Show KE ENGINES A young man named cramer astonished I 1 the world the other day by flying I 1 ng from detroit to greenland without telling delung anybody that lie he was going the important thing about that night flight la is that he use any gasoline his engine Is ot of the diesel type which uses anything in the form ot of oil tor for fuel As he put it he could ily fly it on butter butte or whal eoll it if necessary the best gasoline engines today are only 8 per cent effi efficient clent that Is they utilize only 8 per cent of the po power er in the fuel crude oil engines of the diesel type are more effi efficient clent than that but still tar far irom from perfect the next thing in engines will be one in which the waste of energy necessary to convert reciprocal cipro cal motion into protazy motion will be done away with CONTRAST the city ol of chanute kansas Is probably the most prosperous con community unity in america it if not in the world its people pay n no 0 taxes whatever the elty city of rail fall river massachusetts Is tn in the hands bands of 0 a receiver because ot of inability to meet its obligations 0 out ut ot of tax receipts elpas chanute gets enough revenue from municipally owned gas electric and water utilities to pay all the running expenses ot of the town as wen well as support an airport and a brass band the city is run by business men fall river alver has been run by politicians for generations generi ions the principal princia ai argument against public ownership ot of public utilities is that they would be run tor for the benefit 0 of the politicians instead ot of tor for the benefit ot of the people that is not always the case as chanute is proving PENSIONS today every man who served in any ol of our wars before the world war is receiving a pension soon all the world war veterans will be on the pension roll employees in the civil service of the federal government now get pensions at the age of 70 most states provide pensions for dependent mothers many states have old age pension systems nearly all school systems now retire aged teachers rs on pensions 1 I many industries pension old employees firemen policemen and other municipal employees in the big cities all get pensions alter after a given term of service even al smith is on the new york state civil pension roll I 1 much of the worry of middle age would be eliminated it everybody could look forward to a peaceful old age not dependent upon charity perhaps the incentive to thrift would be impaired but I 1 doubt that and I 1 believe that eventually some such system will be adopted everywhere SEAPORTS I 1 chicago got greatly excited a short time ago when the swedish freighter anna with a cargo of barbed wire and sardines entered the chicago river with the swedish flag flying it has haj long been Chi cagos dream to become a seaport chicago enthus lasta picture a deep wa ter channel from the st lawrence thru the great lakes to the very heart of the united st states tes that la is an engineering possibility but whether it would pay Is another question ocean transportation is always a risky i venture very few ship owners are male mak ing money these days the demand la 13 constant for greater speed and quicker turnaround turn tum around between ocean terminals the passage through any inland water way Is necessarily slow however chicago has set her heart on becoming a seaport and what chicago goes alter after she usually gets geta PARALYSIS the east this year Is having another epidemic ol of infantile para lysK the west la is comparative tree free from this terrible scourge it Is one ol of the lew law diseases ol of which the exact cause Is still unknown to science and tor for which no effective preventive measures have been devised C cure ure la is uncertain and complete recovery p practically unknown while it cripples the bodies especially the legs of its victims infantile paralysis sometimes seems to sharpen the brain governor roosevelt of new york was infected by this disease which seldom attacks adults eight years ago he Is able now to walk without leg braces with the aid id ot of a couple ol of canes while his bis mind i Is a as active as ever I 1 know one girl who was waa infected in the 1916 epidemic who refused to be licked by her affliction and hog has succeeded la in establishing herself as a fashionable milliner mating making annual trips trip to paris one or of the most seriously rippled crippled boys I 1 ever saw a victim of paralysis at the age of seven graduated tb this I 1 a year at the top of his class in a western university it Is small consolation to a mother whose bose child Is deprived of its normal physical life by infantile paralysis paralyses to realize that it still has a chance to develop its mental activities but there la is always that ray ot of hope |