Nogales international., 1928-01-06
MIGHTY CHEMISTRY
NO ATHEIST GRIP
INDUSTRIAL WAR
OUR STANDARDS7
By Arthur Brisbane

Dr.. A. B. Lamb, who teache
chemistry at Harvard, says chem
lists will solve "humanity's thre
major problems of the future, tn
supply OF energy, of food, and pr.
vention and cure of disease"
Progress is swift. Twenty-seve,
tcars ago chemists solemnl,
agreed that in chemistry the limi
OF knowledge had about beei
reached. And since 1900 more ha
been learned about chemistry ant
its possibilities, including construc
ton OF the atom and the powe
locked up in it than had beet
learned in all the previous cent?
r:es.
The Rev. Frank w. Bible, mis-
eionary. says Atheism is spread
ing in America and in the Eaa
and is literally gripping the world
He thinks the coming fight viii
be between Christianity and athe
ism, Asia becoming Christian o.
atheist. The first step will be
Spniting of all Protestant churches
, It is difficult to understand how
atheism can grip the world
With WHAT does it gripl
Atheism is mere denial and fool
Ish. There was never a real athe.
kst. No man can be an atheist
who admits that everything oi
importance is beyond his compre.
hension, that the universe is sus.
tanned and directed by q powe,
whose existence he feels but can.
not define.
Only an idiot would really b
m atheist. Only a fool or bigot
would insist that others accept
his particular definition of God
and his right to interpret omnipo.
tence and omnisciencc.
All over the world the real wal
Is industrial war, which has no
armistice and never stops. France
and Germany have combined in
gigantic dye trust, good for both
countries, because it will make
money, and France and Germany
having interests in common, may
forget about fighting.
We are developing big units
here. The second and third big4
gest chain stores in the United
States, Kresge and Kress, ard
planning a $250,000,000 merger;
They do business of $lo0, 900, 900
. year. And julius Rosenwaldt
kll by himself, does as much.
This country, urged to recognize
the Russian Government, because
we do business with Russia, says
no; Russia. must accept our stands
ards before we recognize Russia.
The next step would be to lei
Russia know what our standards
are. Are they rcpresent~5y qua
dominating corporations, by OUT
lynchings, by our bootlegging, by
some of our recent elections to
the Senate for cash, by our in!
ability to do anything but tall
when powerful men steal a Gov
errment'c oil supply?
What are our standards, exact
ty?
Mrs. Taylor, talented Los An.
geles musician, says we sing tie
wrong kind of songs, which ac.
counts for our crime wave Such
songs as "Red Hot Mamma" saya
this lady, drive youth to crime"
Young people slaE the foolish
songs, and young people fill the
modern prisons.
Saxophones are harmless. jazz
properly used is all right, songs
about love are all right, and drive
nobody to- crime, if they are
modest. Mrs. Taylor writes some
herself. 1t is "Red Hot Mamma"
affection that does the harm.
No wonder Stock Exchange
seats go up. Mr.. Simmons, presi-
dent of Wall Streets Stock Ex-
change. says there is no limit, ex-
cept the sky, to New York's fnan-
cial future. Securities listed on
the exchange were worth on Sep
tcIHDcT HTSt clSHly-lWO tnOuSanQ
six hundred and sixty-scven mil
lion dollars, and have gone up
MANI millions since.
Those millions go back and
forth over the ticker from buyer
to seller, and the patient broker
gets his little one-eighth. A seat
on the exchange ought to be
worth $l,000,000
The Canadian Pacific Railroad,
the stock Of which went climbing
a few days ago, is operated in a
country with population smaller
than that within forty miles OF
New York's City Hall. What
makes Wall Street pay such high
prices for a Canadian railroad!
How do you explain the Cana
dian Governments ability to op-
crate 8 Canada's national railroads,
national telegraph and telephone
systcms. well with profit