The Washington times., 1919-12-17
Today
A Fighters Two Mistakes.
30,o00,000 Ruling 300,.
100000.
Flying Machines and Fish.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE
fcepyright 1919,
A new year is creeping near, due
In two weeks. The 1920 infant of
time viii be surprised, probably,
to learn that the war is not yet
wound up, and that so many little
wars have started.
Young men thinking about good
resolutions might consider and use
hr. Bugs" Baer's story of the
ps,ss-6ghter who made two mis-
tak0- "His first mistake was
thinking he could fight. His sec
ond mistake was trying to prove
it, says Mr.. Baer.
Too many young men fail be-
cause they reverse the two mis-
sAkes. They begin thinking they
cannot fight in ife's battle for
success, and their second mistake
Is that they never really try to
prove that they have a fighting
quality in them.
Many Americans take life as
they take baseball, watching some
ono slss play the game. The real
trouble with Mr.. Baer's young
boxer probably was that he really
did not think be could fight and,
therefore, never really tried to
prove that he was fighter.
The British press is perfume
torify and pleasingly horrified
became an English military gen.
ueman shot dead five hundred
civilians in India and wounded
f6teen hundred. The soldier said
be did not bother about caring
fof the wounded or dead. THAT
was their business; they had hos
pitals, he supposed"
just what the details are or
what provocation was offered the
honorable and gallant gentleman
y not known. But it is late
IN the day, a long time after
Lord Give, to get excited about
what happens to India. Any one
is chihish to imagine that three
hundred millions Of Asiatics,
even though they be teetotalers
and vegetarians, could be gov
erned by thirty million English
many thousand miles away on
any gentle plan.
Nations forgive and forget.
Yesterday was the anniversary of
the Boston Tea Party. One hun
dred and forty-six years ago
England sent over a cargo Of
tea, with orders to enforce the
stamp tax. Americans, dis
zuised as Indians, threw the tea
cvsrboerd.
Now almost any kind Of cor
poradea can tax the people from
petroleum b pork, from sugar to
sausAges, and no one rebels.
We have forgotten our objsc-
tion - taxation without repre-
sentation, and We have toxkotten
cur A1Qofhty 70 England. most
hsf1uehly. We are taxed to send
ten billions abroad are told thst
ne interest will be paid, and we
90 along quite content. North
cif6eS description of Americans
as 3docik people, enpnot be
improved.
Lecointe, Frenchman, hew yes
terday at q rate of speed exceed
ing 225 miles an hour and aver
aged 200 miles. That is getting a
little nearer the coming speed Of
1000 miles which will enable man
to 1y around his little domain with
the sun always above his head,
New York to Paris In three hours
will be reality some day. Scien-
lists say NO. But they only know
what they cannot do. They don't
know what future men viii do.
Scientists used to say that rail-,
road trains could not 90 twenty
five miles an hour for any length
OF time, because such speed would
be fatal to passengers. II long con-
tinued. and it would be necessary
to build high walls along the
tracks to protect the public from
the wind of rushing trains.
on San Diego, flying machines,
like great gulls. look down and To-
cate schools of fish. BY wireless
they notify submarine chasers,
which in turn tell the fishing feet
In fifteen minutes, on Monday, two
Government planes reported two
great schools Of fish that kept fish,
ermen busy all day.
We need machines to spy out
fish ant forest fires. carry mails
and passengers In peace and to
spy out and dynamite enemy ships
or troops in war. What a pity the
first hundreds of millions for fly
ing machines were spent so large
ly in graft and ineniciency. The
country paid for a real flying serv-
Ice, but did not get II.
The only efficient flying enthu-
siaSm shown has been in the
Post Office service. And Otto
Praeger, Mr.. Burleson's assistant,
warns the public that the gold
lace military gentlemen, as he
calls them, are trying to get con-
troll and make the Government
NyinY service a branch Of theip