The Washington times., 1921-03-29

No important News.
Except About the Gorilla.
And That's Not True.
But It Is important.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

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by ARTHUR BRISBANE
r Copyright 1919
You put down your cup, pick up
the paper and ask, ."What has hap
pened in this world since / last
read?"
Not much has happened. The
earth on which you are travelling
with sweet indifference IS to your
destination, is more than 2,000,00
miles away from the spot in space
at which you last picked up a
morning newspaper.
The Germans are said to have
conquered the spotty Red out
break. They seem to have had
enough of both kinds Of autoc-
racy-from the throne AND from
tho gutter.
The "bears" have come up from
Florida and are attacking stocks,
which faint and fall down a few
points.
Having had a pleasant winter
on Florida's sands, nice baths, nice
gambling, nice divorces, nice re-
marriages, the ladies and gentles
men Of our high society are back.
The gentlemen who care, as they
would truly put it. mot one damn
what happens tc the country, as
long as they make money" are
bearing and knocking down values,
while little fools that gamble, bet
ting on the integrity Of others, are
squirming as usual.
The Supreme Court has handed
down three decisions that may or
may not be worth one hundred
millions in income tax to the Gov
ernment-perhaps a great deal
more.
Certain profits on increased
value of bonds, trust funds, etc.,
must pay income tax. A little
Federal judge is overruled.
DR.. Leray, French scientist.
killed by x-ray experiments on his
own body, interests the world just
before his death with the very
UNSCIENTIFIC statement that
"a hidden God had doomed him to
death for trying. to solve the Sc
crets Of science"
There is no hidden God-the
only God is revealed in every liv-
ing thing-cloud, thunderstorm,
ant hill, and most of all in the sure
reward that follows real scientific
work. -
Madame Curie revealed the
greatest secret hidden in matter
the power of radium. No hidden
God" rebuked her. Jenner saved
millions of lives by revealing the
hidden knowledge Of vaccination,
and Pasteur, king Of useful scien-
lists. saved endless billions OF dol
lars and miI1nps Of lives with his
revelations. and no "hidden God"
protested. O..
The only hidden God is ancient
superstition that crops up, even in
scientific minds, when overwrought
with study.
Study American news and you
see how hard it would be for a
real revolution to get started here.
Sympathizers with Ireland de-
nounce the American Legion as the
"Anglo- Maniac Legion" because
the legion expelled an enthusiastic
Irish-American sympathizer with
Ireland. And the American Legion
says unpleasant things about the
Irish movement. II the Irish
wanted a revolution the legion.
probably, would say NO. If the
legion wanted it some other unit
in our population, German or
Polish or Jewish or plain home
product, might say NO. No real
revolution without homogeneous
population-and that is long way
off here.
Viviani from France. great ora
tor and genuine democrat, has
come, as he says, "to listen"
He will hear that this country,
for the present, is done with
European responsibility. We spent
forty or fifty billions, sent over
three million men, disrupted in
dustry, railroading, cost Of living,
etc. Now we are tying up the
broken ends-not very success
fully. We expect Europe, Ger
many being beaten, to stop fight
ing, get back to work, or, if she
prefers it, to go on fighting and
iooting, with the certainty that
she will get no more men or money
from US.
As to payment Of Europe's debt,
1t is for each nation. as for each
man, to make known the value
that he sets upon his word.
You will travel through (or
past) the Stillman case and real
ize-for the ten-thousandth time
how much lawyers owe to human
foolishness.
You will read of the strange and
horrible peonage case, negroes or
dered to dig their own graves or
post holes big enough to hold their
bodies--then knocked on the head