Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-09-13

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1t is prepesterous that any
human beings, outside Of actual
barbarism, should grow Up unable
to read.
But teaching them to read and
write is only the first step. The
next is teaching human beings TO
THINK, which is considerably
more difficult and important.
1t isn't what you READ that
counts. It's what you THINK
AFTER YOU READ that improves
government and civilization.
It takes a Frenchman, and an
old one, Cami'..e Flammarion, to
say that the people on Mars are
much more JOYFUL than we are.
The Marian year Is twice as
long as ours. A man there fifty
years old has lived 100 years,
nearly. The climate is better and
the planet being smaller, every
thing is lighter. An ordinary Mar
tan could easily carry his mother
in-law upstairs in his arms, even
if she weighed 400 pounds. Mil
lions of years older IN their civiliza-
ton than earth men, the Martians
are far ahead of us in knowledge,
and that means happiness. In fact
it's the only solid happiness.
/, John A. Stewart, called "Grand
Old Man of Wall Street." who
knew Abraham Lincoln, and is
now head of an important bank,
celebrated his 102nd birthday last
week. To us, that seems old. A
thousand years hence, 125 will
seem young as sixty is now. Men
will die out gently like fading twi-
light.
Mr.. Stewart continues living,
intellectually young, because he
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strated that rats suffer from foot
and mouth cSease and, l.e1Ien .D!g
stables, infect Ike ctst}ic.
Moral fer farmers, usa cemete
and copper and keep out the rats.
Clarence DarroT, a lawyer, VINO
thinks and feels, and consequently
earns little in proportic-l- to s,:.s
great ability, tells the Court TIT
to hang the two young men whom
he deiepds, Loeb and Leopold,
they committed
And that Is the truth, ex& II.
If red Indian tortured a white
man for twenty-four hours, that
would not excuse white men Tor
torturing that red man evea Fer
twenty-four minutes. The ere oscr
the intelligence and respons- p!lstv,
the greater the crime.
This column, too lightly, eoM.
pared Moses forty year trip across
the desert with the four-hour trip
of a small American aptonoh@o,
and the one and one-half- hour trip
of a flying machine, across the
same desert.
Many writer's send learned COM
ment.
LYMAN Bodner, of Passaic, New
Jersey, says, "You needn't wat
to get information from Moses in
heaven. He kept the children OF
Israel in the desert for forty years
because they were not qualified
to conquer the Promised Land.
They practically all died. The new
generation, educated and drilled,
led by Huslma, won their Prom
ised Land by fighting"
Max Himoff, of Long Island
City, writer, said that Moses had
to let his old followers die off while
he raised a new generation who
knew nothing about Egypt and
prepared them for their task"
Can anybody give more exact
information about the fighting
leader, Huslma? Y
Divers working ninety feet be.
low the surface have recovered
r thirty-fve million dollars OF colo
and silver bullion from the steam
ship Laurentic, sunk by German
submarine. :.
Thousands of tons of ''liquit
gold" are in the water through
which steamers plow as they 81
back and forth. Some day mel
may retrieve it.
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