Evening star., 1923-08-28

steam locomotive, the telegraph from
Baltimore. the submarine cable, the
electric light, the telephone, the
electric. motor, the gasoline, engine,
the automobile the airpiane and the
innumefable other achievements clut.
ter the pages of American. history ana
leave not even blank margin Tor
peace and inertia. We are reaching
out into fathomless space and time,
to annihilate time and space. yes
! terday" the trip across the cont1nent
Ave inches wide; today" one-eighth
of an inch. Inscribe that, OH, MS
| torian. and note how vacant mas
become our world!
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[ When men become sufficiently en-
crossed in doing things" will they
not be diverted from the mania or
the centuries to destroy each other?
| There is something besides ma
| terialistic progress in this achieve
ment The secret of how wars viii
cease lies in increasing acquaintance
ship of neighbors. The intimacy OF
neighborIiness comes through en-
hanced propinquity-the opposite q
voyage of forty-ive units and MAKES
1t step of one-eighth of one unit
makes for. the harmony or human
| thought and the sympathy OF human
hearts. Men do not fight each other
| when they understand each other.
Race prejudice, like foul bacteria
thrfves only in darkness. The sun IS
never clouded in the stratospheric
track OF airplanes. We are going to
The next generation Will be of aVia-
tors. travelling upon the wings Of
the wind" to the uttermost parts of
the earth.
! the world and-who knows-literal-
lily may listen in" to the music of the
! throbbing planets. How can men OF
such powers be little and petty and
jealous? They must love each otner
be peopled with good Samaritans.
Grace Dariings and Florence Night
ingales Wars will be forgotten. for
all people will be neighbors. talking
daily and Familiarity with each other,
from north to south poles.
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| Washington has at last proved the
truth of evolution. All that is neces-
sary now to demonstrate it is to be-
gin with the three-volume novel OF a
previous generation, trace its descent
through the narrative to the short
story, and at last to the three tailless
pups born a month ago I'm a colored
mans woodshed on l. street north
| west That is the ultimate of the tale
which hitherto has been permitted to
wander and wag at will without plot
or climax. The Tale of Two Cities
isn't a circumstance to the lack of tai
of three pups. 1t is a malicious lie to
quote: For thereby hangs taiI-lt
does nothing of the kind.
Biologists have been misleading us
by declaring that the children of one
LEGGED parents always have two nor
1 NAL legs. and that the arms of the
parents may be mutilated without
changing the arms of the children
to the third or fourth generation
Yet, because the parents of these
pups had their tails cut into short
stories. here ia the sequel shorter
than the stories-so different from a
womans postscript. which is always
twice the length of her letter.
Each pup looks as If it had had
one ear boxed, for great black
blotch covers the off" ear. except
that on one the black splotch seems
I to have slipped back toward the
place where the tail ought TO be
but that one has little spiotch on
Its near" ear. The black and blue
gDlOtch SHOWS tHdt W dS Il toh
| fusion, the first time those babies
were reproved. but that is excusable
since how could anybody know where tC
administer the reproof?
\ II is Just like the case of the puz-
| zled boy at the circus, whose new
straw hat the elephant niischiev'
I ously swiped and flung underneath
In,. q
stick and marched several times arouno
the steaier Of his hat, and finally blurt-
ed out:
You great big, two-taiied, injun.
rubber beast, il l knew which enc
your brains were at. I'd lam YOU
one!'
Copyright. 1923. by Paul V. Coliins)