The Washington times., 1922-06-28

William Rockefeller, Dead.
When HeIicopters Come.
Gambling Feeds sclsnce.
Monkey Fur for Females.
BRISBAN
(Copyright. ie11.l

by ARTHUR BRIsBANE-l
tCopyright. 1854,
Men die, pass from. sight, and
men that see them come and 60
know as little about them as
animals in the stockyard know
Of their fellow-animals walking
one by one toward death.
When Louis xI died in
France. you would have been
told: "He fought the Duke
Of Burgundy to his death.
He imprisoned a bishop In .
torture cage invented by that
same bishop. He encouraged
mobiles to hate and fight each
other" etc.
You would not have heard
what real work the great king
had done. He established unity
OF weights, measures, and
money in France. And by en-
couraging mobiles to fight each
other he established his own
central power, preparing the
way for uniform government
throughout France, and for to-
days French republic.
You read now of William
Rockefeller's death, and are
told: Like his brother John, he
made a great fortune. He
competed in the maelstrom of
American industry and finance,
and came out on top"
William Rockefeller leaves q
monument more permanent, en-
during, amazing, and admirable
than any giant pyramid, Colos-
sus Of Rhodes, Tai Mahal, or
other so-called wonder"
William Rockefeller har-
messed the waterfalls Of the
Rocky mountains, and used
their power to haul freight and
swift passenger trains over that
rocky backbone of our conti-
nent.
The system was so organized
that the great trains, pulled up
one side of the mountains by
electric power, actually created
and stored up more electric
power as they plunged down
the other side.
Thousands knew It COULD
be done. William Rockefeller
DID it. That's an American
monument worth leaving. Two
things count--to leave the
world better; to leave its peo-
pie wiser. .-
The English, having climbed
within two hundred feet Of Mt.
Everest,s top. have given up.
Scientists say. IF the top Is
ever reached, the climber win
not live to return"
They say that now. But the
day Is coming when 1t will be
not unusual for a 'helicopter
type of flying machine to land
a whole class of school boys on
the top of Mt. Everest. There,
inclosed in glass, the interior
atmosphere properly regulated.
with an atmosphere destructive
Of human life outside, the teach
or will lecture on that twenty
nine thousand foot mountain,
only a tiny roughness on the
surface of the earth. which, in
proportion to its size, Is as
smooth as an apple.
The death of Albert, Monaco's
prince, reminds you that in all
evil there Is some good. His old
castle on the hill looks over
the Mediterranean, and beyond
20 the left, looking across the
water toward Africa, Is the
Monte Carlo gambling hell,
where misery. despair, suicide,
immortality, and dishonesty are
manufactured as regularly as
cars in a Ford factory.
With money from that gam
bling house, Prince Albert,
quiet, studious old scientist,
carried out his important work.
He studied strange life in ocean
depths, charted the oceans cur
rents. Those charts were use
full to US in war, indicating
probable drift Of explosive
mines planted in the ocean.
In the princes little domain,
IN which his ancestors were
left undisturbed by Napoleon
because they sided with him,
the Prince Of Monaco legislated
wisely. His own subjects are
never allowed to enter the
rambling house. He did not
want them committing suicide.
The size of the Monaco
principality, eight square miles,
two square miles smaller than
= farm owned by this writer in
the State of New Jersey, re-
minds you Of small national
divisions Of territory in the old
days. l a..