Show by Frank Francis Whon When I wa was a boy said cald pioneer they told me m it was tho first thousand which was wa-s difficult to accumulate Alter Arter that a ft for for- fortune fortune for tun tune mIght be b expected Now It Is 13 the first billion bUllon which iz Is jo So hard to g set get There Ther are ar not less than five concerns In America that have assets totaling a s billion dollars dollar or more One man Henry Ford Is credited with a 0 a billion S The nations of ot the th world now owe the United States on the basis basl of ot their funded debt payable over a period of ot 6 2 year ears nearly ten billion dollars One On economist has jas ventured the statement that some of ot the th coun coun- countries coun- coun countries countries tries Involved In our debt never will be able abl to payout pay out But that Is la overdoing the situ situ- situation situation situ situ-atlon for America has Indicated that no nation will be called on onto onto onto to attempt the Impossible Within a few years as stability ts is reached the tho ability to pay will willbe willbe willbe I be determined and then those countries burdened beyond their financial strength will be bo relieved ot of some ome of ot their obligations On the present basis of ot funding the foreign nations nation will be ba re- re required required re required to pay a year which In Itself Is I a a large liro sum and not man many years ago aco would have met all aU the expenditures of the federal government S S C The day of ot the th railroad Is pass pass- passing pass Ing Recently English capitalists proposed to Uruguay to connect Montevideo and Buenos Aires Alres by rail Americans gave a plan covering an y and the highway WItS was adopted as ot of great great- greater cr er set vie than the th railroad Forty years year ears ago aro no one on would have thought of ot any modern con con- conY conI con v Y I Iyan yan sg railroad Once tho average family was five lv and In JI n some sone countries families families lies ot of eight and ten were com corn common cornmon common mon That was as In the days when In- In Infant infant In Infant fant mortality was extremely high and It was to tho the sur- sur survival survival sur survival vival of ot the species sped The Tho number of ot eggs egge ere produced by different kinds of ot birds Is In Inthe inthe the ratio of ot mortality That being true the human family does not need the large huge families ot of the long lone ago aco The aristocratic cliEs clau might In- In Increase increase In Increase crease the size ot of Its average fam fam- family fam- fam famIly family ily which now is 3 But the working class continues to multiply In numbers large enough to more mor than reproduce S C S Another old has been disproved IL H- HP P Gilletto declares nf n is not the mother ot of invention Ho asks ask the question Why have bave so few manual workers worker In- In In Invented vented anything to lighten their toll toil Why has bas no farmer invent Invent- Invented Invented invented ed an Important machine for tor till till- tillIng tillIng till tilling ing or Why didn't a dirt farmer den develop lop a method or of creating new plants 1 Then he h goes on to prove that the big bit discoveries have havo not como come from specIalists ut mt ut keen minds nine learning more mor about a specIfic problem than those trained in a line Ho Ue asks why didn't a seams seams- treis eams-treis trees or taylor invent the th sewing machine Instead ot of Howe a ma- ma ma It necessity nece Is tho mother or of Invention Why didn't a professor of ot phy- phy rice Invent the telephone instead or of Bell Dell teacher of ot the dear deaf Why didn't a southern planter or a mill owner Invent the tho cot cot- cotton cotton cot cotton ton gin tin Instead ot of Whitney the lawyer Why didn't a geologist discover that much recent geological his his- history history his history tory Is traceable to periodic Ice ages Instead ot of leaving the dis- dis discovery dis discovery covery ery to Agassiz a biologist Why dIdn't didn astronomers r r r Sr r the law ot of gravitation Instead ot of lewton a professor In mathe- mathe mathematics matics first Why didn't astronomers astronomer suggest t the nebular hypothesis In- In Instead instead In Instead stead ot of Kant Kant a professor ot of logic lc 7 Why didn't an expert In re- re reS s re-s S arch biology discover the th euro cure ot of dIabetes instead of ot n a young oung doctor Why didn't a specialist In acoustics or one on trained In the science of physics Invent the phon- phon phonograph phonograph phon Instead ot of Edison who could not have hav passed an entrance examination to high school school Mr Gillette presents present quite quit an array ot of o questions question tending to prove his point that experience Is not to be bo measured In years year ot of desultory work In a given liven field but Is I measurable in tIme spent In fort by a powerful mind con con- concentrated on a a given liven problem con I Continued on OU THO T 5 h u NEWS AND VIE VIEWS VIEW VS Continued from Page One Mr Gillette's contention otters offers encouragement for bright minds to go far fl afield ld In search of fame tame When the wind howls at the height of R a hurricane It ft Is se Florida weather cather When the he rain comes down in torrents that is California weather Ogden Is having neither n ther though the tho weather man is undecided as asto asto asto to whether to supply rain Or Oreno eno snow In early morning a few flakes of snowfall and later It Is rain But Dut rain or snow It Is fa the weather necessary to make a prosperous year and therefore the people are pleased go 00 |