The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-02

RtGuly Oh 4TGou 1tI lutV your
aleeping room, and beware Of
nnuffIes.
Grippe and pneumonia will
steadily intensity from now
until March. The next three
months are deaths fay0rite
hunting grounds.
Science is almost as re-
nOurceless against pulmonary
infections as when medieval
physicians sought to correct the
sneezing sickness with leech
and lancet.
NslIers,s Dr. FIexner's Fla
Serum?
MERE not even sure that
Dr. Flexner has isolated
The Al germ; 1t least, no serum
a forthcoming from the Rookie
teller Research Laboratories.
When pathology does provide
such an antitoxin,, life insur-
ance companies will promptly
revise their expectation tables.
The best New Year wish in
which you can indulge is that
practice verifies the remark
able claims just made for salicy-
late Of mercury, reputed to
double the number Of white
corpuscles.
These are the defensive
armies Of the blood stream and
especially hostile to ''cold''
microbes.
Until then, trust in God and
the atomizer.
The Chips az Well as the
Blocks
THE once bright hopes of
Leonard A. Wood are also
below zero. Four years ago, the
Governor General Of the Philip
pines was probably the strongest
Presidential contender among
Republicans.
Today, he faces accusations OF
colonial n1al-administration, me-
potism and the granting Of valu
able concessions to campaign
fund subscribers.
The sons spectacular success
inttlle stock market is attended
with criticism, Sif not suspi ioll;s
ard an0lleFs activities as
/ OH promoter engage the attHii.
kion ~ poaEOffiee inspectors.
Con ssl0arl Fz4r beiicNes
that the whole family, block and
chips, should be quizzed by a.
Congressional committee. What
ever the outcome, Wood may.
never again aspire4to the White
House.
Though he walk, unscathed on
hot ploughshares," scandal will
forever dog his tracks, and deal
It's coward blows.
Once poison ivy has crept into
the laurel wreath, disrepute's
itch is always there. The price
Of place!
MelIOn's Wine Needs No
Bush
DEMOCRATS charge that pop
~ ular approval of intended
tax reductions is largely in
Bpired propaganda. That sort Of
talk viii get the opposition
nowhere.
Purses aren't partisans. The
country is solidly behind Andrew
Mellon, because he proposes to
coax capital from non-productive
investments, put billions Of idle
dollars in overalls, and return to
overall wearers and lesser in
come earners q pro-rata share
Of all monies saved through adj
illustrative economies and
thwarted ork-barrels."
MELONS wine needs no bush.
One hundred and ten million Of
MS are thirsty for the generally
invigorating tonic and will re-
ject ct the polls, any Quack
substitutes:
Political expediency wastes
time on, selfish counter often
sives. Melons measure will
pass all their blockading ver-
duns.
Friends Of RussiG UnnlGsk
a Gun
CECRETARY HUGHES, how
~ ever, seems not 30 well for
titled in his Russian policy. The
Senate Judiciary Committee, act
ing under q resolution from Reed,
Of Missouri, examines Treasury
Iedgers and discovers some two
hundred million dollars debited
to the passe Kerensky regime.
Those sums, advanced 70
Georges BalLhmeteff to finance
local munitions and commodity
purchases, are presumably in
cluded with the obligations Mos
COW is required to meet before
America inclines to consider
soviet recognition.
Tchitcherin evidently is not
talking through his hat when he
protests there are argumentRble
items among Uncle Sans claims.
Suppose De La Huerta wins
In Mexico, could we expect him
To pay for rifles and aeroplanes
just furnished Obregon?
II the writer remembers cor
fectly, the Republic did not &C.
knowledge liability for confed-