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ITALY PUTS IN ITS CLAIM.
Italy, after all, li still very young n a nation,
though old in culture. Ita Jealous, warring atatea
were not united until 1861, and up until ita entry
In the world war the spirit of nationality waa weak.
.Vow, however, under the leadership of Premier
Mussolini and the warlike faciti, ai strong; na
tionul conm iouiiei an that of the old Germany la
showinjr itself.
When the treaty of peace was drawn at Ver-
sailli-s, Italy wai too weak in prestitfe and power to
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ARMISTICE DAY.
It ia well to pauHi' today, if only for a Lit of in
troijiection, to deride how far each of u ha ftriven
to keep alive the clear light ao tirijfhtly burning on
November 11, jyiH.
All that had been hoped for hu nut come to
l; maybe it never will come to pax, That will
be fur mankind to ilvtermine, Cloud have arisen
to obscure the beacon which guided men through
the terrible day of the war. When the main pyre
on which iviiizntirtn wa pinioned wuk muttered, it
ember flew far and wide, and they are slow to ex
pire. Hut they are dying out, and the smoke clouli
if war are thinning and disappearing, clearer skie
ai shining, and a chastened world ia emerging
from ita bath of lilood and sorrow.
Strong fuith may be required to see this, yet
tine great proof ia ai. band. Civilized people do not
make war; ambltioua ruler may be iiggreaaive, but
the common men and women abhor strife on gen
eral principles, and the people are taking their own
fairs into their own hand. Great statesmen may
prate about nationul honor, but the ennnon fodder.
of the day is demanding to be shown that national
honor call fur the sacrifice of live.
Junt a the great fabric of our civic liberty is
made up of small contribution by each individual
from hi personal liberty, ho the growth of civic
liberty and it spread throughout the world is made
possible by the contribution of each In the woy of
helpful effort. The Omnha Bee believe that even
the moat self-centered of men I giving something
to thi great cause. Jf thi I not truo, then prog
re i halted to that extent. It 1 better to find out
what you are giving rather than to complain of
what your neighbor i withholding. When you have
done all you can do to achieve the Ideal of liberty
under the law and equal jutice for all men, you
will huve added your share to the fuel that feeds
the light which shone over the world at that blessed
hour of 1 1 o'clock on the morning of the eleventh
day of the eleventh month, in the year of grace, 1918.
Thii is a day for rededicatlon, for reconsecra
tion to, in the undying words of the immortal
Lincoln,
"highly resolve that these dead shall nnt have died
' In vain tbat thi nation, untlor Ood, shall have a
new birth of freedom and that government of the
people, for the people, nnd by the people, shall not
perish from the earth."
FOOD.
One impression brought away from watching
Charles Gilpin's development of the character of
Emperor Jones is that a good square meal would
have turned the course of that drama, and brought
a triumph for its hero. Jones had providently buried
a supply of food at the place he designed to enter
the forest in event of his being- forced to flee. He
improvidently neglected to so mark the place that
he could identify it again, or else, his fear, already
sprouted, so bewildered his judgment that he missed
his direction. Loss of his expected food not only
weakened him physically, but added to his mental
perturbation, until he fell at last victim to his own
distorted imagining.
Five years ago we were being told wherever the
eye turned that "Food will win the war!" Food did
win the war, and not the least of America's contri
bution was the voluntary abstention from eating to
the end that Hooverization of our daily menu might
be made complete, but even extended. It was an
inspiration then, and it is a comfort now to recall
how many deprived thenjselves of substantials and
took up substitutes that they might aid in winning
the war.
It is not inspiring, however, to reHd that in many'
parts of the country good food is going to waste,
because of the cost of getting it to market exceeds
or equnls at least the price it will sell, and produc
ers are averse to working for nothing. ,Alo, the
spectacle of starving millions in other lands, de
presses even while it encourages the exercise of our
ultimate efforts to relieve the distress.
Food not only win war, but it ia man's greatest
problem, for It is only when he has more food" than
he needs for immediate use that he can do the
other things necesfary to his advancement. Just
now the entire subject of fod is getting more in
tensive study than it ever had, and reason exists to
hope that in the not far ahead future production
and distribution will be o co-ordinated that we will
not have the spectacle of potatoes or apples left to
rot in the field while only a few mile away children
r going to bed hungry.
UKpirution was strong for domination of the Adri
atic and a measure of control in the llslkan and the
Mediterranean. Refusal of America and the allies
to allow it to occupy Kiume and the Albanian port
of Valona wa received by Italian as an Insult ami
humiliation.
Italy did receive Trent, Trieste and the South
Tyrol in addition to a sphere of influence in Asiu
.Minor, liut with a large surplus population it de
sired real colonial concessions. The problem of
feeding ,J congested people caused a hunger for
wide stretches of wheat land. Accordingly, at the
peace conference it put in a claim for a large share
of Asia Minor, a slice of Dalmatia and the cession
by France and Britain of a part of their North
African colonies.
A things now stand, Italy i still dependent on
Great Britain for most of its fuel and raw ma
terial and import also great quantities of food.
This dependence on foreign nation, together with
the attitude of superiority adopted by .France and
Fngland in leaving Italy out of their confidence In
diplomatic move about the Mediterranean, gulls
the proud and desperute spirit of the fuscisti.
Premier Mussolini accordingly ha dispatched
a bold note to it former allies, serving notice that
if there i any further division of spoils Italy in
tends to be in on it. The charge that Great Britain
i deliberately courting war with the Turks is apt
to have its repercussion in London, Furthermore,
the claim that England is plotting for private con
trol of the Dardanelles, made by an unnamed
Italian diplomat, appear as uncomfortably close
to the truth as it is undiplomatic, These new
leaders of Italy wear the black shirts of the fascisti,
and their statesmanhip I coatless.
The people of Europe do not want another war,
but it is impossible to see how the action of Italy
contributes much to the prospects of peace. This
ia open diplomacy, but it appears not to be based
on any idea of world welfare, but on the Bame
spirit of national aggrandizement that is hampering
European reconstruction.
"The People's
Voice
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Baa. Reader at Tha Moinlnf Me
art iavllaa te uaa thia celuaaa fraaly
lur eapieeiiea aa mat tar a al public
Inle.eit,
"From State and Nation"
Editorials from other newspapers
Nowadays
Here's New Slogan
from tha katmaa (My Jutitliel,
When It coine to Hingitiia, wliut' !
th matter with the following, In-
Salvaging Humanity. vented by the sponsors for a move-
TrUfnsh, Neb, To the Editor orjmvnt to Inerrnsn the rotmumptlon of
The Omaha lien; During the late I uumilea: "tin thn tiuhlt. Kut mure
world war there were J.UOO ainpiHu- rsnnii,
WATCH MR. FORD,
A great many ordinary people, whose mind aie
riot geared to billion dollar., often wonder what
Mr, Henry Ford dea betide counting his ea.h. Aside
from increasm the output of hi Detroit factory
from 400,000 ta 00,000 vers a year, he hat rrl
CLOSING THE TAX EXEMPT REFUGE.
In spite of the natural hesitancy over changing
the fundamental law, two more amendments to the
constitution of the United States are in the air.
One of these proposals concerns child labor and is
rather more familiar to the general public than the
other, which concerns the elimination of tax ex
empt securities.
President Harding has recently come out in
favor of the adoption of a pending resolution pro
posing a constitutional amendment closing the door
to tax exemption. This is in line with his message
of last December in which he said: "I think our
tax problems, the tendency of wealth to seek non
taxable investments, and the menacing increase of
public debt federal, state and municipal all jus
tify a proposal to change the constitution so as to
end the issue of nontaxable bonds."
Notwithstanding the fact that the principle of
the income tax is now firmly established in public
favor, yet the income from billions of dollars' worth
of bonds is untouched by taxation. Prof, Edwin R. A.
Seligman, the famous American authority on taxa
tion, estimates that there are $10,000,000,000 worth
of municipal bonds of this sort outstanding, and
$20,000,000,000 in government bonds, tax exempt
to a greater or less extent. He estimates that if
the tax exemption of federal bonds alone could be
abolished, tax revenues would be increased by $300,
000,000 a year.
The advantage of these issues goes mainly to
wealthy investors. Governmental divisions are en
couraged to emit bonds for larger amounts than
they should by the fact that there is a ready mar
ket for them. It is said to be a fact that if tax free
bond issues were to increase at the present rate for
the next three years, they would absorb every cent
of new capital in the United States.
It is readily apparent how such a movement
withdraws capital from productive industry.
Charles M. Schwab has declared that he could re
tire from active business, reinvest his fortune in
tax exempt securities and treble his income. Many
men of wealth have followed this course and the
people pay the tax.
The last three secretaries of the treasury have
favored a constitutional amendment permitting tax
ation pf public securities. A committee of con
gress hna held protracted hearings on the matter,
and it indeed seems probable that thia refuge from
the income tax is to be eliminated.
tion and IrmonirruM men were di
hIjImI, or rather, handicapped, by
wound and tea polmuiliiK. Our guv
ernitii'iit I npendlnjj million of dol
lar ev'eiv Vine ftttlUK tli' men for
it puallluii where they may "carry on"
to th Kims decree of elTViency a
I hey ilhl hifoie the war. 'I'lore Mia
too many of im prone to IhIh-v.- that
tlx handicapped mn me Hokum too
much, It la not u rumi of too much
In ao many ucra aa It la a raa of
unking for ami neltlnn th wrong
thlriK. We iniiHt In- patient Km) try
and ahow thea men wher their inoct
tiserui place la. whenever a man
know that tin In In a position of re
Hpoiiaihlllty, fi-elH that lesponsllilllfv,
Is capahla, and like It, lie I a useful
man and a happy one. Assuming- the
above stuteineiit to Im true, our ROV
erntnetit must train every handi
capped man for nuch a position.
Nini-I lines tlu-so handicaps are a
blessing In disguise. Take, for In
stance, the rase of ft man who had
hecii In some position which he did
not care for. and where he had Imen
stamllng still. We ull have aomelhlnx
In mind that wn would like to be and
her Is his chance to take it course In
almost any auhject. The war. In
sense, ha been a seemid "melting
pot, nnd many men have been Hide
10 llnd their proper level who, other-wist-,
would huve "stuck" at sntno
position which did not develop their
effiTtlveness,
Any system which we may be abl
to perfect, Mi take care of the men
who were handicapped In the service
will he a distinct addition to our
social assets. It will help u ns a
nation to be better prepared to handle
the case of men who are disabled In
Industry, We rightly place the aeri
fies of ' patriotism higher than any
other; but the disabled Industrial
worker ha made a aacriflee which we
cannot overlook. During- the war
there wpre only about 3,000 amputa
tions and you can readily see that in
a few year the number of thoe din-
abled In Industry will far outnumber
these.
It Is my contention that some
method should be Instituted by the
government whereby these disabled
Industrial worker rould ho given a
chance at vocational training. The
home which are now established for
theHn people after they reach old age
would find In a few yenra that they
would not have no many application
ror admission. A Man of th is k in
would nlxojielp to eliminate the street
beggar. These people would have
something useful to do and the nation
would be benefited by having that
many more happy, useful citizen.
wnue we are training the handi
capped service man, I think It would
be well to have In mind the hand!
capped inriustrinl worker, and we
may be surprised to find with what
ease his problem can be solved.
Therefore, let us do our utmost, at
thi time, to trala these handicapped
men, so that they may fill tho place
they are best fitted for so that a the
year go by they can do a much a
their fellw men to help make u a
more prosperous and efficient nation.
A. E. NESHIT.
A sloiiana go, that la at l'lat
eiiplionlou. It might be misconstrued
by the thought leaa a propaganda In
l.ivor of the welsh mldnlKht dainty,
tint the aolier aocoinl tin, unlit of the
mil Ion r ii it nt I'l-ach the cuiicIiihioii that
one of the vexing problem of the
dally llfi of those who are not vege
tnrlun would be solved If everybody
ale rabbits.
Home economic has prepared
table of the edible portions of rabbit
as compared with other meats. The
rabbit s nii-iil contains less Water and
more protein than either chicken or
mutton and is per cent more nu
trition than bo r
It Is further pointed out that the
rabbit is classed among domestic ani
mal, There lire several breeds which
Imv been brought to a standard of
perfection which entitle them to 4
pedigree and registration the same a
the bora or cow. They art wune
thing mote than tho wild rabbit or
cottontail along the highway and
ledges. They are tho product of j
man's patient e nnd shlll In thn art of I
breeding, and Instead of weighing
three or four pound like the wild rab
bit, weigh ID to 20 pounds.
In face of tin so facts, la there one
who remain unconvinced that the
rabbllecr have made their point? All
that now remain in the Immemorial
task set by the compiler of tho recipe
for rabbit pot p! or some other
comestible: "I-'irs cntih your hare."
mod eat enterprise on foot.
One of the i to purha -o! supply, id i f0im, ur d.i we batieve that
SOME ELECTION BETS.
This has nothing to do with the wheelbarrow
stunt, nor the rolling of a peanut up Farnam street
hill with a crowbar, Such thing belong in the ele
mentary or kindergarten t!aa of election bets. A
more solid and substantial phase of the sporty
character of the event is presented in the state
ment that $100,000 In regular money, each dollar
worth U( rent, changed hand a the mult of the
flection in Nebraska.
We liu- nut em-outage gambling in any of U
bet en the election
tit amount t lsoOOO.ooO ln, whuh will all" jniWtue a vote in any way. Wagers of any kind
him about lo.uoo unit a Jy fr the nut ity j t,,tint ,thr fai'.h, hope, er a hun.h; the man
hi efrVr b i cunvlncej tht b ha a chmue
)ar, SMI lli:t Ulliltvnon I v-mi:srl, fl wi t
na lunger t ujt trt a t wUn ful
upply will even frem.
Aftuthar ' hit little ilea it t lay fw tati
r4 miU t raiWel liack, -! t inUd H Ti
I A W, the M, W A T. lH Maourt .in,- (
Ike Waiter I'a.ifV WuH 1w al ia ! U ttt l .
T. I, l U k tke nubru f a U'-her . if
vf Winning, and '"'It it strongly ka it willing to
i k drfnita nm of money un the proposition
Mm vf that pvadiw hrcwr are nd emily af
ff.tad ty i(Kit and rumuts; their faith In the ran
o!t f thi ihwi.e take dttfuit fitt, n.
rpn int fwnviftivn, which in tain i aid.ni
fcr tfe wate Ur and tnete (' lUyr
Itlaw f tiak and ejr a t.Ul !frt c eitrM j mh h l h t U, b d.ti.btief Ihent in ith
H m at t . t th AtUntw a4 IV. ui j g,vl that at ' tfce f wit t c
tf a il 4 J t.'i 1. pant! i fey tn!nf ef an.uhar
Mr. leij t t entntly vn.Ui. 1 ft iiid H1 , ,n,wai.t tkat uH f nua t'
)Ht I'aele lUm f V:) '- j u!m II e plel 1 aa ,
,t, wki.H .l a nt i-a 4 tl-i j M i.fvfta I un,m g ef U l He t M
hm ef le brtt a n,' drt :tiu t:Uii , M ''' ajt'am,
I. ! ; I W r,kr Kie f i u ,N. e !: i,Wf f , I N
Tlie Crime Problem.
Omaha. To the Kdltor of The
Omaha Bee: The publlo compalns of
being molested by criminals contin
ually, but they do not make an effort
to correct the lax law so that the
wrongdoer will face extreme penal
ties for their depredations, and that
when caught they will be fed on the
punishment which they contracted
for.
There can be no ray of hope for the
public until dire measures are taken
whereby the prospective criminal will
realize what will be meted out to him
should he commit any of the forbid
den act against organized society.
Tho sympathetic public allow Inhu
man act to be committed against
them for no reason whatever, Instead
of protecting themselves and also
teaching these human weeds that they
can not survive in the garden of good
citizenship.
Mas the public ever considered that
they have not done their full duty
and exhausted every means to eradi
cate the criminal element? Would It
not be a sensible thing to do away
with the law allowing the governor or
board the power to pardon and parole
convicted criminals? Why place this
right In one or a few men which r.f
fects the comfort and ease of mind of
the public? If the governor or board
prefers to open the gates of the peni
tentiary to the convicted what Is the
necessity of confining the Inmates In
the beginning? There can be no half
way feeling about this: either a crimi
nal should be confined or he should
be allowed to roam the highway un
molested. Why should the state be
placed at the expense of catching and
jailing him? If he doe not respect
the right of freedom before he com
mits his act why make the publlo
suffer at his bands by turning him
loosa subsequently?
The public pays triple for It crim
inal: First, it pays by suffering for
the criminal's lawlessness; secondly.
It pay for his being caught, tried
nnd convicted, nnd lastly, It pay pro
bation ottlcern, pardon nnd parole of
ficer and the governor to free him.
Doe the public reahm that It they
exacted severe penalties on criminal
thi would aid in diminishing their
number? Why tolerate Indeterminate
sentences where tha maximum con
finement la for nine month, or one
year? Prime should t punishable
bv de:r- or aggravation. If a hold
tip or hnularv are crave, should they
not command a henyv pentittv? F)y
a"V going luethixN i f tli atate with
reformed to th criminals, th i-rookd
(iimd--r th w hoi thing a f.irie:
they d.sretimt laws and officer. n1
roua-'ijiiriitly bee,, ma piHr rltii-na.
Tby appr't Uta Us l i, tha ab.w
bringing of i4i ti trial. Jurn- e-
' limiting thaio, avitiiuthetle adi till.
effVatt no f .ni.-t i.niir.tf. iitot b wo
!th:i' irlMiiiuil lvi showing thrm
b.-w lo 'Uirni oi t of rvnweistoi un I
I tha in II of I", hll iiimiii In drfr.tt
I lint ,vertn l'N o tr title fni "t
I-ir In n.4'i . rutin, uitv,
trediM tMr Cltitenah'P an t tba 1la
c --.i n. Hit .f It r" i t a
in gM ! . na t l tail ii'i'l '! if
IH d t t aiitartain eg .t i.i.ni.a
bi d. It olHor rl. if Ilia ri.n, il
atront war n-t a.'vi-ieiihsi4ta.i lhr
a till! I r e iiiiaf.
1 1 l I Ht Vil li
Inlernulioiial Milliards.
Kuan lha NfW urk 'I'rl t-une.
in sports, at all events, there re
sign of International nmlty. (if tha
six lending professional billiard play
er who re to take part' In the ap
proaching tournament In till city,
three come from Kurope, and one of
them, Erich Ilngeiilacheri I a Ger
man, llo will meet over the green
cloth tho Belgian expert, Edouard
Iloremnns; the young French cham
pion, Itoger Contl, and America' big
three Jnko Hchaefer. the present title
title bolder; Willie Hoppe, tho once
Invincible, and Welker Cochran, who
I almost clever enough to beat them
all.
Oreat Iirltaln I not represented, for,
with characteristic loyalty to their
own way of doing things, the Ilriton
allok to the variation of tho game
played on a Jumbo table with pocket.
Whence our game 1 descended I not
precisely known, but probably from
France. It gained Its vogue when
I.oul XIV physician proscribed
It for him as exercise.
With the rise of Willlo Iloppe the
Frenchmen were outstripped, and
over here for a dozen years Hoppe'
superior skill had a numbing effect on
competition until young Kchaefer, son
of the "wizard," broke the spell. They
"never come back," It Is said, and If
IIoppo can not disprove tho adage at
the coming tournament probably he
never will.
The foreigners play beautifully tn
practice and In exhibition. Horemans
has a stroke of almost incredible del
icacy. Hut there In a mysterious
psychological punch which tie Amer
ican are able to command In cham
pionship test.
fourth of the amount consumed. If
I hi goes on, the old s-tytng about not
eelng able to see tha foreat for the
trees will have no meaning to future
(fen ciations.
Thi would be a dismal plctuit in
deed if tha eeretary had slopped
here. Fortunately, there are human
force conspiring with th natural
force to prevent Utter deforestation
notably, tha rolled Ktutea jiepart
uu-iit of Agriculture, which look
upon timber not a a a mine to be ex
bnnsteil as rapidly sa rmsmhle, but
I crop to be cultivated nnd harvcteu
w lniii ripe, though In sticti a way that
itber tree will grow to be harvested
la the future. In the first place, tiler
I ire l.riti,uiMi,uoo acre of government
loreais mm nr oeirig irruieti in una
way, and tho methods employed In
their iropplng and preservation ar
being extended to private forest and
wood lots. More and more private
owners are adopting the department'
policies of lire protection, insect' nnd
ill sen hi- control, and cutting In such a
wav as to provide for renewed growth.
1'ntll this prnctlc become universal
mid I'liizetis generally are n cn pful
o avoid eltiiig on lire u, forest a a
wheat Held, and have a much rever
men for a tree us Homer or Joyce
Kilmer, we shall have a "forest prob
lem." Fortunately, It Is In the band
of tho Department of Agriculture,
with Its bureaus of plant Industry
and animal Industry and entomology.
It is an agricultural problem. Timber
I a crop.
What 'Wyoming Want.
I'rtjiti tha J.aranile Kt-puiillcan,
The Republican Is today printing a
statement made by I'resltlent 'arl
!niy of the I'lilou I'liclflr on the sub
ject of the Central I'ik-IIIc. We doubt
if ii majority of thn people of this
state, or many of them. In fact, real
ize. Just what It would mean to
Wyoming and to Ijiramle the taking
over Into close cooperation of that
stretch of road from Ogden to Han
Francisco a a purl of the Union Pa
cific. Mr. Gray ay It 1 not necessary
for the Union Pacific: to buy the Cen
tral Pacific let It bo operated Inde
pendently, hut In co-operation with
the Union Paclllo. Such operation
would place Wyoming and Laramie
on what may be termed four or five
trunk line of road from New Vork,
Chicago and Omaha, to Hun Francisco,
to I,o Angeles, to Heattle and the
whole Paclllc northwest, and from Ht,
Urmia and Kansas City, two of the
greatest cities on the continent, In a
business way, Every train going from
New York, Chicago, Kt. ixiiiIr, Kansa
City, Omaha, Denver and other point
to the Pacific coast over the com
bined line will pass through Laramie,
In both directions. The Importance of
this city I outstanding', even to bo
on the map of such a line. We are
In it magnificent position to know
what the railroad Is contemplating.
Timber as a Crop.
From the New York Tlinea.
When Joyce Kilmer. In bis book
.ibout tree and other things, said:
"Poema are marts by fnola like ma.
But God alone can make a trno,"
he did not take enough credit to
Mmself and his craft jor give enough
credit to the Department of Agricul
ture and the human being who plant
nnd care for the trees. A line about
n tree In Homer has outlived nearly
every tree on the face of the earth,
except the redwoods of California
tho line In which, after speaking of
Nauslcaa n the moat beautiful ob
ject he had ever lookPd upon.lHyHses
paused and added, "No, once I saw
n tree,"
It Is. of course, true that only the
Ood of all nature can make a tree,
but It Is to bo Inferred from tho ad
dress of the secretary of agriculture
In Cincinnati the other day that. If
man doesn't do more to assist tn the
making of trees, the Maker of heaven
and earth and the trees that grow be
tween them will find this particular
occupation gone, except in forest
reservations. It Is He that "glveth
tho Increase," but there Is need of
Pauls to plant and A polioses to water
and entomologists to protect against
pests, and fire wardens to protect
against fire, and plant pathologist
and sail physicists.
The virgin forests of the United
State once covered well toward a bil
lion acres S22,000,000 acres over a
million square miles: n tract, if all
the trees were put together, r00 mile
by 2,000 miles. There remains 137.-
000. 000 acre. Just oneslxth of tho
original acreage. Towns and farms
have filled nearly half of tho cleared
space (359,000,000 acres), and second
growth, much of it of an Inferior qual
ity, covers nearly n third CMfi.OOO.OOO
acres). The rest (HI. "00,000 acres) I
idle land, devastated nnd growing,
nothing worth while. To make the
statistical story complete It I neces
urv to add that while our wood con
sumption amounts to 25,000,000.000
cublo feet yearly, yet even the Su
preme Maker of trees is adding, he-
1. 'ause of th lack of man's assistance,
only 6,000, ooo.ono cublo feet one-
Doesn't Mean Und of Faith.
I'rotn the Minnesota, Stnr.
Have no fears this old mundane
sphere I not going to bo blown to
bits Just because the atom ha been
isolated.
Dr. Aston, tho distinguished Cam
bridge scientist, I authority for the
statement that the atom can not be
held to bo a menace to humanity, and
bo has no fears that some foolish
chemist will liberate enough atomic
energy to blow the world up.
"We have In sight a stwrce of en
ergy far beyond the dreams of clen
tide convictions," Dr. Aston said, In
explaining how science has discovered
the secret of chemical transmutation.
"Tho possibility of such transmuta
tion be achieved on a large scale In
the future I of the utmost Import
ance," he said.
Of course, It I possible that ome
savant will use transmutation nnd
develop a great world exploding
power, the scientist admit, but he
doesn't believe It will happen.
"If," the doctor says, "if we could
transmute four grammes of hydrogen
Into one gram of helium, three
grammes of matter would be annihila
ted, and if all the hydrogen on earth
were detonated, the earth and all of
laVUiJAAl
Its Inhabitant would be dissipated
Into space.
"The probability or thi catastropne,
however, 1 practlcully negligible.
I have read newspaper article
pointing out the danger of sdi-ntlUc
discovery and actually suggesting
that anything which might lead lo
the liberation of atomlo energy should
be suppressed. There I no doubt that
humanity ha misused the gift of
clence In a most deplorable nuinner
In the past and doubtles will continue
to do so In the future; but, speaking
generally, I regard such a point of
view as ridiculously pessimistic.
Lone- aiio our apelike ancestors no
doubt grumbled at the Innovation of
cookery nnd pointed out the peril or
fire the greatest scientific discovery
In history."
The I.lttli! Theater.
I'rmn the N-lirmkn City 'n.
Dramatic club are springing up
everywhere throughout the country
to provide to lover of tho drama the
plays which Insurmountable obstacles
make Impossible for tho "traveling
stroller" to present as In day of yore.
The "little" or community theater
will bring to the average small town,
In due course of time, the plays which
the lover of mimic world cannot ex
perience without great expense and
long Journey. Dramatic club tn
America, are coming back.
Way We Have Our fiold.
Kipling and the rest of our critic
who wild we went Into the War to
make money should make u note of
the fact that tho United Unite Whip
ping board hns Just sold for 1750,000
a 300, 000,000 fleet of Wooden vessel.
Cincinnati Kntjulrer.
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