The Washington times., 1922-03-11
Today
Poor Government Doctors.
ITO Get Ready" for Death
Lie Down Goo asIonaIly.
College Men Don't Pray.
ARTHUR BRIsBANI
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sick as q planet could be. and
its government doctors are As
: helpless rs an Alaskan medi-
cine man when smallpox breaks
out. They don't. know how to
do anything except lie down and
die.
European money has gone to
smash. Industry over here Is
sick and millions idle. Our
money is too good, Europe's
money is too bad. Europe wants
to arrange some kind of agree,
nnent to stop fighting and throat
cutting and doesn't quite know
f. how.
Modern surgeons cut into the
patient and DO something; they
do not sit around and talk.
Z II the world could suddenly
develop a powerful dictator that
would say to everybody. "You
70 to work, producing wealth,
and / will Distribute" that
would settle the present dis
ease, but it would give the
world a worse one.
John McHenry. aged twenty
four, killed two men. The
Judge gives him an extra week
Of life "to get ready. Rather
painful subject, but IL you were
John McHenry. how would you
"get ready" for execution? A
majority of men would only get
nervous. Great kindness Is
shown by Providence to ami
mails. They all die without
knowing Of. death. Man not
only has to die, but also has to
worry about It. u
The best way to get ready
for death, after thoroughly de-
nouncing and despising your
self and confessing your un-
worthiness, might be to buy q
FIRST t-class astronomy, read 1t
intelligently and realize that
IN q cosmos rs big as this what
happens to you probably doesn't
matter.
One chapter on the great
nebuls in Orion would make
you say:
al don't amount to much"
Into that nebulous space you
could throw this earth and ten
million more like it and 1t would
be like dropping a few grains
of sugar in the Pacific Ocean.
Professor Courtiere, of Paris,
serious scientist, says we stand :
too much. That's evident in.
our build. We are QuadfupQds ;
that have learned to walk erect
during the last few hundred
tnsSs,ad ta.sS = Y years and haven't got
Everything inside of us Says
down as we stand up. That's
what gives men. Of fifty un-
pleasant, protruding abdomens.
Old horses don't have them.
But what would an old horse
look like in q few years IL he
stood on his hind legs ten or
twelve, hours a day?
II may hurt William Jennings
Bryan's feelings to say so. for
he still believes that every hu-
man male skeleton has a rib
missing on one side. Never
theless it's a fact that all our
internal organs are arranged
for . horizontal position of the
spine. Liver and kidneys are
not properly supported when you
stand straight. Doctors advise
women before childbirth to rest
on their hands and knees a great
deal.
While you stand straight your
heart must pump blood from
your feet all the way up. Ly-
ing down or on all fours, your
heart would work one-tenth as
much.
All this is only theoretically
useful, for our destiny is to
stand up. that we may look at
the sky, and we must get used
to it through evolution and
adaptation. But lie down when
ever you can, especially as you
get older. and let the heart
catch up.
DR.. Ferry, head of Hamilton
College. says students do not
pray.
"When you talk to him of a
personal God. the college man
does not understand" DR.. Ferry
saws, however. "Your present
day college man talks of truth,
honor, and service to Others"
That's something.
College men should know that
prayer often brings results, even
when you pray to the WRONG
god. Pagan Mohammedans
fight with fury and success
after praying to Allah, who, as
we enlightened know. was only
Mohammed's invention. Prayer
Is a power in itself.
DIR. Ferry says we must 20
back ITO the faith of our IA
thers." Even then you must Sc
lect "the fathers" Thomas
Jefferson and Franklin were
none too religious.