The Washington times., 1922-03-28

Our Second Richest.
Religious War.
II One Dies, Both Die.
Miss Goldman Enlightened.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1sa2)

tVVoS S0tOIuosb 1SU6s
by ARTHUR BRISBANEJ
Copyright. 1s22)
George F. Baker. eighty-two
years old yesterday, is still
working regularly. directs as
many corporations as the law
will allow. and owns many
things.
Well-informed financiers say
Mr.. Baker is the second richest
man in the United States, which
means in the world. Others say
that the second in wealth Is Mr..
Mellon, Secretary of the Treas
ury.
John D. Rockefeller, resting
while his son works. enjoying
life and contemplation, is de-.
clared by all to be the richest.
Mr.. Rockefeller. far beyond
eighty. and Mr.. Baker prove
that it is possible to play the
American game successfully and
live to be old-in spite of your
contrary opinions.
You may ask how rich the
richest and the second richest
men are in this world. Nobody
can tell you; the richest and
second richest couldn't tell you.
How can you estimate the
value of a railroad when that
value increases as rapidly as
children are born along the
right of way? How can you
estimate the value of oil wells.
gas pockets. mines under the
earth? Any one of the three
Rockefeller. Mellon. or Baker
is richer than were all of the
rich men in America combined
ut the time when George Wash
ington was the richest of them.
Any one of our three richest
could buy what Washington
had and not miss the change.
There is religious war in Ire
land, and it breaks out here and
there n Mexico. 1t the kind of
brutality that men get rid of
slowly, and makes appropriate
these lines that w. V. Byars, Of
St. Louis, quotes from James
Freeman Clarke's Essential
and Non-Essentials of Religion"
I'VE shall look back from a
higher world on our present civili-
xation and on our present Chris
tianity, as we now look back on
the monstrous strife and peftur-
bations of past geologic ages. We
may seem to ourselves hereafter
as the Saurians and Trilobites
seem to us now"
Rosa Brazek is in the hospital
with inflammation of the gall
bladder. Her sster, Josefa-in
bed with her, of course, since they
are "Siamese twins"-has re-
covered.
The doctors say that if Rosa
does not recover, Josefa also must
die. 1t is impossible to separate
them without causing the death
Of both. If one dies the other
must 90 with her Apart from
natural affection, eacho f the sis
ters is intensely interested in the
welfare of the other. No doubt or
pretense about that.
These Siamese Twins are not
more dependent upon each other
than the various white races of
the earth that have been doing
all they could to kill each other
and weaken each other. until they
are compelled to make humiliat-
ing treaties with Asia and restore
the Turks to power in Europe. 1t
would help some statesmen if they
could be made to sit beside the
Siamese Twins, in the Chicago
Hospital, and think for a while.
Miss Emma Goldman, who
used to tell the United States
that government is wrong and
unnecessary and that revolution
is a blessing. has revised some
of her opinions after two years
In Russia.
She has discovered that gov
eminent, language, trees, and
human bodies GROW. They are
not built to order. Miss Gold
man is shocked to find. what a
woman so well read should have
known, that you cannot elimi-
nate power. If you take It
from one hand it passes to an
other. II you take it from the