The Washington times., 1920-04-19

An Irish jury indicts Lloyd
George for numbering the Mayor
OF Cork by instigation, and that
keeps the Sim Fein cheerful for a
while. The American Legion of
North Carolina says it won't allow
de Valera to speak at Columbia,
because he was in Germany, help
ing the Germans during the war,
and not enough Irishmen, accord
ing to the Legion, went to fight
Germany anyhow. Irish rebellion
made England keep in Ireland dur
ing the war 250,000 soldiers needed
on the front. So the Legion OF
North Carolina, if accurately rep
resented objects to the man who
represents self-government and the
right of withdrawal for Ireland.
The South is hardly the region in
which you would expect to find
that objection.
The silliest of all silly ideas is
the effort to solve the high cost
of living problem by doing with
out.
The latest developments suggests
wearing overalls to cut the cost Of
clothing. That idea has already
doubled the price of overalls, max
ing life dearer for workers that
need overalls. Later it may have
an effect on the price of ordinary
clothing, but the effect will be to
raise the price. When you dis
organize an industry, cut down
employment, temporarily, inJure
the credit of manufacturers and
stability Of business, you hurt bust
ness and you will make its product
more expensive.
The wear overalls" crusade will
do one useful thing. 1t will show
how little many men amount to. as
birds without fine feathers. The
King of Belgium. in America, once
put on overalls to act as stoker.
A photograph taken OF him thus
shows a poor looking, second-class
workman, with legs out Of plumb,
a chest rather sunken, scrawny
neck. You would have made q
thousand guesses as to the mans
identity, before guessing that he
was a king.
Many . proud American soyer-
eign, seeing himself in overalls,
will learn respect for worker
who can wear them and look well.
y, IL we should talk to Mars from
that balloon, fifty thousand feet up,
surprising information might come
through. If we asked the Mar
tians, whose civilization Is mil
lions of years older than ours, how
to harness the tides, they might
answer, why, that is archaic. For
many ages we have had no tides
or oceans, our planet having be-
come absolutely round and our
water supply, as you probably
know, being kept in canals artifi-
cially created. These canals serve
for reservoirs and for transporta-
ton.
Don't waste time harnessing
your tides, which will soon pass, as
your planet becomes smooth like
ours, with no hollow basins for
oceans. And don't waste time, as
we once did, utilizing the electric
power In your planet or in the
suns heat. You might as well be-
gin now using the much more con-
yenient concentrated force stored
up in atomic construction"
Mars might teach us control Of
a planets polar motion, through
distribution of heat from the equa-
tor to the poles, thus enabling
us to control polar ice accumula-
ton, weather, temperature and
elimination of glacial periods.
Much about chemistry, about man,
his destiny, origin and purpose, the
Martians might teach us, for they
are old. But, fortunately, Mars
will not teach us suddenly more
than our little minds could well
handle.
Men and races grow as they
learn, and learning to their minds
is like exercise to their bodies.
For a planet suddenly to inherit,
without effort, the accumulated wis
dom of ages from an older world
would be as bad as it is for a
youth to inherit an unearned
fortune.
Mexico is worried about the loss
of her most efficient workers COM
ing to the United States for our
higher wages. On the other hand,
Frank Munsey, able editor of
many newspapers, learns that one
important section of Canada, still
"wet," is getting most welcome
labor supplies from this country,
thousands of skilled Americans
going to Canada, attracted by the
combination of good wages and
no prohibition
The man who makes ouija
boards is building a S150,000 addi-
tion to his factory and believes he
has exclusive patent rights. Ac-
cording to Professor Wallace, it
is an old patent, ouija having been
a revered institution in Thibet for
tvo thousand wears.