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Show This Week r Arthur Brisbane Two Engineers The Five Greatest Metalized Milk A Ground-Flea Cure 9 In his Introduction to the writings of George Washington prepared tor next year's two hundredth anniver-sary. anniver-sary. President Hoover says Washington's Wash-ington's engineering ability has never been fully appreciated. Washington's methods were surprisingly sur-prisingly modern. He reclaimed the Dismal swamp In Virginia, was adviser and engineer engi-neer on the Potomac and James River canal and first to advise a combined highway and waterway ,. from the Atlantic Coast .to the Ohio River. , v The President describes his predecessor, pre-decessor, as "the most potent hu- -man Intellectual force in the firms-ment firms-ment of American Intellect" ' , George Washington was the first engineer to occupy the White House. President Hoover Is the ' second. A war with England interfered with Washington's engineering activities. A war with bootleggers Inter feres wltb Hoover's. Washington reports that Lincoln's Lin-coln's birthday was celebrated this year "more generally than ever." Great men are like great mountain peaks, the farther away you are, the more powerful they seem, little men and mountains having vanished. van-ished. The five greatest names In history, his-tory, Aristotle, Archlmldes, Michael Angelo, Newton and Shakespeare, are greater today than ever before. Which name, by the way, would you select as sixth? Doctor McGeehee, chemist at Emory University, Atlanta, says copper and Iron in milk will correct anaemic conditions because those two metals, "taken in metalized milk, regenerate hemoglobin." For a long time doctors have known that red blood corpuscles, consisting chiefly of Iron, contain also a trace of copper. This was long thought to be more or less accidental and unimportant. unim-portant. Now it Is known to be necessary. Every plumber can tell the doctors what active results ensue en-sue when you put copper and iron r together, as In attaching brass pipes to an iron furnace. . Scientists say typhus fever Is spread by fleas that first bite rats,' J then humans. Recalling that Rocky Mountain fever, spread by ticks, -was conquered by "tick-Juice In- 1' oculation," the scientists suggest that a similar remedy for typhus ( 1 '' may be made of the rat-biting flea. Groundup fleas, as a medicine, would not be pleasing. Human beings and their governments govern-ments should have the energy to eliminate rats. Then fleas could not bite them. Similarly, they should wipe out crocodiles, that supply the death germs of sleeping sickness to the tse-tse fly. i Impossible? Suppose each rat contained a gold dollar and each crocodile a ten-dollar bill, bow long would they laatr China talks of establishing the gold basis. Where will China get the gold, for a basis? France and America have it, and mean1 to keep It Meanwhile, bar silver falls to a new low price for ail time. Mexican Mexi-can dollars, chief currency in China, are worth less than twenty cents each, and China rejects the suggestion that America lend her 300,000,000 ounces of sliver saying "What could I do with itr The world of finance may find that the outlawing of silver, which has been the basis of half the world's business, or more, for two thousand years, has much to do with our depression. You cannot ruin 800,000,000 of your customers, as cheap silver has ruined them, without feeling it. Some one said that, doubtless God could make a better berry than the strawberry, but doubtless, God never did. Doubtless divine Providence Provi-dence could make a more beautiful country than this Pacific coast but, doubtless, It has hot been made on this earth. What heaven is like, with foundations of Jacinthe, each gate made of a single pearl, as the Bible tells us, we cannot know, yet The Department of Commerce says this country has 22,731 moving picture theaters, almost as many as in all Europe. That mean entertainment enter-tainment and education. This Nation has 25,000,000 automobiles, auto-mobiles, the number constantly In- creasing, also meaning entertainment, entertain-ment, education and united families. fam-ilies. The United States possesses enough of everything and too much of many things. Still we complain. After a "day of silence," Gandhi, the leader of 300,000,000 Hindus, goes to New Delhi to discuss freedom free-dom with the British viceroy. The "day of silence," devoted to reflection and introspection, was a day unknown to great Asiatic conquerors con-querors of the past Genghis Khan, Tamerlaine and Attila had no days of silence, every day was active. (, 1930, bj KiBi Fntant SrodKU. lac.) r |