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Show This Week ijr Arthur Brisbane Example for Europe. Men Can Do It. Another Death Ray. Taking Funerals Seriously. In Texas, on the Mexican border near El Paso, many workers who need jobs and wages, will soon be employed on a great project in connection con-nection with flood control in the Rio Grande Basin. The United States and Mexico are co-operfting In this work, sharing the expense. Americans and Mexicans will work side by side, earning wages, making the earth safer for its inhabitants. That sets a good example to Europe. Eu-rope. There, when different nationalities nation-alities come close together, they are usually squatting in trenches, blowing blow-ing each others heads off. Mexico, the United States and Canada, ruling all ot this continent, from the North Pole to the southern south-ern side of the Panama Canal, should work and co-operate in brotherly fashion, in a genuine league ot "American nations," setting set-ting a good example to the rest of the world. "What men can imagine, they can do. Jules Verne imagined a trip around the world in eighty days. Now it can be done by air in one-tenth one-tenth of eighty days. The same Frenchman invented a trip to the moon by rocket. In Cleveland, 0., Ernest Loebell, German engineer, is building a rocket that will travel, not to the moon as yet, but fifteen miles np into the stratosphere. Power will be produced by the explosions of gasoline and oxygen. No man will go up with the rocket. It will carry scientific instruments that will make records, automatically. automati-cally. Ted Hanna, son of Carl H. Hanna of a well known Cleveland family, is interested in the rocket construction construc-tion with the German inventor. A rocket to reach the moon would not be impossible. It would only require re-quire enough power to escape from earth's gravitation. Coming back would be the problem. But one foolish" person forfeited his life, after burning the great temple at Ephesns, merely that his name might be remembered. Another An-other jumped into a volcano, to die dramatically. Many probably would be willing to risk a one way trip to the moon for the sake of the glory. British scientists believe they have devised a "life-death" ray, "capable of projecting bacteria emanations which will destroy humans, animals and crops." It is believed that the ray can also be used beneficially "for neutralizing neu-tralizing plague conditions and fostering fos-tering healthier animals and plant life." After "civilized man" gets tired of using it to kill his neighbors, the ray will be devoted to useful work. So it is always. There is no doubt that men first developed iron and before that bronze. That they might have better, harder, sharper weapons for killing others. The idea of steel plows and automobiles came later. Frenchmen take funerals seriously. seri-ously. When a hearse passes all Frenchmen stop and remove their hats. They are amazed, visiting here, to see horses pulling an American Am-erican hearse at a trot. There are no words to xpress what they think about an automobile hearse going thirty miles an hour. At the funeral in a railroad station sta-tion of more than 200 victime of a French railroad accident, the Presi dent, Prime Minister and entire Cabinet of France, with leaders from all parties In Parliament, joined the bereaved families. The Minister of Public Works delivered the funeral oration. A young woman wearing a "Daughters of the American Revolution" Revo-lution" pin, found wandering in the street, could not tell who, or how old she was. Apparently about twenty - five years old she looked in a glass and said, "I must be more than sixteen," That seems strange to us, yet we are all in much the same condition. Here we are on earth, Identified by names given us. We don't know who we really are, whence we came or whither we are going when we leave here. We go to and from for a few years, eat, talk, grow old, then move on, and the names that we had for a little while are put on tombstones. But who we are, or what we are, or why we came here and then go, we know as little aB the unfortunate unfortu-nate victim of amnesia. After our four-year depression, there are still running in the United States, according to Motor, leading magazine of the automobile industry, indus-try, 23,723,309 automobiles. The . number has diminished since 1929, but this country still has, by many millions, more automobiles in use than all the rest of the world put together, so many that every man, woman and child in the country might travel by automobile at the same moment. (.1933, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) |