The Washington times., 1922-08-10

Various Things.
No Russian Fascist.
Mature ls Generous.
A children's Book Shelf.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE

s-by AhIdUh bhlobANE--1
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Mrs. Mary E. Limbergcr, one
hundred and three years old.
cast her first vote yesterday.
She voted to put her own great
grandson into the legislature.
Five hundred Thousand more
tons Of coal are ordered from
England.
The President invites Con-
gress to consider drastic ac-
/ ton IN regard To mines and
railroads.
Mark Sullivan suggests that
the strike will soon end because
the mine owners are afraid Of
Congress and the mine work
ers are short Of money. Thou
sands Of Government bond sales
IN VERY small lots indicate
that savings are going over
board.
Lord Lascelles, who married
the daughter of the English
king, went into business. Now
he is out again. He started a
typewriter factory, with half a
million younds capital. The
plan was to make first-class
typewriter, call British" The
firm has gone into bankruptcy
and English stenographers are
buying first-class typewriters,
aall American
In Italy, extreme radicals are
checked by the Fascist. These
gentlemen, led by one VINO was
formerly Socialist, ard num-
bering million. fight ON the
side of conservatism.
1t is said that exiles from
Russia, victims" of the czar's
downfall, will try to organize
some Fascist in Russia to
fight Bolshevism. Tt won't
work. Bolshevism has given
Land free to the peasants, TAX
Ing it from the mobiles. Any
Russian Fascist trying TO
change that would simply be
Knocked on the head.
So they would be in Italy
II the radicals there had been
able to give free land to all
the peasants.
The real wealth of the ma
tion is in its crops. The two
other kinds of wealth, brains
and mines, depend on CROPS.
It Is a good crop year, never
equaled in American history
probably.
Three thousand million bush,
els of corn, the hay crop the
, biggest ever known, the big
gest potato crop in history
with one exception. one and u
hall billion pounds of tobacc0e
iourteen pounds FOR every
man, woman, and child in the
country, two hundred million
bushels of apples. The coun-
try ought to raise, for its
health, ten times as many.
Men have been foolish with
their wars, strikes, cheating,
and striving. But nature con-
tinues her unfailing generosity.
Columbia University plans a
two-foot book shelf for school
children. Some selections al
ready made are excellent:
Little Women" Treasure
Island" "Alice in Wonder
land" Robinson Crusoe,"
"Tom Sawyer" Andersen's
"Fairy Tales" "Aesop's Fa-
bles," Lambs "Tales from
Shakespeare" Mallory's "Boys'
King Arthur" Dickens Christ
mas Carols"
q All those books all children
should read. -. ..
The best books written for
grown people, nine-tenths of the
people that need them never
read. They should be re-
written for children, and also
for the nine-tenths that do not
read them in the original form.
The Presidents friend, Colonel
Thompson, of Cleveland, leads
two to one in a field of nine
candidates for the Republican
governorship nomination. Be-
sides being the Presidents
friend, he is the "dry" candi-
date. Any BODY who imagines
that the prohibition amend
ment could be repealed in this
generation will learn his mis-
take by watching elections.
Here and there in the railroad
news you read of some dead
and some dying. Rolling stock
without mechanics to take care
Of It is dangerous.
3 Governor Allen of Kansas
Thinks it wrong to restore Sc
niority rights to strikers. Why
a 1t wrong?
When the strike ends, rail-
roads will get back everything
they had before, including equip
ment and capital. All that
railroad worker can accumulate
is his seniority rights. To take
them from him would be as un-