Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-11-22
This Week.
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By Arthur Brisbane
THE LOONEY GAS.
WHAT OF THE BO0TLEGGER.
WHAT is GOVERNMENT?
Mr.. REA RETIRES.

Mr.. REA RETIRES.
Following experiments in the
manufacture of gasoline in a
Standard Oil plant, many en-
ployes were attacked with strange
illness, producing insanity. Five
of them died.
Reporters, fond of striking
names, call the strange gas gloomy"
gas. Scientists don't know Just
what it is. The public is excited
about the dreadful poison gas, and
the prosecuting attorney is investi-
eating.
There are gases in existence that
would enable half dozen fiers to
kill hundred thousand people with
the greatest ease. And that, multi
piled by ten, or more. is exactly
what would happen if this nation
and its big cities were attacked by
enemy fliers and found unprepared.
That ought to interest the people
even more than the unfortunate ex-
pertinent in the Standard Oil plant.
Cornelius Cole, who knew Abra-
ham Lincoln well, died in Los
Angeles, aged 102. He practised
law when past 100.
Newspapers always mention the
death of man that begins his
second century. The time is coming
when to die younger than 100 will
be the exception.
A cablegram tells of 5000 crows
near Nevers in France, chasing an
eagle into a French chateau, where
it was killed by the keepers of the
place.
That should interest Uncle Sam.
The eagle is his bird. And the day
IS coming when eagles and crows
;~a not to be the only fighters in
the air.
The sight of noble eagle pur-
SEED bv 5000 miserable crows, and
{ lily killed. isn't pleasant.
There might be more unpleasant
ghts, in this country, if we had
II c1.ttR WI CllCltlICS L4eioO VI w Gov
began releasing their flying MA
chimes to deal with the American
eagle here.
The mistake of towerman sent
y coal car into a crowded trolley
car, slicing off one end of it, kill
ing ten.
The towerman admitted that he
had been drinking, and a flask Of
moonshine whiskey backed up his
statement.
The towerman will be punished,
and ought to be.
What about the man that sold
him the whiskey? In that case
the bootlegger did not merely
violate the prohibition law. He
committed murder. Wouldn't it be
worth while to do something about
that?
The day devoted to national
government being over, not to come
again for four years, it might be
worth while to establish definition
of government.
According to Aristotle, it is FIRST,
to see that men shall live; second,
to see that they shall live we'll"
That abbreviation of Aristotle's
theory in A. E. Zimmern's admir-
able essay on Greek politics is as
good definition as any.
To see, first, that men live, they
are supplied with what they need,
and are not killed by their enemies;
and, second, to see that they live
well, in comfort, free from worry:
that's government.
Mr.. Rea, because he reaches the
age of seventy, retires from the
presidency of the PENNSYLVANIA,
Railroad to make room for q
younger man. At seventy a man
should be at his best, and Mr., Rea
undoubtedly is at his best mentally.
and therefore at the most efficient
period. of his life, For men that
i've I'VE wisely and think as they live,
s she most siheieas years of life
'''' - come between seventy and
ashty,
Gladstone was at his best when
past seventy, fighting in the House
!.oS Commons debates at four in the
morning.
Won Moltke was seventy when he
took charge of the Prussian army,
and wiped out the French. Glenn
enceau was long past seventy, and
Foch was an old man, retired, when
the two combined did to Germany
what Ven Moltke had done to ,
France.
Good news for mothers and little
boys. The X-ray destroys ring
worm. 1t has stamped out the dis
ease in France and will do it any
where. Mothers that have strug-
gled with ringworm will welcome
that information. The X-ray bonn
bards the organism that causes the
riCgworm with a bombardment as
do21ly to the ringworm parasite
as IS shrapnel to human beings.
UNHAPPY, undecided, in doubt
worried, not well? Business, dc