Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-04-27

too many 81 and Republicans
born eschyea new party wall pro-
baby arise be slow process Of
time some a viii Be evolved.
Men get politics as they get
their religion. 81 inheritance. Reason
or logic plays no part. Precedent and
obeisance to the dead hand rules the
world.
President Lewis Of the coal miners
appears before Congress and says that
reform and control will not do in the
coal business. He says the mines must
Be nationalized. He points out that the
average working thine for the miner
runs between Us and $50 days year
and that he has to keep his children
on an income of some seven hundred
dollars. The tragic part of it is that
he has to do any arguing whatever.
How can the uniformed be expected
to grasp vital problems when trained
men remain obtusep
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Scientists make the claim that the
June bug has been successfully imitat-
ed-light without heat. The new bulb
viii store up light for year it is claim
ed.
An English scientist has evidence to
prove that there is sufficient energy in
a molecule of ether to run the wheels
Of the Universe indefinitely. He trem-
bles when he thinks Of some genius
harnessing the elemental force and
turning it to destructive purposes.
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A plan advocated several years ago
was TO establish high tower on unde-
Tended sea coasts and have powerful
machines capable Of throwing flames
an unlimited distance and burning to
a cinder any approaching ship. No
hostile ship could reach a coast so de-
Tended. Steinmetz has demonstrated
the feasibility Of this idea. He burns
to powder steel and wood at consid-
able distance by simply striking it with
a bolt Of lightning which he invented.
Modern man is beginning to rival the
gods Of old. It was no uncommon
thing for gods to slay men and monster
with thunder clap Of bolt from the
blue.
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Bryan is being rapidly relegated to
the class occupied by Overseer VoEva
who claims the earth is flat and proves
it. Bryan does not believe in evolu-
ton and proves that man did not des-
cend from monkeys. 1t is quite aston
ishing to note the large following he
has secured because of his anti-evolu-
tionary ideas. 7,
1t took Moses forty years leading the |
Israelites over barren waste that could |
be traversed in three weeks and reach |
the promised land. He realized that
the slave psychology Of the bond men
he liberated in Egypt must die out. The
only way the retrogressive ideas can be |
stamped out is to create a new enviro-
ment and then introduce slow starva-
ton.
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Notwithstanding the backwardness
and the insistence on standing still, the
world progresses in spots. IF it were
not for unseIfish men laboring night
and day in the sciences and arts the
future would be hopeless. Twenty
years ago men thought that revolu-
tionary change would come within five
years and the Brotherhood of Man
would be a fact. Jesus and his fol-
lowers thought that two thousand years
ago. So did numerous leaders long
ages before him. The great change is
10 Be upon us in 1925. We shall see.
1855
Vienna in Tears SO runs the
headlines over the death Of ex-Emperor
Charles, who died on the Island of Ma
deira. The last Of line dating back
to 1900 in gone. Inefficient. erratic,
useless, yet king. is mourned by thou
sands. How the tTappings. pageantry,
and emblazonry is inborn. Is it any
wonder that men abuse power when it
3 thrust upon them. Men actually
seem to like being bossed.
Al man was arrested in Brooklyn for
employing beggars on the streets OF
New York. He had several at work at
s. a day. He received on an average
$40 from each. He furnished ''hooch"
and the beggars would go forth each
morning IN their rags, malformations'
and sores and return at night with
$40. Thus is the capitalistic system