The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-12
Today
Omar's Evil Suggestion. Gold Among Skeletons.
 Mexico-Great Oil We'll. What Value Has Wells?
By ARTHUR BRISBANE


 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 An unfortunate woman. at Atlanti' City. separated from her husband killed herself and three daughter yesterday. leaving this quotation from the Rubaiyat:
 What if the soul could cast th'
 earth aside.
 And naked on the air of Heaven ride were't not shame. were't not 1
 shame, indeed.
 In this clay earcas longer to abide?'
 Many suicides, probably. have beer drunkards have found In the Rubaiya excuses for their drunkenness. Blu Omar Bin Ibraheem Al Khayyamee to give him part of-his full name while he wrote praising alcohol ant suicide. was neither drunkard mol a suicide. He was a good mathema tician. a scientist and died peaceablS in his native town. Do what he did not what he suggested.
 Gold lasts and mans love for 1t Philadelphia concern will try tc salvage the steamship Lusitania. IT the Lusitania's iron body lie many skeletons, white and grinning. Pow erful machinery lies idle. cartridges that will never explode are still ir their boxes. Old and young, men women and children. their flesh long since gonesto feed the darting fishes lie in the wreck. All these will be found and left. There is gold in the ship. One passenger had seventy five thousafd dollars worth of 1t. An other had about s1oo,oo0 in. care ot the purser. Millions in gold are there And to get that gold the salvaging expedition will go. The rest doesn't interest them. Skeletons lose their interest. Gold never.
 Sir Henri W. A. Detirding. head oi and boss of the Russian and other oil wells. is said to be the most power f1l, best informed man in the oil business of the world. Sir Henri his honor by Lewis L. Clarke. presi- dent of the American Exchange bank, just before he sailed for Europe.
 Among other things the interna- nj ic !, oil underground to supply gasoline and fuel for ships flor centuries to come." Mexico is one gigantic oil field-nobody has any conception of the oil wealth under the ground there.
 In regard to Russia Sir Henri says that his great company wants only what Is rightfully ours" He is a powerful man and you get the im- pression that after he has got what he thinks is rightfully his" there won't be much left.
 How valuable is H. c. Wells Out line of History" Many discuss that question. The Wells "outline .of History is of the greatest value. It does not merely teach history; it makes men and women want to know history. And what is more important, it makes them think for themselves after they have read.
 Whether civilization, as we know 1t. began in the fertile Nile valley or earlier in Mesopotamia, that land between the rivers" watered by the Tigris and the Euphrates. is not inn portant.
 Whether man started in the tropics and lost his hair by the action of heat. gradually coming down from the trees and walking north on his rear legs, or whether he started in the north living in caves and think -.-s, snow bound .all winter long. losing his hair because. he covered himself with heavy skins of other animals, makes no difference.
 Whether the moon was formed by a gigantic chunk thrown off from this earth, creating the hole which is now the Pacific ocean. whether it was made up of considerable num- Der of planetoids attracted by each -eother and forming one big ball .or whether the whole thing al we see 1t was planned as the majority believe, by a Wise Divine Power. makes no difference so far as real education is concerned
 It isn't 50 much what, you know as what you try to know. It isn't so much the absolute accuracy of your views on how the whale lost it's legs or the bird got its wings as the amount of thinking you do. Wells makes you think. as do all other good tory as written is largely conjecture and prejudice anyhow.
 The most cursed man in history was Louis, the Eleventh. And there is ! king that France or any other mon- archy had in a thousand years.
 Learned educators in Philadelphia discuss the value of education "as an aid to foreign trade" It has great value and of all education. the most important in foreign trade and other things is poAteness. Tact. sympathy and understanding effacement, lis, tenins to the other man instead of forcing him to listen to you--every- thing that comes under the heading 'poiiteness' is vitalIy important in foreign trade. vitally important in home trade, and vitaliy important in