Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-23
Sy Ayshur Br;ehhsre

Charles Fox offers TO the United
States Government an engine that
CONSUMES no gas or other fuel
and runs forever"
The inventor says, "You just
st&yt her up and let her flicker"
and ne thinks it will bring mil
lions. 1t won't bring a cent. A
Power wiser than Charles Fox,
wiser even than Calvin Coolidge,
won't allow us to get something
for nothing" That would be bad
for US. Therefore there is no per-
petual motion, nothing worth hav-
ing, for which we don't give effort
and value in return.
It pays to develop a perfect
thing, from cows to radio. Mrs.
H. Mex. Twcmbly, of New Jer-
sey, owns a Guernsey named
Langwater Fairy, No. 97979. She
looks like any other cow, but gives
three times as much milk. four
aaG o half times as much butter
fat as tbe average COW. Her amaz-
lug record Just announced is 13,6O5
pounds Of buttef fat in one year.
In that kind of prosperity there is
no speculation, no manipulating,
Just plain, simple production of
wealth through intelligent attention
to breeding,
Daily the radio offers something
new. This time it is broadcast
ing church music for rural we'd
dings." The bride, trembling, will
give the last poke at her hair, the
last tug at her veil. The sexton
will "tvae IT," and up she will
march, in Farmingdale, N. j., to
the tune of Faithful and True"
played in Chicago, III.
: Florida says, "Come." The rich
will answer, "1'm hurrying." Have
YOU an income? Florida offers you
attractions over and above the fine
climate. Florida intends to put
into. her constitution a provision
that will exempt incomes and in
heritances from all taxation. This
IS intended as "a courtesy to pros
perous people from the North"
They I'll appreciate Il. No death
tax On inheritance, no State tax on
income! Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!
Florida says, "Come to Florida.
Here your income is all yours&to
spend. We chop off nothing and
your heirs get all you leave them
when you die. We won't tax dead
men,"
A long time ago Elisha "took
hold of his own Clothes and rent
them in two pieces" when he saw
Elijah go up in "a chariot OF fire
and horses of fire"
What are Elisha and Elijah, now
in heaven, saying to each other as
they see the Right Reverend Harold
Roberts Carson, Bishop of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Haiti, calmly rid
ing from one parish to another in
a flying machine? The navy lends
him the flying machine and he
visits places otherwise inaccessible.
All that men can IMAGINE they
can DO.
! DIR. Pearl, professor of biometry
and vital statistics at. Johns Hop
kins, says our population will be
197,000,000 in the year 210O. That
will be our maximum and then
will come decline.
With all due respect to the
learned professor, any child could
make as good guess.
DR.. William Allen Pusey recent
ly told the American Medical As
sociation that population would
reach 175,00O,000. And with that
density of population, the pressure
of existence will become so strong
that the death rate, particularly
infant mortality, will overtake the
birth rate"
: That is another poor guess.
Under intensive cultivation, as 1t
is now understood, the State OF
Texas alone could feed the earth's
entire population, and that is at
least sixteen hundred millions.
There will be thousand million
human beings in THIS country,
infinitely happier, richer, better
off in every way, than any popu-
lation that ever has lived.
In 1914 years, since 1900, our
population has risen from 100000
to 112,O00,OO0. What is the use OF
guessing what will happen in the
next 12O years? 1t would have
been impossible to guess how many
people this country could feed be-
fore harvesting machinery was in
vented. Impossible before the ar
rival of the tractor.
Lack Of food won't limit popula-
t'oa. Mems brains viii q alW&ys
provide for their stomachs. Er'
= higher race will gradually pc
taoe fewer children.
Disease breeding cities VII {;
l~7'.2n uD by the flying r:2sA-ne
ling Us to live on r'onEt;,. Z
',-s, whore there IS f"osh -.
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