The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-23

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then substituting a
Ar'h"r nriso"he live one, supposed
to have been frozen and thawed out.
Doctor Fishbein, editor Of the Amer
lean Medical Association Journal, says
anybody frozen stiff would surely die
1t was an interesting yarn while 1t
lasted.
New York's strike of union men
against President Roosevelt, General
Johnson and the WAP ("Works Prog
ress administration") seems tempo
rarily to have collapsed. Mr.. Meany,
New York labor leader, said all union
men would go out and stay out and
nonunion men would follow. The news
is that the nonunion men did not fol-
low, and the union men went back
to work.
Robert Moses of the park depart
ment, who employs $4,000 workers on
park projects, reports only ITO de-
serters.
An interesting photograph from
Adds Lbaba shows two servants Of
HE Ethiopian emperor, riding on lions,
one female, one male, in the palace
garden. The emperor's lions are
trained in this fashion for use as
watch dogs" You can easily be-
lieve that intruders keep out"
For war purposes, however, lions are
not particularly valuable. Tear gas
and deadly poisonous gas would dis
courage the lions, as they would men,
and lions cannot jump as high as an
airplane.
In Chicago's stockyards half the hog
pens are closed, prices are soaring,
men have lost jobs, all for lack of
hogs to push around and butcher. The
yards are suffering.
And only little while ago an ear
nest government, determined to help
the farmer and promote prosperity,
was butchering tens of thousands of
"farrow sows" to get rid Of them be-
fore their little pigs could be born.
"Too many little pigs will make too
many big pigs" said the government.
You can imagine the ghosts of mil
lion pigs floating over the stockyards,
squeaking in their baby voices, 1--WE
told you So"
War talk continues. Mussolini an
nounces a new air weapon "over-
whelmingly powerful" but does not
say what it is. Plain INT and poison
gas are powerful enough.
Hitler, announcing that his country
is ready to meet any outside peril"
adds: "No power on earth can attack
u.s." That seems a little overconfi-
dent.
prosaic financial telegram suggests
that the public debt of Germany has
been increased by 20,000,000,000
marks. That might represent an interior
enemy of considerable proportions.
Uncle Sam, with all his spending,
makes little something for himself.
His money-issuing privileges, paper
dollars worth about so cents, and
silver coins containing less than half
their value in silver, have given the
treasury a profit of about So. 100000,
600.
And at this moment ii does not ap-
pear to have hurt anybody. Who I'M
derstands money?
Stocks are better, prices higher, In
London and in Wall Street. The Lon
don Daily Mail says: "a stock ex-
change boom seems to do more for
world trade than anything. The rea-
son is that it gives confidence every
where"
Strange and powerful Is "confi-
dence." You cannot see 1t, feel 1t,
weigh it, but you can easily destroy it.
Lovely woman, led by Paris fash
ion designers. is still trying to find
out what she really wants. Universal
Service dispatches from Paris describe
dresses as transparent as lace cur
tains from the knee down; skin-tight
evening gowns with cut-out designs as
big as elm leaves from under the arms
10 the hip-line. Cape coats Of white
fur, slit wide open on both Sides" One
gown is made entirely of 'plaited gold
braid"
When will women settle down finally
to some one style, as men have done?
Interesting items in taxation news.
For instance, government will collect
income tax on "public relief" If your
generous Uncle Sam gives you $94 a
month, the amount that unions now
spurn, he will take back $13.12 in In
come tax.
That seems like giving your little
boy a stick Of candy and biting or
the end of It.
9 King Features Syndicate. Inc.
WNU Service.