The Washington times., 1922-02-23
Arthur BRIsBANR

l--By ARTHUR BRIsBANR-l
Scepyvssss issai
There II talk In Congress Of
forbidding the use Of great
Zeppelin airships. It's foolish
talk. In France they suggested
stopping railroad trains when
they first ran from Paris to
Versailles. Killed half the pas
sengera Instead, the manage.
ment hired q troupe of actors
and actresses to ride back and
forth, smiling at car windows,
until public confidence was re-
stored.
The big ship Roma, out Of
control, struck high tension
wire and sparks set fire to
100000 cubic feet Of hydro
gen gas In the bag. Had helium
gas been used 1t would not
have exploded. ..
Moral: Use safe gas. Later
no gas may be used. The first
boats were round logs, floating,
with men astride. Next they
were followed into canoes.
Then came wooden ships, carry
ing great cargoes. Then came
iron ships, and the makers Of
wood ships said they would
sink, but they did not.
Ships lighter than air will be,
al metal one day, as ships
lighter than water are all meal
now. A shell Of toughened
aluminium braced within may
be lifted by an interior vacuum.
The engines would maintain the
vacuum with air pumps, as ship
engines pump water out of the
hold. A vacuum would be
lighter than any gas.
You'll be told by engineers that
no lighter-than-air metal bag
could be made strong enough to
resist wind and atmospheric pres
sure. How do they known Engi-
neers said iron ships would not
work, trains going twenty-five
miles an hour would kill those
that rode in them and those that
stood beside the track, etc.
What men can imagine, they
can do. -I--. '...
. In tests for mental alertness,"
twenty-four heads of colleges
rank lower than some college
freshmen, boys just beginning
- Nothing ssuspfisins II that.
The question Il n6t now spry are
you mentally or how many things
do you remember or how rapidly
can you jump from one question
to another. THIS is tke question:
"Have you transformed KNOWL-
EDGE into WISDOM, and how
much knowledge into how much
wisdom?"
Alert youth gathers knowl-
edge. Mature thought makes wis
dom Of the knowledge. Old brains
harden, death comes, wipes off
the slate, and we start again.
That's the routine. We have
all been through it probably ten
million times on this earth al
ready and shall 60 through it a
billion times more, carrying over
from each time q little Of the
acquired power. Every time 1t
seems all new. That's what keeps
rs going.
Ghandi, leader of the rebellion
Of India, speaksin a gathering of
5000 dressed only in loin cloth.
Some are deeply impressed by
this noble simplicity. It suits
England to face q rebellion thus
led. Before d man does much
that Is worth while he gets a full
suit Of clothes. Poor Lo, the red
Indian, solemnly faced and de-
nounced his Step-uncle Sam
dressed in a loin cloth, paint and
feathers. Where is poor Lo now?
There's q ready-made clothing
store for whites where once his
tepee stood beside the Great
Water.
Frank A. Munsey gives you the
latest news from London society.
To be witty" you invent the
name Of an imaginary book and
the name Of an imaginary au-
thor; the two names combined
provide the "wit." For instance,
"Have you read The Drunkard,'
by Maud Lynn" Maudlin, see
the point7 Answer, "No, but I
enjoyed The Horsemen,' by
'Rhoda Stride,'" etc. Feeble
minds can do It; that's why it's
popular in society"
Try it yourself. What would
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