The Washington times., 1922-10-12

4oiohu, saw Lie DTOWh
natives he thought he was in
India, and called them Indians.
We keep the name which is pre-
posterous.
1t is said that Columbus was
tall, with. an aquiline nose,
which means a nose ike an
eagles beak, and blue eyes. He
died neglected and never knew
what he had discovered. If he
could come now in flying
machine to watch our election
and see a hundred millions of
people demonstrate their in
ability to govern themselves, he
might say, 81 made a mis-
An old baseball poem says,
Somewhere in this pleasant
land the sun is shining
bright" One such spot is the
humble home of the Standard
Oil of New Jersey stockholder.
Yesterday he learned that
stock in the company was in
creased from $11O, 100000 to
1926, 5,000,QQ0. He gets a 400
per cent stock dividend, a good
deal better than cash, for later
those shares will have more
little baby shares, and the
sun will shine again.
. Strange that a country rich
Enough to get such magnifi-
Rnt results from the users
i gasoline, ETC., isn't rich
enough to pay bonus to its
soldiers. ..~ =
Answer to that puzzle:
Standard Oil Is WeH organized,
the people not. -.
This universe, where in some
shape you have always ex-
listed, and in which your life
can never end, although you
don't know exactly what it Is
to be ten trillion years from
now, is the only interesting
thing.
Scientists have extended its
dimensions, and say it's two
auintrillion miles wider than
they thought. Off to one side
they have discovered a clus-
ter of stars, giant suns, invis-
ible to the strongest telescope,
revealed by faint impression on
q negative. The Milky Way,
supposed to be all there is of
our universe, is now declared
to have a diameter of 100000
parsecs. A "parsec" is one
flight year." A light year
Is the distance that light
travels in 365 days, going 1885,
900 miles a second-more than
seven times around the earth
for every jump of the second
hand
!, A few years ago the width of
the Milky Way was fixed at
10000 parsecs. This new dis
eovery puts the outer boundary
of our cosmic domain two quin-
tillion miles farther off than we
thought. To write a quintillion
nut down ] and add 18 ciphers,
American plan. The English
ouintillion is one million raised
to the fifth power. To write
that put followed by 30
ciphers.
This is a big universe, and it
"a foolish to set any limits to
IL, for with all respect to Elm
stein and his curvature of time
and space, there cannot be ANY
limit to space or time. That Is
settled by the questions: What
Is beyond your boundary?
What comes AFTER the end
of your time?"
Whatever is really good
rPAYS. Judge Gary, of the
big steel company, devotes his
time to safety first trans
lated into his more practical
"don't get hurt" The steel
company spends a million
dollars yearly fighting acci-
dents. It has spent in all one
hundred millions to make its
gigantic plants and forests Of
huge machinery kill as few
workers as possible.
Judge Gary will tell you that
his company never made a bet
ter investment, even from the
viewpoint Of the most selfish
stockholder. Every dollar spent
to increase safety comes back
in more work, greater efficiency,
good interest on the invest
ment.
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