful, but who esa
keep a rein on it?
Miss
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