The Washington times., 1922-08-08

shedd and Simpson Stay
ed.
10000 DeadMeans
Nothing.
YoulAr Living Longer.
Daugherty's Good Start.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. is22)

men, from John G. Shedd, who
has celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of his connection
with Marshall Field & Co.
What is true of him is true
oaually of his associate, John
Simpson. They began young
with Marshall Field, realized
that they were with a big man
and a very big concern--with
all the opportunity that ability
could ask.
They did not wander around,
or wonder why no one APP
preciated them. They worked
and stayed. Now they own the
business.
'"Ten thousand dead in and
near Swatow."
A majority don't know where
Swatow is. Told that it is in
China. $50 miles north OF
Hongkong, they don't much
care about the ten thousand
dead.
What interests them family
Is the combination typhoon
I'D tidal wave that struck
tie coast and drowned the ten
thousand. There is something
romantic and interesting in a
great wall of water solemnly
rolling against the tiny houses
of man. Ten thousand dead
don't count--when, they are
Chinese. Not yet much solidar-
ity among humans. d..
The health of human beings
and their length o; life I'M
prove. Not so long ago, in the
second largest city in France,
there was not man or woman
living past fifty years OF age.
Men wore gray boards at
forty. The sewers ran through
open cutters and into the drink
ing wells in cities. Villages
were in the hollows, graveyards,
on the hills. The rain washed
graveyard diseases down into
the wells.
Statistics show that now the
AVERAGE white male in America
lives little over fifty-five years,
white women fifty-seven and a
half years, in the country. In
the city, white men live fifty
one and a half years, women
fifty-four and half years. In
Kansas they live longest of all;
the men almost sixty years, the
women close to sixty-one. Wis
consin comes next. -
Women live longer than men
because they live more wisely,
temperately, virtuously.
Mr.. Daugherty, Attorney Cen
eral, combining deeds with
words, has indicted three pa
triots for swindling the Govern
nnent out of million dollars.
If he will multiply that by three
thousand, it will be- q good be-
ginning. One Of the first caught
IN the net is a former director
of sales of the War Depart
naent. Highly appropriate.
Lloyd George, in the latest Of
the European conferences, asks
for a moratorium for Germany.
Belgium demands cash, France,
also. They are unanimous on
zone thing only, namely, mora
torium as to the claims of the
United States. There isn't a
dissenting voice there.
Replying to a foolish state
ment in Congress that Frank
A. Munsey was influenced by
advertising in his newspapers,
It was stated here, and it Is
true, that, like Spartan
nurse, Munsey had allowed
many newspapers, which all to-
gether cost him millions, to
starve to death in his arms
rather than go out and get ad-
vertising for them.
This was understood by some
to mean that he let them die
because he, Munsey, didn't have
the money to keep them going.
AS a matter of fact, Munsey
has always had thirty-five to
fifty millions in good securities
and real estate ever since he
left Wall Street, bringing home
the bacon and closing up an
active account running up to
100000 shares.
> p. S.-Don't think you can
70 to Wall Street and do the
same thing. Munsey never
.gambled; he KNEW.
The Bolsheviki have SEN
fenced to death Benjamin, the
Petrograd metropolitan, and
another of the most important
in the hierarchy of the Russian
Greek church. It's a mistake
in Judgment that Lenin, per-
haps, would not have made had
he been well and in charge.
To injure religion and its in
fluence, let it alone. Persecu-
tion means growth. The blood
of martyrs is the seed of the