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Show . v t. lr f ry Uy Arthur Brisbane MEN MADE C? METAL. THE GENEROSITY f'F NATURE. PLANT IDLE? CERTAINLY. A GOOD ITALIAN LAW. R. J. WensTcy, inventor "of a mechanical :r.an that unveiled a statue of George Washington, believes be-lieves that men maje of metal will liberate us from industrial slavery, slav-ery, as Washington liberated us fv-o! Iv.i-ipc;t'i tyranny. Workers i.eed not fear thai metallic me-tallic "n- . will ruin the labor nuukc-t. Lone: at;o mechanical 1111 11 and women made then ap-4H ap-4H .'.r.'.ncc in '. uu hinCTy of all kinds, driven by steam and electricity. (One machine docs the knitting for ten thousand women, one locomotive locomo-tive pulls the load of a thousand stage coaches, replacing 1,000 drivers. driv-ers. The perfected machine will not be an imitation man standing upright up-right on two legs. That position man achieved to look out over high grass for enemies and prey, in the beginning,, and to look up at the stars later. Mechanical men can be only an interesting curiosity,-not curiosity,-not an industrial success. Science improves on nature and docs not imitate it the ultimate flying machine ma-chine without bird wings or methods meth-ods will prove that. From a big orange tree in Southern South-ern California the Riverside Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce sends 126 oranges to as many newspaper editors. The tree is one of two imported from Brazil by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Those two trees are the father and mother of all the "Washington rave! trees" that ma-ke great groves in Southern California Similarly, a few cherry trees, brought by Lttcullus from his wars in Asia, are the ancestors of mil -lions of cherry trees that small American boys clir.-.b rvery year Such are the wealth arte! generosity of Nature. Mr. Rogers at Muscie Shoals inspects in-spects with his riournful cowboy eye a $150,000,000 plant built by the people to produce nitrogen to sup- - -ply cheap fertilizer for ' farmers, and explosives in case of war. Mr. Rogers remarks that such a plant lying idle is enlightening. It means that the Government isn't quite ready to deliver the plant over to the power trust. And until .the power trust gets it, that trust won't let anybody else use the Muscle Shoals plant.- Thanks to Mussolini's common sense, a new law compels merchants, mer-chants, in Italy tc mark prices plainly and sl-ck t" tl:t prices. Thai, will increase i'-.TC!.;nUiyiiig '- ' especially l.y Ai:n;rtcass, who do not like to pay !iul,'e or devote half an l our hiuvaii.mg - vcr a -trille. Merchants in Italy won't like it, j but their business and prosperity ' will increase. " , -"' :' ! Machinery will be devised eventually even-tually to do the so-called back breaking farm wDrk that proud United States citizens, accustomed to Lncir automobiles, no longer will do. But nothing should be done too suddenly, unless the Government ! is willing to precipitate hard times over a wide area Newspapers tell of a baby "dead ten times." Ten times in its short five weeks of life the laby's heart stopped beating in a struggle against pieuro-pncumonia. Ten times it was revive! and it probably prob-ably will live. The doctors did wonders There is just a line abcut the mother. Still weak, following the baby's birth, she gave her blood in transfusion to save her baby's life. Her name is Mrs. G E. Olm-stead, Olm-stead, and what she did ten million mil-lion mothers would do, gladly. |