Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-02-07
IF TEDDY WERE HERE.
MONEY IN SATCHELS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
LENIN'S GOOD BRAIN.
THE WISE BRITISH.

N--EMBRYLOGY.
LENIN'S GOOD BRAIN.
THE WISE BRITISH.
Can you imagine what Theodore
Roosevelt would be doing about now
if that Teapot Dome scandal were
uncovered in his administration? He
would have all the liberal givers of
cash before him, he, personally, in
specting their satchels.
He would have 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 leased away valuable oil
lands that had been reserved for the
navy, testified that he got 100000
from Mr.. Ned Mclean, of the Wash
ington Post. Then on second thoughts
he testified, as did Mr. Mclean, that
the latter gave him check for $780,
600, but he didn't cash it.
-oo--
Now comes Mr.. Doheny, one of
the ablest business men of the coun-
try, who testified that he lent his old
friend Mr.. Fall 100000 which he gave
him in cash in suit case, and Sin
clair lent, or gave Mr.. Fall $140,000
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 whatev-
er to do with the fact that few weeks
later Mr.. Fall, as Secretary Of the In
terror. member of President Hard
ing's Cabinet, leased $4,000 acres of
oil lands in California to Mr. Doheny.
Mr.. Doheny says he believes the
company will make one hundred mil
lion dollars of profit out of that lease,
which shows that he is good busi-
ness man. The next time the United
States needs a Secretary of the In
terror it might hire Mr. Doheny. He
konWs how to make 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 evolu-
ton which makes it appear that man
descended from any of the lower or
der of animals, monkeys, or anything
else"
The North Carolina authorities
should also forbid study of embryol-
ogy. 1t is discouraging to find, in EN-
i bryonic condtoins, that human beings
In the per.od before birth, pass thru
various animal stages, duplicating prac
tically all of them, from the single
cell up to the fully developed "prim-
ate"
At one stage of his development
before birth every imam 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
n That easily can be arranged by
forbidding the teachers to say any
thing about embryology If you don't
like facts, why, smother them.
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Doctor Semashko announces that
Lenin's brain weighed 1,340 grams:
not ali unusual weight The brain
OF Turgieneff weighed 1000 grams.
That OF the great naturist Cuvier was
even heavier. But the convolutions in
Lenin's 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 brains
surface, just as all crops are raised
close to the earth's surface.
In the depths of the brain, doubt
less. as in the depths of the earth, are
hidden great treasures not Yet devel-
oped.
Surprising to Americans that do
not know the English is the fact that
Enghshmen of high rank and most
conservative traditions consent to
join the Labor Government.
You could not imagine anv of
our powerful reactionaries joining
cabinet with a Union labor man at
its head, Britain has statesmen, used
to changes. asking only How can |
render service to the Empire?."
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1t is announced that President Cool
iidge will veto any tax bill carrying
hlgher surtaX than rs per cent.
In time of war any tax is lust.
When Government says to the poor
man, Il will take your life for dol
lar day" and takes it, it may we'll
say to the rich man, Il will take half
or three quarters of your income"
But the war is over Excessive tax
alton discourages new enterprises that
employ new labor and develop wealth.
II this country knew as much about
collecting taxes as they know in Eng
land, twenty-five per cent surtax on
the biggest incomes would produce an
amount of money that. even our ex-
cellent spenders couldn't spend.