The Washington times., 1920-08-18
Today
MUnsey and the Eagle.
Nervous Americans.
Ever Hear OF lockyer?
Leisure, Study, Thought.
By ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright Iszo.)

from MS lofty perch In tno New
York Sun-Hersld Building, can
see trouble or JOY as far as the
eagle can see a young lamb. Had
Eliza been business fact. and
Munsey her bloodhound, Uncle
Toms Cabin" would have ended
differently. Munsey would have
caught Eliza and eaten the baby.
Business men get from Munsey
this interesting suggestion: Watch
the London markets, where food
stuffs suddenly rose yesterday 10
TO 20 per cent and at the same
> time cotton dropped 100 points.
Ten days before the great war
started in 1914 the same peculiar
twist was taken by the quotations
from London"
Munsey doesn't tell you that war
Is COMING, but he does tell you
that London acts as though ex-
pectng war. That interests busi-
ness men.
In the Olympic games Ameri-
cans are winning in contests that
require extreme nervous energy
combined with great physical force
An American wins the race. 44O
meters over hurdles, in "a seconds,
breaking the record. Another
American wins the 100 meters.
Another, In high jump, at the
nrst attempt clears feet AZ
inches and wins, breaking records.
heach up on the wall to that
neight and see what energy it
must take to clear 1t.
Intensity Of energy displayed by
Americans at Antwerp is a good
sign for the hundred million Amer
leans at home.
1t is especially interesting to OBJ
serve the numerous achievements
OF athletes from California. The
climate evidently was made for
white men. Indians that ruled
there formerly were among the
most sluggish and cowardly. They
hadn't enough energy to kill deer,
or eat each other, so they ate
grasshoppers. This may interest
our good friends from Japan.
Say to the first man in the
street: "Lockyer is dead" Ten
thousand to one, he will answer:
lis that so? WHO is Lockyer?"
Say to, the same man: Jack
Dempsey is dead" he will stop you
for fuller information.
Lockyer was only an eminent
scientist, director of a great OBJ
servatory of solar physics, emf
neht astronomer" He never
Knocked anybody out in his life.
We are surprised sometimes
that a hundred million people take
50 little interest in their Govern
ment. and are so easily managed
by profiteers. The future will
NOT be surprised when it learns
that of our hundred millions, ten
thousand were interested in a
prize fighter, baseball player, or
Jockey, to one interested in a scien-
tist.
If you went to the Gaboon coun-
try and discovered citizens chiefly
interested in yrhinoceros meat and
wooden idols, and having pink
eyes and blue hair, you would say,
1T will take some time to civilize
this people"
You may say the same about
your own people. 1t will be a long
time before they will have self
government, because it will be a
long time before they are fit for
it.
However, all is not black and
pessimistic. The waters of Bridge
river in British Columbia are to
be harnessed to turbines and made
to yield 400 900 horsepower. There
is progress. When you make a
waterfall your slave, you give
men a chance to study, learn, and
think.
No education without leisure.
No improvement without educa-
ton. Aristotle knew it when he
said there could be no civilization
without slavery. He didn't know
that waterfalls would be our
slaves, electricity our messenger,
and that steel wheels would carry
the load, and steel fingers make
the cloth.
Some liberties are taken. Then,
to cheer us, others are granted.
Free speech and free thinking
have lost their freedom here. Free
speech now means freedom to say
what is thought by those in au-
thority.
On the other hand, ladies in Chi
cago's, interesting county jail are
told by Warden Lee that hereafter
they may smoke cigarettes. The
warden says, "We are living in an
age of women's rights, and l will
let the women smoke if they will
put the burnt ends of the matches
back in the match box"
If you are a lady and say what
you think, as did Rose Pastor
Stokes, they will probably put you
in Jail. On the other hand, once
YOU are in Jail, even though you
be a lady, you will be allowed to
smoke cigarettes. To every cloud
a silver lining.
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