Nogales international., 1928-03-23
BY Arthur Brisbane

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By Arthur Brisbane
MEN MADE OF METAL.
THE GENEROSITY OF NATURE
PLANT IDLE! CERTAINLY.
A GOOD ITALIAN LAW.
r. ]. Wensley, inventor of Q
mechanical man that unveiled .
statue of George Washington, be-.
lieves that men made of metal will
liberate US from industrial slav.
ery. as Washington liberated u
rcoa European tyranny.
Workers need not fear that me.
tallic robots" will ruin the labor
market. Long ago mechanical
men and wcmen made their ap-
pearance in n machinery of all kinda
driven by steam and electricity.
One machine does the knitting for
ten thousand women, one locomo-
tive pulls the load of thousand
stage coaches, replacing 1000 dEiv-
sra
The perfected machine will not
be an imitation man standing up
right on two legs. That position
man achieved to look out over high
grass for enemies and prey, in the
beginning, and to look up at the
stars later. Mechanical men can
be only an interesting curiosity,
not an industrial success. Science
improves on nature and does not
Initiate it, the ultimate flying ma
Chine without bird wings or meth
eds viii prove that.
y S~s
From big orange tree in South
ern California the Riverside Cham
Der Of Commerce sends 1876 oranges
70 as many newspaper editors. TIE
tree is one al two imported from
Hra7:l By the United States Depart
ener If agriculture Those two
s1s4s arc .he father and mother 0!
III the Washington navel trees
that make up great groves u
Southern California.
u Similarly, . few cherry trees,
eought by Lucullus from his wars
Ga Asia, are the ancestors OF mil
Nons Of cherry trees that small
American boys climb every year.
Such are the wealth and generosity
% Nature.
Mr.. Rogers at Muscle Shoals in
apects with his mournful cowboy
eye $l5OO0O, 900 plant built by the
people to produce nitrogen to sup
Dly cheap fertilizer for farmeEA
AnA explosives in case Of war.
Mr. Rogers remarks that such q
slant lying idle is enlightening. il
means that the Government isn't
quite ready to deliver the plant
ever to the power trust.
And until the power trust gets
&. that trust won't let anybody
else use the Muscle Shoals plant
Thanks 70 Mussolini's common
sense. q new law compels meS-
chants in Italy 20 mark prices
plainly and stick to the priceA
That will increase foreign buying.
especially by Americans, who do
not like to pay double or devote
half an hour to bargaining over q
GriAe.
MeICn30IS 1u Italy WOH ANC u
but their business and prosperity
sill increase.
Machinery will Be devised even
eualIy to do the so-called back
hreaking farm work that proud
~ United States citizens, accustomed
to their automobiles, no longer will
90.
But nothing should be done toe
suddenly, unless the Government
l. willing to precipitatc hard times
) Dver . wide area.
Newspapers tell of baby "deat
zen times" Ten times in its shor
ave weeks of life the baby's hear
stopped beating in a struggle
against pleuro-pneumonia. Tel
times it was revived and it prob
\ ably will live. The doctors di'
wonders.
There Is just a line about tn
mother. Still weak, following IN
bahys birth, she gave her bloc.
in TRANSMISSION to save her baby
life. Her name is Mrs. 6. E. Ohm
anead. and what she did ten mil
iioa mothers would do. gladly.