Idaho County free press., 1924-02-14
This Week
If Teddy Were Here
Money in Satchels
Evolution --Embrylogy
|Lenin's Good Brain
By Arthur Brisbane

| Can you imagine what Theodore
Roosevelt would be doing about now
| if that Teapot Dome scandal were un-
covered in his administration? He
| would have all the liberal givers of
cash before him, he, personally, in
specting their satchels.
He would have a battleship on its
way to France to bring back Sinclair,
if the law would let him, and whether
it would or not. His teeth would be
swapping and his hair bristling. There
would be real fireworks. and how he
would enjoy it.
And Mr.. Fall, secretary of the in
terror, who has leased away valuable
oil lands that had been reserved for
the navy, testified that he got 100000
from Ned Mclean, of the Washington
Post Then, ON second thought, he
testified, as did Mr.. Mclean, that the
latter gave him a check for 100000,
but he didn't cash it.
Now comes Mr.. Doheny, one of the
ablest business men of the country,
who testified that he lent his old friend
Mr.. Fall 100000 which he gave him
in cash in a SUIT case, and Sinclair
lent or gave, Mr.. Fall $4,000, some
in bonds. Easy money!" Yes, very.
Mr.. Fall says, 81 am a sick man. -
That isn't because he couldn' t hire
doctor, apparently.
One hundred thousand dollars in
cash in a satchel' that Mr.. Doheny lent
to Mr.. Fall without taking his note
or receipt had nothing whatever to
do with the fact that q few weeks
later Mr.. Fall, as secretary of the
interior, member of President Hard
ing IS cabinet, leased 2S,000 acres. of
oil lands ir California to Mr.. Doheny.
Mr. Doheny says he believes the
company will make one hundred mil
Ion dollars profit out of that lease,
which shows that he is a good busin
ess MAJ. The next time the United
States needs a secretary of the inter
ior it might hire Mr.. Doheny. He
knows how to make a good bargain
more than can be said for some of
our secretaries of the interior.
North Carolina forbids teaching in
public schools 'any form of evolution
which makes it appear that man des-
cended from any of the lower order
of animals, monkeys or anything else. y
The North Carolina authorities
should also forbid study of embryolo-
gy. 1t is discouraging to find, in EN-
bryonic conditions, that human beings
in the period before birth, pass through |
various animal stages duplicating !
practically all of them, from the sin |
Ill To hn fully 6aUalOnn0 |
"primate
At one stage of his development be- |
fore birth every man has two feet
like a gorilla. Sometimes one of the |
feet does not develop, and the man |
is born with one gorilla foot, which |
we call club foot. A"
That can easily be arranged by for |
bidding the teachers to say anything |
about embryology. If you don't like !
facts, why, smother them.
Doctor Semashko announces that !
Lenin's brain weighed 1910 grams
not an unusual weight. The brain of |
Turgieneff weighed 1000 grams. That |
of the great naturalist Cuvier was |
even heavier. But the convolutions !
in Lepin IS brain were extraordinarily |
deep. That is what counts.
The deeper the convolutions the |
larger the surface of the brain, and
all thinking is done close to the brain S
surface, just as all crops are grown |
CLOSE to the earth's surface.
In the depths of the brain, doubtless,
as in the depths of the earth, are hid
den great treasures not yet develop
ed.