The Washington times., 1921-08-07

What Is Most Wonderful?
Great Revivalist, Famine.
Laws That Don't Work.
Beautiful, but Locked Out.
n ARTUIIR RRySRANH
ARTHUR BRISBANE

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Beautiful, but Locked Out.
-By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright 1874.
Stanton, Of the San Francisco
Examiner, asks: what have you
seen most interesting in Cali
fornia?"
Answer; Thc wireless station on
the edge Of the Pacific, with all up
per part made invisible by evening
fog from the ocean. Men pass the
great iron tower like little hurry
Ing ants in their automobiles.
Their eyes, turned upward, see
only the towers base. They have
no idea where the top of that tow
er Is on the other side of the Pa
cific. Thousands of miles away
q man with an instrument in his
hand Is giving orders to the mys-
terious agent that carries mes
sages without wires.
The magic messenger, of which
We only know that it works, flies
through space, and in less than the
twentieth part of q second it has
crossed the Pacific ocean. found
the receiving wires that the fog
hides from US, and delivered to
the waiting man below the mes
sage received q fraction of a sec
ond earlier or the other side Of the
ocean.
That Is the most wonderful thing
in California or anywhere. The
scientific slave of man crosses
oceans and continents through fog,
storm and night, and instantly
finds, on q globe $4,000 miles
around, the receiving point, small
er than your finger, where its mes
sage il to be delivered.
When men understand the pow
ers they now control and master
other forces still hidden from
them they will control the earth,
including even its position on its
axis, its climate, excess heat and
cold, wetness and dryness. And
when men accomplish all that
they will begir to be worthy Of the
State of California, most mag
nificent, beautiful and noble State
in this Union or anywhere on
earth, and by how wide a margin
that 1t is foolish even to discuss it.
II anybody said. tell me the
difference between an American
Beauty rose and a small piece
Of pig weed, you would answer.
"don't bother me-" That's the
answer when anybody asks the
difference between California and
some other part Of the world.
When illness. starvation, death
come along, human beings grow
suddenly religious, search their
conscience and accuse themselves.
Lenin, Trotzky and Company
took charge of Russia and said
to the peasants. "you can have
the land" That was enough.
The mobiles were killed or driven
out. The land went to the peas
ants, and, delighted. they ap-
proved this blessed Trotzky and
Lenin and Company. The Soviet
Government posted up near
churches placards reading, "Re-
ligion is the opium of the masses"
Peasants only smiled and said:
"Let them have their little joke"
al j sent their sons to the Red
army.
But now comes hideous famine,
cutting down the peasants as
we'll as those that live in cities.
Plague walks with famine, and
the peasants say. "this is divine
vengeance for the sins and athe-
ism Of our new rulers; We must
kill them"
The Car made mistakes. but
never made the mistake most
dangerous to those that want to
govern. He did not insult or be-
little religious belief.
"I must also have a spiritual
policy ON my side" said Napoleon
when he re-established the Church.
He was wise.
Supply and demand. pushed In
the desired direction bv intelli-
gence, which means selfishncss.
possess often power greater than
the law
Norman Hapgood, writing in
Washington, discusses the mini
mum wage for women, and at
tacks made upon it in court.
At the same time three thou
sand miles away in San Fran
cisco, the Weed Lumber Com
pany discharges all its women
and girl workers in one day,
yestel day. Thirty-three and a half
cents an hour, $2.67 for an
eight-hour day, is the minimum
wage for women in California.
The company says it can get
its work done more cheaply.
1t hires Italian men at $2.25 a
day, and, according to the news
paper reports, is bringing in
negroes to work for even less
than the Italians. Women and
girls, discharged all at once,
know that they need something
more than the minimum wage
law or different kind of law.
To have so many problems in
this life! What can be done
about divorce? All rules are