Nogales international., 1928-07-06
MACHINERY AND BRAINS
MANY MYSTERIES
SCHUBERT'S UNFINISHED WORl
STICK TO YOUR JOB
. BY Arthur Brisbane

w. F. Knudsen, Chevrolet presi-
dent. offers cheerful news on Gen
eral Motors. In May his company
turned out l4O,70O Chevrolet cara
On one day. May 2S, the produc,
was 7.07S finished cars and trucks
May, 1928, is $4,000 cars ahead oi
May. 1927.
That's good production, but high
General Motors officials should
bear in mind that the machinery
in their brains is more valuable
than any other asset of General
Motors. Men like President Sloan
OF General Motors and Raskob,
head Of General Motors finance,
work themselves as they wouldn';
work any piece of machinery.
They take the night train from
New York to Detroit, begin. work
there at 6 in the morning, work
through the whole day, eating
sandwiches at noon. still working,
and take the night train back to
New York.
No machine can stand that, and
no duty to stockholders justihea
1t.
Z DR.. Walsh, Of Fordham Univer-
sity. tells young men "The world
is confronted with more mysteries
thu ever before. Science solves
g., Z fess problems"
Yes, indeed. Why does the hy-
drogen atom have a single proton
in the centre, and q single electron
revolving around it. why does the
helium atom, first discovered on
the sun through the spectroscope
have four nuclei with two electrons
revolving around them, and how
does the formation of four grammes
ieliurn, from hydrogen, produce
gnergy as great as though eighty
Gons of coal were burnedf There
aIs some mysteries for you.
Everything is mystery il you
go far enough into it. And the
greatest of all mysteriesis thought.
which has no proton or electron SO
far as we know and is driven by ~
energy that has no more practical
name than "sour or mind"
A $4,000 prize is offered for the
best ending to Sehubert's "UnAu-
ished Symphony" It won't Be
worth $4,000.
To finish Schubert's symphony
you would have to be Schubert.
To restore her arms to the Venus
of Milo, or to show how the winged
Victory looked before she got into
that fight, you would require the
brain and the. feeling of the arts
that made the statue. Every ,nint
ever born is absolutely differen
from every other
James A. Farrell, president of the
United States Steel Corporation
will visit the plant of the New
Haven Wire Company today. Wher
he was sixteen years old he worked
there twelve hours out of every
twenty-four for $4.65 week. II
you stick to your job. even tha,
kind OF job, you can get some
where.
In New York a young man
brought into court by his father
admitted that he had an income OF
500 = week, and employed his
father % hostleg to take care of his
saddle horses. His excuse was that
che father had not led moral life.
The japanese religion. that includes
twenty different kinds of hell, prob
ably would And one especially pre-
PARED for him, that wouldn't include
KHy saddle horses.
4 visitor to the White House
teel;ag important said to President
Coolidge: .Mr. President, ! must
tell you ] did not vote for YOU"
Well" replied the President
A.ome did"
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company insured a man past Fifty
for 81 100000. A few generations
ago, when the second biggest city
in France had no inhabitant over
6ity years OF age, such insuring
would have been financially suicidal
Men live longer, intelligence counts.
A wise man at fifty is safer risk
than q fool at twenty-five. And
the Metropolitan has promoted
longer living by intelligent health
adverf;ain0