The Washington times., 1921-09-17
Today !

An Important Birthday.
Breeding Better People. Il
A Serious Chill. II
We're All Masked. y
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1891,
On this day, September II, one
hundred and thirty-four years ago,
the Constitution Of the United
States was ratified. #..
We the people Of the United
States (did) ordain and esablish
this Constitution" We have added
various modern improvements,
freeing black men, then freeing
white women, taxing incomes, es-
tablishing prohibition.
It has been and is q good Con-
stitution. Respect it.
Important to all that think is
The Eugenics Congress beginning in
New York next Thursday. It will
be a convention Of scientific, edu-
Gated men. Bell, inventor Of the
telephone, will be honorary head
, Of It; President Osborn, of the
American Museum, viii be presi-
dent. .
Eugenics is the science Of pro-
ducing better human beings. We
need It after q war that slaugh-
tered millions of the best young
men, leaving at home the old, the
flatfooted, and the cold-hearted to
breed the next generation.
You cannot create human breeds,
as you create st. Bernards and toy
dogs. You cannot perpetuate q
brain, as you perpetuate mutton
or wool, in sheep.
Yet eugenics is important and
can be made an exact science.
Fortunately for the world, it will
not produce the super-rnan, only .
better average race.
Lloyd George has a chill. Lord
Dawson, King Georges doctor, was
sent to him yesterday. A dentist
also was sent. In these days one
OF the first things in illness is to
investigate the roots Of the teeth.
Often they send fatal poisons
through the body. The prime min
ister's chill is more important to
England than would be the death
Of the King or half dozen mod
ern kings.
Ell Paso, Texas, forbids public
gatherings by masked persons.
This il aimed at the Ku Klux,
whose members terrify feeble
imaginations with white masks,
flaming crosses, etc.
II all masks could be forbidden,
how many things we should know.
The majority of human beings
live behind masks, faces that do
not reveal thought.
Asiatic people especially learn
TO make the face q mask. In In
dia when natives testify with bare
feet the lawyers watch their toes.
The big toe is supposed to wiggie
whan a man is lying. The face
shows nothing. Complete self
control Is hard. s. ~.
American food goes to save Tar
tar children from starvation.
Tartar" that means little to
us now, once meant the great
est power on earth, feared by
every living being in Europe. Anci-
ent, Tartars on the march drove
their animals with them, cut and
ate the flesh from living cows,
and drove them on again until
they could 20 no further. See Re-
clus' "Man and the Earth. This
U. s. Tartar feeding will be diff
ferent.
How would you like to work In
Cuba, where everything depends
on the price Of sugar. A year ago
it was worth 20 cents q pound.
Now they can't sell it for a cent
and a half. Taxi drivers in Havana
have cut down their charges, using
alcohol made from sugar instead OF
gasoline, which is dearer. Alcohol
from waste sugar can be made for
thirty-five cents a gallon. Gaso-
line there costs fifty cents.
The wizard Of the Ku Klux has
his imperial chaplain, religious
adviser, quite in keeping with his
torical tradition. Every ruler,
having acquired physical power on
earth, gets uneasy about Power
above him and calls in some gen.
tleman to attend to that.
:, African chief, with his private
witch-doctor and rainmaker, or
Napoleon Bonaparte, re-establish-
inc the Church in France on the
GROUND that he had need Of a
aspiritual militia"-it is the same
thing.
II is suggested that interest
rates on Government borrowing
NAV drop. It ought to. The Gov
ernment, borrowing money to