The Washington times., 1921-07-15

Weekday Work, Please.
Thinking Makes Il"
Gold, Yellow and Cold.
Sea and Air Mastery.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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LILY ARTHUR BRISBANEl
Copyright issi.
The Methodists Of America
ten Congress they want no work
done On Sundays, no trains run
ming. NO nswspapsrs, no malls.
OF course, the Government will
oblige them. Having said yes
70 the prohibitionists, it would
seem unjust 70 say no to the
Methodists.
That being settled, perhaps
the Msthodists, altar stopping
work on the seventh day, could
md some way Of supplying work
70 100000 or 20 on the SIX
ether days.
The real problem Of the coun-
Try b weekday work, not Sun.
day work.
Steel prices are slashsd, and
less stssl 10 sold than ever. You
eannot,ssll TO bankrupt custom
era, and our customers abroad
are bankrupt, and our customers
at home are frightened and have
no direction. That is q situation
that does not look like good
business.
There's nothing either good
or bad, but thinking makes 1t
60" That sentiment has been
denounced, disproved, rebuked,
and yet this happens:
A lady planned her public
bath carefully. She put on her
bathing suit, then put all her
clothes on over the suit. Then
she went down to the water,
took Of her outer things, one at
a time, until she stood, like
everybody else, in . regular,
! modest bathing suit.
She was arrested and locked
up. The authorities said:
"Ths people that saw you un-
dress did not know what you
had on below, 80 your action
was immodest."
II was clearly the THINKING
Of the onlookers that caused the
lady to offend the law.
A few miles south of Anchor
age. in Alaska. gold quartz is
found, assayina 500 to the ton.
Rock yielding 81 . ton, and even
less, means fortune. Don't
rush TO, Alaska, but reflect on
human baings..--4s& gold dis
covery will send to Alaska. tens
Of thousands Of white men that
Alaska needs. The majority Will
find no gold, but will find oppor-
tunity, and Alaska will find In
them energetic men to develop
her agricultural wealth, more i'm
portant than metals.
Gold and the hunt for It have
taken men all over the earth, to
mountain tops, deep valleys-and
they have stayed and developed
civilization, long altar the gold
was gone. High up in the noun
tains Of the Austrian Tyrol you
will see abandoned gold mines
that attracted the Romans. a. tho
tin mines drew Phoenicians to
England, without compass, across
the dangerous waters. in frail
boats.
The Cunard Company has built
q magnificent office building on
lower Broadway, New York.
Christopher Morley, careful young
reporter. discovers on we'll
decorated ceiling a latin inscrip-
ton, and. learned Rhodes scholar.
translates it as follows:
"He believes, indeedA that he
who holds the sea is necessarily
the master of things"
That translation should be
posted up in the office Of Mr..
Lasker, head Of the Shipping
Board, and in the office Of his
boss, the President. 81
II Is q saying as old as It II
true. The Carthaginisns knew It.
when they told the Romans where
they might and might not send
their ships. England and Japan
know It, act on 1t, make treaties
on It.
This country should rewritc It
He who holds the sea and
THE AIR"-and then 90 ahcad.
specially In control Of the air.
Tracy ellis, at the age Of thirty
three, sees q woman for the first
time in his life. Son of an actress
and q Moody and Sankey evan
relist, Mr.. Gillis had lived all his
fife on a distant ranch. When he
brought in his load Of cattle he
also saw, for the first time, steam
cars, street cars, newspapers and
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