Nogales international., 1928-07-03
COUNTRY WEEKLIES VITAL.
SCHOOL FOR PARENTS.
THE PYCMIES LEARN HOW.
FIJI ISLANDERS.
y Arthur Brisbane

II. T. MitchelpS sentinel at
Bermidji, Mimi, wins the prize as
best weekly in the National Edi-
torial contest. This is good time
to remind the public in general, and
national advertisers in particular,
that country weekly newspapers are
the most important organs OF pub
lie opinion and protectors OF public
welfare.
And their advertising value, per
mill line, is lot excelled by any
publication of any kind.
The reader of country weekly
buys everything, from shingles on
the roof to cement in the cellar
floor, and every advertiser has in.
him a possible customer.
What is the matter with our
children? Not much, but q great
deal els the matter with some
parents.
The police are hunting for little
girl, ten years old, invited to go TO
a party by a plausible man, fifty
eight years old. The child did not
know the man, the parents did not
know him. But the parents said,
Certainly" OFF she went in the
strangers car, and that's the last
seen of her.
Every public school should have
an annex with the sign over the
door:
Primary Common Sense for
Parents"
Miss O'Brien, adventurous young
explorer. returns to St. Paul, Mimi,
disappointed in the African pyg-
mics. She shot all kinds of game,
endured all kinds of hardship and
says Africa is all right for woman,
but a little too rough for man.
"The pygmies are darling little
creatures" says she, "but ! had
to teach them to act wild" She
wanted moving pictures of them.
Many American girls could teach
any pygmy to act wild. and do so
Fiji Islanders, bushy haired. ac-
tive, gave a warm welcome to the
monoplane Southern Cross landed
at Suva.
Those Fijians once had an an
noying habit of eating white men.
This time they only cheered them.
The fiers have beaten all rec
ords, including Lindbergh's long
distance fight over water. 1t is
5,538 miles of ocean from Oakland,
California, to Suva, Fiji Islands,
via Hawaii.
The next hop, 1,7OO miles, will
take the hiers to. Brisbane, Aus
tralia, on the way to Sydney. The
world is really flying.
The $50 Fiji Islands, about eighty
of them inhabited, belong to old
grandmother Britannia. She rarely
overlooks anything.
When young people that now
read this, column get their around
the-worId flying machines they may
find chances to grow up with the
country on some of those unin-
habited, unexplored Fiji Islands.
Crops in the corn belt have taken
an upward turn. The Arkansas
River Valley reports. Wheat will
make thirty-6ve bushels to the
acre.
All that 10 cheerful toT' the Re
publican candidate.
Nothing meits irritation on the
farms like good rains. good crops.
good prices.
George Bernard Shaw. becoming
less important and less accurate
after seventy, declares that accumu-
lated money is the root OF all evil
Without accumulated money I
Niagara Falls wouldn't be har-
messed. the Panama Canal, which
helps Britain as much as it does
Us, wouldn't be dug; automobile
production wouldn't be on a guam
tity basis and this country would !
have, perhaps, 100000 expensive
automobiles, instead Of A,OoO@
inexpensive automobiles.
Great accumulations of capital.
like great accumulations OF watee
going down hill, represent power. /
Eliminate accumulated capital,
and you would eliminate possi-
bilities of higher civilization,
If the people haven't brains
enough to watch and control ac-
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