The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-19
PHARAOH NEARS THE
END OF HIS
JOURNEY
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.

By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
HUMANITARIAN approaches the end Of his journey
j Poor, deluded fool! He thought to bride Heaven
and dazzle it with his wealth and splendor.
ROBBED in gold, staggering with Jewels regay prov
endered and surrounded with the loot Of empire he
set forth to find eternityand lands in glass case and
the fashion pages.
Just shriveIed bag Of bones for the guessing fingers
Of archaeology important only IN the secrets his
the furniture and vestments in bis sarcophagus.
Simply subject for study. mere curio, inpiously
unearthed to furnish facts and relics for history.
The empire he wrathfuIy ruled is now q sideshow
and the home Of rabble Isis and Horua and Set are
fed Memphis, Luxor, and Thebes vanished.
Time has eaten their glory and covered their
with desert
churn the Nile. The Sphinx and pyramids tourist
From world domination to .rThe Streets Of Cairo"
from Cheops to Cook EGYPT has indeed fallen!
The Coal Cat Is Out Of the Bag.
HE Pharaohs spoiled their own game They a,g took
too much while they had the chance. Old King
Coal is doing the same thing and riding for the
same kind of fall
Empty bins will be the next campaign issue Il the
Administration doesn't get busy and fill them now.
We've had last fueleSS year.
Well never again pay $25 ton for the slaty truck
in our stoves and furnaces. We've seen the last Of
profiteerng in painted stone and colliery tailings
service let them prepare for confiscaton. The hand
writing is on the wall.
Northern New York has been compelled to com
mandeer supplies from passing trains New England
is one vast shiver
Mine-owning railroads are simply begging for Federal
and with ndefensbe anthracite shipments into Canada
Dominion resels here at scandalous advances And
it isn't certain ether that our friends across the
border get all the profit
We've seventy thousand laws on the statute books
and yet authorities hem and haw and fiddle and fuddle
and confer and delay while schools churches and
hospitals, go unheated and mpudent greed goes I'M
punished
The Waterman will lets the cat out of the bag The
Kingston Galleries paid one block of stock $4,000 in
1918 $2s 900 in 1919, $4,000 in 1920 and $4,000 in
1921 Tell that to your Congressman.
HOU to S0Ue S3,OOO,OOO,OOO q Year.
V0AL shouldn't be shipped around the country any
how. Power and heat ought to be produced At
the NINE Central stations scattered throughout
the continent could thus furnish unbelievably cheap
steam and electricity.
The difference in wages transportation and dstribu-
at $3,OO0,O 100000 annually.
The consumer pays for loading at the colery
shipment to destination unloading dumping, reload
ing, and delivery to his own cellar. He pays the
brokers' commission and the retailers profit besides
With minimum of SIS saved each of the 6O0,OO0O0O
tons produced annually in the United States generating
machinery and pipe lines would soon pay for them
selves.
It's just as easy to pipe steam from the mines it
is to pipe oil to and from the refineries.
Don't say it can't be done it's being done. Thou
sands Of buildings in Portland and New York are
already served by steam factories.
K. Lane ABUSED and Predicted 1t.
FRANKLIN K. LANE advised and predicted the
general Inauguration of this system His
perience both as Secretary of the Interior and
Interstate Commerce Commissioner brought expert
opinion to the subject
Private furnaces squander half their fuel. This
waste would be prevented and an inestimable wealth
of byproducts obtained, not the least of which the
gasoline substitute that Prof. Charles r. Fetke has
just extracted from btumnous COAL carbonized at low
temperature
There's telling how many undecided fires
escaping through national chimneys
HeLiun1, the NeU Sherlock Holmes.
- GAL, the Observation-Disclosures seems to contain
I everything most valuable to civilization: Drugs
sugars oils, lubricants, dyes, heavy and light
chemicals, all lost up private flues.
Just helium wasted upon all outdoors before
we discovered it in natural gas
Congressman julius Kahn warns America to
every and every ounce of helium
It isn't found anywhere off the North American
tinent.
Helium is noninAammable. Therefore the perfect in