Nogales international., 1928-01-27
This Week
THINKING FOR YOURSELF.
AGE BEING PUSHED BACK.
EXTRA WEIGHT TIRES HEART.
RAT-PROOF BUILDING.

An expedition OF the California
Academy of Sciences returns from
the mysterious Galapagos Islands
bringing giant lizards, only sur
vivors of the McSozoic age, and,
more interesting to the youth of
America, "fightless" cormorants.
huge birds that have lost their
power to fly because they have
not flown for so long.
What apples to flying for your
self applies to thinking for your
self. It's easy to lose that faculty.
Darwin visited those islands more
than scventy-five years ago, and
would have liked to explore the
inaccessible mountain tops that
no one thus far has visited.
E. C. Forbes says that great
banking houses, notably Morgan
& Co., biggest of the aggressively
enterprising firms, admit to part
l.ershin men about forty years old:
DAWSON, Lamont, Morrow and
other important Morgan partners
were taken in at about forty, the
age supposed to combine sound
judgment with power to carry
heavy load.
In other days forty began the
"Craybeard" age. Great careers,
Alexander and Napoleon. the two
most spectacular, were over at
that age. Age is pushed farther
and farther back, and the J. P.
Morgan Of 200 years hence may be
selecting seventy FIVE year old
partners for their combination OF
mental and physical. strength"
Senator Capper, of Kansas,
eeets reduction in railroad
frcix'.ts on grain. Not all farm
ers ,ealize that Uncle Sans
money has been spent to make It
i,nDossiLle for farmers in some
cas-s of the United States to COM
octe with Canadian farmers.
Northwest Canadian wheat
~s4ches our East Coast and
Euro 1e, I through the Panama
Canal, at low freight rates. This
cc ,trv tu;'f><he canal, taxing IFS
citizens, and lets the whole Wost
use the Canal at the same rata -
Americans pay.
If you are too fat, you treat
your heart unjustly. So says Dr.
James McLester. The heart works
harder to carry extra weight. bur
that is only part of il. Fifty tq
one hundred useless pounds OF
weight represent endless billions
of living cells that demand nour'
ishment, heat, water, and thetI
added share of the energy thai
causes metabolism. or change Of
Extra weight tires the body
brain and heart, constituting Q
aloafer class" or idle rich clasa
In the system that shovtens life,
diminishes comfort and useful.
ness. In that, a human body u
like a government. Idle rich that
consume and contribute nothing,
except silly opinions, are harmful
to the entire body polite and q
way should be found to make them
work.
Mr.. Remus, who interrupted q
bootlepging career to kill his wife.
and was congratulated, rather
strangely, by some of the jury
that acquitted him, is to have z
period of rest under scrutiny. :.
That's to see how his mind is and
decide about letting him loose to
resume business. His wife Is haV-
ing a longer period OF rest uA-
der the ground.
Los Angeles sets good exam
pie to other cities, ordering rat
proof features in all new buildings:
It would be an excellent idea, and
economical in the long run. to
make old buildings also rat-proot.
the city paying the cost.
Modern destructive gases might
be used for rat. mouse and insect
determination, including the de-
struction of the dangerous hea.
carrying ground squirrels and
gophers.
Professor Ross, Of Wiseonsin
University, is worried about over
population of the earth. Let mar
ried people have four children to +:
family, let the children marry and
do likewise, and population
doubles every twenty years. AZ
that rate, this country. i, forty
years, could have 46o.0O0.0 900 peo-
Die, more than China. and In one
hundred years, our population
would be 3,84O,0OO0oO. more than
twice the earth's present populA'
ton.
A doctor of Manhattan. Kan.
believes he has found cure fci
pyorrhea. Mr.. Gundlach Of Chi
cago thinks he. also knows a cure
A real cure of that curse would
be worth fifty millions to its dis
coverer, and would be cheap y
twice that.
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