The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-08
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Worst Waste of All. Oxygen and Hydrogen. Foolish Swim, Silly Race. Castles Learn Slowly.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Everybody has said something about American waste. We waste in forest fires, in the garbage pail, ac- cording to statistics, we waste enough to feed 8 nation. We waste in lands unused and in agricultural implements left out in the rain. good for only one season.
 We waste by hurrying too much, eating too fast. sleeping too little. But of all the foolish waste the worst ia this: There are now 1,25s,Oo0 men on strike in the United States.
 At s4 day average, that means s5.ooo,00o day, q billion and half dollars a year. to say nothing of the loss to employers, owners, stockhold- CTS. Workers and employers dis agree, there comes strike or lock- out, money and work are wasted, while seeing which can stand 1t the longest"
 There ought to be intelligence enough in the country to change that.
 One Mexican oil stock went up nearly 100 points. then Hoped. went down almost half as much. Only the recording angel knows what the poor gamblers said The slump was caused by salt water in the wells. - -tS un-our..~,anf Thara is salt water in some wells undoubtedly. Also there are several thousand mil- lion barrels of oil in Mexico. so take care how you. go short"
 The curious thing is that if men knew how to use 1t. how to sepa- rate the two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen that make up mole- cuis of water, they would have fuel better than oil or gasoline. leaving no carbon deposit. And if they knew how to use the power that holds to- sether the atoms of hydrogen and oxygen in the molecules that fill a M5s glass full of water, they would
 ase mora power than could be
 ,loped by burning 100000 barrels q il.
 hydrogen burns with intense heat. Sxs .en Is necessary to all comhus- tion, and. combined. two parts of fyfrogen, one of oxygen. in water. eEs out fire. That's worth ten sec ena4 of thought.
 E nbins hydrogen and oxygen in saasf parts and you have peroxide cf ydrogen, which turns the iady's haIs yellow and eleanses wounds.
 kil the heat in your body Is due 70 LOW burning caused by oxygen. stss breathing and your body gets seis mo more oxygen taken in from sAe air. Moral: Sleep with all win dows open.
 An American is starting for Eu- rope to swim across the English channel, if he can. One Englishman did 1t.
 The Duke of Leinstsr has bet sf,boo hc can drive his automobile from London to Aberdeen faster than the express train goes. Both swimming and racing arc wasted. A fish six inches long, can swim across the channel and back dosen times, while a aoo-pound man labors heavi- ly half way across.
 Everybody knows that an automo- bile can go faster than the average express train. if anybody Is foolish enough to drive 1t so rapidly. Men with money, courage and energy should do something new. or at least useful.
 Some imperialistio gentlemen in Germany would avoid trouble by reading few pages of history. The Count of Gresenaus, near Madgeburg, kept the kaiser's flag flying above his castle. When ''the mob" tried to haul 1t down his servants fired on that mob.
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 A certain Frenchman--he had a castle-said Let them eat Grass," when told the people were clamor- ing for bread. They carried that mans head around the streets or Paris later, stuck on pike, his mouth stuffed full of grass--too late for him 10 know that grass isn't ac- ceptable food. Not too late, you would think to be warning to oth- CTS that live in castles.
 Publishers of radio literature say "Ths fad is dying out" because they get few requests for books. That doesn't mean anything. When the automobile was new, everybody talked about it, bought books about it. or organized automobile races on public highways. Now the races are over, the automobile is taken for granted. but it hasn't "died out" ex- actly. You can buy no books about pancakes. but pancakes are popular.
 NEGROES BADLY BEATEN
 By Associated Press
 Pensacola, Fla, July 7.-Three
 tr;Lehreakera ware badly