Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-02
Toda
Bad News Again
Bonds and Money Drop
Don't Scrap the Machine
80 Pieces-15 Millions
By Arthur Brisbane
In the New York American

news is PAD. N1nety-nVe tranScOnt1-
mental European trains are cut off to
save coal. Private property is con-
fiscated by the French on German
territory. There seems no other way
of getting anything, and not much will
be got in that way.
Bonds of the French Republic drop
ped to new low prices, which means
that financiers, unloading, do not think
much of the Ruhr venture.
French francs dropped badly again,
falling as low as 6.03h. German ex-
change dropped, of course. One dol
lar would buy SIS, 900 marks, worth
$13, 900 before the war. French money
is worth about one-quarter of its pre-
war price, German money about
1-13, 000th part. That's what war does.
Men riding in an automobile know
they mustn't interfere too much with
that machine if they want to finish
their journey. But hundreds of mil
lions, riding through life on a ma
chine, called Civilization" do not
realize in the least that it is also a
delicate machine that will not endure
too much tampering.
Russia thought civilizations ma
chine was unnecessarily complicated,
decided to get rid of the part called
Wealth" and succeeded. Now look
at the machine. The Allies are kick
ing the thing to pieces in Germany
and in Central Europe, and those that
are doing the kicking do not realize
that they are destroying part of their
OWN machinery.
Men might have built up a better
machine through the hundreds of CEN
turtles, had they been less brutal and
savage. But until they perfect a new
machine it is a mistake to scrap the
old. 1t would have been foolish to
sink all sailing ships before Fulton
had proved out his steam boat. In the
United States a majority of us, at
least, have a suit of clothes, a roof
over our heads and three meals a day,
which is something different from
Europe. We should remember it.
The Rev. DR.. Grant, who didn't be-
lieve everything in the Bible, and set a
limit to the Divine powers of Christ,
vas told to recant or get out of the
church.
Now the New York Times says the
trial will be put off because DR.. Grant
is strong enough to cause a split in
the Protestant Episcopal Church. That
might interfere with collecting fifteen
million dollars for the new cathedral.
The Times must be mistaken. To
postpone indicating the truth and
Divine power for the sake of fifteen
million dollars recalls rather strongly
the thirty pieces of silver. No good
citizen can believe that fifteen million
dollars for a fancy cathedral is more
important than the truth in the sight
of the Lord.
While Europe %squanders money,
President Harding does good financial
housekeeping with Mr.. Mellon. The
estimated national deficit of almost
seven hundred millions has been cut
to less than two hundred millions, with
five months of the fiscal year left for
further economies.
General Lord, head of the budget,
offers this good line: 1.-THE u. s.
means United States not U.s."
In the old days, when Pierpont Nor
gan, the real one, used to tell the
President what to do, some gentlemen
from Wall street thought that gu. S.
A meant Gus and Company"
A Russian refugee says the heads
of the Gar and all his family, kept
by the Bolsheviki, are now in Moscow,
preserved in alcohol.
Cr1oCOno Int fbaro po;obt bo n
political reason. The first p%retender
to the Romanoff throne will surely an
our himself a genuine Romanoff.
The Bolsheviki will be able to say,
mo, for we have the whole family here
preserved"
In any case it is not so much more
gruesome than the heart of Voltaire,
which they show you in a little case
in a French musuem, or for that mat
ter, the heart of a Pittsburgh patriot
who died in Paris, had his heart cut
out and sent back to be buried in
Pittsburgh.
An old lady, aged los, says she
would make DR.. Coue's formula read:
Every day in every way I I'm getting
better and better, with Gods help"
Faith is a great help in health and
happiness. Those that have it believe
that they are getting nearer and
nearer to heaven every day. In health
they rejoice, and in sickness they find
comfort in it. Mesmer, Coue, all the
mind healers may come and go. Faith
will remain. It's a very old insti-
tuition.
To make a good deal of money, if
you have the stamina, become a prize
fighter. Dempsey can earn $500, 900
in ten rounds of three minutes each.
But if you want to make REAL
money, start an oil company. The
Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company has a
little branch in California. That