The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-09-06


business. THEY ought to have
a labor parade. They are COM
petent laborers in their particular
vineyard.
If this Government refuses
Ford's offer to buy Muscle Shoals
and use the power to produce
cheap nitrates for farm fertilizer
the farmers ought to put in a diff
ferent Government at the next
Election.
Ford can do the work. He has
the money and will PAY, not
CHEAT, the Government. He
agrees to no profit on fertilizer
in excess of 8 per cent-and
the Government can examine the
books. Farmers know what profit
on fertilizer they have been pay
ing. They know what Ford does
to prices. Other men that would
cheat the Government and exploit
the farmers want the plant. That
is the trouble with Ford's offer.
The Prince of Monaco was i'll.
Fortunately he is better now and
back at his scientific work. In his
little dominion on the Mediterra-
mean left to his family by the grace
of France, the fools of the world
gamble in the Monte Carlo halls
that WELD the prince his income
and he works at noble scientific
studies. ...... ..
Living high in his castle at
Monaco, he suggests an ancient
divinity, intent on important mat
tiers, letting foolish humans cheat
and struggle down below. ="
DR.. Shaw's "Review of Reviews
canvassing 100000 students in
schools and colleges, discovers that
young people know little OF cur
rent events. One young person
thinks Lloyd George is king Of
Ireland. Ignorance displayed was
amazing, BUT how many men
really know what is important in
events around them?
Leonardo Da Vinci wrote on all
conceivable subjects, many OF them,
like the flying machine, far ahead
of his time. But as far as this
writer knows, he never mentioned
as important Christopher Colum-
bus or his discovery Of this new
world. Yet Leonardo lived in Italy
and France and died long after
Columbus did his work. A man
looking at events nearby is like a
fly crawling on a big painting. 1t
misses the picture.
The top Of Mont Blanc is three
meters lower than it was. A cold
period may restore part of the
loss. But, steadily, all mountain
tops are coming down, ocean beds
and valley bottoms rising as frost,
sun, rain and slow erosion do their
work. Eventually the earth will be
completely round, all flat, except
where future super-races may
choose to build artificial noun
tains.
Then Il will be necessary to dig
canals, like those on Mars, or other
artificial water holders. For on a
perfectly round earth the water
would be a mile deep everywhere.
Plenty Of interesting work Is
ahead.
De Valera, refusing England's
peace offer, warns Lloyd George
that the Irish problem "that for
750 wears has resisted solution
by force" will not be solved by
force now.
While Ireland resists threat of
dismemberment, along religious
lines, Germany Is discussing and
fearing a breaking up Of the
same sort. Bavaria, overwhelm-
ingly Catholic, does not want to
follow radical and Protestant
North Germany, and threatens
to secede. That was foreseen,
for it Is well known that the
breaking up Of Germany along
religious boundaries is Marshal
Foch's solution of the French
problem, which is to make Ger
many forever weak.
Charles McGroarty decided to
distil his own, and make it
strong while. he was about 1t.
He did, drank it, and Is dead.
This notifies home brewers
and distillers that wine or beer
made at home, while inferior, is
not deadly. Home whiskey,
full Of poisons hard to eliminate,
often causes death. II you must
distil poison, distil the Juice Of
grapes. That yields pure alco-
hol, free of the most dangerous
poison. But it will kill II you
take enough.