The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-04-29
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lold political parties. /" they ars Is dead
as doomails. This is a good suaqest-
Ilons but It won't be done. There are
too many Democrats and Republicans
Iborn each year "A new party Vim pro-
bably arise and in the slow process Of
time something good will be evolved
##a*
Men get their politics as they VET
their religion. BY inheritance. Reason
Ior 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 ii The
local business. He says the mines must
be nationalized. He points out that the
average working thine for the miner
runs between rs 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
s. s.
Scientists make the claim that the
June bug has been successfully initial
| ed light without heat. The new bulb
will store up light for A wear II is cla;;rn-
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-
tbles when he thinks of some genius
Harvesting the elemental force and
turning it to destructive purposes.
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| A plan advocated several years ago
was TO establish a high tower on unde-
Tended sea coasts and have powerful
machines capable Of throwing flames
an unlimited distance and burning to
! a clnder any approaching ship. No
hostile ship could reach coast SO de-
tended. Steinmetz has demonstrated
the feasibility of this idea. He burns
! TO powder steel and wood at consid.
liable distance by simply striking it with
a bolt of lightning which he invented.
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Modern man is beginning to rival the
gods Of old. 1t was no uncommon
thing for gods to slay men and monster
with a thunder clap Of bolt from the
blue.
Bryan is being rapidly relegated to
the class occupied by Oyerseer Voliva
who claims the earth is flat and proves
it. Bryan does not believe in evoIu-
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-eyolu-
tionary ideas.
1888
1t took Moses forty years leading the
lsraelites over a 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 new enviro-
ment and then introduce slow starva-
ton.
1893
Notwithstanding the backwardness
and the insistence on standing still, the
world progresses in spots. IF it were
not for unselfish men laboring night
and day in the sciences and arts the
future would be hopeless. Twenty
years ago men thought that reyolu-
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
to be upon us in 1925. We shall see.
vienna in Tears" So runs the
headlines over the death Of ex-Emperor
Charles, who died on the Island Of Ma
ideira. The last Of line dating back
to 1000 in gone. Inefficient. erratic,
useless, yet king, is mourned BY thou
sands. How the trappings. pageantry,
and emblazonry is Unborn. Is it any
wonder that men abuse power when il
| is thrust upon them. Men actually
seem to like being bossed.
A man was arrested in Brooklyn for
employing" beggars on the streets Of
NEW York. He had several at work at
So day. He received on an average
$40 from each. He furnished ''hooch'
and the beggars would go forth each
morning in their rags. malformations,