The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-28

We Need Improvement.
Extortionate Distribution.
More Suicides.
Imagination Is All.

Wot0 SusCtuoS.
Imagination Is All.
ll-By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1871
The market" was heavy. Spec
ulators paid seven and half for
money with which to gamble; for
eign exchange, heavy, almost "col-
lapsed." London is pessimistic,
more worry about the coal strike.
England's workmen present q
problem more difficult than was
the German problem.
Judge Gary supplies a hopeful
note. He believes things are get
ting better. They need to get bet
ter. If they don't get better soon,
II Government doesn't stop con-
slant shipments Of money from the
United States, and persistent rob
berry Of the people by profiteers,
there will be troubles here not
soon forgotten.
It is all very well to be OPT
mistic, but not about combination
burglary and incendiarism.
The price Of oil drops so rapid
ly that Attorney General Daugh-
erty wisely stops drilling, on lands
controlled by Government.
The price Of gasoline seems to
stay up, however.
The big trouble in this country
is the extortionate, extraordinary
} cost Of distribution. For instance.
this writer, wishing to fertilize a
farm, not managed for profit, buys
q carload of the best fertilizer for
thirty-four dollars ton. A poor
Polish farmer, a quarter of mile
away, pays sixty-five dollars ton
for the same fertilizer. No wonder
he finds it hard to make a living,
especially when the price Of pota-
toes, that he raises, drops ninety
per cent in one year. Not twenty
or thirty per cent, mind you, but
NINETY per cent. The prices in
Chicago a year ago were 1885 a
hundred pounds; now they are 80
to 80 cents a hundred. That is
what dealers pay. The public pays
nearly the old price, thanks to our
system of distribution. which robs
the producer, robs the consumer.
and enriches the middleman.
The Rev. H. M. Warren. presi-
dent of the Save-a-Life League,
days suicides are increasing, sspe-
ciaIly among children. In 1920
thousand more Kfffsd themselves
than in 1919. Oftwelye, thousand
suicides, TOT were children five to
sixteen years old. Farmers wives
and "four hundred soldiers re-
turned from service" are among
the suicides. One lady killed her
self because her husband refused
to eat a pie she made. That was
probably the last straw.
Imagination controls the mind
and the eye controls imagination.
Mrs. Mott, accused of killing her
husband, sat calmly in court until
the prosecuting lawyer said:
Bring in that trunk" Two men
brought in the black trunk in which
the dead mans body had been
buried in swamp. The accused
woman screamed, went into hys-
terics. Court was adjourned. The
eye SAW the trunk, imagination
made a picture in the mind. then
the Mysteries. That explains NOV
| ing pictures success. You SEE
them.
The New York Times says the
|London Times is sold. The late
Joseph Pulitzer, asked what price
he would take for the New York
World, answered, deeply offended:
~Brisbane, Brisbane, would l sell
my gravestone?"
Northcliffe, who owns the Times,
will sell his gravestone, and his
bright eye also, several times before
he will sell the Times. II the
Times is sold Northcliffe is
"busted'-and he is not.
I~s,a
When you talk of billions it
doesn't mean much. When you
saw that today Germany will de-