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Show i ' ' This Week By ARTHUR BRISBANE JEW, CATHOLIC, TROTESTANT SOLDIERS WITH BOOKS WHAT IS LIFE? NO ANSWER. Calvin Coolidge, ex-Governor Smith and the distinguished philantropist, Joseph Roscnwald, are selected to dispose dis-pose 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 Coolidge, Smith and Ro-senwald. Ro-senwald. But why Jew, Protestant, Catholic? i Why not three good, average Amer-I Amer-I leans, regardless of their religious brand? There is too much emphasizing of Jew, Catholic, Protestant, too much , dividing of political offices among them. That wasn't the idea of the men who established this country. 'I Madame Curie, who helped the discovery dis-covery of radium, comes here to accept ac-cept for the new radiunx Institute at Warsaw, one gramme of radium cost-ing cost-ing $50,000, paid for by American j women. J; You could put In a small valise jj radium, worth more than all the wealth of Rockefeller, Ford, Secretary Mellon and George F. Baker combin-I, combin-I, If such a radium quantity existed. exist-ed. if; Our sun, with its source of terrific energy only guessed at by science, may ,, contain millions of tons of radium. We can't get at that. But we might , Rive more poor children the benefit of l the sun's light, which is accessible and ,f casts nothing. lit' ' Nonrly nil young Russians go through military service, and soon Russia will rj!f have 5.000.000 trained soldiers, under 30 years of age. That Interests west-crn west-crn Europe. Such a crowd starting .r westward with tanks, flying machines s and modern equipment would call for attention. I . The young soldiers are taught that fV capitalism plans to crush Russia winch it Isn't. It is only planning .. to do business in Russia. Soldiers are told also that their 3v , -v ls to make the proletariat, the laboring la-boring class, rulers of the entire i ; world. iV C , Tllc fc(,t once got tired of carrv- w ' iK all the load, and then it was .,, time for the head to do the carrvin. 0r But the head is still on top, and or--' f0(,t still carry the load. Wherever they go Russian soldiers , take bo with them. t' r ,ts botter than can-ring a bot- l'e of Vodka. jFy .. Ir- G- Wells, collaborating; with Ju- Ztnt Uux!o' nd George P. Wells, r a 5cri0s of articles on the scl- c'ioe of life. i TTl -iIC WiU ask tho Question, "what do H I?111 b-v Iu-" and. according to u astic advertisement, will "an- -wer questions that have pulled hull' manity since the dawn of civilization." civiliza-tion." There are about 1,800,000.000 human beings on earth, and nearly as many answers to "what do we mean by life?" To a man on the Congo life means hippopotamus meat and fat wives. To the Wall street man, it means rising stocks, several automobiles, and yachts. To the scientist it means a look into the whirling atom. To the pious it means something better when this life is done. Nobody even knows what life is. what consciousness is, whence it came, how it works. The British R-101, biggest dirigible in the world, flew over London carry-. ing 52 passengers, circling the dome of St. Paul's about 600 feet up, an airplane air-plane flying ahead as pilot. ! Those living will see giant ships of ' the air. 1000 feet long, and longer, with smaller ships, flying back and forth, bringing passengers from the ground to the high altitude, where there are no storms, and bringing supplies, sup-plies, i Take care cf your health, live as long as you can. You will see inter- . esting things in the years immediately' ahead. , "What do you think about the general gen-eral outlook?" How- often do yeu hear that question? The Pennsylvania railroad rail-road has just ordered S-iOOOOOO' worth of stool rails, fasteners, etc. New York Central has ordered :06.4:i0 tons of steel rails. Forty-three dollars a ton is the price paid by both big railroads. In the last year the railroads have boucht SS.500 new freight cars. Rails used to cost $13 a ton. (Copyright. King Features. Ir.c.) |