The Washington times., 1920-11-28
Today
Everything Drops.
Including Mont Blanc.
Benny Leonard Again.
And Mr.. Azerbaijan.
, ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Copyright. 1890.

Inc business SITUATION, the year
end bringing unknown conditions
with II, is most important for your
careful study. Many fortunes will
he lost. many made, in the next
few months.
Banks urge selling. at any price,
20 turn goods into cash. Farmers
and merchants who must stand
expensive farm labor or expensive
goods. are holding on.
The Christmas selling should do
q great deal for the retailers.
Farmers have no such period of
comfort.
Not everybody realizes what
price changes have occurred al
ready. Early in this year calfskin
sold for $1,20 pound. Yesterday
il sold for Is cents, with light
demand. Meyer Hecht. the calf
skin king, said:
you can put it this way. The
money that you paid early in the
year for q calfskin weighing five
to seven pounds will buy today
two cowhides weighing fifty
pounds each. Half the leather
men will lose this year more than
they have made in five years"
Pork on the hoof sold yesterday
for 10 cents pound. Steel is down,
price cutting has begun, soon prob
ably will come rate war. BE
careful how you gamble in steel
stocks. remembering that the big
company can sell at profit for
less than the cost OF manufacture
of some other companies.
Cotton is down, all the grains
fall lower and lower. Corn sold
for $2.31 last May, sold for "a
cents yesterday; wheat sold for
$3.50 last January, sold for $1.7l
this week. Oats have dropped in
the year from $1.50 to SO cents.
There was never more violent
melting Of values. The encourage
ing marvel is that the country
stands it so well.
The top of Mont Blanc slips OF.
causing an avalanche, sweeping
away the forests for ten miles.
That makes Mont Blanc take sec
ond place among the mountains Of
Europe. That avalanche means
much to people that will live on
the earth a few million years from
now. Steadily, rain, snow, frost,
and lightning work to level off the
high spots. Some day, if men did
not interfere, the earth would be
completely round, with no great
valleys to hold oceans. The oceans
water would spread mile Ceep
over the entire globe, and lie. as
we know it. would end.
Before that happens men will
harness the power of the sun and
dig artificial canals to hold the
oceans waters. They are sup
posed to have done that already
on the planet Mars.
Mr.. Benny Leonard. 134 pounds
of nervous, combative, Jewish
energy, has added another to his
many fights won. The ignorant
are surprised that "A Jew should
be such a wonderful and such
game fighter
A race that has had to with
stand hideous torture Of religious
hatred for centuries and to en-
dure other tortures, including the
pulling of teeth and agony unmen-
tionable, designed to extort money,
has naturally developed "game-
ness"
The future, when it studies our
period, will decide that we were
brute beasts when they read of a
public exhibition, authorized by
law, witnessed by fifteen thousand
so-called civilized men, in which
the one attraction was savage
cruelty. This is the description of
yelling, Leonard's victim, waiting
for the gong to call him to the last
installment Of his punishment. The
quotation is from Damon Runyon's
brilliant description of the fight:
His eyes were heavy with sleep,
his nose and mouth were dripping
blood. and his knees were knock
ing beneath him as the thirteenth
closed and he staggered to his
corner.
His seconds hastily jammed a
stool beneath his quivering body.
threw water on him, and then. as
the bell rang for the fourteenth
round, pushed him to the center of
the ring"
Is not that more disgraceful
than any bull-fght or bear bait
ing?
What is the use of talking about
civilization or decency when the
sight of a bleeding, helpless man is
considered amusing and is offered
day after day as an inspiration to
the young?.
The Supreme Court OF this ma
tion is to decide whether a gentle
man inside the borders of Kansas
may smoke cigarette. Miss Lucy
Page Castor, Of Chicago, says they
must not.
In other States they have a plan
TO keep you from enjoying your
self on Sunday. There is nothing
in the Bible to indicate that the
Lord deliberately bored himself.
refraining from enjoyment on the