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Show This Week 6 ARTHUR BR1SBANB Welcoma to Einstein Wise, Super-Wise, Cool id ge Japan' Mighty Growth Professor Einstein, arriving in America, got a noisy reception and didn't like it. His friends are mathematics, math-ematics, astronomy, abstract thought. They don't yell, or push. Reporters found it difficult to question Einstein, knowing well that only six men In the. world could understand bis answers to important im-portant questions, and probably no newspaper man is included in the six. The learned professor, supposed to supplant Newton, says the law of gravitation doesn't act everywhere. Also, straight lines do meet, and, "the Infinite universe" Is not infinite. infin-ite. It is all made of curves, and so comes back to the place whence it started. At least, that is how it sounds to Ignorance, which asks Professor Einstein: "If the universe Isn't infinite, what Is located outstde of its bound, tries? And if, as you say, there waa a point in past history when time actually began, how do you explain that?" Professor Einstein says: "I explain it perfectly, but you can't understand the explanation." What can you reply to that? A mouse can't understand a tele- ' phone, although It hears the bell ringing every day. In any case, Einstein Is a gigantic, gigant-ic, mathematical genius, no doubt about that, and he is most welcome. From New York he goes to. the Pacific Coast where an American, Professor Mllllkan, discovered the cosmic ray, another puxzle. The professor will learn that this country Is quite a "continuum," the new word for the Infinite ether. In a recent Issue of the Chicago ' Herald-Examiner, Calvin Coolldge published an excellent short ser- mon on advertising. Having good merchandise Is not enough, said Mr. Coolldge, "It is Just as essential to create a desire for it. That Is advertising." ad-vertising." The article concludes: "Goods not worth advertising are not worth selling." Wise words, from a wise man. Somebody else put It even more briefly: "It your business isn't worth advertising, ad-vertising, advertise it for sale." In spite of earthquakes, tidal waves, and restricted territory, census cen-sus returns show that Japan's pop. ulatlon IS 4,557,000, more th&fl Tour million increase in five years. Greater Toklo, with a population of 4,968,000, is the world's third 1 city. Including colonies, Japan's population Is 90,000,000. A great, powerful people, the Japanese. What would be their number had they been able to spread unrestricted on our Pacific Coast? The Senate, aeked to push us into the League of Nations' back door, through the League Court, Is assured as-sured that amendments and reservations reser-vations arranged by the great lawyer, law-yer, Elihu Root, will give the United States all the protection that it needs. The confession that we should need protection is enlightening. enlighten-ing. Just one reservation would answer an-swer every purpose. It would read: "You nations of Europe kindly attend to your business, with your League and your Courts, while we attend to our business with our Constitution and our S u p r erne Court They have worked satisfactorily satisfac-torily hitherto." In far Calcutta three Bengali gunmen forced their way to Colonel Simpson, head of the Bengal prison, shot and killed him, and wounded another officer. Two killed themselves, them-selves, the third tried suicide, but failed. Those are primitive Hindu gunmen. gun-men. Ours are more efficient Some time ago Nicholas Luc-clano, Luc-clano, an "Informer" called "Cheeks" because of his pink complexion, com-plexion, sent three murderers to the electric chair. He was one of their gang and his evidence saved : him from death. At 5 o'clock, a few mornings later, gunmen murdered him, as he sat in a restaurant. R. A. Carrington Jr., publisher of the Oakland Post-Enquirer, active ac-tive newspaper, would like you to know that Oakland doesn't propose to take any "depression" lying down. Recently, Mr. Adolph Zukor broke ground for a new $3,000,000 Oakland theater, which Is part of the $20,000,000 building program now under way in Oakland, in Alameda Ala-meda county. Uncle Sam starts his new Oakland postoff Ice in January. Those that can build should build, with the government setting a good example, Mr. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, says that the government, lending money to buy human food. Is "perilously near" the dole. On the other hand, allowing many people to be hungry might bring you "perilously near" to dangerous rioting or something worse. ' , 1930, tor Ut font &rcut lac) . |