The Washington times., 1922-07-04

Patriot Noise.
The Presidents ceIebra-
ton.
Facts for Strikers.
Here's a Real Star.
ARTuI1p ppISpANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. ls22.)

@S
African savages celebrate only
with a loud noise. Whether the
chief dies, marries, buries his
mother, or discovers a dead
hippopotamus. loud bowling and
beating on tom-toms.
On this glorious Fourth many
full-grown Americans will show,
when 1t comes to celebrating,
that they are not far from saw
ages.
With children the noise is
natural; they are going through
the savage state.
President Harding celebrates
the one hundred and forty-sixth
anniversary of American inde-
pendence with two excellent
moves.
He notifies owners of coal
mines and striking workers that
II they don't get together. "the
peoples servants" meaning him
self and his administration, will
settle the matter for them.
A similar statement addressed
to the railroad men will be well
come.
Justice in dealings between
workers and employers is i'm.
portant; good wages are impor-
tant; without them there can
be no real prosperity. But first
comes the right of the people
to have their coal supply, free
Of interruption, and their rail-
road service.
For the men on strike. par
ticularly on railroads, these are
the facts. apart from right and
wrong:
If the strike continues. thou
sands that now have jobs more
or less satisfactory will find
themselves without any job.
The Government is conserva-
tive-the influence of railroad
owners is greater than that Of
hundreds of thousands that work
for railroads.
The people, having gone
through a great war that cost
them a hundred thousand mil
lions of dollars, have not much
sympathy to spare for an in
dustrial war.
For some time to come all i'm
portant strikes will be lost and
the strikers will be the losers.
Nothing is interesting usually
II it happens "far from the city
hall" But you might be in
terested in the small twin star
Plaskett, named for the astron-
omer who studies and describes
it. To write the distance of
that star from the earth, write
down 5,256 and add thirteen
zeros.
That makes about fifty-two
and a half quadrillions of miles
not easy to measure in your
mind.
The twin star, faint speck Of
light in the depths Of the sky,
is made up Of two suns revolving
around each other. Their ten-
perature is 10000 degrees Fab
renheit. Our fastest flying ma
chine, travelling two hundred
miles an hour, would take thirty
thousand million years to travel
from our earth to that star.
Plaskett, more than ten thousand
times as bright as our sun, is
the biggest sun ever measured
up to now. If it should rain on
that sun, every drop as big as
our earth, the drops would be
dried up before they reached the
surface, and not noticed.
It's a big universe, in which
this earth is less than a small
grain of sand. You would think,
considering the figures, that we
might stop cheating, robbing,
and numbering each other, spend
a little time wondering what it
Is all about.
Casanovas writes from Bara-
Goa, Oriente, in Cuba. that he
reads this column daily, pub
lished in Spanish in Ell Mundo,
of Havana.
Mr.. Casanovas reminds you
how much can be said briefly in
the Spanish language. What
newspaper men should do. Nand
what none does do, Mr.. Va
novas puts in five words.
EN- hoy escribe pocoy ,
mucho." \
"Write little and say much.
1t is the custom of newspaper
men. present company included,
to reverse that, writing much,
saying little.
The British government is
sued an official document,
"White Paper" saying it will
not change its mind. that a
Jewish national home will be es-
tablished in Palestine, and
"Jewish people will be in Pal
estine as Of right and not on
sufferance."
That is satisfactory. Jews
were in Palestine before there
were any English in England,
Irish in Ireland. or French in
France.