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Show I br Arthur Brisbane I Jew, Catholic, Protestant I Soldiers With Book. I What Is Life? No Answer I ', Pearl For a Lady I K pALVIN ! Coolidge, ex-Governor i V Smith and the distinguished phit 1 inhroplst, Joseph Rosenwald, are se- I m teeted to dispose of an eight million ""' lollar charity fund left by Conrad $ ! . Hubert - .."....... I The man who left the money want- I d It distributed "by one Jew, one I " Protestant and one Catholic." I No better choioe could bare been I made than Coolidge, Smith and Rosen- 1 ' -. wald. I But why Jew, Protestant, CatholloT f Why not three good, average Amer- I loans, regardless of their religious i brand? j There ia too much emphasising of I "Jew, Protestant, Cathollo," too' much I dividing of political offices among I them. I That waant the Idea of the men I that established this country. I Madame Curie, who helped the dls- f Borer Of radium, comes here to ao- cpt tor th new radium Institute at I Wares,, one gramme of radium cost- lug 150,000, paid for' by American i women, I You oould put in a small valise , radium worth mere than all the wealth of Rockefeller, ford. Secretary Mel- I Ion and George F. Baker, combined, if suon a radium quantity existed. I Our sun, with is source of terrific (, energy only guessed at by science, may contain millions of tons of radium. ra-dium. We oan't get at that But we might t give more poor children the benefit i - of the sun's light, which Is accessible I tad costs nothing. Nearly all young Russians go I through military service, and soon Russia will have 6,000,000 trained soldiers, sol-diers, under SO years of age. That ln- ' tSrest western Europe. Such a crowd starting westward with tanks, flying s machines and modern equipment I would call for attention. I The young soldiers are taught that capitalism plans to crush Russia, I which it isn't It is only planning to 1 do business In Russia. Soldiers are told also that their duty "f la to make the proletariat, the labor- 2 ing class, rulers of the entire world. The feet once gqt tired of carrying all the load, and then it was time for the head to do the carrying. - But the head is still on top, and : the feet still carry the load. I .i. Wherever they go Russian soldiers c take books with them. i , " That's better than carrying a bottle i of vodka. - H. O. Wells, collaborating with Ju-- Ju-- Han Huxley and George P. Welle, writes a series of articles, on "the . science of life." ' He will aak the question "what do . we mean by life?" and, according to enthusiastic advertisement, will "answer "an-swer questions that have puzzled humanity hu-manity since the dawn of civilization." i There are about 1,800,000,000 human beings on earth, and nearly as many answers to "what do we mean by ' i . lifeT" To a man on the Congo life means t hippopotamus meat, and fat wives. To the Wall Street man, it means rising stocks, several automobiles, and yachts. To the scientist, it means, a look ? into the whirling atom. 1 t .To the pious, it means somthlng 2 better, when this life la done. I Nobody even knows what life is, what consciousness is, whence it came, how it works. - The BriUsh R401, biggest dirigible in the world, flew over London car- rytag 61 passengers, circling the dome of St Paul's about 600 feet up, an I airplane flying ahead as pilot. f Those living will see giant ships of the air, 1,000 feet long, and longer, I with smaller ships, flying back and forth, bringing passengers from the I Aground to the high altitude, where there are no storms, and bringing sup- I ' piles. . ; I Take care of your health, live as I long as yon can. You will see Interest-I Interest-I Ing things In the years Immediately I ahead. i A diver In the Persian Oulf went 1 "all naked to the hungry shark" and I avoiding the shark, came up with a perfect pearl weighing 50 grains, worth 250,000. The pearl wijl go to some young lady, not very young, probably. Young husbands of young wives cannot afford af-ford such pearl. '", The lady will wear it occasionally, at first, then keep It In a safe deposit box most ot the time, losing $15,000 a year hi interest, and wear an Imitation Imita-tion pearl that even she won't know from, the genuine after a few days. "What do yon think about the general gen-eral ouUookr How often do you hear that question? The Pennsylvania Railroad Rail-road has Just ordered 180,000,000 worth of steel rails, fasteners, et eetra. New York Central ha ordered J06.4S0 tons of steel rails. '- iWty-three dollars a ton I the price 7 paid by both big railroads. In the last 1. fear the railroads have bought 88,600 Bew freight cars. Ralls used to OMt fll a ton. |