The Washington times., 1922-11-02
Today,
Tired, Poisoned Men.
Good Tory Argument
An Honest Suicide.
II We All Saved.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(COpyright. l922D

this is for you. DR.. Ochsner, Of
Chicago, very wise, says your
trouble is accumulation of
poisonous fatigue material" :"
Cumulative dividends are pleas
ing, but accumulating fatigue
poisons are not. Poisons accu-
mulate in the system and stay
there, as does mercury when
foolish people take it for medi-
cine. Mere rest won't get rid Of
the poison. 1t must be worked
off. And it takes at least TWO
weeks Of work to unload one
weeks poison accumulation.
What comes on slowly must go
away slowly.
IN their fight for power and
against Lloyd George, the
British Tories have developed
one ingenius idea. They buy
Russian rubles, give them away
at public meetings, saying to
the crowd: "The stuff we are
giving you for nothing used to
be real money, until Bolshevism
got control of Russia. Vote for
labor, and you will get Bolshe-
vism, and money like this
You may call it feeble argu-
ment, but it will make votes.
The honest shilling there and
the hundred cent dollar here
possess eloquence unknown to
other political arguments.
ENGLAND still looks to aris-
tocracy for guidance. Bonar
Laws new cabinet includes two
dukes, three marquises, four
earls, three viscounts, and sew
eral other sons Of peers.
Labor candidates ridicule this
noble aggregation, but England
still loves a lord.
YOU have read almost every
thing about suicides, from the
philosopher that jumped into
volcanoes mouth to the New
Jersey man tired of dressing
and undressing every day-but
this is new.
Mrs. Carrie kimball, discour-
aged, killed herself with gas in
Paterson, y. j., and left a dol
lar bill to help the landlady pay
for the gas. Enclosed is a dol
lar bill for the gas | used"
Those were the honest sui
cide's last words. May she find
. world better than this at the
ether end Of that gas journey.
THE Northern Kansas Tele-
phone and Power Company says
to employees: "Save part of
your wages or lose your job
The plan works well. Every
employe must save 10 per cent.
Many save 80 per cent 1t
sounds ideal as far as that
group is concerned. But sup
pose everybody saved and be-
came independent at forty,
what would happen to the pres
ent social structure? That the
thoughtless majority can be
trusted to go on spending is
fortunate for the thoughtful
minority.
HENRY FORD buys the
Wayne Coal Company, largest
bituminous coal stripping con-
Germ in the world.
Ford has already bought
enough northern forests to sup
ply him with wood forever, if
he takes care of the new
growth.
He owns one railroad, and
though he is not the richest
man in the world yet, coming
next to Rockefeller, it looks as
though he would eventually be
the richest, and independent
of everything but Old Father
Time. You can't escape him
or buy him out.
And Ford. although he
doesn't know it, and wouldn't
believe anybody that told him,
lives in way that will cut
many years from time that he
might have.
THE coal that Ford will prob
ably buy for fifteen million
dollars amounts to one hundred
and eighty million tons under
ground. 1t is coal most easily
mined, no tunnels, the ground
is stripped off and coal scooped
out by steam shovels.
At five dollars a ton it would
be worth nine hundred million
dollars; so fifteen millions is
a reasonable price and shows
that coal mining must some
time be profitable.
PRESIDENT HARDING will
offer a prize for any practical
concrete suggestions for collect
ing the foreign debts ?" That
.,rgoetion ought IN ha worth