The Washington times., 1920-08-07
Today
ReaI Newspapermen.
Spanish Duke, U. s. A. Lord
Marvellous Is Man.
Insanity Proves II.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. isso.)

There are two kinds Of cleo
tricity, two kinds Of newspaper
genius. Where you have both kinds
on one newspaper your only worry
will be to keep that paper from
going ahead too fast.
The Chicago Herald and Exam
iner has both. kinds. Howey. the
editor, is wilder than the widest
bounding chamois on the loftiest
Alpine peak. But his eye can see
a news beat ten thousand feet
below, as the chamois sees the
sdelweis hiding in the snow.
Dickson, publisher. is quiet as
the powerful Amazon, more solid
than the foundation underneath
the foundation of Gibraltar. Yet
II he met the four horsemen of the
Apocalypse, riding out on their
white, black, red and pale horses,
he would stop them with a sound
argument. and from each get a
page advertisement boosting" the
color OF his particular horse.
The above is an introduction to
a note from Howey and Dickson,
printed because it interests news
papermen.
THE CIRCULATION OF THE
CHICAGO HERALD AND EX-
AMINER HAS INCREASED
$4,000 IN THE LAST TWO
WEEKS" Editors will be inter-
ested because the Herald and Ex-
aminer, sold at three cents, has for
competitor creditably managed
little newspaper, sold for two
cents.
But who can stay the roaring
Howey avalanche, or hold back
the progress Of the crunching,
grinding, slow moving Dickson
They have in Spain the title
"Duke de Ciudad Rodrigo" 1t is
the fancy name that goes with
Spanish lands owned by the Eng
lish Duke of Wellington. The
real or 'Tron" Duke of Wellington
was fighting in Spain early in the
Napoleonic wars, waiting for Ma
poleon's indigestion and sleepiness,
plus Blucher's timely arrival, to
make possible the Waterloo VIC
tory. There is still a Duke of
Wellington on earth, and the ten
ants on his Spanish lands refuse
to pay increased rent.
Preposterous, you say, that be-
cause an Englishman fought in
Spain more than a hundred years
ago Spanish peasants should now
pay rack rents to an absentee in
England. eve have no such non
sense in America" say you.
But haven't we? When WelIns-
ton was fighting in Spain to en-
barrass Napoleon. Astor in Amer
lea was skinning the skunks and
other animals, as young Lady
Astor herself recently expressed it.
With the money from beaver
and skunk skins, Astor bought
vacant land. Proud Americans
now are sending to Europe, for
an Astor that never saw a beaver,
rents that would make Spain open
her eyes. We are foolish in a diff
ferent way and without Dukes or
other titles here, but we ARE
foolish. And the American to
whom we send our rent money to
help build the English Navy is a
British Lord, on his way to be a
Duke, some day. If that is Single
Tax, make the most of it.
Louis Gross, twenty years old,
found his father choking his
mother. He killed the father with
six bullets. Those for whom
healthy truth is not sufficient, who
feed their morbidness on Freudian
nonsense and call their mental
state complex will say that the son
was always more or less anxious
to kill the father, because Of a
jealous complex, and took the first
chance to express his feelings. A
sound-minded jury, however, will
say that, if the facts are as stated,
the young man did exactly the
right thing, and Freudian theories
had nothing to do with it.
Man is a marvellous machine,
with his brain that sometimes runs
for hundred years without break
ing down or putting in new parts.
Every morning you should say
with the ancient one; 81 will praise
the Lord, for l am fearfully and
wonderfully made" Then you
should prove by doing something
worth while with the fearful and
wonderful machine that you carry
around with you.
How marvclously it works when
in good order. Take today's news:
Carl Lundquist, only twenty
eight and discouraged, jumped into
the river from a bridge one hun
dred feet high. Patsy Massello,
everyday Italian, thirty-five years
old, but not a bit discouraged
about anything, never heard Of
Lundquist until he saw his body
whirling toward the water one
hundred feet below. Did Massello
call for help? He did not.
In a second he was over the top
of the bridge, shooting down, and