BRISBANE THIS WEEK For the Pacific States A Good Example It Sold for $700 The Pacific states should interest themselves in air defense, apart | from the national | government. When a mittee of men from New York called on Abraham Lin- | coln, teld him how much mon- ey they had, and urged that he send a good bat- tleship to do noth- ing but protect New York city, his reply was | that if he had | as much money | as they said they had, he would | build a battleship for himself. The west coast states, California, Oregon, Washington, perhaps with their vigorous neigh- bors of Vancouver, and other points ebove the Canadian border, might well have a few flying ships of their own, a sort of air militia. San Francisco, where they com- bine patriotism with plenty of mon- ey, and great civic pride and ener- gy, might well start the idea of a Pacific coast flying force. That need not be very expensive. A hundred machines to begin with, a hundred plucky young fliers, practicing the gentle art of flying at night, and dropping bombs, practicing espe- cially mimic warfare against other flying machines, would constitute an admirable object lesson to the reet of the country. And if California, in San Fran- cisco for instance, should start a little flock of one hundred machines, Los Angeles could be relied upon to hurry in with two hundred, Seat- tle and other cggst cities also. com- rich Arthur Brisbane Such machines need not be a to- tal loss. In the first place, gentlemen with rich knowing exactly what to do with themselves, extremely anxious to find work worth while, and prefer- ably dangerous, would delight in each equipping his individual ma- chine, for the service of the Pacific coast and of Uncle Sam, as the nobles in the old days delighted in equipping each his regiment, or his fighting ship, for the service of the king. Two hundred or three hundred high - powered, swift flying ma- chines, directed by quick and coura- geous American brains, would be worth more to the safety of the Pa- cific coast than a hundred battle- ships. For the fighters that come, if they do come, will fly miles above the battleships. They would come less gaily, confidently, if they knew trained fliers awaited them. many Yyoumg fathers, not less that Hideyo Noguchi, who gave his life to fight yellow fever in Africa, will inspire many men. He was born of a proud, warlike race, intensely self- centered, for 2,000 years a hermit people. The loyalty of a Japanese was to family, clan, above all to the emperor representing his race. The rest of the world was nothing to him. Born one generation after Japan opened her doors to the world, No- guchi felt the new spirit of the times. He was loyal to family, clan, emperor, race; but he was devoted chiefly to all human kind. From boyhood to the last, through poverty and many perils, he studied kow to wipe out disease. He dis- covered the germ of yellow fever, developed serums to prevent the fever or cure it, led in the work that has driven it out of America and will soon put an end to it throughout the world Yellow fever killed countless mil- lions of all peoples. Noguchi's skill and devotion have saved the lives of millions, too many to estimate, most of them foreigners to whom his forefathers would have paid no attention, calling them hei-min, or no-folks. Noguchi’s self-sacrifice to human welfare sets an example that is sure to be followed. Perhaps, in time, most men will see that it is better to help one another than to kill or even rob one another. It is said the Hackensack Indians sold to the white men for so many bars of lead, and some finery, worth | altogether $700, land on which now stands the entire city of Newark, N. J., and a great deal of land be- yond. The poor Hackensack chief, with his $700, couldn’t buy today enough land for a tight grave at the corner of Broad and Market streets in New- ark. Land goes up wonderfully. + Doctors at Kansas City report that birth control information so much discussed does little good to the poor, and has caused an “alarm- ing slump in child bearing among educated families.” That is how reform works, usu ally. But since 90 per cent of hu man beings worth while come from poor families, providence may be working in its usual mysterious way. © King Features Syndicate, ine WNU Service. © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. THE TRIUMPH OVER DEATH UT the death on the cross was not the end of Jesus; in a profound sense it was rather the beginning. The Bible tells us how after three days Jesus arose again from the dead, and his resurrected body was seen in one place after another by certain of those who had followed him on earth, The first recorded appearance was that seen by Mary Magdalene a. Jerusalem on the morning of the Resurrection day. That afternoon to two disciples who may have been hiding at a village called Em- maus, not far from Jerusalem. That same evening ten of the disciples were visited by the spirit, and a week later all eleven disciples saw disciple, Judas Iscariot, had be- semane, and had afterwards hanged these various appearances occurred ir Jerusalem and in Galilee, and at the end of that time Jesus ascended into heaven with the solemn promise that soon he would return once more to the earth And then a new sect of Judaism gradually arose in Jerusalem and Galilee. It was not yet a new re- ligion, for its followers were strict and pious Jews who differed from their co-religionists only in tney believed the Messiah had al- ready come. They had no idea »f preaching their beliefs to the Gen- tiles, for they firmly believed that the only door into their brother- Judaism and circumcision through they were all very poor, and they shared in common the little which they possessed. They were firm'y convinced that in but a little while their Savior would return, and the Kingdom of Heaven be established on earth, and for that reason they would not concern themselves much about earthly things. The first missionary to preach to people outside the fold of Jewry was a man named Philip, himself one of the Hellenized Jews. Driven from Jerusalem by persecutors of the sect, he went up and down the countryside, spreading the tidings that the Messiah himself had al- ready come and was now waiting to come a second time. The path he followed is traced on the map shown above. He halted in Cesarea. and there he remained some twenty years, no doubt continuing to spread the gospel all the time. A second missionary to dare to accept Gentiles into the fellowship of the Nazarenes was none other than Peter, who had been chief of the disciples. After the death of Jesus he became virtually the head of the little sect in Jerusalem, and he seems at first to have been opposed to the idea of preaching the gospel to non-Jews. But after some years he went forth to visit the little church which Philip had established, and on this journey he was completely converted to ihe area he formally accepted into the sect a Roman centurion named Cor- nelius, baptizing him in the name of Jesus, without first requiring the man to become circumcised. The act did not pass unnoticed, however. When Peter returned to Jerusalem he had to justify his ac- tioa to the strict Jews in the sect. He was not deposed from his posi- tion at the head of the Jerusalem brotherhood; but many of the members remained bitterly opposed to the new tendency. Conversion of Saul of Tarsus THE greatest of all the mission- aries was a certain Jew named Saul, or Paul, a native of Tarsus in Asia Minor. He had nrst come to Jerusulem to study under the rabbis there, for he was from a Hellenized city, and though his father was a citizen of the Roman empire, Saul was a strict Pharisee, When first he came to Jerusalem Jerusalem he bitterly opposed the little group of Jews who believed that the Mes- siah had already come in the per- son of Jesus, and he joined in the riot against them which ended in the death of one of their chief men, Stephen, and in the flight of many of the others. Even more, he set out in pursuit of a number of the fugitives when he learned they were spreading their heresy in Damascus. But on the way to that city he saw a vision of Jesus and became himself suddenly converted to the new faith. When he reached Damascus he joined the fugitives and there be- gan to preach their own doctrine of the risen Christ. For a while he wandered in what is described as “Arabia,” but what was prob- ably the desert region to the south of Damascus. From there he re- turned to Damascus, and thence to Jerusalem, where he was accepted into the mother church. Then he returned to Tarsus, his birthplace, and lived in retirement for several years. Now after the first great riot against the Nazarenes in Jerusa- lem, the Hellenized element in the sect was scattered far and wide. Some of its members, as we ai- ready know, sought refuge in Da- mascus; others, like Philip, took to Cesarea; still others found a resting place in the important Syrian city of Antioch. The persecution they had suffered had only intensified their faith in their Messiah, and | wherever they settled they contin- ued to preach the gospel of his second coming. At first they preached in the synagogues and only to the Jews, but later they began to preach also to the Gentiles. When news of this radical de- velopment reached Jerusalem there was much concern, for the believ- ers left behind in Jerusalem were all strict Jews. Accordingly they sent out one of their number, Bar- nabas, to investigate the situation ir Antioch. Barnabas was completely won over by what he saw, and instead of returning tc Jerusalem with com- plaints he remained in Antioch to direct the work. In a little while he feit the need of a co-worker, and therefore went over to Tarsus, which was not far away, to per- suade Paul to join him. Paul agreed, and from then on for some years the two men worked together in great harmony. Paul and Barnabas took with them on this first long journey a relative of the latter whose name was Mark. They went on to Derbe, where for a change they were allowed to labor in peace. Thence they might have been able to make their way across the mountains to Tar- sus without much difficulty; but they refused. The second missionary journey began with an unfortunate disagree- ment between Paul and Barnabas, and the two men parted company. Barnabas went with Mark to Cy- prus, and Paul, taking with him a young man named Silas, or Sylva- nus, set out for Asia Minor. Unfortunately the New Testament has almost no record of the work Paul, and therefore we are able churches of Syria and then pushed on into Asia Minor. He revisited where he and Barnabas had founded little churches on the first journey. We are not told the names of the new cities which he visited. All we know is that, after wandering for a time in Galatia, Paul and Silas, together with a third companion Timothy, who had joined them a | deirdre dod kok Rk hk AAA STAR DUST Movie «+ Radio * *%k% By VIRGINIA VALE kk% | J ENRY FONDA’S marriage to Frances Seymour Brokaw | will increase the little circle of | smart society women who, mar- ried to motion picture actors, re- | side in Hollywood. Richard Bar- thelmess, Gary Cooper and Fred Astaire all married into the Social | Register. Incidentally, Mrs. Brokaw's life | story is rather like that of a movie. Born in a small town in Massachu- setts, she was the poor cousin of the wealthy Rogers family. Very pretty, very charming, she had ev- erything but money, She met George T. Brokaw, who had both wealth and social position, fell in love with him, married him, in 1931. Mr. Brokaw died nearly two years ago, leaving his widow and their small daughter well pro- vided for. She never forgot what it meant not to have plenty of money. She has done notable things in charity work. Henry Fonda, whom she met this summer in Eu- rope, is a fortunate young man. - * - Bette Davis may seem to be a temperamental star when it comes to battling over sto- ries and salary, but away from the stu- dio she ii most de- cidedly just another human being Not long and her husband were traveling through the Canadi- an Rockies, on the first part of that va- cation trip she's tak- ing. She did rather startle the guests at the hotel in Lake Lou by wearing a very low-cut evening gown-—but she startled them still more by taking the bus to Banff the next day, instead of being exclusive and going in a private car. fe Here's a new way to break into the movies. Marjorie Gage, a young society girl, likes to fly. She en- tered her own plane for the Ruth Chatterton Flying Cup race—and first thing she knew, had been en- gaged for a picture “The Flying Hostess", 6 30 30 20 2 26 2 2 2 2 2 2 203030 3 0 2 2 2 2 ago she Bette Davis other ise fle Simone Simon “Girls' Dormitory"’ ing pushed right ahead. An Ameri- can girl who, just for fun, acted in a French film made in Salzburg summer before last, declared when she came back that Simone was the cutest thing she ever saw. ““Her face and her figure are both cute,” she announced “And her nind’'s cute 100.” Take that as a compliment or the reverse ji as you please. Anyway, Simone will be seen next in ‘White Hunter," with Warner Baxter. mifmen A short story which has attracted much attention, “Beyond the Sound of a Machine Gun,” has been pur- chased by a leading studio, and in it will appear George Raft, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott and Fred MacMurray. so well in that she is be- does set ish wll We're to have still more Dickens on the screen. ‘Pickwick Papers” will be the next Dickens picture. Paramount intended to make it with W. C. Fields, but that plan has been abandoned, and Metro has taken it on. afin Jean Muir decided recently that she'd like her hair better if it were brown, instead of blonde. Also, she cut off her bangs. Then she made some tests for War- ner Brothers. They objected to the changes. And as a result of a lot of ar- gument, the hair | stayed brown but the bangs returned. Some movie fans are betting that eventually Jean will return to blonde hair. Jean Muir They point big assets. _-_ under way. 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