The Washington times., 1921-06-25
Today


PoIIoyhoIders, Don't Worry. !
Earl Pembroke's Armor.
Forts Are Useless.
Tho coIored Population.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
fcspysishs. 1874,
Evidence before the Lockwood
committee concerning the Mutual
Life Insurance Company and
losses sustained, as alleged, on in
vestment in bonds might frighten
thousands Of policy-holders. Tho
policy-holders need not be fright
ened. The matter is not financially
important to them. All institu-
tions investing in bonds have lost
heavily. There has been no shrink
age that would affect the solvency
Of the Mutual. or any other big
life insurance company. Policy
holders need not worry about their
security. Let them sleep peace
fully.
A suit Of armor. made three
hundred years ago for the Earl Of
Pembroke, Is bought by an Ameri-
can dealer for $95,00O. Yon may
see it soon and think about it
proftably.
When the Earl Of Pembroke.
dressed in that steel armor,
climbed on his horse. he could ride
over little people, their spears and
clubs could not hurt him.
Somebody developed, firearms.
increasing their power and accu-
racy. Then men stopped making
armor; it would not stop bullets.
Noble and prosperous gentlemen.
to a large extent, stopped going to
war. They handed guns to the
little people and let them fight.
For some time big guns and bat
t1eships have represented control.
Big nations have bullied smaller
nations, as noblemen in armor bull
lied peasants.
But the cannon and the battle
ship are passing in their turn. The
smallest newsboy with an auto
matte revolver can kill Dempsey.
If Ireland had at her disposal the
deadly poison gas recently devel-
oped in the United States, and a
few flying machines. she could
bring England to terms. flying
over London and dropping the gas.
Some day museums will show
firearms next to old suits of
armor, with little sign telling
how firearms made the armor
obsolete, then flying machines
and the gas put the firearms out
Today's dispatches say the
French are tearing down forti-
fications on the Rhine. II gives
France satisfaction to tear down
German fortihcations. That ia
Ill 1t amounts to. Those fortf-
fcations are worth-no more than
the Chinese wall, or fortifications
that Bismarck found around
Paris when he looked upon tfre'
city from convenient neighboring
hills.
Fortifcations are nothing. In
the last war, instead of forts de-
Tending the country, it was nee,
essary to send armies to defend
the forts. Anything that stands
still in one place can be destroy
ed by modern artillery. To be
Of any use q fort would have to
be mile thick, and so high that
3 flying machine couldn't fly
over II.
And unfortunately, because
men that are building battleships
FOR forty million dollars each
have tremendous power with
Government, our Government
continues to concentrate on those
battleships, profitable, but use
less, and neglects flying ma
chimes and submarines, most
important agents lin modern war
fare.
From 1910 to 1920 the white
population in this country in
creased 16 per cent. The war cut
down the increase from 22.3 per
cent for the previous ten years.
Negro population gained only 6.5
per cent in the last ten years, as
against 11.2 per cent in the ten
years before. and 18 per cent in
the ten years from 1890 to 1900.
The negro birth rate has steadily
declineA high death rate remains
the same. This shows how nature
is gradually solving one serious
problem of the country.
The solution need not disturb
any colored person. For IL we 90
all together from here to Heaven.
what more can we ask? And il
those that die return to this earth
to inhabit other bodies. it is clear
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