Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-01-26

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rain or under the burning sun moan
ing, Save a dead dog" were thought
to be afflicted by "the curse of
Heaven"
Science now shows that it was only
the curse of filth. Soap and water,
used in time. would have saved the
lepers. Chaulmoogra oil, provided by
science, cures leprosy. Many of the
ills that human beings endured MUIR
muring, 1.-The curse of Heaven" were
not caused by Heaven, but were
caused by dirt, ignorance, superstition
and fear.
Watch Europe! We are bound to
be influenced by what happens there.
The French plan an Enterprise new,
in this generation-taking over by
force a large territory with millions
of inhabitants of another nationality.
What the French will do, and the
Germans, remains to be seen. Hatred,
sabotage, refusal to work-no pleas
ant outlook.
Certain observers believe the French
will change their minds partially and
resort to something less drastic.
Many Americans believe that for us
wisdom is to stay out of it, letting
Europe manage Europe's affairs, con-
tent occasionally to ship relief to the
starving, but not underwriting and
fighting.
Had we gone into the League of
Nations, as originally urged, we should
now share responsibility for the in
vasion of Germany, in which we are
not interested, and find ourselves COM
PEELED to side with England against
France, or with France against Eng
land. If it was wise to keep out then,
it is wiser to keep out now that we
know the league won't stand.
Senator Borah, a sincere, powerful
statesman, has, according to MI. Mark
Sullivan, a plan for American CO.
operation with Europe. He says, "The
world is in need of a Moses"
Moses, however, led the Jewish peo-
pie OUT of bondage, and out of Egypt,
not INTO Egypt. Even after he had
led his friends out of bondage he
wandered around with them for forty
years in a desert that a flying machine
can cross now in an hour and a half
or so.
That was slow progress, but under
the circumstances nothing better
could be done, and Moses performed
we'll worthwhile miracles hat Senator
Porah could not duplicate.
If Senator Borah or anybody else
should appear as a Moses leading us
into Europe's complications, that also
will mean about forty years of van
dering around, and that's too long.
Also, it would be too expensive.
Heine, German-Jewish poet, is bur-
led in Paris in a corner of Montmartre
Cemetery. There he was buried after
long suffering, h~eroically endured.
Heine's admirers in Germany, long
before the war, engaged a French
florist to keep a wreath always on the
tomb. When the mark went to moth
ing the Germans could not pay.
The Frenchman wrote. "Pay me in
paper marks" Where he used to get
"a sous, he now accepts the one-hun-
dredth part of one sou and is content.
Tender sentiment" that is called in
Paris.
Perhaps the florist has read Heine's
"Reisebilder." More likely he knows
that Heine skinned the Hohenzollerns
so artistically hat they would never
allow a statue of him to be set up in
Berlin.
If Heine could come back and look
over all the new "little free nations"
and the others waiting to tear each
other, he might repeat his line: Free
dom thou wicked dream"
Henry Ford in politics grows daily
bigger. His chance for the Presidency
is discussed by men of both parties
in Washington, from the White House
up the hill to the Capitol.
One of the ablest men in the Senate,
a powerful Republican, said to this
writer: Everybody in Washington
believes that if the Democrats nomi-
nate Ford they will elect him over
whelmingly. I am in a position to
know that he would get millions of
votes from Republican farmers"
This news is not pleasing to those
that oppose Ford, but they want facts,
not soothing syrup.
The same Senator added, "The late
election filled the Democrats with so
much foolish confidence, however, that
I don't think they have the slightest
intention of nominating Ford. They
don't want him, of course, if they can
keep away from him."
Another man, deep in this admins
tration, whom all of you know by
name, is responsible for a statement
that will interest Henry Ford. He
told Fleischhacker, of San Francisco,
that both Woodrow Wilson and Mr..
Tumulty, the latter a good judge of
politics, believe the Democrats will
surely nominate Ford.
This is only hearsay, so please as