The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-13

Cruise Sections Devil.
Harding's Right Way.
Ralph PuIitzer's Coal Mines.
How to Tame a Colt.
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THUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1874.

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Cruise Sexton, of Tennessee,
dug up a devil. That is what he
calls it. 1t is made of stone,
weighs five hundred pounds, and
is perhaps some idol worshiped
ages ago. The monster has huge
head with horrs and twenty-four
big teeth in the front of its mouth.
Our ideas of supernatural pow
or have improved. You could not
make men worship or fear thing
of that kind now, but you can
make them worship a dollar, or
the man with a million dollars.
After freeing yourself from the
idol exploited by some clever
pagan priest for his profit, the
tiext harder step is to free your
self from the highly scientific rule
Of the man with the dollar.
A cringinR pagan creeping up to
the idol, seeking to borrow its
good will, Is at least as independ-
emit as the farmer creeping up to
the banker, trying to borrow on
his crop.
President Harding undertakes
peace work in the right way. He
does not wander off to Europe,
promising the United States
Treasury as his personal gift to
every Liberian, Mesopotamian, and
Balkan that kneels before him. He
does not bask in foreign worship
or have his picture hung up to re-
place pictures Of Garibaldi. Mo
manned and Lao-Tse. Harding
says to Europe: -
"This is big country, with
good hotels. Come on over, let's
talk and see if we can't stop spend
ing every nickel we OWE prepar-
ing for other wars and making
those wars certain"
Europe is coming, glad OF the
chance, having learned at the last
election that we are not going
over there to get our orders ard
foot the bills.
Germany announces that on
August 80 she will make her
next regular indemnity payment
of one thousand million marks
IN gold (250,000, 900 dollars) to
the allies. A thousand million
gold marks every four months,
enough to build five Panama
, Canals every year, seems lot
of money. But for every dollar
that Germany pays the allies on
account of the late war this ma
ton spends four dollars trying
to keep out of the next war.
Germany, not allowed to keep
an army or navy, really made
money on her war. She. saves
more than she pays out. War
works out strangely. France
pays for million soldiers to
watch Germany, with no army,
and victorious" Poland is going
/, bank1 upt keeping 100000 sol
Z diers under arms.
The Governor of Wisconsin,
J. ]. Blaine, says that if coal
mine owners will not consent to
reasonable regulations, the only
alternative is Government own
ership and operation of mines.
y When young Ralph Pulitzer
bought his own paper mills and
found that coal mine extortion
made the mills improbable and
, uncertain, he at once bought
and operated his own coal mines.
Pulitzer is an unusually intel
ligent young man, but not more
intelligent than all the people of
the United States put together,
and if he, without previous ex-
perience, can own his mines and
operate them, why not the peo-
pie?
Thomas Macaulay, formerly Of
the Genesee Valley, knows all
about horses. When a colt is
born, and just able to stand up.
Mr.. Macaulay goes into the box
stall, takes the colts four shaky
little legs in his arms, and lays
the colt on its side. This he
does once or twice a day for
several days.
"And as long as that horse
lives. says Macaulay, mo matter
how big he gets, he will believe
that / could do the same thing
il wanted to. So he minds me-"
You'd think to watch the people
submitting to corporation rulings
without public ownership, ETC.,
that in their infancy the people
must have been handled by some
corporation as Macaulay handles
his colts.
France announces for this
year the best wine crop in twent y
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