Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1930-01-17
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T ~ Arthur Brisbane
When Mussolini Appeared
sRoyalty and Wild Bears
A. Turkey Sees Us
Varnish Drinkers, Beware
A T the royal wedding In Rome five
4 sovereigns, five rulers who had
recently lost their Jobs. and fifty.four
other royalties looked on. Queens,
Princes and Princesses crowded the
chapel.
The interesting moment came when
Aussolini. Italy's dictator. entered
J and was saluted by all the royalties
with the Fascist salute, the outstretch-
ed right arm.
Mussolini did not march with the
royalty. But when they saw him and
!. gave him that salute, angels looking
= down. could easily identity the real
ruler Of Italy.
It WAS an interesting marriage, with
special rites reserved by the church
Tor royalty. The italian King and
Queen sat on . throne at enc side Af
the altar. the Hslgian King and Queen
eat on another throne at the ether
ride o. the altlc. At the elevation OF
lhe host. tumpets sounded. and
arums were beaten. That L. done only
Tor royalty.
Royalties invited to the wedding
have enjoyed great Shoot" on the
Kings estate. Each with q gun, royal
ladies and gentlemen stood at posi-
lions assigned to them. Beaters drove
toia clearing wiki animals Of all sorts,
deer. rabbits. wild boar. and as they
appeared royalty shot and killed an
many as possible.
Hundreds Of dead animals were laid
out In row, that royalty might ad.
mire Its prowess.
Then. az royalty could not eat all
Or even tenth Of what was killed, the
rest went to the poor in Rome.
In the next century there will DO
40 more Kings perhaps.
But there will be other Mussolinis.
The people must have leaders, born
Or self-made.
We exaggerate often thu wisdom
and skill Of the ancients.
In South America. many skulls are
v1{n Tn
md4ern ''trepanning."
Surgeons. offhand, said: How mar
selous that ancient Aztecs, with prim.
tive instruments. could operate on
the skull. and. presumably. remove
tumors, or other cansess0f danger
Or. Herbert v. Williams. who
teaches medical pathology at the Uni
versity Of Buffalo. returns from Peru
aud Chile with the real story.
When the South American Of an
eient days had q bad headache. the
medicine man" said to him: There
are evil spirits in your head: I'll fix
that"
He cut off a small round piece Of
the sufferers scalp, and took out
round piece Of bone. ito let the evil
spirits out"
Strange. barbarous. but 1t Is not so
long, since, in Christian lands, the In
sane and the epileptic, supposed 10
be possessed by evil spirits. were Oft
en- beaten with horrible brutality,
even beaten to death, IN an effort to
discourage the spirits, and drive them
out
The Turkish newspaper, Akoham.
describes; alphabetically, results Of
our recent earthquake in Wall Street.
Former American millionaires are
now eating bread, cheese and cab.
bage," avs the editor.
Some American millionaires would
gain In health and grace II they adopt
ed that diet, without adding bootleg
mixtures to 1t.
Akoham's news" from America is
not mere inaccurate than some Of our
news from Turkey, and tar less tnnc-
eurate than the average American
IDEA Of the Turkish people.
Much power in the Turks. great
self-respect. and q high sense OF
honor.
President Hoover announces a total
of four billion seven hundred million
dollars to be spent In 1880 on public
works, railroads, and other public
utilities.
It's a great deal Of money and will
help. but what the people earn and
spehd is the really important Item.
Wage earnsrs. for instance. collect
sixty thousand million dollars year.
They spent Forty billions to live and
have twenty billions left over. for
amusement Or investment, almost five
times "a much as MIR. Hoover's total.
The important thing 10 to remain
cheerful and continue spending rea'
senably. Prosperity depends on that
Those In the habit OF drinking boot.
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