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Show frighten us, if we' could know what we shall look like at the end of the first hundred million years. Man, perhaps, will be an enormous head, round and smooth, traveling at : will through the air, talking to other planets, with this earth transformed Into one big garden, machinery doing all the work. Nobody trying to cheat anybody else, nobody trying to pll- up money selfishly, any more than a man today would seek to accumulate salt water, with the ocean full of It. Strange are the workings of the human mind. Berlin has a morphin-lst's morphin-lst's club, where men gather for the use of morphine and seek to add to the number of addicts. If there is no real hell, that ia a pretty good Imitation. In Toklo, the Japanese Minister to China, home on leave, commits suicide. sui-cide. I Distressed by the los3 of his wife, ! the unfortunate man, Sadao Saburi, had assumed his posthumous Buddhist's Budd-hist's name, usually taken only after death, and had it written on a tombstone tomb-stone for his wife, and himself. Thereafter There-after he asked his friends to assume that he was a ghost. Since his wife was dead, ha also was dead. While Madeline Nolon looked on, one young man who wanted to marry her shot and killed another man who had the same Idea. Miss Nolon, grieved, griev-ed, said she had tried her best to keep the young gentlemen apart. That horrifies us now and is hard to understand. It was the commonest thing In the world with our ancestors in the early days. Your great grandmother grand-mother 500 times removed, would have thought poorly of any suitor that would not kill another as a casual cas-ual event In courtship. President Hoover presents to Congress Con-gress a budget of three billion eight . hundred and thirty million and a few odd hundred thousand dollars. It seems a great deal as compared with the days before the war when the Government spent one billion In two years and everybody yelled "what extravagance!" However, thanks to Secretary Mellon, Mel-lon, President Coolidge and President Hoover, the amount that we are going go-ing to spend next year Is a great deal less than we have teen spending. The President and all the world extend ex-tend congratulations to Commander Byrd. This column on behalf of a good many readers sends congratula-1 Hons on her three fine sons to Mrs Dyrd. Whatever her sons have done' she did, for she made them. (, 1929. by King Ftitum Syndicate. Inc.) bv Arthur Brisbane John D. the Third Better Brains Our Strange Minds Quite a Budget JOHN D. Rockefeller III, grandson of the builder of the name, went to work' at 26 Droadway a few days ago. He was on time. Twenty-three years old, a big young man, bigger physically than his father, fath-er, John D. Ill, will have many opportunities op-portunities in life. He will Inherit what is called the worlds largest fortune. fort-une. By the time he gets it it may not bo as big as Edsel Ford's, and not as big as that "of some man unknown today. Rut, he will surely have enough to carry out any Ideas that he may have. Everything depends on the Ideas. A few men because of great wealth s!and out iu history. There was the richest Roman, whose son went to war with Caesar and made a good general. His father, with all the money, mon-ey, made a failure when he went with Lucullus. The original Medici took to money r.-i!dng, his sons doing more than any f:.r.:i!y ou earth ever did for art. Jacques Coeur, the rich man of Trance, used his fortune for his country coun-try at a time of need, and was treated Ith the usual ingratitude. Now comes young Rockefeller, third rucration, starting in with hundreds of millions around Im, and many r-ihor hundreds of millions buried In pools of oil under the ground. His fp.ther and grandfather have done a great deal for the health and i. duc.itiou of the world. The world will v i; h John D. Ill success. He will have to work hard to keep ahead of some other 23-year-old boy, without a dollar, but with something more valuable, necessity driving him. It Is easy to succeed in spite of poverty, pov-erty, hard to succeed In spite of gigantic gi-gantic wealth. Professor Von Economo tells other dentists at Columbia College Medical Medi-cal Center that man's brain is Improving, Improv-ing, developing more. And the super-:i:an, super-:i:an, mentally speaking li coming There is every reason to be hopeful. Twelve thousand years ago men were hi the late stone age. .We have done n great deal In 12,000 years. The life of man on earth Is only starting. The earth will last for hundreds of millions mil-lions of years. Science proves It. Something ought to be done 1.. that time. j . Jt would Interest and. possibly ' |