The Washington times., 1921-05-16

We're 0ut-So Keep Out.
zap, That Rock.
Mutsu and Negato-
Know Them7
Have You YOUR $3,0007
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Copyright. 1917

>SobSA'e"es AssAS
The other day you read OF Ital-
Ian officers directing German SOL
diers shooting holes In the ranks
OF Poles with accurate artillery
nre.' Today you read of intense
~ bitter feeling between France
and England, based on the same
Silesian situation.
England wants to treat the late
war as one of many and get back
70 business. France feels toward
the Germans as our frontiersmen
felt toward the Apaches, creatures
without rights, to be kept down az
general measure OF public safety.
Lloyd George, still the wisest man
In Europe's public life. is dis
dnctly on the side of Germany
against France in the Silesian dis
turbance. and says so.
Observe that II the United States
had been fool enough to play cats
paw In the League Of Nations, We
should now be expected to send
our men to do the shooting in
6ilesia. Nobody over there wants
the Job. The French wont do It,
and won't let Germany do it.
But they would ALL let the
United States do 1t, MOST cheer
fully. The more thoroughly we
keep out OF that mess, the better.
George w. Hinman rebukes use
fully those that speak of zap as q
mere rock in the Pacific.
Gibraltar is only a rock in the
Mediterranean. Ask England what
she would take for that rock. Crete
Is but a huge rock in the Mediter-
ranean-jumbled piles of rock and
fertile soil only 160 miles long. But
that isle OF rock, where the great
Zeus was born in a cave and has
his burial place on mountain
peak, means more in the worlds
history, by far, than all the history
Of North and South America COM
bined. Edison might ask WHY,
IN his next batch of questions. Yap,
the rock in the Pacific, might sud
denly become to the United States
rs important as your telephone is
to you.
"Mutsu" and "Negato." Those
words mean nothing to the man in
the street, but a good deal to the
man in the White House, to his
Secretary Of the Navy and to Con-
gress. Mutsu and Negato are the
two most powerful battleships in
the world. And they belong to
Japan. They were not built to
take the Mikado on q fishing trip.
A small, not rich, country like
Japan does not invest one hundred
millions in two ships unless she
expects to get the money back.
WHERE and HOW do you sup
pose Japan expects to get back the
money spent on Mutsu and Ne
cato?
The Government Loan Organiza-
tion fixes the total wealth of the
United States at $500, 900, ,000, 900,
about ten times what the Allies
hope to get from Germany, little
less than three thousand dollars
for every man, woman and child in
the United States.
Have you got YOUR three thou
sand, and has every member Of
your family got three thousand?
No? Then think it over, and get
your share.
1t cannot be done by dividing, in
spite Of Russia's interesting ex-
pertinent.
II it were possible to divide,
which it is not, each family of five
would have fifteen thousand dol
lars. What would happen? Bliss,
peace and comfort? Not exactly.
About half the families would
stop all work until the money was
gone; everything in the country
would be turned upside down.
When the dust settled, there would
be big flock of millionaires with
new names, many of them Greek
and Russian names. Some of New
York's distinguished Knickerbock-
er gentlemen, descended from
mushroom Dutch ancestry, would
be washing dishes in cheap restau-
rants.
Levy Mayer and John Stanch-
field would have an entirely new
crop of clients, and our best di-
vorce courts would see new faces.
Otherwise things would run along
IS usual.
It is only changing the people by
education that makes any real diff
ference.
The sum OF $500, 900, 900, 900
supposed to represent this coun-
try's wealth represents. Of
course, only that part which is de-
veloped. There is more wealth
than that under water, near our
coasts. There is more in the air
above us. II you can get nitrogen
from the air cheaply you can null
tiply the earth's fertility by one
hundred, and be richer than
Rockefeller. Only the surface of