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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA. GA.
Daily—Afternaon Sunday—Momma
Entered at the Augusta, Ga., Post
office as Mail Matter of the
Second Class.
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of all news dispatches credited to it
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and also the local news published
herein.
A THOUGHT
If in this life only we have Hopo m Chrlet, we ere
of all men mm! miserable.—l Cor. 15:19.
Happy are we If on the body or the reeurrectlon
we can bear the face with which victorioua Chris
tians leave the earth.—Samuel Duffiold.
QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
No man It a hero before breakfast.
The happiest traveler* are those who go and come
inside the same shirt.
It will be different thl* winter. Nobody will be
pulling for Senators.
Liquid measure: Two pints make one quart; one
quart makes one wild.
Everything ha* drawbacks. There were no chil
dren In the Garden of Eden.
There 1* some good everywhere. Waiter Johnson
covers » multitude of Kansas’ *!ns.
You can recog
nl 2e the ap
proach to a cen
ter of culture by
the Increased
dumber of hot
dog stand*.
Let me live In a house by the side of the road and
supply Ford parts lor men.
Ami now It 1* only a question of time until the bar
ber shops must have male manicurist*.
Now quickly ih* uncharitable year* make "cute
little things” serin infernally impudent!
Perversity docs It. Three idealist* mske one cyn
ii . one cynic make* three idealist*.
Philosophy Is what enables us (o love the "higher
things of life” when we fall to make money.
The oyster ha* no brains, so movie morons are not
(ho only ones like that to win popularity.
It Is wicked to
feel ntallC*
toward anybody
except the mo
torist who passes
you at 45 an hour
and then slows
...,, ...
(Down to feed you hla dual.
It doubtless required years to find the man who
looks to perfectly at ease In a union-suit ad.
"Our home* and their contents are no longer aac
red." compaln* a critic. What shout the guest
towel?
,V reformer ta one who itches to enforce the law,
no matter how many’ law* he must break in the pro
cess.
That critic* who say America does no fin* Imag
inative writing doesn't know sny Chamber of Com
merce secretaries.
Correct this sentencs: “Bring me," ordered the
bronsed huntor, "a lettuce sandwich.”
SIGHT SEEIN’ s r hm 00™
WHENEVER you go vtaltlng In town* where
you don't live you seldom ever think to
make a fusa If a nice, kind-hearted driver
a vj» dollar you must glee If you want to ride his
rubber-necking hue.
You will gladly pay the money and he'H rid* you
'round the town and you'll hear hln* shout the hla'try
of the place. You'll travel nil the highway* and tho
byways, up and down, and you’ll keep an awed ex
f>i ration on your face.
When you've sat and looked end traveled till your
dollar's worth Is gone, you will any the trip waa love
ly. there'# no doubt. Then you'll find, upon awaken*
Iti, on the morning after dawn, you've forgotten all
the thing* he talked about.
In the meantime. Juat consider what you know
•h ut your home. Don’t with total home-town Ig
norance be cursed. And the next ttm# you're Inclin
ed to take « rubber-necking roam, why not learn
about the town you live In first?
A BLOW FOR THE KISS.
THERE no longer can be any doubt about Rus
sia. It has a bum government, speaking after
the manner of men. The soviet* haven't done
so very much constructive work btU they have gone
Into the abolishing business on a considerable acale.
They hr, vs barred Independent thought, repudiated
the obligations of man to man, condemned money,
kiboshed religion, confronted the redoubtable Banta
Claus with ths “no-tresepnsslng' sign and now they
have set a stem, unyielding Jaw against the well
known human kiss. That' It will b# admitted, cap*
the climax.
The kiss dates from the beginning of thing*. De
spite the claim of cold, unfeeling expert* that It 1*
nothing mors or less than a deliberate or an Impul
sive swap of some several hundred* of microbe* that
park within the Up* and In the shad* of the tongue.
It ha* survived all attaeka and oosed and smacked
It* way through th# centuries.
It le an Inetllutlon, succulent hut portrntlou*. It
la an expression of a human purpose, a human desire
s human love, or a human passion. It la Ingrowing
and outburstlng. and ever ha* been and ever will be,
world without end. „
Tho** Russians have overreached themselye# en
tirely. It may be possible for them to tear down re
ligious fabric* and civic structure*, no matter es
how long standing or of what stability, but they
niu*t fall Utterly In this latest effort 10 establish a
restrictive law.
The human klas 1* a human confessional whose
power* of suction are far too great and adhesive to
admit cf being torn asunder, Up and tongue, by any
system of government man may erect. Pooh! for
the soviets. * *
TO THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN
BOYS: EVERYBODY!
WE would like to write about men who are boys
grown up and boy* who are men before
they are grown up, but since our task I* to
point out a condition rather than a theory we will go
direct to our labor, and say—
J. Augusta men are conducting a campaign to
make Augusta safe for boys and boy* safe for Au
gusta. There Is a campaign on to keep alive and
further the Hoy Scout movement here—a campaign
to raise 17.0C0.
2. Tour thousand, three hundred dollars liavo
been subscribed, and $3,700 are yet needed.
3. The Rotary Club, father of the Hoy Scout
movement here, has been joined by the other civic
clubs In promoting thl* work for the present and
future. About 200 men, members of these civic
clubs, are volunteer workers In this movement.«
4. Strage to say, a few zealous workers in these
civic organizations have performed the bulk of the
task In raising thl* money.
5. Leaders in the movement are now calling for
an hundred per cent effort. They want each mem
tor of the civic clubs, who has been given names of
people to solicit, to visit these prospects and report
to Cnmpaign Headquarters In the old Merchants
Bank building. Do It today!
Everybody Is Inlerested In the boy—loves the boy.
And the Scout work Is too well known to call for any
explanation or defense by us. You who have boys
and you who would like to have a boy to call your
own wore such a glorious privilege given you, have
simply got to get your heads together and get this
money for the boy*. It's going to be done, of eourse,
but do it at once and let the work of the Scouts go
forwerd.
To those citizens who have not boon solicited, wo
suggest that you clip out thl* card and send It in
with your check to Boy Scout Campaign Head
quarters, Merchants Bank Building, City;
BOY SCOUTS OP AMERICA
Augusta, Georgia, Council.
Relieving that the American Boy Scout move
ment is a valuable asset to the nation and to
the community; that the efforts and expense of
maintaining and expanding it Is a profitable In
vestment In good citizenship; and that the Boy
Scout organization of Augusta should rccelvo
the moral and financial support of the citizens
and buslne* firms of the city,
The undersigned endorses the movement, and
hereby pledges to the officers of the Augusta
Boy Scout Council, a supporting subscription of
I per month, payable
quarterly In advance; it being understood that
said subscription will be continued until cancel
led or changed by the undersigned with at least
90 days’ notice In writing,
Signature
Address
(Note;- If paid with subscription, insert amount
here $
Rev. J. A. Schaart, new rector of St. Paul's Church,
In addressing the Boy Hcout loaders a few duys ago.
summed up the moral result of Hoy Scout training In
ono sentence, when he said: ‘i have never heard of a
Hoy Scout being hailed before a juvenile court.
Mr! If A. Woodward. Juvenile oftlcer of Richmond
County, aaja If he can get a delinquent boy into the
Scout organisation the court's problem is solved so
far a* that boy la concerned. They never gtv«
trouble in the future.
There are now more than thirty business and pt o
fesslonal men In Augusta who are giving of their
time and mean* to learn Scout leadership. In fact. «
achool In Scout leadership la now well under way.
For the aake of a thrill a boy In tho West the other
day scattered tacka In a highway and damaged hun
dred* of automobile tire*. Another ' hoy, of a good
family took up rum-runnning for his thrills, and
w„. shot down by officers. Then, there was the
New York lad who fired 40 tenement houses before
he waa caught. He wanted to sec the firemen fight
the Mate. And. what about l.oeh and Leopold, who
went after thrill* and got a life sentence In jail In
stead? ,
Scouting offer, the boy thrills-dean, moral.
healthv thrllla. that satisfy his every need and de
sire. Let s give our boy. the thrill of Scouting, snd
not leave them to seek thrill, that lead to .tall and
disgrace!
It would he Impossible to write, or even think erf
hoys without reverting to that Immortal classic from
the pen of Elbert Hubbard. “A Roy. A Potentia l >*
we v. printed It before, but it I* worth many «m«
the .r*c. needed to reproduce It. Here
j's;, C»
strangely. cocoon- you do not know
"A boy I* n man In tn w ith many
what It I* gdng to become hi* life is mg
possibilities , Uinos change boundary
"He may make or unmake klngin moM
lines between states. " rl ‘ th(U , v ju revolution
characters. or invent machines that
tr* the commerce of the world.
“Every man was once a boy: I trust 1 shall not be
-532?
the glare of the burning logs!
••Then there was that Corsica Ahoy, one
brood Who weighed only fifty pounds When ten jeers
old; who was thin and rale and Peryerae ami h.o
tantrums, snd had to be sent **.*._., • n \nd'
locked in a dark closet because he would t mind.
Who would have thought that he would have mas
tered every phase of warfare «t twenty-six. and
when told that the exchequer of France was tn dl
confusion, would say, 'The finances. 1 will artang"
them!' „
“Verv distinctly and vividly 1 remember a slim,
freckled boy, who was born In the 'Patch', and used
to pick up eosl along th# railroad track* In Buffalo,
A few month* ago I had a motion to make before the
Hupteme Court, snd that boy from the 'latch was
th* Judge who wrote the opinion granting my peti
tion. Yesterday I rode horseback past a field where
a boy was plowing Th# lad's hslr stuck out through
th# top of his hat: hi* form was bony snd awkward,
one suspender hi Id his trousers In place, hi* bare
leg# and arms were brown and sunburned and btiar
*caired. He swung his horse* around Just as 1 pass
ed hy. and from under th# flapping brim of hla hat
he raat a quick glance out of dark, half-b.ashftU aye*
and modestly returned my salute. His back turned
1 took off my hat and sent a Ood-bleaa-you down
th# furrow after him. <
“Who know**—l may go to that hoy to borrow
money yet, or to hear him preach, or to bin: him to
defend me In a lawsuit; or he may stand with pulse
unhastened, bare of arm, in w hit# apron, ready to do
his duty, while th# con# la placed over my face, and
Night and Death come creeping Into my veins
"Be patient with the boys you are dealing with
aoul-atuff. Destiny awaits Just around the corner.
"Be patient with boy*.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
Cost of Campaigns Is to
Be Given Wide Publicity
By HARRY B. HUNT
WASHINGTON —How much
will the election of the next
president cost? Three mil
lions? Five million? Ten?
The amount of hard cash contri
buted to and spent by ti e i respec
tive organizations handling the
Coolldgc, Davis ar.d l.a Follette
fights Is to be tabulated by a special
senate committee headed by 8-.ru
tor Borah, other members <f which
are Jones of Washington, also a
republican; Bayard it Ddav/are
and Caraway of Arkansas. Dem
ocrats. and Khipstead of Minnesota,
Former-labor party.
The work of tho commute has
begun p.rd regular reports are now
be.ng made, but no t itals have
beau r i minced as ye*. From new
on 1-. w.-ver, repor * or.) to be
made at 10-day inf ,-vals, with the
Idea that publicity wl'l be an ef
fective curb on extravagant ex
penditures.
PRESENT likelihood Is that
the cost of this yar't campaign
will not equ'l that of 1920,
when a record amount was spent
:o bring about the ele 'tion of Presi
dent Harding.
Managers of the. Hod big cam
paign spent nearly 59.000.00 Ithat
year, as compared to about i’-00,-
(00 spent by republicans In ;he first
campaign to elect Lin-An.
There arc two reasons why the
outlay this year will not be so lav
ish. President Conii-lge is by na
ture not merely thrifty but frugal.
The keynote of his cnmpaign is
the slogan. "Economy and common
sense.” He insists that his man
agers shall practice what he
preaches.
The second reason Is even more
compelling. Contributions are not
so lavish. There Is ample rash, but
there is no barrel. Possibly the
reserves are merely being tapped as
the amounts are needed, so the
Borah report may not he damaging.
Every e/ort is being made to keep
the fiscal report In shape to justify
the claim that Ceolldge, in his cam
Speaking The Public Mind
MAKES APPEAL FOR
CAPT. FLEMING'S ELECTION.
Augusta, Gn.. Oct. 20, 1924.
Tho Tho Herald: Will you allow
space in your columns for the fol
lowing;
In November the election for trus
tee of tho Hoard of Education from
tho first ward will come up. For
the past twenty years or more this
office has been held by Capt. James
1,. Fleming, president of the board—
and one whose record stands be
hind him «s one suited In every way
for re-election to the office.
It would bo hard to find anyone
who has always had the host In
terests of the school children of
Richmond county more at heart
than Captain Fleming. It has been
hts life work. Unselfishly, unstint
edly, he has ever given of himself
that their better welware might be
promoted.
Tho under-privileged child has
always been hla chief concern
Helping those whose parents were
cot aide to help them to the ad
vantages of an education, Inspiring
them with Ideals to overcome the
disadvantages of their environ
ment and to make something big
and fine out of their lives; paving
the way to give them their start In
life —these have been some of tho
things that have occupied him
throughout his long years of pub
lic service.
When Captain Fleming was pres
ident of the Augusta Orphans'
Homo It/ was the same; ever the
bettor interest of the child first.
Ho was the first to urge higher ed
ucation nnd vocational training for
the children there. Out of flftty
members of the Board of Managers
of that Institution ho was the only
one to advocate that training, and
out of his own pocket paid all the
expenses of the first ones as a
practical demonstration of the good
results ho believed could ho achiev
ed hy this experiment, and so suc
cessful was this demonstration that
the plan was afterwards adopted
hy tho home.
Captain Fleming was prominent
among those who pushed tho pro
ject of the John Mtlledge school,
then one of the finest schools In the
south, which has done Its greatest
work among the under-privileged
children —nnd his name Is upon tho
corner-stone there.
!So it ha* been through every
phase of his useful life, and erst
while school children, scattered
through all parts of the country
now, can testify to the practical
help Captain Fleming has been to
them. To such a man It Is but de
serving that he he allowed to round
out bis life in service to those he
loves best, nnd whom he has so
faithfully served—the school chil
dren of Richmond county.
A TEACHER.
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L Siam m ■»» senes
i paign as well as In his personal cx-
I penditures, Is the "hard-boiled
j economizer’’ he has been dubbed
j bjj Senator Capper of Kansas.
! enpHE Democrats and the Inde-
I I pendents are economical from
| necessity rather than choice.
: Doth have attempted to make carrl-
I tal out of their lack of cipital,
, declaring they’ would rather have
i single dollars from many lndlvid
j uals that large sums ffrom a lew,
and that big donations njf mly
were not sought, but were no:
wanted. However, there is no rec
ord of either outfit being cotnpe.led
to return any large check. In order
j to- live up to their geo l resolu’lons.
The drive of the Democrats for
“Victory Club" contr'l utors, and the
sale of La Follette-Whoelor medal
lions at $1 each, conPnues unabated.
TWO former baseball cx verts,
now high In administration and
Republican counsels, took an
active part In keeping Washington’s
dope on straight during the world
series games here.
Postmaster General Harry New,
i who used to be a sport writer on
his father’s paper, the Indianapolis
Jornal, turned reporter again and
“covered” the series, thereby getting
a free seat In the press box and a
"by-Une" In a Washington paper.
Colonol George Harvey, former
ambassador to Great Britain, now
editor-in-chief of Ned McLean's
j Washington Post, who 0 years ago
l sold a story to St. Nicholas Maga
-1 zlne about a game between tho
Peacham and Danville (Vt.) teams,
resurrected this fact as testimonial
to his claim of being a "sport ex
pert,” and therefore qualified to
speak with authority on the techni
que of the Giants and Senators.
I might "horn in” on this situa
tion for my own family by pointing
out that the hero of Harvey’s St.
Nicholas yard was named Hunt,
who, according to the colonel, pitch
ed the first curve ball ever thrown
In New England.
GIVES FIGURES AS TO
NEGRO SCHOOLS AND TAXES.
Augusta, Ga.. Oct. 20, 1924.
To The Herald: Noting the com
munication in your Sunday paper
signed Ernest A. Lyons, and en
titled "Give the Negroes Justice,” I
beg to say that this is simply anoth
er instance where a letter was
w'ritten without the writer first ob
taining full information In the case.
He states that the colored taxpay
ers of the county would pay $50.-
000 out of the total issue of $350,000
In tho event the bond Issue is au
thorized. How he gained this Im
pression, or who gave him this in-
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
Unbroken Attendance
Ralph Warrick. 16, son of Mr. and
Sirs. 1. S Warrick, Akron, 0., will
complete his thirteenth year of un
broken Sunday school attendance in
November.
Ralph was horn In East Liverpool
and Mrs. Warrick took her baby
to Sunday school when he was six
weeks old.
The Warrlcks later moved to
Akron and Ralph started Sunday
school when he was In his third
year. His attendance record since
then has been unbroken.
On occasions when young War
rick is out of the city over Sunday
he attends Sunday school wherever
ho Is and brings back an attendance
certificate.
Warren Is a sophomore at Akron
West High School and is a drum
mer In the high school band.
formation, I am sure I cannot Im
agine, but I would like to correct It
The total digest for the
state and county for
1924 Is .’..544,178,336.00
Digest of property
owned by colored
taxpayers .... 2,542,375.00
Digest of property
owned by white tax
payers .. 41.635,961.00
From thlis you will note that the
digest for the colored taxpayers 1*
Just one-seventeenth of the whole,
and therefore they would pay only
one-seventeenth of the taxes, and
consequently the statement that the
colored taxpayers would pay one
seventh of the entire amount of the
bond Issue Is Impossible and abso
lutely Incorrect, even if they paid
anything at all.
The writer then makes an appeal
for Justice to his people and urges
them to vote against the bond Is
sue. He evidently made no inves
tigation, or he would have found
that the Board of Education and the
white taxpayers of the county have
been most just and kind to fils peo
ple. Please! note the following facts:
Digest of property col
ored taxpayers for 1924..52,542,375
School tax 12 mi115..530,508
Less delinquents ~ 1.525
Total $28,983
{Expenditures 1924-25.
(Appropriated.)
Teachers city colored 5ch0015.535,600
Domestic science teachers... 6,360
Teachers rural colored
schools 7,000
Janitors and workers 3,000
Fuel ar-4 supplies 2,000
Total $54,960
Expenditures $54,960
Receipts 28,983
Excess of costs over
amount paid ....$25,977
In other words the colored people
pay only a little more than one-half
of what Is expended on them In the
schools and the white taxpayers pay
the balance, though In addition to
the above figures the colored people
are paid from the taxes paid by the
white people over $16,000 as janitors
and jantiresses In the white schools.
The amount paid to the colored
teachers alone Is a great deal more
than the entire amount of taxes
paid by the colored citizens. From
this you will note that the colored
people could not possibly be ex
pected to pay anything on the
bonds, for the simple reason that
they do not even pay running ex
penses and could not under any
circumstances pay taxes enough to
have anything to be applied on the
bonds. This has been true during
the entire life of the public school
system In this country. The taxes
paid by the colored people have
never equalled the cost of running
their schoolß, and therefore as a
matter of fact the colored people
have never paid one dollar, not one
cent on either their own school
buildings, white school buildings,
the Tubman bonds or any such ex
penses. To the contrary I am sat
isfied thaht Rn Investigation will
show that in the life of the school
system of more than forty years
the expenses of running and main
taining the colored schools has ex
ceeded the amount of taxes paid by
the colored taxpayers, somewhere
between $500,000 and $2,000,000,
which, of course, has been paid by
the white taxpayers. The colored
people, therefore, have great cause
for gratitude to the white taxpayers
of this county and should be only
too glad to vote one hundred per
cent for the bonds, feeling assured
that they are not forgotten and
will never be forgotten. That
something will be done for them
just as soon as it is possible for
t them to do it.
YV. J. HOLLINGSWORTH,
Auditor Richmond County Board of
Education.
Aunt Het
/^y
“Men may be wicked, but
it takes a lot o’rellglon to go
in shirt sleeves all week an'
then enjoy a Sunday service
with a coat on."
(Copyright. 1924. Associated
Editors, Inc.)
By William#
FABLES ON HEALTH
Destroy Fear
“Don’t do this and don't do that.”
were admonitions of the mothers of
Anytown, as well as of any other
part of the world.
It Is quite natural that a mother
should warn a child against various
dangers, but to put definite fear
into the heart of the child is some
thing quite different.
The proper procedure is to ex
plain carefully the conditions of a
thing which a child needs to fear—
whether it be automobiles or di
sease. And it should be a sense of
caution rather than of fear that Is
Imnlanted.
The offices of nerve specialists
are crowded with cases of "tear
neurosis.” These are people with
nameless fears and when their
minds are trailed back to childhood
It Is frequently found that name
less fears were Implanted in them
for years.
Teaching of caution Is instinctive.
It is to be found in the lower ani
mals, but the parent should be most
careful not to confuse it with fear.
For fears are terrible things and
lead to depression and general un
fitness for enjoyment.
Don’t frighten the children with
threats of the bogey-man.
Don’t frighten them with fears
and threats.
Instruct them, and there will be
no need for threats and fears.
EDITORIALCOMMENT
THE NEW ENGLAND MILLS.
In Its "Topics of Wall Street"
Tuesday, the New York Times
printed this very interesting and
significant statement about "The
case of Cotton Mills:
The fact that extremely few of
the cotton etxtile mills observe the
practice of issuing periodic earn
ings statements for general con
sumption, especially In the last few
years, has made much more of a
puzzle of this business than it
otherwise would be. It is known
that with high-priced cotton many
of the New England mills. In the
face of growing competition in the
south, have barely been able to hold
their own for the last year. Some
others have fortunately substituted
•progressive action’ for the tradi
tional conservatism and are now
engaged in adjusting themselves to
greatly altered circumstances, and
one well-known cotton man said
yesterday thaht he greatly doubted
if conditions as reported by several
of the older textile establishments
In the north could be taken as typ-
HAVE YOU ATTENDED
THE COOKING DEMONSTRATION ?
Tomorrow is the third day of our
cooking demonstration; if you have
not been in to see the CHAMBERS
Gas Range and learn how you may,
conserve time, energy and, GAS,
come today.
Demonstration being conducted by
Miss Caphalie Lewis, of our House
Service Department, at 854 Broad St.,
OPPOSITE our store.
Nothing sold except the IDEA of
more efficient cooking and the con
servative use of gas.
Sandwiches to all who attend. We
want you to know how easy it is to
cook on a Chambers Gas Range,
TO SERVE YOU SATISFACTORILY
THE GAS LIGHT COMPANY OF AUGUSTA
Arrow Brand Collars
10c Each
or SI.OO Per Dozen
Boys’ and Men’s Sizes
SOUTHERN STOCK
BUYERS
978 BROAD STREET
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21
leal. Incidentally, one company in
South Carolina was able yesterday
to announce an extra dividend of
ten per cent. —Spartanburg Herald.
THE GEORGIA ANJ FLORIDA
RAILROAD.
"Did you know that for the last
year the Georgia and Florida paid
out at Douglas for wages $247,663.80
and for taxes to the city of Doug
las and county $6,438.14 or an aver
age of $21,175 per month; there are
over 100 white families living in
Douglas employed by this railroad,
that at least 90 per cent of the
money paid out for salaries is spent
with the merchants and real estate
people of the town, and In addition
to this the railroad bought over
6125,000 worth of merchandise from
the merchants of Douglas. Think
this over and see what the Georgia
and Florida Railway means at your
town, then are you supporting the
railway with your business on the
same percentage that It Is sup
porting you, If not, why not?”—
Douglass Progress.
Bill
A mile in 23 seconds—Malcolm
Campbell makes it in England with
his auto, a 12-cylinder Sunbeam.
Ten years ago such speed would
have astounded the world. No one
pays much attention to it now, for
airplanes are far faster. The im
portance of anything is entirely by
contrast, or relativity. The goal of
brain training should be to develop
a sense of values for determining
the importance of things and situa
tions in relation to others. Values
are relative.
All Indications point to existence
of animal and vegetable life on
Mars, says Prof. Philip Fox of
Northwestern University.
Tropical temperature on Mars at
noon Is only 10 above freezing,
claims another celebrated astron
omer, speaking for Carnegie Insti
tution of Washington. He figures
out thermometers never would re
gister higher than 42 anywhere on
Mars. The south polar temp up
there is 95 below zero. You can
Imagine life existing under such
conditions.
Here are two competent authori
ties seemingly irreconcilably far
apart. It makes you wonder whe
ther there is anything more uncer
tain than "exact science.”