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Show planes, chewing gum and telephones; a vote, a college education, and three square meals a day for everybody; and the Salvation army to take care of the unfit. It took him several thousand years to put the scheme over; there have been a good many hitches in the program, pro-gram, and, indeed, quite a sizable portion of the human race is not "sold" on the Idea yet. From "The Next Age of Man," by A. E. Wiggain. Civilization's !i!s When some disgruntled genius of the jungle, dissatisfied with the lack of soap, newspapers and underwear, got up the idea of civilization, he unwittingly un-wittingly let the "so-called human race' in for a host of unexpected troubles. He, no doubt, held out to his fellows a glittering prospect of wealth, comfort, loafing, rapid transit, liinou: ines. pullmans, medicines, hospitals, hos-pitals, welfare workers, radio, air- |