The Washington times., 1923-02-05
WE HAVE LITTLE TO
FEAR FROM EARTH
QUAKES
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
TO check-up yet the Polynesian disaster Broken
IN observatory instruments give ominous hint of tn
extent But weeks must elapse before we can learn
how deeply the heart of the Pacific is ruptured.
Meanwhile let imagination paint the picture.
Indefinite miles of bed begin to like shaken
carpet Suddenly great split appears in the grinding
rock. The chilled waters pour through in mighty flood
upon the flaming earth Explosive gases form
colossal submarine mine.
bursts the shock spreads spokeWse to the outer rim
of Wheels wheel and ruin that likely includes
half the coral seas.
But natures laboratory mishaps far less dreadful
than human deviltry and ignorance
All the eruptions of the past thousand years didn't
kill million people The big quakes since the twelfth
century, including those at Lisbon, ST. Pierre Japan,
Italy, Sicily together slew less than five hundred thou
sand of
And their totals of destruction can't equal the property
loss in year of recent warfare from half the strikes
and industrial tie-ups after armistice
Black Plaque, the Champion Killer.
TAR huger fatality breeds in neglect and filth and
r mans cussedness The black plague alone, spawn
of squalorous habits, slaughtered 2O,OOO,0OO IN
1898.
IN 1877 famine camp follower of farming incompe
tence fed fat upon 13 100000 Hindoos and Chinese
Storm and tide not the main arsenals Of DEATH
Silence and nvsbility mask the bghts and polutons
which most threaten existence
The microscope knows where to seek the real
enemies of AS witness the discovery Ol Lie III
germ-a thousand times too small for human eye TO
see and more dreadful than thousand Etnas and
Mount Pelees.
we've found the microbe-weIl mighty soon find
the way to handle it.
Watch For Shocks From Asia.
T HE allies do not feel SO hopeful today. They
haven't found the way to handle Turkey The
Lausanne conference fails It's object Curzon
and Ismet cannot compose differences.
poino In d Il
Diplomatic seismographs tremble at the prospect OF
another shock from Asia Minor which will still
further retard the world recovery and send newly
grouped nations at each others threats
No LOUe, Food, or Art in America
WE shall recover much sooner from the snock Of
w Isadora Duncans departure. That is the least
catastrophe in the news Russia may have the
lady Likewise any other renegade critic of these
United States
The exotic Isadora finds it longer possible to
dance to the tune of The Star Spanged Banner Ours
is Grass stupid, capitalistic land. America knows
nothing of love- food or art. We don't understand
what freedom means. Freedom is in Russia-and
much vodka besides
She believes it is possibly good thing that she is
going back to Moscow. Right for once.
Some Facts and Figures For Mr.. TrOtsky.
should interest Isadora and fellow Bolshevists to
| hear that bread-nce white breads now selling
at three and a-half cents loaf in Chicago.
We also beg to inform them that "a per cent of the
worlds automobiles possessed in this country.
Twelve million members of our capitalist class own
passenger cars and trucks Which means that almost
every other family has sort of automobile
Let them reflect as they calculate ruble value and
contemplate the local of pestlence, that the
purchasing power of dollar still keeps rising while
the death rates all forms of disease drop here.
Thirteen per cent of New Workers died of tuberculosis
in 1910. Eight per cent last year.
Mr.. Trotsky is invited to present his facts and fig
ures We'd especially like to know how much his rail
roads are making They're under government owner
ship We lost billion, eight hundred million while
Some Dark Chapters of Progress.
FRENCH scientists want to use condemned criminals
= for experimental purposes
They say to the government: Give us your
murderers don't waste them the guiotine. Turn
them to the pathological laboratories ana let us