, 1924-08-20
This Week
By Arthur Brisbane
Never Something for Nothing
Nearer Perfect Bigger Returns
A Surprise for Elijah.
No Population Scare.

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
start her up and let her flicker"
and he 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. Twombly, of New Jer-
{. Langwater Fairy, No. 97979. She
looks like any other COW, but gives
three times as much milk. four
and a half times As much butter
fat as the average cow. Her amaz-
ing record just announced is 1905
pound. Of butter fat in n year.
In that kind Of prosperity there Is
AO 6RCCukablOue III Dal u
just plain, simple production Of
wealth through intelligent attention
to breeding.
Daily the radio offers something
new. This time It il broadcast
ing church music for rural we'd
dings." The bride, trembling. will
give the last poke at her hair, the
last Ay- L. -,-n M ---A--
will etpne in" 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, 'T'm hurrying." Have
you an income? Florida offers you
attractions over and above the hne
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
porous people from the North"
IAey VIII appreciate it. No death
tax on inheritance, no State tax on
income! Oh. ioyl oh. raPturel
Here your income is all yours to
spend. We chop of 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 60 up in "a chariot Of fire
and horses Of fire."
What are Elisha and Elijah, now
in heaven, saying to each other as
they e 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.
ALI that men a IMAGINE they
can DO.
DR.. Pearl, professor Of hiometry
and vital statistics at Jonny ODD
kins, says our population viii be
197, 1000, 900 in the year 21OO. That
will b. u maximum and then
will come q decline.
With all due respect to the
learned professor, any child could
make as good a guess.
DR.. William Allen Pusey r1eent-
ly told the American Medical As
ISOLATION that population would
reach 17b,000,000. And with that
density Of population, the pressure
Of existence will become 30 strong
that the death rate, particularly
infant mortality, will overtale the
birth ratan
That II another poor guess.
Under intensive cultivation, a. II
10 now understood, the State Of
Texas alone could feed the earth's
entire population, and that il at
least sixteen hundred millions.
There will be a thousand million
human beings in THIS country,
infinitely happier, richer, better
of in every way, than any popu-
lation that ever has lived.
In 124 years, since 1900, u
population has risen from 5000, 900
to 10000, 900. VIVA. is the use of
guessing what will happen in the
next 120 years? It 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-
tion. Mems brains will always
provide for their stomachs. But
a higher race will gradually pro-
duce fewer children.
Disease breeding cities will be
broken up by the flying machine,
taking us to live on mountain
tnns xhere there In fresh mir