The Washington times., 1921-11-03
Today
Mr.. Harding's Birthday.
A 500. 900 Coat.
For Each Man, One Rat.
Old? Beware Cancer.
ARTHUR BRIsBANK
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4 Old? Beware Cancer. |
by ARTHUR BRIsBANE-l
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President Harding was fifty-six
years old yesterday. Congratulate
him and congratulate yourself on
having a President that takes the
American view of things.
What has he done?
Well, instead Of going TO Europe
TO inhale incense, he has Europe
coming here to talk common sense
about cutting armaments. saving
the world from bankruptcy.
Next to the birthday announce
ment you read that the public debt
has been reduced four hundred and
sixty-five millions in the past
month. And the national pay rolls
have been trimmed, SO that today.
OF our total population, only one
IN thirty-five is carried on a
United States Government pay roll,
pension roll or other roll.
A little while ago it was one in
fourteen of all the inhabitants.
Instead of having eight millions
of US helping to milk Uncle Sam,
there are only three millions on
the job now-that's an improve
ment.
A lady in New York, or her fond,
foolish husband, has bought a
sable coat for 100000. The inter
esting thing about the coat, more
interesting than the price, is its
extreme lightness, in spite of the
fact that 1t reaches almost to the
ground. 1t weighs only six pounds.
Do not worry. about wicked
extravaganza of the rich." It
doesn't matter to anybody on earth
whether sixty thousand dollars re-
main in the pocket of a fond hus-
band or move to the bank account
OF Stein & Blaine, dressmakers.
who know good prospect" when
they see it.
Nothing does harm except
WASTE. To pay a million dol
lars for a necklace means moth
ing; money is merely shifted.
To keep a million men parading
in the army, wasting their time,
or dozen footmen with pow
dered wigs and fat legs in your
front hall--that is waste. The
only real wealth is human labor.
If you don't waste that, nothing
matters; be as big a fool as you
like with your money.
Once in Americas greatest
city, New York, school teachers,
policemen, and saloon keepers
were about equal. Now the sa-
loon keepers, officially, have been
withdrawn. And the number Of
bootleggers is surely double that
Of the school teachers and po-
licemen combined.
Here's another interesting fact,
announced by the Health Board:
For every inhabitant of New
York there is one rat. The rat
population of the globe is greater
than the human population by
far.
If they make up their minds
in Washington to stop killing
each other they might, for an
infinitesimal fraction of what war
has cost, eliminate rats that
carry the plague, mosquitoes that
carry typhoid and malaria, tse-
tse flies that take deadly germs
of sleeping sickness from the
laws of the crocodile and plant
IL in human beings. That would
be a war worth while.
All Americans are interested
IN cancer. The older you are
the greater danger. Between 10
and 10 years of age one IN
100000 dies of cancer. Between
65 and rs, one in 200 and one
woman in $50 dies of cancer.
At SIS your chance OF being
killed by cancer is a thousand
times as great as at 19. After
AZ cancer kills more women than
any other disease, and more men
than anything except various
kinds of heart trouble. Keep
away from quacks. Remember
that no medicine or salve can
possibly help cancer.
But cheerfulness helps, deep
breathing, good strong blood;
often in the body of a very old
person, dead from other causes,
Won find a cancer that had made
its fight was conquered and killed
within the body,
why cancer kills so many more
women than men scientists don't
know. 1t may be because after
forty women sit too much, exercise
too little, and give the undisturbed
cancer a chance.
What is happening to msney?
The Government wanted to borrow
a few hundred millions at 4 y per
cent. the men with money offered
three times as much as it wanted.
cnoo,lotore in Wall Street YES