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Show - br Arthur Brisbane ) John D. the Third Better Brains Our Strange Minds Quite a Budget JOHN D. Rockefeller III. grandBon of the builder of the came, went . to work at 26 Broadway a few days Ago. He waB on time. Twenty-three years old, a big young man, bigger physically than his father, fath-er, John D. Ill, will have many opportunities op-portunities In life. He will inherit what Is called the worlds largest fortune. fort-une. By the time he gets It It may not be as big as Edsel Ford'6, and not as big as that of some man unknown today. But, he will surely have enough to carry out any ldea3 that he may have. Everything depends on the ideas. . A few men because of great wealth stand out in hl3tory. There was the richest Roman, whose son went to war with Caesar and made a good general. His father, with all the money, mon-ey, made a failure when he went with Lucullus, The original Medici took to money making, his sons doing more than any family on eanh ever old for art. Jacques Coeur, the rich man of France, used his fortune for his country coun-try at a time of need, and was treated with the usual Ingratitude. Now comes young Rockefeller, third generation, starting in with hundreds of millions around him, and many other hundreds of millions burled in pools of oil under the ground. His father and ' grandfather have done a great deal for the health and education of the world. The world will wijh John D. Ill success. He will have to work hard to keep ahead of some other 23-year-old boy, without a dollar, but with something more valuable, necessity driving him. It is easy to succeed in spite of pov- erty. hard to succeed in spite of gi-1 gantic wealth." Professor Von Economo tells other scientists at Columbia College Medical Medi-cal Center that man's brain is improving, improv-ing, developing more. And the superman, super-man, mentally speaking is coming. There is every Teason to be hopeful. Twelve thousand years ago men were in the late stone age. We have done a great deal in 12.000 years. The life of man on earth is only starting. The earth will last for hundreds of millions mil-lions of years. Science proves it. Something ought to be done 1.- that time. It would Interest and, possibly frighten us, If we could know what we Bhall look like at the end of the first hundred million years. Man, perhaps, will be an enormous head, round and smooth, traveling at will through the air, talking to other planets, with this earth transformed into one big garden, machinery doing all the work. Nobody trying to cheat anybody else, nobody trying to pll- up money selfishly, any more than a man today would seek to accumulate salt water, with the ocean full of It. Strange are the workings of the human mind. Berlin has a morphin-ist'a morphin-ist'a club, where men gather for the use of morphine and seek to add to the number of addicts. If there is no real hell, that is a pretty good imitation. In Tokio, the Japanese Minister to China, home on leave, commits suicide. Distressed by the loss of his wife, the unfortunate man, Sadao Saburi, had assumed his posthumous Buddhist's Budd-hist's name, usually taken only after death, and had it written on a tombstone tomb-stone for his wife, and himself. Thereafter There-after he asked his friends to assume that he was a ghost. Since his wife was dead, he also was dead. While Madeline Nolon looked on, one young man who wanted to marry her Bhot and killed another man who had the same idea. Miss Nolon, grieved, griev-ed, eald she had tried her best to keep the young gentlemen apart. That horrifies us now and is hard to understand. It was the commonest thing in the world with our ancestors in the early days. Your great grandmother grand-mother 600 times removed, would i have thought poorly of any suitor I that would not kill another as a cas-1 cas-1 ual event In courtship. President Hoover presents to Congress Con-gress a budget of three billion eight hundred and thirty million and a few odd hundred thousand dollars. It 6eems a great deal as compared with the days before the war when the Government spent one billion in two years and everybody yelled "what extravagance!" |