Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-07-26
WARNING TO PARENTS.
8 MILLION LITTLE PIGS.
RIDING A DRIVING WHEEL.
EASTMAN'S MILLIONS.

Al! fathers and mothers should
be put on their guard by the death
of the Presidents son. The boy
wore shoes, or sandals, with no
stockings, as thousands of boys and
girls do, every day IN Summer.
THAT IS MOST DANGEROUS.
The earth, everywhere, is i'm
pregnated with dangerous germs,
including the germ of lockjaw, and
innumerable other germs that may
cause blood poisoning if a slight
wound be neglected.
The feet and especially the toes,
are more easily infected than any
other external part of the body.
Cramped for generations in
shoes, deprived of their natural
blood supply, very often the toes
lose their power Of resistance to
germ attack. Constantly you read
of blood poisoning that starts In the
foot.
Wearing shoes without stock
ings, neglecting cut or blister, az
children often do. any germs ac-
cumulated are persstently and con-
tinuously rubbed into the tissues
and into the blood circulation, with
no protecting stocking between the
foot and the leather.
The pluckier the child the more
probability of g neglected wound.
And boyish courage, unfortunately,
is no protection against germ at
tack.
1.-THE Spring crop Of pigs Is short
by 100000 il the corn belt"
What becomes of the conscious
ness" of those 100000 little pigs
that never saw the light Of day?7
Are they suspended somewhere
in eternity, waiting for a chance
to kick up their little legs in the
corn belt and eat good corn, pre-
vious to having their throats cut?
s1f they could think at all, what
would they say Of o system that
brings them into the world TO eat
corn for little while and then be
eaten by their "superiors," sys-
tenn that keeps eight millions Of
them out of the world when the
price Of corn happens to 60 up?
What is the exact difference be-
tween 100000 pigs and the same
y,,,yoh or &c b,,r,aps9
Next in Importance to INTEL
LIGENCE comes POWER. Every
thing we have comes from power
intelligently directed. The World
Power Conference in London, dis
cussing the possibility of harness.
ing wind, waves, tides, sunlight,
natural steam and hot wells and
unusued possibilities of alcohol pro-
duction, is a most important gath
ering.
IL
Prince Cont says the United
States of America could get more
power from its hot springs in Cali
fornia, the Yellowstone, VALLEY
of Ten Thousand Smokey in
Alaska, ETC., than from all our
waterfalls. And think Of Unused
heat, deep under ground.
ass.~ ..
Sir Charles Bedford says alco-
hol from waste vegetable matter
would provide more power than
gasoline, when oil is exhausted.
Rice straw wasted in India could
produce enough alcohol to equal
in power the annual production of
petroleum.
This earth is a driving wheel and
1t is silly to think that we could
ever run short of power, living on
a driving wheel.
The attempt to climb Mt. Everest
is abandoned for this year. But
with the patience and perseverance
of other insects, men will keep on
trying and they will reach the re-"
.,,uv v,ax ma vnsrs the ffoaen
nodes of Mallory and Es&ine, two
of the expedition last seen as they
Uttered heavy cl6ud IN drive for
the top.
Rather a romantic grave, in the
freezing cold of the highest spot
on earth. Some day sightseers in
flying machines will look at a
stone, covering the dead bodies
of the first two men that ever
climbed up here" and children in
the sightseeing flier will ask,
"Why did they climb up, instead
of fying?"
Five years ago'George Eastman,
of Rochester, allowed 5000 en-
ployes of his Eastman Kodak Com
pany to subscribe for stock in the
company at par. Last week the
employees got their stock, worth
100000.
They paid just half that price for
it originally, making profit OF
100 per cent. That's a good way
to encourage good work and inter
est workers in their jobs.
IS N. A. A. @. p. BRANCHES OVEl
THE TOP FOR 1924.
Robert W. Bagnall, Director