The Washington times., 1922-03-17

Election No. I.
Busy Wall Street.
~ Games in One Brain.
Killing Rate Good War.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
(copyrisht, 1854,

tion. reflecting recent events,
Including mixing up In European
politics, takes place In Maine
next Monday, IN james G.
Blaine's old district. Something
may be learned from that cleo
ton. Everybody will watch it.
European politics, lack Of work.
reduced wages. various things
will count.
If you wanted to gamble m
the stock exchange yesterday
you could borrow money for
the purpose at 8 per cent. the
lowest price in a long time. And
Wall Street yesterday dealt in
more different kinds of stock
than on any other day in all
its history. Cheap little stocks
sold in great quantities. Some.
body is hopeful.
Daffbdils that 'take the winds
Of March with beauty" foretell
the glorious spring and summer.
A Wall Street boom is supposed
to foretell the summer of gen.
eral prosperity. Perhaps It is
coming. But be carefiS how
you gamble. There are bar
gains; there are also pitfalls.
In Paris on Tuesday night"
young Russian named Alechine
played twelve games of chess
at the same time. never seeing
the chess board. listening as the
different moves were called off.
OF twelve games. against
ffrst-class players, he won
eleven. He will challenge Capa-
blanca, the world champion.
Chess playing is valueless. as
regards developing the human
mind. 1t undoubtedly Injuries
ten where it helps one. But In
tensely interesting is the fact
that the human brain can store
away in its cells of thought
and memory the exact positions
Of all the men on twelve differ
ent chess boards, and successful
ly cope with eleven out of
twelve different players. This
shows what an extraordinary
machine the human brain is. and
reminds us that we do not use
one-thousandth part Of its power.
Sweden sets a good example
to the rest of the world in her
plan to kill off Rll rats. ard,
mice. and then 3ctep xlHm nut.
Cities. villages. farms win be
compelled to- take part in the
slaughter. Scientists will mnp
It out. If mice and rats all
over the world could be killed.
the annual saving would pay
off the worlds war debts. It
would be healthy sign to turn
from numbering and exterTui-
mating men to eliminating the
enemies of all men: disease
bearing rats and mosquitoes,
tse-tse flies. deserts. swamps,
and pest holes.
The .pold miners strike in
South Africa is called off. Eng
land is wonderfully patient and
long SUFFERING in some thinrs.
extremely decisive in others. 1t
settled the South African strike,
apparently. by dropping a bomb
from a flying machine on a hall
In which strike leaders were
gathered. killing nearly all Gf
them. Violence is the one
thing that the whole world
seems to understand and pays
attention to.
Only yesterday, it seems, YOU
first heard Of wireless teleg-
raphy. Then came a vague
suggestion that the voice might
travel through "ether lanes"
without wires. Now builder
of Philadelphia and another in
New York announce that their
new houses twill be wired for
radio telephone service"
Put in your wireless tele-
phone and get what you want
sermon, speech, dance music, or
grand opera. Science moves
swiftly.
Fortunately nobody will in
vent anything that will bring
man a living without work
but for that we might soon be-
come a parasite race, living on
science instead of our own
effort and going no further.
Bees, ants, birds, beavers found
a stopping place in evolution
and went no further ahead
Shall we do the same? 1t
would be a dismal day.
Bootmakers in Vienna are on
strike for a yearly salary of
two million crowns. Employers
offer one million five hundred
thousand. Once two million
crowns would have been four
hundred thousand dollars
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