Show I T Today oday BANKERS FOLLOW DARWIN SHE JUMPED ADAMS ADAM'S MOVING MO PICTURE WISDOM By ny ARTHUR BRISBANE Copyright 1927 2927 by Star Co American bankers In convention go back to to Darwin thus thus' Weaklings among r banks must be weeded out out That's Th ts t's Darwin's sur survival survival survival vival of the fittest In terms of high finance Nature has been weeding out a 0 along along long time e. Big Dig dinosaurs were weed weed- weeded weeded weeded ed out because unfit to survive Red Indians were were weeded out by whites with Ith bullets bullet and whisky Bison Dison were w re weeded out at the same time Urns by b ruth ruth- ruthless ruthless ruthless less slaughter Our ancestors living In caves tree treetops tr treetops tops and on platforms over o lakes would have been weeded out but na nature us- us nature ture made m de them think Absence of big teeth and sharp claws made nade them invent bows and nd arrows arrons arro and the club with a 1 sharp Hint at the end So they did the weeding out Perhaps If It big banks start to weed out the little banks binks some little banks will develop a faculty for thinking like our arboreal ancestors and do a little weeding on their own ac account ac- ac count A handsome young joung woman of ot 24 wrote to her mother This New York life lite Is to driving me mad Then to the startled telephone girl in her hotel she abe sent Scot this over the wire I am about to commit Good bye She Jumped from a story seven-story window and ended her troubles Do Donot Donot Donot not meditate muse or mourn over the wickedness of New York Some Some- Something Something Something thing smaller caused the trouble The police blotter says Ea'S she left an empty whisky bottle Whisky is active settee In modern modem prohibition prohibition civilization cl 1 1113 Turning from Irom the young suicide with the bottle to the next page you see that Mrs Josephine died because she was stabbed thirty times with an Ice pick and died Her common law hus hus- husband husband husband band told the police pollee he might have killed her hu while drunk He was an an- annoyed annoyed noyed by her whisky bills According to careful cardl calculations made by John T. T Brady Adam your ancestor was born bom in the Garden ot 01 Eden Iden October 28 8 B. B C. C Mr Brady erected the only existing monument monument ment ever ever erected In memory of Adam There Is discussion however as to the exact date Dr John Lightfoot vice president of 01 the University of or Cambridge great Hebrew scholar de declared de- de declared dared that th t heaven henen and earth center and circumference nce were created all together In the same Instant and clouds lull full of water And this work took place and man was created by bythe the Trinity October r 23 B. B C C. at 9 o'clock In the morning Such exact statement of ot fact Is most and Is not seriously dis disturbed dis- dis by the fact that two centuries after Lightfoot fixed his date a highly cultivated people and a well developed eloped civilization as Dr Waite Walle president of Cornell university puts It lt had long been swarming In the great cities of Egypt Nicholas M. M Schenck who managed the big Metro Metro-Goldwyn-Majer moving movIng ing log picture company during three years of or Marcus Loews Loew's and now runs the concern officially says his chief asset Is that he knows few people and few people know him That keeps me from wasting my time says sas he And that Is wisdom More moving mo picture wisdom Is Lx sup sup- supplied plied piled bj bt a II producer who says aYs the trouble with Uh moving picture actors is that alter after a 11 certain amount of ot suc sue success success cess ems they think they cant can't possibly p do anything wrong wron Then they are hope hope- hopeless less That's the trouble with many oth oth- others others ers era after a certain amount of suc sue success cots cess The saying Is as true as it is old Did old that the average e man Is to his own worst wont enemy enem The youngest passenger that ever crossed the ocean alone is Charles Jr Jr aged three months who will visit his grandmother In Germany Mothers will exclaim Poor little thing but bit b t think of the longer voyage so mysterious that ba babies bs- bs babies bies bles much younger ouner take from nowhere to this planet Whence do they com come how do they travel what distances distance do they travel Dr Annie head of or the Theo Theo- society says a sixth race Is appearing I on the earth In addition to the ancient five Mongolian African Aryan etc ete California home of the sixth race produces children two and one half ahead ahe-ad of the years average child with exceptionally clear cut like features low 10 broad foreheads and pronounced chins Helen Wills Wilts presumably is a lead lead- leader er among the children of the new sixth race and a 11 good one An Italian Cesare a war wartime wartime wartime time ace plans to fly from New York to Rome in December with three oth oth- other other er Cr men cables Mussolini that he ho wants to get first place for Italy and fascism Winter seems a cold time for ocean flying But an another an- an another another other Italian Napoleon Bonaparte after he had crossed the Alps in win win- winter winter winter ter said that was the easiest time and he only deserved credit for not be- be Hewing Ue fools that said It couldn't be done |