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Show br Arthur Brisbane Jew, Catholic, Protestant , Soldiers With Book What Is Life? No Answer Pearl For a Lady CALVIN Coolldge, ex-Governor Smith and the distinguished philanthropist, phil-anthropist, Joseph Rosenwald, are selected se-lected to .dispose of an eight million dollar charity fund left by Conrad Hubert. The man who left the money wanted want-ed It distributed "by one Jew, one Protestant and one Catholic." No better choice could have . been made than Coolldge, Smith and Rosen-' wald. But why Jew,' Protestant, Catholic? Why not three good, average Americans, Amer-icans, regardless of their religious brand ? There is too much emphasizing of "Jew, Protestant, Catholic." too much dividing of political offices among them. That wasn't the idea of the men that established this country. Madame Curie, uo helped the discovery dis-covery of radium, comes here to accept ac-cept for the new radium Institute at Warsaw, one gramme of radium costing cost-ing $50,000, paid for. by American women, You could put in a small valise radium worth more than all the wealth of Rockefeller, Ford, Secretary Mel-Ion Mel-Ion and George F. Baker, combined. If such a radium quantity existed. Our sun, with is source of terrific energy only guessed at by science, may 'contain millions of tons of radium. ra-dium. We can't get at that. But we might give more poor children the benefit of the sun's light, which is accessible and costs nothing. Nearly all young Russians go through military service, and soon Russia will have 5,000,000 trained soldiers, sol-diers, under 30 years of age. That Interests In-terests western Europe. Such a crowd starting westward with tanks, flying machines and modern equipment would call for attention. The young soldiers are taught that capitalism plans to crush Russia, which It isn't. It Is only planning to do business In Russia. Soldiers are told also that their duty Is to make the proletariat, the laboring labor-ing class, rulers of the entire world. The feet once got tired of carrying all the load, and then it was time for the head to do. the carrying. But the head Is still on top, and the feet still carry the load. Wherever they go Russian soldiers take books with them. |