The Washington times., 1920-04-15

They Only Watch.
IS, 900 TO 200.
Wait Omega Centauri.
A High Highway.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Twenty thousand In one place,
ten thousand In another. all over
the country crowds gathered yes
terday. some Of them shivering In
cold wind. 10 watch nine gentle
men on one side and nine gentle
'-lnen on the other begin the annual
sport of hitting q small ball with q
: heavy stick.
Quite q drpp since the day when
bigger crowds gathered to see a
man with q net and q three
pronged fighting fork battle for
his life with another gladiator.
But it's the same old instinct.
Crowds used to enjoy seeing men
kill each other. That pleasure is
gone, but we can still see some
body trying to Kill the ball" That
pacifies us.
Happiness to the crowds that
sat IN the cold and wind and
watched eighteen men bat, run and
catch. Success to the man who
stayed at. his work, saying: "The
game that interests me is the
game that I play, not the game
someone else plays while ] look
on"
California must be well salts
fed with the accomplishments Of
her native son, Hiram Johnson,
in other parts of the country.
y 1t seems TO do a man good to
live and grow up in California,
more good than going to live in
England.
In the Illinois Presidential pri-
maries, anybody, to vote in favor
Of Johnson or Hoover, had to
write the name on the ballot.
Neither name was printed.
Hiram Nhnson's name was writ
ten on ballots by citizenS Of Illi-
nois forty-fve thousand times.
Hoovers name was written two
hundred times. a pretty good
majority.
Old guard Republicans say "The
johnson vote Is q surprise" Yes,
indeed, something like the surprise
when the volcano blew up, at
Martinique.
R>adsrs Of these nswspapsrs.
remembering Hearst's strong in
dorsement Of johnson a. o power
ful Independent man, will note the
fact that the two Hearst news
papers In Chicago have Q COM
bined circulation Of almost . mil
lion daily, and that Hiram John
son got forty thousand OF hi
.forty-fiye thousand votes IN Cook
(county. Sincerity ard publcity
make Z combination hard 70 best.
Investigator. Of the 1rsus
Bureau in Washington Ibunce
IN polished language Of the age
that "Herod was piker compared
with ignorance when It comes to
killing children" In one place. Of
eighty-nine babies born. forty-fivs
died before they we're month old.
In another place twenty-five out Of
twenty-eight died the firyt month.
Worst Of all, twelve out Of fif-
teen babies died less than thirty
days after they, were born. No
doctors. not even a trained nurse,
to help the mother or care for her.
II, as alleged, "the most accu-
rate measure of a civilization is
the death rate Of Children" there
is something the matter with our
civilization, in spots. tf
Do the strike and all the worlds
wickedness disturb and worry you?
Read what Professor Larkin. OF
Lowe Observatory, writes about
''the Omega Centauri cluster,
where our sun, 100000 times
larger than our earth, would be
invisible to the most powerful
telescope"
Or study with him the nebulae
that 'in a few trillions of years
may be broken up into thousands
of suns" You may be living on a
planet sailing around one of those
newly made suns a few trillion
years from now. The railroad
strike and today's price OF your
favorite stock will seem unimpor-
tant at that time.
Let that thought comfort.
The next plan for attracting the
attention of Mars will be made by