The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-15
Today
Dempsey VS.. Milky Way.
The Speckled Horses.
Let Europe 0isarm.
The Cotton Problem.
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ARTHUR BRISBANE :
Copyright, 1880.

Professor Cnhrlltfy Iui"P"
astronomer, says he can prove
that our sun is not in the middle
Of the Milky Way, but off TO one
side of the cosmic boulevard. This
seems to settle Wallace's notion
that we are in the middle OF things,
center Of the visible universe but
1t is not very important news 70
the average citizen.
He knows the speed Of light 70
be SO great that il goes seven and
a half times around the world IN
one second. He knows that some
suns are SO far off that their
light has not had time TO reach US
yet, although it has been travel
ing fast for centuries. He says
to him, "that Milky Way is too
big for me-" and turns from Pro-
fessor Charlier to find out what
Professor Dempsey did TO Pro
fessor Brennan in last nights
prize fight.
You learn via Mr.. Gilbert, the
big toy man, from the American
Forestry Association, that thirty
million feet of lumber went into
American-made toys this year.
That is good news for American
industry and for American chill
dren. A real poet could write a
good poem about a great tree
growing in the forest for a hun
dred years, now standing before
a thousand children cut up into 4
thousand speckled toy horses.
These toy horses, making children
happy, are as pleasing in the
angels sight as any grand tree.
Senator Borah introduces a res
olution that the United States
agree with England and Japan to
cut down warship building by so
per cent for five years. 1t would
be pleasant TO save that money,
but Japan and England ARE AL
LIES. If we had trouble with
Japan, England would have to
help Japan. She might be wise
enough to forget her agreement.
But if we cut so per cent and
England and Japan did the same,
between them they would have
100 per cent and we should have
only fifty.
Does Senator Borah think it
wise to make that kind of agree
ment while the Japanese-British
alliance exists? Inasmuch as Eu-
rope has done the fighting since
the United States started, the
United States never attacking any
European power, wouldn't it be
reasonable to tell the Europeans
to disarm FIRST, and let US see
how they got along and how sin
cere they are about it?
" E DaYiS.Xiging from Ope-
Iika, Ala, says that cotton now
selling for Is cents actually cost
planters 80 cents a pound to raise,
with war prices for labor, mules
and fertilizer.
The hope of cotton planters and
wheat farmers lies in prompt, eff
cient action by the Government.
Liberal credits on farm paper and
energy in opening up trade with
central Europe, where factories are
idle and people starving, would
solve part of the problem at least.
1t is extraordinary that a Gov
crnment that could instantaneously
raise and deliver ten thousand
million dollars to our friends in
Europe should do nothing for farm
ers and planters on whose work
this country depends.
In Oklahoma cotton is rotting in
the fields. 1t does not pay to pick
it. Oklahoma City yesterday re-.
ported the failure of six Oklahoma
banks. The world needs every
pound of cotton that has been or
can be raised. Every pound could
be sold at fair price within a
reasonable time IL the Government
would help to stabilize values by
lending money on cotton. The
Government is spending millions a
year buying American silver at
double the price of foreign silver.
Why not do something for the cot
ton planters?
This country in the last fiscal
year did foreign business OF thir-
teen thousand million dollars.
How foreign countries managed to
buy so much with their deprecated
currency is a mystery. The best
part of the news is this: Ships
owned in America carried abroad
five thousand million dollars
worth of American goods last year
about fifteen times as much as
American ships carried in the year
before the war.
The Standard Oil Company has
discovered a process of making
alcohol from petroleum. It is well
to let the public know that alcohol
from petroleum is, il anything,
more deadly than alcohol made
from wood.
The Antisaloon League, which is
asking the United States not to
allow the making Of beer in China,
may be obliged to turn its atten-
tcntion to the home garage.
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