The Washington times., 1920-09-29
Today
PittsburQ, Kansas.
He Won't Be President.
PtaffenzelIer's Plan.
The Next War.
ARTHUR BRIsBANE-
(OopyrtshS ls1eS.

lu0 UoAl WdI.
by ARTHUR BRIsBANE-l
(ospyusA. ssss-
Msndel 6ensr, secretary Of the
Pittsburg chamber Of commerce,
thinks the world should know
about PittsburR. 1t should know,
and 1t shall. This particular baby
Pittsburg is in Kansas, not Penn,
sylvania. II has twenty thousand
inhabitants, . few years ago II
was q big Kansas cornfield. Last
year from beneath the cornneld
miners dug and shipped five mill
lion tons Of coal. This year they
will ship seven million tons.
The mines are 50 near the con-
ter of tho town that railroads, 10
far as Pittsburg, Kansas, is con-
corned, are unimportant, = great
thing for manufacturing.
In some places the coal is 20
near the roots Of the corn that
big steam shovel can strip OF the
dirt, leaving the coal bare, ready
to be scooped out,
Tile plants, brick plants, zinc
smelters, many wonderful things
exist where the cornfield used to
be-
What do you suppose will be the
extent of industry, business and
prosperity In this country when
all the cornfields are fully devel-
oped, men using the wealth below
the surface, the fertility on the
surface, and taking nitrogen from
the air above to add 10 fertility!
1t is q wonderful country, and has
hardly started. =.
The main thing is 10 Keep it in
dependent, self ruling, out OF any
European mix-up, free to attend
to its own affairs, with its citizens
neither taxed nor conscripted by
any League Of Nations foreign
council.
David s. Beach, of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, candidate for President OF
the United States--perhaps you
didn't know it--starts his cam
paign, as he should, with q two
page advertisement in his home
newspaper. Under portraits OF
Lincoln, Washington and himself,
he announces that Secretary Dan
iels' prayer for another Lincoln
has been answered. The name OF
the answer is David s. Beach.
Offhand you might say that
Mr.. Beach is starting late, and
cannot possibly be elected, al
though he says in his advertise
ment, abraham Lincoln freed
the negroes, David S. Beach will
set mankind free from financial
slavery"
This, however, is certain, David
S. Beach's chance Of election is
exactly IS good - tAe cnAnce of
Mr.. Cox, Mr. RAae6r<Scc9tAss ~
more than ODE dollar from any
campaign tmd contributor.
Mr.. Joseph j. Pfaffenzeller has
a plan for q new improved League
of Nations. He offers one dollar
. minute for fifteen minutes to be
spent reading about his plan.
Many men in the United States,
tens of thousands, would not de-
vote fifteen minutes to any propo-
sition for a dollar a. minute, yet
think ten dollars a day high wages
for q skilled mechanic, who must
devote eight hours to the prob
lens Of his trade.
Until the League of Nations,
designed to make Uncle Sam the
paymaster and servant of Europe,
and responsible for Europe's GRIM
inal wars, shall have been dis
posed Of, nothing else is impor-
tant. ~.
After that will come q time to
plan what this country has always
wanted, a civilized method of ar
bitrating quarrels between nations,
as courts compel men to arbitrate
quarrels between individuals.
The next war ID not going to be
q pleasant enterprise. When you
read that discussions between the
United States and Japan as to
''the right OF Japan" to colonize
United States territory have
IchCueu tHc SeTIOuS SJdSe yOu
realize that this country. with
men, ships, submarines, and espe-
cially flying machines, should Keep
itself thoroughly prepared.
The next war will not start In
the old-fashioned way. with dis
tant cannonading heard by great
cities, as troops meet \on the bor-
der.
The next war will start a few
miles above the great city, with a
fleet OF enemy airships coming
through the moonlight dropping
bombs containing deadly gases,
capable OF suffocating an entire
city.
Such war most horrible should
be unthinkable. But II there must
be such war this country must be
first to do the suffocating.
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