The Washington times., 1921-03-16
Today
Gin, the Real Killer.
"0ut Prosperity"
Your DoIIar-HoW II Goes.
"lfe," Queer Thing.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyright 1s2l.)

Copyright. 1s2L)
Knight, . young negro with wide
shoulders, long arms, hands fall
ing below his knees. thick neck.
low forehead, got bottle Of gin.
Then he was determined to have
more gin. He stood at the road
side in the storm, and in the dark.
waiting to kill, aud get money
from the first person that should
come.
II done it." he said afterward.
II killed the lady. Don't blame
nobody else" He Lit a cigarette
and signed his confession.
Tho .first to pass was q young
woman, one hundred feet from her
own house. She was strangled
! and horribly mutilated Fortu-
nately, according to doctors. she
died of shock, the moment the
negro seized her.
Jersey justice" says 1t will have
Knight, the negro, convicted and
in the death house not later than
next Monday.
What about the real murderer,
4 the man who sold gin to that ne
, gro? He should be in the death
house In the next cell. 1t was the
gin that transformed the negro
, into gorilla; the gin strangled
the unfortunate young woman.
Austria, whitfield down to q
|! tiny country around the big city
f! Of Vienna, is half starving. 1t
!, needs energy, thoughtfulness
!, commercial manufacturing ability,
intelligence, capacity for intense
application to business. And fools,
led by superstitious, murderous
demagogues, are yelling in the
streets Of Vienna, "Out with the
Jews!"
That was the cry heard in Spain
and Portugal in the Middle Ages.
, The Jews were driven out. Both
countries became miserable fail
ures, while Holland, where Jews
| were welcomed and treated
.. Justly, went upward as fast as
, Spain and Portugal went down.
!, "Out with the Jews!" was the
cry once in barbarous England.
Then Cromwell, great statesman,
kicked out the old system. The
Jews came back, and the prosperity
of England, leading in the worlds
commerce, began with their re-
turn.
The miserably ignorant mob of
Vienna is seeking to drive away
the very people that might build
| mp commerce, manufactures. pros
| perity, and drive out famine.
You probably handed at least
one dollar to Uncle Sam for in,
come tax. OF that dollar sixty.
eight cents goes to pay for wars
that are ended, pensions, interest
on war debts, and so on, including
what it cost the Government to
pay private owners of railroads
big dividends during the war.
; Twenty cents out Of your dollar
goes to keeling the army and navy
ready for the next war.
That leaves twelve cents out Of
the dollar for everything else that
the Government spends, the salary
of the President and every other
official, the cost of justice, educa-
ton, harbors, canals, everything.
If human beings were not saw
ages, intent on killing each other.
this Government could save eighty
eight cents of every dollar or spend
the eighty-eight cents to make the
world better, instead of merely
spending it to prevent killing in
war.
A curious thing is what we
call "life." DR.. Carrell, French
scientist, experimenting for the
Rockefeller institute, can show you
today, living, part of the heart of
q tiny chick, removed from the
shell before it was completely
hatched. That small fragment of
heart has been kept alive on glass
slides. nourished, made to grow
and subdivided more than a thou
sand times.
For nine years it has "lived,"
and barring accidents; it might
live on forever. Every forty
eight hours this fragment Of liv-
ing tissue must be "fed" otherwise
it would die of hunger, as you
would die after forty-eight days.
Puzzle your mind over that phase
Of the question, what is life"
Is it mere power to renew tissue?
What about H. G. Wells state
ment that the earth ''has no i'm
ports except meteorites, and no
exports of any kind?" How do we
know that the brain of man is not
a wireless receiving station" TAX
ing in ideas from the outside uni
verse?
How do we know that new forms
of life are not occasionally brought
in. as the original life germ NAV