The Washington times., 1920-06-24
Today
Deal Philanthropy.
"A Little Cloud.
War the Teacher.
To Unknown Women.
y ARTHUR BRISBAN
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by ARTHUR BklSbANE--
Copyright isssJ
George W. Perkins. Of New York.
the Steel Trust, life insurance
company. and many other things.
Is dead. They say. He left no
legacies to philanthropy"
They" are mistaken. He left
$4,000 cash and six thousand a
year for life to his private secre-
tary, a woman who worked for him
faithfully for twenty-seven years.
To her loyalty. integrity and
sbility, undoubtedly. the Perkins
kAeirs owe several OF the millions
Nhat they get from Mr.. Perkins.
That clause In Perkins will.
calculated to make business mon
realize what they owe TO women.
usually poorly paid. Is real con-
tribution to philanthropy. and.
what is more. q contribution to
JUSTICE far more important than
any philanthropy.
vclstsad, father of the thirsty
law. Is beaten for denomination to
Congress. This may be the little
cloud. big as q mans hand, in
dicating interruption or the dry
spoil, or II may not
Mr.. Burleson, Postmaster Gen
eral, calls for more reasonable in
depreciation OF the constitutional
amendment" which means q call
for beer. Some say this is the
voice of Wilson speaking through
Burleson, but 1t isn't. Mr.. Burle-
son has been saying 1t for years.
Somebody proposes to make
newsprint paper from alfalfa. 1t
can be done, but why waste al
falfa? Feed that to cattle; feed
Wood pulp to the printing presses.
Proper care and replanting OF forA
ests will solve the lumber and
wood pulp problem forever. They
understand that In Germany.
where they have more good trees
today than they had one hundred
years ago.
War is a hard teacher, but has
done more than peace to educate
the world. The latest teaching is
in Italy. They wondered what to
do with explosives left over. Now
used on the soil Of Italy,
instead of on Germans and Aus
trians, these explosives digging up
the ground to a great depth,
loosening the soil, letting in oxy-
gen, making it easy for roots to
60 down, will increase food supply
and simplify agriculture.
The Italians not only use all the
old stock Of explosives to make
fields more fertile, but continue
the manufacture Of explosives for
agricultural purposes.
AS useful q man as any living
is a Canadian, Seager Wheeler.
Queens University, at Kingston,
Ontario, makes him doctor OF
Laws" In reality he is a doctor
of the earth and feeder. ct men.
A poor man, with little farm OF
100 acres, he has added forever to
.he wealth of Canada and the
world millions every year. He
holds the record for wheat produc-
ton, eighty-two bushels to the
acre. And he has shown all other
farmers how to grow more wheat.
Some day perhaps the world will
erect monument to the unknown
women Of the Stone Age, that,
working through generations, cen
turies, gradually developed the
seed of a wild weed into the wheat
of today. All the grains we know
wheat, barley, rye-had been de-
veloped, to feed the world, before
the beginning Of history as we
know it.
Life in Ireland, where the Bells
of Shandon sound so grand on the
pheasant waters of the River Lee,
gets more and more excited every
day.
stabulary in Dublin Is shot
through the head and survives.
His chauffeur, named Pathe, is
shot through both legs, but keeps
control of his car, and drives away
from the bullets at seventy miles
an hour.
An unpleasant element is inject,
ed into the trouble by the repeated
appearance Of the words Roman
Catholic" in the Associated Press
dispatch. .
You are told est. Columbkills
College, a Roman Catholic institu-
ton" is attacked by rifle fire, and
"a Catholic named McKenna" is
shot dead, etc.
II would be better if those words
could be left out Worse than civil
war or any war is religious war.
The price Of wool in America
drops violently from sixty-five
cents to twenty cents, because con-
sumers have stopped buying.
The price of silver in London
and all over the world jumps up
Siolently, because the United
tates for no particular reason
starts buying silver at 81 an ounce
cyhen it Is worth eighty cents.