Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12
RAILROADS AND SOMEDAY.
SEMI-FLYING MACHINE.
HEARING THE ATOM.
HER AFRICAN BLOOD.

HEARING THE ATOM.
HER AFRICAN BLOOD.
President Coolidge will ask
lower railroad freight rates and
suggest that the roads can make
up the difference by practicing
economy.
That is not the railroad idea,
however. President Coolidge will
find that railroad management and
railroad wishes are a department
of our Government, although not
listed as such in the Constitution.
The voters, when less prosper
GUS times make thinking neces-
sary, will decide to have a govern
ment running the railroads, in
stead Of railroads running the gov
ernment.
This is not said unkindly, or by
an agent of bolshevism. The writer
has a few thousand shares of rail-
road stocks, a few hundred thou
sands in railroad bonds. But it is
desirable for railroad men to real
ize that it is not going to be mid
Summer for ever.
There is cold weather coming.
Admirers of the late Theodore
Roosevelt will be interested in the
statement, made by the authority
of the family, that a newcomer
from the mysterious realms of the
infinite is expected in the Long
worth family.
Mrs. Longworth was Miss Alice
Roosevelt.
Those who have read Cations
Heredity know that the greatness
Of the father is handed down
through the daughter, not through
the son. The new little Roosevelt
Longworth may prove to be the
reincarnation of Theodore. It will
be interesting to see how his little
teeth develop.
Monsieur Laur, eighty-four
years old, has invented the aero
car, and the French government
will build a sample "aero line"
The car, z feet high, z feet wide
and 40 feet long, is suspended be-
low a cable fortX=tWo. feet in the
air, slung from poles far apart.
Each car carries 100 passengers
and the speed is fifty miles an
hour.
Most interesting of all, the car,
hanging below the steel cable, is
driven along as q flying machine
is driven. A powerful propeller,
nine feet in diameter, worked by
elecric current taken from the
cable overhead, pushes the car.
With power enough, and big
propeller the car might as easily
go 100 miles an hour as so miles.
Then "New York to Chicago above
the railroad, in 8 hours, for &c."
DR.. Mary Walker cared little
about fashion, but the latest news
from Paris would interest her.
The new "dress" is to be more
like trousers than dress, a sort of
slit skirt. Politics, athletics and
common sense will finally do away
with the cumbersome skirt. That
impediment was all right in the
harem, where it was born. It's all
wrong on the public street, collect
ing germs, preventing free move
ment.
A lawsuit raising interesting
questions is coming. A young man
named Rhinelander, whose people
for several generations have not
worked for a living and are, there
fore, called "aristocrats," married
q young woman with negro blood.
Her people have always worked
hard; therefore she is no aristo-
crat. The young man, annoyed by
publicity and by the Ku Klux
throwing stones through his wins
dow, now sues for annulment
Of his marriage, saying he was de-
eeived as to his brides race. She
told him nothing about the negro
blood. !
If the young woman in the case,
lights, the question of her con-
Ititutional rights might be taken
20 the United States Supreme
Court. New York State legalizes
between Africans and
whites. The young woman in this
:ase is nearly white. A man in
New York could not get a divorce
1n the ground that his wife had
leceived him about a British or
Celtic strain of blood. What will
he Supreme Court say about a
lew drops Of colored blood?
Atoms of iron, so small that you
wouldn't notice ten thousand of
hem in the corner of your eye,
make a roaring noise as they rush
o a magnet held near them.
Scientists of the General Elec-
ric Company have perfected a de-
ice that makes the roaring sound
'udible. If that's possible, NAV
70 not some day hear voices Of
ur distant relations on neighbor-
1g planets? Il isn't impossible.
dothing is impossible that men
an imagine,