The Washington times., 1922-07-01

Ireland and North Dakota.
TO Conquer Pneumonia.
Cows, 81, 900 Pounds Of
ka;IL
200 MiIlions--Not All.

primaries Of Senator McCum-
Der Of North Dakota are the
news Of importance as this is
written.
The Irish fighting, now con-
centrated in the south Of Ire
land, Catholics fighting Catho-
Hes, shows how difficult it is to
establish a new nation or even
, q free state. There have been
many failures for one success
fui attempt in the worlds his
tory.
Senator McCumber's defeat
need not puzzle the Admins
tration or the old guard Re-
publicans.
People expect too much, in
cluding immediate prosperity,
when they replace one admin
tstration with another.
Voters are dissatisfied and
are trying something new. \
With the war ended, the
people are beginning to pay the
billions that the war cost, other
billions that patriots" stole,
and many billions thrown away
In waste.
Until that bill is settled, good
times come back, and profiteer-
ing Is made more difficult, each
administration in turn will have
troubles and electoral upsets.
X Capt. Hermann M. Biggs,
New York State commissioner
of health, announces the dis
covery of q new and "aston-
ishingly successful" serum for
the prevention Of pneumonia.
Although details are not
given, the announcement from
high authority is most impor-
tant to the human race. Pneu-
monia is an especially vicious
disease, because it takes men
In their prime, and older men
and women at the time when
they might render their best
service to humanity.
We raise monuments to men
that won bloody battles. But
the great victories, the only
permanent victories, are the
victories of scientists.
Recently they have con-
quered diphtheria, and typhoid,
as long ago they conquered
smallpox. These are conquests
worth while, saving in the long
run of centuries not only mil
lions but billions Of human
lives. a
{ { SIntersstias "a fsSsssSapd
other intelligent people: u
IN one year herd Of Re
Holstein cows in the dairy Of
the Pennsylvania State Col ege
have produced forty-seven tons
of milk. The Ave cows weigh
less than 5000 pounds and they
yield in one year $4,000 pounds
of milk. That kind Of interest
doubly and trebly compounded,
produced by the intelligence of
educated farmers, Is the sort
of ''usury" that the world
wants, l. u.
If all human beings were
compelled to work as honestly
as those five cows work, il they
had as good care and direction
as those cows have had, what
n fine world this would be.
The will of William Rookie
feller (not the rich Mr.. Rookie
Teller, but his less prosperous
brother) will divide at least
two hundred millions Of dol
lars In actual wealth-perhaps
q good deal more. But those
figures do not represent the
entire fortune. which is largely
in undeveloped possibilities.
When q man. owns wells,
mines, railroads, a great enter
prise of all kinds in the United
States, il is hard to say how
much he is worth.
Seventy-five years ago Mr..
Rockefeller didn't have one hun
dred dollars. This country GER
tainly offers opportunity.
Something good Is coming out
Of Macedonia, if you happen to
smoke cigarettes. The country
that produced Alexander, who
conquered as much Of the world
as he cared to. and that Of late
has been under the rule of the
Turks. now belongs to Jugo-
Slavia.
All the Turks did was bad,
except that they did plant good
Turkish tobacco. Gentlemen
and ladies with nothing to do
like the smoke of that tobacco,
and 1t may make Jugo-Slavia
rich. But it's quite a drop from
producing a world conoueror to
producing Turkish cigarettes.
An earnest, not very success.
ful effort to "take some Of 1t
with you," is shown in the ac-
counting Of the w. L. Harkness
act ate Mr. Hardness left sopoe-