Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-12-25

Thus Hertzian waves discovered through pure re-
search have become radio; Pasteur's bacili have
brought about the end of yellow fever; Faraday's
electromagnetic have become dynamos and tele-
graphs.
The New Year is therefore full of promise. We
may see on the market French device which will
bring about the death and funeral of the gear
shift and differential in automobiles. The radio
has now been set at work exploring underground
for OIL gas, water and gold. The financial world
is just bit disturbedAover the announcement of
German scientist that he has made gold from
quicksilver, although at prohibitive cost
The astronomers have discovered a new planet
closer TO the earth than is Mars. They also an
nounce that the spiral nebuae in the heavens are
in reality stellar systems distant that their
light travelling at 10000 miles second takes
million years to reach US. A new microscope has
been made that magnifes 600,0O0OOO times, es
compared with the 100000 times Of present instru-
ments if tennis ball could be viewed through
the new microscope it would appear about mile
and half in diameter
And sometime during the New Year, according
to the Berlin inventor, Anton Flettner, the new
rotarship under power furnished by its wind-driv-
en- revolving tunnels will come triumphantly into
New York harbor
TN THE United States 1925 will see new Pres
1 dent, new house and changed senate. To
be the President Is the same Calvin Coolidge.
But he will be President in his own right-whch
is likely to make difference.
OF course Mr.. Coolidge is not going to rock the
boat because of that And there will be new pre-
siding officer of the senate -"Hell Maria" Dawes,
who be as and parliamentary and dip
lomatic as anyone, when he wants to be. And it
will be fun to see him and Senator Smith Wildman
Brookhart Of Iowa--f the latter succeeds in hold
ing his seat against the contest to be made by
Steck The house will see a new speaker; Mad
den of Illinois is active candidate for the place
and at this writing Longworth of Ohio receptive
candidate The familiar figure of Henry Cabot
Lodge will be missing from the senate; the new
Republican leader may be Butler Of Massachu-
setts Curtis Of Kansas, Watson of Indiana or
Borah of Idaho
Will the new senate discipline LaFollette and
keep him in the Republican party or will it read
him out? That's what nobody can say at this writ
ing But the new congress Is quite likely to let
the railroads alone And one thing is sure-it will
be an economical congress- if it pays attention to
the man in the White House.
IF THE lot Of the farmer Is not made happier
in 1925, it will not be because do not know
what ails him. The administration is putting ag
riculture first in its program of constructive eff
fort The President has appointed commission
Of capable men and has told them to get the facts
in the situation If it takes all winter. They'll
get the facts And with our brains and
it'll be queer If the agricultural complica-
tons not Strengthened out.
It looks also If we may have an adequate
forestry policy. The National Conference Of Util-
ization of Forest Products, thousand delegates
strong has been getting the facts in our forestry
situation. They were told by the PRESIDENT that
745OOOO00,OOO cubic feet of timber is still stand
ing with an annual cut of 25. 900 600 and
nual growth of 6,OO0O00OOO. He also told them
that we hold the natural resources as trust to
be used for the benefit of the present generation
but neither wasted destroyed. The coming
generations also have vested interest in the for
ests. So it's up to the experts to devise ways and
means to bridge the fatal gap between cut and
growth" And it looks as If the people were scared
enough the situation to insist that it be done
In any event the timber shortage is already acute
enough to force competition in better methods.