The Washington times., 1921-02-25
Today
What 10 courage7
And What Is RadicaIism7
In Prison, for Pay.
Another Milestone.
I ARTHUR BRIBBANI
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You have read Of many heroes.
What do you think Of this one!
Homer ]. Arm found himself on
the edge Of the Grand Canyon. In
charge Of eleven horses loaded
with the deadly explosive TINT. to
be used in blasting for q bridge.
One animal became frightened and
three were crowded over the edge.
flushing In among the struggling
pack horses, Arm. Government
packer" cut a rope that let three
OF the horses drop into the canyon
and saved the rest.
II you have ever looked down.
. mile or 30. into the Grand Can
yon. imagine eleven horses loaded
with TINT struggling on the edge,
and yourself mixed up with them
cutting the rope.
What Is courage-absence of
Tear, or absence of nerves, or
pride, or what?
Certain Presbyterian ministers
are denounced. accused of preach
ing "Radicalism." Perhaps the rev.
erend gentlemen had been reading
the Epistle that James, Brother of
Christ. wrote to the Twelve Tribes.
Take the start OF Chapter s:
Go to now, ye rich men, weep
and howl for your miseries that
shall come upon you.
"Your riches are corrupted and
your garments are moth-eaten."
Meditating on that might turn a
Presbyterian toward radicalism.
And read further:
*BehOld the hire Of the labOur.
ers who have reaped down your
fields, which Is Of you kept back
BY fraud, crieth; and the cries Of
them which have reaped are en-.
tered into the ears Of the Lord Of
Ssbaoth."
If Bolshevik from Russia talk
ed like that at Ellis Island, would
they let him in? They would NOT.
What is radicalism?
In some parts of this glorious
country saloonkepers, sentenced
to imprisonment for violating the
prohibition law, hire a man for
a hundred dollars to spend their
terms in Jail.
In some places also, if you want
to be lawyer, you can hire a sub
stitute to pass the examination for
you and can even get proof" OF
your having attended law school
that you never saw. ..- 6
In China, q man condemned 70
death could, until recently, hire
somebody else to have his head cut
off as substitute. Often the sub
stitute sacrificed his head to get
money for his parents. Among
savages the chief will sacrifice a
beautiful young girl or several
beautiful young girls to appease
god supposed to be angry at the
chief. In comparison with China
and Africa, we are still civilized.
Lieutenant Coney has flown
across the United States from San
Diego to Jacksonville in twenty
two hours and thirty minutes. That
ia q milestone on the road Of hu-
man progress. 1t means going to
Europe soon between sunrise and
sunrise. It means eventually go
ing around the world in twenty
four hours. Man now has con-
uuered space and the law of gravi-
tation, with his wireless and his
flying machine. The next thing
is to conquer himself; stop cutting
other mems throats and calling
that operation patriotism.
The case of Miriam Ruben,
little girl at Waukegan, ILL.,, will
not please some regular" doctors
or Christian Scientists, but is in
teresting to osteopaths, who have
sense enough to know that the
skeleton is as important to a hu-
man being as the iron framework
to a skyscraper.
The child, afflicted with talk
ing sickness" talked steadily for
two hundred and twelve hours and
must have died soon.
The second and third vertebrae
were out of place, causing pressure
on a nerve. Inhibition, power Of
self-control, was lacking. The
vertebrae were adjusted. and the
talking stopped. Millions of men
have been weakened by drugs,
and, in old days by bleeding, when
|. slight adjustment of the skele-