Today
The Bees' 4-Hour Day.
A Pleistocene Skull.
A !\ew Russian Ghetto.
Wireless Power, Surely.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The busy bee, well-known to
you, works only half a day. The
Department of Agriculture proves
it, and Henry Ford prints the
news in his little weekly. Perhaps
he’s getting ready to put his men
on a four-hour day.
“Four hours for work, four
hours for play, four hours for our
own affairs, and 12 hours for sleep
end study,” would be a popular
program.
tiuman labor will be cut below
four hours a day, when we learn
to use machinery fully, and out
grow the foolish desire for too
much money, made from the labor
of others.
If the bee, with his little brain
can manage it, we humans can.
The bee has no machinery,
steam, or electricity to help it.
It travels on bee-wing power, does
all its work with its own own body
equipment, besides taking care of
the queen, feeding the drones, un
til the time comes to kill them, and
doing all the rest of the work, in
cluding providing for a winter of
no work.
Man’s hardest physical labor,
10,000 years hence, will be push
ing a button. His real work will
be thinking, his real interest study
ing the universe outside of his
little front yard lighted by our
sun. Soon one hour a day will be
more than enough for material
labor. The bees prove that it can
be done.
This interests archaeologists
more than the Coolidge message.
In Ecuador a human skull has been
found in a pleistocene bed. Near
the skull were bones of mastodons,
giant sloths, and one-toed horses.
If the find proves to be really a
pleistocene skull, it must be at
least 150,000 years old. That
would upset all theories about the
age of the human race on this
planet. It would also upset W. J.
Bryan’s theory that the world is
only 6,000 years old, except that
you can’t upset a good Bryan
theory with such a silly thing as
a fact.
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Lloyd George and British wo
men turned this election against
the Tories.
Lloyd George warned the peo
ple that to abandon free trade
would be to make living dearer.
Women at the polls did the rest.
Women have intuition, and Brit
ish women knew that Lloyd George
was talking sincerely.
The man who can inspire con
fidence in women will win political
fights, now that women vote. Th,at
will improve politics.
There is a new kind of “pale”
or ghetto in Russia, an improve
ment on the old one.
This new “pale” is for gamblers,
dishonest speculators, seeking to
increase the cost of food, and other
worthless citizens that live on the
community, producing nothing.
In the Narinsky district of
Siberia on the shores of the White
sea, and in other faraway, uncom
fortable places the gamblers will
be sent, to work or starve.
Rather harsh, but not unintelli
gent. _
The great expert Steinmetz,
just before he died, said what this
and many unscientific guessers
have said for 10 years past, that
power will be transmitted by wire
less. That will settle flying ma
chine problems. The giant ma
chine, with its load of 10,000
passengers, will take up energy,
through the air from Niagara and
other sources, as it flies along.
The people will live on hills and
mountains, far from cities. Those
“cities” will be great office build
ings and factories, machines land
ing on roofs, in the morning, flying
back from these roofs in the eve
ning. If you doubt it, you have
not noticed recent developments.
Edison says that motor cars, run
on rails would save $60,000,000 a
year, on railroad branch lines. The
fact as printed here, any child
might understand. And each train
could be an express train. Ford
has built, and shows you in his
Dearborn laboratory, a gasoline
car for use on rails. It travels 60
miles an hour, and would cross
the continent without taking in
fuel.
Some railroad will wake up and
try it. The New Jersey Central
or Pennsylvania ought to start,
with the New Jersey coast line.
It is alleged, you cannot be
lieve news from Russia, that the
bolshevik government is seeking
to bring about an "atheistic Christ
mas.” Young communist* en
thusiasts are drilled in the art of
separating the joy of Christmas
from the association with the name
of Jesus.
No better plan eould he devised
for keeping religious fervor alive.
Contradiction, attack, persecution
add to religion’s strength. The first
lion that ever ate a Christian
martyr proved that.
The British empire faces new
conditions. The tories are beaten.
Liberals can govern only by mak
ing an agreement with labor, or
tories by humbling themselves to
the liberals.
Lloyd George will find a new
one added to the many problems
he has solved for England, if he
goes back to power.
A labor government ruling
Great Britain and the empire, is
no impossibility. What would the
dominions say to that? Could
the British, with all their marvel
ous political adaptability adjust
themselves to the new rule?
And what kind of rule would
labor given to the great empire’
Here that problem seems far
away. Mr. Gompers, head of union
labor, says workmen must, not go
into politics as a separate party.
There is talk of a "farmer-labor
party.” But that is like talk about
mixing oil and water. Farmer*
end laborers are ns far apart ns
Socialism and Wall street.
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LIVELY WEEK STARTED BY
RUNNERS BRINGING IN WET
GOODS AS FOG HANGS LOW
—
By Associated Press
New York, Dee. 10.—This week will be the liveliest in many a moon
for revenue men guarding ruin row, William It. Saunders, deputy collector
of (lie port, said in announcing that 10 vessels, declared by him to lie the
largest rum fleet ever gathered off the Ismg Island and New Jersey roast '
were awaiting to dispose of holiday wet good.
Several ships have come directly ■
from Europe and have forced down
prices he said. His list included nine
British ships, one French, one Spanish
and one Norwegian.
Bum runners at Atlantic. Highlands,
N. J., were favored Sunday by a low
hanging fog, light winds and a mod
erate temperature, it was said. What
they succeeded in bringing ashore was
unknown, though many small boats
were reported out. (’oast guard men
captured several small boats but made
no arrests as no liquor was found.
Some liquor was dumped overboard.
First Installment
of
STEFFI DALLAS
by
Olive Hipping Prnuly
will be found on
Pape 6.
20ih Century
Wreck Probed
9 Lives Lost as One Section
of Crack Train Hits
Another.
Washington. Dec. 10.—An investiga
tion of the wreck of the Twentieth
Century Limited of the New York
Central railroad at Forsythe, N. Y..
Sunday, has been ordered by the In
terstate Commerce commission, W.
P. Borland, director of the bureau
of safety, announced today.
Immediately after the accident took
.place officials of the New Y'ork Cen
tral formally notified the commission
here and federal investigators were
immediately dispatched to the scene
of the wreck.
Oil Company Is
Under Scrutiny
T. .1. BcGuire, assistant state at
torney general, conferred Monday
with Deputy County Attorney John
Yeager, relative to the issuance of
complaint against the Tea Pot Perale
um company of Casper, Wyo., which,
according to McGuire, is operating in
Nebraska contrary to the blue sky
law.
Request for complaint followed sale
by E. B. Griffith to O. M. Henry.
915 North Twenty second street, of
four tracts of land In the "Tea Pot
Petroleum Salt Creek district.’'
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Famous Woman Writer
Receives Nobel Prize
Miss Selma Lngrrlof, called (lie
most famous living writer of her sex
in the world, lias just celebrated her
sixty-fifth birthday arid is tile only
woman recipient of the Nobel prize
for literature.
She lives in her parental home in
Sweden, where her pen is ever busy.
REFINITE FIRM
' SOLVENT, CLAIM
Truman E. Stevens, heavy stock
holder and receiver of the Reflnite
company, alleged to be bankrupt, was
appointed trustee by M. F. Dunham,
referee, at a meeting of creditors In
the federal building Monday.
In hiH examination to show that
the company is at present solvent,
Stevens stated that the assets are
$523,012.92, while the liabilities are
$192,300.
Arthur Rosenblum and George
Thummel represented a majority of
the creditors, while Frances Brogan
looked after the Interests of about
$200,000 worth of stock.
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2.000 Nominated
by Coolidge
Frederick I. Thompson and
Bert E. Haney Named for
Shipping Board.
fly Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 10.—More than
2.000 nominations, Including that of
Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota to he
ambassador to Great Britain, were
sent to the senate today by President
Coolldge,
Among those nominated were Rich
ard M. Tobin of California to be min
ister to the Netherlands; Frank Me
M,'iiiamy of Washington, D. C., and
Mark W. Potter of New York to be
members of the interstate commerce
commission; George R. James of Ten
nessee and Edward H. Cunningham
of Iowa to be members of the federal
reserve board.
Edward P. Farley of Illinois, Fred
erick I. Thompson of Alabama and
Bert E. Haney of Oregon were nomi
nated to be members of the shipping
board.
Nominations under the Interior de
partment included: Shade Wilson,
superintendent for the five civilized j
tribes in Oklahoma, and Gilman Bui- j
lard, surveyor general of Montana.
Four appointments to membership
on the federal farm loan hoard made i
during the recess were submitted, the I
appointees being: Louis J. Pettyjohn, I
Dodge City, Kan.; Elmer S. Lands,
Wooster. O.; Merton L. Corey, Omaha, i
anil Edward E. Jones, Harford, Pa.
Collectors of customs included:
Thomas T. Wilson, Denver; Russell
If. Dunn, Port Arthur, Tex.; Charles
L. Saunders of Omaha.
Several of the nominees already are
holding office under recess appoint
ments. Similar appointments in the
Treasury department were covered
by the nominations of Garrar* B.
Winston of Chicago to be under sec
retary for the treasury; Henry M.
Dawes of Chicago, to be comptroller
of the currency; Robert J. Grant of
Denver, to be director of the mint,
and Frank K. Shepard of Denver, to
be superintendent of the Denver mint
J. Walter Drake of Michigan was
nominated assistant secretary of com
merce and George K. Burtess of
California, to be director of the bu
reau of standards. Henry H. Curran
of New York, now serving under re
cess appointment, was named com
missioner of immigration at New
York.
Edwin P. Morrow, who retires to
morrow as governor of Kentucky,
was nominated to be a member of
the public group of the railroad la
bor board. Horace Baker of Ohio was
reappointed as a member of the
management group, and E. F. Grable
of Michigan, now holding a recess
appointment, was named a member
of the labor group of the board.
Coolidge to Buck
Hi in California
Washington, Dec. 10.—Preeldent
Coolidge not only has definitely en
tered the race for the republican
preeidential nomination next year,but
some of Ills friends are preparing to
put his name on the primary ballot
in California, the home state of Sen
ator Hiram Johnson.
Entrance of the president into the
California primary was indicated as
probable today after a call at the
White House by William H. Crocker,
republican national committeeman
from California, and for years a mem
ber of the anti-Johnson republican
faction of that state.
Mr. Crocker declined to confirm or
deny that he had urged Mr. Coolidge
to give battle to Senator Johnsonu In
his homo state, but declared that he
wished his "chances of Heaven were
as good as the chances of President
Coolidge to carry California against
Hiram Johnson."
(iocs 4,000 Miles to Win.
Chicago, l)er. 10.—Vancouver Pre
m'er. a 2-year old roller canary, trav
eled 4.000 miles from Vancouver, B
i . to Chicago to win the title of
!n;< rn itionul champion songster of
h— nd class from 674 repre
sentatives from four countries.
i.o <1, winch is owned by C. C.
. in of Vancouver, was proclaim
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, _ Into, national Holler Canary
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“Take It or Leave It,” Says1
Cynic of Marriage
Isn’t Satisfied With Men Who Choose Her—Hasn t
Developed Good Side Enough.
Ily MARTHA ALLEN.
One cynic, a girl, voices complaint
In her letter that either you take
what you can get or you don't marry
at all. Wouldn't this be a queer
world If we all thought this way. At
any rate, it Is just as well to look into
theories that are expressed In so
strong a fashion. "It Is generally
the last man you would have chosen
If you had a chance to select that
you finally marry," she writes. "And
it seldom fails that the qualities in
yourself that attract the man are the
very ones you try to suppress.”
There's a lot of cheating In love If
you would listen to such a cynic.
The search for an Ideal mate Isn t
always profitable. A man or woman,
when pursuing the idea of love, finds
It when he or she least suspects it.
There is no acceptance of the nearest
substitute at hand it tne lueai oi me
and love Isn’t too far up In the
clouds.
That doesn’t mean that love is not
on a high plane. It should be If It
is going to succeed. Accepting love
that Is merely physical attraction Is
bound to starve mind, heart and
soul.
The only way out seems to be to
cultivate these very qualities that are
prized in order that they will at
tract some one of equal aspirations
for happiness. It isn't easy to do
this, hut it seems the only way to
get rid of the cynical attitude. No
use sitting down and growling about
others' shortcomings without first
considering your own.
This girl must have had a big jolt
to her happiness at some time or she
wouldn't I* so will rig to make such
rash statements. She has harhored
this feeling until It ha* become one
of cynicism.
Mr*. It. II. Nothing I* ever too
much trouble to help those in need.
Anyone who ha* lived on a farm eight
miles from town and ins never
planned a party is In need of help, a*
you say. Tor that Christman party
for 16 high school girls, a taffy puli
would be one way of entertainment,
a* you suggest. Decorate the house
with red and green ribbons. Have
streamers made of cedar boughs or
pine boughs hung over the door. t's«
red and green crepe paper for deco
rations if you cannot find th«
ribbons, and cover the lighting fix
tures with this paper. A Christmat
tree, even If very small, seems neces
sary. Inexpensive little gifts, col
lected from various homes of youi
friends and given to your guests it
fun, would provide amusement. Tin
guests could suspend bright colored
stockings with clothespins on a lint
near the fireplace nr stove Thes<
stockings 'in be filled with home
mode popcori# ball*, fruit and candy
A holly wreath hang in a doorwa:
could he used for a game. Havi
snowballs made of cotton batting, co\
ered with white tissue paper. Tb'
person who can throw all three balls
one at a time, through the wreath i-'
given a prise. A corr/petition ir
blowing out Christmas candles could
al*o be held.
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