The Washington times., 1922-05-10

IStockings-Silk or cotton7
Not How Long.-How Much
Poverty and Wealth Kill.
A Chance for Ford.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The Kansas .industrial court,
liking a minimum wage for
working girls. finds part Of the
problem expressed as follows:
Should you include in young
women's wages enough to let
them wear silk stockings. or
should they be content with COT
Ton stockings ?"
The correct answer is "Neith-
er one nor the other" Young
women should wear cotton stock.
ings five days a week to help
the cotton industry, silk stock
ings on Saturday and Sunday
TO feel happy. Man is a foolish
animal, woman a modest crea-
ture 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
olfference between a husband
or no husband. The welfare of
the nation demands plerty Of
SnsSrea,. children, therefore plenty Of
Two French scientists of high.
est standing explain in Paris
The possibility of injecting new
cells into the muscles. length
ening life to $50 years at least
30 they hope.
That would be good. Some
thing better would be an m
lection into the brain to make It
LIVE MORE by doing more.
"A turtle from the Galapagos
Islands lives four or five hun
dred years. 1t lives altogether
less than Beethoven lived in an
hour when he, stone deaf, un-
able to hear a sound from the
orchestra, conducted his great
work, of which he never heard
note except in his own mag
nlflcent brain. How MUCH
you live, not how LONG you
1--we, is what counts.
Once more: "Monarchies are
destroyed by poverty and re-
publics by wealth."
France is rich, America is
rich. France has wealth of in
telligence, marvellous industry,
saving capacity. America has
the wealth of unlimited, unde-
yeloped possibilities, also. two
thirds of all the gold in the
world, plus a fairly intelligent
citizenship.
Curiously enough the two
great Republics of France and
the United States are the
nations that interfere with Rus
sia, refusing TO recognize her,
preventing the Russian people
from establishing their own
government in place of the
Cars government.
You may not like the present
government of Russia. That
isn't the question. All birth
Is unpleasant and painful. You
wouldn't have liked the revo-
lutionary government of France,
either, when the heads of noble
ladies and gentlemen were fall
ing into the guillotine basket
by dozens. But you wouldn't
70 back and stop that now II
you could. You see the result.
Toward Russia our State De-
partment 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 a reflec-
tion on the old lady, not on
the elevator.
Today on the steamship Lat
via twenty American tractors
and eleven first-class American
farmers, sent by the Federated
Commission, start for the re-
lief of Russia.
Soon they will be at work on
Russian soil, showing Russian
peasants American ways of
getting crops. That, is the
right kind of invasion, also the
way to fight famine. Preven-
ton of trouble in future,
rather than temporary cure,
rs John d. Rockefeller says, is
what the world needs.
If Henry Ford would send
five thousand of his tractors,
with a hundred mechanics to
teach Russians how to use the
tractors, and one shipload of
seed grain, he would do more
to fight Russian famine than if
he sent five million dollars.