The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-11-13
BY Arthur Brisbane

lion dollars. Five months allowed for
the round trip.
Fifty or one hundred years from
next July the charge for an air trip
around the world will be less than the
price of an Atlantic crossing now, and
the time for the round trip less than
a week.
A man is sentenced to two years in
prison for blasphemy, which means
saying impolite things on religious
subject. A considerable time should
elapse between round the world fiy-
ing trip and trial for blasphemy.
They don't belong in the same age, ex-
actly
1t is difficult to understand the
blasphemy charge and conviction on
purely legal grounds. AS Thomas
Jefferson wrote to the Sultan of Nor
rocco, this country has officially no re-
ligion-you may believe what you
please.
In the eyes of a Mohammedan it
would be blasphemy to deny that Mo-
manned climbed on his, white horse,
Alborak, and flew from the black rock
up to heaven, where he saw angels
with faces so big that their eyes were
thousands of miles apart.
OFFICIALLY, this country is as
much Mohammedan or Buddhist as it
is Christian.
But, as a matter of fact, the con-
viction for blasphemy is satisfactory
to majority of citizens. If you say
anything unpleasant about Christian
ity, you hurt the feelings of many
good citizens 1t is good idea to inn
prison those that wilfully hurt the
feelings of others.
They disturbed gentleman, loom
the Omnipotent"; said he imposed on
ladies, some of them stylishly named,
lured to his esoteric emporium.
1t is interesting that man with
ideas out of the East can persuade
Americans to make themselves per-
feet" by following these Instructions.
Stand on your right foot, close the
left nostril with the forefnger of the
right hand and pronounce the myster-
ious word '0om.'
To the dull mind, this would seem
a recipe for getting small fly out of
the back of your throat. Yet prosper
Gus ladies stand on the right foot as
requested, thinking that they purify
their souls. If Dom the Omnipotent"
can thus make living, he is entitled
to admiration.
The most cruel thing you can do to
a little boy is to stick pin into his
toy balloon Mr.. Bland, Republican
Congressman from Indiana, should
have known that and refrained from
saying:
IF General Pershing didn't know
more about the disposition of sugar
than he did about the front, it would
be useless to ask him. found him
200 miles from the front on July 10,
1918, when the battle Of Chateau
Thierry was at its height"
The heroism of General Pershing is
the toy balloon of the American peo-
pie. 1t is cruel to stick a pin in it.
LOOKS like hero; in his interviews
he TALKS like hero, and Mr.. Bland
should let the country continue to be-
lieve he is hero.
Mr.. Bland is entitled to thanks,
however, for talking plainly about the
tendency of Government to get rid of
things that belong to the American
people and that the American people
need.
A while ago the authorities were
gaily selling twenty-five million
pounds of sugar from army supplies
for foreign use. A little later the
same army authorities were calling
for twelve million pounds of sugar for
army use.
Now families are told they can have
half a pound of sugar. Write the next
two lines for yourself.
Silver, you may be delighted to
hear, without any help from a politi-
cal party is almost on 16 to / basis.
The metal in silver dollar is worth
about as much as the metal in gold
dollar.
thine at length makes all things
even" If you. wait long enough the
joke of one day becomes the solemn
reality of another. If the water wagon
should develop a hot box, as it may do,
few years from now when capital
decides that labor is doing too much
thinking, Mr.. Bryan can make dar-
ing leap from his dry wagon back on
to the old silver wagon and have a
perfectly respectable ride.
Farmers denounce strikes, and say
that the nation needs more work.
While miners ask for a six-hour day
five times a week, farmers say they
would be delighted to get a ten-hour
day seven days week
How much will prohibition add to
the worlds thinking power? Many
of the ablest men have devoted three
quarters Of their energy to fighting
alcohol within themselves.
Millions Of everage little men never
Gid any real thinking They did not
get real drunk, but took just enough
to keep them quiet and contented.
They went TO bed sleepy, got up a
little remorseful, complained Of moth
ing except themselves.
Now everybody win 90 to bed on ice