The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-06

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tensive cultivation the State of
Texas alone could feed them all.
When we have 233 million
people our great demand will
still be MORE PEOPLE-of the
right kind.
In an old English school book
bv Thomas Dilworth you read:
young folks think old folks to
be fools. but old folks know
young folks to be FOOLS" Both
statements false. Youth and
age represent balance. as do
gravitation and radio activity.
Youth pushes ahead, age holds
back. Wisdom and folly are in
the conservatism of the old,
folly and wisdom in youths i'm
petuousness. Neither knows it,
which is part of the wise plan.
All men ore created equal. is
the theory. Every day proves
we do not believe it. American
relief. helping the starving in
Austria. announces that $780,
900 have been set aside "to
feed the intellectuals."
They are supposed to be men
tally superior to others. profess
sors and students, selected be-
cause their lives are more i'm
portant than the lives of infe-
rior creatures. The university
kitchen will feed 700 more pro-
fessors and 5000 more students.
Theory is all very well, but it
takes generations to develop a
brain with convolutions deep
enough to be worth while, and
when you get one, to feed it is
wise-it's worth 100 others.
A New York city official at
tacks the Rockefeller group,
alleging that it seeks to lower the
standard of education. Mr.. Rookie
feller, says the learned commits
sioner in question, wants schools
to- turn out men and women of
low education, willing to work as
poorly paid wage slaves.
If that be true, "Mr. Rookie
feller" has suddenly lost his mind.
A big corporation needs employees
of exceptional ability, and cares
little what it pays to get such
men. The so-called "wage slaves"
are always plentiful, except occa-
sionally in war time. You can get
them by the million and at your
own price. But the plant that
puts out the sign "No men
wanted" always wants men of un-
usual ability, at high pay, and
cannot get enough of them.
The Standard Oil Company, for
instance, hires at good pay more
able chemists today than the
whole world could have supplied
100 years ago. And John d.
Rockefeller, in his institute for
scientific research no profit
there-will welcome any man Of
unusual power, pay him what he
wants and let him spend any
amount in scientific work. If the
Rockefellers are trying to dis
courage higher education, they do
not understand their own interest
and that sounds improbable.
Ebert, President of the Ger
man Republic, is a saddle maker
by trade. The union has just
put him out. alleging that he is
the enemy of labor. A different
job makes a different man. You
see things differently from a
higher place, not always more
accurately. but differently. The
black slave, promoted to be
overseer, with a whip in his
hand. often beat the other slaves
more brutally than the white
overseers. Those that make
greatest sacrifices to help the
poor are often those that lack
nothing. In the entire French
Revolution, for instance. no
workingman played any impor-
tant or even secondary part.
Impatient radicals decided on
Saturday that they would "seize
the homes Of the rich" Then
they had coffee. Before seiz-
ing, they ought to send a COM
mittee to Russia. where homes
of the rich have been seized
already. Miss Emma Goldman,
intelligent anarchistic lady,
could tell them there is moth
ing in seizing rich peoples
houae There arc few of them.