The Washington times., 1920-08-27
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are bringing up reserves and
starting in again. 1t isn't easy
to deal with hundred and eighty
million people next door when the
hundred and eighty million are in
the first throes Of revolutionary
enthusiasm.
What shocks all Europe, in
cluding Lloyd George, who doesn't
want to fight the Russians II he
can help 1t, is the Russian de-
mand that Poland supply arms to
all her workingmen. European
governments love their workmen.
But do not exactly trust them.
Our Government, when it start
ed and :, wrote its Constitution,
thought the people could be trust
cd with weapons, and declared the
right to bear arms must not be
infringed. We have revised our
views, and in many places we put
a man in Jail for having a re-
volver.
More important than any other
earthly news is the statement on
scientific authority that the first
step has been taken toward free
ing atomic energy" Soon the coal
and oil will be gone. Where, then,
will men obtain power?
Answer: If you could release the
energy that holds together the
parts of atoms and molecules, the
power question would be solved,
and the human race would have
free power, as it has now free air
and free water.
Radium sends its PARTICLES into
space at a speed of $4,000 miles a
second. There is power for you. II
you could use, for instance, the
atomic force locked up in ton Of
coal, you would get at least 100000
times as much power as can be
obtained by burning coal under q
boiler. Thus, trainload Of coal
could easily run all the factories
of the United States. And you
would not need coal; any matter
would do. That Is a piece of earth
ly news too complicated to interest
most of us.
A piece of news located far from
the earth tells the discovery by
astronomers of a magnificent new
star, supposed to have been caused
by a collision of two suns, each
million times as big as our earth,
or bigger.
4 hoptoad sits beside the rail-
road track trying to catch flies.
There is head-on collision be-
tween two express trains. The hop
toad, not even mildly interested,
goes on catching flies; the COLI
sion hasn't hit him. So we, within
the cosmic track called the Milky
Way, give four lines to the crea-
ton Of a huge star, due to COL
lision between suns. and go on
catching our flies, which are dol
lars.
Men are hard to deal with when
they look upon a principle as more
important than their own lives.
McSwiney, lord mayor of
Cork, in Jail, decides that the only
useful thing he can do is to kill
himself by voluntary starvation
and thus compel attention to con-
ditions in ireland.
He attracts instantly the at
tention of the world. The prime
minister says, 81 cannot free a
man who chooses to starve him
self. That would mean freeing
all prisoners" 1t would not mean
that, for not all prisoners have the
courage to starve.
The King of England is disturb
cd and promises to consider the
case. Meanwhile McSwiney may
Gle. And his passive death may
be of more value to Ireland than
many lives spent in active fight
ing. ~.
Ninety per cent of Socrates rep
utation is based on the fact that
he chose to drink the hemlock and
die, in order to show his respect
for law, when those that had con-
demned him wanted him to escape
and live. Ireland, of course, will
have such freedom as she demands,
sooner or . later. Seven hundred
years of fighting will not be vast
cd. In the days of freedom, Nc
Swiney will be remembered.
The first jury of twelve women
in the State of Ohio rendered its
first verdict yesterday. The de-
cision prevented the eviction of a
newly wed couple from their home.
The attorney for the plaintiff said
he would appeal the case. That
was good beginning for women
in the jury box. In that small
way and in many more important
ways woman suffrage will make
the home secure-particularly by
making the politicians ask them
selves: what do women want?"
American business men would
be interested il they could know
what conditions are in Europe.
The warehouses in Spain, for In,
stance, are crowded; no more stor-
age room. This means goods un-
sod, lack Of buying power. Money
is lacking everywhere abroad.
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