The Washington times., 1921-11-27
Today
Conference Education.
Mars Passes Jupiter.
Big Fish News.
Also Electrical News.
7 ARTHUR BRISBANE


by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright, ls21.)
After the second session Of
the Washington conference you
were told here that bitterness be-
tween France and Italy, and be-
tween France and England, would
would soon be features of
world harmony" You have
read Curzon's warning to France,
and yesterday you read Of the
attacks on French consulates in
Italy.
Everything happening proves
how foolish it would be to tie
ourselves up with any nation or
group. Their fights would be-
come ours, their debts our debts.
President Harding has seen
and heard enough to confirm his
good opinion Of the national
Judgment, which gave him his
gigantic vote in PROTEST
AGAINST ANY LEAGUE. The
Presidents word to the national
delegates, as they depart, will
be, "Come any time. Pleased to
meet you. No harm in talk"
The President knows what the
public does not know, just how
France and Italy talked to each
other in secret session, what Bal
four, smooth and benevolent in
public, really thinks about
France, her great army, her atti-
tude in Germany.
China may be the only one to
gain Americas sympathy and
good wishes for her. She is ex-
plotted by Japan. by European
nations. and by her own innu-
merable military and economic
tyrants.
Her immediate hope is that she
will be allowed to rule within
her borders. Europeans and
Japanese now choose their own
judges and run their own post
offices on Chinese soil.
One Chinese difficulty is too
many ages of submission. and
especially difference in language.
Millions in North China cannot
understand other Chinese millions
to the south. Educated Chinese
in an American Chinese restau-
rant must talk English with the
Chinese waiter-both are Chinese
but do not understand each
others language. That was one
trouble with our North American
Indians. Fifty languages made
fifty hatreds.
Early this morning--this shows
progress-our little old neighbor,
the planet Mars, overlook and
passed the giant Jupiter. Rather
appropriate just now for Mars to
come to the front, but that is not
the point. A few years ago the
conjunction Of planets, with blaze
Of splendor in the sky, would have
had tremendous meaning for all
the earth calling itself civilized.
Babies born beneath the conjunc-
ton might expect wonderful things.
Kings would have their astrologers
studying possible effects on them
selves.
Consider that Tycho Brahe, who
discovered a new star in Cas-
'Siopeia and developed marvelously
instruments for celestial observa-
tions, had at one time to write
about foolish astrology to get
money, while keeping real astron-
omy in the background.
Even the great Kepler. teacher
Of future ages, put in his book,
"The Harmonies of the World" his
celebrated law, "the squares Of the
periodic times Of the planets are
to one another as the cubes Of
their distances" and astrological
nonsense about the harmony Of
rays shed upon the earth by
heavenly bodies.
Now, except to credulous dupes
Of mountebanks, Mars passing
Jupiter is as unimportant as one
street car passing another-except
for the fine celestial display. That
means progress. We cling to war,
but have got rid of witchcraft,
astrology, etc. War also will go.
Tucked away among odds and