The Washington times., 1920-11-30


and resuscitated there would be
some more landsliding. They dug
him out.
There Is financial power in
plenty, where, without effort, one
man to the tune Of twenty millions
and another to the tune Of forty
millions can be carried along with
out trouble.
There is nothing in the country's
condition to worry those inter-
ested in the country and not In
any weak k-kneed account on mar
gin.
A solemn young editor yesterday
quoted J. Ogden Armour as fol-
lows (the accuracy Of the quota
ton is not guaranteed): a
s0There Is nothing much the
matter with the country except
that some men will have to give
up the idea Of profits for six
months or 50. Ordinarily, produc.
ton is about six months ahead OF
consumption; now there Is enough
to last eighteen months. That
situation must be adjusted"
Worse things could be imagined
than having on hand enough stuff
to last eighteen months. War
doomed prices, prices doomed pro-
duction, profits and high wages
doomed sales, and sales doomed
profiteering. ...
Now comes a little pause. That
is all. ''-.''' h,,
Even great oil companies have
their troubles. At the beginning
of this month there were one hum
dred and twenty-nine million
barrels of oil stored up, five hun
dred and ninety-four thousand BAR
rels more than the surplus of
thirty days previously. Automo-
biles are resting in their garages.
They will soon be cranked up
again, but meanwhile, be careful
how you gamble in the wrong kind
OF oil stocks.
The Socialists of Strasbourg,
following the example of Paris So
cialists, have decided to join "the
Third Internationale," the brand of
Socialism created by Lenin and
Trotzky. What Socialists do
makes little difference in America,
but a great deal of difference in
Europe. There, Socialism rules
quite openly; in Germany, France,
Italy, secretly; under eminently re-
spectacle camouflage in England.
Nothing succeeds like victory.
Bolshevism's defeat Of Wrangel
undoubtedly brings European So
cialists over to the Third Interna-
tionale.
A dispatch from London says:
~American gunmen are said to
have made their appearance in
Londonderry, Ireland" The Sim
Fein is alleged to have imported
the gunmen and the British police
are agitated by "the menace Of
these American mercenaries."
They can understand how George
Washington felt about the Hessian
mercenaries shipped here by Eng
land. The worst of it is that one
American Z tnman. with few lit
tie packages of cocaine to steady
his Automatic" is equal to at
least fifty Hessians of the brand
of 1776.
Strange that the British do not
adjust the Irish question in a way
to satisfy ireland. 1t could be
done, and Lloyd George is the
ablest living man to do it. Every
day makes it harder, and it must
be done.
That Mont Blanc landslide, a
thing that happened often on a
bigger scale in old days. when
the world was cooling OFF, like a
mass of red hot iron, appears to
have been a first-class demonstra-
tion of natures power.
A block OF granite as big as a
small mountain fell down ten
thousand feet. No wonder it
shook houses fifty miles away
when Il struck the Brenva glacier
and slid on through n great Pine
forest. That forest saved the
lives OF people in the Courmayeur
valley, gradually stopping the
slide Just in time.
More slides from Mont Blanc
are expected, but the scientists
remain at their observatory, with
in eight hundred feet of the pres
cnt top Of the mountain, as they
remain on the flank of Vesuvius,
that may wash them down in
liquid lava any day. Intellectual
courage Ia the highest--no drums,
no Applause. no fear.