The Washington times., 1921-02-03
Today
Read, Spendthrift!
The Arctic Flea.
Prohibition Revolution
And Harendranath.
y ARTHUR RRIsBAS
tcepyrishi. issiJ

ihat German indemnify OILERS
. sermon to the young man that
ought 10 save. and saves nothing.
The suggestion now 10 that Ger
many shesld pay thirty billions in
NJ. Lamont, Of Morgan 3 Co.,
who ought TO know about finance,
points out in the New York Even
ing Post that thirty billions IN
thirty years is equal TO only FOUR
BILLIONS cash down. In othsr
words. four billions paid down
now, invested and reinvested ct
oompoupd interest, would amount
70 thirty billions in thirty years
Consequently, four dollars saved
would become thirty dollars In
thirty years, four thousand dol
lars become thirty thousand dol
lars in thirty years. The way to
Get rich Is TO invest your money
safely and let 1t grow.
The mercury stands forty be-
low IN the Northwest; for instance,
1t Banff, AIberta- Human beings
do nok suffer, for man Is an
adaptable creature. He can en-
durS cold - well az the polar bear,
and heat almost rs well as the
gorilla.
what is tho temperature out in
the REGIONS of absolute zero, where
Einstein says the law of gravita-
tion falls down and "relativity"
smashss all our accepted ideas!
II e hard for us to realize that
creatures from the absolute zero
reeions--if there were any
would think Banff's "forty below"
. horrible, tropical climate.
Mr., Einstein now says this uni
verse Is limited. II Is just so big,
and NO bigger, but 1t ID quite .
large universe. The orbit Of the
earth is more than one hundred
and 'eikhty million miles wide.
The Universe is ten trillion times
as wide as that. To give the
& idea in another way: Light
travels one hundred and eighty
six thousand miles second, seven
and 1 half times around the earth
in . second. Going at that rate
OF speed It would take light q
thousand million years to 60
around the universe.
Plenty Of chance for US to
travel, develop our minds, and see
sights Il we are destined, IS is
probable, to live and travel etern-
ally. 81
But why accept Mr., Einstein's
limiting theory? Why not ask
him, however silly Y may sound
to Z scientist: "Yod say that the
universs Is limited lust SO big,
nothing ksyond Il Well, WHAi
is beyond THAT. There cannot
be limits to the universe, TOT
Whatever SOu put yOur limit, there
is the beyond, |" and whatever =
beyond, though II he empfy. IS
SPACE. q
with infinite bigness and infinite
littleness there can be no limit.
Name the smallest possible thing
in the world. You will be told that
II II exists at all, 1t can be cut In
two. 40 on, indefinitely. The "un-'
cuttable' atom contains dozens OF
electrons. Each electron might
be an ''infra" universe. .f
Einstein's limitation of the uni
verse would amuse the real minds
of this complicated cosmic ma
chine, II it could reach up to them,
which il cant.
There is q rat in the Arctic re-
gions. On 1t is flea. Under the
fiea's leg is a parasite, living on
the flea. Inside of that parasite is
a microscopic creature, another
parasite, living on the first para
site. l..
The parasite inside of parasite
would say: 81 have made scientific
calculations, and find the entire
universe to be just as big as one
flea" The flea would have a diff
ferent and larger opinion, the
Arctic rat would have another
opinion. But their opinions would
mean nothing, for they have no
standard, and men have no stand
ard.
We cannot even prove that mat
ter exists, that we exist, that the
will is free, or that it is not free.
II you like puzzling statements.
don't bother with Einstein-read
Spinoza, and get a REAL head
ache.
In the Tammen- -Bonfils Denver
Post, Judge Pollock, United States
Judge, says that prohibition will
lead to revolution. Possibly, but
cold water seems to produce revo-
luton slowly. True, the Gar was
ended for good and all after he
selected prohibition to solve his
problems.
But look at India, where three
hundred millions of water-drink-
ing vegetarians live under the
thumbs of few million English
men, thousands Of miles away,
and supplied with all the whiskey,
gin, and strong beer they want.
Cold water hasn't driven India to
successful revolution. Look at all
Asia. so peaceful and submissive,
outside of Japan-and japan