The Carbon County news., 1931-07-23

later in President Harding's cab
met. The courts accepted as
proved that oil reserves of the
United States were bought and sold
criminally, so an old man, broken
In health, not far from the grave,
convicted Of selling, must go to
prison. He goes alone.
What Of those that did the buy
ing?
The man who has made a wise
Investment is foolish If he let's it go
at this time, if he has the power
to hold it.
The wise will remember that
everything comes back. What goes
up comes down, and vice versa.
This country hasn't lost anything
except a few billions Of dollars, moth
ing like half as much as one years
United States payroll. And what
we have lost is nothing compared
with what we made in the war.
1t is good time to remember
Goethe's money lost, something
lost honor lost, much lost /. Z.
courage lost, everything LOST
Dean Hanf0rd Of Harvard uni
versity says students are mot
spoon fed" They are expected to
be responsible for their own edu-
cation and, to a great degree, edu-
cate themselves. Truly Dean Han
ford says: "The most important
type of education is self-education.
The student grasps, retains and
masters what he works out for him.
self"
To educate means ''to lead out"
from e, out, and duco, to lead. All
that you can do for a boy Is to
bring out of him, to lead out" that
which is in him. Stuffing him with
ready-made information does little
good.
In Buckingham palace good Queen
Mary had grand ball, first in that
palace since 1924.
Two thousand young men, that
have not had much amusement
lately" went to the party.
The music, chosen by Queen Mary,
according to custom, with some ad-
vice from her son, the prince Of
Wales, had United States flavor.
Titles of the dance music included:
s'Im Alone Because l Love YOU"
e'Girl of Million Dreams" "Ha-
waiian Stars Are Cleaning" and
S'Peanut Vender," all long way
from the "Blue Danube"
President Hoover said America
must go to the rescue of Germany
and Austria, and stocks went
bounding upward. That happened
in spite of the fact that the Pres
ident's message meant that many
of our European customers were
close to bankruptcy, and many of
our billions, sent abroad, might
never come back.
A huge whale pl0ws the north
ern seas, swallowing millions of
tiny marine creatures, on which he
lives, knowing nothing of his past.
Little does he dream that his an
cestor was a little creature, the
tree shrew," that you could carry
in your vest pocket.
Still less can he imagine his fu-
ture, or know that his body will be
boiled down, and the Oil sprayed
on park trees to kill an epidemic
of plant lice.
From tree shrew to whale ninety
feet long, and from giant whale to
plant lice destroyer, is consider
able change.
We human beings know about
our past and future as little as tire
whale knows about his.
Professor Frost, director Of the
Yerkes observatory, finds indica-
tions that there exists mind" in
the universe. He is not like the
French scientist who replied to Ma
poleon's question concerning God:
''I have no need Of that hypothe-
Sis
If a cockroach in skyscraper
could talk and say: "I believe there
is somebody running this sky
scraper," you would be amused.
Somebody, somewhere in crea-
tion, is amused when one of the
little germs on this earth grain of
dust discovers indications of a
guiding intelligence in the universe.
What are vitamins? We know
that we can't live without them,
that they cure ricketts, in children,
what foodstuffs contain the various
vitaminS, and scientists have just
discovered that two of them, vita
Minis A and B, give off some kind of
strange radiation. Rats deprived
Of certain necessary vitamins have
no children. Deprived of other vi
tamins, they starve to death, al
though supplied with abundance of
food.
Three important things we pos
sess without knowing what they
are, electricity, vitamins and the
soul of man.
Somebody stole twenty-eight ca
nary birds as they sat in their
cages singing sweetly. And, having
stolen them, turned them loose in
the park.
1t was a mistaken kindness. You
might as well take twenty-eight
sons of very rich men from their
yachts, automobiles or polo ponies,