The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-19
Today
Man Leaves the Bottom.
Rome Did What We Do.
She Still Fights.
Buy Now, or Regret Later.
BY Arthur Brisbane
written July 11.)


BY the way, American individuals
and American business men will do
we'll to buy now.
You think prices are high. They
are. but wait awhile and you win see
some real high. prices, after Europe
! begins to buy and this country starts
| in spending freely the billions that
have been printed and scattered
about in this war.
Business men, buy your stocks
now, or regret 1t later. individuals,
buy what you will need for the next
| twelve months now. II you can.
Nothing will be cheaper except
money, which Is just now the cheap
/ est thing in the world.
| You have noticed how high wages
| and high cost of living creep UP side
| by side, the high cost of living al
ways keeping a little ahead. 1t can
| not be otherwise.
Six workers are making shoes,
| hats, clothes, bread, houses, furni-
ture. They find living expensive, ask
for more and get it. The sellers Of
shoes, hats, clothes, food, ETC., raise
their prices because wages have been
| raised, and UP goes cost of living.
| BY and by the workers come back.
| saying, Living has gone up again;
! we must have more" They get more,
living goes higher again and they
(the workers) come back again for
more. 1t is an endless chain. Just
where it will stop time will tell.
Meanwhile, buy now; do not wait
to discover just how high prices can
go. II possible, buy dwelling and
be independent to that extent.
Just about twenty three hundred
years ago Rome found that her
| treaties with her allies were getting
old and decrepit. She renewed her
treaty with Carthage. including the
humiliating agreement to trade only
where Carthage permitted, and was
soon at war with her most powerful
neighbor.
The Gauls had dropped in and
burned Rome recently, the dangerous
rival had been killed off with the
capture and footing of Veil, the in
habitants all made slaves. Then 1t
had to be done over again, and over
again, on and on, through the GEN.
turtles.
We are just making alliances and
league to last forever. We have
defeated the powerful enemy and
have reduced her to economic slavery.
Shall we have to do it again, over
and over, or have we at last found
the resting place and balanced the
ltpyramid of human selfishness neatly
and permanently on it's point?
One year and seven months of war
! cost the people of the United States
gross, more than $4,000, 900, 900
| Those are figures from Secretary
| Glass.
1t was a busy, expensive period OF
nineteen months. This total of thirty
| billions will be cut down somewhat
! in a rather unpleasant way, when
ships. built by the people are sold at
| bargain prices to private owners In
stead of being retained in govern
| ment ownership as they should be
| The cost of war will be reduced also
when and If our friends in Europe
| return nine billions lent them.
As you learn about the cost of war
almost two billions a month, you
| take fresh interest in the league OF
nations and our promise to go over
and begin fighting again when this
that or the other thing happens.
II you had seen the great British
dirigible R-34 preparing for her start
at midnight before last you would
| have realized that there are on the
earth two oceans, one of water In
| the earths hollow places, the other oil
air several hundred miles deep, we
| living at the bottom of that air ocean
and just learning how to swim VI
into II.
The great airship, bathed in intense
light, glistening, silvery gray looked
and was. a great fish of the air
ocean. Thousands of men on the
| ground looking up reminded you OF
little oysters and clans fastened tc
the oceans bottom watching some
huge whale about to sail away,
But man is an ingenious little clam
for at last, after living on the bottom
| of the air ocean half a million years
he has learned how to swim up into
! it. Henceforth he will live at the
| bottom of the air. but travel in II
and through it. No more slow drag
Lying along on the bottom in clam
| fashion. Man at last can navigate
the air ocean. He is a mollusk nc
logger.