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Show many ' are chamed toT Tffe wheels of money. That's our troublp. Canon J. Forbes Mitchell of Scotland Scot-land says youth should live more Intensely. In-tensely. His advice Is something like that of Pante, "Work as Nature works In fury." Frofessor Hanghton of the school of theoloEy says earth's various faiths v will merge. That would at least stopi religious quarrels. Rabbi Morris Llchenstein says too much pleasure is "the foe of our life." Bishop Abbott of the Kentucky Protestant Pro-testant Episcopal Church says he used to think women ran the United States, but knowR now that children run It. He has confidence in the children. Among other things, Including lowest low-est wheat and cotton prices, and a gen-eraJ gen-eraJ uncertainty, our Nation Is "enloy-Ing" "enloy-Ing" the worst drought In its record. Washington officials say the dry spell is unparalleled, In records reaching reach-ing back fifty years. Perhaps the drought will mean higher high-er prices for some farm and garden products. Unfortunately, as usual the higher prices will be due to the fact that farmers haven't the goods to sell, (, 193U, by King Features Syndicate, lac.) This Week ly ARTHUR BRISBANE The Dirigible Experiment j Questions for Boys Meden Agan, and Ederle What's Wrong With Us? The R-100 trip proves British determination deter-mination to rule the new ocean of air, and make safe her Islands that are real Islands no longer. It Is a lesson to this country, too much given to watchful watch-ful waiting in aviation. The difficulties of R-100, drifting with a damaged fin, In a storm that heavier than air ships might easily conquer, Indicate trtat the dirigible of light fabric, with power unequal to Its difficulties, is only an Interesting experiment, ex-periment, thus far. Future Zeppelins, of light metal strong as steel, obviating danger from lightning, with engines powerful enough to defy storms, may compete with heavier than air planes. The present dirigible Is like a big ship on the sea of feeble construction, equipped with an engine too weak to control the waves. It Is like a whale, with the tall of a cat fish. Forty-nine boys, competing In the Edison "Most Intelligent Boy In America Amer-ica Test" had before them thirty-four questions of which they must answer thirty-one. They were asked to give the value of ten acres of farming land in a good section of Iowa. Not even the Governor Gover-nor of Iowa could answer that with certainty. The boys were asked to tell by what facts they will determine whether they have succeeded or failed, as they lie on their death bed. Answers to that question ques-tion will be interesting. On his death bed a man doesn't look back over his life, praising or blaming himself. He Is too worn and weary. He asks for a handkerchief, or like Goethe, Goe-the, for "More light" his failing eyes making him think the room Is dark. The thirty-four questions are deep and interesting. The boy reading them might well say to Mr. Edison, "If I could answer your questions, I wouldn't need your scholarship, I'd be too wise already." Every little while something reminds re-minds you of two words that the wise Greeks wrote above their temple doors, "Meden Agan," meaning "Shun Excess." Artlstotle put it almost as briefly "Not too much, not too little." This time the "Meden Agan" remlnd-ercomes remlnd-ercomes from Gertrude Ederle, who . swam the English Channel, amazing the world four years ago. She has become be-come almost entirely deaf, as the result re-sult of the fourteen hours In the cold English Channel. She had a wonderful triumph. The ! President and Governor Smith congratulated con-gratulated her. New York gave her wonderful receptions. She refused vau- , deville offers that would have made her a fortune. But, says she: "It wasn't worth it." "Meden Agan." The "outboard motor" idea, used for years on little boats, is successfully applied to the air. Myrten Johnson, from Oakland's field In a glider with a thirty horsepower horse-power engine attached, went up 14,600 i feet. Boys and young men will want to J experiment w-ith that. j i John MacDonald, years ago, swore that Tom Mooney and Billings were responsible for a bomb that destroyed destroy-ed many lives. Now he swears his original ori-ginal testimony was perjury. If he is telling the truth this time, Mooney and 1 Billings will, of course, be set free. How are the seven Justices of California's Cali-fornia's Supreme Court to know whether MacDonald was lying then, or is lying now? Knowledge of human nature na-ture may help. One thing is certain, MacDonald committeed perjury, then or now. The governor and the judges might well hesitate to keep men in jail, on his testimony. It is wise and interesting after each Sunday to review the sayings of the distinguished clergy, for Instance: The Reverend Dr. Wagner says top |