The Washington times., 1921-02-18
Today
Mr.. 0ial's Girl Workers.
Concerning Holy Rivers.
Metals and Men Mixed.
4 Special Tornado.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrixht. is2i)

"f'cSh Suugo Ldnuis. HAoio
easily said than done. Judge Lam
dis has a better idea. He suggests
Investigating the mills Of Senator
Dial to find out what wages the
Hon. Senator pays little girls that
work for his profit. Senator Dial
win probably find more inclination
to impeach Senator for making
money out of child labor than to
impeach Judge for openly &C
cepting baseball job.
The Capper bills provide for
physical training, periodical physi-
cal examination, teaching children
to stand and sit correctly. and
otherwise improving the race. A
Christian Scientist invites all Of
his fellows to attack the Capper
bills. thus defending "the right Of
individuals to select the class OF
treatment desired for cure Of and
protection from disease"
That is what they say on the
Banks of the Ganges when they
set afloat on the river bodies Of
cholera and other plague victims,
then bathe in the "Holy River"
and swallow it's water. Ladies and
gentlemen on the Ganges and SIM
liar intellectuals in China and
other plague centers strongly OBJ
ject to any interference with their
individual rights. Nevertheless,
real science will eventually clean
up Asiatic plague centers and will
also fight disease here in the only
real way, which is the scientific
way.
The Jordan, another holy river,
which has occasionally spread dis
ease when people carried OF its
waters bottled up, Is now to be
made scientifically useful. A dam
will store up the water and yield
power enough to supply light and
surplus power to Palestine. That
Is the best use to make OF a holy
river. Put it to work.
News important to the future OF
the flying machine announces the
discovery, at Montreal, of a new
metal alloy, containing magnesium.
one-third lighter than aluminium
and as strong as steel
Scientists have done wonders
mixing the metals-magnesium,
vanadium, tungsten. and others,
with iron as base, increasing
strength, lightness, and other good
qualities.
Some day men will do with the
different races of human beings
what they now do with metals.
They will have scientific mixtures,
we'll thought out, producing better
results than any we have ever
seen, and this may solve the race
and race prejudice problems.
Each race by itself-Celtic, Ger
manic, Latin, Jewish-has defects
that can be minimized or elimi-
mated by wise mixing. Each race
thinks that isn't SO, but each race
is mistaken.
A tornado struck a negro settle
ment near Oconee, Georgia. And
last Saturday thirty Of its victims,
twenty-nine colored and one white,
were buried The next day the
Reverend Dan Davis, colored, who,
with his wife, barely escaped de-
struction, preached on "Sin and
Tornadoes"
The reverend gentleman discov-
cred that before the tornado came
there was a dance at the negro
settlement, and not all the dancers
behaved as Christian ladies and
gentlemen should. Afterward,
there was q free-for-all fight and
some shooting
Then came the tornado. The
Reverend Mr. Davis knows and can
prove that the Ruler of the Uni
verse watched the dance, was much
annoyed, and acted swiftly with
his tornado. 1t is true that he kill
ed a few that did not attend the
dance, and missed some of those
that did attend, but the needed
lesson is said by the reverend gen.
tleman to have done much good
enough to justify the deaths of
those that didn't dance.
The interesting part Of this is
that only a few hundred years
ago almost everybody believed
what the Reverend Dan Davis be-
lieves now.
The Governor of Georgia asks
Mr.. Burleson to let the parcel
post deliver packages from stores
inside city limits. No one is more
interested than is Mr.. Burleson in
improving parcels delivery by
Government. Nobody has done
more than he to increase parcel
post efficiency.
II he can do it legally, Mr.. Bur-
leson should arrange for parcel
distribution in cities. 1t would
mean economy for merchants and
customers. Increased postoffice
revenue and profit. And there is
no argument against it.
Will Hays, the next Postmaster
General, should have this in mind
in case Mr.. Burleson fails to ac-
complish it in his few remaining
days. For twenty stores to send