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/Ifcac^mc jpa^e This Week / / SL. By Arthur INHERITED KNOWLEDGE. DRIFTING FROM RELIGION. THE UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS. CALIFORNIA’S GOOD ROADS. Men are interested in animal "cnealogfes. Ants, wasps aud other insects have developed marvelous in herited knowledge, which we foolish ly call “instinct," because they were millions of years before men came. Science shows that men will con tinue on earth, barring catastrophe, ,at least 100,000,000 years more. Some day babies will be born in heriting accumulated knowledge and ready to attack new problems. That will be a race worth while. Read Fabre’s account of surgical operations performed by mud wasps ■ that never saw father or mother, took no lessons and were bom to know 'how. • * * The Rev. Dr. Straton, hi California (to debate on evolution, says our people, youth especially, are drifting ' from religion and all respect for the laws of God or man. Our nation and race are threatened. He is sure of it. Some centuries ago earnest, well-meaning prieets of Greece and Rome were saying the same thing. And when Chriitjanity came along those ancients were sure the world was going to the dogs. They west, hut the world Unproved. • a • \ Unemployment, according t® ex perts. is less serious than it was. That's small comfort for a man with out a job. • « e i Big business says you must expect unemployment crises. They will al ways recur. They said that once about financial panics, but the Federal Reserve System ended them. Big business opposed the reserve system, now universally praised. Big business is old and age accepts new ideas reluctantly. * ♦ * The marvelous thing is that un employment is not worse. In the automobile industry today thirty three men do as much as 100 could do in 1914, thanks to improved ma chinery and methods. * * * Next year California will spend seventy-eight million dollars on good roads, and California has more good roads than any other State already. In consequence, California leads in automobile ownership, which means family comfort. If other States, with good roads, could built up automobile ownership as California has done, there would be sixty million instead of twenty four million automobiles running in this country. Other States might think that over. * « e Oliver Wendell Holmes, able Supreme Court Justice, who realizes that the Constitution was made by and for men, not men for the Con stitution, is seventy-eight years old. He continues working, obeying his motto, “rest is not the destiny of man." A big monument would re ward Justice Holmes if be could tell what the destiny of man really IS, how we got here, whence we came, whither we go from here, what hap pens after we go. But about such questions a learned Supreme Court Justice knows at little as an Eskimo watching for seals in the ice hole. * * * Science and religion are and must remain separate. Science gradually reveals to men that which they can explain and understand. Religion, which changes as men’s civilization changes, represents the effort to know and understand that which men can never know or understand. Reli Jrfon, destined to remain a matter of aid), never to \>? proved, is at least as important a- science. Science K’ves knowledge, safety and wealth, eligion gives peace. About <\ i HiBcLUM Things V^u bhould Know by John Joseph Gaines, M. D ' DEMENTIA PRAECOX Just how much the average read er may care to know about this un wholesome condition is not clear to me; but since it is now being util ized by lawyers as an excuse for the most terrible crimes of this or any other age, I may be pardoned for this necessarily shallow skim ming over the subject. Dementia of any variety means insanity—absolute absence of any of the so-called higher mental traits, the opposite pole of mentality or* reason. The type indicated in my( heading is supposed to refer to the' dementia of youth. I may say here( that my last case was an adult, aged fifty, who was incapable of normal/ >8ane action or reasoning. He was silent, secretive, furtive, preferred to be alone, and would ramble; through the woods as stealthily as a carnivorous beast; his very pres-' ence was uncanny—but he would, reply civilly if spoken to. It was' impossible to elicit from him anyt word of personal pain or distress. Only once did he excite fear on my part—when I told him I was going to take him to a sanitarium for* treatment. He was a giant physic ally, but yielded to my wholly as sumed bluff. I saw nothing to re-, mind me of the present Hickman, now under court trial in California' for a most diabolical crime. His head, angular and ugfly, was utterly devoid of hair; he said he had been, poisoned, but could not say how or when. He was of Croatian ances try, without history of insanity in the family. He did not desire treat ment, and obeyed reluctantly court orders on probation—was afraid of a policeman or sheriff, and shewed no disposition to carry weapons of. any kind whatever. He is still in an asylum. It is not every spoiled or neglect ed boy that has dementia praecox. Give your son an automatic pistol and an automobile, with access to corn whisky and low ‘‘society." let him go scott free—and he will not be long getting into jail! *Tt’s your boy and my boy I’m talking about Next week: Hot Weather Diet Rajah Weds American Girl an girl, has become the bride of the * former Maharajah of India. The < wedding was held in oriental splendor at Bombay. Miss Miller has renounced her Christianity to embrace the Hindu faith. She is a Seattle heiress and former Uni versity of Washington Student. [AuTocA.yTc.w*tli to Stardom iMwasftftsMJl •boto shows Ruth Elder, famous av atrix, signing a contract to atar in :» Paramount film. "Glorifying the American Girl,*' for which Klo Zieiil'eld ''pent two years searching for a tar Miss Elder is to start •©n an air tour in Albany, Buffalo. Cleveland and Detroit—an "A-B* 'C D" tour—Mure beginning work on the film. Child Preacher (A^tocaktcr) | Harry Meyers Crawford, youth ful pulpit orator, preached his first sermon at the age of five. In Chi cago he cojebrated the event of ha/tng preached 200 sermons in the midoh: west. He is eight years old. He is the son of Rev. R H Crawford, Chicago pastor, and six of his eight brothers have also preached. He is the fourth genera tion of a family of preachers. Missing! r-v'TOCACTCR ,| Honorable Elsie Mackay, a nursc^ during the war, and an able actress., who set out from England with’ Captain Walter Hinchcliffe (insert) < in an attempt at a Westward con quest of the tossing Atlantic in thef Black-and-Gold airplane endeavor. No word has been heard fr<>m^ IlltS for Hi e ^hu^Uncu Mart fAl/rocxCTC^ Jacob 5. Coxey, who prop*"- ' to repeat hts famous march of 18^ his scheme for the lessen.t:,j «..i unemployment is not *4opu«J by the government Frank Lockhart, Fastest Arnica-. Auto Driver, Meets , * L. Hoover, Engineer ur Fastest Long-Distance T■ *«£»:•* »••>•••< «»;vv LocKRAnrt 4/00.000 race* Has Reeh Heqoh.t '2Q9 Mite9 P£Q Hour? 'Be^QfZG. i th & Crz* sri / OFFICIAL PHcroS TLOfVOn EAST COAIT (tfr^ __ ■ . - --V-n, American Speed King to Make New Try for World's Record DAYTONA BEACH. Fla.—The after iv i) before Frank Lockhart, the 25 year-old champion racing driver of America, ended his historic attempt t<- smash the world’s record by skid ding into the sea when driving 225 m p h„ he drove to the depot to i vet L Z. Hoover, veteran englneei trie Florida East Coast Railway \ :io was due to arrive with the •■.Miamian." the world's fastest long t .nance tram. Lockhart who is keen ly interested in mechanical engineer and personally designed and built his racer, wanted to Inspect the giant mountain-type locomotive, driven by the veteran Hoover, which Is the most . modern type of railway locomotive in the world He Also wanted to pay his resperu to the man whose hand was on Its throttle. Mr Hoover has teen In the railway's employ for 42 years, having Joined the road on March 19. 1833. He is «ne or the best known railway engineers In the Southeast and holds the distinction of having piloted the special tintns ot Presidents Coolidge r.nd Harding dur ing their travels on the line. Few knew that the idol of Amer ican race fans had left his beloved Lockhart-Stutz Special, which he was tuning up for the great test, to iace his heavy sedan through the traffic and reach the station in time to see the big de Luxe train pull in. But the ubiquitous newspaper photogra phers appeared out of nowhere—trust them for that—and Engineer Lock hart and Engineer Hoover fraternized over the cowcatcher and In the cab, to the click of camera shutters. •‘Some Job.” said Engineer Lockhart, as he fondled the throttle as though he would like to send the big train to New York In Jig time. "Sure Is," said Engineer Hoover, "and 1 understand you’ve got some boat yourself," • Engineer Hoover, everyone agreed, was as proud of his giant locomotive and of the Florida East Coast JRail* way. which is one of the Anr f •lim ped end be-t bull< lines in the >i recent Improvements enstlm* < ' million dollars cast, ns young 1 Lockhart was of Ins famous L c . Stut.’. Special, which cost a;.pt \ • me tel y one hundred thousand t and Is universally conceded to t: • i bert stream-lined ratin'; nut rum. with the highest engine developru evor turned out. the sublimatU-o t , engineering skill to make a reco.J. 1 Thousands cf Lockhart fans v-*' know the machine and Lockhart, i } lleve the young racer would have cl: - placed the record by a wlda marg ( had he-not met wdth an accicien Before he left here, the daring Arne- • lean driver promised to return ni... make another try on the world-f • mous Daytona Beach, which is i only beach of Its kind in the wu i available to met jrn extreme h u velocity contests. Bill Sturm h.s manager, popular racing expert, srri onded the motion. And It is gotr.-! ally conceded by racing expert*^ the Yankee speed demon will • 1 the laurels from England when li. makes his next attempt. rocit Aleppo S rule i and ot ^ l. u Full Font * at Shriners’ Convention, Opening in Miami, Fla., May t ?ncm$ HAHHJroti /** ^riq W.H-tCMPBfrsrz Ho±m*a rue L SKMApUacie I -—■ FOUR OF TtJE EVGVr jCiLOFAHS OS&V FFCi.OtlVKL'/ $Y Aleppo temple 5>ROM Corps — Lf.ro er - a.L&TOHG,# W. tJoNSS, a/ e. VjrftTTEH *hd <j:ri ssk /.ffifft;//?* Sji 5=CJ0=i H'A • rJHCATER. viHoPlAlS Trtd Conrn*-B*soo* •----— AlSppq Temple SftUM Co ftps /JftT/tiEftf XnhSton L;nd So Long That Sema phore Will Tell Musici ans When to Oompah and Tarara-Ra. Bus l ON. Mass — When Aleppo l*t:;.le ol Boston goes lo the ntg l. convention. opening in Kla May 1st. the Aleppo i>i um ':•* the latgest and moat Imposing - - I’utiti in the world, will an end . i * . • hue* The huge band. con s l many divisions. Is called a (• ..n i-o»ps. but it Is. in reality, a i • ii.g symphony orchestra, a pari • i ictuiHjit ol musicians, uain i 'll the nth degree There are • . i coins*- drums so big ihai .jvf to oe dragged along tin i-t'rrd cart. But therr , . * '■ . fans. which are vurla lions ot the xy. phone. mounted on fan-like shelves supported from Ihi shoulders of the musicians There aie banjos and trombets. close cousins ol t.he trombone, contgp-basoons. and bass-sarrusophones. and other tnsiru ments with long, portentous names in addition to the usual Instrumen tation of a very high-class orchestra The corps Is so large and covers so much territory when marching that the drum major would be unable to give hla signals effectively, and so an electric semaphore haa been Invented which tells the musicians when to oompah. when to terarara-ra, and when to tooty toot. The Aleppo Drum Corps, however will have Its rlvnls In the great ag gregation at rrack Shrine bands front nil parts of the country. There will be a massed ban'’ 'instating of aome six thousand nr > instruments In winch all the a U Shrine bands will take pei t § V.i-s h !• 1 vir*.*itf: expected in Micmi cliirnv’, the eon* ventlon Magic Miami's beautlfm Front Park, rich in tropical lolia :«* and flowers, will be transformed a.* the Garden of Allah with Imp * I . Arabic and Egyptian works of archi tecture The railway companies are nrnnu prepaint oris and a fere and <>:ie < '( will prevail for the round n.p This low ‘fare Is open to visitor* who wish to behold the nlflcent gathering, as well as to the Shrtners themselves rhotiaano* will come In speolal trains andstenm era No less than fifteen hundred sleeping cars can oe conveniently parked at Miami by the Florida Fast Coast Railway, which has a biamt new double track line, cinder las, and sootless, with the finest rrintp.r.rr.1 and connecte with Mart hem . ' • fs without change of s'.'ep «• "* Miami hotels In coapersitnii * ■ ’ •* City of Miami and the ( I t< . • < • f '»air « _ h'U.’e ■-'JTcrcd s,.etuii t* *a. KELLY MILLERS’ AUTHENTIC HISTORY Of A GREAT NEW WORLD WAR HISTORY In addition to Its containing a graphic account of the War, includes many chapters on subjects of vital .Interest. Following are a few of the 'subjects treated: The Flash that Set the World Aflame—Why Americans Entered the War—The Things that Made Men Mad—The Sinking Sub marine—The Eyes of Battle-y-War’s Strange Devices—Wonderful War Weapons—The World’* Armies—The World’* Naviea—The Nations at War —Modern War Methods—Women iqd the War. A volume of general In formation upon all subjects which have their bearing upon the World Conflict,* as weU as an authentic ac count of the Great World War. The Book also Includes the follow ing subjects: The Horror* and Won der* of Modem Warfare, The Bar barity and Merciless Metho/l* Em ployed to Satisfy the Ambition* of the Kaiser and His Imperial Govern ment. The Ruthless Submarine War fare Wag3d to Starve England and France Into Submission. The Story of the Hardships and Horror* which *he Belgians and French were Com pelled to Suffer. The Billion* -Of Do'Mars Reqiilred to Carry on the Awful Straggle. The Terrible Lo$s of Huqian Life and the Desolation 'of Countries The Weird and Wonder ful Methods of Warfare. The New and Strange Deuices that have come •into being. The great "tanks’’, the •’blimps’’/the submarine, the £&■ poison bombs, and the marvels of science Things about which you may never have heard. Marvelous giAia that shot for miles. Feudal and Me dieval weapons that again came Into play. The plans of the Hohenzolierna co create a World Empirs, whleh drew upon tjiein the wrath of Na tions The Nations Involved. The Armies and Nnvief and what they Represented in Men and Equipment. This Great Book tells all about the Negro Everywhere in the W$rld War -How He Did His Duty. A NEW REVISED BOOK WOTB In every capacity—from light up in the Front Line Trenches and on 'be Battlefields—Clear Back to ths Work of Keeping the Home Fires Burning: On the Farms: In the fcfflls and MunitlQp Plants: On Ut« Rail roads and Steamships: In ths Skip Yards and Factories. Hen and W.o men with the Red Cross, the Y. M C. A., Y. W. C. A., the War Camp Community Service, the Liberty Loan Brlves, etc., etc* This Volume tells the world how the Negro haB won his place and his right to a voice In the affairs of mankind against prejudice, ridicule, race hatred, and almost insurmount able obstacles. Many striking testi monials from the Secretary of War and Array Officers of lilgb rank and reputation are set forth l<i no uncer tain terms The following ringing words of Major General Bell, ad dressed to the famous “Buffaloes" the 367th Regiment, are typical of the high regard and respect of Amer lean and European officers for oar colored troops. Every jvrivate in this regiment and most of the officers were Negroes. The General said:— 'This Is the best 'disciplined and best drilled and beat spirited regi ment that has been under my com mand at this cantonment. I predict ed last fall that Colonel Moss would have the best regiment stationed here and you men have made my predic tion come true. I would lead you in battle against any army In the world with every confidence in the out COH10” • the NEGRO IN T lE NAVY More than fifty pa^-s ol the Book devoted to the Achievement* of the Negro in the American Navy—Guard ing the Trans-Atlantic Route to France—Battling the Submarine Per il—The Best Sailors In any Nuvrv hi the World—Making a Navy m Three Months from Negro Stevedore* and Laborers— Wonderful AccmnpM*h ments of Our Negro Yeomen and Yeo women. As we liar© fought for th* rights :of mankiud and for the future -eace and security of the world, th* r-^ple want to be correctly and fully in formed of the facts concerning onR Heroes—and this Is THE B«r»k they are looking for THE ONLY HI8TORY THAT WILL LfULLY SATISFY THE AMERICAN r COLORED PEOPLE This Book appeals to the Colored People. They are eager to bay It Why—Because It is the only W$r Book published that thrilling*. graf* leaUy, yet faithfully describes the wonderful gart Chat the Colored 8ol dter has taken tn the World War Is absolutely flair to the Negre. It relatr* to tm weri^ how Jffl.WO Nhgtses oronud tbs North Atlantic, braving *e„mgrors of Che Submarine PerM, to baffle for ©etoscracy. The forthty and patflotlsha that racterlifed Che M** naa'i nature sublime seltuumflos. hiaWls mHaMe brnwy, On wisdom ef Nefre sfcceri li eounodnd sf thsfr ebm