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Show . .This Week.. by Arthur Brisbane Much Little News Hit the Man, Not the Pig Science at Work The Most Beautiful Words There is a great deal of little news. In California Governor iiclph. pardons 128 convicted of rjoodegging. The people voted against prohibition. Vox populi, vox Dei, "the voice of the people is the voice of God," and Governor Gover-nor Rolph says that is more important im-portant than the voice of prohibition. prohi-bition. Professor Kraus, who teaches philosophy in the college of New Vork City, has changed his mind about killing himself by fasting, oecause nobody does anything about attacks on Jews in Poland. He, philosophically, concludes that he couldn't improve conditions condi-tions in Poland by dying of hun--ger. A living professor is better than a dead martyr. Another railroad in the , hands of a receiver. This one is the Central Cen-tral of Georgia Railway Company, belonging 100 per cent to the . Illinois Ill-inois Central Railway. Apparently the ownership was not profitable, in these times. A receivership is no disgrace now, to escape it is a distinction like being a survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade. A strange story from Duluth, Minn., about two men who agreed to steal a pig. One was to drive the pig out through a little trap door, the other standing with an axe was . to hit the pig, when it appeared. One man crawled in, but. the pig was not there. He crawled out cf the little door and his friend, waiting, hit him in the neck with the axe. It was a nervous blow and he will recover. Any clergyman clergy-man can find a moral in that story. A rjomnous British coal mine owner who asked a famous scientist scien-tist "what practical good is oil ycur science?" was surprised tc learn that he had wasted thousands thou-sands of pounds boring for coal through certain strata below which coal does not exist. Other mine owners, worried by gas explosions that destroyed innumerable in-numerable miners, got from Sir Humphrey Davis the miner's lamp that ended explosions. Wherever you go science is at work visible or invisible. John P Bickel of the. Mclntyre Porcupine Mine in northern Ontario, tells what science does for gold miners, min-ers, that work far under ground, during the hours of sunlight. Leaving their work, they take otl their digging clothes and walk through a series of showers graduated grad-uated in temperature, and get rid of rhe dust of the mine. Then they sit. naked, on a moving platform, plat-form, with- brilliant artificial sunlight sun-light shining on them, stimulat ing their blood through the power of actinic rays. Their ride of a few minutes through artificial' sunshine lasts long enough to give them exactly as much of the rays as doctors want them to have, equivalent to six hours in natural sunlight. They change to their surface clothes, refreshed by the showers of water and aclinic ray baths. That is an improvement on mining min-ing methods of old days, when women on their hands and knees, in low tunnels of British coal mines, dragged cars loaded with coal, attached to chains around their necks, running under their bodies. Learned persons are asked by The New York American to select the twenty most beautiful words. Edwin Markham's list includes "reverberating, coliseum, chryselephantine, chrysele-phantine, California!" Rupert Hughes includes "immemorial, translucent, tremulous" in his list. The beauty of words is a matter of opinion and location. The most beautiful word in prison is "freedom," "free-dom," in the death house it is "reprieve." In Wall Street it is "dividends." In war It is "victory." In courtship it is "yes." The most powerful words are short words Men have made them short, for convenience: "God, life, gold,, far, near, good, bad, light, stars, sun, moon," aU of one syllable. syl-lable. Bernard Shaw starts a trip around the world, announcing "I will not give a single autograph." and as a farewell jest, not very good, says, "Give Ireland to the United States, and liquidate all the war debts." Ireland has removed herself from British control, and only the Irish have power to dispose of her. But Ireland has already given to the United States that which is worth more than any territory, hundreds of thousands of intelligent, intelli-gent, courageous, enterprising men and women. In the British House of Commons Com-mons an indignant member discovers dis-covers that tobasco sauce, used in the House restaurant, is made in Louisiana, U. S. A.. Promptly the House agrees to throw out the "Yankee", concoction and substitute substi-tute something . British. Meanwhile, some Americans continue con-tinue to emphasize the superiority i of British goods, doing all they I can to finance labor and commerce. com-merce. Certain Congressmen would give the Philippines their independence eight years hence. Then why not now? Why continue spending the money of American tax payers in Asia if we intend to let them become be-come Japanese in a little while? Why not say "at once" to Japan "We are going out, help yourselves, you need more room"? |