The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-03

Education Week.
Only 1000. 900.
Hard to Remember Lies.
Edison and the Moplahs.
? ARTHUR BRISBANE
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w. Il. Hearst, travelling east
from California, wires from North
Platte: President Harding pro-
claims Education Week, calling
for greater interest in education.
The President cannot be too
highly praised, busted and wor-
risd as he Is with other mat
tsrs, for thus concentrating
national attention on the most
important thing in American
life, education. Let us devote
the editorial pages Of all our
newspapers to education all the
week. Please write all you can,
order cartoons, ETC."
s Newspaper editorials and car
tocns will help; more can be
done BY fathers and mothers i'm
pressing on children what edu-
cation means-freedom from
ignorance, It's superstitions. bru-
talitiss, and poverty. The great
est constructive force Is the
American public school, Fathers
and mothers should feel and
awaken in their children
deepest respect and gratitude
for the public school and its
teachers.
Mr.. Hoover says men without
Jobs are fewer by q million
than q few weeks ago. st.
Louis shows great improve
ment-66,000 cut down to
5000. There are perhaps only
four million in the United
States without work, but four
million are plenty. When this
conference finishes worrying
about China, Shantung, and
Manchuria. 1t would be a good
idea to call another conference
to worry about four million
Americans that have no work.
II q mans work averages in
value So q day, 100000 idle
represent an annual loss Of more
than $500, 100000, or about
the total cost of government.
That's worth considering. There
is no real wealth but human
labor and intelligence applied
to raw material.
Richard Croker, long ruler OF
Tammany, said to young men :
"Don't lie in politics. They'll find
you out. You can't remember all
the lies. but you can always re-
memhsg the truth" Leslie vivian
told Policeman. o 'Connor, 81 Chi
cago. all about how he had been
held up and robbed. O'Connor made
him tell it all over again, then a
third time, then fourth. Then
said the policeman, you've told
a dozen lies already; now tell
me the truth" Thereupon the gen
tleman who couldn't remember his
lies for even q few minutes ad-
mitted that he had pawned five
thousand dollars worth cf stolen
jewelry and invented the hold-up.
Sixty Moplahs, ignorant, rebel
lions natives of a small community
in India, were travelling to a
British prison. Thomas A. Edison
was travelling from New Jersey to
visit Henry Ford at Detroit. The
Moplahs were packed into one car.
Someone had carelessly painted the
wire screen ventilators, shutting
out air. The miserable passengers
were found dead of suffocation,
having bitten and torn each other
In their dying fury.
Edison travelled in Henry Ford's
private car, an entire coach OF
steel, all to himself. When the car
reached Detroit a special engine
was fastened to it, without disturb
ing Mr.. Edison, and the. car was
hauled to Dearborn, almost to
Ford's front door. There a limou-
sine was waiting.
These two methods of travel
represent servitude and freedom.
Yet Edison, dealing with cleo
tricity, knows as little about that
mysterious power as the suffo-
Gated Moplahs, dealing with the
British government. know about
that mysterious power.
How pleasing are Mexican
words, taking you back to
ancient days, when the human
victim lay quivering on the
stone block while the priest held
aloft a trembling heart ripped
from the live body.
Old snow-capped Popocatepetl,
THAT has looked down on many
strange sights, has suddenly be-
come excited, on his own ac-
count, spouting ashes and fire.
The trouble is visible as far As
Mt. Ixtaccihuatl on the north
/, and Tlaxcala to the northeast.
What pleasing names, IL
language interests you. OBJ
serve the resemblance of the