The Washington times., 1921-09-19

Old PIutocracy in Luck.
What Will Mars Teahc?
500 Changed to $500.
Trotzky's Blue Eyes.
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Old Mr.. Plutocracy is to be
congratulated on his enemies.
AS usual, just as he is worrying
about the Socialist Party, that
did not want him to be happy,
that party breaks in two. Its
most energetic members head
their announcement, Farewell
to the Socialist Party" and are
on on a considerable under
taking, the establishment Of q
soviet government, on the Rus
sian plan, in this fair land.
There won't be any soviet gov
ernment, so that does not count.
But there probably won't be
many, II any, Socialists elected
TO office, and that does count for
Old Plutocracy's comfort.
In 1924 this world will make
q desperate effort to talk to its
smaller, much older, sister planet,
Mars. Imagine an old dwarf sis
ter trying to talk to her big
baby sister. the latter too young
TO understand or pronounce
clearly, and you see the situa-
tion.
You have tried a hundred times
TO. make young baby under
stand and answer. Marconi says
Mars Is trying to make US under
stand now. He has noticed the
? wireless attempts.
It Is certain that within a time
not far distant, as time goes on
earth, other planets sufficiently
developed in our solar family
will talk to us. Mars, millions Of
years older than ourselves and
nearest to US, will be first, pre-
sumably, to teach us, as older
sisters teach the younger. Once
in fifteen years Mars comes very
near" The distance in 1924
will be only thirty-five million
miles.
At first we shall simply know
shat Mars is trying to make us
understand, as when you snap
your finger at baby and gurgle.
The language they use on Mars Is
inconceivably different from our
own. In the millions Of years they
may have dropped language and
learned to communicate thought
direct. That would make it harder.
But they probably could talk our
baby talk to US.
They will teach US first, prob
ably, to harness natures force,
as we teach babies to walk first
of all. Imagine how slowly baby
would learn il all through life 1t
had to work everything out for
itself, unable to ask questions
Imagine how rapidly we shall ad-
vance when an older planet Is able
to tell us all it knows, and psrhaps
threaten Us with electric lombard
iment, painful, but not fatal, II we
persist in going to war or oppress-
ing the poor after being told that
it Is wrong. , ~
Il is perfectly natural, in our
minds, for. q parent to say, "If you
slap, each other, mother will whip
you" Just as natural for old Mars
to say to young Earth, ~ have told
you what Is wrong. If you persist
in It I'll punish you all alike" !
This writer will ask n. G. Wells,
whose imagination equals the task,
to rewrite the "War Of the
Worlds" product Of his mental in
fancy, and tell of what Mars might
do for us. He wants what Is i'm
possible among US uneducated saw
ages-world society. He might
get in Mars a governess to bring
us up in the right way.
Chester, great French cook,
wires Frank Munsey that he is
. leaving London because English
men know nothing about eating.
They want bacon, kippers and
other atrocities - ONLETTES
FINES, HERBS means nothing to
them. It's an old French complaint.
yoltaire said England had only
one sauce and many religions. He
preferred France with many sauces
and only one religion.
Chauncey Depew tells this lit
tie story: His first 500 he put
In the Peekskill Savings Bank
sixty years ago and never took
it out. Recently he remembered
It, looked 1t UP, and found the
$i00 had grown to $500 at a very
low rate of interest. He is 60
ing to leave 1t there "out Of sem
tirnent." What could be more
beautiful than sentiment, you
ask, and pass on to this question:
How rich will one of the rich
est families in America be in
sixty or a hundred years If they
keep some modest amount-say
$3.50, ,000, 600 doubling and re-
doubling during that time at the
modern fashionable Z per cent in
terest rate
At this moment. Government
~. roarran0ed the income tax-