The Washington times., 1920-02-23
y Peary Happy?
Two Tests, 0uiia, Union
Labor.
A Big String Of Beads.
Forty-Fke Shoes. Second
Hand.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. ls1o)

haiu auu Wch.
It's not necessary to discover
the North Pole. IL could have
waited thousand years longer,
or many thousands, until the
earth's gradual shifting should
bring the Pole nearer the tropics.
But the world needs courageous
men to set an example.
Peary was useful, although his
North Pole was not.
The question is, how Will he en-
Joy life In such heaven as that
In which good Christians believe?
On earth Peary had a nice steady
life Job. No worry, but he could
not be happy when quiet. He had
to struggle. to do something ex-
citing.
How does he feel on this his
third day in heaven?
Does he already feel nervous as
other blessed ones say. lust as
you are sitting there singing. so
will you be ten trillion years
hence" Will not Peary and would
not others of energetic kind ask:
Cant / get out, is there no possi-
bility of my going somewhere to
run risks and accomplish things
worth while.
Those that worry about the
, monotony of endless. unchanging
celestial happiness, may comfort
themselves with the text: I'm my
fathers house are many, man
sions." Some mansions perhaps
are located in distant nebulae, out
side of our galactic system. There
may be a million light years"
from here, many adventures wait
ing in far-off corners Of space
where double and triple suns re-
volve around each other, with
comets whizzing, volcanoes blazing,
great electric storms raging and an
occasional interplanetary head-on
collision occurring.
Peary may be leading new life
more exciting than when he and
one colored man drove their dogs
to the Pole. Kind Providence
gives human beings what they
want.
Union labor is to learn what the
average voting man and woman
thinks about organized labor.
Union men have invited test
by naming blacklist of men to be
defeated, including Smoot, of
Utah; Sherman, Of Illinois; Un-
derwood, Of Alabama; Penrose,
Cummins and oshers.
The test is important to organ
? lied labor. If labor proves its
, power by defeating the men black
' listed, that will be important in
future influence on legislation.
If labor fails, that will be equally
important.
A different test comes from
abroad. English women have asked
Conan Doyle, who believes in
spiritualism, to get out his OulJa
board, identify and bring to justice
some of the many murderers that
have recently killed and not been
caught.
Needless to say, the Ouija test,
like all other experiments in spirit
ualism, will prove foolish.
A scientific discovery proves its
truth by its value.
All the nonsense of spiritualism,
preying on the pitiful longings ut
weak or tired minds, has not pro.
duced the value of a two-cent
stamp, and never will.
If the dead could talk, after the
interesting experience of dying,
they would send messages better
than "Mammy is happy; 1T rs
:. lovely over here. Love to Willie.
To describe wealth, distance, or
any abstract thing, is not easy. 10
say, "The sun is more than nine.
ty million miles from the earth"
means nothing. Say: Light trav
cling more than eighty thousand
miles each second takes nearly ten
minutes to come from the sun 20
U.S." even that conveys no idea OF
distance.
Men haven't learned to think in
big figures, although the profiteers
recently have tried to teach them.
Saw: "Imagine a string of beads,
each bead as big as the earth. 1t
would take q string with more
than eleven thousand beads Of
that size to reach from earth to
sun" Then you convey some
idea of distance.
Not much about wealth. II you
say: midas had thousand mil
lions" the ordinary man whistles,
but the words "a thousand mil
lions" mean little. We are no
nearer to understanding this than
, our savage ancestors that could
only count five. A more def
Unite idea of wealth is conveyed
TO the ordinary citizen by this
announcement:
"The Guaranty Trust Company
asks permission to sell the cloth
ing Of T. p, Shonts, late presi-
dent of the greatest street car
trust. The clothing includes
eighteen sack suits, English walk
ing style; twelve other suits, three
dress suits, six silk umbrellas, ten
canes, forty-five pairs Of shoes"
Those forty-five pairs Of shoes
convey TO most Of us the idea Of
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