The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-20
Today
Much Tobacco.
A Wolf Asleep.
Japan's New Iron.
Wine, Woman, Tobacco.
ARTHUR BRISBANl

Last year the United States
used more than sixty-one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-nins
million cigarettes (16,S5s. .00O, ,C00),
smoked more than eight thousand
million cigars, and the tobacco
crop weighed one billion and
half pounds. You may say: "That
is many cigarettes and cigars
: and much tobacco" It is. But
do not say Criminal waste;"
you don't know.
A human being. like = dog
walking on It's hind legs. wants
q change. The mind gets tired
Of thinking, tobacco offers re-
lief. You can't think rs you puff
smoke upward. No man can say
to what extent the use Of . bill
lion and half pounds Of tobacco
has saved the men Of the nation
from real and worse foolishness.
The best you can expect OF man
Is a compromise.
Virtuous Massachusetts, often
lifts both hands to mourn wick
edness in the South, where
negroes are sometimes lynched.
To vary the monotony, Massa-
chusetts now does its best-and
fails-to get and lynch three
negroes. Read "The Mob" by the
late Professor Shaler of Har-
ward. He says the right psyche.
logical influence will change
mild group Of clergymen into q
lynching mob, and he is probably
right.
Each man has within himself
q wolf asleep" to change Zola's
words slightly. He said "Hog
asleep" That's true also.
II you own steel stock, and lean
on the great fortune locked up IN
exclusive ore beds, read dis
patch from Tokyo Of last night:
A new process whereby mag
netie sands can be melted into
pig iron and then into steel has
just been developed and will
revolutionixs the steel industry
Of Japan and the whole world.
That discovery will make
Japan, now one of the greatest
steel importers, entirely inde-
pendent Of the outside world for
iron, and iron is the fighting
metal.
Suzanne Lenglen, young
French girl, greatest nervous
machine in the world, answers
two reporters questions at once:
mo; / don't smoke. Yes; l do
drink wine"
What's puzzling and stranger
yet, the young woman's ances-
tors have all drunk wine for.
more than two thousand years,
How do they retain vitality and
nervous energy under the curse
of alcohol, as we so call it?
More puxzling had you put the
two questions to Mrs. Molla
Bjurstedt Mallory, the Scandi-
navian lady that recently beat
Suzanne Lenglen. She would
have answered: eyes; / do
smoke. Yes; l do drink wine"
In the neighborhood of "In-
dia's coral strands" there are
one hundred and fifty million
women that never saw a glass of
wine, and not one could jump
once in a day as high as Suzanne
Lenglen jumps one hundred and
fifty times a day.
It's all puzzling to sincere pro-
hibitionists.
You read here that the dis
armament conference at Wash
ington would develop an effort
to establish a treaty for world
boss-ship, including the British
Empire, the United States, and
Japan.
The forecast is confirmed by
Lloyd George, who suggests the
British alliance with Japan be
merged into greater understand
ing with the United States.
This means a Japan United
States English Alliance" Inter-
esting, worth studying. Two great
island powers combined with one
continental power. Islands don't
mean as much as they did since
the flying machine came in. There
is no question as to Lloyd Georges
sincere desire to remain perma-
nently on good terms with the
United States. England is spread
out scattered; we are concen-
trated.
Bernard Shaw, best self-adver-
,tiser since Barnum's white ele-
phant. says he won't come to
America because he hears that
"The Ku Klux snatches white
women off hotel verandas, tn-s