Show THIS WEEK Miles Mile a Second Whiskey Champion Criminal 8 By Arthur Brisbane Brisban The Department of Commerce I Bureau Dureau of Census calculates the total wealth of the United States as I about three hundred billions of dollars dollars dol dol- dollars lars three thousand dollars for every man woman and child nearly double the total wealth of 1912 One hundred per cent seems en encouraging encouraging encouraging en- en and the Census Bureau Dureau Figures may be technically accurate but they dont don't mean anything 0 0 One single IDEA might be worth three hundred billions for billions for Instance an Idea supplying men with unlimIted unUm unUm- unlimited free power from sun or tides There are many times three hundred hundred hundred hun hun- hun dred billions worth of wealth below the earth in fn mines oil gas coal and In the earths earth's thin crop producing log ing carpet of soil solI There are many times three bundred hun bun hundred n- n dred billions worth of wealth below I Ithe the earth In fn mines oil gas coal and aDd in the earths earth's thin crop producing producIng producing ing carpet of soil soli There are more than three hundred hundred hun hun- dred billion dollars' dollars worth of nitrogen nitrogen nitrogen nitro nitro- gen in the air above us This is arich a arich rich country but we need more people peo peo- pie and instead of encouraging them to come ome In fn we foolishly keep them out o 0 oHenry Henry Ford is studying a better kind of boat to carry freight and passengers If It he produces It ft he will add billions to the nations nation's wealth The height of mechanical folly Is carrying on pounding rails and wheels freight that ought to glide gUde without friction or wear along thousands thousands thou thou- sands of miles of canals and rivers thou thou-I o 0 oTo To enjoy a a good headache read Sir Ernest Rutherford great Brit I BritIsh Brit Brit- Ish scientist on the atom A thousand thou thou- thou thou-l I sand atoms in the c earner of your your I both eye wouldn't bother you You wouldn't know they were there I t The atom a II complex unit of pure j i electricity of which all substances elements wealth rocks buildings i money and men are made Is a minature mina 1 ture solar system It has a central electron which Is like the sun sun Around it ft revolve dozens of smaller small small- er electrons like planets The electrons electrons electrons elec elec- farthest away from the centre In fn this miniature solar system travel slowly in fn their only orbits only five hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles a second Those nearest tho the center travel at nt the tho able speed of three ninety-three thousand miles a second What horrible forces are locked up In those minute particles of matter matter mat mat- iter ter In such an Infra o 0 Who knows what may happen what generations may be born and anddie anddie anddie die In the fraction traction of a second Who knows that this milky way cosmos of ours compared to which the earth ig is as big as an atom compared compared compared com com- pared with the earth itself may not be a mere atom In ina a bigger cos- cos cosmos mos linos I The power that holds together the atoms In fn a glassful of water would If Jf released run all the machinery of the United States for an indefinite period Theres There's another headache in fn that thought A man asleep and drunk complains com com- complains plains because thieves took his spectacles spectacles spectacles spec spec- false teeth and money I That man shouldn't complain of thieves but of the whiskey that he drank Whisker Whisk to is the tho champion thief stealing not nl only lIly money hut hat health n mi atlon r end and I finally Ufo life |