Show II L SIGNS 0 OF F T THE H E TIMES I I WiTCHES WITCHES r Every farmer has seen or heard ot of traveling water witches who claimed to be able to locate water wells by di divIning divining divining di- di vining rods These rods usually are peach twigs or witch hazel wands which the witches claim dip when running run run- fling ning water vater lies beneath The divining rod is the basis of ot many manya a a. swindle by fakers who claim to be beable beable beable able to locate oil or gold with them r Now ow comes G G. M itt Butler director of the Arizona bureau of mines He to has perfected and applied for patents on an electrical apparatus for tor locating underground underground under under- I ground deposits of f ore Witchcraft of yesterday yesterday- Is scientific I accomplishment tJ tucy IY I c a. I 1 COMFORT RT I I 0 The next step forward In road buildIng buildIng build build- Ing may be rubber pavements suggests the London Times A rubber pavement with sufficient elasticity would enable autos to run without tires Sounds bounds like an impossible suggestion But all revolutionary changes seem that way when first proposed Inventors should at least try to perfect perfect per per- rubber Sidewalks That may be beCome become become be- be I come necessary to soothe human nerves dally daily getting more highly strung in r i 4 I FRIGHTFUL i iI I A flying torpedo controlled by wireless wire wire- less has been perfected b by Uncle Sam It If can be sent a distance of miles mues and made to drop exactly where I wanted Frightful weapons like this make it obvious that real disarmament cannot cannot cannot can can- I not be brought about by scrapping navies navIes' or limiting standing armies Th The world must disarm mentally mentally- I attain attain a universal hatred of war war war-be- be fore the god of war can be securely caged Modern disarmament should begin in the laboratory as well welI as the steel stee mills and navy yard I BUYING I Railroads in the last JT month have bought worth of new rails and equipment The They are making in inquiries inquiries in- in for tor additional orders on a huge scale This Interests steel manufacturers who think the next buying movement in steel will start with a flood lood of railroad railroad rail raIl- road purchases some setting the spring of 1922 as the date It interests the rest of ot us because so goes steel industry so goes genI general gen gen- eral prosperity I I I RETIRING r Uncle Sam bought up and retired from circulation about worth ol ot Victory notes during 1921 So much less for taxpayers to pay In Interest Interest In- In terest onIt on It was taxation well spent Uncle Sam like all wise business men is trying to liquidate his loans a rapIdly as possIble I ADVENTURE I IThe The transatlantic liner St. St louis will sail salt next January carrying an exhIbition exhibition tion of i American manufactures She he world will visIt every important port In the world Adventurous youth will envy the several several sev sev- eral hundred crack salesmen who will travel on the St St. Louis Even Colum- Colum Ius lus Balboa and anel Magellan be jealous je-alous of ot them The great explorers anti and adventurers ad of our day are business business busi busl- ness men |