The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
I 0DAY
Why Women Die.
 4 Hole in the Earth. One Kings Mistake. Quick Alcoholic Poison.
By Arthur Brisbane.

Women kill themselves beforehand, to escape disgrace. The Associated Press says drug stores in Arehangei, where American soldiers are sent to fight, heaven knows why. are openly selling poisons to girls. The girls kill them selves to avoid falling into the hands of the Bolsheviki.
 Different kinds of women have diff ferent ideas on disgrace. These Rus sian girls die to avoid what they com slider immortality.
 Cleopatra, having led for years a life that you couldn't praise, killed herself to avoid what she called dis grace: being dragged thru the streets in Roman triumph. It was that, not the fate of Marc Antony, that worried her.
 Turnout the Middle West the Auro- ra Borealis causes wire troubles Northern Lights stretched across the sky night before last from New York to Omaha The little electric forces running along telegraph wires became demoralized by that display of the big electric brother in the sky. This earth is gigantic driving wheel. an inexhautible source of power which tiny men know not how to ase. Years ago this writer compared hu- man beings to microbes living on the rim of great driving wheel, building little windmills for power, instead of using the power in the wheel. It was suggested then that men should sink into the earth shafts running down several miles to the hot interior fires, 1 pour down water, and let it come up out of another hole, turned into live steam, thus tapping inexhaustible power.
 That suggestion to many readers seemed remote, not to say ridiculous. But now Sir Charles Parsons, presi- dent of a great British scientific asso- citation, most eminent electrical and motive engineer and inventor of the oil turbine, says,
 By boring hole in the earth's
 surface twelve miles in depth,
 enough energy would be discov- cred to furnish all the motive
 power of the world"
 While the supply of fuel is giving out, the terrific energy of volcanic eruptions tells of the unused power and heat beneath our feet. To dig a hole as Sir Charles Par sons now advises, and such hole as was suggested years ago by this writer, would cost, says Sir Charles, only twenty-five million dollars, the cost to England of one days war.
 To obtain an equal amount of pow CT, 'Dy harnessing the water supply of the world, would cost forty billion dollars"
 l It would be cheap to dig the hole and make the experiment, few such holes or power mines would solve the coal mining problem, heat cities, run machinery and allow coal to remain in the ground unused, as we allow the winds. unused, to blow over the ocean, ships using the better power of steam. 1 Good King Albert of Belgium is here, is welcome and will discover that many distinguished citizens of this country are not too democratic to be fond of King. He and his wife will witness some amusing imitation "curtsies" by women, and the King will be called almost everything from king to s'say"
 The King is very grateful to this country for what it has done, more grateful, perhaps, for what it is ex- pected to do. A big loan for Belgium is planned in his honor. Gratitude, you know, is looking forward to some thing else.
 Somebody amid the rejoicing, should tell the King that he was fool ishly advised when he said he would not visit Chicago or Milwaukee be- cause those cities were @too pro-Ger- man."
 1 In Europe are many graves filled by men of Chicago and Milwaukee. They helped in a job too big for the King and his allies.
 l Chicago and Milwaukee, in propor- tioH to population and wealth, did as
 much as any cities in the United j States te supply ..c.ey; ..c.e; = -s-Sn Ss. s!sss ss :, men that helped the Belgian King ou, of trouble. sfsn
 Chicago and Milwaukee will miss
 King Albert less than he would have
 missed them had they been missing 1T the war.
 I It may surprise the King to know that Milwaukee was one of the few ] cities in the United States that had n, strike in any plant making munition, : or other war supplies. ss II Nine at least are killed, more vii ! die. in Arkansas. latest race riot state : Rioting started in attempts to arres a negro bootlegger selling poisonou whiskey. II Trouble is coming in the effort t
 stamp out the illegal sale of alcoholi l poison. The thing must be done { whatever 1t may cost. So-called whis
 key, sold now to whoever will buy, i 2 in reality deadly poison. h This incident was witnessed by tn