The Washington times., 1921-03-22

Extra! German Victory.
Welcome the Colorado.
Easy Come, Quickly Go.
Great Engine, the Heart.
By ARTHUR BRISBANI
Copyright. 1871,

Vos SStStSO, Suu0 U6dTls
by ARTHUR BRISBANE-
Copyright. issi.)
BY vote Of two to one the peo-
.ple Of Upper Silesia decide that
they would rather be German than
foltsh. This is explained by the
reading Of history. Man natural
~ wants to be with the winner,
and Germany's record for winning
nghts is greater than that OF
Poland.
Also. in spite OF recent happen
inss. Germany's record for indus
trial and financial prosperity is
higher than Poland's.
That German triumph In Upper
Silesia means much to many. coun-
tries. including this. 1t retains
Tor Germany the richest Silesian
coal deposits. And in those de-
posits is much competition for in
dustry and labor outside of Ger
many.
A newspaper is agitated be-
cause 7S per cent-of the worlds
population is in the league OF ma
uons, the United States being the
only big country to stay out, of
Its own accord.
Americans are not lagitated
about that. The nations that are
crowding into the league are
crowding each other, many of
them fighting each other, several
Of them robbing each other, near.
ly all of them planting little trou-
Dies that will grow into future
wars.
Uncle Sam says to them: "All
right, go into your leagues. III,
stay out, attend to my business,
watch you carefully. and keep
ready for anything that happens"
A good sign of peace is the
launching today of the superdread-
naught Colorado. Twenty-eight
thousand horsepower will drive
this battleship of thirty-three
thousand five hundred tons, and
good marksmen will stand be-
hind her sfxteen-inch guns, mount
ed two in each of the four, big
turrets.
II is too bad to spend the
money, a great pity that it is
necessary. But it rs necessary,
and that settles it,
There are peace arguments in
that battieship that no pacifist
contains. You read how Mr..
Trotzky, originally an ardent paci-
inst, put to death all the leaders
captured in the recent revolt in
Kronstsdt, and you decide not to
put your faith in pacifists,xo any
child Of man, but to put it in good
warships, flying machines, SUBJ
marines. a well-trained, moderate
sized army. You observe how
Switzerland went through the
great war undisturbed in the mid
die of it all. She attended to her
own business and kept prepared.
Madame Hofer, French lady,
won a million francs in a govern
ment lottery. That is a great deal
of money in France. Madame
Hofer hired servants, bought some
automobiles, got fine house. lent
money generously. In twenty days
her million francs was gone.
Keeping money is "a business for
ITSELF" as a wise man once re-
marked. If you don't practice
saving with a LITTLE you won't
be able to practice with a LOT, in
case you get it.
At New Orleans, Ben Hoelzel,
fifty years old, died, after living
twenty-six hours with his heart
exposed to the eyes of the sur
geons. The unfortunate man had
been mangled by machinery.
The great French surgeon. Car
rel, operating on a dog at the
Institute for removal
of part Of the lung-a preliminary
to such operations on human
in his hand the beat
ing heart Of the unconscious dog
and said: There is the most won
derful engine in the world"
Three-quarters of an hour later
the dog, having suffered abso-
lutely no pain and lost less than
two teaspoonfuls of blood in the
operation, was RUNNING about per-
fectly cheerful and we'll.
A wonderful engine, indeed, is
the heart, that begins it's work
before we are born. and with its
last beat sounds every death war
rant. The marvellous power in re-
sistance of the human body was
proved in the case of that work
man, whose heart for twenty-six
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