The Washington times., 1923-12-31

- A0AA AnOA case ia (AC N0ANO
OF farm crops, a billion more on
savings bank deposit, three bill
lions worth of fresh enterprise,
q million carloads of freight in
weekly transit, % per cent
fewer business failures, living
costs 4 per cent up, but wage
averages 81s per cent higher and
70 per cent above 1914 earnings.
Happy Ne1v Year!
Hands Across the Rio
Grande.
DAINBOWS to the south, too.
The Mexican government
announces that the revolution is
al but squelched.
Any how, that desirable stu
alton was destined the instant
President Coolidge wisely aban-
doned Harding's arms embargo
and furnished Obregon with the
means to preserve constitu-
tionality.
A bold move that assures re-
kponsible and constructive lead
ership throughout the Western
Hemisphere. No more dog-in-
the-manger instructions and
Winchester elections.
AS de la Huerta and COM
pany retire from the scene,
Chaos exits and Prosperity pre-
pares to settle in another neck
of the woods.
If the allies will do as much
Tor China, war will temporarily
be out of job everywhere.
John Ball Takes a Stitch
IN Time.
MEANWHILE John Bull
AVA cocks q weather eye at the
future and subsidies a big
commercial air transport cor
poration, STIMULATING that all
stockholders and planes must
be British and pilots and equip
ment available for national de-
Tense. That's the way aviation
problems should be dealt with
in this country.
Such fleets can not only be
made self-supporting, but may
also eventually educate neces-
sary numbers of trained flyers
at private expense.
Congressman, fearing prece-
dents for paternalism, will
please recall that Uncle Sam
lent q helping hand and hun
dreds of millions to our first
transcontinental railroads. It
won't cost taxpayers an annual
dine apiece to plant the Stars
and Stripes ii slEis
NeuUs from WixdrdUiIIe.
THE wireless incandescent
u lamp appears. DIR. Willis
r. Whitney, of the General
Electric Company, lights a
11O-volt bulb by radio. A
dec d. hence, locomotives,
washing machines, drills, lathes
and heating plants will run on
atmospheric energy.
Edison needn't proceed any
further in his attempts to de-
wise a high-power storage bat
terry. Nature provided cheap
er and better one than mans
ingenuity shall ever hope to
contrive.
Montana has a smelter CHM
ney overlapping the Washing
ton Monument; and the Ord
nance Department designs six
teen-inch rifles that shoot three
ouarter-ton shells twenty-three
miles.
These monster weapons, built
on railroad tracks, may be car
ried from trench to trench, de-
mounted at any given point in
q few minutes, and depressed
to enter tunnels very much as
river steamers drop their
hinged smokestacks on ap-
preaching low bridges.
Sir Charles Sets Forth to
Conquer.
CIR CHARLES HIGHAM, who
y got his advertising expert
ence in Brooklyn before he Sc
cured his seat in Parliament,
will shortly sail from London
in the interests of the "Cup
that cheers" India tea plant
ers are sending him over to
stimulate the consumption of
their product. Paraphrasing
Congreve: "To the dominion
of the tea label we submit,
with the proviso that you ex-
eeed not your province"
Bontekoe, a Dutch physician
Of the seventeenth century,
prescribed the drinking of 100
to 200 cups of tea a day, land
the constant employment of the
pipe"
Sir Charles and the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company will be
delighted to read the quotation.
They should adopt the doctor
rs a mutual patron saint.
"De Mortrzis Mill Nisi
BOnur11."
AIRS. BRIDGER HAHEN
W1 sues the Famous Players
Lasky Company for a million
dollars for disappearing
the character of her father
in the film version of Emerson