The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-23
Today
Infinite Wireless.
Stocks So Respectable.
Poor Fat Sheep.
Fifty Is Young.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. ueo).

TAT out At sea, man lay Win
bones broken. Nobody knew how
to set bone. The ship. with Its
wireless apparatus. sent through
the air q call, soon answered by
another ship that did have q doctor.
The doctor. by wireless. told men
on the first ship how bones should
be set. and the work was done
successfully. The doctor Will
never see his patient.
We say that is wonderful. And
II is: but not SO wonderful as
things that happen every hour.
What was the wireless that sent
thinking power through infinite
space to this earth when thinking
began!
What Was the wireless message
that entered the brain Of Newton
when he saw the apple fall?
Whence came the message that
told Edison, q lad at the telegraph
key, how more than one message
could be sent over the same wire?
Whence, above all, came the
thousands OF inspirations that en-
tered the brain Of Shakespeare
and made him the greatest genius
that earth has produced?
We live in a finite world, con-
stantly connected with the infinite
by q wireless system. Every mind
is a receiving station. Lucky the
brain that receives messages clear
ly and does it's work we'll.
Another low record for cotton;
1t sold below fourteen cents a
pound yesterday. Wheat also went
down. 1t remains to be seen what,
if anything, the Federal bank,
supposed to be managed for the
benefit of the nation as a whole.
will do to help farmers and cot
ton plantprs. A gentleman in Wall
Street wants to hold his stocks
until the price goes up. The Fed
eral bank is ready to lend him the
money-no trouble getting a thou
sand millions or more at any time
for stock exchange speculation.
Is it so much more respectable
to carry stocks than to carry wheat
and cotton for a fair price!
If you saw seventeen or eighteen
wolves tearing at = fat, bewildered
sheep, you wouldn't expect to hear
any good news of that sheep.
As you read about conditions
that have prevailed in the United
States-the public, big, fat, be-
wildered sheep. with profteerlng
wolves tearing at it-you are not
surprised that conditions in varl-
GUS directions are discouraging.
One set of revelations shows the
building trade conspiring and
profiteering to a point that made
building impossible. No wonder
houses are lacking.
In another investigation you find
coal men, patriots working for
the Government at a dollar a year"
using Government secrets to rob
the people to the tune Of millions.
One Government organization OF
patriots stole or sQuandered a
thousand millions on aircraft
without producing any aircraft.
No wonder present conditions
worry the people. Even the fat
test sheep could not supply suet
and mutton enough for so many
first-class wolves.
How they did eat, while the good
shepherd was talking sweet plati-
tudes about making the world safe
for democracy. 1t has been very
safe for wolves, lateiy.
It is never too late to succeed.
Let that truth comfort the middle
aged and older. Bishop Burch.
who died the other day, head OF
4 great church, was fifty before
he became a clergyman. He was
head Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America before he was
sixty-flve.
Admiral Blake. who beat Van
Tromp and other good fighting
Dutchmen, put Holland out Of
sight as a great ocean power, and
laid the foundation of England's
supremacy on the water, was more
than fifty years old before he ever
went to sea in command.
He was tired of reading re-
ports about Dutch victories, de-
cided to go out and attend to the
matter himself, and did it.
Many men of fifty, tired of
hearing adverse reports from
what they call fate" might go
out and attend to the matter them
selves.