The Washington times., 1922-05-19

cause 1t was a woman's victory.
1t proves that women judge
character. They saw in Pinchot
an honest. earnest, able man.
They paid little attention to the
bosses that were against him.
Women voting will make poll
tics much cleaner, as Queen
Victoria made the court clean
er. Not that she was very bril-
Liant, but she was a woman.
Tears are deadly to germs,
says an English scientist. One
tear in a test tube with mil
lions of bacteria dissolved them
all.
Nature has many ways of
protecting the body. There is
salt in tears, and salt is one
of the greatest protectors. Salt,
acid, and violent shaking are
deadly to germs. When you
sneeze you kill germs, just as
you would be killed if an ele-
phant stepped on you.
Senator Capper in his weekly
says that there is a chance of
really doing something about
war profiteers. The statute of
limitations no longer protects
them. The Department of JUS
tice may find out who ordered
six million sets of riding cpurs
for the army and navy.
For the navy spurs seem pre-
posterous. They can't make a
battleship or submarine go
faster. AS regards the army,
horses played little or no part
in this war. Buying six mil
lion pairs of spurs indicates
that somebody got something
from some one interested in the
spur business. OF course that
was a mere flea bite. The real
money was got in larger Jumps.
japan has two hundred flying
machines. One of them is ca
pable of sinking the greatest
battleship. How foolish it is
to talk about elimination of
armaments."
One fiier could destroy bat
tleship costing forty millions.
Multiply that by two hundred
and you know how much those
flying machines would be worth
to Japan in war. No wonder
she smiles and agrees to cst
down battleships.
The Nichi Nichi of Tokyo
says that in October Japan's
English air instructors will be
dismissed. America, perhaps,
or possibly England herself, may
regret those flying lessons given
to the Japanese.
Asia failed when she tried
, to invade Europe on ponies, on
camels, and on foot. She might
do better In the air.
The governments of Europe
will leave Genoa to meet later
at The Hague. Once more
they will miss Uncle Sam and
his >pocketbook.
The Genoa conference is not
a failure. Russia and Germany
made a treaty that made some
of the others think.
The latest news says the ma
tions have agreed not to attack
each other for eight months.
That is something. To say to
your neighbor, 81 won't shoot
you for the next eight months"
Is better than shooting him
next day.
In a Los Angeles school. hair
dressing, massage. and manicur-
ing are to be taught as trades.
To have a child study those
trades is like having him study
law, He will spend his life in
the law fighting others quar-
1 nels. In massage, manlcuring,
and hairdressing he will live
TO fix up other peoples bodies.
Better enable the child to hire
lawyers to fight his fights, and
manicurists, hairdressers and
massage artists to manipulate
his body-if he thinks such fook
ishness necessary. AS dull
career as could be imagined
would be rubbing somebody
else's hair, or fighting some
body else's legal fights.
At the rate of 975,000 miles
q day Mars is coming nearer to
the earth. On June 18 it will
be only forty million miles away
1T never comes any nearer
than that. 1t seems long way
off. but this solar system. the
sun and the planets that sur
round it, are as nearly "solid"
as a metal spoon that you hold
in your hand. What we CALL
"solid substance" is a collection
of atoms and molecules as far
apart in proportion to their di-
ameters as the sun ami the
' planets.
When Mars comes so near an,
other attempt will be made to
learn something about it, what
the people on that planet. so
much older than ourselves,
amount to. whether they really
dig canals to hold their oceans
as the planet gets rounG-we
shall have to do it some day