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Show This Week tj ARTHUR BlUSUAMli Earth's Biggest Bridge Killing as a Pleasure One Kind of Freedom To Fly Mt. Everest From this depression will come many things much needed, anil In the long run more Important than the depression. depres-sion. Our Government, In its process of "shoveling out millions" finances many useful enterprises. It will buv $62,000,000 of California bonds to help finance a bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, which will be the biggest bridge In the world. Six thousand men will be employed directly on the bridge, 6,000 more indirectly, in-directly, in Industries supplying materials ma-terials and equipment. The total cost will be $70,000,000. Long after this depression is forgotten forgot-ten that bridge will be serving people from all over the United States, and payiug its way. Four gentlemen ot the West, bored by life's dullness, bought two lions from a bankrupt circus, planning to turn them loose in a big heavily timbered tim-bered tract of land, there to en.joy the pleasure of hunting and killing them. CitizeuB of that region object, saying say-ing the lions might escape and live to kill on their own account. The Miami Herald calls this "mighty nimrod" expedition "asinine." You would have a poor opinion of four lions if they caught two men and turned them loose to hunt and kill them, especially if the lions didn't intend in-tend to eat the men. And the four men have all the advantages. They can climb trees, lions can't. And in addition they can kill a lion at 200 or more yards. The lion must bite or scratch. Bad as it is. the brutality of men in dealing with animals is mild compared com-pared with man's brutality toward his own kind when he has power over - him. In Florida, you may drive an automobile auto-mobile legally without taking out a license and paying for the privilege of using your own car. Florida's strange . theory is that if a man owns an automobile auto-mobile he has a right to drive it without with-out anybody's permission. It is a pleasure to mention this, in a country where everything is taxed, house, income, personal property, real estate, profits, if you make any. If politicians in the past had been as ingenious as those of today, you would require a license to push your baby carriage, a license plate for the baby carriage and a license for the baby. The Marquess of Clydesdale, energetic ener-getic young member of the " British Commons, tells his constituents they must excuse him while he flies hi3 plane over the top of Mount Everest, earth's highest peak. He thinks he may bring back information infor-mation useful to mountain climbers if they must struggle up on foot, also hopes to increase British prestige, specially in India. If Hindus know that an Englishman has actually been flying over and around the sacred "unconquerable" ' mountain they will be impressed. Nebraska reports a return of the prairie hen. Once so numerous as to be also a pest, the "prairie chickens" had practically disappeared. Two men on horseback would drag a long wire between them along the prairie brush, a third man walking behind them slaughtering the birds as they flew up Better than Scotch grouse, partridg'. or any other game bird, the prairie hen could be brought back in millions with a little common-sense. A letter written by Benjamin Franklin Frank-lin in 1768 reveals the interesting fact that the wisest of the early Americans Ameri-cans believed in taking air baths. The "sun bath" had not yet arrived. "I find it agreeable to my constitu-. tion to bathe in cold air.I rise early and sit in my chamber without any clothes whatever, for half an hour." Franklin's remedy for insomnia was to have a second bed always ready and move to the second bed to change the mental attitude in case of sleeplessness. sleepless-ness. President Hoover has a twelve-point program, and Governor Roosevelt a twelve-point program. Before stopping to consider Senator Borah's abbreviated abbre-viated four-point program, you might . like to hear about the most bitterly disappointed man in all our depression. depres-sion. His name is Robert Reidt, his business busi-ness predicting disaster. He had arranged ar-ranged positively for the world to end October 11, and was not guessing, for he had "checked the book of Reveia-tlons" Reveia-tlons" with numerology and astrology, and it worked out perfectly. But the world did not end. New England's textile industry, already al-ready in a. bad way, will not rejoice in the news that cotton mills in the South, a comparatively recent creation, cre-ation, used in the last year more than 4,000.000 bales of cotton, almost equaling the consumption of all other American mills combined, acording io the Manufacturers' Record. Some of the largest rayon plants .In " the world recently installed in the South Increase its dominating strength In the textile field. Since 1925 the number of spindles installed in the South has increased 1,500,000, which now passes 74 per cent of the nation's active spintllts. Mills next to the cotton cot-ton fields, with cheap labor plentiful, form a powerful combination. i.Aiyi by Kin peacutf. Svnd:. Int.) |