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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK $1,000,000 Vell Spent. Some Dirigibles, Please. Science Helps Industry. Consider the Termite. "With j. humble and thankful heart." President Roosevelt tells the Nation listening on the radio that he accepts the I Hrt; u huiii raised to help poor cliil dren Buffering from Infantile paraly els. A million Americans danced, ate. listened patiently to Hpeeclies. and the result Is one million dollars to be spent fighting disease and diminish suffering, besides giving the President great pleasure, In conenctlon with his fifty-second birthday. That Is better thai- shooting off fire works oi- having au expensive review of 8 great army, or elaborate fleet. We show common sense lu some things. Unele Sam will spenu four hundred and seventy-five mlllioi dollars on new fighting craft, and the big dirigible dirig-ible Los Angeles Is to be destroyed. The Government should Include In Its j program at least two giant dirigibles, one to replace the Los Angeles, one to replace the Akron, sacrificed to Incompetency In-competency and a foolish Navy rule that takes a commander from a dirigible dirig-ible as soon as he has learned to run It, and puts him on a floating ship. Leaving out all other considerations, what would this coun.ry. In time of war, give for one or two dirigibles, on . either coast, thousands of feet up In ! the air, spying out enemy aircraft, ' aircraft carriers, submarines and Bending information to headquarters as movable "look-out towers." Patrol- j ling our coasts, dirigibles In war time would be invaluable, providing fur-eeelng fur-eeelng eyes for fleet and Army. Professor Charles A. Kofold, chair tana of the Department of Zoology at California's Berkeley University, reports re-ports that the Intensive study of destructive de-structive termites, carried on for several sev-eral years has been completed. The findings of the learne Berkeley Zoology Zool-ogy staff are embodied In a book "termites and termite control," which i ta recommended to intelligent men, generally, and especially to those Interested In-terested in wooden building construction construc-tion or any other use of wood lumber Termites are gradually spreading j throughout the country, and whereas ' regions of extreme cold were suppos ed to be safe from them, the destruc tlve creatures are acquiring adnpta blllty to climate, utmost as great as that of man himself. Many still ask a foolish question. "Of what real use is, science?" The book on termites answers that, being an admirable example of cooperative ffort between industry and what is usually called "pure research.". Every man Interested In lumber In dustry, building, preservation of timber tim-ber from termite attack, should buy this book. Proceeds from Us sale will be devoted to further research. Any book store or book department will procure it Services rendered by the scientists of Berkeley will save hundreds of millions and lumbermen now may know about the termite far more than that determined, destructive little creature knows about itself. It eats wood, lives on it, bores through It. but left to itself and its own digestive , processes, it would die of hunger In a Iflmber yard. An advocate of nudism, which means going around with nothing on. says that six years from now there will be one million nudists in the United States, and the thought pleased him. There are more nudists than that In the African Jungles now, up In the trees, and, althqugh they do have the decency to wear fur, that does not help Africa's ciTHIzation. It Is what you do Inside of your ' head, not how you decorate the outside out-side of your body, that makes you useful use-ful or otherwise. You could not possibly pos-sibly think going around naked except to think how silly you must look. "Oh, to be In England, now that April's there," will be changed by many who listen to the Rev. Dr. Storm. 1 missionary from Arabia, to "Oh, to be In Arabia, all the year "round." In Arabia, says the Reverend Dr. Storm, the average man works for five cents a day, at herding cattle, date ' culture, or diving for pearls. And with five cents a day, "Arabians support as many as four wives, and keep several concubines and slaves." That seems to be a chance for a loca' NRA to improve im-prove wage , conditions. But what a country! This is good news. The army expects ex-pects to build up the national defense with one thousand new fighting planes It will take five years to get them ready. Russia's five-year idea seems to have spread widely, but, for us, peace will probably last, at least, five years It would last longer, if we had five thousand fighting planer ready now Instead of planning for 1,000 of them i five years hence. A strike of waiters, cooks, all em- j ployes of New York hotels and res- j taurants Is suggested. Labor leaders j that tell men when to strike, uiidoubi ; edly understand their business bettei than others, but. apart from special In formation. It would seem desirable to let prosperity take root a little while longer, if it will. I Strike enthusiasts may find them ' selves out of work suddenly, wit bout the help of a strike. The p.-ist four yeais have taught the country that It Is easy enough foi a man to be Idle. ! 1924, W Kind i latuini SynJicatt, lac.) j |