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Show This Week By ARTHUR BRISBANE THE PRESIDENT WILL TRY OLD, AND HARD AT WORK THE WONDERFUL AUTO 50,000,000 YEARS OLD President Hoover justifies Senator Sen-ator Borah's complaint of inefficient ineffi-cient prohibition enforcement, by planning a drastic overhauling and shakeup. New men are to be appointed, lax federal district attorneys at-torneys will be dismissed. The president believes that he was elected by prohibition votes, and is determined to enforce the law, if he can. The general public which does not get drunk, bootleg, or work any racket, will hope that prohibition prohi-bition may not absorb all of the presidents time, energy and ability, abil-ity, leaving none for great constructive con-structive works.- There are things more important, impor-tant, after all, than a whisky bottle, bot-tle, or even somebody's darling getting drunk. Thomas A. Edison, always at work, thinks he discovered a new rubber supply in the golden rod. That is good news for hay fever fe-ver victims, unless golden rod should be widely planted for a rubber crop. Science, working in another direction, di-rection, will probably find a synthetic syn-thetic substitute for natural rubber, rub-ber, before any new plant can be developed. But, what a fine example ex-ample Mr. Edison shows for youth and old age. Past eighty, honored everywhere, one of the world's greatest public servants, he might, with the world's applause, devote his remaining years to rest and contemplation. Instead, he lives, hard at work. Nature planted a powerful engine in that brain. New York explodes gasoline in a big way. In the first six months of 1929, the state taxed 774,701,746 gallons of gasoline, not including gasoline used by farmers. farm-ers. It would have taken 968 freight trains of eighty cars each to carry car-ry that gasoline. Who would have believed that when Senator Cou-zens Cou-zens was investing less than $2000 in the little Ford car, taking out, within a short time, $30,000,000 as his share? Governor Rosevelt of New York asks $800,000 for more prisons and an emergency appropriation of $1,-000,000. $1,-000,000. Why not have separate prisons for young criminals, all under 21, instead of locking them up with the old criminals, to learn their trade more thoroughly? It happens that very young criminals are the most numerous, dangerous, cruel and generally given to murder. They need special spe-cial treatment, which should include in-clude some years of hard work, avoided when they took up crime as an alternative. The head of a New York drug ring included in his private telephone tele-phone list the number of the distinguished dis-tinguished judge whose welcome home dinner was attended by many well known criminals, and enlivened by a holdup. New York also learns that another an-other judge promoted advertising legal and other, in a publication that had no real existence, was never printed. The imaginary manager of the imaginary manual, possessed of a police record, was once discharged discharg-ed by the kind Judge that supplied sup-plied advertising to the manual. Shakespeare might have put all that in his highly imaginative play, "The Tempest." At Des Moines, Henry Fairfield Osborn, head of the American Museum of Natural History, tells scientists that man did not descend des-cend from the monkey, but had a separate evolution of his own. Monkeys and men followed sepa-I sepa-I rate paths of evolution side by side, monkeys stopping short, men still going ahead. The most that bne monkey can do to another is to bite the other's I tail. Proud man can drop one air-! air-! plane load of gas bombs above a crowded city, and kill a million. ' Professor Csbom shows that men have lived here millions of years loncer than was supposed. j Scientists, until recently, believed believ-ed that man goes back only about ' one million years. ! professor Orbora says he dates from a pre-mioeer.e aje. when thei first great plateaus appeared in the center cf Asia. 50.OM.000 years ; aco. Copyright. King Features, Inc.) |