The Washington times., 1921-04-25
Today
Beware, Big Bill.
The Parsee Room.
frances Best Friend.
Must We Lose the Ether?

ner council" so he thinks. He is
planning to help along the "world
revolution" As small incident,
he win come back here to "help
the people rise"
It's an old story, this "world
revolution" business. Undeveloped
minds plan it, as each little boy
plans to run away and be a pirate.
Sometimes they run away, for a
little while. but they do not be-
come successful pirates.
Big Mr.. Haywood is with minds
UNLIKE his own. Inspired by
clear white fluid made in Russia,
ne will say or do something, then
Russia will proceed without him.
Nothing is more dangerous than
being out Of step in such rush as
Lenin's. Mr.. Haywood is out of
step over there, and Russia is not
easy-going America.
Over there they are excited,
many hungry, all angry; they act
quickly and there is no habeas cor
pus for big or little Bills.
History mixes up laces and
races. Lloyd George, for England;
BRAND, for France, met to discuss
making Germany pay what she has
not got.
The meeting was held Gin the
gold-and black room of the resi-
dence of Sir Phillip Sassoon."
I Sassoon is a Parsee, one of those
that the Arabs drove out Of Per-
sia 1,400 years ago. They lived
among the Hindus, sticking to
their corrupted idea of Zoroaster's
religion, and began getting rich
quickly after the British took
India and business began to boom
in Bombay.
A long journey from the lofty
thought Of Zoroaster, hideously
corrupted by the thick-lipped Par
sees, to the European black-and-
gold room Of the parasite fatten-
ing on India under British rule
and going to England to spend
the money. Wells ought to write
about that. Z
Mr.. James tells the New York
Times "the French public has
come to believe that President
Harding and the Republican Ad-
ministration are no friends Of the
treaty of Versailles"
The French public is q mind
seader. The United States Gov
eminent believes that the treaty
of Versailles was q perfectly nat
bural, but perfectly childish, ex.
hibition Of postwar hatred, and
not at all basis on which to
start worldwide reconstruction.
This Government knows that Ger
many can easily be driven into a
condition of no government, or Of
government such as Russia has.
France will not get a cent of
her thirty-billion-franc claim from
Russia. And if she scorns Presi-
dent Harding's advice, she is apt
not to get a cent from Germany,
and to have Germany and Russia,
united under bolshevism, pressing
on her borders. France could not
stand that.
The French press attacks Presi-
dent Harding savagely, but should
not do it. Mr.. Harding wants the
war settled in such fashion as to
let it stay settled. He wants Ger
many to make fair payment to
France. And France, if wise, will
not force Germany to repeat Rus
sia's total reputation. II Ger
many offers, as is suggested, fifty
Ithousand millions Of gold marks,
Twelve times what Bismarck took
from France after 1870. France
will do well to accept, especially il
real German work in the devas-
tated regions is added to the cash
offer. .
Is there any private individual
that would not rather have twelve
thousand million marks in real
gold than another war?
Einstein, lecturing solemnly on
the fact that you cannot know
much about anything, seems in
clined to throw overheard the "im-
ponderable ether" which has been
such a comfort to scientists.
II is nothing but an hypothesis,
of course, but it is useful, and to
ordinary scientists it proves its
existence about as clearly as does
electricity.
> No one sees electricity, or knows
what it is, but we believe in it.
Matter attracts matter, the earth
pulls the moon and holds her tight,
as she circles around. as in an old
fashioned waltz, with the partner
held at arms length.
There MUST BE something be-
tween us and the moon, to let
gravity work. Newton felt it.
everybody admits it. If Einstein
kills off the convenient ether hy-
pothesis, then gravity becomes a
childish miracle, matter being held