The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-01-12
This Week.
b. ARTHUR BRISBANE
Much Little News
Hit the Man, Not the Pig
Science at Work
The Most Beautiful
Words


pardons 12S convicted of bootleg.
ging. The people voted against pro-
hibition. Vox populi, vox Del, "the
voice Of the people is the voice OF
God" and Governor RoIph says
that is more important than the
voice of prohibition.
Professor Kraus, who teaches
philosophy in the College Of New
York City, has changed his mind
about killing himself by fasting, be.
cause nobody does anything about
attacks on Jews in Poland.
He, philosophically, concludes
that he couldn't improve conditions
in Poland by dying Of hunger. A
living professor is better than a
dead martyr.
Another railroad In the hands OF
a receiver. This one is the Central
of Georgia Railway Company, be.
longing 100 per cent to the Illinois
Central Railway. Apparently the
ownership was not profitable, in
these times.
A receivership is no disgrace
now, to escape it is a distinction
like being a survivor of the Charge
of the Light Brigade.
A strange story from Duluth,
Mimi, about two men who agreed
to steal a pig. One was to drive the
pig out through a little trap door,
the other standing with an axe was
to hit the pig, when it appeared.
One man crawled in, but the pig
was not there. He crawled out of
the little door and his friend, wait,
ing, hit him in the neck with the
axe. 1t was a nervous blow and he
will recover. ANY clergyman can
find moral in that story.
A pompous British coal mine
owner who asked a famous scienc.
fist what practical good is all
your science?" was surprised to
learn that he had wasted thousands
of pounds boring for coal through
certain strata below which coal
does not exist.
Other mine owners, worried by
gas explosions that destroyed in.
Vulnerable miners, got from Sir
Humphrey Davis the miners lamp
that ended the explosions.
Wherever you go science is at
work visible or invisible. John p.
Bickel of the Mcintyre Porcupine
Mine in northern Ontario, tells
what science does for gold miners,
that work far under ground, during
the hours of sunlight.
Leaving their work, they take off
their digging clothes and walk
through a series of showers gradu.
ated In temperature, and get rid OF
the dust OF the mine. Then they sit,
naked, on a moving platform, with
brilliant artificial sunlight shining
on them, stimulating their blood
through the power of actinic rays.
Their ride of a few minutes
through artificial sunshine lasts
long enough to give them exactly
as much of the rays as doctors
want them to have, equivalent to
six hours In natural sunlight.
They change to their surface
clothes, refreshed by the showers
of water and actinic ray baths.
That is an improvement on min.
ing methods of old days, when wo.
men on their hands and knees. in
low tunnels of British coal mines,
dragged cars loaded with coal, at.
tached to chains around their
necks, running under their bodies.
Learned persons are asked by
The New York American to select
the twenty most beautiful words.
Edwin Markham's list includes ere
verberating, coliseum, chrysele.
phantine. California" Rupert
Fl u g b es includes "immemorial.
translucent, tremulous" in his list.
The beauty of words is a matter
of opinion and location. The most
beautiful word in prison is "free.
DOM" in the death house it is ere
prieve." In Wall Street it is "divi
dends.". In war IL is victory" In
courtship it is "yes."
The most powerful words are
short words. Men have made them
short for convenience: God. life,
gold, far, near, good, bad, light.
stars, sun, moon" all Of one syl.
liable.
Bernard Shaw starts a trip
around the world, announcing 81
will not give single autograph"
and as a farewell jest, not very
good, says, "Give Ireland to the
United States, and liQuidate all the
war debts"
Ireland has removed herself
from British control, and only the
Irish have power to dispose of her.
But Ireland has already given to
the United States that which is
worth more than any territory,
hundreds Of thousands of intellig.
emit, courageous, enterprising men