The Washington times., 1919-12-12

Too Much Brag.
Einstein and the EGG.
A Use for Motors.
Sunny Cuba.

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by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright Isis)
Following the coal strike, fool
iahness develops. Individuals in
and out Of Government are brag-
ging, telling how they "stood union
labor on its head and made it come
. time" Perhaps they did all
tney say, but just now less brag-
ginG and more tact would be de-
sir1hle.
Telling union labor where it
gets or is popular at the moment.
Four candidates for the Presidency
are running on the platform:
Watch what I do to union labor"
One or two Of these gentlemen
may discover during 1920 that
union labor also votes!
This ID not q time for those that
represent government or capital to
er1g about defeating labor. And it
IL not . time for union or other
wogk1en 10 be foolish, break their
co1traets, or show indifference to
the public welfare.
Wordngmen, particularly lead
efs Of union labor, must realize
that conditions are changed.
wages are high and will stay high.
Money is plentiful. Plenty of work
at high wages naturally weakens
tasor erganixations. The man who
can always find work at high paw
does not need organizers to help
him.
A great deal Of work is to be
done; there is . great deal of
money to pay for it. 1t should be
pesdbie to run the industries of
the country without fights that
were inevitable in days when two
no0-union men were looking for
tAe union mans job.
II II possible for the first time,
with the X-ray, to locate the be-
ginning Of cancer in the stomach.
Air or gas Is pumped In, and the
X-ray reveals the diseased tissue.
This news. from Q scientific body
in Chicago, Ii important to the
whole world.
You have read. probably with
weariness, something about the
E1nstein theory Of "relativity."
VI. Anstein says time is not un-
limited. space has it's boundaries.
Newton was mistaken. Light
travels In . curve, not IN Q straight
line When light leaves the sun
II goes q certain distance, turns
around and comes back. again. No
wonder the scientists say that
there ere only twelve men living
tAak un16ryta1d the thing.
3Ae fact IL that the twelve men
and Mr.. Einstein understand little
more than the rest of US. A
chicken inside its shell, arguing
about dme and space, is limited
BY the she'll. .e
Plato's men In their cave watch
ing shadows on the wall thought
they were studying real life and
saw its boundaries. Our little earth
lives In the -imponderable ether"
- the germ Of life in the egg yolk
lives surrounded by the white of
egg If that little germ said
there's . limit to the universe,
it's hard white SHE'LL it wouldn't
mean much There are so many
things outside the egg. And there
are doubtless many other things
outside of what we call the uni
verse, q group Of stars that make
mp the Milky Way, as a group OF
frogs eggs make up the shivery
mass that doats on the water.
Many things are in the water
besides those frogs eggs and there
are many bodies OF water.
Time and space are NOT limited,
with all respect to Einstein.
Light travels through ether,
curvfng back again, perhaps, when
it reaches the outer shell of the
little cosmic egg that makes up
our universe. But there are other
eggs, you may be, sure, with their
Newtons and their Einsteins,
their laws of light and electricity.
We little human creatures de-
serve pity. For as Anaxagoras, a
really wise man, said twenty-four
hundred years ago:
Nothing can be known; nothing
can be learned; nothing can be GER
tain; sense il limited; intellect is
weak; life is short"
Postmaster Burleson urges Con-
gress to reduce cost by using more
automobiles to carry food through
the parcel post Every Congress
man not owned by railroads or ex-
press companies will see the value
Of this suggestion.
The Government has thousands
Of powerful motor trucks, now rot
ting and rusting, left over from