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Show THIS WEEK. Airplanes at $750 Each Perils of Pacifism The "Man of Calcium" Improving Human Breed? Fourteen concerns have offered to build small airplanes to cost as little V 0.. . i as $750. That is important aviation avia-tion news ; the bureau of air commerce is to be congratulated on its effort to encourage individual indi-vidual flying. The day is coming com-ing when there will be more machines ma-chines in the air than there are automobiles o n j the eround now. , More than 25,-000,000 25,-000,000 airplanes may sound like exaggeration. But it sounded like ex3ggeration some years ago when this writer published editorials urging citizens not to spread tacks and cut glass on roads, to puncture automobile tires, because, before long, automobiles auto-mobiles would be used by workers' going to and from work. That prediction pre-diction came true. Some one preparing a list of ten things that Christians would and would not do says: "There would be no privata wealth; Jesus denounced great possessions pos-sessions as alien to His gospel, and fatal to His kingdom. "There would be no poverty and no war, because real Christians would refuse to fight." In this civilization, if Christians ' refused to fight, they would rapidly ) diminish in numbers and the Pacific coast would be settled by Asiatics, j The founder of Christianity taught ' that what was due to Caesar should be rendered unto him. I If He were on earth now He might say the same of organized capital, knowing that it supplies, in . our complicated system, the possi- , bility of steady work. Nobody, not even a clergyman, can be positive ts to what Christ's commands would be if he returned in this age of flying machines, automobiles, auto-mobiles, public schools and the strange problem of too much of almost al-most everything, combined with want among many thousands of families lacking food and the government gov-ernment wondering occasionally what to do with millions of bushels of wheat. Before long you may have football foot-ball coaches feeding calcium to their players. You know what we call "a man of iron" is really the ' "man of calcium." The metal calcium in the blood, in quantities that do not change, or that change little, produces a steadiness steadi-ness of nerve lacking in men with a fluctuating calcium supply. It is said that experiments made on four young men at an eastern university uni-versity showed that a drop in calcium cal-cium brought on "moodiness, depression de-pression and pessimism." If there is high calcium content in the blood serum they are in a "happy, "hap-py, cheerful, optimistic, emotional state." But ask your doctor about it Don't swallow calcium recklessly. London thinks something should be done about "more than 250,000 mental defectives," and sterilization, steriliza-tion, on the German plan, is suggested, sug-gested, on condition that the individual indi-vidual consents. With such a law, government sterilization agents would have few customers. Under one law suggested, the health minister would order the sterilization of "physically ailing persons shown to be carriers of transmissible disabilities." The world Is preparing to regu- j late and improve the human breed, as it has long regulated and improved im-proved breeds of cattle, swine and other creatures; a step in the direction di-rection of uniformity that may not be desirable. One of the most enlightened educators edu-cators in America tells teachers and undergraduates that the important thing is the general welfare, not the individual welfare. An excellent idea to put into the minds of young people. They should also be told that Individual In-dividual welfare and striving, with selfishness back of It, is the foundation founda-tion of general welfare. The baby wiggling its arms and kicking its legs in the cradle ij building build-ing up one more strong baby, for its own sake, not for the general welfare, to which it, nevertheless, contributes. The man, concentrating concentrat-ing on his career, and or. the care and education of his children, has chiclly in mind his career, children und family. But he aluo is building up the general welfare. Kach tiny cornl builder worked only fur its own speck of coral, but beautiful Islands arc the result. After four years of study, wise men discover that ideas are hn- j pressed on the minds o. children mole deeply by moving pictures than by reading bonks. Less than fnur minutes Is required to estab- I lish that ract. j IO t ii i ,h Hvri'tl.'nlo, I no. It N II ;i.m vn ... |