The Washington times., 1921-07-20

Again. Airships Az Defense.
Gold Water vegetarians.
4 Ford Rockefeller Team.
Unconscious Gas.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Couvrfeht. lS2l

unconscious Gas.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. lssi.
Important work was done, and
most important warning given to
the couEtry, when, under direction
Of Brigadier General Mitchell.
three bombs dropped by flying
army bombers from Langley Field
sank the German cruiser Frank
turt. 1.-TWO hit the cruisers deck,
the third. exploding alongside,
broke her back" That is the
story.
The President of the United
States should keep the ablest men
In the country developing the pow
er Of an inexpensive flying ma
chine, manned by two or three
men to destroy forty-million-
dollar battleship.
General Mitchell and others as
sociated with him in his work
should be encouraged and all pos
sible facilities given to them.
it is an, unfortunate fact that
there are in the navy some men
that do not want to see the fly
ing machine succeed against the
battleship, and do Lothing to make
it succeed. Therefore, it is the
Presidents duty to have the army
do the flying work, since the navy
cannot or will not do it. If half
. dozen forty-thousand dollar fly
ing machines, each with two or
three men, car destroy a forty
million-dollar battleship with its
crew Of thousands, the people
want to know it and act accord
ingly.
Sad news comes that two mil
lion babies die every year in India.
This is attributed to the physical
weakness Of mothers and other
causes. To the virtuous class this
will be amazing, for in India
everybody is a teetotaler, no al
cohol is used and they are all vege-
tarians besides. How does it hap
pen that in a land absolutely free
from alcohol. and where no meat
is eaten, there should be such a
high infantile death rate?
Also puzzling is the fact that
the lowest mortality among iE-
fants is found among Jews, who
have been using alcoholic stimu-
lants in moderation for four thou
sand years, expect to continue
four thousand years more, ard
are not vegetarians.
Private owners Of railroads,
IN Washington, tapping the
Treasury, ought to have a talk
with Henry Ford. He owns a
railroad, has reduced the rates
on it 20 per cent, while rails
ing the minimum wage to $6
day. There is q rumor that
Ford yants to buy the Wabash
railroad, or part Of it. Pity he
couldn't buy all the railroads of
the United States, and form, a
partnership with John D. Rookie
Teller, who, according to Henry
Terd, runs the ahlest, best man.
aged organization in the United
States. @
Rockefeller and Ford, be-
tween them, might be able to
extract our dodo railroads from
the extinction that threatens
them, and make them pay, by
making them cheap and ef-
Bad news for those that be-
lieve in "direct action"-of the
mob, against established au-
thority.
A new gas has been dis
covered to discourage any mob.
It does not kill, but renders un-
conscious, for half an hour or
longer, all that breathe it.
A few policemen, protected
by masks, scattering this gas,
could take care of any mob
without firing a shot. The gas
container spreads unconscious
ness around it for thirty-five
feet in all directions. In five
minutes any mob could be put
fiat on its back, knowing moth
ing, while the police collected
its weapons and handcuffed the
ringleaders.
Science, in its march, makes
physical force, including mobs,
less and less important.
Fortunately no one has yet
discovered an Unconscious" gas
that will work at the ballot box.
An Italian newspaper has
asked women this question:
"What woman in history
would you like to have been?"
The majority decide that they
would like to have been Eve,
mother of US all, because she
had Adam all to herself, didn't
have to worry about any other
woman in the garden, had no
competition.
Next to Eve the first choice
was Mary Magdalen, because
she had an interesting life, was
forgiven, and finally became a
Saint, enjoying eternal happi-
ness.
What woman in history would
the average American woman
like to have been? And what
man would the majority of
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