The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-02
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

"Physician, heal myself" That IS in tho Bible. also in modern life. See two news paragraphs: John D. Rockefeller decides to stay one week longer in the sanitarium;" and, The Rockefeller Foundation spent sS,66s,- SIS in health work during 1s2l.'"
 It is easier to cure others than to cure yourself. What John D. Rocke- feller and other hard driven Amer leans need Is not sanitarium but relaxation. With the mind as with other engines. you must sometimes take the belt off the driving wheel. \ European physicians would tell MT. kRockefeiier as they told E. H. Harri- man, that a cold water diet for a mental worker is dangerous. We know better than that in the United States, yet Mayo. best known surgeon in America. and strong advocate of prohibition here. takes red wine when he goes to France.
 "Young ladies at Wellesley rebel because older. more intelligent ladies of the faculty curtail their smoking" When their hair is gray. those girls will know that the deepest satisfac- ton a woman gets out of life is in the love and companionship of her children.
 Whatever she may do later, no woman has a right to put nicotine or any other poison into her blood until she has finished her work, the creation of the next generation.
 After the child-bearing Is done, ladies. if they choose, may smoke, chew or dip snuff-but they ought not. Fl 1T job then is setting good examptE
 If a Wellesley young woman had known Beethoven or Michael Angelo Rnd had seen one of those gentlemen bsorbing poison harmful to. painting or music, she would have said, Put that off until you have finished with your music and your painting"
 Pioneers must endure discourage ment. The man that went far west in early days struggled against In- dians, wild animals, sour soil. Com ing back he found those that stayed at home raising me crops living easily.
 Those that plan for the future. break ground in new thought, have q hard, Unsatisfactory time. When they re- kurn to the old ways of thought they lind things so comfortable it makes them homesick.
 Take Mussolini of Italy. He used O be a socialist, dreaming about dea, conditions. fixing up recipes for world Utopia. Now he returns 10 he old thought. to become head of ythe fascist. Other mental frontiers men that see him will find him com ,so-table. at the head of a real gov rnment giving real orders to real eople.
 He seems ar intelligent, reformed ocialist; says he will always be friendly to America because it is wise to be polite to those to whom ou owe money"
 He has done what the King would ave liked to do, but didn't know how Q do. He has taken over the coun- ry on behalf of middle class people. hat have little and want to keep
 those not interested at all in new heas,, but much interested In the old alue of Italian money, now departed.
 e will succeed, at least. for while.
 War and gambling don't pay, win
 lose. Ask Monster Dejen. He won he Croix de Guerre then went to york in the Paris bank of Morgan & ,o who won the war, and something nore substantial than a Croix de
 uerre. Dejen is now arrested for tealing 675,o0o francs from Morgan. With that money he gambled at i Deauville, lost all but 2,oo0 francs. then won more than a million francs. He could have paid back what he stole but gamblers don't do that and She didn't. He went on gambling. lost everything. is In jail.
 Gambling doesn't pay, except for polite gentlemen that own racc tracks and make little thieves pay the expenses, or cold biooded profes-
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