The Washington times., 1922-06-14

Gold Pours ln..
Real Wealth Shut Out.
confucius' Grave.
Playing Three Fights.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1s22.l

II gold meant happiness, we
might be rich and happy, in
spite of everything. by and by.
Mr.. Harding's administration
cut one billion seven hundred
million dollars from national ex-
penses Of 1921, as compared with
1920. On Monday there came
In another gold shipment-three
and half millions. 1t comes
4 from Sweden. and may be Rus
sian gold, stamped in the Swed-
ish mint to make it acceptable
to our refined sense of ethics.
= We refuse Russian gold on
I the ground that it might be
stolen from the car, as though
all the cars gold had not been
stolen from some one. r.
With the worlds gold. grad
ually accumulating here and
other nations hungry for it,
this would be good time for
Europe to do away with the
gold standard, or at least es-
tablish silver at some low ratio.
But Mr.. Bryan who usually
looks after silver, is too busy
with Darwin and the monkeys.
And to make nations abandon
the gold standard would be as
hard as making them all change
/, religion.
This country is shutting out
immigration, refusing to admit
men and women of the kind
that have built up the United
States during years past. Dur
/ ing nine months under the new
law arrivals in this country were
624,478. and departures 48S.-
~6S9. The increase was only 35,-
Z S39. -. PEE.
With millions of acres uncul-
tivated, room for hundreds Of
millions more, this country shuts
out the only real wealth-kuman
Intelligence and ambition.
The ignorant say that bigger
population would mean lower
wages. But when the nations
population was less than four
millions, wages averaged less
than 30 cents day.
About 551 years before Christ,
Shu Cliang, huge Chinese solIier,
with nine daughters but no son,
married a young, second wife,
and found in his garden a pre-
cious stone. On it was written:
"A son is about to be born,
pure as the crystal wave. He
shall be a king. but without
any domain"
Kiln, supernatural being, had
left the message. Sure enough,
Confucius was born, and now,
2,473 years later, the Chinese are
quarrelng about the care of his
grave. The guardian of the
tomb wants money, for decora-
tions from the estate of the two
year-old Duke Kung, who is the
seventy-seventh direct descend
ant of Confucius, living in a city
peopled almost entirely by de-
scendants of the great philoso-
pher.
That is an interesting point.
Seventy-seven short generations
take you back to 555 B. G. Five
times as many generations take
you to the neolithic period, late
stone age.
It is young human race.
What will it have accomplished
after two or three millions of
generations?
Edison now asks young men
hunting jobs this question,
Among others, "How would you
play three eights against a pat
hand?" You could study char
acter in the answers. One an
swer would be, "The same as
would play deuces;" another,
"Not at all, if l believed a pat
hand out against me" The wise
answer, in these days Of Y. M.
C. AIRED Cross sanctimonious-
ness, would be, "Sir, I don't know
, what you mean. What is a pat
hand?" But that answer would
not suit Edison. HE, by the
way, thirty-eight years ago,
used to play three eights as
though they were four kings.
Not all victims of the Lusitania
are yet dead. The others-many
fish--will die in a few days
when divers explode quantities of
nitroglycerine on the deck of
the sunken ship. After blasting
and cutting through three decks
the divers will find five millions
gold in the Lusitania's strong
room, also $1,000,000 in jewels
and gold in the purser's safe. The
divers will wear shells of steel
20 keep the waters weight from
crushing them, working 275 feet
down.
We do not understand the won
ders around us, living as we do at
the bottom of our air ocean, and
what we don't understand we
often deny. The fish will see
strange steel-clad creatures drop
down, fasten something to the
ship, then 60 away, and by cleo
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