The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-02

~ nr''s""s oOO, 900 airplanes
may sound like exaggeration.
But it sounded like exaggeratiop
some years ago when this writer
published editorials urging citizens
not to spread tacks and cut glass
ON roads, to puncture automobile
tires, because, before long, auto
mobiles would be used by workers
going to and from work. That pre-
diction came true.
Some one preparing a list of ten
Things that Christians would and
would not do says:
There would be no private
wealth; Jesus denounced great pos
sessions as alien to His gospel, and
fatal to His kingdom.
There would be no poverty and
no war, because real Christians
would refuse to fight"
In this civilization, if Christians
refused to fight, they would rapidly
diminish in numbers and the Pacific
coast would be settled by Asiatics.
The founder of Christianity taught
that what was due to Caesar should
be rendered unto him.
If He were on earth now He
might say the same of organized
capital, knowing that it supplies, in
our complicated system, the posi-
bility of steady work.
Nobody, not even a clergyman,
can be positive as to what Christ's
commands would be if he returned
in this age of flying machines, auto
mobiles, public schools and the
strange problem of too much of al
most everything, combined with
want among many thousands of
families lacking food and the gov
eminent wondering occasionally
what to do with millions of bushels
Of wheat.
Before long you may have foot
ball coaches feeding calcium to
their players. You know what we
call "a man of iron" is really the
IMAM of calcium"
The metal calcium in the blood,
in quantities that do not change, or
that change little, produces steadi-
ness of nerve lacking in men with
a fiuctuating calcium supply.
1t is said that experiments made
on four young men at an eastern uni
versity showed that a drop in cal
cium brought on "moodiness, de-
preston and pessimism."
If there is high calcium content in
the blood serum they are in HAP
py, cheerful, optimistic, emotional
state"
But ask your doctor about it.
Don't swallow calcium recklessly.
London thinks something should
be done about more than $50, 1000
mental defenctives, and steriliza-
ton, on the German plan, is sug-
gestcd, on condition that the indi-
vidual consents. With such a law,
government sterilization agents
would have few customers.
Under one law suggested, the
health minister would order the
sterilization Of physically ailing
persons shown to be carriers of
transmissible disabilities.
The world is preparing to regu-
late and improve the human breed,
as it has long regulated and inn
proved breeds of cattle, swine and
other creatures; a step in the di-
rection of uniformity that may not
be desirable.
One of the most enlightened edu-
Gators in America tells teachers and
undergraduates that the important
thing is the general welfare, not the
individual welfare. An excellent
idea to put into the minds of young
people.
They should also be told that in
dividual welfare and striving, with
selfshness back of it, is the founda-
ton of general welfare.
The baby wiggling its arms and
kicking its legs in the cradle is build
ing up one more strong baby, for
it's own sake, not for the general
welfare, to which it, nevertheless,
contributes. The man, concentrate
ing on his career, and on the care
and education of his children, has
chiefly in mind his career, children
and family. But he also is building
up the general welfare. Each tiny
coral builder worked only for its
own speck of coral, but beautiful
islands are the result.
After four years of study, wise
men discover that ideas are inn
pressed on the minds of children
more deeply by moving pictures
than by reading books. Less than
four minutes is required to estab-
lish that fact.
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