The Washington times., 1921-05-07

draw out that which is already
there?
Tomorrow will be Mothers Day.
Several million mothers will get
up and 20 to work. as usual. be-
fore the rest of the family and not
know much about Mothers Day.
Every day is Mothers Day for
them, day on which the mother
does the work and the worrying
for the others.
In one spot, on the Hudson river.
florists charged too much for car
nations that go with Mothers Day.
So the citizens decided to wear
dandelions instead. Highly appro-
pirate. The average day Of the
average mother is better repre-
sented by a plain dandelion than
by fancy carnation.
A clergyman in Denver edited
the Post and for one day made it
as pure as snow. The Stillman
family was barred, although it was
y bright Stillman day. No crime
was mentioned, only the good, the
true, and the beautiful. 1t woalo
interest the Rev. DR.. Boyle, and
educate him concerning the hu-
man jungle in which he lives, II
he should run that kind Of q pa
per on his own account for about
. year.
M. s. Burch lives in Missouri,
near Kansas City, has fifteen chill
dren, and advises everybody to
marry young. He has just mar
ried his daughter, Goldie, thirteen
years old, to Jerry M. Hines. His
fifteen- year-old son was married
last January to a girl Of thirteen.
Proud Of his fifteen children, he
says: You can't marry too
young"
1t would be interesting to hear
from Mrs. Burch, but that's the
side you usually do NOT hea:
from.
(For instance, interview, il you
can find her, the mother that left
her seventh baby on a doorstep i'll
Brooklyn yesterday morning with
thia note Dinned to II.
i "The mother of this baby Is try
ing to earn a living for six chill
dren and is herself sick. The
father is dead The baby is only
two months old. and the finder
will be lucky. Good-by and God
bless you"
That mother might not shar,
the views of Mr.. Burch, of Mis-
souri,.
Senator Kenyon Of Iowa wisely
proposes the establishment of
public welfare department whose
head would have a place in the
Cabinet. The department would
include health, education, chill
dren's bureau and other depart
ments. It would eliminate various
unnecessary officials. 1t is good
idea, and the best man to sit in the
Cabinet as the head of new de-
partment would be General Saw
yer, the Presidents physician.
Thomas A. Edison says college
men are amazingly ignorant"
They are probably no more igno-
rant than they would have been
Dhad they remained out Of college.
Edison and others rather foolishly
expect a college education to in
crease a mans ability. 1t does not
do SO. On the contrary, it takes
him away from the observation
and study of practical life at a
time when practical information is
most easily absorbed. A college
education Of the average superb
cial kind is dangerous. 1t gives
the young man a good opinion OF
himself. based on nothing. 1t
makes him expect special consider
alton to which he Is not entitled.
New York city, fighting the
street car monopoly with omni-
buses, will try something new. On
Staten Island, trolley cars with
rubber tires will run on paved
streets without rails. taking cleo
tric current from overhead wires.
That is an interesting experiment.
By and by flying machines will
take their power, by wireless, from
the earth and travel without fuel
or engines. That will be more in
teresting.