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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Make an Inventory Lindbergh Has an Estate Hanged Then, Saint Now Five Minutes From a Doctor Once every year or oftener every ev-ery well managed business takes an inventory. The head of the house knows what he has sold, what is left over, what buyers used bad Judgement, what departments are "slow." The last week of the year afford every young man, old man and woman, wo-man, an opportunity to take a per-orm'.,inventory. per-orm'.,inventory. A list of " successes "aiidr jlures, j, good qualities and bad qualities, strength and weakness, writing out in detail. of the prospects of the individual's in-dividual's personal "business" no doubt would help many to plan wisely for the new year. A thousand businesses are managed man-aged according to careful plans. Even the Nation has its budget work. But nearly all of the 120,000,000 Americans go on haphazard, letting let-ting each day take care of itself. Many a year hence will be just where they are today, or a little farther back, because one year older. old-er. And they will wonder why. No need to wonder. The need is to work. St. Louis wants to erect a statue to Lindbergh. It is unnecessary, It is too soon,' and who in the county could make it good enough, except MacMonnies, and he, foi the time, has given up sculpture. Lindbergh possesses now a monument mon-ument sufficient a picture in every American mind of a youth sitting in a small box, with wings, leaving New York alone, crossing the ocean from New York to Paris. When you have that kind of a monument, you don't need anything of marble or bronze. "Time at length makes all things even." Three hundred years ago, earnest earn-est Scotch Protestants captured John Ogilvie, a Scotch Jesuit priest, kept him many months in jail in ' Glasgow, then hanged him. Yesterday Yes-terday in Saint Peter's, at Rome, John Ogilive was beautified, declared de-clared and solemnly made i saint. The great bells rang, a veil was lifted from the portrait of the I martyrrsaint and his relics were exposed on the main altar. f Later the Pope himself came , from the Vatican to venerate the "i saint's relics on the altar and pray for his intercession. It is to be hoped the courageous Scotch priest, where he dwells now, knows of the honor conferred and appreciates it. New York's medical officer warns the world's richest, wettest city, "If you must drink in this bootleg era do your drinking not more than five minutes away from a doctor." doc-tor." As soon as you swallow the prewar, pre-war, or right-off-the-ship liquor, wink your eyes a few times. If they seem blurred, hurry to the doctor and have your stomach pumped out. You may be in time. A simpler plan would be to take your little stomach pump to the party. First-class stores might sell stomach pumps with silvei' cocktail shakers,, on sale ten times as numerously under prohibition as they ever were before. Helen Wills good California girl, is now Mrs. Frederick S. Moody, (Jr. He is a Calif ornian also. yV ' That wedding interests Ameri- cans, all fond of Helen Wills and proud of her. It also Interests eugenists who believe that a super-race super-race could be built up by proper marriage selection. Fortunately they are wrong a-bout a-bout that. A super-race is being produced, not as basis of breeding horses or dogs, but produced by intense affection af-fection and concentration which more than anything else decides the qualities of the child. For other details read the first chapter of Tristam Shandy. A British judge suggests copying copy-ing for English prisons, an experiment experi-ment made in Germany. Prisoners Pris-oners that work well, behave themselves, them-selves, show "some desire to become good citizens," will have special privileges. Rebellion in American prison!! prces that mere discipline is not enough. Perhaps showing a real interest in criminals, realizing how narrow a line separates rspecta-bility rspecta-bility from crime would help. "But for the grace of God, there 'i lies John Huss," said the Bohemion f martyr, looking at a drunkard in the gutter. -w And "but for the grace of God, there I sit," anyone of us might t say, seeing a convict in hU cell. Criticizing instalment payments I for automobiles and other expen- sive units has gone by. Without -- such payments industries would dwindle. The wise man knowing that he will not live forever, pnys for a thing and enjoys it at the sama time. |