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Show This Week by Arthur Hrlsluino The President Will Try Old, and Hard at Work The Wonderful Automobile 50,000,000 Years Old President Hoover justifies Senator Sena-tor Borah's complaint of Inefficient prohibition enforcement, by planning plan-ning a drastic overhauling and shakeup. Ne wmen are to be appointed, ap-pointed, lax federal district attorneys attor-neys will be dismissed. The President believes that lie was elected by prohibition votes, and is determined to enforce the law. if he can. The general puonc which does not get drunk, bootleg, or work any racket, will hope that prohibition prohi-bition may not absorb all of the President's time, energy and ability, abil-ity, leaving none for great constructive con-structive works. There are many things more important, im-portant, after all, than a whiskey bottle, or even somebody's darling getting drunk. Thomas A. Edison, always at ' work, thinks he has discovered a new rubber supply in the golden rod. That is good news for hay fever victims, unless golden rod should be widely planted for a rubber crop. Science, working in another direction, di-rection, will probably find a synthetic syn-thetic substitute for natural rubber, rub-ber, before any plant can be developed. de-veloped. But. wnat a fine example ex-ample Mr. Edison shows for youth and old age. Past eighty, hon- cred everywhere, one of the world's greatest servants, he might, with the world's applause, devote his remaining years to rest and con-1 con-1 templation. Instead, he lives, hard 1 at work. Nature planted a powerful pow-erful engine in that brain. ' New York explodes gasoline in a big way. In the first six montlis of 1929. the State taxed 774,701,746 . gallons of gasoline, not including j gasoline used by farmers. 1 It would have taken968 freight trains of eighty cars each to carry that gasoline. Who would have ' ' - believed that when Senator Couz-1 Couz-1 ens was investing less than ' $2,000 in the little Ford car, taking out, 1 within a short time, $30,000,000 as his share? ; Governor Roosevelt of New York asks $800,000 for more prisons and an emergency appropriation of $1,-000.000. $1,-000.000. ; Why not have separate prisons for young criminals, all under 21, instead of locking them up with the old criminals, to learn their trade 1 more thoroughly? It happens that very young criminals crim-inals are the most numerous, dangerous, dang-erous, cruel, and generally given to murder. They need special treatment, which should include ' some years of hard work, avoided when they took up crime as an ; alternative, i The head of a New York drug ring included in his private telephone tele-phone list the number of the distinguished dis-tinguished judge whose welcome home dinner was attended by many well known criminals, and enliven-! enliven-! ed by a hold-up. New York also learns that an-1 an-1 . other judge promoted advertising , legal and other, in a publication that had no real existence, was nev-I nev-I er printed. The imaginary manager of the ; imaginary manual, possessed of a t police record, was once discharged L by the kind judge that supplied advertising ad-vertising to the manual. Shakespeare might have put aU , that in his highly imaginative play, '-'The Tempest." I At Des Moines, nenry Fairfield Osborn, head of the American Mu-i Mu-i seum of Natural History, tells : scientists that man did not des-: des-: cend from the monkey, but had a separate evolution of his own. Monkeys and men followed separ-; separ-; ate paths of evolution side by side, monkeys- stopping short, men still going ahead. The most that one monkey can do to another is to Dite the other's . tail. Proud man can drop one air plane load of gas bombs above a crowded city, and kill a million. Professor Osborn shows that men have lived here millions of years longer than was supposed. Scientists, until recently, believed believ-ed that man goes back only about 1,000,000 years. Professor Osborne says he dates from a pre-miocene age, when the first great plateaus appeared In the center of Asia, 50,000,000 years ago. The son of Italy's King will soon be married and 6,000 will be freed from . prisons, by way of celebration. celebra-tion. What seems strange in America is a custom old in Europe. After Admiral Nelson brought his ship into the bay of Naples, promising to protect the King and Queen, and their court, against the power of the French revolution, many convicts were set free to celebrate. And Kings, on mounting the throne, have often emptied pris ons, as a sign of joy. The National Surety Company has issued a policy of $30,000, guaranteeing guar-anteeing against the suicide of a man insured, within the next two years. The man borrowed money. mon-ey. The bank lending it wanted tiic added seeurlty. That's new in Insurance. |