The Washington times., 1922-09-28

One King Fewer.
When the Bear Comes Back
New Jersey Politics.
Japanese High Finance.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. Is22J i

Copyright. 1921 i
The King of Greece takes
hint, and is out, a good thing
for the Greeks, not a bad
thing for him. His family
married all the fortune of the
American tin plate king, and
can probably live comfortably
here. For the Greeks it is to
be hoped that they will have
their nation run by one of
their real men and not hunt
around for another "roya"
mongrel. Just now they are
enjoying a revolution.
England, Europe's common
sense, now favors bringing
Russia into the latest "peace
parley." Of all the mistakes
made by the allies, creating
little countries unable to stand
on their feet, crushing or try
ing to crush big countries that
are the natural and necessary
growth of time, the greatest
mistake was the effort to
ignore Russia and boycott her
for daring to choose her own
government.
England has recovered from
that foolishness. Perhaps the
United States will do the same
after a while.
If feeble Turkey, coming
back in fighting mood, scares
Europe into a fainting fit,
what will the Russian Bear do,
In his turn?
Senator Frelinghuysen, in
innate friend of President
Harding, wins overwhelmingly
against Mr.. Record | the New
Jersey primaries. This doesn't
mean exactly what it seems to
mean. 1t is no secret that in
genious Frank Hague, mayor
of Jersey City and Democratic
Shah of New Jersey, arranged
long ago for his friends to
vote at the Republican primaries
for Senator Frelinghuysen. He
preferred Frelinghuysen to
Record as the man to run
against the Democratic candi-
date, Governor Edwards.
Our friends in Japan, who
have adopted high finance,
with other western modern i'm
provements, are still shivering
over the failure of their dis
tinguished citizen, Ishii. That
gentleman, who began as
humble laborer, hauling a
lumber cart with his own
muscles, piled up forty million
dollars, then failed, owing
thirty millions to various banks.
Mr.. Ishii seems to have i'm
proved on all the known
American methods of financing,
starting from nothing and in
vesting seventy-seven millions
in one single stock. No won
der the Japanese ask whittier
are we drifting financially"
Mr.. Dorgan, the artist, bet
ter known as Tad, in the
course of his archaeological
studies, discovers that Michel
angelo was paid $32 a month
for his work as an artist;
Leonardo da Vinci the same,
and Raphael $25. Tad, who
with his artistic income could
easily have hired twenty Mi
chel-angelos for chauffeurs
and valets without missing the
money, concludes wisely that
those great artists worked as
hen lays eggs-because they
wanted to.
Stocks are weak, as you dis
cover when you turn to the
page about money. But not all
stocks. Standard Oil, that
fierce monster" disintegrated,
chopped up, and squashed by
Government action, cut into
many little pieces, is recording
all kinds of new high prices.
Cutting up a trust seems to
produce results like pruning an
orchard-more fruit.
Strange things have value.
One of the richest Rothschilds
collected fleas in the interest of
science, paying big prices for
strange varieties. He had them
from roaring animals of the
Equator and from the Arctic
fox.
For a long time a thriving
business has been the selling of
"sucker lists" Names on the
lists, each worth so much, rep
resent those that buy oil stocks
of which they know nothing
and respond generally to COM
munications from sharpers.
The latest unusual merchan-