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Show Some day another work of imagination imagina-tion called "A Trip to ttie Moon" may become reality, possibly even a tr) to Mars, our nearest neighbor in space. There need be no limit to man's travels once he escapes from the pull of the earth's gravitation. Doubters say men might go to Mars, but how could they corns back? The answer Is that what men can imagine they can do. An Australian savage can send his boomerang into space and .bring It back to hi3 feet. Science will find a way to come and go as it pleases. It should be remembered that this earth with men on it will last for at least a million million years more And today we are only 12,000 years from the late Stone Age. We haven't the vaguest conception of what we shall do, with this old earth, its oceans, climates, volcanoes, winds and wave power, and with things outside of it. , Something new in prohibition enforcement. en-forcement. Federal agents arrested a colored man headed away from shore in a rowboat. He confessed .'that he was rowing out to the twelve-mile limit "to get some gin that is gin." He could not trust the gin of New York. Recent alcoholic deaths testify as tc the soundness of his judgment. But he was locked up in spite of his plea that if merely "wanting" good gin was made a crime, the prisons would be crowded. (). iVIU bv Kinp Faaturti Svndicatt. tsc) This Week j by ARTHUR BRISBANE Short and Good ; Six Billion Pounds Yearly ! Strawberries by Airplana Wanted, a $300 Car President Hoover's Christmas Day message had all the necessary good qualities. It was short, only thirty-seven thirty-seven words. It wasted none of the few words on regrets or wailiDgi about conditions. Mr. Hoover uttered the formal hope for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and will do all that he can ! to make the latter real. i There is hard work ahead for every- body, and whining on Christmas would j not make it easier. j There is trouble on Henry Ford's j gigantic rubber plantation in Brazil, ; where Ford agents are developing 6,-000,000 6,-000,000 acres of tropical land. It is In- i teresting to think how many pythons, I jaguars and monkeys will be disturb- ! ed by tractors and plows that are go- ! ing day and night, working under ; floodlights in the cooler night houri. j Included among other inhabitants are some human beings that resent being disturbed, and the Brazilian government sends police by airplane to make them realize that Ford, bringing bring-ing "American living conditions and i wages," should be made welcome. Planting trees always means look- I ing ahead, usually to the next genera- tion. But with rubber it is not so slow. I The trees that Ford has already planted plant-ed in Brazil will yield, ten years hence, six thousand million pounds of rubber a year. Rubber was Brazil's monopoly until a few years ago. Then Brazil began growing coffee, taking the world trade from Java, and a clever individual in j England successfully moved the rubber rub-ber growing to Toppa, where it wag i then unknown. Now Ford promises to bring the world's rubber production I back to the South American continent. conti-nent. Strawberries were delivered in New York recently, picked in Florida eleven hours iarlier. Dudley Reed flew in with 432 pints, and the trip , was profitable. j Fruit picked ripe in Florida, California, Cali-fornia, and on the Guif Coast, will soon be distributed all over the United States through the air on the day it is picked. Refrigeration will not be nec- j essarf, the pilot going up high enough for refrigeration. Bir William Morris, British manufacturer, manu-facturer, offers a car for $500, and England thinks he has stolen a march I on Henry Ford. i That depends on the car. j Some one should produce here a car, plain, rugged, to sell for $300, all cash, by mail. Mr. Sloan, of General Motors, might do it. Workmen would buy it, instead of a bicycle, farmers would have a second sec-ond car. It should have a front seat, back of that an iron box to carry tools or plough, with removable seats, speed, small gas consumption. It could be done. Sir Hubert Wilkins hopes to start on his subterranean voyage to the North Pole next April. Jean Jules Verne, grandson of the I Frenchman who wrote "Twenty Thousand Thou-sand Leagues Under the Sea," will assist at the launching of the polar submarine. Nautilus. Thus "wild imagination" becomes cold, scientific fact. |