Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-20
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Apple)

A"IhhF
In Germany, scientists turn out
tn the funeral of Prof. William Con-
rad Rontgen, ~discoverer of the un-
canny magic popularity known as the
h-ray.
You know all about the X-ray,
What it does, how 1t makes the flesh
| transparent and shows bones and
! such things as needles buried in the
body One hundred years ago they
| would have confined in a lunatic
| asylum, any man who claimed he
had an apparatus for seeing through
the human body. We've progressed.
Tic N-ray is nearest TO the SUI
pernatural, of ANYTHING Yer dis
| covered by man. But it is only al
inkling of greater inven-
ltions that lie ahead. Scientists are
our real leaders. A. few hundred If
Them, living and dead, regulate most
| of u actions.
Engineers
Railroad engineers, builders If
vast Industrial empires, announce
that the railroad line which eventu-
ally will enable people to go by
train from New York to Bueros
Aires is SIS per cent completed.
lThat's a trip of t0,116 miles, and you
can take a train over $500 miles Of
1t now.
Before this road is completed, the
world may be selling it's railroads to
the junkniafa and handling its pas
sengers, express and freight by a.F-
ship. That's an ultimate certainty.
lit can't come overnight.
Danger
If some one handed you a stick OF
dynamite and asked 0 to carry 1t
home for him. what would you do?
Start running?
A that makes high eZ-
plosives checks UP and finds that
ESQ million pounds OF dynamite and
/ otbe err biow-up materials were maze
in 1920, sold and shipped all over
the country-without any properly
losses or personal accidents. And
only one accident in 1891. .
Explosive haven't been made tool
proof But the. people who handle
them exercise great caution. Moth
ing is really dangerous when we a.e
careful. All accidents are due TO
some ones carelessness.
EnterprisinG
Tokyo, Japen, will have its first
subways, rejecting the swiftly
changing orient. And the tubes
will be constructed by the Ameri-
can Company. It's a 15-million-dol-
la1 deal.
The fact that Americans are cali
ed on to handle the job, should be a
tonic to any of the rest Of us who
are discouraged about our national
importance. We are a crude" PEG
~ple--until some one wants a big
LOB done. Some European countries
REALIZED that a few years ago when
our military machine came to their
rescue. Now they seem to have for
gotten.
Sexes
Many more highbrows among or
women than our mel says DIR. Ales
Hrdlicka, anthropologist of Smith
sonian Institute. after liberal use
Of a yardstick.
What he has in mind is the tail
forehead. not intelligence. The
theory that the two necessarily 80
together probably started when pee
pie noticed that Daniel Webster and
a few others had huge skulls. IL
may be true, on the average, but we
know a lot of exceptions.
An impartial observer from Mars
would make a $3.50 report on our
men and women, with a none too
fattering grade for either.
The heart ~(character) is more inh-
portant than mentality. Real spirit
ually is not in the brain.
Skulls
Hrdlicka, scientist, says the aver
age skull of today is comparable 20
THAT of the later cave men OF l3'Vpo
years ago.
Then how can we account for the
great advance in average intelh~
Igence, if the scientists are right
about the shape of the skull reflect
ling the owners intelligence?
Has average intelligence really In
creased or is the mob mercy
hitched to greater leaders than n
the past like trains to locomotives
A safe thing to discuss anywhere.
mo one admits he belongs to n
average.