The Washington times., 1920-06-05

Wise Wall Street Gamblers.
Smoking and Thinking.
A 16-Pound Tooth.
The Presidents Salary.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrisht. 1900

| Gamblers in Wall Street are
betting 8 to that Hiram John
son will be nominated. Many
Wall Street big men don't want
johnson. don't like his promise
to Jail a big profteer as gladly
as small thief.
Wall Street men that do cleo
ton gambling bet on Judgment, not
on desire. Their judgment is that
the people are behind johnson IN
numbers that will make it impos-
sible for the Interests" to beat
him. These gamblers are prob,
/, ably right. johnson has right and
might on his side. 1t will take
hard fighting to get that nomina-
ton away from him.
Mr.. Havemeyer, old and indig-
nant, resigned from his local
chamber Of commerce because the
men smoked while they talked.
He was RIGHT and WRONG.
When men want to think, they
should not smoke. You SMOKE
with your chin in the air, you
THINK with your chin down.
When men really DO think,
they cannot smoke. Get q man
really interested in courtship,
money-making, ore abstract specu-
lation, and his cigar goes out.
But men often do not want to
think; it is a faculty recently ac-
quired, and tiresome. A dog can
walk on his hind legs, but doesn't
like to keep it up too long. So 1t
is with men and thinking.
OF all ways to stop thinking,
tobacco is the best, the least harm
full; in the adult, perhaps, not
harmful at all. We cannot be
perfect. Smoking is the most de-
sirable imperfection.
= Apponyi. of Austria, plying
himself, says: my life Is still
happy. though l am obliged to sup
port my family by the sale OF the
family jewels"
All around him miserable crea-
lures, thanks to him, his emperor,
and his class, are trying to keep
life in their bodies by selling their
children's shoes and their own
clothes.
1t takes a long time to teach
some men that God did not make
them to ride on the backs Of the
others.
The mammoth was a big ele-
phant; you have seen his skeleton
in museums and pictures of him
with long hair and tusks, as he was
discovered thousands of years
after his death, preserved in Sibe-
rian ice.
In France, near Lyons. q fossil
elephant has been found much big
ger than the mammoth.
The skeleton weighs four thou
4 sand pounds. One single tooth
i weighs sixteen pounds. and this
Hancient elephants tusks weighed
four hundred pounds, were eight
feet long, twenty inches In circum-
ference.
When it lived, undoubtedly it de-
spised smaller creatures. 1t hadn't
the faintest doubt that as long as
the world lasted its mammoth de-
scendants would also last, plung-
ing through forests, rolling in soft
mud, despising all things smaller.
But it is gone, forgotten. and
smaller things are running the
earth.
One of these days men will dig
up, in books. remains Of other gi-
Anonn{o1 q n
moths, that once (for instance, In
1920) thought that they would rule
the world and all smaller things
forever
Ambition out-jumps itself, ele-
plants and finance outgrow them
selves. Average size wins.
In Congress a bill is introduced
to reduce the Presidents salary
from $75, 900 to $50, 900 a year.
You might forbid the President
to use warships as private yachts,
and make him live on his salary.
But a President worth anything
is worth $4,000 a year. The
French pay their President more
than 100000 a year and give him
a fine palace besides.
If the people do not pay well
those whom they hire, there are
others, near the stock exchange,
willing to pay them. And If a
Presidential candidate before he is
nominated is worth two millions of
dollars hard cash to half a dozen
men, how much per year would a
real President be worth to hum
dred million Americans?
Merchants in New York an
nounce "five million dollars fund
to fight unions" The words "to
fight unions" are badly chosen.
When you say unions" you mean
millions Of men, intelligent, skill
full, doing work without which
the nation would drift into chaos
and ruin. -,
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