Nogales international., 1928-04-27
VIVID YOUTH, DULL ACE.
MAKING THE MISSISSIPPI SAFE,
DEpEW WISE MAN
COULD COOLIDGE SAY NOT

In youth Impressions are vivid,
and last into old age. Therefore.
the manuscript of Alice in Won
derIand" sells for %5,25o, record
price. more than would have been
paid for the manuscript of Dantes
Inferno" or of Voltaire's "Zadig,"
each word worth thousand alice
in Wonderland" manuscripts.
Years dull imagination. Millions
that remember Robinson Crusoe,"
Swiss Family Robinson" "Gulliver's
Travels" wildly have faint impress
sion of more important books read
later.
Washington reporters say, prob
ably inaccurately, that President
Coolidge is shocked" at the sugges-
ton of $750000,000 to make the
Mississippi River safe.
A country that could give TEN
THOUSAND MILLIONS TO EU-
ROPE, add half billion year to
railroad receipts, and plan, wisely, to
cut $500, 100000 a year from corpora
ton taxes, need not shudder at the
thought of spending part of billion
to make the Mississippi safe.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, dead
in his ninety-fourth year. older than
the Republican party, which he served
long and faithfully. said: Il have
lived long because | could laugh at
anything"
Of Napoleon, it was said that in
his youth mo one ever saw him
laugh" He didn't live ninety-three
years, but he did live more in one
day than aniable Mr.. Depew IL all
bis ninety-four years.
Chauncey Depew attended 5000
banquets and never let boredom drive
him into eating too much. That's
wisdom.
He campaigned for Lincoln, got
kl.75 for his first legal services, lived
under twenty-four Presidents, from
Andrew Jackson to Calvin Coolidge,
and knew thirteen of them personally.
How many can name the twenty-four
from Jackson on?
Mr.. Darrow of the House Naval
Affairs Committee, told President
Coolidge his friends Still hosec he
would be candidate" The President
replied: II am afraid they will have
to be disappointed" L"
Die-hard Coolidge enthusiasts will
find SOME comfort in that word
afraid" A man cannot help being
persuaded if arguments are good.
Suppose the President were con
WINGED, as he may be, that his re
nomination and reelection, a secont
time, would boom business, increase
employment, stabilize prosperity, and
free his party from oil stain danger
could he continue to say no?
Aviation is reality, says General
Atterbury, and railroads should know
IT.. He is said to plan for the Penn.
syivania a part railroad, part-flying
machine service from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
The traveller would spend daylieh,
IN the flying machine, night hours
on the train, cross the continent in
Lorty-eight hours, avoiding mountain
tying. This rumor is not guaranteed
New York merchants report bust.
ness excellent in women's APPAREL
They buy more of it and less of il
more garments, less material in them
Paper underwear for ladies makes
ITS appearance in several stores.
Dix OF wood, underwear of paper
mot pleasant news for cotton grow
ers.
Old British builders of wooden
ships who said ships made of steel
would sink in heavy storms would
be interested in the Leviathan's latest
trip.
She reached New York with her
torecastle deck smashed, deck struc- |
lures badly twisted by a wave said
TO be $50 feet high, that dropped !
100000 pounds of water on her
deck at once.
Men build ships that the ocean
cannot sink. Water waves are /
neaVler than air waves. A1rShIpS will |
soon be built that no air wave will
worry.
In Seattle a tiny Pomeranian
barked too much. It's owner wanted
the vocal chords removed, reducing
the bark to a gesture. but humane
Iocieties said "No."
Dog Trainer Sanderlin removed
The bark in two weeks by training.
obedience is the secret" says he
I taught Darkie (the Pomeranian)
he meaning of the words Shut up"
That trainer might make fortune
a politics.