The Washington times., 1922-10-10

Cheap Bonds.
Fine Oil Stocks.
Greetings to osman.
DeadIiest Poison.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

The Government is selling
five hundred millions Of long
time bonds, paying Az per cent
interest. Purchasers yesterday
paid fifty cents above par. Be-
fore the war they would gladly
have paid thirty dollars above
par for such a bond. Times
change. So does Uncles Sans
'credit-after getting mixed
up with Europe.
Other gentlemen in Wall
Street. the oil men, have been
having a pleasant time. One oil
company announced a dividend
Of 200 per cent in stock. It was
said: "This stock dividend will
be paid out, now that the SOL
diers bonus is disposed Of"
Disposed Of" is the correct
word. One oil stock has gone
mp $500 a share recently. They
are all jumping-the good ones.
But be careful how you buy
oil stocks offered you by mail
with bright promises. You
don't find anybody forcing
Standard Oil stock upon you.
Osman, founder of the great
Ottoman cmpire-named for
him and now brought back to
life by Kemal Pasha-'has
fine tomb at Brusa. There the
parliament of the new Ottoman
empire has deposited q humble
prayer and petition, which, alb
breviated, says: "Oh, mighty
dead, the prayers from the min
aret and the great mosque at
Adrianople are stifled with the
sounds Of Christian bells. Be
tranquil, mighty spirit, we will
save them"
That's probably comforting to
Osman, son Of Turkoman
chief dead six hundred years
ago. but still living in the fight
ing power Of the Turks.
Empires 60 down and come
up again. Three now are
down, and seem down for
ever-Russia, Austria, Ger
many.
The German mark fell so
low yesterday that you could
buy thirty marks for one cent,
three thousand for a dollar.
Once FOUR marks made a dol
But hidden away in the
brain of some young German
student or ambitious peasant
Is the power that will bring up
the old German empire from
its humiliation, as Kemal, Turk
or Jew, whichever he may be,
has brought up the empire of
Osman.
SHINES, who owns a great
deal Of Germany, much of
Austria and Russia, says the
way to bring Germany back is
for men to work ten hours a
day. Kemal's plan was to fight
twelve hours a day and then
q little more at night. The
thing can be done both ways.
Possibilities of condensation
are great beyond comprehen-
sion. American chemists have
a poison gas so deadly that a
small amount dropped from a
flying machine would destroy
every life in the greatest city.
In some human brain a par
ticle of matter no bigger than
the head of a pin can produce
an idea that will conquer the
world.
And all that seems Coarse
compared with the poison of
the botulinus bacillus. Two
professors of Harvard say that
one-millionth part Of one-half a
thimbleful Of that poison
would be enough to kill all the
fifteen hundred million people
on the earth. Half of one small
thimbleful of the deadly bacilli
would kill all human life on
this planet and on 999,999
others like it. There is con-
densation.
The distinguished German
general, Ludendorf, is quoted
as follows: "Ah! the Jews.
They are at the bottom of all
the trouble in the world to-
day" Some Jews in the Ger
man cial-Democratic party
are at the bottom of Luden-
DORIS principal trouble, which
is his inability to bring back
the emperor, and once more 20
galloping, saber in hand, over
the backs of the German peo-
pie.
After the dose they have
had from the Hohenzollerns
and the Ludendorfs, the Ger
mans might we'll give the Jews
. trial; the results, at least,
can't be worse.