The Washington times., 1922-05-27

Our Gold a Danger?
Emperors Babe and Ma
poleon.
Daugherty Worries Them.
Planets and Ant Hills.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright, 1s23)


Mr.. Crissinger, Comptroller
of the Currency. says the United
States hoard of gold is a men,
ace to the prosperity of the
world.
When a public official says
that about the gold hoard Of a
nation. he is listened to as q
solemn, wise economist.
But a private individual talk
ing in the same way about the
money piled up by another in
dividual is looked upon and
hushed up as an anarchist.
What's the difference?
Kings and emperors find it
hard to restrain themselves
when angry-especially when
their physical power is out of
proportion to their mental
power.
You remember the discussion
between the philosopher. Vol
ney, and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Unable to answer Volney's ar
gument, Napoleon kicked him in
the stomach-a Napoleonic an
sWer.
Now Emperor Babe Ruth,
whose power resides in his arm.
Some distance below his brain,
throws dirt in the face of an
umpire And pursues a spectator
whose remarks offended him.
The umpire's decision may
have been wrong. the spectator
may have been rude. But the
popular Babe" demonstrates
once more. for the ten mil
lionth time in history, that
power goes to the head-espe-
cially when there isn't much Of
II in the head.
This news will please bond
buyers, war-stamp buyers. all
that gave and bought until It
hurt" all that have been taxed
up to their eyes and ears, all
the crowd that did the paying.
while a few did the stealing.
The Attorney General an
nounces that the turn of those
that did the stealing has come.
He is going after them and will
get them.
Mr.. Daugherty's announce
ment will set some distin-
guished patriots" to thinking.
1t is to be hoped that big fish
caught in the net will not be
thrown back and only little fish
kept to fry up a mess to
please the public. \.
The fishing ought to begin on
a well-known Wall Street cor
ner and extend from tb"re in
four directions.
Mr.. Abbott, of the Smith
sonian Institution, thinks our
neighbor, the planet Venus,
"may be" the abode Of human
beings. The curious thing is
that anybody should doubt
other planets are inhabited,
after they have cooled on
enough to make animal life
possible, and before they have
grown too cold and lost their
atmosphere.
IF an ant climbed to the top
of the ant hill, looked through
n telescope at thousands OF
other ant hills, and said, Mine,
probably, is the only ant NIL
inhabited by ants" you would
think him silly. ,.
That's what some scientists
do when they look into endless
Snace. at millions of suns car
Tying their families of planets
with them, and wonder
whether those planets are IN
habited. For what purpose do
they imagine the planets were
created? Surely not merely TO
amuse US.
A New York city bakers
pn;on had a fight with an en-
allowing baker and decided to
teach him a lesson. 1t started
n shop next door at cut rates
70 ruin the baker that it does
not like. The bakers union is
nrdered to close the shop, told
that it is wicked and cruel to
bankrupt a man, that it is un-
American, outrageous for
union. rich compared with one
sirqle master baker, to use its
money and power to ruin that
baker.
All true. perhaps. But when
h;o oil men were doing ex-
sctlv that same thing to lit
tic oil men, nobody went to jail.
What's sauce for the corpora
tion goose ought to be sauce
for the union labor gander.
This doesn't mean that either
goose or gander did the right
thing.
In the Congressional Direc-
torv every Congressman may
nrint what he chooses to say
shout himself. how wonderful
he is, etc. Here is the shortest
Congressional biography ever
written:
aTS II Caraway, Democrat,