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Show Thursday, October 27th, 1927 The Midvale Journal Page Two William H. Clune, railroad engineer, dies at Los Angeles leaving a fortune of $20,000,000. He made the money .in moving pictures. · DtFrank Crane . , ............Says • Some Scientific Talk Is Bunk And now comes along an astronomer of the Yerkes Observatory, near Chicago, and says that there is probably going to ~ an explosion of the sun which will doom the eartn and its inhabitants to ~xtinetion and may happen any .. minute, although again it may not happen for a million years · or so. Another astronomer out in Berkeley, California, says that the universe is 194 quadrillion miles in diameter. One hundred ninety-four quadrillions is all there is-there isn't any more. Ordinarily statements like this leave us dumb and awestricken. We accept them as true because we have no way llf contradicting them.' They are like ti1e statements that used to be made about theology, when t~ey argued whether one million or ten angels could stand on the point of a pin. Nobody knew anything about it anyhow and so the declarers were safe. Vle read somewhere in our youth of a story of a man who professed· to know everything. Ask ilim how many tishcs: t.here were in the river and he could tell you to the bst minn"w. There w·ere exactly seventeen million and nin('b·-~i:.'·. He t!.lso knc ·,v the number of nails that went into the bridge and the number of stars in the heavens and the number of hairs on your head and could tell you the number exactly in a minute's notice. This was all right because nobor'!v could disoute it, but it was simply a bold bluff. If you say there are nine trillion blades of grass on the lawn nobody is going- to take the trouble to count them. Your statement goes unchallenged. A lot of t:his scientific data is pure bluff intended to save the common man and it succeeds pretty well. We have passed the age when people are stricken dumb by theologi~ eal dictum. but we r.,.e in the zone now where people are bludgeoned by scientific data. cience has done some wonderful things. It predicts an ('clip~(> of th~ moon to the minute an<i tells us how electricity will act and all sorts of things, but that is no reason why ~cienti~ts should lay back their ears and talk lightly about· thin.~ that are manifestly pure guesses. The sun may explode tomorrow and again it may not. One man's .rrurss is ::~s good as another's. We have made n"me pr;f.P'8~3 h finding out about e~rthquakes and we have el~horat0. theorie-s a~ to how t:hey occur, but just when an fl.'P-thquake is going to hit us we know as well as the scientists. The br.:.~t thing-s ·we can do is to run along and sell our papers and if the works blow up we are as well off as anybody and no worse. N\ONcY TAl-KS--HUt.ti ~ MO t.Je'-V THe Use WHITE LILY FJour • '-OUDE!i "1' OF AU..- A DOLLAR'S '\VORTH New Hours Leisure Result~ The Ame1·ic.an Federation of Labor favors a five-day week, f:'ivi!'l~ the worker two days out of seven. Russia's ~ovPrnrnfmt. exercismg all powers, establishes & s-even-hour work-day, a long ~ter from the serf slavery of old Russia. "rho~e wi,D start the five-day week, want men to have one day in which to spend what they earn in five day3. Spending i~ as imriortant to the country as earning, they say. Th P vah1e to wor'kers of a seven-hour day, or five-day week, depends on what they do with the extra day or hour of freedom. If ti1ey read and think more, they will go ahead. If they do not. they will stay in the same place, but in any rase. the greater leisure will improve their health'. That will make a better next generation inclined to thought. Robert A. Millikan, brilliant scientist of California In~titute of Technolcp-;.'. tells students that science "will free human slaves." meaning, presumably, that science will free rnen from hard labor. Pray that it may not happen too soon. Free men todnv ·from the necessity that drives them, and 99 in 100 would become worthless. If you doubt it, coutem~ plate thm1;e that inherit wealth, in so-called society. ----------xXx---------It is reported President Coolidge is "waisting away" with ~- new electric vibrator at the White White. .r.faine votPr·s reft~s.::t1 to give up the direct primary system of nomination is one time when we all hope, "As Maine goes. o::.o rro8.~ the nation." ' 'hen inmnin!T from an airplane with a parachute one i<:. c;::u,·n)Q::ecl to ~nunt ten before pulling the string. It is said therl" ~r{l fPvV "Damnsey-Tunney" counts on record. p~,,.,. irPo~,...nt ging-er-ale and cracked ice now come under prchibitjon's ban. the 1dea being a great deal like the fPther who makes tD.e whole family go to bed because he is sleeyw. If thn tw0 b0bbecl-hair girls.on the Fall-inclair jury had "n.1odflrn " haircuts 1iJ<e we saw on a local girl last we 1{, there ·wf'r; little chance for defense attorney: to pull the W00l over their eyes. I I { LP ri 1P. first. h·an~-Atlantic air passenger, home again at last. an::1ounces he will build $1500 flivver planes. If true it. wou d seem every year is going to be a grass~hopper year from Pmv on. Earl c:~ 1 T01l bPck on Broadway, and under the terms of hi" naro1P o "n0 parties or drinking" for eight months,,,m nr•w have thP on,p"rtunity to observe for the first time iu~t '·hnt gosh-a11-boobs the boobs on Broadway always have heen. · 'Phe New JPrsp~· man who seized a giant locomotive when the Ppnn~n,lvaPia Railway failed to pay a $32.000 damP!Ye ~l1it whi,.h h8 had won, is nerhaps a fe11ow with a "supnrPs~Pd emntion"-CaUSed by hiS parent'S failure to giVe him a train for Xmas when a boy. • ' . Clip this coupon ud mail It witL $lfor a aix w.eb' tri«l•••.teri,ti.. te THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOK A P•per /01 tlul Heme, 11'.,-U-W'Ule ln 1,. &.,e Ia It 10• wW lzwl tile tla~ cool •••• ot tat werUI frem Ita TIO ap.olal write... -u u tle;oartmeata deY.tt4 w wemea'a aaljl claiW.r•'• iat.•uta, aperta, alMdr. ICtW&t!ot~. radio. ate. Yeu wtU Ml llatl w weaellle Lnt. y.ur lleae • t.arl- aa advttcate 0( peaee ad P"ltlbftlea .\M mt..a. lillllllol evr tiQ•• aa4 tile l'!wa&l abd tlte otller teatarea. __...._......_. ...... ---...-._...._.. u - - --··----- Later, Maybe Eh r They were standing m the hallway waiting for the orchestra to play again. rrenderly he placed his arm around her waist. 1She blushed and stepped back. "You can't pull that stufT in this house u was her reproof. "But say ' kid, we've got a side porch that's the best place i,n town. r.uea. . • -- ... -- A Poor Job A little boy slipped into the parlor and then eyed the visitor up and down. "Well , little man," said his father's friend "What aare you looking at me for?" "Daddy said you were a self-made man and I wanted to see what you looked like." "Quite right," said the gratified guest. "But why di~ you make yourself like that for-" said the boy with considerable surprise. Winning a Gal I first saw her at a circus, And knew that I was lost I swore that I would have her then, Regardless of the cost. I quickly mustered all my strength Twice, thrice, I threw the ball; And the third time, knocked the eat oft'; Now she's mine-Kewpie doll. ~ - - - -----·- ---- ll.cwlftll, Baok Bar Station, Boaten, lla-. weeke' tllal • ' r I •nl•ee .ue 4klllar (fl ), TB• CKRJwnAK SalaKCII Ple:ue aea4 111ft a .,_.t ~ • ttmes as big as • uA FRA CISC ----------------xXx.---------------- FIVE DAYS AT LEAST . Fair Enough "Sir," said the maid quite haugh tily, "either take your arm from around my waist or keep it still. I am no banjo." Ask Dad, He Knows "Papa, where do they make these ukes!" "K,now your geography my boy, In Yukon, of course." · He's No Gambler Kind Lady: You should brace up, my poor man. Remember what you owe to society. Hobo: I don't owe society nuth. in', lady. What do you think I've been doin' playing bridge? Signed Up He (at art exhibit): Ah, Joan d' Arc. She (also there) : J oi,n it yourself, I'm a Kappa. The United States is the most im portant poultry raising country irt the world, producing more than one-third of the world's s\U)ply of poultry a;nd eggs. DESTROYS DUNLOP. CITY Throug!beut the world the productive Dunlop pcoperdet ~e.r so Tast aa ace a that- if combiaed iato oae place-tbey would form a"Dunk»p Ciq" of onr lOO,OaQ aaes. • ITH all its greatness, San Frandsco occupies but 26,880 acres. "Dunlop City"with OYet 100,000 acres-is more than four times as big! And Dunlop City has grown for just one reason-the uniformly supreme quality of Dunlop Tires. .. Great size brings great responsibilities. To protect the good name of u Dunlop City, every set of Dunlop Tires mllit be uniformly supreme. The~ manufacturing advantages which Dunlop's great size 'have brought, make this quality possible-at lower prices than ever. You can expect more of Dunlops. W H Tl The Midvale Garage 36 West Center Sl Midvale Utah |
