The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-07

Yes, a Kaiser Is Worse.
The New Big Gun.
Our Fools in Paris.
How Did the Eye Start?
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright 1871

TOW OtQ tne Gyo StdrIs
by ARTHUR BRIsBANE-t.
Copyright 1871
The German socialist Newspaper
Freihedt asks, of the Dempsey Car
pentier fight: "Can you conceive
anything more ghastly and horri-
BILE than two brutalizing individ-
uals, only zoologically members of
the human race, beating each other
until one is unconscious?"
Answer: "Yes. Entire nations,
only distantly connected with COM
mon sense, numbering each other
in millions with poison gas and
dynamite, each thinking itself
right, and each idolizing some
fighting leader. That is worse"
The big prize fight is a disgrace
But it's a good deal safer to have
ninety thousand fools cheering a
Dempsey than seventy million
fools, including German socialists.
following a kaiser to their own
destruction. At least Dempsey
won, although he didn't deserve to.
Speaking Of peace, civilization,
and such things, do you know Of
the new gun, sending projectile
with speed up to five miles Sec
ond, able to shoot a five-ton shell
more than two hundred miles? This
invention, vouched for By compe-
tent men, would make war too
terrible, and, therefore, impossi-
bls,' say the inventors. But the
last war proves that isn't so.
II the inventors have under per-
feet control the power they think
they have, they should create won
derful industrial tools for cutting
off trees at the roots, quarrying
stone, and otherwise making heavy
labor lighter
What would sunny, cheerful
Paris do without the American
fools?
The latest experience of the
American ass in Paris is this. He
leaves his respectable wife at the
hotel, all tired out from taking
what Depew calls "The Paris
Cure" and he goes to Mont-Mar-
tire, "to see life"
The young lady with the bob
bed hair and the frequent zut
dances with him, leaving her hand
bag with money on the table. Her
true friend, fish Of the mackerel
family, takes her money as pre-
arranged. She, with high shrieks,
accuses the American of robbing
her, and he, poor fool. speaking
nothing but English and through
his nose at that, pays the price
to avoid spending q nixht in Jail
and explaining to his wife.
Home again he solemnly tells
his fellow natives "They have no
morality In France, and know
nothing about family life-I ought
to know"
Austrian scientists have proved
that you can transplant in blind
fish, frog, or rat good eye from
another animal, connect the nerves,
and restore sight.
The experiments recall the fact
that fish, and frogs, able to change,
body color to suit their surround
ings, lose that power when blind.
This indicates at least half con-
scious will power involved in col
or adaptability.
The interesting question, one
that puzzled Darwin to the last,
is: "How did the eye first start 2"
You can explain the fish gill
changing to the human ear. the fin
to the birds wing, Mr.. Mans arm.
But how did blind creatures Of the
earliest life develop eyes, and the
complicated machinery of vision?
Evolution, survival of the fittest,
struggle for existence, adaptation
to environment, and all the other
formulas do not explain that, any
more than they could explain an
electric fan or a kodak. In that
the pious may find comfort and
ammunition.
Nicholas Alienikoff left to his
children his ideals" including
his belief that men should find
happiness in working for the com
mon good-forminQ an interna-
tional brotherhood of man. wiping
out racial, religious, and color
lines, etc.
Unfortunately, while it is easy
to leave your ideals by will, as
you leave your money, the money
is usually accepted more eagerly
than the ideals.
Certain things, health, useful
ness, caution, intelligence. and
ideals each one must build up for