The Washington times., 1921-08-09
Today
Lloyd George Horror.
Miss Farrar's Sorrow.
Men Love Mystery.
12o, 600 Horses Conpr,
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

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by ARTHUR BRISBANE-j
/. Copyright 1891.
Recently Lloyd George said,
when the armistice was declared,
England was preparing "more
horrible war machinery than the
world had yet seen."
One pleasant detail, it appears,
Of the unseeE horrors was to be a
fleet of super-submarines carrying
gigantic reservoirs Of liquid fire.
A submarine would pop up along
side of an unprotected seacoast
city, proceed to spray that city
with liquid fire, then submerge
and depart. leaving the city to
burn.
That would be an extremely USE
ful weapon in war against Japan.
where cities are made of bamboo
and paper largely. 1t is to be
hoped that the use of such horrors,
or our own thoroughly perfected
deadly liquid gas, will never be
forced upon this country.
Miss Geraldine Farrar, now
weary of the handsomest man in
the world. once said: "One can be
q splendid woman and a great
artist, but not a great artist and
a mother" This is a mistake.
Madame Schumann-H -Heink proves
it. She is a very great artist and
has eight or nine children. Sarah
Bernhard also proved it. Dozens
of others have done the same and
all were improved by having the
children.
The fact is. probably, that
women very successful, constantly
praised, applauded and hattered.
find it hard to restrict themselves
to one mans consideration and
company. Perhaps that is why
wise nature, bee Ause populatirg
the earth was a pressing problem,
has kept women in the background
and pushed men forward. 1t mat
tered little what men did; they in
fluence children but little.
The Ku Klux Klan, spreading
north, establishes its first Ne
braska branch at Lincoln. The
literary style Of the khan is
Worth studying. "The Imperial
Proclamation" is Ozone in the
aulic of His Majesty, the I'm
perial Wizard and Emperor Of
the Invisible Empire, in the I'm
perial Palace" etc.
II you join, the khan will look
after you, "in the effulgence of
the light of life and amid the
sable shadows of DEATH"
The khan has decided that
everything desirable can best be
attained through the channel of
a high-class mystic, social, patri-
otic association, having a perfect
lodge system. 1t used to be
thought that a democratic gov
ernment with a perfected consti-
tuition for its foundation would
answer, but conditions change.
By the growth Of the Ku
Klux you learn that as deer and
bullfrogs are attracted by
piece of red flannel and moths
by a bright light, so men are at
tracted by mystery and secrecy.
Twenty-six years ago electric
generators were installed at
Niagara, each of 5000 horse
power. Wise men said they
would soon break down, they
were too big. They are still
running. In Pittsburgh there
has recently been installed a
generator of 10000 horse.
power, and that runs smoothly.
For a saver of time and space
consider compact machine that
can do the physical work of
enough horses to crowd all the
streets of Pittsburgh.
How big will the generators be
when the tides and the sun itself
are harnessed? What will men
accomplish when all demands for
power will be met simply by
pressing a button?
Coal miners and oil we'll workers
will be out of jobs ir that day,
certainly, but they will be glad Of
it, for the days work will be pleas
ant work and reduced to two or
three hours, except for those that
prefer to work longer.
From Nelson B. Updike's thor
oughly edited Omaha Bee you
learn that bad as farming con-
ditions are, they might be worse.
Excellent crops cheer up the farm
ers in spite of low prices, in some
sections at least.
Around Omaha, instead of SELL
ing corn at fifty cents a bushel,
farmers raise more hogs, feed
them corn, and allow the intelli-
gent animals to change fifty-cent
corn into ten-dollar pork.
Hogs are worth ter dollars a
hundred now. Even at six dollars
n hundred they can be raised with