The Washington times., 1921-09-05

A Wiser World.
Give Children Candy.
What in Place of War?
Storms Coming.
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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The world knows more than
1t did, President Harding says,
pointing to the long Canadian
United States border, with no
forts on land or battleships on
lakes, to breed war. The world,
indeed, knows more. 1t knows
enough to establish large units,
in nations and in business.
Consider these forty-eight
States, from ocean to ocean, with
free trade among them and
peace. Consider Ford's factory.
Men know one thing they
never knew before-that war
does not know. They know that
the sun does NOT 60 around the
earth, and that there is plenty
enough for all if men would help
instead Of cheating each other.
1t will be a very respectable
world million years from now,
perhaps sooner.
This country ate $40S,000,000
worth Of candy last year, $54,-
100000 less than the year be-
fore, although sugar and candy
were cheaper this year than last
year. Prohibition explains that.
Many, year before last, ate
candy and sugar, letting nature
make the alcohol inside. This
past year it has been easier to
get the alcohol.
The chewing gum bill last year
cost .$7,000,000 more than the
year before. Children the coun-
try over eat too little candy. If
they can be made thoroughly to
chew or suck the candy and alb
sorb the sugar very slowly there
is no better or more important
food.
An editorial writer discusses
William James, who discussed
the possibility of finding some
thing that would do as well as
war in, encouraging fine quail
ties--courage, unselfishness, dis
cipline, patriotism. Once, pre-
sumably, advanced thinkers won
dered whether anything could
ever take the place Of cannibal-
ism, that sent men out, bravely
and unselfishly, to get other
men, women and children for
their families to eat. Herds of
domesticated animals, giving
plentiful meat supply, wiped out
cannibalism.
Labor-saying machinery, used
for its operators as well as for
its owners, would end war.a-with
education added TO the -machin-
eTy. ~ l <%f,,s,.,~,
Steel prices drop again--and
some of the little concerns, des-
peeate, have no, fixed prices,
= automobile prices drop, hundreds
at q time. 1t is getting back to
normalcy and is painful.
Aiarmist talk is foolish and
harmful. But it is necessary for
sailors to know when a storm is
coming, even though the knowl-
edge may spoil plans.
I And it is necessary for business
men to know that there are
storms ahead that will make the
simeon and cyclone seem feeble.
Don't be scared, but don't be
reckless.
In spite of harder times the
use OF gasoline in the last six
month has increased over 7O0,-
coo gallons daily, compared with
the same period last year. Per-
baps this will convince men in
tontrol Of gasoline prices that
abaAiier prices and bigger sales
are worth while. They ought to
have learned that from Ford.
Prom one city in this country,
which ,s also the biggest in the
World, me million are said to have
gone away over Labor Day. Good
Hig'i, II true.
The earth is mans garden, and
he ought to walk, motor and fly
ali over it. City people should take
in children from the country and
send their children to country
homes.
The flying machine, which will
make a trip across the ocean, cost
less than fifty dollars,
will let everybody see and know
the world. And the man that has
not seen the Alps, Himalayas,
Rockies and Andes will one day
seem as strange as the Parisian'
that never saw the inside Of Notre
Dame.
London women, graduating from
the cigarette, now smoke pipes and
cigars. > u
I So says the Associated Press.
This will be bad news for tobacco
hen first Of all.
Plenty of mothers, and plenty Of
ns To use up the tobacco crop,
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