Idaho County free press., 1923-10-11
This Week
On Plates of Gold
Why Fighting is Respectable
93,00O Miles a Second
Whisky, Champion Criminal
BY Arthur Brisbane

by Christians who accept a similar
story from Moses, about the tablets
of the law.
Those that wisely respect all re
| ligions, denying none, are interested
especially in the changes which have
come over MormOnism, still full of
vitality after 100 years. Joseph Smith
made particular virtue of many
wives for one man-so did wise Solo
mon, by the way.
Modern Mormonism, rallying under
the purple, blue and gold banner,
"Cumorah-Ramah," says, zone wife is
enough" That does not mean repudi-
ating Joseph Smith. Many good
Christians tone down Jonah and the
whale, knowing that the earth is
round, do not insist that the four
angels actually stood at the four
corners of the earth. All life is a
compromise.
The department of commerce, bu-
reau of Census, calculates the total
wealth of the United States as about
three hundred billions of dollars, three
thousand dollars for every man, wom-
an and child, nearly double the total
wealth for 1912.
One hundred percent seems encour-
aging, and the census bureau figures
may be technically accurate, but they
don't mean anything.
A lady asks why the Dempsey -Firpo
fight is allowed. "Once," shys she,
''prizefghters had to hide away in
barns, like dog fighters. Now they
have the police to keep order for them
while they knock each other down.
How can you explain that?"
Easily. A big prize fight now is
worth two million dollars to the pro-
moters. That makes it respectable.
The owner of a little gambling
house must hide away. The owners
of a stock or produce exchange, where
they bet millions, is respected and
protected. We have our weaknesses
in this country, but we do show re-
spect for anything above one million.
One single idea might be worth
three hundred billions-for instance,
an idea supplying men with unlimited
free power from sun or tides.
There are many times three hundred
billions worth of wealth below the
earth in mines, oil, gas coal and in
the earth's thin crop producing carpet
of soil
There are more than three hundred
billion dollars worth of nitrogen in
the air above ua. This Is a rlch
country. but we need more people,
and instead of encouraging them to
come in, we foolishly keep them out.
Henry Ford is studying a better
kind of boat to carry freight and pas
sengers. If he produces 1T, he win
add billions to the nations wealth.
The height of mechanical folly is car
rving. on pounding rails and wheels,
freight that ought TO glide. without
friction or wear, along thousands OF
miles of canals and rivers.
To enioy a good headache, read Sir
Ernest Rutherford, great British SCI
enlist. on the atom. A thousand atoms
in tbe corner of your eye wouldn't
bother YOU. You wouldn't know they
were there.
The atom. a complex unit OF pure
electricitv. of which all substances,
elements wealth, rocks, buildings anu
mon are made, is miniature sonar
evstem. IT has a central. electron
which is like the sun.
Around it revolve dozens OF smaller
oIactron like planets. The electrons
fartherest away from the cehlel -
this miniature solar system, travei
SLOWLY in their orbits-only nve nun.
dred miles a second. 'Those hearesI
the center travel at the 1nconceiVaple
sneed of ninety-three thousand iniies
what horrible forces are Locked up
in those minute particles OF matter
In such an cinfra-world."
who knows what may happen, WhaI
,,onaro otions may be born and dle III
Tho fraction of a second? VINO KNOWS
thot thi, milky way cosmos OF ours,
ao,,,narad 10 which the earth is as piS
os an atom compared with the earth
lie NOV NOT be mere atom III
bigger cosmos? tho
1S The mower that holds together tne
otoms in a glassful of water Wouiu.
;f raIeased. run all the machinery u
tho limited States for an lnueliii'e
period. ,,o in that
Thought.
A man asleep and drunk complains am
booouse thieves took his spectacies'
false teeth and money. ,o;, of
tn That man shouldn't complain % Gi
thieves. but of whiskey that ne uranH n1
WhisI,ey is the champion thiel' s.su, o,,,
;na not onlv money, but health repu-
tation. character and finally me-
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