The Washington times., 1921-07-25

Listen to Northcliffe.
It's a New Era.
Your BreakabIe Heart.
Ingenious Death Ideas.
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Copyright. 1921.

Copyright. 1921.
Lord Northcliffe, able citizen.
half English, half Irish. is here.
Read what he says. You will find
1t worth while.
He says England is disarming
rs fast as she can, because she
has been studying Germany. She
sees that with million young
Germans working at home, pro-
ducing goods and raising families
instead of wasting their time in
the army and navy, Germany Will
build up rapidly. England doesn't
intend to let anybody build more
rapidly than She does.
Northcliffe says Americans will
be surprised to know that England
has agreed to let Ireland tax Eng
land, through the customs. That
will enable Ireland to put a heavy
tax ) on all goods from England.
N0rthcliffe will admit that it was
about time for Ireland tnudo some
Of the taxing. Son of . ve4 supe-
rior Irish mother, Northclhfe is
acquainted with the taxing meth
DDS Of England in Ireland that
have caused the present explosion
after seven hundred years of re-
bellion.
Ten years ago if a man had
landed at the bottom of dead
volcano pit, with walls a thousand
feet high around him, you would
have said good-by to that man.
Conditions change rapidly now.
n. G. Fisher, flying for the United
States forest service, lands in
Crater Lake, in a remote part OF
Oregon. His machine, although
undamaged, will not fly. He needs
spark plugs, and he uses his wire
less apparatus. A flyer comes
along, drops spark plugs with q
parachute, and Fisher flies out Of
the crater pit. Flying machines
are hunting rum smugglers on the
ocean, like fish hawks hunting fish.
An English jockey few to France,
won his race and few back IN
time for dinner. 1t is a new era.
A doctor sixty-three years old
dropped dead playing tennis. Had
the doctor been asked to play
while carrying a delicate crystal.
vase, he would have said, "No, /
might break this valuable vase"
At sixty-three, and all the time
after fifty, the heart is very
breakable, delicate organism, and
rs each man has only one heart.
the wise at fifty give up jumping
about. like the wild goat, and
take to steady exercise free from
heart strain. Golf, dull as it Is,
is probably the best exercise for
the old, next to horseback riding.
Cornaro rode when past ninety,
mounting his horse without help.
That is the way to live.
Very soon Nevada will begin
killing human beings in q new
way. Until recently. they allowed
condemned criminals there to
choose their own method Of ex-
ecution. The man most recently
executed in Nevada, named Miro
yich. chose to be shot. So the
authorities strapped him in a
chair with his back to the wall,
men were hired to do the shoot
ing, and he was shot to death
quite successfully. Now Nevada,
up to the times and a little
ahead, has invented the lethal
chamber. The condemned will be
nut in a small cell especially
prepared. Deadly gas will be in
troduced and he will die. And
as he dies, witnesses outside the
lethal cell will look in through a
sheet of glass and watch him die.
Some artist ought to make a pic
ture of that highly civilized scene
when it first happens.
Different kinds of government
kill men in different ways. They
are electrocuted, shot, hanged,
beheaded, suffocated, stamped to
death by the feet of elephants,
impaled on sharp spikes, spinal
cord crushed by the Spanish gar
rote. They used to be burned
alive, boiled in oil, skinned alive,
and hot lead poured into their
intestines.
Now comes Nevada's "lethal
cell"
Wonderful government in
eenuity has been devoted to kill
ing criminals at the end of life
and very, little to protecting
human beings from poverty that
produces crime at the begin
ming of life.
Canadians are much excited
about the discovery of oil wells
in arctic Canada. Thousands
are rushing there. They will be
interested to learn that Yankee
thoroughness was a long way
ahead of them. Much farther
north than the present Canadian
development, you would find, if
you went there, wells driven by
John d. Rockefeller's organiza-
ton. Mr.. Bedford or any of the
Standard Oil managers could tell
Won ahout IL