The Washington times., 1919-11-25


England at her demand. 1t goes to
the Cunard company.
A collection of ships belonging
to the American Standard Oil
Company are seized and held by
England on the ground that they
had been sailing under the Ger
man flag.
The new American motto would
seem to be Don't Give Up the
Ship'-unless England wants it.
Time heals wounds. If you said,
About q hundred years from now
. young descendant of the Ger
man kaiser viii visit the United
States, Government officials will
hurry to meet him, servile crowds
win bow and cheer" what protests
would rise. Never, never" the
people would say. Never q well
come to any successor of the Ho-
henzollern who did such dreadful
things in Belgium
The Americans about a hundred
years ago would have said the
same about any successor of King
George, whose agents hired red
savages to kill AM -ricans, includ-
ing women and children.
This country has given g pretty
fair reception to the young Prince
OF Wales, with never a thought
about the red Indian massacres,
Man is Forgetting animal, fortu-
nately. II would sour him il he
had to remember all his hatreds.
The head Red Cross worker
IN Armenia is here to tell the
United States Government that .its
nrst duty" Is to the Inhabitants of
Armenia. in danger of destruction
ae the hands of Turks.
The gentleman Is mistaken.
rms government has Just one hun
dred million responsibilities that
come ahead OF any responsibility
abroad 1t has one responsibility
for each American inhabitant.
Everything possible should be. done
for Armenians. for all the fourteen
hundred million human beings that
live on this earth outside of the
United States. But the Govern
ments FIRST duty Is to those
that live here, q fact forgotten
quite often.
Some one suggests that to settle
the coal problem, farmers should
fake the -place Of strikers In the
n1hea The farmers wfl1 not do II
-eoo sudden . transition. But the
aAy will come when men win do
tQre than one kind OF work, which
VII - a excellent. thing for the
human mind and for industry.
Henry Ford is now working on
that line. One of his plans Is to
rut factories in agricultural re-
gions where there is water power.
use The power for farm machinery
and irrigation In Summer, build
factories next to the water power
and give the farmers and their
families employment at high wages
In Wipter. Let the factory rest in
Sumner, the farm in Winter.
That Ii real intelligence.
At this writing Carranza, of Mex
leo. still has the American Consul
Jenkins safely locked up. The
United States threats don't agi-
tate Carranza.
At Constantinople, Abraham
E6endi, head of Mohammed's S
church, congratulates the United
States on having put into the Con-
stjtution the prohibition idea that
Mohammed gave to the, Turks
thirteen hundred years ago.
The other piece of news from
Turkey tells of cutting down of
harems. Mohammed allowed each
man four wives, to make up for
no alcohol. But the high cost of
living has struck the harem.
American travellers are surprised
by Turks offering to make them a
present of one or two surplus
young women
It costs something to strike on a
big scale. The steel men have
made up their minds to go back in
the Pittsburgh district, so mill
owners say. In ten weeks the
mems loss in wages amounted to
more than twenty-nine million
dollars. Mills will make up their
loss With bigger orders. higher
prices. Workmen won't. 1t is
time the workmen invented some
thing better than the strike.
Professor Garner, who knows
how monkeys talk and what they
say, sues for 100000 damages a
photographer that represented the
professor in the act of kissing a
chimpanzee.
1he chimpanzee is the highest
mammal, next to man. What suits
for damages would young women
have whose pictures show them
kissing dogs? The chimpanzees at
least keep their faces out Of the
dirt, dogs do not.
The French are through in Rus
sia Lloyd George has said that
England has had all the Bolshevist
fighting she wants. He confirms
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