Milford chronicle., 1924-12-19

HA.
By Arthur Brisbane
QUEER DANGEROUS DAYS.
ABOVE THE BANDITS.
CHEAPER SUGAR, PLEASE.
WORTH TEN MILLION.
We live in queer, dangerous
days. In Seattle the Government
wants to dismantel an innocent
looking brOadcasting station.
Every evening a lady, wife of the
proprietor, sent through the air a
beautiful bedtime story. What
could be purer, more innocent?
The Government says MANY
things could be more innocent, for
the bedtime story sent out con-
tanned code information for boot
leggers. That's queer.
Every week a firm on Long
Island sends a $4,000 payroll to
New Jersey by flying machine.
The idea is to keep above the
bandits. In due time bandits also
will get flying machines, just as
they got high-powered automo-
biles.
President Coolidge is consider
ing the, tariff on sugar. That
tariff, so high, is a hardship on
our friends in Cuba. Cuba COM
plains that it is higher than it
need be to give profit to sugar
growers in the United States.
Sugar is necessary to the
health and growth Of children,
necessary, also, by the way, to
those that obey the Constitution
and do their distilling inside of
their own bodies.
The President undoubtedly will
settle the sugar question having
in mind the needs Of millions of
American mothers.
This story comes from Ann Ar
Dor concerning the magnificent
University Of Michigan. Twenty
years ago a mining property at
Ligoma, Ontaria, was decided to
the university. The giving Of the
mine was then looked upon as a
joke; it hadn't any value.
But the Board Of Regents Of
the university will soon give de-
tails of the discovery that the
mine is worth ten million dolla4s.
That will do two things. It will
put the ten million dollars, through
the university, into the building
of better brains. A good use for
the money.
It will give sharks that live on
fools a text to use in the selling
of worthless mining stock.
Edison has his mind on flying.
May it be many years before he
starts his great flight.
The helicopter will let men rise
straight up from the earth. Eagles
can't do that.
We shall fly at speed un-
dreamed of now and the flying
machine will revoluionize civili-
cation.
All that he says is true and
much more. But the revolution in
civilization will come in mems
brains, and come slowly. 1t won't
come through machinery, although
that will help.
Men invented machines that
ought to have freed the slaves.
But they fastened wage slaves to
the machines. They invented fly
ing machines, and their first real
use was dropping 7. N. I. and
poison gas on other white men and
on savages.
Science moves swiftly, the brain
moves slowly, and civilization
moves slowly with it.
DR.. D. E. Germ, of France, on
lis way to America, should have
as warm a welcome as we usually
reserve for princes and others that
never did a days work.
DR.. Germ comes to demonstrate
l new method of treating ppeu-
nonia, before the members of the
New York State Physicians Or
yanization. With this new method,
iix hundred cases of pneumonia
we're treated, without one death.
Or. Germ also treats perniciOus
without blood transfu-
ion.
May wheat has passed $1.64. 1t
will sell higher. Farmers are
ushing their grain to market
low, feeling that these prices will
10. You will remember that this
olunn predicted $3.50 wheat
Vhen the price was below $1.2Q.
Unfortunately, gamblers have
made more than farmers,
Though the farmers, for whom
his is written, have also profted
those that held their wheat.
A first-class gross business Of
tx thousand million dollars a year
or the big first-class railroads
ught to make some profits possi-
le, with reasonable economy and
lodern methods.
However, it is 80 much easier
o raise freight and passenger
ates than it is to economize or
eep up to date, especially when
on have no real competition.