The Washington times., 1921-05-21

QuadrupIets No Blessing.
New Prairie Schooners.
Those High Wages.
Home Brew Is Poison.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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President Harding, kind to
everybody, congratulates the faith
er and mother of quadruplets, one
named Warren Harding. The
world in general is to be congrat-
ulated on the fact that quadruplets
are rare. If human beings had
young ones as the mice do, and il
they lived, the earth would have
been hopelessly overpopuiated
long ago, and men now would be
hunting and eating each other for
lack of other food. The higher the
type the fewer the births, The
oyster has millions of young ones
in a year-the elephant one in two
years.
Many families from New York
will soon start for Idaho, travel
ing in 128 automobiles, with trail
ers behind, and sleeping in the
trailers. That is an improvement
on the old prairie schooners-and
interesting to railroad managers.
One hundred and twenty-eight au-
tomobiles will carry many "pio-
neers" at considerable saving on
railroad rates. Each family will
have farm and each family will
take along three thousand dollars,
not bad immigration for Idaho.
Fathers and mothers in the ex-
pedition say they want their chill
dren to grow up on the earth, not
on paved city streets.
You have heard of high wages
for mechanics building the houses
nuch needed. You have heard that
wages must be reduced to a rea-
sonable level" Did you ever hear
what has really made the building
Of houses so expensive? Investi-
!. cation in New York reveals the
facts. Gentlemen builders, by Il
gentlemen's agreement, when they
paid a workman a dollar an hour,
charged the owner of the building
three dollars an hour, sometimes
more. This made the building ex-
pensive, made the building gentle
men very prosperous, and made it
easy to point to mechanics as the
cause of all the trouble. Add the
gentlemen's agreement to rob the
public on building material prices
and you learn that mechanics had
little to do with it.
This is the housing situation,
according to Mr.. Hoover: We are
short 100000 homes. Building
now done is not enough to make up
for loss by. fire and deterioration.
Mr.. Hoover says he has experts
working and has plan that will
solve the problem. More power to
him. He also says that building
Operations in the United States
waste every year enough building
materials to build the pyramids on
the Nile several times over. Every
operation in the United States
wastes material, from housekeep-
ing to railroading. Our efficiency
in waste is extraordinary. That is
why other countries are getting
the worlds trade.
DR.. Wiley knows all about food
and says "home BREW is poor
and dangerous. Any beer not
made scientifically is poisonous.
That is bad news for a nation
of home brewers. They will feel
like the man in the gambling
house. Told that the proprietor
was a cheat, "Why did you tell
me?" he asked. "It's the only
gambling house in town."
Home brew is the only brew in
town.
From today, if you get mar
ried in Wyoming, you must have
a doctors certificate testifying to
Ayour physical soundness. 1t is
probably a good law. But you
wonder that the world has got
along so we'll and so long with
out it. The difficult question is,
"What will the men do to whom
licenses are refused ?"
Four moderate" Socialist depu-
ties want the French government
to issue 100000, 100000 in French
paper francs, the money" to be
used for reconstruction, etc. The
trouble is that the paper francs
wouldn't be money" 1t is diff
ficult for the average person to
understand it, but that seems to
be the case. After such an issue
of imitation money, the franc
now worth over 8 cents would
drop to 5, a, or 2 cents, and
everybody in France would be
worse off. Strange but true that
Rothschild's note is good, within
his means, and that Of a nation
is not.
Government figures show that
I. Germany is exporting goods at ths
rate of sixty five billion marks per
year. Business has started there,
apparently. Twenty-six per cent
on that amount, collected by the
allies, will give them a thousand