Show This v Week I lj ARTHUR BRISBANE j oj What Whales Dont Don't Know Three 1 Things hr We Know Not Why So Few Great Men Harvard's Teaching Flan Plan A huge whale plows the northern seas swallowing millions of tin tiny inn mr rine creatures on which he lives knowing nothing of his past Little does he dream that his ancestor was as a e little creature the tree shrew that you could carry In your vest pocket Still less leas can he Imagine his Ws future or know Imo that his body will be boiled bolh I down and the oil sprayed on park parl i trees to kill an epidemic of or plant lice I From tree shrew to whale 90 feet feel long and from giant whale to plant lick Bc I destroyer Is a considerable change V e human being know about our I past and future as little as ns the I knows about his What are vitamins We know that we cant can't live without them that they cure cuie rickets in children what foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs contain the various vitamins and scientists have just that two of them Vitamins A and B D give off some kind of strange radiation Rats deprived of certain necessary vitamins have no children Deprived of other vitamins they starve to death eath although supplied with abundance of or food tood Three Important things we possess without knowing what they are elec elec- vitamins and the soul of man Vice President Curtis will hot not run with President Hoover in 1932 preferring prefer ring to run for the Senate Whom would you recommend as a running mate for President Hoover what name would add strength to the ticket Do a dozen names come to your mind or do you wonder that with people around there thore are so few tew f men well enough known sufficiently esteemed and trusted by the public to tomake tomake tomake make a nomination equal to an elec clec We have many powerful men that attend to business and making money mone Few that attend to public affairs outside outside outside out out- side of the crowd that goes into poll poll- tics also to make money Dean Hanford of Harvard UniversIty Ity says students are not spoon fed They are expected to be responsible for their own education and to a great grea degree educate themselves Truly Dean Hanford says The most Important type of education education tion lion Is self The students I I 1 I grasps retains and masters what he heI heI works out for tor himself I To educate means to lead out I from E out and duco deco to lead All thaI that tha I you can do for a boy Is la to bring out o of I him to lead out that which is in him Stuffing Muffing him with ready made information information tion does little good I I 1 Coal Oil Johnn Johnny who used to bathe I In champagne and hire an entire FIfth I t avenue omnibus with its two horses t to carry him alone would rub his eyes if It he could see the oil business as it is today 1 Big companies buying buring in Kansas refuse to pa pay more than ten to twenty I two cents a barrel for crude oil am and i two twenty thousand wells hare have shutdown shut shutdown down to wait walt for better times I There is so much oil that no one knows what to do with it Leading oil ol companies driven by their own foolishness foolishness foolish foolish- ness and coerced by the antiquated antiquate Sherman Act have driven competition in retailing to the point of Insanity i That plus price cutting is wasting I the country's oil supply The public I will realize it some day when the pendulum swings and gasoline goes to toi i fifty cents and higher j By that time the Diesel engine may mar marf f f have made the gas engine a memory like the horse and buggy In which I case oil will go from ten cents to ten tenI I dollars a barrel If Professor Frost director of the Yet kes Observatory finds indications I that there exists a mind In the uni- uni verse He is not like the French I scientist who replied to Napoleons Napoleon's t question concerning God I have no nol l need of that hypothesis If It a cockroach In a skyscraper sl could talk and say I believe there is somebody somebody some some- body running this skyscraper you would be amused Somebody somewhere in cre creation is amused when one of the little germs on this earth grain of dust discovers indications of a guiding Intelligence inthe Inthe in inthe the universe Samuel Sabino 15 15 sat at his news news- stand A passing taxicab slowed down two bullets from the cab entered I the boys boy's chest killed him The cab wont went on Police say that for a boy of 15 to be bo put on the spot is unusual but there is nothing puzzling about It The boys boy's father had been told to do something had refused or failed and the boy was killed as a warning to obey next time I r Somebody stole 28 canary birds as they sat in their cages singing sweet sweet- ly And having stolen them turned them loose in the park It was mistaken kindness You might as well take 28 sons sous of very rich men from their yachts jachts automobiles or polo ponies s and turn them loose in the struggle for or existence 1 They wouldn't thank you The Rev Mr SandIfer of Louisiana Baptist holds the long distance preaching preaching preach preach- ing championship with a sermon lasting lasting last last- ing fifty eight and a a. half hours At the same time the Sermon on I f l the he Mount read with conviction in three minutes might pro produce uce more moret affect than the longest preaching t I tm 1930 Ot of t Knit King h t. t 0 syndic inc I |