The Washington times., 1922-07-26

a Heavy Earth.
Late, For "PIans."
storm, Whale, Meteor.
I'm One of Them.
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Copyright, ls2a.)

VI LOruS CnaC oUU COns
OF SCOT fall yearly on each
square mile of London. A
heavy weight, but the old earth
would scarcely notice it. Ac-
cording to Oliver Lodge, this
earth weighs six thousand tril-
hon tons. And the English
triliion is what we call a quin-
tillion. Write down /, add lS
zeroes. Multiply that by six
thousand and you have the num-
Der OF tons the earth weighs.
The moon weighs millions,
possibly billions, Of tons; they
cont know exactly. When It
rails on this earth, as it must
90 eventually, according to sci
entists, it will cause commotion,
but 1t won't knock the heavy
earth out of its path. That's
hundreds Of millions Of years
off. Don't worry.
The Cabinet "plans to act"
In the railroad strike. It's
time. The railroads belong to
the people. They made them,
support them, and have been
to large extent ruled and
exploited by them.
A nation that would not al
low its water supply to be cut
off should not allow its trans
Portation supply to end or its
food supply to be menaced.
This does not mean that
owners of railroads should be
put at the mercy of strikers or
compelled to yield without a
hearing. There should be
plenty of hearings, fair to both
sides, and the public interest
and the public sense Of justice
should decide.
Meanwhile the railroads should
run.
And what applies to railroads
applies to coal mines and other
public necessities.
The Scandinavian .ship Fred
erick VIII reports a heavy
storm, a large whale, and one
very big meteor that dropped
flaming, kissing, and sizzling
into the ocean.
Times and theories change.
Moderns know that the storm
was caused by air rushing in
to fill a space from which hot
air had risen. We know that
no devils were riding on the
storm to wreck mariners.
We know the whale wasn't
following the ship, hoping that
somebody might jump over
board and be taken as passen-
ger. as Z, fe = ..,
We know that the failing
star" was simply one Of mil
lions Of meteors constantly fail
ing on the earth, usually melted
by the heat Of friction as they
rush through the air, and was
not an attempt by supernatural
power to hit some little human
creature.
An old man jumped off a
ferryboat in New York harbor,
leaving his money in Wall
Street and a post card on the
deck reading, "There is a sucker
born for Wall Street every min
ute. | am one Of them"
No gambler can win in Wall
Street, Monte Carlo, or any
where else. A man won $500 on
a 81 lottery ticket, and asked
his wife, "How shall we invest
it?" Her reply was, "Buy five
hundred more tickets" That's
what gamblers do, always. The
pendulum swings back and
forth. Eventually it swings a
little too far the wrong way.
That ends them. They 60 over
the side of the ferryboat.
Politicians, old and new
style, tell you, Don't talk
about the labor vote, there is
no such thing. Some of their
leaders talk between elections,
but they line up on election
day"
Employers of labor on a big
scale tell you, "In the long
run no need to worry about
labor. Workingmen do not
stick together"
You read that British coal
miners will not help American
coal miners on strike. Mr..
Lewis, head Of the miners,
thought British workmen would
supply no coal for shipment to
this country. On the contrary,
British workmen say they will
suppy two million tons per
month, which, of course, means
helping to break the strike.
Judge Gary says good crops
vii. save the day in this coun-
try, in spite Of bad conditions,
strikes, etc. He also believes
That the wonderfully promising
crops of Russia will stop star
walton there and help put the
Russian government and peo-
ple on their feet. Unlike some