Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-11-29
BUY NOW OR PAY MORE.
THE BRAIN GROWS.
FLYING PULLMAN CARS.
MELLON WILL STAY.

now and buy what you need with
out further delay. Prices are low,
because merchants whose distribu-
ton of goods has been checked by
abnOrmally warm weather in many
big cities, have cut prices regard
less of cost. But cold weather is
coming. And. more important, the
boom is here already. When prices
go up on the stock exchange, you
know that you will soon see prices
going up in the stores also. Do
your shopping early, and for the
sake Of your pocketbook this time,
not merely for the sake of the over
worked Christmas-tim statesmen.
The human brain is capable Of
unlimited development and there Is
no such thing as OverwOrk for a
brain properly developed. Thinking
with intense concentration makes
the brain actually grow at any age.
The latest proof is the increase of
one-quarter of an inch in the size
of Lloyd Georges head since 1908.
A quarter Of an inch makes
great difference when the space is
filled with the right kind of brain
matter.
Also. thinking changes and in
creaSes the size of the nOSeA develops
the chin. We are what our thoughts
make us.
Judge Soper in Baltimore decides
that the "one-half of one per cent"
clause in the VOlStead Act doesn't
apply to drinks made at home for
Eome use. If that decision lends
il will make a big hole in prohibi-
ton. Incidentally it will mean
lore prosperity for graveyards.
J 0me,made beverages, as the doc
tors will testify, are the under
t&ker's lest friends.
r3t men and men with hobbies
I 1t en"rOSS their thoughts are
'"''olv thieves eNvS 40 head of a
bonding company. And the married
man is six times as safe, from the
point of view of stealing. as the
unmarried man. That says good
deal for the influence of wives and
children.
Marriages, as compared with di-
vOrces. ere falling off in the United
States. The Census Bureau shows
that in 1923 the number of divorces
increased II per cent. the number
OF marriages only S per cent more
than the previous year. That isn't
good news.
No Mr.. Hungerford writes to this
column, asking for a definition of
the great social problem" of the
present day. The greatest problem
is to make real success Of the
average marriage.
The fault, of course, is with men.
1t will take several centuries. prob
ably, to educate them up to the only
kind of life worth while.
Big steamship companies think
more rapidly than do our United
States railroad companies. At least
the big lines already are planning
flying boats for carrying passengers
across the Atlantic. If anything is
to make their ships obsolete they
want to own the thing that does it.
American railroads seem content
TO watch their stocks booming and
rolling, without worrying about the
fact that in twenty-five years pas
senger t'dffic will be cut down to
short hauls. Fast trains across the
continent or Only half way across
will be only memory.
George r. Baker, boss of several
roads, and youqg in spite OF his
eighty odd years. should set the
young men an example. Mr.. Carry,
head of the Pullman Company. has
long been at work on plans for light.
hut strong flying Pullman cars"
News from Washington that Sec
Rotary Mellon will consent to re-
main in charge Of TIE T"easU"y is
good news. The management o.
United states fiuGu"es, including
the paving of I.ll,ons Of dc't rolled
up so swiftly, tGEcs real financial
AID business ability.
Mr.. Mellon has both. The Too-
Pc viii Re fortunate if he con-
TIMES working for them for Moth
ing, neclecting a profitable busl-
ness CO his o:a.
Youth AMI beauty so forward il
Germany mo"e rapidly than here.
The German newspapers discuss
this question: ''ShoUid modern bob
haired women tip their hats to each
other?"
Another subject discussed is this:
SIS smoking pipes ladylike?"
Let's hope that chewing tobacco
by ladies will be postponed for u
While.