The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-14
MAN SPINS A MORE
WONDERFUL WEB
THAN THE SPIDER
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

/ L. 81
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
CEEING and believing have dissolved partnership
- Substance becomes finer than the eye Tungsten has
been spun into wire too small for human vision Man
is at last more cunning than the spider
Here invisible filament strong enough to hold up
pair OF desk shears and for the carriage electric
Pandoras box filled with imagination Possibility is
only halted by necessary ransang too Every mechanical
advance increases the Of achievement Each discovery
is hub from countless spokes may radiae The best
way to do nothing is in sight
REORGANIZATION in its infant days-and st speaks
with baby voice. Radio telephone merely COO in the
cradle Of experiment They haven't really learned talk
yet.
Meat on EUery Abandoned Bone of
knowledge.
JAMES WATT studying kettle steam saw engines and
locomotives IN the mist Lee De Forest looked into gas
= flame and beheld an audion tube
The other day he went back take squirt
found he overlooked microphonc device replace the
bothersome diaphragm Now fire itself speaks No mind
exhausts subject
The Little Jack who the pies OF science
are too quickly satisfied with their plums.
There's meat for another generation every abandoned
itsef ana a0a'ss N the Done
Packers used to boast that they wasted anything
pathology began to cast speculative at animal glands
million lives went into the fertilizer tanks before medicine
snooped there We're simply at the threshold Of revelation
Surgery has hardly left the barber shop Pharmacy Just
starting to search the slaughterhouse.
They Picked Up sos, OOO,O on the Beach.
TENRI FABRE whom Maeternck credits with the most
profound mind Of his century declared that
Of human knowledge is grain Of sand .
Shore There's ahopeful picture for YOU Take your ab
tions to the beach and ponder. s.
Plenty of things left to do The Van Swergen brothers
control five Middle West railroads capitalized at $685.
100000 which shows what be picked up the
The elder of the pair is fOrtour Neither Hin nor Harr
man had travelled as far at their age.
Certain folk who inherited transcontnental systems and
who didn't inherit the ability that organized and operated
them hereby warned to look to their properties Compe
tence takes final title to all estates.
Nobody LOUes Creditor.
HE British French protest Admiral Chester and
his associates the wrong beach. n
They won't take title to Angora concessions certa
Of the allies have their France claims cOnraveuOn Of
Constantinope insists that deal Is nvadated because s
Moui interests Paris and London haven't been embrac
for quite while, but they promise to kiss cheeks over
The Stars and Stripes ism such popular nag IN Trea
needle street and La Bourse Flanders 'front.' No
body loves a creditor. !
The next Lausanne conference promises to be color With
eagle screams rooster crows and lion rOaT There no midi
apparently sold himself short MI Saunders Of piggy wiz
gy fame, would that that's very risky business
Handouts Not instruments Of Production.
Cois war-making.
- Germany pays, and pays and pays Ruhr occqpstioa
gets the order for 22Oon cable layer originally placed with
The building Of several South American vessels is being re-
negotiated Japan turned plans for large passenger
ships Clyde firms Meanwhile Poncare demands
rationS in full
Strain at O. Gnnt and SUdLLOU O. Camel.
1.-TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND dollars
worth Of dope burned by the New York police Merely
- half days supply for New York addcts. America
pays out hundreds millions annually narcotic pedders
Figure what brides and protection money the traffic can
afford to pay out of such profits.
The real Of cocaine, heron and morphine however,
must be expressed human values There's the ncacuabe
loss.
evil.
Civilization shan be safe from dragon thousand
claws until the torch put the poppy fields and shipment
of coca regulated by international agreement
This deadly must be destroyed the roots Bulky
h. IN