The Washington times., 1922-05-09

Earth's Ant Hill.
We're Saving Money.
big As a Scent Piece
How Norwich Travels.
by ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright. 1921


and tunnels. Your horse steps
on the village, and everything
is excitement. Rebuilding. rush
ing, planning, restoring.
Similarly. the suns light
rides millions of miles through
the fields of ether. and comes
upon this ant village called the
earth, also in great agitation,
war having put his foot upon it.
There is rushing. planning. re-
building. and the center Of agi-
tation is Genoa.
You learn that Japan is max
ing a treaty with Russia. Italy
plans to make a separate Rus
sian peace and agreement
promptly if the Allies fail to
do so.
The French and the English
ants are fighting, bitter against
each other. The French ant
stands close to his little Bel
gian brother. saying, 1--WE stick
together; he fought for me-"
Nobody steps on our Ameri-
can ant hill. or at least not Sc
riousIy. And if there is any
wisdom here. we shall keep
away from the European rush
and squabble.
President Harding. boss of
the American ant hill. an
nounces that we are trying to
do financial reconstruction here.
The Government will spend SIX
teen hundred million dollars less
in 1922 than in 1921. if hopes
are realized.
In addition to thanking Pres
ident Harding, the people should
thank Mr.. Madden. of Illinois,
chairman of the committee that
has cut down expenditures.
French francs and Belgian
francs dropped in value yester-
day. Men who deal in money,
not sentiment. believe the al
lied situation is weakened and
that France and Belgium are
not as strong as they were,
with England disgruntled and
uniting with Italy in an offer
to lend three hundred million
gold francs to Russia.
You have read in this column
the suggestion that England,
before long, would make with
Germany a treaty apart from
the Allies.
Henry Wickham Steed. editor
of the London Times. says Lloyd
George is contemplating "an
agreement with Germany. even
at the cost of abandoning the
British claims for reparation."
The ropean kaleidoscope
changes rapidly.
Man proposes. God dispoScS.
Small things. presumably the
agents of the Deity, settle i'm
portant matters.
Thomas F. Ryan said of n.
p. Dawson. Of Morgan & Com
pany: "When Morgan and
Rockefeller and the rest of us
are gone. young Dawson will
be richer than all of u.s." That
was a few years ago at A birth
day dinner given to Mr.. Ryan
by his son Allan.
The elder Morgan is gone.
John d. Rockefeller and Thomas
F. Ryan are still here, and II.
?. Dawson is gone. taking with
him the mainsprlng Of J. ?.
Morgan & Co. 1t will probably
find another handspring. 1t
has fine inducements to offer.
Mr.. Dawson left ten millions.
which is long way from
wealth, according to the modern
idea.
In announcing the operation
that caused his death, Morgan
& Co. said it was necessary to
remove from Mr.. Davison's
brain a tumor "about as big as
q Scent piece"
Through the circulating blood
into the brain had travelled
fragment of tissue capable of
setting up and building a bodv
Of its own. "No bigger than .
Scent piece that wandering
fragment ended the activities of
brain that might have built
. fortune OF thousands of mil
lions.
Norwich travels surrounded by
every care. Food to which he
Is accustomed goes with him.
His shoemaker, his own serv-
ants accompany him. His car,
carefully routed" travels so
swiftly that only a million.
aires private car could have
done better"
Norwich is a race horse. not
a scientist. His shoemaker is
a blacksmith. He had five kinds
of hay, and especially chosen