The Washington times., 1922-03-02
Today
Let Them Dance.
A HohenzolIern Learns.
Frsedom-When FIT.
Quite a Spot.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright, ls27.)

reyChoioSiosS anu pSycnldtriStS
have Joined clergymen, denounc-
ing modern dancing and "jazz"
music. "Devil music" they call
It. It is worse than that: it is
ugly music.
But there Is nothing dangerous
in dancing. There are two kinds
of excitement, physical and men
tai. Mental excitement is for a
few; others must have physical
excitement. It is good, for out OF
, physical excitement, mental ac-
tivity grew gradually, through a
million centuries. ...
When Newton had almost fin
ished his long calculations, dem
onstrating the truth of his law
of gravitation, he became so ex-
cited he could not continue, and
let somebody else finish the work.
That Is better than q "jazz
dance" But not everybody can
be Newton.
William Hohenzollern, once
kaiser, saw the Shackleton- South
Pole moving pictures. At the
farthest point south on the globe
the picture showed the British
flag hoisted as the band played
"God Save the King"
l...~or ek44I .,, x,vsxL
the others, showing that unlike
the Bourbons, a Hohenzollern
CAN learn something. William
of Hohenzollern has learned that
it was a mistake to get into q
fight with his cousin George.
Not that George is personally
much Of fighter, but he had
many resources, and at least one
real statesman.
England gives Egypt free
DOM" Schwab, when he watch
ed the little dog chasing the
express train, wondered what
the dog would do with it if he
caught it.
What will Egypt do with
freedom, assuming that she is
to get it?
It is one thing to have free
dom, another to know how to
use it. Establish self-govern-
ment in the Geological garden,
open the cages, and see what
happens.
Bryce's last book on modern
democracy makes it clear that
the worlds problem is not so
much giving freedom to various
people, as making people FIT
for freedom. Considerably more
than a thousand million human
beings on earth are not fit for
it yet.
A new group of spots on the
sun, about two hundred and
fifty thousand miles long. II
you could drop this earth into
that giant sun spot, it would
melt like a flake of snow fall
ing on a hot stove. If 1t didn't
melt, it would look about as
big as a pigeons egg, floating
In a wash tub full Of soapsuds.
Everything that we have we
get from the sun-heat, force,
light, color, motion, crop life
and we know as much about
, it as a puppy asleep under a
radiator knows about steam
heat.
The value of English money
goes up again, breaking its rec
ord. 1t has almost reached par,
in spite of billions spent and
lent by England in war. The
dollar of our Canadian friends
is about as good as our own.
1t should puzzle no one.
Great Britain has statesmen
at work. Arthur Balfour. past
seventy. comes here. gets ex-
actly what he wants in the
smoothest possible way, goes
back, and refuses a dukedom.
saying he prefers his own name.
Well he may. 1t is better than
that of any living duke. the
name of a great servant of his
country.
Too bad we haven't a few like
him and Lloyd George, that
know how to construct and re-
construct.
The first stamps Of the Irish
State appear. The face on them
is that Of King George. the
wording Gaelic. an interesting
compromise.
The effort to restore the Gae-
lie language is a process to
watch. Languages have been
changing ever since speech be-
gan, and no nation has gone
back to an old tongue, having
once abandoned 1t.
What we call English is made
up of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin,
French, eaxon. and other Ian
guages. The people kept and
used the words they liked best
and dropped the others. Even
the ancient Hebrew as used to-
day is we'll mixed. The great
Maimonides, in translating Aris-
totle's philosophical works,
transplanted many Greek words
into Hebrew. The orthodox
Spanish synagogue ex-commun'