The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-16

Arthur Bri.b.n. the first days
rioting between
Fascists and the crowd that does
not want fascism, hundreds were
hurt.
England is becoming modernized.
One of her race track gambling
gangsters, murdered american
fashion" in the course of gangster
business, was honored with a funer-
al that would make Chicago or New
York stare.
Mussolini does not believe that
old supply and demand" is neces-
Sarlly omnipotent. While cutting
four per cent from the value of Ital-
ian money, he forbids any increase
In prices, any rent increase for two
years. That experiment will be
watched with interest. The word
money" most important in the
world to many, has less real mean
ing than any other word in the die
tionary, nobody knowing anything
about it.
A new law in Paraguay compels
every able-bodied man to work,
whether he wants to or not. Here
men that want jobs can't get them.
There men can get jobs, but don't
want them.
The general idea is good, but if
all able-bodied men had been COM
PEELED to work always the human
race would still be far back in the
dark ages. One Of the greatest
Greeks said truly that bodily slav-
cry was necessary, because it gave
leisure to a few, leisure made
thought possible and thought Gre
ated progress.
If all men had worked hard, by
con1pulson, there would have been
no deliberate thinking. Slavery
would be necessary now for the
worlds progress had not machines
taken the place of slaves.
Scientists of the Smithsonian In
stitution announce discovery by DR..
Hrdlicka in the Aleutian islands, off
the coast of Alaska, of a skull that
once held the biggest brain on rec
ord, excepting that of the Russian
novelist Turgenieff, who had brain
cavity of 5000 cubic centimeters.
The biggest American brain be-
longed to Daniel Webster, 1000 Gu
bic centimeters.
But brain size and weight are
not everything. Beethoven, with a
1,750 cubic centimeter skull, will
outlive in Importance Webster, the
French naturalist Cuvier, and other
"big BRAINS
Adaptation to usefulness is the i'm
portant thing. It is said that the
eye of the eagle is twice as heavy
as the eagles brain.
Wine bottled in Germany here
after will have, instead of a cork,
q plug of German wood.
To help make Germany indepen-
dent of the outside world, the use of
cork, that does not grow in Ger
many, is forbidden. This will save
100000 marks year, spent
abroad for cork.
German wood, according to au-
thorities, is cheaper, better, resists
breakage, acid, alkali, and elimi-
mates cork taste.
One question is, will the wooden
cork swell up at the lower end suf-
ficiently to overcome the pressure
of gas in a champagne bottle?
At Jonesville, Va, Rev. T. Ander-
son, in a demonstration of faith, al
lowed poisonous serpents to bite him
three times, assuring his congrega-
ton that they could not harm him.
A copperhead moccasin snake bit
him twice on the right hand q
rattlesnake once on the left.
Unfortunately Rev. Mr.. Anderson,
member of the Holiness persuasion,
died soon afterward.
We go up and down quickly in the
United States, particularly in new
enterprises. William Fox, once one
of the most energetic, successful of
moving picture men, now a bank
rupt, tells the court that in 1880 he
was worth oPe hundred million dol
lars; now he has only "odds and
ends" meaning only few hundred
thousands, here and there.
Our South American neighbor,
Nicaragua, forbids all slot ma
chimes and other gambling devices
in that country. All must be de-
stroyed.
Nicaragua's government says
such machines teach children to
gamble, and their owners are para.
sites of the worst kind, making 9
profit of SO cents on every dollar.
Q King Features Syndicate, Inc.