The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-13


 suez canal. When he bumped into America and went back to be badly treated and put in jail, he considered his life a failure. and died a disap- pointed man.
 This birthday also reminds us that the boss, directing and eoercing, may be more useful than he seems. Chris topher Columbus sailors wanted to throw him overheard because he per sisted in his dim and perilous way"
 When Columbus, landing on that island, saw the brown natives he thought he was in India, and called them Indians. We keep the name which is preposterous.
 It is said that Columbus was tall, with an aquiline nose, which means a nose like an eagles beak, and blue eyes. Hs died neglected and never knew what he had discovered. If he could come now in a flying machine to watch cur election and see hun dred millions of people demonstrate their inability to govern themselves, he might say: T made a mistake"
 Ar old baseball poem says; Some where in this pleasant land the sun Is shinging bright"
 One such spot is the humble home of the Standard oil of New Jersey stockholder. Yesterday he learned that stock in the company had in creased from $110, 1000, o00 to ss25, 100000. He gets 400 per cent stock dividend. good deal better than cash, for later these shares will heve more little baby shares. and the sun will shine again.
 Strange that a country rich enough to get such magnificent results from the users of gasoline, etc, isn't rich enough to pay a bonus to it's soldiers.
 Answer to that puzzle: Standard Oil is well organized; the people, not.
 This universe, where in some shape you have always existed and in which your life can never end although you don't know exactly what 1t is to be ten triliion years from now, Is the only interesting thing. Scientists have extended it's dimensions, and say it's. two quintillion miles wider than they thought. Off to one si1e they have discovered a cluster Of stars. giant suns, invisible to the strongest telescope, revealed by faint impression on negative. The Milky Way, supposed sc be all there is of cur universe. is noy a.elared to have diameter of 100000 parsecs. A ~parsec" is one Tight year" A light year. is the distance that light travels in se5 days, going 1s6,ooo miles a second-more than seven times around the earth for every jump of the second rand.
 A few years ago the width of the Milky Way was fixed at so,o0o par secs. This new discovery puts the outer boundary of our eosmic domain two quintlllion miles farther off than we thought. To write a quintillion. put down 1 and add IS ciphers. Amer icar plan. The English quintillon is one million raised to the firth power. To write that. put 1. followed by 30 ciphers
 This is biz un.t srse and it Is foolish to set any limits to it for with  all respect to Einstein and his cur yature of time and space, there can not be any limit to space or time That is settled by the questions:
 "what Is beyond your boundary? What comes after the end of your time?"
 Whatever is really good pays. Judge Gary. of the big steel company, cevotes his time to safety first" translated into his more practical Don't get hurt" The steel com pany spends a million dollars yearly fisntiug accidents. It has spent in ali one hundred millions to make its gigantic plants and forests of huge machinery kill as few workers as possible.
 Judge Gary will tell you that his company never made better in- vestment. even from the viewpoint of tn most selfish stockholder. Every dollar spent to increase safety comes hack in more work. greater eff ciency good interest on the invest ment.
 In Austria congress Of transport workers winds up with singing and dancing and the adoption of Walt Whitman as the poet laureate of Austrian labor. A better selection would be Victor Hugo, the work mans real poet. The French name nrebably would be unwelcome in Austria just now.
 It Is announced the United States will discourage loans to Eu- rapean countries. including private loans, by bankers, tempted by high interest rates and a lottery attach msrt. Europe may say: This is fi- nanciaf tyranny" but 1t isn't. The idea is to discourage making condi- tions worse Sy spending more on war.
 The indivitua. would be justified in refusing to underwrite a firm of burglars. and this nad,n is certainly justified in forhidding it's citizens to underwrite burglarizlng war schemes across the ocean.
 Millions for rebcIlfing. not d cent