The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-03
TODAY

sY ARTHUR sRIsBANE-

A Gentle Radical.
sy ARTHUR sRisBANE-
Same old story again. cotton
iHeaks to a new low price" How many
new laws" before the government
does something 40 protect cotton
growers and itself.
Italian currency also was s.new
/ lew" Lire, which ought to be worth
4 ttSsnty cents. sell for less than three
and half cents. The FiHme trouble
explains this new lew War is not
sp popular with fihsnciers as it used
/ to be. II no longer profits anyone, not
even the winner
The allies in the League of Nations
APE said to have worked out scheme
for extending credits to- distressed
countries They need it. and the al
lies might use some of the money they
borrowed from us which they say they
can't pay back.
Professor Unruh. well named. al
most made German aud other scien-
] lists believe that he had succeeded
in breaking down the atom
The word "atom" meaning in
/ Greek, mot be cut" was supposed to
Indicate the smallest possible particle
Of matter, We know now that every
atom Is made up OF certain number
of eieetrons and scientists count
those elecirons. II Professor Unruh
had been able to break down the atom
/ and release for Ilse the terrible force
that binds its PARTICLES tog ether, a
lump of coal as biz as your head
could run the machinery of Germany
for long time and all miners would
be out OF a job.
But niss providence doesn't Intend
/ just yei that man shall get so much
/ for 50 little. rrofes sor Unruh is in
/ Jail
Hiram johnson says disarmament
| would be good thing, If the Eve
great powers would meet and decide
upon il.
By and iy when the Republican
party marches up in aboslute com
mand. you will see what Hiram john
son really thinks about sdisarlna
ment He will be in favor of disarma-
ment for Root, Penrose, and many
others. But Hiram Johnson viii keep
in good fighting condition until all
the others convince him that they
mean to do the right thing And even
then he will keep in lighting trim
Thai lis what the United States will
dc. This couatry Is willing to be rea
sonalas-aRd eoeniniical, not willing
10 hesdf tins mercy o | any combination
OF countries.
Almost everything thai we cal
modern was done long ago. Scientists
have discovered IN fhe South2 esterT
desert. presumably on a elinside.
prehistoric apartment house" forty
five stories high, with a Thousand
rooms
Everything is old Leonardo tried /,
build flying machine. The first steam
engine vas built and actually ran
long before the beginning OF our era
II was only a toy. Cave men a hun
dred and fifty centuries ago possesses
b primitive knowledge Of, printing |
the Romans had known enough to de
velop it. working together through
printed words. they might. as Well
ssgsests. have extended world con
troll through many more centuries.
Certain gentlemen who think tn
way TO deal with radicalism is t
initiate the Russian Gar, and com
press radicalism until ii explode.
are much delighted at the president
refusal to pardon Eugene V. Deh
now suffering from heart disease
the federal prison.
No individual among one hundrc
and FIVE million makes much differ
cRce. and where hundreds Of thou
sands are imprisoned morally. /
poverty and worry, . few extra pris
oners in jails don't matter
But II rcsctionarY gentlemen wei
wise. they would be glad to see Del
released and restored to his radio
leadership
Debs is gentle kind hearted J.
would not hurt a fiy. much less
plutocrat He believes in refor
through love brotherhood and .
sorts OF pretty things
That's Just the kind Of radical lea,
eIship that plutOcrHey. if wise. wou
encourage and set free There mig
turn up here. some day. radio
leader different from She yentle Del
some man OF the Lenin type In
wouldn't try 10 reform the wor
through love or gentIeness BY kee
ing Debs. the human dove. in ia
foolish platocracy might bring 10 t
front some wildcat type of radio
not so easy to deal with.