Idaho County free press., 1924-01-17
This Week
A Growing Country
Your Glands and You
Prohibition a Life Saver
The French Family
BY Arthur Brisbane
By Arthur Brisbane !.

These figures show how the coun
try is growing:
Income through transportation and
distribution amounted in 1890 to Il
billions; 1900 to 1S billions; 1910 to
80 billions; 1920 to 60 billions.
Sixty billions, the cost of distribute
ing goods and passengers here in one
year, would solve Europe's financial
problem.
What will the bill amount to fifty
years hence?
In every direction growth here is
amazing.
When this nation was young build
ing was done by individual carpenters
and only one man in the United States
earned as much as 81 day all the
year round.
l.. J. Horowitz, wholesale carpenter,
head of a big building concern, an
nounces building contracts amounting
to sixty millions in one year. The
three biggest jobs averaged nine mil
lion dollars apiece. The seven largest
average seven million dollars apiece.
One organization does sixty millions
of building in year. One branch of
national activity, transportation, does
sixty billions in year. This is a
growing country,
Follow the proceedings of the Amer
lean Association for Advancement of
Science at Cincinnati. The meeting
teaches these things:
We are what our glands make us.
If they break down, we break down.
Our characteristics are transmitted
through the chromosomes. They can
be seen and counted under the micro
scope. Glands secrete hormones, and
ON these we depend for growth, intel
ligence, all our powers.
The thyroid gland if swallowed and
digested cures idiocy. in many cases.
The thymus gland just over the
heart is absolutely necessary to the
well being of children. 1t fades away,
as they grow older. Female pigeons
lacking thymus cannot provide egg
shell or albumen for their eggs. Feed
them dried thymus and the eggs are
all right.
Transplanting reproductive organs
in human beings stimulates activity
only for a while. Such transplanta
ton in the flesh where heat is ex-
cessive, causes eventual sterility.
Red corpuscles that give energy to
our blood come chiefly from the mar
row in the bones, and more freely in
spring than at other times.
Certain animals are first male, then
female.
Sometimes in shellfish and birds the
iex actually changes completely.
Science is worth watching.
Theodore G. Northrup celebrated ON
Christmas day his 95th birthday and
aopes to live to 40. He was given up
% die at 40, made up his mind to live, |
md has had no illness for long time. |
He won't live to 170, but he is en-
Toying life at 95 like the famous Luigi |
Jornarofi, a hopeless" invalid in the
'orties, mounting his horse without |
assistance past 80, and writing to the
Dope: 81 had to live ninety years to \
1now that the world is beautiful"
Old age is worth while because,
while the brain lasts, it is the best
art of life.
Bootleg whisl1ey sent forty-nine men
md women to hospitals in New York |
IN Christmas day. Two women and |
me man died in one hospital. How
ong will it take Americans to learn
hat bootleg whiskey is poison, always,
md deadly quite often?
The Association for the Advance
nent of Science calls the automobile
he greatest single contributor to the
lation 3 ethical and material progress.
t enables a man to live three lives
n one, increases the farmers produc-
ion, saving his time, increases human
appiness everywhere.
Bankers that worry about automo-
lie financing, take notice. An in
-estment in better race is sound
Investment.
Everywhere there is progress, japan
probably will give manhood suff-
age,'' vote for every man, regard
nss of wealth, but, of course, not votes
or women yet.
The French parliament discusses
votes for French women. In
france the shOpkeeper's s wife is u.s.
ally the business woman, and always
he is the adviser and practically the
ead of the family. Americans that
hinll they have monopoly Of real
enjoy deep ignorance.
here is nowhere on earth closer fam
" ties, or more admirable family life,
han in France.