Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-06-02
This Week
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Do You Know the Words :
Money Made Quickly
Suppression Fails
Parrots and Sheep Fat


Congressman Fuller, OF Arkansas,
says every civil service employee
should prove his ability TO Sing, re-
cite, or write from memory" the words
OF the Star Spangled Banner, He must
know them all by heart.
Does President Hoover know by
heart all the words OF that estimabla
song? Does Congressman Fuller know
them? What percentage of the Senate
and House members know them?
A popular song says those words
are known only to the Armenlans and
the Greeks.
Testimony before the Senate banking
and currency committee shows that
you can make money rapidly in Wall
Street, II you know how. One little
group operating pool In Radio stock,
made five million dollars In week.
A big concern paid s23500,000 to
another concern, that represented u
total investment Of s1,750,0OO, and
s90,000,000 worth OF a certain stock,
with q well known name back OF It,
WIS sold to the public at s52 share
It is worth 81 share now.
The financial answer to the Ques.
tion: where are the SHOWS Of yester-
year? Is "they have melted"
In Turkey Of late, thanks to world
depression and other causes, includ-
ing offenses against religious preju-
dice, taking the veil from the faces Of
women, the fez from the heads OF
men, permitting statues and portraits
that Mohammed forbade, suicides
have been numerous.
Renal Pasha's Government ordered
newspapers to print no suicide news,
for fear of encouraging the habit. and
now Constantinople newspapers are
all prosecuted for publishing the sui
eide Of Kreuger, Swedish financier.
Some newspapers and public men
in the United States have treated our
depression as Turkey treats suicide
news, thinking they can cure 1t by
ignoring 1t. They cannot. Plenty OF
light, free discussion, all the facts are
what every situation calls for.
You know those parrot-like birds
that lived peaceably on insects until
sheep were brought to Australia, then
the birds ate the insects on the sheep.
Next, accidentally, they discovered
fat on the sheep kidneys just below
the wool, changed from insects to
Sleeps kidney fat, and killed thous-
ands Of sheep.
Az with those Australian birds, sd
with crime. 1t passes from one thing
to another.
Russia. not willing to be found un-
prepared II wsf comes, is training
not only men, but also women and
children, In the use of firearms. In
addition, millions of young Russians
study aeronautics, in preparation
for flying, and thousands are trained
az actual flyers.
In Switzerland, every able bodied
man is taught to use a gun; possesses
one. and. at intervals, must proye that
it is in good working order, and that
he still knows how to use it.
Uncle Sam might train twenty thou
sand or more young Americans as
summoninp them once in so often to
prove that they are still able to fly.
We shall need pilots, some day.
When the Japanese went into Man.
churia. they knew what they were GO
ing for, and they are getting it. Their
tax collectors are actually collecting,
refusing the offers Of brides, which
had been one way Of avoiding taxation
we know that the power OF the
moon lifts the tides in big oceans.
small lakes, or half filled teacups. A
deem German scientist discovers that
the moon also creates "a terrestrial
tide" raising the solid crust Of the
earth, and lowering it. Mountains, hills
and valleys are all raised and lowered.