The Washington times., 1920-07-10

wrsag," Napoleon.
What is your best short say
ing!
Playing golf at the age of
eighty-one, and playing, as usual,
on the winning side, John d. Rock
efeller says, 81 enjoy every min
uts." Mr.. Rockefeller has learned
quite early that life is a pleasant
thing. Cornaro, famous Italian,
who lived to 105, said: ~ had to
live to be ninety to learn that the
world Is beautiful"
On his birthday, Mr.. Rockefeller
got the good news that the scien-
tific institute established by him
had probably conquered yellow
fever, not for a few years, but for
all time.
He also learned that his Peking
establishment to fight disease is
about to open it's doors in China,
carrying the battle Of science into
Asia, whence so many of the worst
diseases start on their travels.
The world will be indebted to
John D. Rockefeller a thousand
years from now and after that for
the fight he has made against dis
ease by. prevention.
But, above all else, the world
will remember and thank Rookie
Teller for having proved that COM
; petition is wasteful and unneces-
sary. Mr.. Rockefeller's charge for
that information, perhaps two or
three billions in all, is-z reason
able charge. ss
What Rockefsllar. and others
own now the people will own some
day. And they will build q monu-
ment inscribed:
ITO John d. Rockefeller, who
proved that II could be done, that
IN individual, and therefore q ma
tisn, could control natural sources
Of wealth."
Is grammar, with all the tears
that little boys and girls shed over
It, really necessary? Walter Guest
Kellogg, q member of New York
States board of regents, says not.
Many teachers are borrifed at the
statement. But the iconoclastic
regent has facts with him.
Shakespeare never saw or heard
of an English grammar. No such
book existed in his day. Yet he
wrote English we'll. The only
grammar he ever saw was the
Latin grammar at Stratford, the
book that supplied every word OF
Latin used in his plays, and, all
by itself, proves the idiocy Of the
Baconian theory.
Milton never saw an English
grammar.
In the old days grammars were
written only to teach languages
a child could not hear spoken. 1t
was taken for granted that a
child's native language, including
the correct use of it, could be
absorbed by listening, and read
ing.
Unfortunately, millions Of chill
drsn at home, hear their language
miserably spoken, and distorted.
But . few hours of grammar.
study will not undo years spent
in hearing and using language not
correct.
In one of his powerful edi-
torials Frank Munsey rejoices to
hear that one hundred thousand
men, organized by the Department
of Agriculture, are working on the
farms and paid seven dollars a
day. Says Mr.. Munsey, the pic
ture "comes welcome to the
minds eve. May it replace for
ever that Of the brutal and dread
ed vagabonds, carriers Of /. w.
w. cards and incsndiary matches,
who tyrannized over the crop area
increasingly Of late years"
Perhaps, as Frank Munsey well
knows, there would not have been
SO many brutal and dreaded vaga-
bonds" IL wages formerly had
been seven dollars a day. Brutal
pay makes brutal men. Good pay
CREATES ambition and makes bet
tar men.
How the mind Graves what is
new, really new, and how little at
tention IL pays to familiar things.
A cat ran up a tree, chased by
q dog. While il was in the tree,
two kittens were born, fell TO the
earth and were torn by the dog.
Everybody will read about that
and think about it, for at least a
second. That is one second more
than the average reader will de-
vote TO the statement that a poor
woman has been disposscssed with
a Young baby.