Evening star., 1923-06-05

| The billion n-dollar bid for the mer-
| chant marine vessels, which Chair
| man Lasker characterized as SUM
| mer dream" promises to be more
f, than that. It may prove to be the
latest version of the bitter bitten"
| or the great advertised outbid at his
| own game. The bid amounts to more
| than three times the total appraisal
value of the vessels, but MIR. John w.
Slack of Silver Creek. n. Y, is en-
| Enthusiastically commended by the Sill
| yer Creek paper for having put the
| town on the map.
Who ever heard of Silver Creek un-
| til 1t entered the billion dollar class?
His name is Slack, but not his wit. He
| has gotten nearly a billion dollars
worth of Advertising free. and that is
| about as much as Mr.. Lasker could
| do. after all his experience at the
head of "tudicious" advertising
| agency.
| Mr.. Slack asserts that If his propo-
sition is "a summer dream" the sell
ing methods of Chairman Lasker are
! a nightmare" That seems to leave
psychological honors about even.
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The Department of Commerce has
been scored for reporting. some
| months ago. that the worlds sugar
| crop was short. The result of that
| report, as charged. was the sudden
| and persistent rise in the price of
| sugar. and in counter action, the wide
spread boycott of 1t.
There was a man of our town
Who was so Wondrous wise
He jumped into a bramble bush
And scratched out both his eyes.
| And when he found his eyes were
=. out,
With all his might and main,
He jumped into another bush
And scratched them in again."
The identity of that jumper has been
| settled at last. He is none other than
| Mr.; Herbert Hoover, for now he pro-
claims that the coming sugar crop is
| to be very much bigger than the crop
or last year. Last years crop was
! 2O.26S.o11 short tons. (That is what
mace mace 1he In, consumers supply short"
064 tons. Cuba will produce this year,
$4,000 tons, against last years
3,47s.000 tons
The department claims that in view
or .hls optimistic outlook, as to guam
/ u
high prices for sugar.
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But just why when we are getting
| ready to have two Jumps in our cof-
Zee where one grew before. here
| comes the threat of a coffee famine.
Brazilian coffee producers and Amer
ican importers are in a speculative
squabbie. Brazil refuses to export and
consumer is unable to-weiI, what
eooa are two Jumps Of sugar in an
empty conee cup? Aren't we Hoover
| An Ohio professor of the juvenile
research bureau tells US that when
we are born We are equipped with a
| brain which can be developed Just SO
far. and no farther. II, upon ma
| turity. we are found to have a brain
development not exceeding that of a
child of seven years. 1t is a pity that
we were born; but. if our brain is
equal to an eight-year-old child
well and good.
He also indicates something which
he had not checked up on. Speaking
OF the former practice of Furnishing
children If they failed to keep up
learning differently now
From the standpoint of grammatical
construction. does that professor rate
higher or lower than the deadline of
a seven-year. .old child, when he ex-
presses himself so lamely? Why not
say. We are learning different now %
Or. does he really that his own
method of learning is changed? II
so. he is learning differently" but
| If what he learns Is different, why
| not say SO?
! Was it not Michelangelo who de-
fined genius as the capacity for in
| finite painstaking? Then why dis
courage US "eight-year-o medi-
thought we can never add even