The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-18

"Guessers" Are Cheerful Farmers Are Not. A Little Decision. Asia, the Mother.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

The stock market goes on. The very good "guessers" in Wall streN believe that the two big strikes are' coming to an end. That's cheerful for those who own and for those that speculate.
 Wheat dropped below s1 bushel on Tuesday; not so cheerful for farm CTS paying s5 day and even more for help.
 Freshen up your land by buying wheat and SOW it thick this fall. In the spring blow it under. You will get your money back many times in greater fertility. especially on potato land. It's cheaper than fertilizer.
 The New York Evening Post, which lived for a while in J. P. Morgan's offise. then got faint and walked out. leaving it's bonds in that office. exults as follows:
 we told you to buy Telephone and Telegraph stocks at 1oS. Since then 1t has risen to 1924. Its earning it's g per cent dividend by com fortable margin"
 Suggest lowering telephone rates and everybody will scream Murder" and "Confiscation!"
 The kind hearted supreme court said people of New York had no right to regulate the price of their gas. That was confiscation and under the supreme court ruling the price went up. Dividends went up, too. And soon the company will give two shares of stock for one and pay dlvi- dcnds on both which will mean 16 ger cent. profit. To interfere with that would also be confiscation. pre- sumabl3. The corporations motto is: Have you little supreme court de- cision in your safe?"
 Scientists tell you that Asia is mother of all the continents. You know t is so, Professor Osborn an nounces, because they have found there. half way across Mongolia. bones of dinosaurs. Asia was the center from which reptiles and man. mals. including man. went westward and eastward.
 That is one theory. interesting and plausible. More interesting is tho theory of German scientists, we'll supported. teaching that the conti- h break up and drift apart through millions of years.
 africa once touched South America Look at the east coast of one, the wes- coast of the other. and you will find that they fit perfectly like the halves of a page torn in two.
 The idea is that the urIer part of the earth on which we i've. made of comparatively light granite and other stone, floats and moves slowly, on a much heavier basalt foundation below. as fried egg might slide along the surface of polished plate
 King George made good speech the other day and wrote It himself Or affairs of state, the prime min ister prepare the kings statements. On orhe-s matters not.
 The kings good speech said. Fine buildings make good citizens" It's true. Magnificent architectural mon- uments stir the imagination. Hand- somer. more comfortable homes ere ofa batra, ybount,t
 The great mistake in this country is limiting the height of buildings. Height is the test of the new Amer ican architectural genius. To cripple that is a mistake. Some day our cities will be made of buildings a mile high. with landings for flying ma chimes on top. The street car sys- tenn will be the elevators running up and down, horizontal street cars will run on balconies outside the build ing.
 Italy gets SIPS. 5.oo0.0oo from the Ma tional tobacco monopoly. France gets still more. Count witte of Russia told this writer that the czars mo- .nopoly of vodka, which is plain al- cohol mixed with water, brought in just enough profit to pay for the army. Highly appropriate.
 If European countries did not con- trol and own some of their monop- olies they could not live. We are still rich here and can afford private ownership and extravagant competi- ton.
 It takes lot of water from the great lakes to produce the useful power of Niagra. It takes a lot of money piled up somewhere to give useful results in science as well q. in industry.
 As long as the peopleA haven't brains enough to use their own na- tional wealth, 1t is lucky that indi- vicuais have intelligence to accumu- late that wealth, to use It for those that don't know how.
 Reports of the Rockefeller Founds- ton read like fairy story of science. and the most beneficsnt story, too That scientific body, op- eratlns regardless of expense. and literally all over the world. fights and destroys the yellow fever carry ing mosquito and the hookworm that menaces s00.o00,000 of the 1,700. .000.- 900 human beings on the earth.