The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-16
ADD NUMBER 8 TO THE
LIST OF WORLD
WONDERS
BY Herbert Kaufman.

BY Herbert Kaufman.
oIENcE ruhlessly narrowing the plot area 81 ro-
mancebu then we're just beginning to realize what
romance science itself is
Jules Verne sent his imagination around the world IN
eighty days.
General Carly one Of the who tanned the widest
fiction into fact, will give you globe trot
eighty seconds
Wireless telephony closed the gap between Europe and
America sundayan overseas bridge a4OO miles long.
Add number eight to the list Of wonders
War debts will soon be wiped out by such short cuts
When time, produce wealth. Auditors and
accountants who nothing but detectives the trail Of
thieyng minutes find all considerable deficits hiding n
the clock.
Since dimension of space eliminated and everybody
now is nextdoor neghbor kings and presidents exporters
and importers factories and their branches will 90
business without intermediates It's the mddemens who
the mudde makers and rasers Here's where
diplomacy reties from the field The dark gentleman d
every cord of trouble is the third party
This course the confusion Of tongues heaviest
laid upon humanity War and hate and pestence
were born Babel.
But REORGANIZATION between and peoples
demands common language. When men begin to speak
alike they start to think alike a melting pot-a
world melting pot-7the vacuum tube!
Commerce is the Of nations Civilization
travels trading vessels Buying and selling IS the only
universal occupation.
The two countries that practically control
England and America. Well within hundred years the
English language will sweep the map.
A Bridge AcrOss.tHe Ages.
= = oW lets cross another bridge-three thousand five
M hundred years old-a bridge across the gulf Of
time Wen 90 to ancient Egypt and visit Tutank
hamen in his tomb Archaeology, which form Of wire
less has just established connection with his dim dynasty
An inlad STOOL alabaser vase haunch Of venison,
platter Of game, and bunch OF flowers survive with
as enduring stuff dead royalty.
Tutankhameus folks did have telephones, but they
built the pyramids which also p the list OF. wonders
The Wise Men passed the pyramids the road to
Bethlehem Gentlemen who erect national monuments
don put the same quality Of work in the jobs
Egypt persisted Of many things mainly from the slave
whip which the soul Leprosy, another abominatlon
merely eats bodies The Philippines filled with epers
they infest China and blight the face Of India Little Korea
has twenty thousand Of them Even Tutankhamen daily
shuddered his throne in dread of its letha touch
Another Victory for the Doctors.
- LORE good news-Arthur L. Dean-remember the 4
NV name-an American physician in the University Of
4V4 Hawaii has conclusvely demonstrated that ethyl
ester an effective specific One more mposs
bility'' achieved.
There ARE impossbiles but they manifest that
no intelligent person challenges them. Things generally
called impossbies incomplete experiments Inventors
rarely orgnatethey follow the track of research and
oenest salvage abandoned faulty ideas Problems that
battle one generation simple to later information and
better tools.
Man Is as Young as HIS senses.
n lost quit too soon to win The later years OF
MI life are especially undervaued Age largely is an
IVA attitude Of mind Word that Frederick Har
rson and Alexander Rbot have just died Harrison was
nast ninety and an ustrious figure literature and politics
to the last eighty remained potent factor in the
affairs of France Consider Charles Coffin and Chauncy
Depew And Cemenceau. Every is as young as MS
The Lady Expects Too Much.
~UNDAY papers printed the picture of Dr. Charlotte
- Davenport mother of eleven children and now the
- wife twentythree yearod Journalist Dr. Daven
port photographed in evening clothes and smoking
cigareeone of her daily forty. She nnetys1 years
old and expects be hundred and fifty But won
Elderly women are not as young their nonsenses.