Show liay OF or 1 MANY 1 ThINGS PROhIBITION RELIGION RATS HATS GIN G GOLINE OLINE TIlE CAL AL-CAL By ARTHUR A BRISBANE NE Copyright 1926 1026 by The Tha Star Co The Tho Knights of ot Columbus most powerful organization In the United States excepting perhaps the Anti Anti- Saloon Anti Saloon league demand that President President President dent intervene In the war between church and state in Mex- Mex Mexico Mex Mexico ico The appeal sent by the tho Knights of Columbus supreme board of ot di- di directors di dl directors rectors asks that the embargo on shipping arms Into Mexico bo be set aside cites the case casa of Russia as similar to th that t of or Mexico and re- re reminds reminds re reminds minds the president that this gov gov- government goy goy- government has refused to recognize Russia's government go It Is true rue that that Russia has haa treated rell religion lon and tho the Russian priests wIth scant courtes courtesy even posting up UI outside Russian cathedrals the n sign Religion Is the opium ot of o the people meaning that the of the priests as the czars czar's agents was to keep the people submissive In their misery But It was not because Russia of fended tended offended religion that this govern government ment refused recognition to Bus Rus Russia's sias sia's sin government It was because Russia offended capital and out out- outraged outraged out outraged raged Its poor feelings Childish American bankers bought millions of ot Russian bonds when the czar was on his hits last legs and bought them oven even after he top pled toppled Into the grave Russia reo re refused fused to recognize those bonds reo re refuses fuses payment of all bonds and that fact not disrespect for tor religion ion Is the milk In the Russian non recognition non recognItion cocoanut prohibition Jt lt appears that two Issues proM proM- and religion are to become more and more Important between now and ond the 1928 1228 election Con Congressman grossman gressman ressman Upshaw of ot Georgia one of th the Saloon Anti-Saloon leagues league's hard hardest est st fighters I Is drafted to help In Inthe the Alabama gubernatorial and alti sen- sen senatorial sen senatorial atonal primary campaigns He starts his battle In Birmingham the tho auspices of the mens men's Bi Di Bible ble class claM of the First Methodist church with a savaGe attack on Governor Al AI Smith of ot New York as a asa 4 wet et and a Catholic Bibb Graves candidate for tor Gov- Gov Governor Gov Governor made constant attacks on Governor Smith In his speaking tour and Is expected to get most of the Ku Klux Klan vote Senator Heflin Democratic sen senator ator from Alabama says sas the wolves of Wall all street would not let me have a chance Inside the tho WhIte House WhiteHouse which Is 19 true and adds Al AI Smith has no more snore chance of ofa oa n a presidential erection election than I have The Alabama senator goes foes on to say that Al AI Smith as an ing outstanding Catholic Is too closely allIed with Ith a 0 foreIgn potentate Pre President Coolidge takes life Ute so se sc-rlou sc ly laughs rarely But he will h laugh when he learns that Senator Heflin says toys that thero there Is an al liance between Al and Cal mean ing log meaning between President Coolidge and Governor Smith The lonesome pine tree In tn the north Is la not farther from the tho south southern em ern palm than Cal Cat from Al AI The respectable fathers father of o this nation never looke looked t forward to the sort thatIs of ot presidential campaign n that ts is coming year after next It will be willbe lively If It not edifying and Sen Senator atop ator Heflin should know that practical northern politicians agree on onono ono one point It If Governor Smith Is turned away on purely religious grounds rounds there will wiil not be the faint faintest est chance of o electing any other Democrat In 1928 Smith has ha friends friend enough to guarantee that But for that matter It prosperity continues there thoro would be little chance of electing a Democrat In 1925 anyhow Able Ablo scientists scientist gathered at Ox- Ox Oxford Ox Oxford ford tord discuss many thinGs thinG's almost os as far apart as shoes and ships and sealing wax cabbages cabbage and kings They tell you OU that in all allBritain allBritain Britain there are fewer fower than 1000 idle rich We can beat that In America but all depends on your definition of ot idle Definitions i not terms as Voltaire often otten said A British duke or belted earl pottering around Imagining himself busy with his estates or money IS ISas Isas isas as Idle and worthless as one of our parasitical rich watching his money row grow and ond groaning over taxes Those s scientists discuss discus gasoline and say soy It will all alt be gone soon II If Americans do not stop using so much ot of It it Let them cheer up Americans will find a a substitute for gasoline They provided kero kero- kerosene kerosene sene acne to take the place of whale oil the whales were gone then thon provIded electric light t before eCore the kerosene was gone Enrolled in some public school In America sits the little boy that will sol solve sole e the gasoline problem In plenty ot of o time inthe Those scientists ranging far In the realm of thought tell you that rats are arc most Intelligent animals Ot Of course they are It takes intel intelligence or at least cunning to live on others without working or pro producing anything But it If the rats like human be- be be ings beings could accumulate wealth and hand It on to their young ones those young oung rats like the average rich mans man's son would amount to little J Finally scientists tell you that untIl recently a a common common tute for money In Africa was a bottle botti ot of gin Here to this very day a bottle of gin is a 8 common substitute for brains brain and fools tools pay as loa much as 10 for tor It It wood alcohol Included Students Student ot of o at the university of ot Arkansas have hare set a good example to the rest of the tho country Under the direction of competent scientists they mix chlorin gas with the atmosphere of theIr class room Tho Those 60 young engineers of the sophomore class as they study bre breathe In the gas averaging six parts In one million ot of the air all breathed This was as done In November and breathing In chi chlorin orin as they studied not one of them lost an hours hour's work because of colds Influenza etc Colds kill millions of us every year Itla itIs directly or Indirectly and It Is III safe sate to sa say that they weaken and shorten the lives of o 90 per cent of all human beings It should be bo possible to find a agas agas gas chlorin gas gliS or some seme other that that Inhaled filling tIlling lungs lung's and tor tory respiratory respirator apparatus would destroy noxious germ life without Injuring the tho main organism as ILS a slap on the tho hand hond destroys the mosquito with with- without I out breaking the hand n 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