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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Men Die, Variously 1-i to One and 50 to One Bainoft Sees Ahead The Baby Will Fly Maurice Graham, veteran among courageous air mail pilots, crashed and lay unburied for six month; in the mountains of western Utan. He was lest in a blizzard. Last night another pilot, Fred Kelly, of th3 VCoiem Air Express, carried Graham's ashes along the route that Graham used xo fly scattering the ashes as he went. lulerestjig idea, easily understood. Our oodles and tne ashes they leave in fch; crematory retort interes. us. But Wiiore is Graham? Where is the courage that carried him so far through the blizzard, over the Kaharra mountains? Men asked ..lac question l,0uu,000 years ago. They will still be asking it 1,000,000 years hence. Rates destroy every year $200,-000,000 $200,-000,000 worth of property in the United States. But that is nothing noth-ing compared with the harm that an invasion of an extra plague might do in a few weeks. If governments would spend on the destruction of rats and mos-quitos mos-quitos one-tenth the amount they spend on the last war this would be a better, safer world. W. J. Bryan maae a good guess when he suggested sixteen to one as the ratio for gold and silver. The Bureau of Mines shows that, theceretically, it should be only fourteen to one. During the past 437 years the world has produced fourteen billion bill-ion ounces of silver, only one billion ounces of gold. That amount of silver would make a cube 114 feet square. Mexico leads the world in silvei production, with 4y per cent of the total. The United States comes next. Relatively, gold production has increased more rapidly than silver production. Nevertheless, because the nations has demonetized silver, gold is now worth fifty times as much per ounce as silver, although silver is only fourteen times more plentiful. Bryan could make another an-other good "cross of gold" speech on that. David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, like all successful men, has imagination as well as executive capacity. He says that televisison, providing "a theatre for every home although the stage may be only a cabinet, and a curtain the screen, is, I believe, be-lieve, the distinct promise or the new era of electrical entertainment." entertain-ment." Mr. Sarnoff sees in the latest gift of science to the human race the promise of "a new culture." Ten million homes in the United States now "draw nightly upon the programs of he air for the family entertainment." Mr. Sarnoff, young and remarkably remark-ably able, believes that this generation gener-ation will see the greatest actors, orators, clrgymen and singers moving mov-ing and hear their voices in their homes. That is modern magic. President Hoover will let the Farm Board decide on additional wheat purchases to bolster prices. Senator Capper wants the board to buy 100,000.000 bushels more. Mr. Legge and other members tell thefarmer to plant less wheat and get a better price. Another member, Mr. McKelzie, asks bakers to charge less for bread at retail, increase consumption consump-tion and the demand for wheat. The problem is difficult. Whatever What-ever you suggest, you offend somebody some-body William Gibbs M-CAgoo, writing memoirs, will have plenty to tell, if i he writes all he knows about war, politics, railroads, finance and the dollar a year "patrioteers." Most important in all his career is the- fact that, in the face of heavy odds, fighting jealous corporations and political machines, he managed to build two tunnels connecting Manhattan Island with the continent. contin-ent. That will remain his importani work, as the Panama Canal will remain Theodore Roosesvelt's im-)citant im-)citant work. The interesting Lindbergh baby, to spend the hot weather at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morrow in Maine, will flythere with his father fa-ther and mother, according to report. re-port. A flying baby only a few weeks old seems strange to us. Ten years hence babies in an airplane will be no more exciting than babies in street cars or railroad trains. The lindbergh baby will find it hard to realize that human beings once crawled over the surface of the earth or water, at a "snail's pace" at sixty miles an hour. Hailstones six inches in diameter fell recently in Bulgaria, killed fi"e, including two children on their way to school Boats are missing in the Black Sea. Imagine millions of small sized old-fashioned cannon balls falling from the sky, and you can imagine such a hailstorm. Twenty-two boats brought 1,050,-000 1,050,-000 pounds of mackerel into Boston recently. The fish sold for 4 cents a pound wholesale. Some day men will get rid of fish destroyers, small whales that devour millions of salmon, sal-mon, sharks, etc., as farmers have got rid of wolves that destroyed their sheep. Then a small part of the ocear will be enough to feed the whole human race, unless middle men ohould decide to throw overboard rather than sell cheaply. |