The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-04
Today
Doheny on Oil.
Celebrate Dante, Napoleon.
Cannlbals and Trap Gun.
Yes, It's Dreadful, But
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Don't gamble in oil stocks, big
or little; don't GAMBLE in any
thing. But don't be too fooled by
stories that come from Mexico
about "oil petering out" or "oil
wells producing salt water instead
OF OIL" etc. Somebody interested
tn oil lands in other places, or in
terested in buying things cheap
in Mexico, has carried on sys-
tematic campaign of deception in
regard to Mexican conditions,
-. L. Doheny is the authority for
this statement, and he knows
something about Mexican oil.
Napoleon died. Gagged on the
island Of St. Helena, one hundred
years ago tomorrow. On the 14th
Of next September comes the
6OOth anniversary Of Dante's
death. :.
Celebrate" the death of Napo-
leon, praying that the world NAV
not see another Bonaparte, that
men of his type may go perma-
nently to join the dinosaur.
Notice the difference between a
really great man and the imita-
ton. Bonaparte has been dead
one hundred years. and old men in
England even now shiver. when
they hear his name. It was great
news for Europe when the short.
fat, prematurely old world con-
Queror was actually DEAD.
Another that dreamed of world
conquest now lives in Holland.
Nobody bothers about him, or
cares how long the former kaiser
: lives--England having decided
that she doesn't want to hang the
cousin of her own king.
Celebrate" Dante's death and
service to the world by reading
some time before next September
the last part of the "Divine Com
edy"--the description of Paradise.
Everybody reads a little of the
"hell" with the boiling pitch and
with which various illustrated
editions Of Dante are disfgured.
The real power of Dante is shown
in the Paradise" Not one in a
Thousand reads it. or the second
and better part of Goetke's
"Faust."
Not deep in our hearts," only
half way down, we are still all in
terested in killing, for we are near
the killing days. When you reao
that Eskimos, suffering lack Of
food and lack of game, are eating
each other, that interests you. YOU
don't have to go down far in the
dark "bark" that covers the brain,
just under the skull, to reach the
days when all of US were cannibals.
You are interested. want details
and ask to see a-diagram, when you
read that the watchmen of Zukor,
big moving-picture man, arranged
at the door Of the Zukor cellar an
automatic gun that shot burglar
to death when he ''jimmied" the
door.
People that become cannibals
suddenly; man-traps that work
efficiently and kill-these interest
us considerably more than Mr.. Elm
STEMS "relativity."
A distinguished official is horri-
fed because he hears $50 great and
terrible Is the power of the walk
ing delegate" that such a man "can
60 into shop, blow his whistle
and cause the work to cease" 1t IS
terrible, but after all, if any en-
ployer puts his head in the shop
and says, you are all fred" then
all work ceases. If the head of the
shop can PUT everybody out, why
can't the head Of the Union CALL
everybody out?
No matter what else you forget.
IN considering foreign matters, re-
member that the English are
EFFICIENT.
Hence they own much Of the
earth, manage to keep 1t, reach out
and get more. For instance:
George Harvey sailed yesterday
for England as ambassador. The
night before somebody gave him
a magnificent farewell, fine dinner,
fine flowers, fine speeches, fine
everything. Who, do you suppose,
gave that dinner?
1t was not an American or an
American corporation. or bank, or
labor union. 1t was the good old
Cunard Steamship Company. that
carries the British flag back and
forth across the ocean without
losing a passenger.
Nothing will influence Colonel
Harvey. It must be said of him,
as was said of the late Gladstone,
that his heart is lever with the
weak and miserable MOOR"
He may wear court dress and
cooked hat in England. even knee
breeches and silk stockings, but he
will always have in mind somebody
in America in overalls covered
with grease. or tagging behind a
plow.
But that dinner proves British
efficiency. They entertain
EVERYBODY. and don't miss the
right man. On Harvey that big
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