Show F A PA KE ART unlike the artisan the artist can keep on working long after ills his physical powers have waned my neighbor daniel chester cheste r french the famous sculptor la is past 61 1 but this year he be Is exhibiting one of 0 the finest pieces ot of statuary he be has ever conceived it represents a young mother holding her infant son aloft and it ever cold bronze held the spirit ot of life and youth it Is in this piece mr french may live to a li hundred undred and I 1 hope he does but when the end comes he will wil be found still like the artle artist in his own beautiful piece which stands in the metropolitan museum called death and the sculptor in which the angel of death is staying the hand ot of the young artist ALCOHOL pure alcohol is a natural element in the human brain according to a scientist who presented proof of his statement before a meeting of medical men in buffalo the other day that is certain to be taken up by the ene enemies m ies ot of prohibition as an argument in favor ot of the repeal of the act of course it will be an absurd argument but it will have weight with many there Is no question in my mind on the other hand that a great deal of the argument against drinking on which the prohibition movement gained its strength was based on equally absurd allegations the f fact ct Is that there are no facts about fee the use of alcoholic beverages which apply equally to all people or to tiny any individual person all the time some day the general P public ab I 1 le will wil I 1 be well enough informed to discount the bunk ot of both sides in the prohibition argument ROADS who Is watching the road contractors in your town and county there are many fine looking concrete roads being built which will not stand up under heavy traffic especially in regions where the frost can upset their foundations the city of white plains new york sent an engineer out to make borings bolings lu in the pavement of a road which cost around a mile and discovered that the contractor had put in a foundation only halt half as aa deep as the contract called for concrete roads when properly built have proved by tar far the most satisfactory so c 0 o far but when improperly built they can give more trouble and cost more for repairs than any other type of highway 0 0 0 FOOD the experimental work of the company which Is starting up the business of freezing fresh foods by means of dry lee IM so that they will keep indefinitely and can be merchandised like stockings or hardware e has progressed so tar far and so well that the largest new york department 1 store is now selling frosted I 1 oysters fish meats of many kinds fruits and vegetables just as they sell shoes or shirts or any other dry goods several small cities have responded well to the experimental sales efforts and with the big stores in the large cities taking up this new line of goods it seems as if the day was not tar far off when the local butcher and green grocer might be wl wise s a to look tor for something else to do or else to get into line with the new method we shall have to make new definitions of perishable foodstuffs FORD improvements in III the model A are to be followed it if rumor Is correct with a new type of ford car in the spring I 1 know no more about it than anyone else does but my guess Is that the new lie w ford then it comes out fall ill be as surprising as was waa the present model A henry ford has always been a pioneer he was the first automobile manufacturer to put the steering wheel on the lett left where it belongs and all the others had to follow suit he was the first to detect the law flaw in the selden belden patent on which all the other makers paid royalties tor for years ford refused to pay tribute ought fought the case to the highest courts and won a victory for the whole industry he was the first to reduce the dally hours of labor in his factory from nine I 1 I 1 to eight the first to establish a minimum I 1 wage ot of 5 a day tor for the lowliest worker the first to use modern alloys for strength and lightness and to build engines tr tc I 1 such accuracy that no block test was required ford can do those things because has no beald ot of directors to tell w what hat he cant do no stockholders clamoring for dividends at the expense of th p product product the greatest achievements always been always will be by working single handed |