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Show This Week By ARTHUR BRISBANE JOHN D THE THIRD BETTER BRAINS OUR STRANGE MINDS QUITE A BUDGET John D. Rockefeller m, grandson grand-son of the builder of the name, went to work at 26 Broadway, a few days ago. He was on time. Twenty-three years old, a big young man, bigger physically than his father, John D m will have many opportunities in life. He will inherit what is called the world's largest fortune. By the time he gets it it may not be as big as Edsel Ford's and not as big as that of some man unknown un-known today. But he will surely have enough to carry out any ideas that he may have. Everything depends on the ideas. A few men because of great wealth stand out in history. There was the richest Roman, whose son went to war with Caesar, and made a good general. His father, fa-ther, with all the money, made a failure when he went with Lu-cullus. Lu-cullus. The original Medici took to money making, his sons doing more than any family on earth ever did for art. Jacques Coeur, the rich man of France, used his fortune for his country at a time of need, and was treated with the usual ingratitude. in-gratitude. Now comes young Rockefeller, third generation, starting in with hundreds of millions around him, and many other hundreds of millions mil-lions buried in pools of oil under the ground. His father and grandfather have done a great deal for the health end education of the world. The world will wish John D. Ill success. suc-cess. He will have to work hard to keep ahead of some other 23-year-old boy, without a dollar, but with something more valuable, nes-essity nes-essity driving him. It is easy to succeed in spite of poverty, hard to succeed in spite of , gigantic wealth. Professor Von Economo tells other scientists at Columbia College Col-lege Medical Center that man's brain is improving, developing more. And the superman, mentally speaking, is coming. There is every reason 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 of years, Science proves it. Something ought to be done in that time. It would interest and, possibly frighten us, if we could know what we shall look like at the end of the first hundred million years. Man, perhaps, will be an enormous enor-mous 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 any-body else, nobody trying to pile up money selfishly, any more than man today would seek to accumulate accumu-late salt water, with the ocean full of it. i Strange are the workings of the human mind. Berlin has a morphinists' mor-phinists' 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 fpretty- good imitation. - ; , In Tokio, the Japanese minister to China, home on leave, com'-mits com'-mits suicide. Distressed by the loss of his wife, the unfortunate man, Sadao Saburi, had assumed his posthumous posthum-ous Buddhist's name, usually taken only after death, and had it written writ-ten on a tombstone for his wife and himself. Thereafter 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 shot and killed another an-other man who had the same idea. Miss Nolon. grieved, said she had tried her best to keep the young men apart. That horrifies us now and is hard to understand. It was the 'commonest thing in the world with cur ancestors in the early davs. Your great grandmother 500, times removed, would have thought poorly cf any suitor that would not kill another as a casual event .in courtship. President Hoover presents to J ecncrcfs a budget cf three billion ei'.ht hundred and thirty million ' and a few odd hundred thousand dollars. It seems a great deal as compared com-pared with the da.vs before the war when the government spent one billion in two years and ev erybody yelled "what extravagance." extrava-gance." (CepT:ght. by King Features Inc.) |