The Washington times., 1920-08-21

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The world has become SO dull
that to read about falling noun
tain top in the far-off Philippines
is almost refreshing.
At midnight the top Of noun
tain fell upon a village, burying
the village and seventy human be-
ings. That recalls the old days
when fires in the earth's center
were at work; mountains falling,
volcanoes coming out on the earth's
surface like bubbles on boiling fat,
great tidal waves rolling in from
q newly made island with the ris-
ing of the oceans floor.
Life becomes quieter and quieter
as the centuries pass, the earth
becoming smaller with the flying
machine and the wireless. BY and
by, according to scientists, the
earth will be smooth and round as
a billiard ball, no mountains, no
hollows, no oceans, only artificial
canals to hold the water. When
those days come, men will have to
find excitement inside their own
8 brains.
Samuel M. Roosevelt, cousin of
the real Roosevelt, dropped dead
in his club in New York on Thurs
day. He was hunter after wild
things, and once invited his
friends to IAN unusual meal" The
dish turned out to be a young lion,
cooked whole. That wasn't as inn
portant, but it was as ipteresting,
as anything that Thedore Roose-
welt ever did.
First it proved that there really
is something in a name. A baby
lion is nothing but big kitten.
No man would eat cat to oblige
Mr.. Roosevelt. But the word
Lion" has heroism lin it. Some
would eat a lion that would not
eat his little sister, the cat, just
as men died for the great Ma
poleon that would not have lent
him half a franc when he was
wandering poor in Paris thinking
of suicide.
All the insides had been taken
out of the Roosevelt young lion
when it was eaten. In earlier
days, among savages more primi-'
tive, the lions heart would have
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guest as a great delicacy. The
African chief now will give
great deal of ivory for the heart
of a lion. He believes that eat
ing lion heart makes him more
like the lion, more terrible.
That is childish imagination,
you say, but not more childish
than thinking that it makes you
very important to spend money
uselessly in private yachts and
private cars. Men laugh at the
chiefs idea that eating the lions
heart makes courage. The same
men believe that money creates
Importance.
Strangling an industry is what
the extortionate oil monopoly does,
pushing the price of gasoline
steadily upward and promising
gasoline soon at seventy-five cents
a gallon.
Oil may be scarce, but is that any
excuse for doubling, trebling, and
quadrupling the price of oil that is
available? The Lord who put the
oil in the earth charges no more
for it than He ever did. 1t comes
out FOR NOTHING when you dig
the hole.
A steady rise in the price of
gasoline means necessarily steady
encouragement of those that need
automobiles. It means strangling
one of the greatest, most useful
industries in the United States.
Hundreds of millions of invest
ed capital, hundreds of thousands
of workers, skilled mechanics,
chauffeurs, workers of all kinds
are interested.
Government stands by and
watches the slow strangulation of
this great industry, and does moth
ing.
II it can't exterminate brigand-
age, it might at least make few
experiments in the line of finding
some substitute for gasoline as ex-
plosive fuel.
They talk about the League of
Nations in this country as a
peace league" 1t is, however, a
war league, and France knows
that. Lechartier, an able man,
writing for the Petit Parisien,
says there is no hope of the Peace
League going through because no
body in America wants more war"
The French and English who de-
vised the Peace League well know
that IL means more war, or, at
least, the right FOR Europe TO have