The Washington times., 1922-08-30

wait. Corporation gentlemen,
with strings on the Administra-
ton, will hold thes, strings
just as tight a month hence as
they do today.
Henry Ford throws interest
ing light on the situation. He
says that "coal brokers" have
plenty of coal. II he cared to
pay the price, he could buy
enough coal to cover a ten-acre
lot as high as he chose. The
plan of coal owners, according
to Ford, is to break down the
unions and let the public pay
the cost Of stopping the mines
by paying two or three prices
for coal. He is now flooded with
offers of coal at prices from
100 to 300 per cent up. That
ought to interest the Admins
tration.
1t interests the people that
soon will be voting.
Some doctors, of whom
many know very little, advise
the world that men should eat
a hearty breakfast. Mental
work, they say, cannot be done
efficiently otherwise.
There have been some eff
ficient mental workers in
France-none of them ever
ate a hearty breakfast. Except
for day laborer, giving out
enormous quantities of muscu-
lar energy, a hearty meal in
the morning is stupid and
harmful. ;.
You eat TO REPLACE tis-
sue used up. You don't load
on food as a ship loads on
coal, to be used as you go
along.
Sensible men, especially
those that work with their
brains and nerves, business
men and others, eat as little
J as possible during the hours
Of work. In the evening,
when work is over, rest one
hour before.-you-est anything.
Then eat as moderately as
self-control permits and wait
two hours before going to
sleep. Real and complete di-
gestion occurs during sleep
and at no other time.
II all the things the average
doctor does not know about
diet were put in one volume,
it would be a big book. You
realize that when you see the
way patients are fed following
q serious surgical operation.
II ignorance were a crime,
some doctors would be locked
up.
While you discuss lack Of coal
this winter, the delay of trains
and other trifling difficulties,
you may find comfort in think
ing about forty-eight miners,
now trapped 4,200 feet below
the surface in, the Argonaut
gold mine, two miles from Jack
son, Cal.
The men are trapped by
fire burning in the mine three
hundred feet above them. They
cannot come up through the fire.
Rescuers cannot 20 down to
them. Electric wires are burned
out, the men are in the dark,
wondering how Long their sup
ply Of air will last, whether
lack Of air or the fire will kill
them,
Men are struggling desper-
ately, but hopelessly, to save
them.
Work in mines is not a pleas
ant occupation. Those that seek
to destroy mining unions and
cut wages to the lowest level
don't seem to appreciate it.
Captain Macmillan and Lieu
tenant Mullins, trying to fly
around the world, fell into the
sea, encountered two things
equally dangerous-sharks and
human ignorance. Macmillan
cables from India a description
of the sharks, and of natives
who passed in their dole boats
and would not go near them,
believing from their costumes
that they were devils.
Ignorance and superstition see
devils in everything new. Years
ago they could see nothing but
devils in science revealing the
truth to man.
In Russia, when the Ameri-
can international Harvester
Company began selling harvest
ing machines that made a big
noise, their chief difficulty
was to convince the peasants
that the machines were useful
and had no devil hidden in
them.
Have you collected the in
terest on your Liberty bonds?
The Government is having diff
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