Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21

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By Arthur Brisbane
He LOONEY GAS.
HAT OF THE BOOTLEGCR.
HAT IS GOVERNMENT
Il. REA RETIRES.
Following experiments in the
anufacture of gasoline in a
tahdard Oil plant, many en-
oyes were attacked with strange
mess, producing insanity. Five
Reporters, fond of striking
ames, call the strange gas gloomy"
as. Scientists don't know just
hat it is. The public is excited
bout the dreadful poison gas, and
ae prosecuting attorney is investi-
ating.
There are gases in existence that
Fould enable half a dozen tiiers to
iH hundred thousand people with
he greatest ease. And that, multi
lied by ten, or more, is exactly
hat would happen if this nation
nd its big cities were attacked by
nemy fliers and found unprepared.
Chat ought to interest the people
ven more than the unfortunate ex-
eriment in the Standard Oil plant.
Cornelius Cole, who knew Abra-
lam Lincoln well, died in Los
angeles, aged 102. He practised
a2 when past 100.
Newspapers always mention the
cath of a man that begins his
econd century. The time is coming
yAen to die younger than 100 will
be the exception.
A cablegram tells Of 5000 crows
near Nevers in France, chasing an
sagle into a French chateau, where
t was killed by the keepers Of the
place.
THAT should interest Uncle Sam.
The eagle is his bird. And the day
S coming when eagles and crows
pre- not to be the only fighters in
The air.
The sight Of a noble eagle pur-
yued by 5000 miserable crows, and
aDally killed, isn't pleasant.
There might be more unpleasant
lights, in this country, if we had
var and OUI enemies East OK West
began releasing their flying ma
;hInes to deal with the American
Eagle here.
The mistake of a towerman sent
b coal car into a crowded trolley
car, slicing off one end Of it, kill
ing ten.
THE towerman admitted that he
had been drinking, and a flask OF
moonshine whiskey backed up his
statement.
The towerman will be punished
and ought to be.
What about the man that sold
him the whiskey? In that case
the bootlegger did not merely
violate the prohibition law. He
murder. Wouldn't it be
worth while to do something about
that?
The day devoted to national
being over, not to come
again for four years, it might be
worth while to establish definition
Of government.
According to Aristotle, it is "first,
to see that men shall live; second,
to see that they shall live well"
That abbreviatiOn Of Aristotle's
theory in A. E. Zimmern's admir-
able essay on Greek politics is as
good a definition as any.
To see, first, that men live, they
are supplied with what they need,
and are not killed by their enemiesi
and, second, to see that they live
we'll, in comfort, free from worry:
that's government.
Mr.. Rea, because he reaches the
age of seventy, retires from the
of the Pennsylvania
Railroad to make room for a
younger man. At seventy a man
should be at his best, and Mr.. Rea
is at his best mentally,
and therefore at the most efficient
period Of his life. For men that
i've wisely and think as they live,
the most efficient years Of life
should come between seventy and
eighty.
Gladstone was at his best when
past seventy, fighting in the House
Of Commons debates at four in the
Won Moltke was seventy when he
took charge of the Prussian army,
and wiped out the French. Glenn
enceau was long past seventy, and
Foch was an old man, retired, when
the two combined did to Germany
what Won MOltke had done to
France.
Good news for mothers and little
boys. The X-ray destroys ring
worm. It has stamped out the dis
aaso IN France and will do it any
where. Mothers that have strug-
Eled with ringworm viii welcome
nat information. The X-ray bonn
bards the organism that causes the
ringworrn with a bombardment as
deadly to the ring1orm parasite
y iS sbEapnel te human beings.
eyond the starry night a down
That spreads its radiant wing
or hearts that come with gladness
on
To inin thn birds that sing.