The Washington times., 1921-04-12

Il enclose a check for $3.50 for
the Marie Curie Radium Fund in
memory of my husband. Admiral
George Dewey, u. s. n, and avail
myself of this opportunity to thank
you for all the kind words you
have spoken of him in your edi-
torial comments. / must also say
that ! read, with eager attention,
every word you write in The WASH
ton Times and other papers. Very
truly, Mildred Dewey"
From Albert S. and Edwin M.
Strauss, of South La Sale street.
Chicago, comes 500 for the Marie
Curie Radium Fund, contributed
IN memory Of their sister, Pearl M.
Strauss.
The Marie Curie Radium Fund,
for which contributions may be
sent to the Equitable Trust Com
pany, Wall street, New York, still
lacks $4,000 of the required
00,0O0. The money will be spent
to buy one gram Of radium for
Madame Curie, who discovered
rsdium, gave to the world a new
weapon against disease and new
insight into the mystery of cre-
alton.
1t is an honor to contribute to
such fund, one that will enable
20 great a scientist, a woman, to
carry on experimentally work of
the greatest value.
Send your contributions, big or
little, to the Equitable Trust Com
pany. New York city, and, if you
please, let this column know about
"Illegitimate births in Germany
increase so per cent" says the Dis
patch. This usually follows war,
and is deplorable, morally. Fortu-
nately. it is otherwise not serious.
In Germany they educate ALL
children, and their view of life and
attitude toward unmarried moth
ers, fortunately for the illegitimate
child, does not make it necessary
to throw that child into the ash
can as is sometimes done here.
The suggestion that German
character in future will suffer be-
cause of the great numbers of IL
legitimate births need not worry
anybody.
Leonardo da Vinci greatest Of
all artists except one and William
the Conqueror both "illegitimate,"
prove that the handicap can be
overcome. 1t all depends on what
Is born IN you.
A thoughtful listener, who knows
everybody, says, "the strongest
man in Washington, to whom they
pay most attention, outside Of the
White House, is Daugherty, the
Attorney General"
The same observer says that the
most useful man. to the country at
large, Is Mr.. Smoot, Senator from
Utah. He actually takes an inter-
est in public money, fights his
friends as he does his enemies in
opposing any spending that can be
avoided.
The old saying was "What is the
Constitution among friends?" The
saying in the recent Administra-
tion was what is billion dollars
between friends?"
1t is fortunate that the country
has in Senator Smoot a man who
knows public business and thinks
that billion dollars does amount
to. something, even when it is pub
lie money.
DR.. Einstein, great Jewish scien-
list, talks of his theory of rela-
tivity and few understand. One
man explains it, saying, "You are
sitting in one train, the train next
you begins to move. You can't tell
whether it is your train moving
or the other train, unless you see
a fixed post or something of that
kind. That is relatively"
Huxley describes relativity when
he speaks of a man walking east
ward toward the stern of a ship,
the ship going west and the earth
turning to the east. At the same
time the sun carries the earth off
in some other direction. In what
direction was that man really NOV
ing, he walked one way, the ship
going another, and the sun carry
ing man, ship, and earth in still
another direction?
Here's relativity of another
kind: DR.. Holmes, of the National
Museum at Washington, says the
Indians are no longer able to make
arrow heads. They used to chip
them out of flint 10000 years
ago. Now they have forgotten
how to do it and buy cheap guns
and knives.
Everybody now asks: what Of
It? Why should Indians make ar
row heads when they can buy cheap
knives, guns, and spears?" There
was an ancient time when the max
ing of flint weapons was laying
the foundation of what we call civ
ilization. Had the human race at
that time lost the art of sharpen
ing flint, it would have been a dis
aster as great as though they
should today forget how to make
steam engines, dynamos, flying
machines, gunpowder. Everything