The Washington times., 1920-11-29

Oiscontent-Great Power.
Brain Surgery Needed.
A A0,000,000 Ship.
Robbing the Starving.
: ARTHUR BRISBANE
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rest and dissatisfaction, asking
zach other how they can end IL.
General Booth, wiser. returns
from a trip round the world, say
ing that worldwide unrest Is the
best force at work on earth.
Dissatisfaction is driving women
out OF harems In the East, taking
the wells off their faces. Ii has
taken the tight shoes from the
feet Of Chinese girls and pigtails
from Chinese men. 1t has made
women vote in America. II chang
ed the Administration OF this coun-
try with a majority emphasis
never shown by public dissatisfac-
ton before.
Dissatisfaction put the rifles In
place of bows and arrows, steam
engines in place Of oxcarts, print
ed books in place OF slow writing
On parchment or papyrus. 1t has
put steel machines in place OF
driven slaves. 1t gives you the
sewing machine driven by cleo
tricity, in place of the needlewoman
driven by her employer.
General Booth is right. AS head
of the Salvation Army he knows
that you must make an outcast
dissatisfied with himself and his
condition before you can help him.
There Is no power for good that
compares in value with human
discomfort. Read Buckle. Draper,
Lecky. Winwood Reade, any good
history, especially Wells mag
nificent Outline of History" just
published. All progress is a his
tory Of discomfort.
At the base of the brain lies the
pituitary gland, puzzle to scien-
lists. thought by some to be the
residence of the human soul.
DR.. F. J. Evans, of Denver. has
successfully removed a small tu-
NOR, near the pituitary gland,
from the brain of a child four
years old.
One-half the skull was removed
on one side, one lobe of the brain
lifted, while the surgeon worked
through brain tissues. A fine
achievement. 1t surprises many
to learn that once you reach the
white brain substance there is no
pain. To cut that hurts no more
than cutting nails or hair.
One day such operations will be
as common as pruning trees. 1t
is probable that ninety men in a
hundred, at least, could be made
mentally more efficient by brain
surgery, especially by removing
pressure of the skull and giving
important parts of the brain more
room. Many a man has had his
imagination, his reverence, his
power of sustained thought and
other qualities impaired by pres
sure following improper closing of
the opening at the top of a young
baby's skull.
Put your hand on top of your
head. Run it along the top lightly.
If you feel q depression at the
top, you need brain surgery to lift
the skull top a little and let the
brain do better work. Some doc
tors will say this is nonsense, but
that is what all doctors past forty
said when Harvey announced the
circulation of the blood driven by
the heart.
Interesting to US is the news
that Japan. spending two hun
dred and fifty millions this year
on her fleet, is endeavoring to
stir up the Filipinos against the
United States Government.
With the history of Korea in
mind, the Filipinos, if wise, will
refuse to be stirred up.
They would make small
mouthful for Japan if they per-
suaded us to turn them loose.
However, they won't be turned
loose. We have some big ships,
and we are going to have more.
A concentrated person named
Schwab is building at this moment
a battleship one thousand feet
long, with many sixteen-inch guns,
costing forty millions for one ship.
There is whole lot of gentle per
suasion in a ship Of that descrip-
lion.
When will the United States
take up the building of the sub
mersible battleship which Fisher,
the fighting British admiral, said
must be the next step? The sub
mersible battleship, like a whale,
would be able to sink below the
water and fight below the water,
in case Of need, giving nothing
for the submarine periscope to
look at The danger over, the
submersible would rise again.
The German government pro-
tests against the presence of Amer
lean troops on German soil. The
Germans, poverty stricken and half
starved already, must pay for our
troops-and you can imagine what
the cost must be in deprecated
German money, aggravated by our
highly efficient system Of extrava-
gance.
Germany says it costs her nine
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