The Washington times., 1920-06-18
Today
Gambling SO, Business $50!
From an Elephants Tail.
go Back $1,000 Years.
No Wig, No Lady.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE.

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Bankers are interested IN the
business welfare Of the United
States.
Their prosperity can be no
greater than business mems pros
perity. Therefore, they are deep
ly interested in anything that
menaces business, rs the rising
money market menaces 1t today.
On Wednesday commercial
loans in Wall Street were made
at the rate of per cent and stock
brokers loans at s per cent. IL
q man went to Wall Street to
gamble, playing some good stock
~short" or some worthless stock
.long," the broker could borrow
the gambling money at SIX per
cent.
IL business man wanted money
TO develop industry and employ
labor he had to pay EIGHT per
cent. That is an unhealthy con-
dition, bad for the country, bad
for banks, bad for business, and
bad for labor.
A lady described as "Madelon
La Varre, French beauty and
dancer" is among US. Around her
ankle Cher advertising agent de-
serves congratulstion) the lady
wears an amulet, made Of hair
taken from the tail Of an African
elephant. Never does she go
forth without this porte bon
hour" which in French means
luck carrier"
Luck there may be in the hair OF
an African elephants tail. but a
certain hero who expected to make
. journey to the White House on
the back of the Republican ele-
sphant can testify that there Is no
luck in Republican elephant ivory
Soap. That kind of elephant ivory
will be classed hereafter, not as
porte bonheur," but first-class
hoodoo.
DR.. A. |. Logan says two inter-
esting things, both false. He says
you can decide the sex OF an un-
born child and confer the gift or
genius upon that child II father
and mother begin thinking about
ii intensely twenty-seven months
before the child is born.
Nothing, fortunately, can influ-
ence the sex OF a child. Men are
selfish egotists. women fond and
feeble. Except for natures wis
dom, every child would be a boy
to flatter the foolish father.
AS for going back twenty-seven
months to produce genius, that
won't work. Go back $1,000 years
and there will be better prospect.
There is difference of more than
$1,000 years between the high type
of white man and the low type Of
savage.
Take from the equator average
,savages, allow no mixture OF bet
ter blood, you might breed for ten
Thousand years and you wouldn't
have at the end human being
capable of real thought. Thought
represents more than 100, 900 years
OF effort.
The most important thing is real
affection between father and moth
er, especially the mothers re-
spect for the father-a good many
fathers, through their own fault.
lack it. Hence, inferior children.
Hunting in the jungle by tiger
killers and hunting in the city by
thieves are not unalike.
Tiger hunters tie a young goat
to a stake, it bleats, the tiger
comes and is shot.
In the big city jungle, Helen F.
Lunnie, aged fifteen, now held by
the Children's Society, testifies
that she was sent out on the
streets. When a man talked to
her, she led him to a lonesome
place. There he was knocked on
the head and robbed. The tiger
that wanted to eat the young goat
and the man knocked on the head
in the lonely spot are equally en-
titled to sympathy.
When silver was going up in
price, Europe wanted great guam
titles of it; the simple-minded, to
put it mildly, Government of the
United States proceeded to sell
hundreds of millions of silver dol
lars to oblige Europe, and Europe
made the profit.
Now silver is going down in
price, and that worries Europe.
So Immediately the United States
Government, "under the Pitman
act" offers a dollar an ounce for
silver, which is 20 cents above the
market price. Thus, when silver
was valuable, Europe could get ours
cheap. And now when Europe is
worried because silver has gone
down, poor, foolish Uncle Sam is
hurrying into the market with his
pocketbook to pay more than it
is worth.
Lloyd George and Krassin, rep
roso,t,t;ya Of Rolsheyik Russia