The Washington times., 1921-07-18
Today

Medicine, Religion, Races.
Two Crazy; Which Worss7
When Ladies' Warn, Listen.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1871.
This country may not be much
Is . collector Of debts, but is still
first-clsss angel when it comes
to paying out.
The British Empire, owing Uncle
Sam more than $4,000, 900 900 for
money borrowed, has just sent in
q bill for about $S2.O0o000, part
Of the charge for carrying across
the ocean. on British ships, Ameri-
can soldiers sent to help England,
with her back to the wall" as the
English general said.
The English bill for more than
$50, 900 900 was immediately paid
by the United States. No wonder
England loves us and says BLOOD
ts thicker than water"
Uncle Sam is dear old "easy
mark" and on financial matters
his head is thicker than water, or
blood, or solid ivory.
You can trace human progress
In medicine from days when they
ground up precious stones, snakes,
lizards, eyes and such things for
"cures" to the radium treatment
and bone grating of today.
You can study progress in the
history Of religion, from days
when they fed young boys and
girls to a cannibal god, to this
day, when they preach a God in
terested only in kindness, justice
and mercy.
You can study progress at the
races. Men, have had OK races,
chariot races, running races on
horseback, trotting races in
sulkies, bicycle races, then auto
mobile races, and now, last word,
flying machine races. John H.
James won the flying derby last
Saturday, covering 200 miles in
one hour and fourteen minutes.
The trotter horse could go a mile
In two minutes, the automobile
better than a mile in one minute.
The flying derby winner did bet
ter than two-and-one-half miles
to the minute, merely the begin
ming of flying speed. Real speed
will be / 900 miles an hour,
around the earth with the sun
directly above your head all the
way.
A woman on her way to the
sanitarium took from her finger
4 valuable diamond ring, threw
it from the taxicab into the
street. 1t was not found. That
made it certain that the unfor-
tunate woman was insane.
Another woman or man may
work, save, and skimp to get
inoney, then invest that money
II . diamond, little sparkling
bit Of carbon, and feel perfectly
happy, well repaid for all the
sacrifices. And we call THAT
person sane. Both are crazy, in
different ways.
When a lady says, Don't 60
near that man, he will kill you,"
you win stay away, if wise. Mr..
Hemming, broker, married
rich widow, quarreled with her
and Chief Employe Frank Eber-
hardt. When Hemming and his
wife were reconciled, she said,
Don't 60 near Eberhardt; he
will kill YOU"
The advice was ignored; Eber-
hArdt killed Hemming and him.
self.
The lady, once more a widow,
sent flowers to Eberhardts fu-
neral, none to her husbands.
Women have remarkable powers
of intuition. Listen to them,
especially when they tell you
what some man is going to do.
That is something women have
studied for more than 100000
years, from the cave to the sky
scraper.
When you buy ticket on a
British steamer, the company does
not guarantee you against "acts
Of God and OF kings enemies" If
God sinks you with a lightning
bolt or kings enemy sinks you
with torpedo, the company won't
pay your heirs.
Some notice like that is needed
outside the Cave of the Winds at
Niagara.
A man is suing the cave man
Ager for $4,000. His father and
mother We're killed by a rock slide
in the cave. The manager says,
"Its the act of God; couldn't
help it."
Red Indians 500 years ago
would have called it the act of the
Great Spirit. angry at the intru-
sion. Earlier humans, 10000
years ago would have said it
was done by the devil that lived
in the cave of the winds and
howled.