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Show by Arthur Brisbane Prosperous Country Why Industries Grow Flying for Pasture X-Raying the Mummy UNCLE SAM continues to prosper, In spite of Increasing expenses, n three months ending September 30, he collected more than one billion dollars, dol-lars, and $128,959,834 more than he collected in the same three months a year ago. It's a big, rich country, with one single city spending In a year as much as the United States used to spend before the war. Business and .buying, generally, throughout the country continue active. ac-tive. The September report of Sears, Roebuck, which deals with the whole country, shows a gain of 23 per cent. The year's sales will reach close to half a billion. Stock gamblers may be worried, but the people at large feel cheerful. Wilbur D. Huston, brilliant boy boy from Seattle, 17 years old, begins his scientific career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tech-nology, chosen by Thomas A. Edison as the brightest young man in the country. Everybody wishes him success and he will have it. Thousands of other boys may comfort com-fort themselves with the knowledge that they have as- good a chance as this young man, and perhaps better, although nobody selected them "to succeed , Thomas A. Edison." Edison at 17 was working for a small salary, never went to any Institute In-stitute of technology, never was SELECTED, SE-LECTED, but SUCCEEDED. Among men working at benches in overalls, mechanics In big factories, white collar men that think as they work, one will be the real Edison of the future. You can't select genius. An observer of high finance says industry progresses rapidly "because eons of very rich men play polo and golf, neglect business. Inherited from their fathers and allow abler men to extend and develop the business." That Is true in some cases. No Van-derbllt Van-derbllt runs the New York Central Railroad, no Ryan manages street car lines, no J. J. Hill descendant manages man-ages great railroads In the West. But : It Isn't true always. For Instance, John D. Rockefeller Jr., not conspicuous on the golf course or polo field, runs successfully the biggest business in the world, turned over to him by his father, now past ninety. And the American Tobacco Company is run with an extraordinary success, to 'which Its competitors will testify, by a very young man, George W. Hill, who inherited the job from his father. . Here and there young men inherit ability and ambition with great wealth, but not often. It is easy to succeed In spite of poverty. It is difficult to succeed IN SPITE OP WEALTH. Thinking about evil, dreading It, is worse than evil. One man killed himself because he feared a duel arranged ar-ranged for next day. Another blew his brains out rather than walk to safety on a tree trunk stretched over a deep chasm. Herman LInderman, New York gangster, strangled himself with his belt in prison last week. He had "squealed" on his associates, had been stabbed once In prison, and feared what would happen when he reached the penitentiary again. He put $8.50 In the pocket of a criminal crim-inal asleep In his cell, with a note asking ' that It be divided with a friend. He wrote to that friend, "Have a good feast on me, on my way to hell." CRIME DOES NOT PAY. The Canadian government bought a herd of 3,000 selected reindeer and will drive them from Kotzebue Sound in Arctlo Alaska to the east side of the Mackenzie Delta in Northwest Canada. Driving great herds to new pasture lands is old. Ahead of Canada's reindeer an Alaska Alas-ka airways plane will fly, carrying officials of the Canadian government, spying out the best pastures to which the reindeer may be driven. That is new. Modern science Is useful. Airplanes Belect pastures, prospect for gold, watch forest fires, carry medicine. The x-ray Is used in the purchase of mummies. Professor Langmulr In the General Electric Research Laboratory, shows a life-size x-ray of a mummy, taken through all its wrappings. The outer edge3 of the vertebrae show indications indica-tions of arthritis In those ancient days. The Field Museum In Chicago will purchase no mummy until Its genuineness genuine-ness has been demonstrated by x-ray showing the bony structure of the old Egyptian inside. It Is good news that the Floridi fruit fly has disappeared. The rainy season has caused the pest to vanish, it is hoped permanently. Almost $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 used in fighting the fly was well spent. (D, 1929, by King Feature! Syndicate, Inc.) |