The Washington times., 1919-11-19
Today
A Vanished Gland.
Cotton ST a Pound.
New Irish Plan.
Think of a 4-Cent Dollar
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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by ARTHUR BRiSBANB.
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Carry to Paris the news that
they have tried, with interesting
results, transplanting interstitiai
glands at San Quentin Peniten-
tiary, California.
James Thompson, aged twenty
i've, was sentenced to five years
for burglary. His glands were
injured when he was q boy. In
consequence his mentality was low.
They hanged man in the prison,
and doctors, willing to try any
thing once, rapidly took the glands
from the body just dead and trans
planted them in the young burglar.
They seemed to do him good, ne
became cheerful, his brain I'M
proved, he vas allowed to 90 on
parole The latest news is that he
has broken his parole-the inter
stitial glands have carried him the
Lord knows where. .
The once Kaiser has just finished
saving his 12,000th log. As. re-
CARDS the Kaiser, that isn't impor-
tant, for he is a part Of past his
tory. But it is important news as
regards middle-aged men gener-
ally. They would not die so early
il they would all saw logs for a
while each day. or do some other
kind of work compelling them to
exercise the muscles across the abb
domen and agitate the many yards
Of internal piping that they carry
with them
Man descends from quadrupeds
that used to bend over. II he
stops bending over for too long,
he doesn't last.
As the former Kaiser finishes
his twelve thousandth log, the Car
negie Endowment Institution pub
fishes a volume on ~Direct and In
direct Cost of the War telling
how much in dollars the Hohenzol-
lern gentleman and his. ambition
cost the world.
A little over three hundred and
thirty-one thousand millions is the
total. II Colonel Fellows were
alive he would say once more, Il
don't believe there is as much
money as that in the world"
The Carnegie concern figures
loss in cash, loss in men. and in
direct loss.
A man OF Bulgaria, Greece. Ru-
mania, Serbia. etc. Is valued Al
33.03o- a man In the United
States at S4,T20. That seems q
low valuation. tor tine NAN Ia the
United States. A machine that
can average earnings Of IS day,
fifteen hundred dollars a years
ought to be worth more than nve
thousand dollars
A healthy slave before the war
was worth a thousand dollars.
At Jackson, Miss, yesterday a
bale of cotton sold for $1a pound.
Only a little while ago the papers
we're urging American citizens to
prove their patriotism and to help
out the cotton growers by buying
a bale OF cotton at ten cents a
pound.
The English plan for ireland Is
two legislatures and one senate,
one legislature presumably TO rep
resent the Protestant north. an
other to represent the Catholic
south, and the senate to sit in
the middle of the "teeter tauter'
to keep the balance.
The brilliant English scheme ap-
pears to be TO pacify Ireland by
creating a couple of legislative
Kilkenny cats and hang them up
to fight il out IL may amuse the
English. but il will not do much
good to ireland.
SlOtbrE NAOps stsNCiNas III l4AN
value of foreign money. F1nan-
ciers OF Austria and poor peasants
that had saved up a little money
during a Hfe's work realize that
tley. have been through a war.
F1Se years ago. before the Hsps-
burg gentleman decided that he
must punish Serbia, the Austria3
crown was worth twenty and one
third cents. Yesterday it was worth
three-quarters of one cent. 1t is
as though your dollar should be
worth only four cents tomorrow.
That has happened to Austria In
Germany and other defeated coun-
tries il is almost as bad, and in
France, Italy. even England. the
value of money keeps dropping.
Look out for European bankruptcy.
an unpleasant word for those that
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