The Washington times., 1922-03-03
Today
Synthetic Food-Perhaps,
Many Mentally Dead"
Bonus, or Usury7
A Mosque In Paris.

A Mosque In Paris.
by ARTHUR BRIsBANK-I
Copyright. lssa)
Mr.. Loeb. scientist. hopes to
produce life artificially. Dean
Kimball. of Cornell. expects to
produce synthetic food" Other
scientists propose to control the
sex of unborn children and pro-
duce twins at will.
Another power has something
to say about all these improve
ments. For instance. synthetic
food. any amount of it. not con-
tanning mineral salts. would
produce death by starvation. in
stead Of nourishment. And
synthetic food without vitamins
would produce death by scurvy
and rickets. What scientist
will undertake to put the vita
minis In synthetic food?
Barring another delay. Church,
Chicago murderer Of two men.
will be hanged today. sitting In
. chair. Starvation--self inflict-
ed-has made him too weak to
stand. The doctors say he is
mentally dead" will know and
feel nothing when "dignified
human justice" breaks his neck
rs he sits In his chair.
Mentally Dead" applied to
this criminal. could be applied
to thousands of others. Grim
inal brains are at least half
dead. Of those hanged. gull
lotined. electrocuted. and other
wise put to death. three-quar-
ters at least are mentally al
most dead. and feel little of the
anguish that would be inflicted
upon a normal mind by capital
punishment.
This writer has seen a negro
criminal walking to the gallows
smoking cigar. The cigar fell
from his lips, his hands, bound,
could not reach it. A spectator
picked up the cigar, put it back
In the criminals mouth, and he
walked on toward the gallows
with a perfectly natural laugh.
GOOD nerve," said the specta-
tors, but mentally dead" would
be a better description.
The latest bonus for soldiers
plan would have the Government
issue certificates on which the
soldiers might or might NOT be
able to borrow money. You
knew what happened when, the
people at large were trying to
borrow money on Government
bonds. They found themselves
getting A per cent on their bonds,
and paying 6 per cent for the
loans. Then they found the
bonds dropped from par down to
"a or lower.
What the soldiers want is a
bonus, not chance to be skinned
by money lenders.
When the Government issues
certificates to the soldiers It will
pay interest on the certificates.
The soldiers will take their Ger
tificates to the bank and borrow,
paying what interest the bank
thinks wise to charge. Bankers
will take the certificates to the
Federal Reserve Bank and bor-
row Federal Reserve currency
on them.
Why not give Federal Reserve
currency direct to the soldiers
and let them get 100 cents on
the dollar without any bor-
Is It "INFLATIoN" to pay
your currency direct to the
soldier, and wise conservatism
when you hand it out through
a bank, allowing the bank to
make a profit and compelling
taxpayers to pay interest!
Mohammedans are to have a
mosque in Paris. From its top
the muezzin, facing Mecca,
will send out his mournful cry,
inviting everybody to worship
Allah and admit that Moham-
med is his prophet. The cyni-
cal Frenchman at his little
tin table below will sip his
ndzdgrdn and admit nothing.
At Ste. Barbe, Louis le Grdnde,
and all other colleges the
teachers will remind boys
that but for Charles Martel,
grandfather Of Charlemagne,
and his good fight at Poitiers
twelve hundred years ago, there
would be today a minaret with
its muezzin on every church
in France. Victorious Mo-
hammedans would have done to
all churches what they did to