The Washington times., 1921-10-19

One Mad King. Dead.
Your Mysterious Glands.
When the Door Closes.
The StrIke-Yes or Nor
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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lIy ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The mad Ludwig, once King
, OF bavaris, 10 reported dead.
ne lived to see many other kings
as mad as he, that thought
. themselves sane, topping off
: their thrones.
. Maddest of all are some of
the European nations that would
set up kings once more, to drill
tnem, march them, and play with
them In war.
In an electric lighting system
You see metal boxes, fuses, va
rious complicated connections.
~ there 10 trouble there, there
ID no light.
In the human body you find
various glands "ductless. For
msrly nobody knew their use.
These mysterious glands are as
important to the body as an
electric supply, water supply, or
heat supply to q building.
II the thyroid gland Is defec-
tive the child becomes idiotic.
By feeding thyroid glands Of
animals, mental efficiency is re-
stored.
The adrenal glands control cir
culation of the blood of life and
heat throughout the system.
Powder put on an open wound
will stop flowing of blood in
stantly. In public schools in
Chicago, to correct mental de-
fects in children, glands Of sheep
will be used. Some will be hor-
rified to think that man is so
much of a machine as to be
benefited mentally, therefore
spiritually, by part of the car
cass of a sheep.
The horror is not justified. The
body is the machine through which
the spirit works. If the body gets
out of order, the spirit cannot ex-
press itself.
! Paderewski could not play his
piano if you cut half the chords
and put the rest out of tune.
The body is the piano, the spirit
is Paderewski.
The piano tuner fixes the piano
that Paderewski may play.
The physical doctor fixes the
body that the spirit may express
itself through it. More power to
the gland experiments in Chicago
and everywhere else.
Rademacher, policeman that
threw his wife into the water,
began yesterday his term of life
imprisonment. We know approx
mately what happens to him after
the prison door in Marquette closes
behind him--the narrow cell, the
monotony, the life a good deal
worse than death.
More interesting would be to
know what happened to his wife
after the water and the door OF
death closed upon her. What hap
,vpens when the door closes on this
lie and another door opens? How
far apart are the prisoner, think
ing 1t over on the edge of his
narrow bed, in the night, and the
spirit of the wife, driven out by
him?
What is postponed does not
happen sometimes. President Har-
ding's tact may at least postpone
the railroad strike. On both sides
there is evidence of uncertainty
and dislike for extreme measures.
Among the workers there is lack
of harmony. The men of the big
Pennsylvania railroad will go out
last. There is some doubt II they
will go out at all, as many would
forfeit pension. rights.
The men that are ordered out
first to set the example and break
the ground do not like it.
In addition, leaders of the men
realize that the strike will have to
be won in the face Of Government
determination to prevent violence,
to man trains with troops, if neces-
sary, offering jobs to the five mill
lions of men looking for them, in
Guiding many ex-soldiers, used to
firearms.
When the war ended Government
discovered that it has real power
that can be used. This country
might even do by Congressional
action what the radical French re-
public did when it ordered striking
railroad men into the army. They
ordered the men as soldiers to run
trains, the penalty being death for
refusal to obey military orders.
II is preposterous, however, that
Il should be necessary to talk Of
such measures in connection with
a great public necessity. Railroads
belong to the people, cover ground
given by the people, have been
built by the business, money and
services of the people. They are
absolutely necessary, being to the
nation what veins and arteries are
to the body.
The people alone control the
veins and arteries of industry
They are willing to pay what il
costs to transport goods anc
freight, including good wages tc
workmen and fair profit on capital
And there ought to be intelli.