THE CENTRE
BRISBANE
TH IS WEEK
War Financing
France Pays Piper
Lottery Millions
Ability to Endure
One hundred and fifty-three lead-
preserve peace,
tance of Ameri-
cannot be over-
estimated.”
It is to be
hoped that the
part that Ameri-
ca will play in
future European
affairs, such as
wr financing,
may be very eas-
ilyoverestimated.
If those gentlemen cannot abstain
from cutting each other's throats
4rthur Brisbane
the United States, why, then
‘hem cut each other's throats.
price;
and the government is held directly
as ours fixes the price of postage
stamps.
Trailing behind England and the
United States the French, with less
than 20 per cent of American unem-
ployment, are discussing great pub-
lic works to absorb the idle.
Billions are spoken of, but the
““millard,” French word for “bil-
lion,” means only one billion four-
cent pieces, the franc having been
reduced by government fiat to that
price. If a billion meant here 25.-
000 francs, equivalent to the Ameri-
can billion when the dollar was
good, the French might well faint
away, although they are fundamen-
tally a rich people.
When Bismarck laid on France an
indemnity equivalent to $1,000,000,
000, after 1870, he thought he had
raise after a hard war. The French
government offered bonds to pay
Bismarck, and the French people
subscribed to the loan 14 times
over. Bismarck had guessed bad-
ly. France is far richer now than
it was then.
French labor demands the 40-
hour week and the government
agrees; it also demands wage in-
creases from 12 to 17 per cent, and
that makes the country *a little
thoughtful.
With a shorter week, diminished
production and higher wages,
bread, sugar, veal and many other
things must go up in price. Possi-
bly the French worker, who really
age to produce as much in 40 hours
as he has done hitherto in 48 or
more; even then increased wages
will be added to the price of living
and even the worker, who must pay,
will growl.
How long will America continue
pouring thousands of millions of dol-
lars into gambling, lottery sweep-
stakes and other foreign enter-
prises?
It is interesting to read that in
the banks of Dublin there are 25
millions of dollars undistributed
from the so-called “Hospitals
Sweepstakes.” Hospitals did not
get it—yet.
It might also enlighten this gov-
ernment to know hat under the law
no mention can be made of the
sweepstakes gambling in England.
The English are too wise to let their
money be drained off in any kind of
gambling enterprise, if it is not
ENGLISH.
You cannot even send a telegram
about sweepstakes over the English
telegraph wires, to be published in
countries outside of England. All
telegraphing about the sweepstakes
gambling game must go around
England, her government-owned
wire system will not handle it.
Under its Constitution, the United
print lottery news that breeds more
gambling and heavier losses. But
the “‘graft.”
School teachers, business heads,
chambers of commerce, even cler-
gymen, might find a good text in
Mr. Son, the young Japanese with
the determined face who won the
long marathon race at the recent
Olympic games in Berlin. .
Not only could that marvelous
Japanese runner go, and keep go-
ing, but there seemed no end to his
endurance.
Everybody can run, more or less,
but that by itself never wins a
race for success in life is a
pati Fact; and real Suceea de-
ds more Ahyning on
your ability to KEEP GOING,
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“The Skulls and the Altar”
By FLOYD GIBBONS,
AX it’s a yarn from old Ireland we're havin’ today, an’ it'll be
Boyd of New York city, that’s a-tellin’ of it.
November, 1916, long before Jack was ever afther comin’ to this coun-
try, and when he was on a ten-day leave from the trenches of France
an’ havin’ a bit of a dhrink at a pub in the village of Moyne.
In any other country, Jack might have finished his drink and gone
his way. But there's something about the “ould sod’’ that makes it
a favorite roosting place for Old Lady Adventure.
born there.
Anyway, she keeps things humming in that neck of the
woods. It's a rare irishman that can go through a day without
having something happen to him.
At a table on the other side of the room were two men. They looked
like prosperous farmers—landed gentry they call them over there on
the other side—and they had stopped talking a couple of times to stare
at Jack. Jack didn't know either one of them. He was visiting some
friends and had never been in the neighborhood before. But after a
while one of the men came walking over to his table.
John and Pat Were a Couple of Old Sports.
The men's names, Jack learned later, were John and Pat. This one
was John. He sat down and asked Jack if he'd just come from France.
Jack said he had. And the next remark sort of took Jack by surprise.
“How would you like to earn ten pounds?” John asked him.
John and Pat looked like a couple of old sports but just
the same, ten pounds is a lot of money in Ireland. Jack said
he'd make no answer until he knew what he had to do to earn
the money. Then sporty old John unfolded as fantastic a set of
conditions as ever he had heard in his life.
“Two miles up the river,” John said, *“‘there i an old deserted ab-
bey, undermined with caves. There's a towel in the middle of it,
about a hundred feet high. At the bottom of that tower is a room with
an altar in it. The good monks used to pray there, but since Cromwell's
time the abbey has been abandoned, and now it is used as a burial place.
Sentinels of the Ruined Abbey Were the Dead.
“At the foot of that altar there are six human skulls.
know if you nave the courage to go there tonight at
get one of those skulls and bring it here to me tomorrow.
Jack
I want to
one o'clock,
That's all
Two Pale Yellow Lights Were Dancing About the Altar.
you've got to do,” John said—and then he looked sort of queerly at
Jack as he added, "There are no keepers or watchmen, and nobody
will know what has happened—but the Dead.”
But the Dead! Jack didn't like the way he said that. Bot
ten pounds was a lot of money. It would buy him many a pack
of fags—many a bottle of cognac—when he got back to the front.
He looked John straight in the eye. ““Ars you on the level?” he
asked. “I am,” said John. “All right,” said Jack, “I'll do it.”
That night Jack took his service revolver and started for the abbey.
He reached it about quarter of one. At one o'clock sharp he swung
aside the rusty old gate and made his way through dank, dark passages
to the room below the tower.
Weird Lights Flash in the Abandoned Tomb.
It was spooky in there with the moonlight showing through the
cracks and casting weird shadows on the gray stone walls. For the
first time in his life he found himself wondering if maybe there wasn't
some truth in ghost stories.
He was walking toward the altar, when
something that froze him stiff in his tracks. Two pale yellow
lights, about the size of plates were dancing about the altar.
““My hair stood up,” he says, “and my courage ran out of me like
water out of a bottle. A bat flicked my face, and I almost
dropped my gun. Trembling like a leaf I sat down on a grave
and watched those lights dance. Then I coughed, and in two
seconds | heard that same cough in another part of the abbey.”
Jack walked firmly toward the altar. He wasn't afraid of
in the world now. There was only one light playing about now.
other was on his face.
Sepulchral Voice Warns Intruder Away.
He raised his gun, rested it on his left forearm and took careful
aim ai the beam that was shining in his eyes. He pulled the trigger
twice. "There were two sharp cracks-—a terrible clatter of broken
glass—a loud, reverberating echo.
bent to pick up one of the skulls. Suddenly a hollow voice said:
“LEAVE THAT ALONE. IT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOu!"
For an instant Jack began to tremble again. H> put down
the skull and picked up another. “LEAVE THAT ALONE.” the
voice repeated. “IT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU!” He picked
up three more. Each time that warning voice.
“But by this time,” says Jack, “1 was getting mad.
suddenly he saw
The
And with that I picked up the sixth
gate, firing right and left from my revolver till it was empty.”
It Was Just a Merry Prank of John and Pat.
If the story had ended there,
self. Two or three times on the way home he pinched himself to see
if he was dreaming. But the next day when he went with the skull
to the pub, there were John and Pat. John's right hand was in a band-
age, and he grinned and tossed Jack a ten pound note.
“Pat and I had a hundred pound bet,” he said, “that no man
would take a skull from that altar. When you took us up we
both hid in the abbey.
“We had two mirrors that reflected the moonlight, and that's what
But I didn’t figure on your shooting, son.
You drilled me right through the palm of the hand. Anyhow, you won
me a hundred pounds. Good-by, son, and good luck to you."
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their tenth birthday, film
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changed the entire course of the
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And remember “Don Juan”? That
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| synchronized score. John Barry-
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talk. The only speaking on that pio-
neerprogramwas done by Will Hays,
cinema czar, who predicted a bril-
liant future for sound motion pic-
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that move theater owners dug down
in their jeans to equip their houses
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treat their patrons to the new thrill.
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Those in the “know say that if
Bette Davis will get over her mad
with the studio, she
can have a starring
vehicle in “Danton,
Terror of France,”
a tale of the French
revolution and the
Reign of Terror.
Max Reinhardt is
scheduled to direct
the p r o duction
which is expected
to get under way in
October. Bette has
been on the suspen-
sion list since she
made an exit from Warner Brothers’
studio when they failed to meet her
salary demands and her request to
be permitted work elsewhere
once a year. It is said tha i
Laughton is wanted for
Danton.
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of radio stars who have moved
their program westward to Holly-
wood. Her broadcasts are sched-
uled to start from the film capital
almost immediately, Incidentally,
Kate is to have another fling at the
pictures. It is rumored that she will
probably appear in the next Shirley
Temple production.
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Bing Crosby is known as a man
of individuality. fost everything
he does has an individual slant to
it. An example is his incorporation
of Bing Crosby, Ltd., Inc. The of-
ficers are Bing's dad, his two broth.
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gives them all jobs and keeps them
busy handling the coin which rolls
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Back from distant shores, Elissa
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production of the ‘Return of the
Thin Man" which will star Myrna
Loy and William Powell.
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