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Show This Week h Arthur Brisbane t . ' Big News For Many. j Two Fighting Machines. Take Golf Lessons? Love? Yes. Cash? No. Here Is some news Important to millions of Americana, Including those whose business Is selling electric power pow-er to the public. Development of the Diesel engine progresses rapidly. Engines will produce pro-duce power, electric or other, on a scale big or little, that will compete with power companies, as automobiles and motor trucks now compete with railroads. When England was In financial distress dis-tress one hundred years ago Macaulay asked what people would say "If we were to prophesy that In the year 1930, machines, constructed on principles prin-ciples yet undiscovered, will be In every house; that there will be no traveling but by steam," etc. He little dreamed that the "machines in every house" would Include telephones tele-phones carrying the voice across the ocean, lights, washing machines, fans and cook stoves run by electricity. And, foreseeing and end of stage coach travel, he could not guess that railroads would come only to be dispossessed, dis-possessed, in their turn, by travel, through the air and by explosive gas engines in automobiles. The Diesel engine threatens power companies, promises a solution of the air problem, and a new, better, cheaper cheap-er automobile engine, with an electric ignition. It will give to the distant farmer and the little householder cheap electricity for light and power, with no payment for running power lines long distances. Diesel engines, while waiting for something better to be invented, will take' passengers through the air to Europe or across the continent for J25 each, or less. They may gladden the heart of the oil industry, creating such a market for oil as will make the present pres-ent gasoline market seem trivial. Uncle Sam is building two airplanes air-planes that will help us to realize the uselessness of marching troops in future fu-ture wars. Each of the planes, called "hedge-hoppers," will carry five machine ma-chine guns, to "spray" marching I soldiers with bullets, while flying fifty feet above ground. In addition to machine guns, each plane will carry five- hundred pounds of bombs. Imagine the sensations of marching troops, crawling at snail's pace, with planes, flying two hundred miles an hour dropping bombs and shooting them down. Are you taking golf lessons? Paying some professional to tell you what to do with your head, arms, wrists, feet, knees, eyes and club? Learn that you may have to take those lessons all over again. Slow motion "movies" of the great Bobby Jones and the beautiful Joyce Wether-ed Wether-ed in action show that these great golfers do not "break their wrl3ts on the back swing" until very late in the swing. And Jones, the great, hesi-: hesi-: tates at the top of his swing, shifts his body and gets planted before he brings the club-head down. Theory and practice are far apart In golf, and in all education. Tke Government Is anxiously seeking seek-ing $100,000,000 to pay the veterans' ; bonus. It is always hard to find money for veterans, when the fighting is over. Perhaps we make up for it by loving them violently, as they march away to war. This country found ten thousand million dollars to lend to Europe. Since the war it has lent more than ten thousand faillions more to Europeans. But when it comes to "digging up" one hundred million for our men who went to war, that Is a sad story. War and worse trouble is feared in Palestine with the approach of April 5, when the Arabs celebrate the festival of Nebl Musa, Christians celebrate Easter and the Jews Passover. On that day Christians and Jews will flock to Jerusalem, and the Arabs who celebrate cele-brate in their own way will gather from native towns, "dancing, singing and brandishing their swords" in Jerusalem Jeru-salem on the way to Nebl Musa, supposed sup-posed burial place of the prophet Moses. The Arabs by order of Mohammed Mo-hammed take that great prophet as one of their own, which causes indignation indig-nation that you can readily understand. under-stand. Matters are complicated by the fact that Rabbi Chatm Sonnenfeld, head of an extreme orthodox Jewish organization, organiza-tion, opposes political Zionism and the efforts of Dr. Chaim Welzmann. Comment recently pnbllshed In this column was Intended to arouse interest in Mexico, the wonderful land and people south of us. The next paragraph really will arouse interest. "Northeast of Mazatlan, In the Mexican Mexi-can State of Slnaloa, gold has been discovered In abnormal quantities." Two men have brought out 1,200 pounds of gold. Some prospectors "jfc'ave collected as much as five pounds Of told in a day, worth close to $2.0001 And veins are said to be so rich in some places that "the precious metal Is cut off in hunks with a hunting' knife." Exaggeration always comes with a gold rush. But hundreds have start-. start-. t-d'on this rush, 1,600 claims have been Tiled. Nothing attracts like gold. |