The Washington times., 1920-03-05

Colleges and Fools.
n. c. l. and Pigs Feet.
6isons and Chinese.
No Angels Came.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(CopyrtGht. lSSel

Ogden Armour defends college
education, although he gets along
without It. Information 10 pretty
good substitute for education, II
you have enough. Armour says
colleges kill FOOLS" meaning that
he who enters college a fool comes
out less Of a fool. College life
does produce agreeable uniform
ity. which softens down fools, but
uniformity Is a mental curse. 1t
enables you to hire a fine educa-
ton for $25 a week. You can best
describe "college education" by
saying Of it what the Frenchman
said about travel, "Travel forms
youth, when it does not deform it."
If a man amounts to little, col
lege will help him, if it does not
deform him. 1t cannot hurt him
much anyhow. High genius. how
ever, could, with difficulty, 60
through a college course and sur
vive. If Shakespeare had been a
young Oxford man instead Of be-
ing a poacher in the country and
a worker for odd half pence in the
city, he could not have been
Shakespeare. There would not
have been any Abraham Lincoln
left, or not much, after four years
of Harvard.
The highest good fortune Of
earth's children is personality" as
Goethe truly says. And college
life Is hard on personality.
Shaking coins up and down in
a bag against each other wears
off the sharp edges.
The price of bread goes up
again. How often will you hear
that? Workers get higher wages,
and soon goes into operation 1.-The
iron law" as the Socialists call it.
A worker gets a dollar more, then
those that work the workers make
it cost a dollar more to live.
Mr.. Haskell, able vice president
Of the International Paper Com
pany, supplies to this writer "a
statistic" proving that there is
something the matter with our
system of distribution. Mr.. Has
kell has a recipe for cooking pigs
feet inherited from Lucullus.
He cooks four at a time-bought
four on Broadway, between One
Hundred and Fourteenth and One
Hundred and Fifteenth streets.
and paid $1.35. By way Of expert
nent in political economy, he sen.
his boy to the Washington Market:
The boy brought back four pigs
feet Of the same size, price for the
four Is cents. The man uptown
Ind sdded about a thousand per
cant to q reasonable profit. 1t
ought to be somebody's business
to regulate continued profteering.
In the Far West, trains used 20
he held up by bisons. herds OF tens
of thousands, sometimes
In Far Eastern China train serv-
ice is bothered by Chinese suicides
throwing themselves under the
wheels. Bisons and Chinese work.
ers. desperate through poverty.
lack of opium or general disgust
With life, form an interesting con-
trast, cluttering up the wheels 81
steam engines in such different
ways.
The Turks are to lose every
thing in Europe except the holy
places" This may cause the Turks
TO lose confidence in the efficiency
OF those holy places" and arouse
some justified haughtiness In the
Christians. But it Is simply the
hour glass of history being turn
cd upside down.
When the Turks marched into
Constantinople. establishing them
selves in Europe, four hundred and
sixty-five years ago. they found
magnificent Christian temples.
The finest, St Sophia, now a Mo-
hammedan mosque, stood In a great
square. AS the Turks approached.
numbering and burning. the Chris
uans retired to that square. They
had been assured that when the
time came, If the Turks appeared,
angels with swords would appear
also and dispose Of the Turks.
But the angels never came, the
Turks did come and disposed of
the Christians. Who knows wGat
may happen four hundred and sir
ty-five. years from now IL Asia
comes back to life and the Turks
again become leaders? Old Con-
stantinople, center Of ancient his
tory, natural center Of civilization,
perhaps, has seen strange days and
probably will see many more.
Even in Turkey there is i'm
provement. Homeless, starving
dogs that made Constantinople's
streets hideous and dangerous
have been driven out. Many were