The Washington times., 1922-06-13
Today
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Bombing the invisible. .
N-eorak outdons. I
NV President
Cow.
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Counts.
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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great deal. In America the
chestnut trees have practically
vanished and other varieties, in.
ciudtng some pines, are In dam
ger Of destruction.
Any attack on the enemy
seemed hopeless--no use In try
ing TO spray vast forest lands.
But the flying men will drop
above the trees bombs contain
ing gases destructive to the
tree destroyers, yet harmless
10 men and animals. And one
single bomb win sfve thou
sands Of trees and destroy bill
lions of pests. @ - -
Bombs win be used in this
. useful way long after men
have forgotten that they ever
used poison bombs to kill each
other. And wholesale germ
destruction from the air may
mean the solution Of one great
problem-the destruction Of
mans microscopic enemies. His
big enemies, mammoth and lion,
wolf and bear, savage man
fought with fiints and knives.
His more deadly invisible enc
mies he viii attack with chem
icals, and then good-by germs.
Progress always.
From Hsliopolis, Egypt, to
Bagdad IL 1,000 miles. Slowly
for 10000 years and longer the
eamels and weary men on foot
travelled the long hot road.
Animals and men dropped in
the desert along the trail on .
journey lasting months. Now
British flying men make the
trip regularly in ten hours.
Half way on the desert jour-
ney, at El Jid, the airmep drop
down beside q group Of wells.
One fiier found an Arab sheik,
his caravan scattered, himself
desperately wounded by brig
ands. He had concluded his pri-
vate arrangements with Mo-
hanmed, agent for Allah. and
WAS resigned to death, being
several weeks journey from any
he D. The airmsn picked him
up. landed him IN four hours
in the Bagdad hospital where
he was patched up. He lives
new, to tell Of o travelling ms
chine more wonderful than Mo-
hammed's Al-Borak that carried
him from Mecca to Jerusalem
and ahen up to heaven. Borak,
z safeording TO traditioAs was pSrt
horse part ass, with Q human
face, two wings, and . tail hike
. peacock, but he was nothing
compared with q rood biplane.
I Nevertheless, that shsik win
continue to believe In A-Borak
and his rider. What We be-
lieye pp to seven years Of age
we always believe. more or less.
That's why It Is 20 important
20 keep young children free Of
superstition. r,
There Is q new president In
China. II Yuan-Hung succeeds
Hsu Shih Chang. resigned: A
rival president In Hongkong
denounces Ii Yuan as q traitor.
A couple Of million men will
fight about 1t, thousands will De
killed and famine made worse.
Five hundred million Chinese
human beings are involved. And
20. us It means less than. the
fact that the Canadian, cham
pion Holstein cow has just set
: record Of 32y632 pounds Of
milk, and 1,439 pounds Of but
ter IN one year.
Canada is near us; we un-
derstand milk, butter, and cows.
China is far away; we do not
understand the Chinese. The
parliament Of man and fedora
don Of world are still distant.
II
G. M. Hutchings, Harvard
student from North Carolina,
has amazed the world Of learn
ing. Examined for three hours,
By thirteen professors, before
tsking his degree as doctor Of
philosophy, he answered every
Question 100 per cent correctly.
: Hutchings knows fifteen Ian
guages and win learn some
more. H.
Wonderful is the human
mind and It's power TO absorb.
But more important than learn
ing many things IL adding just
, ONE thing to the sum total Of
knowledge. The Wright broth
ers could speak only English
and that not too well. But they
added the item FLYING to what
mon know. That II what counts
--what you give out, not what
you take In.
The New York curb stock
exchange 10 warned by Mr.. In
termyer that II IL continues
dealing In stock Of the North
American Steel Company he