Nogales international., 1927-08-26
By Arthur Brisbane


EGYPT CONTROLS BOIL WEEVIl
FARM LONELINESS BANISHED
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Americas millions, who imagin,
they are thirsty for light wine, bee.
or something stronger, will be in
terested in this.
United States capital has recent
ly lent nearly $300,0OO,0OO to help
foreign countries develop thcil
liquor and beer business. Even in
the Far East this country has
financed liquor production to the
tune of more than $5,000,000.
Mr. Hayward Kendall, who rep
YesentS unorganized drinkers that
ought to be saved from them
selves, says: "The Eighteenth
Amendment is saving America (in
cash expenditures and increased eff
tlciency) from six to eight billion
dollars year."
The nations purchasing power
has certainly increased amazingly
since prohibition came.
In 1919 there were in America
6,500,000 automobiles. Now there
are 100000, and not enough. The
country spends half billion year
on radio, many millions for wash
ing machines, vacuum cleaners,
electric refrigerators. Workers in
America spend more lavishly than
the rich in Europe.
Mr.. Kendall thinks it would be
\ national calamity if the outpour-
ing of money were diverted from
automobiles and radio to wine and
beer.
While the boil weevil continues
Epreading in the United States
Cairo telegraphs that:
Thanks to vigorous Govern
ment measures, the area af-
fected by the boil worm
has been considerably circum-
scribed."
Egyptian acreage affected by the
pest has been reduced from $4,000 |
to 5000 acres. What Egypt can do
this country certainly ought to do.
We have the scientists, the money
and the boil weevils. What is the
natter with usl
This news will not sell extra
papers, like Dempsey Tunney
fight, but will be important long
after Dempsey and Tunney cease
to be important. Penrgsy..vania
State College has discovered that
the vitamin B, so important to life,
IS manufactured by the cow in her
stomach in great quantities.
Scientists cut little door into
the "rumen," or second stomach of
the cow, and deprived her of all
food containing vitamin B. Never
theless, in a little incubator in
that second stomach the COW pro-
duced the precious vitamin B in
profusion.
That may mean to child life as
much as the admirable fight against I
impure milk made by Nathan
Straus.
In cities people go crazy more
frequently than they once did. Ex-
eitement, bootleg liquor and other
things help. In New York State
one person in every twenty-five
has been in the insane asylum, &C
cording to the American Psychi-
atric Association.
There is less insanity than for
merly among women on farms.
Loneliness, that used to drive them
insane by. the thousands, has been
softened by telephone, radio, par
GELS post, and, above all, the auto
mobile
President Vinson tells young
people of Western Reserve Uni
versity that no conflict exists be-
tween science and religion; they
occupy different fields. He wisely
remarks that science, without re-
ligion, would lead to hopeless ma
terialism, just as religion, when it
denies the plain truths of science,
leads to fanaticism and supersti-
tion
Religion and science are like
astrology and astronomy, or like
alchemy, and chemistry.
Astronomy started in astrology,
chemistry started in alchemy, with
experimenters seeking to make
gold.
Science started in religion. Men,
questioning the origin of things,
first gave a religious answer, ev-
erything based on miracles. Then
they studied more closely and be-
gan giving scientific answers.
All told 100000 automobiles
are in use in ffty-nine countries
of the earth. The United States
owns 20000,O00 of the 24,000,00O
The United States Commerce De-
partment gives the figures. We
have one automobile for every six
persons, Hawaii one to eleven,
Canada one to thirteen. Afghan
istan has one to 100000 Poor
Afghanistan, happy America. To
have a motor is to defy the law of
gravitation. and be free man.