The Washington times., 1921-05-01
Today
For the Marie Curie Fund.
hree Wild Ones Caught.
re Need Discontent.
Uorry About Stagnation.
~ ARTHUR BRISBANE
!. (copyright, lSai.l

IBy ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright, 1919
NJ. John d. Rockefeller, jr.,
)nis nom 26 Broadway, New
~. thfouRh this column. I check
- two hundred dollars, personal
3ontribution to the Marie Curie
3lnd. He writes: "The Laura
Bpelman Rockefeller memorial has
Dlsdged ten thousand dollars to the
NINE. Curie fund. which seemed
Ssculiarly appropriate in view OF
~ fact that the memorial was es-
Ablished as q tribute to my
mother"
Il Mr.. j. Oscar Greenwald, of MIL
iEaakee, contributes one hundred
,lollhrs asent in memory Of my
mother"
Mr.. Ad. Lasker. Of Chicago.
jezds two hundred and fifty dol
Aare in memory Of brother who
se&cntly died Of cancer.
Radium now offers the greatest
aSpe to scientists fighting that
most terrible disease.
bThe Writer'S Club" is raided-
wo rooms at the back of cheap
building, The police find "a red
cnspiracy." The bomb squad ar
ested three men; once more the
country is safe. Messrs. Jackarra.
( Russia; Amter, alias Fakiar, Of
\ he Bronx, and Siebert, Of Sleeps
lead Bay, planned ITO overthrow
his Government" Since the
#leven Tailors of Tooley street got
$cgether. nothing quite as impor-
ant has happened.
" OF a hundred and five million
4,eople in the United States, more
han q hundred and four millions
pant to keep the Government we
asave. The others would soon be
#orry il they destroyed it. When
shree gentlemen undertake to over
#hrow this Government, they are
siting off good deal.
Police should watch fanatics that
sdvocate or practice violence, and
spurts should punish them after
Hnreful, fair trial.
II The trouble with this country is
i lot that handful o. men, ma
brity mentally unsound, want to
haDge the Government, but that
Il gigantic majority of at least
s iinety Millions are content with
The Government as. 1t is.
/ Who are the men that you ad-
hire in history? Washington, JET
\ ierson, Franklin? They chafged
ihe Government Of their country.
Lad they failed they would have
IA ssn hanged.
HI You admire the Gracchi, vague
and their mother, who had no
incy jewelry. They wanted tc
Improve their government, and
Ifaey were rikht. It needed it.
You admire Cromwell, who laid
4 10 foundation Of England's great
I'll lbs and empire by drastic gov
4 snment action.
.5 Kossuth, Voltaire, Garibaldi, q
.:Iousand others whose names oc
tHSlr to you one after the other, are
5Sl great in history because they
Nd sufficient energy, conscience
nd patriotism to want and work
better government.
I'VE have good government, COM
ttsared with some others. And
shgr countries, Switzerland. for
" asttInce, have superlatively
v SOD government. compared with
sia ars.
Stagnation is dangerous. in the
md, in the blood, in the mind.
HHs Npvernment-
f 3Aleolute stagnation, perfect
N ,ntA Ntment with things as they
se," Is most dangerous in a ma
II On. "
X mo matter how good a thing
is the right man wants to make
HRS better. The canoe was better
nan the log with men sitting
H addling. The sail boat better
n AN the canoe, the steamboat
A. stter than the sailboat, the fly
" "a machine better than all.
.# Men have progressed from the
a.I gout canoe to flying machine
\. cause they were DISSAT1S-
Some savage islanders made a
N tish of their canoes a certain
hgth, a certain taboo" for
4 omen, ETC., convinced that they
u ID the most perfect thing pos
Bile. They are savages yet. A
III ,tle power boat could race
Fiji. rough q thousand of their wal
i. NJ noes, splitting them open.
The people Of this nation ar
s clined to look upon their Gov.
v nment as the American Indian
.fapked on his totem pole, some
Ing not to be improved. That's
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