Show ar PRANK PA ke GE the general motors corporation has hag extended its system ot of insuring the lives 0 of f all employees to cover its agents and their employees coupled with that Is a thrift plan pan to enable employees to share in the companas comp anys profits by investing a small percentage ot of their own wag wages e this and other large companies fire are engaged nil all the time in efforts to work out equitable methods of helping those who work tor for them to be certain of independence ence in old age or because ot of illness or accident accia ert and to leave their families provided for lu in case of death I 1 largo industries can do this why not sm ehll 11 ones Ps s well it Is on the cards that the time Is corning coming when eve everybody everi body who works for anybody else will be ri q red to leave a certain percentage of his salary or wages wage a in trust to ba matched by an equal amount contributed tri buted by the employer to form the basis ot of a fund to take care 0 of I 1 him alter after a given iven nu number aber of years vests of work or at a given rue ege or if incapacitated and coupled with this will be some form ot of employment insurance so that nobody can be thrown out of work with nothing to live on WEALTH the sole heir to or mere died in new york the other day miss ella wendel 77 only survivor of six sisters end and brothers whose grandfather was a partner of john jacob astor the tur fur trader lived alone in an old house on fifth avenue and died alone except tor for doctors and nurses she had not a single relation left in the world every dollar or of the great fortune which she ehe had to dispose of Is in new york city real estate the lot on which her horn bom stands Is valued at nearly tour four million dollars grandfather 1 wendel laid down a rule lor for his family buy land never mortgage never sell n never ver build never make repairs buildings deteriorate tenants Bome sometimes tImes do not pay their rent but land value always increases the purchase of land in any growing community is the swiftest certain road to wealth over any twenty year period the owner of well located vacant land in or close to a big city will have made several times more money simply by sitting still and watching the population grow than he could have made by putting the purchase price into a savings bank into bonds or endowment life insurance or any of the other perfectly sate safe forms of investment DEPTHS divers can now go to unheard of depths by the use of a mixture of oxygen and helium to breathe instead d of ordinary air the greatest danger to workers under pressure as in diving suits and in deep caissons chaissons cais sons or tunnels Is the escape of nitrogen from the compressed air into the tha blood and tissues forming bubbles which set up a serious illness often resulting in death when the workers return to normal pressure the U S bureau of mines has been experimenting with the helium oxygen mixture and finds that it serves as well as normal air for breathing purposes while the helium Is not absorbed into the body as nitrogen la Is this discovery may result in the recovery of treasure from the wrecks of many snips ships nelch abich lie too deep on the ocean bed to be reached by diving methods now in use CALENDARS it is on the cards that some sometime pe per haps in five ave years yeara perhaps in fifty we shall have a new calendar everybody who has to do with the present method ot of dividing the tee year agreed that it is clumsy and uneconomical some are tor for making a radical change at once to a thirteen month system which many business houses now use in computing their own budgets and making their own com analyses ot of business conditions others believe that would be too much of a change and prefer to take two bites at the cherry not until the league of nations the pope the anglican church chul c h the leaders the head of 0 of the jewish religion and the I 1 mohammedan church agree will there be any radical change from the present calendar EINSTEIN back it in his home in germany einstein the great scientist tells what he thinks ot of the united states A land of 0 operative cooperative co effort he lays quite different from our europe everybody does teamwork that Is not the conception many peo pie have ot of america we think of europe as a a hotbed of socialism it if not ot of communism and ct our own country as a place where everybody goes his own way without giving enough attention to his neighbors problems probably both points ot of view tire fire both right and wrong professor einstein saw principally only men ot of science working together in laboratories and universities their methods may be much more operative cooperative co than those common in business without signifying any such widespread teamwork team work as the good professor Profess attributes to our whole people and it may well be that we hear bear a great deal more about communism than the facts warrant because it Is more sensational than the tact fact that most europeans go strictly about their own business and let otner other people alone |