The Washington times., 1920-06-03

johnson Means II.
To Attract Attention.
No Stirpiculture.
Gold the Standard,
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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FIRST jobs. / will fight the profit
eers to finish and see that the
big fellows are punished as well
rs the little ones"
II some Of the other candidates,
well financed, said that, the public
would laugh. When johnson says
1t, he means it. Everybody knows
It, That is why profiteers, not
interested in johnson, are so ener-
getic in financing other candidates.
| The publicity committee Of the
Federation of Churches says the
reporters of today would have
opposed the Crucifxion if they had
been in Jerusalem at the time.
| While praising newspapers, the
reverend gentlemen, as often hap
pens, mourn for "quieter" news
papers. They say editors should
cooperate intelligently with the
churches, but without glaring
publicity"
Where do reverend gentlemen
got the idea that "glaring public
ity," which means compelling at
tention by vigorous action, is
unwise?
The founder Of Christianity be-
Geved in arousing interest ener-
getically. Read st. Matthew,
twenty-first chapter, nineteenth
verse, telling how the fig tree was
blasted because it bore no fruit.
That was sensational.
Healing the leper by merely
touching him and saying. "Be thou
clean," was sensational. 1t was
done to impress dull minds. 1t
was not done to cure an individual
case, when one divine word could
have abolished illness from the
earth.
In the last scene of the greatest
life, the veil Of the temple was
rent in twain and the earth did
quake; the rocks were rent, the
graves were opened, and many
bodies of the saints which slept
arose and darkness spread over the
earth for hours. All was not
gentle publicity.
It was the most energetic kind
OF publicity, and its effect has last
ed for two thousand years.
II you want people to notice you,
..COEfFBL attention. The world
Ms too busy to notice gentle effort.
When you read that q learned
young woman, dean Of an impor-
tant college for women. is about
to marry a learned professor from
another college, you say to your
self, perhaps: my! what a learned
family of children THAT will be-"
But the thing does not follow In
the least, and therein the wisdom
of Providence is seen.
II Aristotle and Madame de Stael
should come back to earth and
marry, you might see their daugh-
ter later dancing on her toes and
revealing her bare knees in Mr..
Ziegfeld's roof garden.
When a child is born, nature
shuts her eyes, plunges her hand
into a grabbag containing million
ancestors on both sides, and any
one of the two million ancestors
fmay be brought out, modified by
the immediate parents.
This prevents what the stirpicul-
~turists, or "race impovers," de-
sire, a special breeding of a
special kind of human being.
! You produce almost any result
with dogs, elephants, vegetables,
horses. You can do nothing with
homo sapiens, which is the scien-
tific name for yourself.
Jason Rogers, publisher, asks,
~Is an international currency
feasible?" 1t is and it exists.
Gold is the international currency.
No international paper currency
is feasible, for nations that are
sane and behave themselves are
not willing to underwrite those
that prefer war and foolishness.
Some day, a long way off, the
unit of value will be days labor,
since the only real value is labor,
muscular or mental.
But with coolies in China push
ing freight with their muscles,
because mems bodies are cheaper
than locomotives, black men in
Africa working for few cents a
day, soldiers in Russia's Industrial
army working for nothing, you
are long way from days labor
as the value unit.
For a long time TO come gold of
certain weight and fineness will
contiuue IN bo tho ctapdar ri