Milford chronicle., 1924-12-05

EfeSlQeuG OOolluBeS meSSaSSl
announcing Education Week, was
as brief and as sound as any mes
sage on education since Jaures's
message to the school teachers of
France:
"Teach the children to read in-
telligently and all knowledge Is
open to them"
Fathers and mothers need not
worry because their children lack
college education" If they have
been taught to read intelligently,
and if they read the right books,
because their minds crave infOrma-
tion.
A better, more useful education
can be got from two years. sys-
tematic reading Of the right kind
than the education planted in the
average young student in his four
years at college.
Lord Ashfield, Englishman who
thinks, says that Bolshevism is
Kept down in America by the fact
that almost everybody has an au-
tomobile. Almost everybody hasn't
an automobile. But almost every
body can reasonably hope to have
one, or to ride in one owned by a
son, daughter, brother or sister.
They have found in Africa, well
preserved, bones of a dinosaur,
twice as big as the biggest thus far
known. The history of that dino
saur would show that the bigger he
grew, the nearer he was to extinc-
eion. That thought should occupy
the minds of our financial dino
saurs, providence arranges it so
that the trees shall not grow into
the heavens" That's also true of
dinosaurs and corporations.
Mussolini complains, justly, that
our immigration laws are a hard
ship for Italy. They are an inf
nitely greater hardship for the
United States. The skillful work.
ers that Italy would send to US, and
that we stupidity refuse to admit,
represent the very wealth that this
nation needs.
Florida alone could usefulIy take
care of all Italian immigration for
the next ten years, and be enriched
thereby to an extent incOnceiVable.
Why not permit the different
States to establish their own
quotas, regulate their own immi-
grafton, and agree to keep immi-
grants thus admitted within their
own borders for a certain number
of years after their arrival?
A German scientist demonstrates
his ability to get fakes of real gold
from mercury. An American is
working at the problem. Don't
worry yet, however. The manu-
factured gold costs much more than
the other kind. And mercury, hav-
ing so great an affinity for gold,
may have small particles of gold all
ways stored away within it.
The Massachusetts Historical
Society has a genuine lock of Ma |
poleon's hair. Thousands will gaze |
on it in awe that would never take |
the trouble to study the brain that |
once worked under that hair.
Read his letters to those that
represented him in the government |
of his various conquered territories
and you will know something about
NapoleOn's power. Read of his at
titude toward women, little above
that of a chimpanzee, and you'll
know about his weakness.
A young man, eighteen years
old, set fire to seven barns on
Henry FOrd's estate last April.
He was convicted, and ordinarily
would have been sent to spend his
early manhood in some prison uni
versity of crime.
Henry Ford appealed to the
Court, and had the young man put
on probation, guaranteeing that he,
Ford, would send the young man
that burned his barns to the Ford
trade school.
More trade schools and more
FOrds might make jails less num-
erOus.
A scientist in the British Mu-
scum, reading ancient papyri, finds
one of the third century, containing
thirty verses Of the twenty-sixth
chapter of Matthew. Thus we
know that three centuries after the
birth of Christ men were warned
that ''they that take the sword
shall perish by the sword" Men
nevertheless went on taking the
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