The Washington times., 1920-09-08
Today
Not Like Lancelot.
Deadly Victory.
Ability Is Complex.
First in the Cave.
By ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright. is2oD

AiO" hODit 10 Pi"N
How inspiring! What an excellent
example to set before boys ana
young men.
In "His Own Story of the Fight
Dempsey, who got $5O,OOo Tor
beating a man half sick, writes,
Il shot a right hook with all my
power. II was headed for the Jaw.
AS ! did il, l knew Miske was
through. He sank down onto his
side. / doubted whether he would
get up again. l stepped away from
him from where he lay, his face
writhing in pain. II seemed the
blow had crushed him. But that
boy climbed to his feet before the
count of ten. But he was all gone
then. And there WGs nothing tor
me TO do but Oaik oUer, take a
careful aim and hat his jaW once
more"
That does NOT remind you OF
Lancelot, refusing TO kill Sir
Gawaine when the latter was down
and helpless, although Gawaine
was calling Lancelot all the early
English names he could think OIL
and promising to kill Lanceiot as
soon as he got better.
Legislators that pass, the gov
ernors that sign bills, legalizing
prize fighting, thus establishing
distributing centers of crime and
venereal disease, must carry around
brains like that of Dempsey.
In modern war victory as well
as defeat means disaster. France
won the war, partly by the aid OF
her friends, chiefly by her
own magnificent fighting. Now
through j. Pierpont Morgan and
Company she borrows one hundred
millions of dollars, paying 8 per
cent interest and buying the bonds
back at 10. This means 3 per
cent every year except one, and lS
per cent for that year. Rather
hard times for great and honor
able nation.
If you can do one thing you can
do several. Michael Angelo, for
instance, could paint, was the
worlds greatest sculptor since
ancient Greece, a great architect,
and great engineer.
1t is difficult for the little man
to realize that there is only ONE
kind of ability. For instance, W.
R. Hearst, after making the coun-
try's greatest success with his
entered the magazine
field, buying Cosmopolitan, which
then had $4,000 circulation and
sold for ten cents. A conspicuous
magazine publisher of the period,
then successful, now out of busi-
ness, said: -.
Hearst is all right, running
one-cent and two-cent newspapers,
but he will find that he is out of
his depth in the magazine field"
Answer: Cosmopolitan Magazine
now sells for thirty-five cents, and
has a circulation above a million
and a quarter.
Later, Hearst decided to \try
moving pictures, being interested
in all methods of reaching the
public intelligence. Once more he
was told by wise gentlemen that
he had gone into something that
would prove too difficult.
The answer comes in the fol-
lowing paragraph from the New
York Times:
"Motion.picturc people are soft
ly mentioning the fact that VIII
liam Randolph Hearst. owner OF
is likely to be en-
riched by that film to the extent
OF about one million five hundred
thousand dollars. According to
appearances and accounts, II is
one OF the most successful films
which has ever been produced"
(From the New York Times,
sunday, Sept 81
Three were killed in the Cave
Of the Winds" at Niagara, when
sliding rock fell upon them. In
the binding mist they heard roar
ing death approach, but could see
nothing. 1t was tragic death.
The first man that ventured into
that cave, like the first that swal-
lowed an oyster, and the first that
padded his canoe out of the
Mediterranean into the Atlantic
through the Straits Of Gibraltar,
was brave man.
The first to enter the Cave OF
the Winds was probably some red
Indian pursued by his enemies and
fearing tomahawks behind more
than the bowling demons in the
cave. He must have been a proud
Indian when he came out after
dark able to prove TO his squaw
and other friends that he had
found an absolutely safe refuge
and had been where no man had
been.
II would have been hard for him
to believe that his name would one
day be forgotten. 1t is just as
hard for us to realize that in years
to come, a thousand centuries or so
from now, all the names that we
know will be forgotten and Jumped
under the general heading: wndi-
viduals Of the Semi-Civilized Age"
Tbcy will talk of ne nc uo toIk of