The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
ROWeU Says
By CHESTER H. RoWELL
NEA Service Writer

When the automobile gear shift"
was invented, everybody regarded it
as a temporary makeshift, to be dis
carded as soon as somebody devised
something better. Instead, it has re-
manned one of the few permanencies
in motor transport.
Now comes Walter Brown of Ohio,
who is not accustomed to speaking
carelessly, and claims that newly
devised direct electric drive is prac-
tical success. On a vast scale, to,
drive great battleships, the electric
drive has demonstrated it's convent
ence and efficiency. If it should turn
out to be feasible on an automobile
scale, it would be one of the few
fundamental improvements in the
motor car. ''E
1t would leave nothing to watch
but the road" But don't discard
your old car yet; nor hesitate to buy
a new one. These things do not hap
pen in a moment.
Even "the road" is enough to watch.
Taxicab companies are employing
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intelligence, alertness, quickness and
accuracy of response, steadiness,
courage, responsibility and character.
Tests for street car motormen are
less exacting, but adequate to the
job. You know that your motorman
is physically sound, steady, sober, at
tentive, honest and responsible.
Otherwise, he would not have the job.
But the highways are full of pri-
vate motorists who have not these
qualifications. Some of them can not
nervous, Eighty or irresponsible;
some of them are insane, or liable to
drop dead; many of them drink,
some of them take drugs, and lot of
them do not care.
Not one of these could get a job
as street car motorman, still less as
driver for a responsible cab COM
pany. But, because they. have the
price of a car, we license them to
navigate the highways they
kill more Americans every year than
the Germans killed during the World
War.
"Crashless" Plane Latest Invention.
One more invention to get US about
faster and safer, is the "crashless"
airplane. When it starts to spin down,
motor stopped and controls helpless,
it automatically fattens out it's
course, and lands, perhaps not gently,
but less than fatally. By the time
a1T4nV
biles, we shall probably be safer in
the air than on the ground.
Can't Paddock All Doors of knowledge.
Mr. Bryan will make the Tennes-
see anti-evolution trail important, by
lending his name and services. !
Whatever Bryan does is news. So
the obscure Tennessee teacher, who
dared let his pupils use book al
ready approved by the state board
of education, will acquire a vicarious
fame when Bryan prosecutes him
for the crime. There are 5000 scien-
lists in the United States, says Bryan,
half of them atheists. They shall not
run the schools.
Of course, there are not $500, and |
probably not 100 atheists" among
American scientists. But also there |
is not one scientist-not one-who |
the first chapter of Genesis /
as a textbook of science. Neither
did Moses.
Mr.. Bryan and his associates may |
Or may not succeed in keeping scien- |
tifc teaching out of the schools of +
Tennessee. Even if they do, they |
will not therefore have protected the |
youth of Tennessee from the corrup- /
ton of knowledge. The Libraries are
still open. The newspapers and maya
zines still circulate. The encyclo-
pedia is not yet on the Index.
The mountains of Tennessee Still I
contain strata and fossils; and there
will still be those who, reading the
records written on the living rock
Dy the finger of God, will not deem
God a liar. You may paddock one I
door to knowledge. The others will
remain open.
zIea.1 as Fatal as Death Sometimes. /