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HOW MANY CAN BE FED
As nearly as can be estimated, the
population of the world reached 850
million in 1800 and in the century
between that and 1900 it practically
doubled. It is now about 1,750 mil
lion.
When it is considered that it took
the human race possibly half a mil
lion years to reach the first 850 mil
lion and only 100 years to double
that number, the fact is significant.
Looking to the future, it must be re
membered that human life is being
lengthened and preserved thru better
observance of the laws of science;
also, that if future wars can be reduc
ed, still greater increases may be ex
pected.
The question naturally arises, for
how many people can the earth sup
ply the necessary food? When, if
ever, will famine become general, in
stead of occasional and local, as in
the past and present?
So far, there is ample food in the
world, if it could be distributed where
it is needed. But right now hundreds
of thousands in the Near East, in
Russia, in India, in China and in many
other parts of the world are dying,
■either directly or indirectly from lack
of food.
In the past hundred years vast new
areas of fertile land have been open
ed up to cultivation, but famine ex
ists, partly through congestion of
populations and partly through lack
of transportation.
(While this problem may not ser
iously affect America for several gen
erations, at the present rate of in
crease in population it will only be a
question of time until the food situa
tion will be a grave one for the entire
world, unless some improved chemi
cal means for sustaining life can be
practically developed.
Probably the civic clt js of the fu
ture will be trying to get rid of people,
instead of boosting for bigger towns.
LOVE OF YOUR WORK
Several instances have come to no
tice recently which seem to discredit
the old theory that in order to be a
success one should follow a congenial
line of work.
It is said that the late Joseph Con
rad, the most famous of- recent au
thors of sea stories, hated the sea and
detested writing.
O. O. McIntyre tells of a leading
and successful New York theatrical
producer who has a deep antipathy
to actors and actresses and despises
the theater; also of a man who has
made a fortune as a florist, but who
does not care for flowers and is
nauseated by their perfume.
Nowr comes Irving S. Cobb, one of
America’s most famous writers and
humorists, with the statement that
he utterly dislikes writing, but keeps
at it because he doesn’t want to be
a loafer, or words to that effect.
The average newspaper man will
tell you that he loathes the eternal
grind, but somehow- you could not
drive him out of it. Many musicians
suffer mental torture when before an
audience—and so it goes.
These may be exceptions to the
rule, but the lesson to be drawn from
the instances noted is that determina
tion to do good wTork will develop
ability and bring success, w'hether
one likes his job or not.
LABOR’S FIRST BANKER
Death claimed Warren S. Stone re
cently, removing one of the outstand
ing chiefs of labor, who had led his
followers into the capitalistic class.
Mr. Stone was the first president of
the first labor bank in the United
States, the Cooperative National Bank
of Cleveland, which was opened in
1920, starting with resources of $600,
000 which were increased to $25,000,
000 in three years. Similar banks in
several other cities have met success.
As grand chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers he saw the
adoption of compulsory life insurance
for all its members, the 90,000 of
whom carry life, sickness and acci
dent insurance aggregating approxi
mately $200,000,000.
Warren S. Stone was bcfrn on an
Iowa farm, began his railroad career
as a fireman and when elevated to
head of the Brotherhood in 1903, he
was still holding a run in the engi
neer’s cab of a Rock Island locomo
tive.
Mr. Scone was a conservative la
bor leader and piloted his organiza
tion thru many troubulous periods
without a strike. He was quoted as
saying:
“It is a fundamental principle with
out which no labor organization can
exist, that it must carry out its con
tracts.”
THE EVOLUTION SQUABBLE
Iii Dayton, Tennessee, a little town
of about 1800 persons, Friday will oc
cur a trial which threatens to rock
the civilized world. The Tennessee
legislature, a conservative and medie
val organization, passed a law making
it a misdemeanor to teach evolution
in the public schools of the State.
The legislators objected to being made
monkeys of and banned the Darwinian
theory outright. Prof. John T. Scopes,
a modernist of considerable ability,
disregarded the law and instructed his
classes in the theory of evolution as
she is written by eminent scientists.
He was arrested and William Jennings
Bryan, who has never sufficiently re
covered from the mouth disease fol
lowing a long residence in the West,
offered his services to prosecute Mr.
Scopes, as evolution is anathema to
the celebrated lecturer and politician.
Clarence Darrow, an eminent Chicago
criminal lawyer, realizing the value of
advertising, immediately offered to
defend Mr. Scopes, and one by one,
like cocoanuts in a grove, prominent
attorneys of the land have taken sides
for or against the Tenessee pedagog.
The originator of the trouble stands
aghast at the turmoil he has created
in pedigogical waters, while the town
citizens, not averse to taking advan
tage of its opportunity are prepar
ing to handle the crowTds.
It seems to us that a tempest in a
teapot has been raised over a small
question. Many of us have seen a
good monkey spoiled by evoluting into
a man, and on the other hand we have
seen many monkeys with more brains
than a man wrho wastes his time and
grey matter attempting to prove he
is a direct descendant of an ape. Mr.
Bryan is using his talents to prosecute
a man who probably knows as little
of his line of ancestors as does the
Florida lecturer. Man may have
been of arboreal tendencies years ago
and again he may have been more
civilized than the average evolutionist
of today.
Those of us who believe they are
lineal descendants of a long line of
apes have a right to their contention.
In fact, they have proved it in our
mind. Every man knowrs his own an
cestors far better than do strangers,
and is entitled to consideration and a
hearing when he desires to parade
them before a credulous public.
Circulars sent to members of Con
gress from a publicity bureau in
^ achington offered, for a moderate
price, to see that its clients obtained
publicity “where you need it and
where it will be most effective.’ It ap
pears the Congressional Record is to
have competition.
Ainsworth Mitchell, criminologist
of the British Home Office, has dis
covered newr and apparently conclu
sive evidence that Mary, Queen of
Scots, did not write the letters ap
proving a plot to assassinate Queen
Elizabeth, but they wTere wrritten by
Maitland, her secretary and betrayer.
Historically interesting,' but too late
to be of benefit to Mary, who was exe
cuted for her alleged treason 338
years ago.
LIBERTY THEATRE
(ViK'e again we have the famous bov actor,
Jackie Coogan
In the wonderful eight reel story,
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Long Live the KingJ
Bv MARY ROBERTS RIIIX EH ART
This is considered by far the best thing Jackie has done
since his masterpiece, “The Kid.” It comes high recom
mended by Fairbanks. Here1 is something that will please
everybody, old and Young. The story tits the boy and the
boy tits the story. \ our sorrow if you miss it.
AND a pathe news
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT EIGHT O’CLOCK
Ion, Pericardis, an American citizen,
was held for ransom by Raisuli, a
Moroccan bandit 21 years ago when
President Roosevelt sent the sultan
his famous message demanding that
he produce “Pericardis alive or Rai
suli dead,” and Pericardis was pro
duced alive. He died in England the
other day, while Raisuli was recently
captured and is now held prisoner by
another desert chief. Raisuli is still
alive; Pericardis and Roosevelt are
dead. Such is life—and death.
On a cliff near Hannibal, Mo., a
shaft will be raised to commemorate
Mark Twain's celebrated boy charac
ters, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Saw
yer, whose exploits have thrilled at
least two generations of boys, old and
young. It will in fact be a monument
to the noted author and humorist,
whose real name was Samuel Lang
horne Clemens (1835-1910).
Men must pass a physical examina
tion in Wisconsin before marriage.
Two attempts to extend the law to
women were defeated; the senate vot
ing for and the house against the
measure each time. The Wisconsin
house was chivalrous.
The Amalgamated Bank and the
Federation Bank of New York, both
owned by labor union stockholders,
are now on a dividend paying basis.
Other banks are on a similar basis.
Thus labor moves into the capitalist
class.
LAWS AND CORRUPTION
In a recent speech in Baltimore,
the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge,
dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Lon
don quoted an aphorism of Cicero:
“In the most corrupt nation you have
the most laws.”
There has never been in all history
a people burdened with so many laws
as exist in the United States today.
Whether we have the most corrupt
nation is to some extent a matter of
opinion, but heaven knows it is bad
enough.
Still the reformers are clamoring
for more laws. WThere it will all
end no man can foretell. It appears
that when we elect a legislature or
a congress, presumably of men who
are individually intelligent and hon
est, immediately they assemble they
become a crazy, irresponsible mob.
Men whose lives have been, on the
surface at least, fairly above reproach
in the ordinary relations of life, are
frequently drawn into paths of folly
high office.
Many who remain personally hon
est devote themselves to tinkering
with the constitution and devising
schemes to create additional battal
ions to swell the army of worse than
useless officeholders already feeding
at the public crib.
Thoughtful men are beginning to
realize the seriousness of the situa
tion. Only by an aroused public
sentiment can we hope to stop the
orgy of lawmaking and lawbreaking
which threatens our national struc
ture and makes of liberty a mockery.
MEET ME TONITE IN DREAMLAND
There will be a big dance at the
Dreamland dance hall this evening
beginning at 9:30 o’clock. The regu
lar orchestra has been augmented, it
is announced, making exceptional mu
sic for the dancing couples.
A man in Massachusetts has invent
ed a reclining chair which is never
still. We know several people the
same way, so why worry.
England, Scotland and Wales im
port about three-fourths of the food
supplies used by their people, and as
an Irish editor naively remarks, they
do without the other fourth.
The world is rapidly growing bet
ter. A Columbus, Ohio, plumber car
ries tools and stock in a truck so his
men will not lose time going back for
forgotten articles.
Jerusalem was under Mohammedan
rule from 631 until 1917, but Ameri
cans invented the electric light and
the telegraph.
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If you feel like slipping away to the i
woods get your wife to stick a hatpin
in your face and pour lye on the punc
ture. If you can stand the pain you
are assured a pleasant time amongst
the flies and mosquitos.
It is queer how little patience the
average man has with his neighbor’s
children.
A new machine recently invented
can turn out 1000 fountain pens in an
hour. Now for some machine which
will keep them from going dry.
NEW YORK, July 8 (A3)—Nine more
deaths were reported today as a re
sult of the heat wave which struck
from the west yesterday. Dozens of
victims were prostrated.
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choice of two kinds of meat and one
kind of fish served from 11:30 to 1:30
for 50c. Starting Wednesday, July
8th, 1925. We invite the laboring men
especially.
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