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Show The Tarty" wilT wear it occasionally, at first, then keep it in a safe deposit box most of the time, losing 115,000 a year In Interest, and wear an imitation imita-tion pearl that even she won't kDow froi the genuine after a few days. "What do you think about the general gen-eral outlook?" How often do you hear that question? The Pennsylvania Railroad Rail-road haa just ordered $30,000,000 worth of steel rails, fasteners, et ectra. New York Central has ordered 206,430 tons ! of steel rails. Forty-three dollars a ton is the price j paid by both b'g railroads. In the last !, year the railroads have bought 8S.500 I new freight cars. Ralls used to cost ?18 a ton. . I (SI, 1:?, by King Ffaturts Syndiratt. Inc.) j i br Arthur Brisbane Jew, Catholic, Protestant Soldiers With Books What Is Life? Answer Pearl For a Lady CALVIN Coolidge, ex -Governor Smith and the distinguished philanthropist, phil-anthropist, JoBeph Rosenwald, are selected se-lected to dispose of an eight million dollar charity fund left by Conrad Hubert. The man who left the money warned warn-ed it distributed "by one Jew, one Protestant and one Catholic." No better choice could have been made than Coolidge, Smith and Rosenwald. Rosen-wald. But why Jew, Protestant, Catholic? Why not three good, average Americana, Amer-icana, regardless of their religious brand? There is too much emphasizing of "Jew, Protestant, Catholic," too much dividing of political offices amocg them. That wasn't the idea of the men that established this country. Madame Curie, who helped the discovery dis-covery of radium, comes here to accept ac-cept for the new radium institute at Warsaw, one gramme of radium costing cost-ing $50,000, paid for by American women. You could put in a small valise radium worth more than all the wealth of Rockefeller, Ford, Secretary Mellon Mel-lon and George F. Baker, combined, if such a radium quantity existed. Our sun, with is source of terrific energy only guessed at by science, may contain millions of tons of radium. ra-dium. We can't get at that. But we might give more poor children the benefit of the sun's light, which is accessible and costs nothing. Nearly all young Russians go through, military service, and soon Russia will have 5,0u0,0o0 trained soldiers, sol-diers, under 30 years of age. That Interests In-terests western Europe. Such a crowd starting westward with tanks, flying machines and modern equipment would call for attention. The young soldiers are (aught that capitalism plana to crush Russia, which it isn't "It is only planning to do business in Russia. Soldiers are told also that their duty Is to make the proletariat, the laboring labor-ing class, rulers of the entire world. The feet once got tired of carrying all the load, and then It was time for the head to do the carrying. But the head is still on top, and the feet still carry the load. Wherever they go Russian soldiers take books with them. That's better than carrying k bottle of vodka. H. G. Wells, collaborating with Julian Ju-lian Huxley and George P. Wells, writes a series of articles, on ' the science of life." He will ask the question "what do we mean by life?" and, according to enthusiastic advertisements, will "answer "an-swer questions that have puzzled humanity hu-manity since the dawn of civilization." There are about 1,800,000,000 human beings on earth, and nearly as many answers to "what do we mean by life?" . To a man on the Congo life means hippopotamus meat, and fat wives. To the Wall Street man, it means rising stocks, several automobiles, and yachts. , i To the scientist, it means, a look 1 into the whirling atom. To the pious, it means somtbing better, when this life is done. . Nobody even knows what life is, what consciousness is, whence it came, how it works. j The British R-101, biggest dirigible In the world, flew over London carrying car-rying 52 passengers, circling the dome of St. Paul's about 600 feet up, an airplane flying ahead as pilot. Those living will see giant ships of the air, 1,000 feet long, and longer, with smaller ships, flying back and forth, bringing passengers from the ground to the high altitude, where there are no storms, and bringing supplies. sup-plies. Take care of your health, live as long as you can. You will see interesting interest-ing things in the years immediately ahead. A diver in the Persian Gulf went "all naked to the hungry shark" and avoiding the shark, came up with a perfect pearl weighing 50 grains, worth $250,000. The pearl will go to some young lady, not very young, probably. Young husbands of young wives cannot afford, af-ford, such, pearls. |