The Washington times., 1920-07-26

vettinu Civilized, ALMOST.
But, Those Ladies.
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ARTHUR BRlSHAN
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made IN telephoning wfshqut wires
Carried by waves Of that epecuicity
Of which we know only that It ex-
lists, travelling through 9he ether
that is in and around everything
and yet is only scientific spscula-
ton, the voice Of man. with its
tones easily rtcognixed, travels
more than a thousand miloA -,
We shall talk around the world
with and without wiress and sail
around the world in The atRs king
up from the ground motivespower,
without wires to bring II.
You meet the young men that
have como out of college, the
thoughtful kew, hear what science
and mathematics have been telling
them, and eay to yourself ihis
world at last is really getting civil
lied" Theh you read OF not IN
Bedford rejformatory for girls.
Sweet womknhood, white and col
ored. started fight in the laundry.
White wojnen did not want to be
locked up with the black women.
The black. duite naturally, felt that
thev could BE just as respectable"
refomatoryS inmates as the whites
Clubs, kniY Yes and flat-irons were
used, the rfformatory is half a
wreck, dozeIfs>~ went to the hos
pitfalls, etc. Then Nyou say, 1T is not
what the few men Wand women know
and do, not what the scientist ac-
conplished in hsi Laboratory that
tells the story, but Swhat the fifteen
hundred millions ON earth think and
teel that counts" There can be no
real civilization without average
civilization, and that is so low that
it is not civilization at all.
The big power, most dreaded
on earth, lust now, lis Bolshevism,
made up Of 80 per fent unable TO
read or think, more han two hun
dred millions of thei n, and Few,
Lenin and others, fr Ankly confess
ing that they are us ng the ignor-
rant mass, their haiti eds and bru-
tality, in the effort toS attain world
dominion. The Federation or
Man and Parliament pf the World
are still distant.
Nothing was needed to, prove
yacht racing ridiculous, foolish
waste of time, money and enthusi-
asm. II anything had bdlen needed
you would have found it In the
reason for abandoning the race
last Saturday. There waa actually
a good wind blowing. tyEenty-six
miles an hour, therefore no race,
therefore the dainty creatid dns, with
masts high in air and lead\ to BAL
ance below, are not made to stand
real wind. a
They are about as real o1p the
water as Marie Antoinette's Court
ladies weresrsAl dairysuBaidss when
they dressed up and churned the
butter at Versailles. You may say
that yacht racing is at least hafSni-
less. But 1t is not Anything that
wastes the thought of good enAi-
neers, the time and concentrated
attention Of two nations on monk
sense, is wasteful, therefore harm
full. !
Jennie and Edward StahursAi,
nine and two years old, were kills
ed by lightning. DR.. Howard w.
Neail went to report on the acci-
dent. He found the two children,
in the back yard of their fathers
house, buried to their necks in
earth and mud, only the heads
above ground. The crowd, par
ents, relatives, neighbors, amazed
at the officials ignorance, said to
him: people struck by lightning
are only stunned; bury them in
the ground quickly, then the earth
draws the electricity out of them,
and they come to life again. Didn't
you know that?"
DR.. Neail said not, and proved
that the unfortunate children were
permanently dead, but did not con-
vince the crowd. "We did not
bury them quite soon enough, or
lightning does not act here as it
did in our country" said they. You
learn from this that not even alb
solute proof can convince certain
kinds of ignorance. You learn
also that ignorance embodied in
ancient superstition often has a
curious color of truth about it.
The earth could not draw the
lightning out of the children and
restore them to life" but that
lightning was on its way to the
earth when it killed the children.
The bolt of a million volts and the
electric display of billions of can
dlepower simply means that old
earth is taking out of the air cleo
tricity that the earth has lent to
the air, as in rain the earth takes
back water lent from the ocean.
What frightens US and caused
our ancestors to believe in a thou
sand kinds of gods and devils is
a perfectly simple, natural hap
pening, the same but on bigger
scale, as when you rub your feet
along the carpet and produce from
your finger tip spark to light
the gas.
Coyarpor Cox will visit many