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Thi s W eek
> ly Arthur Brisbane
- WISE MEN, MAGICIANS.
SAME THING.
THE PRESIDENT’S PLAN.
A WOMEN’S CAFE.
The President says farmers can
solve their problems, or some of
them, by co-operative marketing.
Could the President guarantee
the farmers against prosecution,
based on restraint of trade, if
farmers combined, established
market places and fixed prices?
A Government board now tells
moving picture men that they
may not exhibit their own pic
tures in their own theatres.
If that were sound—of course
it is NOT sound—farmers could
not sell their own products in
their own markets, which is what
they SHOULD do.
And what, if anything, would
Government do to help the farm
ers? A great deal is done for
railroads. A Government board
watches over them, raises rates
when the railroad lacks reason
able profits, and says to the pub
lic, “Pay or walk.”
Would the Government show
interest of that sort in fanners
and MAKE the public pay for
wheat and potatoes enough to
pay the farmer well?
vjanaua. uiscovers a ueposii. 01
helium gas and the Canadian
Government has bought the. three
producing wells, keeping for it
self all helium rights.
- In Canada the Government will
keep and work these wells for the
public benefit, and there will be
-no Canadian helium “Teapot
Dome affair.”
Give our Canadian brothers
credit for that.
. The District of Columbia Court
of Appeals decides that the in
dictments in connection with the
stealing of the naval oil reserves
. must stand.
It would be surprising, gratify
ing and new if the fact should be
s established that in this country s
man cannot go free even when he
steals one hundred million do!
lars. The general impression was
that anything from one million
up was quite safe.
A learned Britisher, translating
the Bible, finds a mistake in the
King James version. The men
that the star guided to Bethlehem
were not kings or “wise men,”
they were magicians.
In ancient days, the difference
was slight. Unless a man was a
magician the superstitious people
thought little of his wisdom.
That is why founders of new
religions have been compelled
to perform miracles, or pretend
performance.
The great Kepler, working at
his cosmic problems, depending
on the Emperor for money and
protection, had to pretend that
he could read the stars and tell
the Emperor’s fortune, warning
him or encouraging him, accord
ing to the stars. For the mag
nificent wisdom of Kepler, one
of the world’s six greatest as
tronomers and mathematicians,
the Emperor had little use.
In the Swiss village of Piona
men drank brandy, and -"got
drunk. There was no cafe and
the village was on a “hard stuff”
basis.
The men wanted a cafe. The
women .objected, opened a wom
en’s cafe and ran it, supplying
the men with light beer and wine
and keeping an eye on them.
Strange to say, the men who ob
jected at first are now contented,
and what is more important, they
are sober,
from the village^
Drunkenness has disappeared
Here we are trying just the
! other experiment, driving out
light wine and beer, putting in
bootleg whiskey. Time will tell
which is the better plan.
P. C. Luther, devoting his
life to planting trees, celebrates
his sixty-third birthday by an
nouncing his intention to begii
planting 10,000,000 more trees
Charles L. Pack, president of th<
American Tree Association
wonders who can beat Mr
Luther’s record.
It could be done easily if th<
Government wonld use half <
dozen flying machines to scatte:
seeds along naked mountaii
ranges, swept by fire.
Try Ua Once
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Three Minute Tales,
By Ad Schuitar
SUPERSTITION CALLS
■ Superstition seeks no particu
lar class or level when it works
its way with men. It is as apt
to seize upon the arrogant as
the humble, the rich as the poor,
and so it was it laid the fear of
death upon the bored and lan
guid Aubrey Donaldson.
Aubrey had retired to his
country estate to escape the din
ners and dances of a social sea
son. He hung his hammock un
der the trees, had good books
I beside him on a table, and was
prepared for a season of rest.
It was then the signs became ap
parent, multiplied, and convinced
him his end was hear.
First it was the broken mir
ror,‘then a black cat crossing his
path. These things, he reassured
himself, were old and disproved.
He would be frightened-at none
of the obvious, traditional omens.
That night a black dog took po
sition beneath his window and
howled long and dolorously at
the moon. It was then the young
man became frightened but he
Shook oif his fears with daylight.
Then Aubrey Donaldson
dreamed, with startling distinct
ness, that he was to die, here and
in this country house and on De
cember 20. He carried ~the
dream with him all day for, try
as he would to forget it, it in
sisted on place in his thoughts.
Again, the same dream came to
him and yet, again. Three
nights in succession the warning
had come, Aubrey was impress
ed, tremendously impressed, and
with a grim deliberation went
about his plans.
“I will invite my closest
friends,” he decided, “to spend
the week-end here. We will
have games and pleasant discus
r. ■■■
sion. Then, if I am to die, I
will die surrounded by those I
love.” >
He mailed the cards taking a
certain dramatic satisfaction in
the act. They did not know this
was to be a farewell party and
would never guess by his actions
what was in the mind of their
host.
The day designated by the
dream arrived, and with it a
round of week-end activities.
Solemnly, upon arising, Aubrey
took his temperature and count
ed his pulse. So far, he was all
right. He *■ descended into the
breakfast room and from then
on kept in the center of the mer
riment. In the afternoon there
was tennis, and then the quiet
two hours when the others were
dressing for dinner. As rapidly
as possible he made ready and
then took his place before the
fire waiting. It was evening
now. There were only a few
hours left. Ferhaps, after all—.
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