The Washington times., 1921-09-20

No Excitement Here.
Silk From Spiders.
Church Sensation aIism.
ARTHUR BRIsBANI
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n church Sensationalism.
u-By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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England has one man idle to
three here. England's food cost
has dropped per cent in thirty
days. Here it has gone up 4 per
cent in sixty days. There they are
excited about "the hard, dangerous
winter" that is coming. Seven
labor mayors insist on seeing Lloyd
? George, although he is too i'll to
discuss the problem with them.
Here we are not excited at all.
Why should we be, since railroads,
having reduced wages, raised fares
and got another $500, 0,00O, 900 from
the Treasury, announce that their
stockholders are doing fairly well?
II no hard winter threatens stock
holders, why worry? That sounds
reasonable, perhaps, but someone
ought to tell the stockholders to
tell those the control that a hard
winter might be hard enough even
to worry them.
DR.. Steinmetz, genuine genius
OF the General Electric Company,
hopes to produce electrical light
ming that would need a current Of
fifty million volts. Will DR.. Stein
metz please do this: Arrange to
get lightning out of the air and
,Ssack into its mother earth with
out SO much noise and fright. All
the fuss is made by the electric
spark hopping from cloud to earth,
as little sparks fly from ends Of
broken wire. 1t ought to be pos
sible to bring that lightning down
peaceably and store It up for use
at the same time. !
Frenchmen in Madagascar are
weaving silk of spider webs.
Huge female spiders - males
amount to little among spiders
nearly three, inches long spin 300
to 400 yards of web every other
day and keep 1t up until worn
out, then lay eggs and die. In
the silk worm business you kill
the young to get the silk. With
spiders. you could save them all.
The spider silk is beautiful and
strong. II"
1t interests steel makers, for
the thread spun by a spider is
stronger. in proportion to size,
than the finest. steel cable. How
does the spider every other day
manufacture within herself 800
yards of such material, and how
does she make perfect web, with
no mother or other teacher to
! show her? She has done it for
thousands Of centuries.
In the billions of years ahead
of human BEINGS, they may be
born with knowledge, ready made,
far in excess Of what the wisest
man possesses now.
The Rev. DR.. Macarthur gave
way to DR.. Straton in the pulpit
of Calvary Protestant Church in
New York. They kept DR.. Mac
Arthur's name on the church cal
endar as pastor emeritus. He or
ders 1t taken off, because DR..
Straton Is too sensational.
DR.. Straton preached violently
againsts prize fighting. perhaps
bearing in mind the text about
turning the other cheek. which
prize-fighters never do. if they
what would DR.. Macarthur
say if DR.. Straton took a heavy
whip downtown and beat the
brokers in the stock exchange,
driving them all out? What are
the proper limits of sensational
ism in a clergyman that calls
himself, as DR.. Straton does,
goods prophet"
, The Oklahoma Agricultural Col
Iege, having borrowed a healthy,
young boy baby for experiment,
will try by extreme care to
make Of him a superior type.
It's an interesting, useful expert
ment. Such work applied to
fifteen hundred million human
beings on earth would raise the
average considerably.
But what counts can't be done
with that baby now. It was done
in the brains of his ancestors
centuries ago. Some sickly, neg
lected child will do with his
brain work that the Agricultural
College baby probably will never
do.
Voltaire with his many fits IN
babyhood, i'll all his life; Hope,
sewed up in a canvas jacket each
morning that he might sit up for
his work; Caesar with fits; Ma
poleon with fits, and the itch;
Keats, sickly, cqnsumptive; Poe
svith nerves that tormented him
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