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Show fndl'cations of a guiding fnfe'lligence Tn j the universe. Samuel Sabino, 15, sat at his news stand. A passing taxicab slowed down, two bullets from the cab entered the boy's chest, killed him. The cab went on. Police say that for a boy of 15 to be "put on the spot," is unusual, but there Is nothing puzzling about it. The boy's father had been told to do something, had refused, or failed, and the boy was killed as a warning to obey next time. Somebody stole 28 canary birds, as they eat In their cages, singing sweetly. sweet-ly. And, having stolen them, turned them loose in the park. It was mistaken kindness. You might a well take 28 sons of very rich mn from their yachts, automobiles or polo ponies and turn them loose In the struggle for existence. They wouldn't thank you. The Rev. Mr. Sandifer, of Louisiana, Baptist, holds the long distance preaching preach-ing championship, with a sermon lasting last-ing fifty-eight and a half hours. At the same time, the Sermon on the Mount, read with conviction In three minutes, might produce more affect than the longest preaching. (. ov Kin? rcature. :VDdlctte. Uic.j 4 This Week bj Arthur Brisbane What Whales Don't Know. Three Things We Know Not. Why So Few Great Men? Harvard's Teaching Plan. A huge whale plows the northern seas, swallowing millions of tiny marine ma-rine creatures, on wlfich he lives, knowing nothing of his past Little dos he dream that his ancestor was a little creature, the "tree shrew," that you could carry in your vest pocket. Still lees can he imagine his future, or know that his body will be boiled down, and the oil sprayed on park trees to kill an epidemic of plant lice. From tree shrew to whale 90 feet long, and from giant whale to plant lice destroyer, Is a considerable change. We human being know about our past and future as little as the whale knows about his. What are vitamins? We know that we can't live without them, that they cure rickets in children, what foodstuffs food-stuffs contain the various vitamins and scientists have just discovered that two of them Vitamins A and B, give off some kind of strange radiation. Rats deprived of certain necessary vitamins have no children. Deprived of other vitamins, they starve to death, although supplied with abundance of food. Three important things we possess without knowing what they are, electricity, elec-tricity, vitamins and the soul of man. Vice President Curtis will not ran with President Hoover in 1932, preferring prefer-ring to nin for the Senate. Whom would you recommend a? 'a running mate for President Hoover, what name would add strength to the ticket? Do a dozen names come to your mind, or do you wonder that, with 123,-000,000 123,-000,000 people around there are so few men well enough known, sufficiently esteemed and trusted by the public, to make a nomination equal to an elec-tl6n. elec-tl6n. We have many powerful men that attend to business and making money. Few that attend to public affairs, outside out-side of the crowd that goes into poll-tics, poll-tics, also to make money. Dean Hanford, of Harvard University, Univers-ity, says students are "not spoon fed." They are expected to be responsible for their own education, and, to a great degree, educate themselves. Truly, Dean Hanford says: "The most important type of education educa-tion is self-education. The Btudents j grasps, retains nd masters what he works out for himself." To educate means "to lead out," from E out, and duco, to lead. All that you can do for a boy Is to bring out of him, to "lead out" that which Is in him. Stuffing him with ready-made Information Informa-tion does little good. Coal Oil Johnny, who used to bathe In champagne and hire an entire Fifth avenue omnibus, with Its two horses to carry him alone, would rub his eyes if he could see the oil business as It is today. Big companies, buying in Kansas, refuse to pay more than teij to twenty two cents a barrel for crude oil and twenty-two thousand wells have shut down to wait for better times. There is so much oil that no one knows what to do with it. Leading oil companies, driven by their own foolishness, foolish-ness, and coerced by the antiquated Sherman Act, have driven competition in retailing to the point of Insanity. That, plus price cutting, is wasting the country's oil supply. The public will realize it some day when the pendulum swings and gasoline goes to fifty cents and higher. By that time the Diesel engine may have made the gas engine a memory, like the horse and buggy. In which case, oil will go from ten cents to ten dollars a barrel. Professor Frost, director of the Yerkes Observatory, finds indications that there exists a "mind" In the universe. uni-verse. He is not like the French scientist, who replied to Napoleon's question concerning God: "I have no need of that hypothesis." If a cockroach In a skyscraper could talk and say: "I believe there is somebody some-body running this skyscraper," you would be amused. Somebody, somewhere in creation, is amused when one of the little germs on. this earth grain, of dust, discovers |