The Washington times., 1921-09-07

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Cotton Up-Princes Down.
Cat, Nicely Buried.
Insanity Is a Cancer.
Buying Any Foreign Bonds?
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. Is2ID

"ss pounu yeSteruay' Doou
news for the South, and the
whole country, interested, if
only selfishly, in Southern pros
perity. If cotton goes to thirty
cents it will be still better news.
The increased price amounts to
nothing, SO far as the user of
cotton clothes is concerned
unless middlemen multiply the
thirty cents by ten in the manu-
factured price. as they did in
the war.
Once a huge figure, all in
dark armor, rode toward Jerusa-
lem with his sword. Occasion
ally he would cut a heather
open, down through the skull
and below the waist, so that he
fell in two pieces. Everybody
said: THAT must be q prince"
and it was-Richard the Lion
Hearted.
The other day at Crotoy, in
France, a young man in bath
ing costume attended the opera.
Later he rode into a ballroom
on a bicycle, attended by black
servants gorgeously dressed.
Everybody said: "It must be
Prince" and it was, at least it
said it was-Omar Ibrahim, he
reditary prince of Egypt. As
business princes have come up,
the other kind have gone down.
There was a time when Japanese
and Chinese did not dare look upon
che face of their sublime rulers,
descended from gods, related to
the sun and moon. When emperor
or mikado moved from one palace
to another, all fell on their faces
or hid. And, entering the dreadful
presence, the greatest crawled on
their faces.
Now Hirohito, crown prince, one
day to be Emperor of Japan, comes
home from his travels. Crowds see
and cheer him, a good Japanese
imitation of Englishmen greeting
the Prince of Wales. The Japanese
prince brought some information
back from his travels, and mikados
will not last in Japan forever.
Mr.. Haskell, of Elizabeth, N. j.,
buried his cat, Tiger" in a ma
hogany coffin, lined with plush, in
q hole in the ground with a little
mound over it. Three kinds of
roses, several other flowers, hon.
ored the cat that would have been
buried next to the body of Mrs.
Haskell in q $4,000 mausoleum
had not the graveyard owners OBJ
Jected. II was just the right
funeral for a cat-nahogany,
plush, hole in the ground, etc.
rs For man, cremation, that dis
solves the body, sends IT. floating
into the air, is better,
DR.. NJ. A. Curry, medical director
of Great State Hospital, says lack
of employment increases insanity.
1t does. Insanity is like cancer,
as shown by Joseph Huxley in q
recent article. An unnatural
growth in one particular part Of
the body draws and monopolizes
strength from the other. Anato-
mists find mass Of fat in an abso-
lutely emaciated body.
When one idea, like q cancer,
takes possession of the mind,
grows and absorbs the brains
strength, that is called insanity.
There are endless possibilities
of insanity, with five million idle
men, many of them worrying
about hungry children.
England was interested yester-
day in the Default on q coupon
of Chinese government 8 per
cent bonds" United States
bond buyers may be interested
later in failure to pay coupons
on some of the foreign 8 per
cent lottery bonds, recently pur-
chased so gayiy. When a nation
borrows at 8 per cent, look out.
Invest your money in something
nearer than the other side of the
ocean.
New York's Commissioner of
Accounts offers proof Of the
fact that the street car trust
deliberately organized a strike
Of its employees.
The men were to walk out.
The road was to say, 1--WE can't
pay more, unless we get a higher
fare" The public was to walk
until tired. Then the higher fare
was to be put over, strikers were
to get two or three extra mill
ions a year, the trust was to. get
sixty millions extra per year, ali
to come out of the public edu-
Gated by walking.
The wonder is that the thing
hasn't worked oftener on n sys.
tematic basis. A few corpora-
tions shifting well-paid, content
ed workers from one State to
another could control doubtful
States, and many elections.
You will follow closely the sixty
second meeting of the American
Chemical Society. Three thousand
chemists are expected, men more
important to the worlds welfare
than any other three thousand
OF, earth, probably. Chemistry