The Washington times., 1922-05-11

omar's Evil Suggestion.
Gold Among Skeletons.
Mexico-Creat Oil Well.
What Value Has Wells?
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

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:. An unfortunate woman at
Atlantic City. separated from
her husband, killed herself and
three daughters yesterday,
leaving this quotation from The
Rubaiyat:
what if the soul could cast
the earth aside,
And naked on the air of heaven
ride:
Weret not a shame, were't not
a shame, indeed,
In this clay carcass longer to
abide 2"
Many suicides, probably, have
been harmed by these lines Of
Omar.
And drunkards have found in
The Rubaiyat excuses for their
drunkenness. But Omar Bin
Ibraheem AL Khayyamee, to
give part of his full name, while
he wrote praising alcohol and
suicide. was neither a drunkard
nor q suicide. He was q good
mathematician, a scientist. and
died peaceably, in his native
town. Do what he DID. not
what he suggested.
Gold lasts and mans love for
1t. A Philadelphia concern will
try to salvage the steamship
Lusitania. In the Lusitania's s
Iron body lie many skeletons.
white and grinning. Powerful
machinery lies idle, cartridges
that will never explode are still
In their boxes. Old and young,
men, women. and children, their
flesh long since gone to feed
the darting fishes. lie in the
wreck. All these will be found
and left. There is gold in the
ship. One passenger had sew
entv-five thousand dollars worth
OF It. Another had about $780,
oOO in care of the purser. Mil
lions in gold are there. And
to get that gold the salvaging
expedition will go. The rest
doesn't interest them. Skele-
tons lose their interest. Gold
never.
Sir Henri w. A. Detirding,
head of the Royal Dutch shell
combination and boss of the
Russian and other oil wells, is
said to be the most powerful,
best-informed man in the oil
business of the world.
Sir Henri talked about oil at
q dinner given in his honor by
Lewis L. Clarke, president of
the American Exchange Bank,
just before he sailed for Europe.
Among other things, the in
ternational oil man says there is
enough oil underground to sup
ply gasoline and fuel for ships
"for centuries to come" Mexico
is one gigantic oil field-no-
body has any conception of the
oil wealth under the ground
there.
In regard to Russia. Sir
Henri says that his great COM
pany wants only what is right
fully ours" He is a powerful
man and you get the impress
sion that after he has got what
he thinks is rightfully "his,"
there won't be much left.
How valuable is H. G. Wells
"Outline of History" Many
discuss that question. The
Wells Outline of History" is
of the greatest value. 1t does
not merely teach history; it
makes men and women iOant to
knotO history. And what is
more important, it makes them
think for themselves after they
have read.
Whether civilization, as we
know it, began in the fertile
Nile Valley, or earlier in Me-
sopotamia, that land between
the rivers" watered by the
Tigris and the Euphrates, is not
important.
Whether man started in the
tropics and lost his hair by the
action of heat, gradually coming
down from the trees and walk
ing north on his rear legs, or
whether he started in the north,
living in caves and thinking,
snowbound, all winter long. los
ing his hair because he covered
himself with heavy skins of
other animals. makes no differ
ence.
81 Whether the moon was formed
BY a gigantic "chunk" thrown
off from this earth, creating
the hole which is now the Pa
cific ocean, whether it was made
up of a considerable number of
pianetoids attracted by each
other and forming one big ball,
or whether the whole thing as
we see it was planned. as the
majority believe. by a wise Di-
vine power. makes no differ
ence so far as real education is
concerned.
It isn't so much what you
know as what you TRY TO
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