The Washington times., 1922-07-07

Worst Waste Of All.
Oxygen and Hydrogen.
Foolish Swim, Silly Race.
Castles Learn Slowly.
BY ARTHIIR RRIsRANE

tCopyright. 1921 .-.s
Everybody has said something
about American waste. We
waste IN forest fires. in the
garbage pail. According to sta
tistics, We waste enough to feed
q nation We waste in lands
unused, and in agricultural i'm
elements left ort in the rain,
good for onlv one season.
We waste by hurrying too
much, eating too fast, sleeping
too little.
But of all the foolish waste,
the worst is this: THERE
ARE NOW 1.250,000 men on
strike in the United States.
At 81 a day average. that
means $5,o00,O00 a day, a bill
lion and a half dollars a year,
to say nothing Of the loss to
employers. owners. stockhold-
ers.
Workers and employers dis
agree, there comes a strike or
lockout. money and work are
wasted while seeing which can
stand It the longest"
There ought to be intelli.
gence enough in the country to
change that.
One Mexican Oil stock went
up nearly one hundred points,
then flopped. went down almost
half as much. Only the Re-
cording Angel knows what the
poor gamblers said.
The slump was caused by
ssalt water in the wells" Very
old announcement.
There is salt water in some
wells. undoubtedly. Also there
are several thousand million
barrels of oil in Mexico: so take
care how you go "short."
The curious thing is that if
men knew how to use it, how
to separate the two parts hy-
drogen and one part oxygen
that make up a molecule Of
water, they would have a fuel
better than oil or gasoline. leav-
ing no carbon deposit.
And if they knew how to use
The power that holds together
the atoms of hydrogen and
oxygen in the molecules that
fiji wineglass full of water,
they would release more power
than could be developed by
burning one hundred thousand
barrels of oil.
Hydrogen burns with intense
heat, oxygen is necessary to all
combustion, and combined, two
parts Of hydroken. one of oxy-
gen. in water. puts out fire.
That's worth ten seconds of
thought. Combine hydrogen and
oxygen in equal parts and you
have peroxide of hydrogen,
which turns the lady's hair yell
low and cleanses wounds.
All the heat in your body is
due to slow burning caused by
oxygen. Stop breathing and
your body gets cold-no more
oxygen taken in from the air.
Neral: Sleep with all windows
open.
An American is starting for
Europe to swim across the Eng
lish Channel, if he can. One
Erglishman did it.
The Duke of Leinster has bet
fifteen hundred dollars he can
> drive his automobile from Lon
don to Aberdeen faster than the
express train goes.
Both swimming and racing
are wasted. A fish six inches
long can swim across the Chan
mel and back a dozen times
while a two hundred-pound man
labors heavily half way across.
Everybody knows that an
automobile can go faster than
the average express train, If
anybody is foolish enough to
drive il so rapidly. Men with
money, courage, and energy
should do something new, or at
least useful.
Some imperialistic gentle
men in Germany would avoid
trouble by reading a few pages
of history. The Count Of
Greseneaus, near Magdebsrg,
kept the kaiser's flag flying
above his castle. When "the
mob" tried to haul It down his
servants fred on that mob.
People in castles learn slowly.
A certain Frenchman-he had
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