. Today The Four R's. Men Like Variety. 7 he I aloe of Science. Lions, Alive or Dead. By ARTHUR BRISBANE. V —----/ According to modern school chil dren, education includes four R's, “Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Radio.’’ Children seem to be born with the understanding of new discov eries born with them. A boy of 15 will manage and understand an au tomobile by intuition, better than his father. A young child will walk up to a screeching, squawking radio, turn knobs and get music in stead of the “static” produced un 4 der adult management. As regards the nature of elec tricity, what it is, why it works, the youngest child knows as much as any scientist. Iri a tropical forest, when trav elers have passed on leaving a fire burning, the monkeys come down, sit around, to warm their hands. They don’t know what it is that warms them, and never add a stick of wood to the fire. Civilized men sit around the mystery of electricity like so many monkeys around a dying fire. Dr. Marie Munk of Berlin, wo man, admitted to the German bar, says tin* trouble with marriage is “man’s fondness for variety.” It is pitiful but true that the average man will stick to one brand of cigar longer than he will stick to one wife. According to Dr. Munk, men leave their wives for somebody younger “for mere desire for a change.” That's all true, but what of it? _ Fidelity is even rarer among monkeys than among men. The object of marriage is to change men from monkeys to real men, and marriage is doing the work gradually. Infidelity, at least, is not A thing to brag about and take for granted. A report of the Smithsonian In stitution shows that our highly civ ilized government appropriates less than one-third of 1 per cent for its annual budget for science and re search. Ten times that appropriation, . which would be too little, and * would come back to the govern ment in increased wealth, a hun dred times over. How poor this nation would be without steam engines, automo biles, tractors, steel-making meth ods, chemical knowledge of fertiliz ers, and other “modern improve ments,” all born of science? The men of wealth do little for scientific research, outside of their own industrial plants. One scien tific invention, getting nitrogen out of the air at a low price, would supply cheap food and, properly used in charity, would do more for the poor and hungry than all the money given from the beginning of time. The Italian nobleman, pointing to the beggars at his back gate, cov ered with sores and eating scraps of food thrown to them, said, quite seriously, “These be my hounds with which I hunt salvation.” If feeding the poor means sal vation, scientific research could be made to pay dividends hereafter as well as now on earth. Prof. Jeams, leading British scientist, tells the Royal Astronom ical society that the great age to which suns are now known to live makes It quite certain that the uni verse and its millions of planets are populated by thinking beings. Suns, thought to last only a few million years, when ignorance of radio active forces led to the sup position that the suns were actual ly burning up, are now known to v last many billions of years. That \ > gives plenty of time for planets r to cool off and become habitable. But why should hot planets or tuns be uninhabitable? A maggot, looking st • living lion, would say, “that’s uninhabitable.” With the lion dead and cold, the same mag got would say, “There’s a nics com fortable home for maggots. Now it’s a habitable lion.” One single mind Inhabits the •m lion’s body while it lives. Many (maggots inhabit it when it Is dead. That may be true of blazing suns. A Washington dispatch says the final disposition of Muscle Shoals rests with President C'oolidge. It is to be hoperj the president will persuade Henry Ford to reopen his original offer. He would supply the farmers with cheap fertilizer, if the thing can be done by money ^Ajtd intelligence. Why not for a change give an honest, competent ;aA|l a chance? The grafters surely their full share. (Copyright. HI4.) "ECH “QUADRANT” ISSUED FRIDAY The next Technical High "Quad rant," published by the graduating ,mf class every quarter, Is to be on* of the largest tnagaxlnee ever produced by a senior class, according to the Quadrant committee. The book, to be distributed Decern her r,. Is now being run off on the Tech High press. Approximately *,000 copies will be gjrlnted. The new sen ior writeups end the page borders, composed of green holly leaves, adding a tinge of Christmas, will feature the class memory book. IMPROVERSTALK OF MOVING FARM Discussion of ths proposed moving of the county poor farm and in crease In street car faras was post pnn»d Wednesday night when weath er conditions prevented a quorum from attending the regular meeting of the Tenth AYnrrt Improvement > club, which tt«s held In the pavilllon of < Ilf ford park. The meet lug was adjourned subject j to the call of the president, Frank 0oh11son, st s time-appropt tats for (be formal dsclqlon of (Us fllub, S,2i2<2.5i3,-SiS'i2!2i>i>iSt2i5iSi9jSiSi5j2i2,5;2'.2i5.5.2.Iv2,2.2;2iSi5i5j29S(2i5iSi5iSi5)Si><5iSi5iI,i2,2.S2,S.:;.3<2.2i2.9iSs2i5i>r9t5)Si2i2.2iJ(25<5i3i2i5c K ^ -— | Bring the Kiddies to See Horne’s FREE Wild Animal Show ■ y Lions Tigers Leopards Bears Kangaroos Monkeys & I Cpme Soon—They Won't Be Here Much Longer! § 200 Costume I Blouses | 1.49 •P This Is ari Sj? .odd lot of w blouses in |f ponsee, j 9 canton 9 crepe, a . satin and * brocade Z velvets in overblouse and tuck J* in styles; some embroidered Sr and beaded. In shades of navy, J? copen, tan, beaver and black. j Second Floor—South Knitted Silk Vest . Lengths 98c Each Plain and fancy tubular silk vestings in pink, flesh, peach, orchid and white. Each vest comes In a transparent and sanitary Christmas package, a very nice gift. Main Floor—Center Box of Three Women’s Hand’chiefs 1.05 Value These are voiles and Irish linens in white and all colors; hemstitched borders, hand-embroidered corners. Very fine gift items. Main Floor—West 2.50 Gauntlet Domestic Cape Gloves 1.65 All around strap wrist heavy I embroidered backs, in the serv iceable shades of brown and tan. Sizes 6 to 7%. Main Floor—North Regular 1.50 Toilet water 98c Exquisite “ D j e r Kiss” Vegetable Toilet Water, in neat gift box. Main Floor—We»t All Linen ’Kerchief Squares Men’s 39c Women’s 18c All white and white with col ored borders in pretty pastel shades. All have corded bor ders, ready for hemming. Main Floor—West Regular 1.25 Curling Iron 49c | A nickel plated model Jp with good heating ele- 5r ment and five feet of cord. S Main Floor—We»t 5 [GiftJewelry]— 0NEiJ6 MORE POPPING DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS / Christmas ] IIjIlJThe Brandeis Store - I I’ I Teeter# Sr Keeps going for Sr a long, long time. Lots of J fUn* ‘ Kiddies’ Chairs 50c to 3.50 In all sizes, for kiddies of all sizes, tiny tots and growing children. Doll Houses 3.50 to 25.00 All ready to set up housekeep ing:. completely furnished. 1 Humming Tops 15c Boys will play with this top all day long and en joy every min ute. Thousands of Low Priced Toys FREE ANIMAL SHOW - //T7*\ ■■■ - Toy Piano*—In all sizes; a toy any lit tle girl will be proud of. Priced— 5GO to 25.00 1 The Corered Wagon—All ready to set out on the Oregon Trail. Watch out for Indians and things. Priced l.OO. * Pacing Bob — A graceful pacing horse, hitched to a light English sulky. Priced, 50 Dennison Instruction jr Many beautiful jrifts are beinr ji| made these days in the Denni* X •on rope, wax and paper work An expert instructor is at fe? your service from 9 a. m. to C* «• P- nu W The HmndeU Store Third Floor—Wool