Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-08-16
Ey Arthur Brisbane

WORLD GETTING SMALLER.
THREE AGES OF BARBARISM.
STONE, BRONZE, IRON.
This is the political stage of
"rosy reports" They pour IN on
La Toilette, Davis and Coolidge.
Coolidge is told that Ohio, Iowa
and Kansas are already his.
Davis is told that with the South
and New York, Massachusetts, II
linois, ETC., he is ELECTED NOW.
Ia Follette's followers say they
have twenty-five States sure.
The "rosy" days are pleasant, only
some one is sure to be disappointed.
The Government has ordered a
group of flying machines that can
travel through the air, on the
water and on land. Only one step
remains, the amphibian and sub
mersible fying machine pulling In
lis wings and becoming a sub
marine. That will come also.
John R. voorhis, Oldest Office
holder, aged Einety-fve, predicts
woman President. She will come,
hat rot in fifty years. Many
wcmen in the United States would
rake Presidents better than any,
with two exceptions, since Thomas
jefferson. But man, proud man,
dressed in q little brief authority,
will take q long time to get over
his SUPERIORITY COMPLEX.
Men OF low intelligence sincerely
believe that they are in some mys--
tcr;ova way womau's superior, ana
such men decide Presidential cleo
tons. :,
If woman becomes President
before 1850, it will be through pro
motion Of a Vice-President. That
might happen within a generation
The world really is becoming a
s-ell place. American. fiers,
coming home by the shortest
route, put on Arctic clothing as
tr7v left England. Q.
o their hop was from England
- Greenland, and then they will
he getting Summer things ready
icr their Joyous, triumphant land
~ in warm America. "Arouad
the world IN eighty Gays" was a
fairy story. Around the world IN
six days or less will be REALITY,
before 1000 A. D. 90 ~
The scientific world notes the
discovery in France Of a new
anaesthetic called "sommifaire."
With no bad after effects this
anaesthetic makes possible the
longest operations. 1t is injected
into the blood, causes the patient
to remain half conscious for thirty
hours, which is excellent Tor
major operations. :,
1t is hard to believe as you read
of scientific methods for avoiding
pain that when anaesthetics were
first used they were savagely de-
nounced as works of the devil.
Earnest preachers declared that
God WANTED us to suffer and 1t
was a sin to thwart His divine Will
+ Joseph Greenberg, of New York,
viii return to his home with new
knowledge of this country ana
greater respect for the size O.
Texas. He left Brooklyn In
little automobile to bring his son
back from somewhere in Texas
and told his wife he would be gone
"about three days" He VIII De
surprised to find it will take MN
about as long to cross Texas as to
cross all the rest of the American
continent. When you've entered
Texas on one side and come out
on the other, you have covered
almost half the distance from
ocean to ocean.
When historians write of the
three great. periods of barEbarous
development, the stone age, bronze
are and iron age, they will say;
iiThe full industrial development
Of the iron age, reached at aoSu'
the year 1000 Of {he period 9a-
morously~~called the .. Christian
Era may perhaps be called the
beginning Of civilization. -,
]. aMen had developed faint ideas
Of right and wrong. But while
they had begun to leave their
great fortunes to education and
Science instead of seeking to brioe
their deity and buy eternal bliss
for their own worthless souls
thew. retained the worst features
of earlier barbarism. The dis
coveries Of science in chemistry
and physics were used Tor ~ai
murder on a gigantic scale.
1.-THE dregs of the race commit
ted murder with their own hands
The so-called upper classes livec
in shameful luxury, utterly lndlt'
ferent to poverty, disease and lg
noranee around them. They ever
herded young children OF the eool
into factories and mills, grinding
them into profits for their owl
use.
"On the whole, that eliminating
period of the iron, age was ,inferlo
in dignity and decency to the ston
age"
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