The Washington times., 1920-01-27


throsgh the lungs, picks up the
oxygen and takes it TO the millions
al living. breathing. eating. drink
has and disesting cells Of which
your body Is composed
KEEP FINGERS FROM YOUR
MOUTH Turn pages Of books and
newspapers without wetting your
nAser tips
In IN epidemic OF influenza.
germs of the disease are on the
fingers Of all that travel In street
cars or railroad trains.
English ability. energy and On
terprise arc shown in the plan to
develop tho wealth OF Antarctic
regions.
To the South Pole by flying ma
chine is the programme. An Eng
lish expedition, authorized to
spend q million dollars. will find
out what is worth taking away
down there. British diamond
miners now working in African
tropics may find work under the
Southern Cross in the Antarctic.
Where the South Pole is now the
tropics once were. Our earth goes
around the sun like a roasting
chicken on a spit. Its assorted
motions, some Of them lasting
thousands of years, keep all parts
Of the planet thoroughly and even
ly cooked during it's millions of
years of life. Much wealth was
stored under ground At either pole
when that region was where the
equator is now.
A Nobel prize, forty thousand
dollars. goes to Professor Fischer.
Of Germany. He invented poison
gas, used in war. Professor
Fischer earned the prize by his
service in teaching men to obtain
nitrogen from the atmosphere.
But Fischer did invent poison gas
and there is much indignation,
outside Of Germany, that he
should get that Nobel prize. But
Nobel, a ghost, could not reason
ably object. For Nobel invented
dynamite, and the smokeless pow
der enables you to kill in safety.
The inventor of dynamite and
smokelesS powder, useful in war,
could hardly object to the in
ventor of poison gas, which is
only carrying the killing process
one step farther.
Much paper money in the world,
kind friends. During the war na-
tions added five hundred per cent
TO the amount Of paper money that
existed before the war began.
And during the year just ended,
after the armistice was signed, the
nations printed over eleven thou
sand million dollars in paper
money, making forty-eight thou
sand million dollars worth Of
paper money floating about the
earth, not including thirty-four
thousand million dollars Of paper
rubles that busy Bolshevism has
struck off in the last two years.
The nations have increased debts
as rapidly in proportion as paper
money. Countries that used to owe
forty thousand million dollars now
owe two hundred and sixty thou
sand million dollars.
Big figures, but, after all, the
world, with its thousands Of mil
lions of paper and hundreds Of
thousands of millions of debts, is
not rich and not very poor. Real
value is THE HUMAN BEING.
If all paper money were divided
among the earth's fifteen hundred
million inhabitants, they would
have less than $40 apiece. Fifty
years ago the well-madc black
slave was worth a thousand dol
lars. The worlds debts, two hun
dred and sixty thousand millions,
amount TO less than $3.50 for each
inhabitant Of the earth. II power
and industry were developed rs
they should be, and IL all people
on earth could be put 10 work
with right equipment, dccently
treated, helped to do their best,
the worlds entire debt could be
wiped out by newly created wealth
inside Of three years.
To do that, each inhsbitant would
need 10 earn each year only $50
more than il cost him to live. The
trouble is that $50 a year. small
sum 10 an American, means TWEEN
tv cents a working day. and at
least hrlf Of all the people on earth
q. pr.s>~s earn less than twenty