The Washington times., 1921-10-08
Today
Ford's Good Idea.
- to S. .
Power In the Air.
The Snake Also Believed.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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manding decent salaries for judges.
He says truly that the judges
Of the Supreme Court should have
at least $4,000 a year, and other
judges should be paid in proper
ton.
A nation as rich as this ought
70 be able to pay men that deal out
Justice as well as it pays baseball
players.
Henry Ford proves his intelli-
gence by announcig that he will
undertake an advertising campaign
to pay judges well. If you want
anything, let the people know
about it-that is, ADVERTISE.
Youth and old age in America
will be intensely interested in the
fact that the "Giants" beat the
Yankees" yesterday by a score
Of 13 to 5. It stimulates ambition
TO see men fighting against disas-
Ter and winning. To be beaten
3 to 0 two days in succession and
then make IS runs and beat your
enemy by 8 indicates that possibly
Americas battles, some of them,
are won on the baseball field Of
professionalism. How and why the
thing happened this writer doesn't
understand. but the sporting de-
partment will tell you.
Steinmetz, wizard Of the Cen
eral Electric Company, reports
progress. Men now send across
country q current Of 220, 900 volts,
about a thousand times as heavy
as Edison sent in his original ex-
periments forty years ago.
To see real electricity, look
up in the air during a thunder
storm.
A single electric flash may
carry with it q hundred million
volts, and the average, says
Steinmetz, Is fifty million volts.
We can scarcely conceive what a
million volts are. Five hundred
volts will kill a man.
Big power is floating around
in the air. Some day a future
Edison may tell flying men how
to take their power from the
clouds AZ they go through the
air, as q sailor drops his bucket
over the side and picks up sea
water to wash the deck.
It's q great thing to have
confidence in yourself; great,
also, to know where confidence !
should stop. When Diamond
Jim" Brady decided to sell rail.
road supplies, instead Of being
. hotel porter, he put all the
money he had into a one-hun-
dred-dollar bill, tore the bill in
two, and sent one half in to q
great railroad man with this
message: "The other half Of this
would like to see you"
The man saw him. Brady got
q good order, and not long ago
left q great fortune to Johns
Hopkins University.
Not so wise was the Reverend
Albert Edmonds when he told
his congregation that no true
believer could be injured by the
bite of q snake. II would have
been all right had he stopped
there, but he invited the congre-
CATION to bring along their
snakes.
Somebody brought a copper
head, which evidently had heard
nothing about true believers. He
BIT the Reverend Mr.. Edmonds
and his brother William. The
copperhead must have been q
very true believer in his poison.
It worked.
The bosses in Congress have de-
cided to tax alcohol, whiskey, and
such 81 a gallon, an increase of
$3.50. This will bring in seventy
five million dollars q year more.
Figure for yourself how many
gallons of whiskey the American
people are expected to drink under
prohibition!
More progress mind control
ling matter. Three things in the
world that count, mind or spirit,
which uses force and with it con-
trolls matter. Doctor in Detroit,
with an electric rotary saw turn
ing at terrific speed, cut seven
inches Of bone from a mans shin,
grated the shin bone on the mans
spinal column, chiseled out to re-
ceive the splint. In forty minutes
the man is back in bed. The piece
OF spine cut out was infected with
tuberculosis germs. Clean bone
from the shin takes its place; the
man can hope within six months
20 recover completely from what
was sure death and real suffer-
Ing. That is real progress, q good
deal better than telling the suffer-
or that there Is no reality in dis
ease.