The Washington times., 1920-06-25
Today
4 Good Time Coming.
But Rather Slowly.
Our Earth a Gun.
The Bee and Lady.
, ARTHUR BRISBANE.
tcopyrisht. 1881

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Hiram johnson says: 1T
doesn't make any difference II a
Few politicians. sitting in the
Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, say.
The public be damned the time
is coming when the people will
come into their own"
II makes SOME difference, al
though 1t will not make the slight
/, est difference ten thousand or even
five hundred years hence.
Neglecting the opportunity to
nominate and elect Hiram John
son was a calamity. He might
have prevented bad panic that
threatens the future and might
have prevented something consid-
ersbly worse than panic. N
When steam is low in the boiler,
sitting on the safety valve is not
especially dangerous.
But men got up steam in the
war; It is still up. Men sitting on
the safety valve, saying: "The
public be damned" are dangerous
10 themselves and to others that
must feel the explosion.
Politics that organized money
administers to the United States
just now is like giving opium to a
man with a headache. You stop
the headache, but establish the
opium habit, which is worse.
However, johnson says he is
through with politics for the mo-
ment, and that settles it "for the
moment" The public must con-
sole itself, singing a verse Of that
valuable song, "The Good Time
coming"
There's a good time coming, boys,
A good time coming;
We may not live to see the day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
OF the good time coming.
Cannon balls may aid the truth,
But thoughts . weapon stronger;
Well win our battle by its aid;
Wait little longer"
Yes, but hos0, long, o Lord!
Senator Penrose says the Demo-
cratic convention will be "the
worst bossed convention ever as
sembled," and ''intimidated by
Wilson from Washington"
The public is used to. that and
probably doesn't mind it. But
Penrose's statement that there are
"six Cabinet officers and other
payroll statesmen on the ground"
is interesting in a country that
doesn't seem to have government
enough to keep railroads running.
You have read of the new gun,
using no explosive, driven by cen
trifu9al force. Swing a tin pail
full of water swiftly around your
how -csntsfiuEx fofcs works. ,
Centrifugal means flying from
the CENTER, This column. is not
for the learned. -c~&
The new gun will shoot eleven
thousand shots a minute, "an i'm
provement" of 1000 per cent on
ordinary machine guns.
The power Of Niagara, or the
tides, steam, or electricity can be
used to operate these guns. No
wasting Of valuable chemicals, in
cluding nitrogen. That will be an
improvement, and the guns should
kill rapidly, thus making war
shorter. That also would De an i'm
>provement.
If it were not for the power Of
gravitation, which holds US to
our earth, that earth, a centrif-
ugal gun rolling around at the
rate Of a thousand miles an hour,
would shoet us all off into space
like centrifugal bullets.
A gigantic, high-powered, steel
flying machine, using one big en-
gine to develop centrifugal power,
travelling through space, surround
ed by storm Of bullets, eleven
thousand to the minute, ought to
be a pleasant weapon of civiliza-
ton. This country will probably
watch England build it, an Amer
can having invented the gun.
Mr.. Colby and the others say, II
have talked with the President,
but we did not discuss third term
for him."
Not one Of them says, "He told
me to forbid his nomination, said
that he would not accept a third
term" -
Mr.. McAdoo, on the other hand,
= -. - h~k L. fcAL
er-in-law and the nomination, HAS
said that he would not accept the
nomination, If the Democratic
party il to make a peace league
campaign, Mr.. Wilson is, Of course,
the only man to head the party.
Pathe, Irish chauffeur, driving
the inspector general Of constab-
: ulary in Dublin, continued rum
ming his car safely at seventy
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