The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-31
Today
" Battles Were Near.
Exploring the Cosmos.
The Pound Goes Up.
Early John D. 0ifts.
b ARTHUR BRISBANE
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00u8to ana mouse Will lnvesIi-
gate the Washington thester
disaster. AL the city's thsaters
close. An important White
House reception is abandoned.
The President, deeply moved,
writes Of the uncertainty Of
fate. The lives involved num-
ber . few over a hundred.
The least skirmish in war
would hll Q greater number.
u those that make laws could
b % near the battlefelds ~
they were 10 that crashing the
atsr roof perhaps wars would
be postponed indefinitely. At
Least We would be ready for
them,
Washington sees in the dis
sstsr another reminder that
seh-sovsrnment Is desirable.
The resident Of Washington is
. man without a vote, without
power IN government. He does
mot run his own local affairs,
cannot even vote for or against
Congressmen that run them for
him.
II Washington could vote to
protect itself and punish care
less officials, it might have bet
ter building laws, better en-
forcemsnt Of laws existing.
Shackiston, English explorer,
II dead. He was a brave man,
one Of many that have put
Eneiand's flag all over the
earth. Death found him ex-
ploFing the South Polar re-
1iohs. Where 10 he exploring
nowf Whittier has he gone,
south or north; up, down. or off
TO one. side in q universe that
has no top or bottom?
Does the soul travel with the
speed Of light, $4,000 miles q
secondf II so, according to the
scientist, Pojncare, brother of
the French premier. It would
take Shackleton's spirit 18,500,-
600 years to travel across the
Milky Way. our corner Of space.
Does the spirit travel with the
speed Of thought, that reaches
to the most distant star in one
tenth Of Q second? Or does IL
stay right here, working while
this earth lasts. and then move
on? What would you give for
Shackleton's report Of the first
twenty-four hours of his latest
exploration--the journey that
Won Will have 10 make in duo
time. 4and all alnne ssSs I
The English pound sterling
went up again yesterday con
excited buying" and the dollar
of our Canadian friends Is al
most all the way up to par.
This means that the English
are selling goods. doing bust
ness. Their money is in de-
mand to pay for things bought
from them. Over there they
develop statesmen. instead of
politicians and diplomats in
stead Of the sentimental 81 love
everybody" type Of goose.
England. like the Catholic
Church. lasts and grows in
power because she understands
changing conditions.
She sets Ireland free. or al
most, when Ireland proves that
she IL going to have freedom.
And now there is talk of Civ
ing Egypt relativity. in the way
Of freedom. And mark this:
England will do the thing so
ingeniously that Egypt will de-
n,and the right to stay in the
British Empire and brag about
being British" as proudly as
any Canadian. Thel English
know how to colonize.
Sit on them as long as you
can, and when they get up,
make them think you picked
them up.
John D. Rockefeller, jr., told
his Bible class last Sunday:
"When my father was paying
81 q week for his lodging he
gave 8 cents a week to foreign
missions and 3 cents a week to
the poor" In all the worlds
history there has probably been
no more remarkable fulfillment
Of the text about casting your
bread upon the waters and get
ting It back with compound in
terest.
The ordinary man will OBJ
serve that, anyhow, it pays to
be systematic. Yesterday, Mr..
Rockefeller, senior. announced
that trustees of a certain fund
established by him were at lib
erty to give away, or use as
they pleased, the $85, 900, 900
Of hfs money handed over
originally with the stipulation
that the interest only was to be
spent
Mr.. Anderson, most ener-
Setic of the fighting prohibi-