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...Wells believes that as our life span increases we ascend the spiral of progress. Sex, he thinks, becomes of less importance and civilization attains maturity. By artificially living longer we are doing something quite out of the range of the other animals. Thus, homo sapiens leaves his competitors far behind in the race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about...
...except ye be as a child ye cannot ascend Parnassus without art. And Vachel Lindsay is a child without art, and as a child without art he sets out bravely not toward Parnassus but toward the mountains of Glacier Park, toward Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and the Red Gods, and various flowers, and love in a cabin, and far horizons. As a child he returns with a bouquet of words about Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and various flowers, and far horizons, and the Red Gods, and love in a cabin. As the bouquet of a child is this...
...Should he ascend the throne he will reign as Leopold III, and will be Belgium's fourth king. Leopold I (1790-1865) was of course Queen Victoria's "wise uncle Leopold." Leopold II (1835-1909) was an uncle of the present king, Albert I, and although notoriously dissolute, and the ruthless exploiter of the Congo, spent much of his ill-gotten wealth on public buildings and improvements in Belgium...
Last week, near El Segundo, Cal., the very latest wrinkle in descent was demonstrated-a wrinkle that promised to eliminate a tremendous percentage of the danger-and fear-of aviation. Pilot R. Carl Oelze of the Naval Reserve had the temerity to ascend in his plane to 2,500 ft., jerk the strings of a monster parachute folded in the fuselage behind the cockpit, shut off his motor and let the plane plunge toward the ground like a plummet. Anxious watchers saw a white mushroom suddenly billow above the dropping craft. With a jerk, the plane's fall...
...roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon have the camera mounted in the rear cockpit of his plane, at the flying post in Dayton, Ohio, with a heating apparatus around it to protect it from the 80°-below zero weather of 35,000 feet aloft. Then he will ascend, take panoramic views showing 318 miles of earth at once, with little blotches for great cities, tiny veins for huge rivers...