The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-11
T oday Stockings-Silk or
 Cotton? Not How Long-How
 Much. Poverty and Wealth Kill. A Chance for Ford.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

The Kansas industrial court. fixing find part of the problem expressed as follows:
 Should you include in young wom- ems wages enough to let them wear silk stockings or should they be content with cotton stockings?
 The correct answer is: Neither one nor the other" Young women should wear cotton stockings five days a week to help the cotton industry. silk stockings on Saturday and Sunday to feel happy. Man is foolish animal, woman a modest creature lacking self appreciation.
 Give her silk stockings and she feels sure of herself Give her silk stockings and foolish man thinks more of her-sad, but true.
 Therefore, necessary or not. silk stockings may make all the differ ence between a husband and no hus- band. The welfare of the nation de- mands plenty of children. therefore plenty of husbands.
 Two French scientists of highest standing explain in Paris the possi- bility of injecting new cells into the muscles. lengthening life to 150 years at least-so they hope. That would be good. Something better would be an injection into the brain, to make 1t love more by doing more.
 A turtle from the Gaiipos Islands lives four or five hundred years. It lives altogether less than Beethoven lived in an hour when he, stone deaf. unable to hear a sound from the or chestra. conducted his great work, of which he never heard a note except in his own magnificent brain. How much you live. not how long you live. Is what counts.
 Once more: "Monarchies are de- stroyed by poverty and republics by wealth." France Is rich, America is rich; France has wealth of intelli- gence. marvellous industry. saving capacity. America has the wealth of unlimited. undeveioped possibilities, also two-thirds of all the gold in the world. plus a fairly intelligent citi- xenship.
 Curiously enough, the two great republics of France and the United States, are the nations that inter- fere with Russia. refusing to recog- nize her. preventing the Russian peo- pie from establishing their own gov ernment in place of the Czar's gov ernment.
 You may not like the present gov ernment of Russia That isn't the question. All birth is unpleasant and painful. You wouldn't have liked the revolutionary government of France either. when the heads of noble ladies and gentlemen were falling into the guillotine basket by dozens. But you wouldn't go back and stop that now if you could. You see the result.
 Toward Russia our state depart ment acts like the old lady from the country. seeing the elevator in the office building. She would have nothing to do with it and preferred to walk upstairs. That was re- flection on the old lady, not on the elevator.
 Today. on the steamship Latvia. 20 American tractors and II first class American farmers. sent by the fed- erated commission, start for the re- lief of Russia.
 Soon they will be at work on Rus sian soil. showing Russian peasants American ways of getting crops. That is the right kind of invasion, also the way to fight famine. Prevention of trouble in future rather than tenn porary cure. as John D. Rockefeller says, is what the world needs.
 If Henry Ford would send 5000 of his tractors. with 100 mechanics to leach Russians how to use the trac- tors. and one ship load of seed grain, lie would do more to fight Russian famine than if he sent s5.0oo. 900.
 mixed breed, conVIct, part Indian, part negro, serving a three-year term , in the Missouri penitentiary, is of- sered s2.0oo.ooo for oil lands that he owns. He will be out in three years when his term for forgery is up.
 And he will be amazed to learn how the world has revised it's opin- ion of him. Even now in the peni- tentiary, he has changed from that mongrel halfbreed" to that interest ing convict that will soon have a few million dollars" Even in this great, pure republic. money makes differ ence.
 War is . dangerous educator. In Terranova was found shot dead in crowd. Others in the crowd were wounded. Nearby, abandoned on the gar tracks. was found two sawed off ehotguns.
 Several million men learned the value of the sawed off shotgun as deadly weapon in the course of the war You cannot miss with buckshot. The unpleasant part is that the sawed off shotgun is apt to kill others as well as the man you are after.
 War. the business of killing, at wholesale. leaves when it passes, . good deal of killing at retail. Hungary Erects
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