The Washington times., 1922-08-04
Judging the President.
Come Up, | Want You.'
Pea Soup, Work, Whiskey,
HoIed Out in One.
By ARTHUR BRIsBAN.
Copyright. is,a)

plc- will decide what sort of
man Mr.. Harding is and what
his strength of will amounts to.
1t will have a good deal to do
with deciding the next Presi-
Dental election. Some say 1t
was all arranged. The Presi-
dent was to request a settle
ment, acceptable to the work
ers, to keep the records straight
and help Republicans at the
next election. Then, when the
roads refused, the President
could say to the men, "Well,
did my best" That sugges-
ton is a little too subtle.
A Mr.. Watson helped Bell
make instruments for his first
telephone. 1t ran from an up
per to a lower floor in the
house. The first message ever
heard over the phone was this:
"Watson, come up here; want
you" This was the last mes
sage Bell ever heard: "Bell,
come up here; I want you"
When Bell is buried today, all
the telephones in the United
States and Canada will be silent
for one minute. That means
cutting off at least $4,000 mes
sages, allowing for extra busi-
ness in day time.
Bells little idea of calling
Watson over a wire has grown
into thirty million messages a
day, ten million subscribers
talking over twenty million
miles of wire, one thousand mil
lion dollars worth of property,
and 100000 employees. II you
get good idea, stick to 1t.
Monsieur Hilaire Guerin,
mayor of La Prairie, in Canada,
leading three others, saves 470
lives, making forty trips in a
frail boat through the rapids.
One man that tried before him
was swept to his death.
Fine heroism, but this is
shocking: Monsieur Hilaire
gives recipe for heroism, "pea
soup, hard work, and white
whiskey." You are comforted
by his statement that the hard
work is more important than
the white whiskey. Somehow,
no matter how good Prohibi-
ZIONIST you are, you feel that
heroism and some ,alcohoLhave
always been close together.
"Claret for women and chill
dren, port wine for ordinary
men, brandy for heroes" is an
old saying that sticks in the
mind.
Yesterday Johnstone Vance,
editor of The New Haven
Herald, drove 165-yard golf
hole in one stroke. Up the ball
flew, along it rolled and hop
ped into the little hole. Others
will know enough to realize
that it was an accident, and
won't waste time trying to re-
peat it. But let it be said that
q man has made money in
racing, or stock gambling, or
a lottery, much more difficult
than holing out in one at 165
yards, and thousands of idiots
will try the same thing.
Every American, on the
average, received 112 letters
through the postoffice last
year. And the art Of letter
writing is as dead as cuneiform
script. Today's letter writing,
compared with that of the
Eighteenth century, Is like
machine-made mosquito net
ting compared with fine old
lace. We are in too much of
a hurry to do things we'll. But
it is all right. The human
race, like an individual, does
only one thing we'll at a time.
This is the age of quantity,
and quality will come later.
New silver mines, with ore
running $50 to the ton, have
been found in the barren lands
north of Fitzgerald, Alberta.
How that will arouse excite
ment, and how it will sound to
Germany, Austria, Russia and
other countries trying to make
good money out Of paper. Yet,
If Germany discovered a solid
mountain of gold and it became
known, she could not pay her
debts. The gold would be as
worthless as paper marks and
France would not accept it. The
only real values are earth,
thought and labor.
France, according to the
Associated Press, is preparing
to take the Rhineland from Ger
many, including the remaining
worthwhile coal and iron mines.
A separate government, to run
the Rhineland and exploit it for
the allies, France principally,
is part Of the plan. 1t is a new
thing in modern methods. The
story of Alsace-Lorraine will
tell the French how it will work.
But in the meanwhile, what will
happen to Europe? The evil
effects of the worst of all wars
may be only beginning.