The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-11-02

$50 Great Ones.
Make Your List.
To conscript Women.
Au Resoir, Jugo-Slayia.
By Arthur BRISBANE.
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Making lists of great men is
always interesting work.
: The Journal of Hsrsdity seri-
. ously and ably edited at Wash
ington, has undertaken to give
: Theodore Roosevelt proper eter-
nal rating already, which Is a
little soon. Says the editor:
@At any rate the probability is
that there have not been more
than one hundred and fifty men
. of eminence or of genius greater
than Roosevelt in all recorded
time"
It viii stimulate thinking in
your little children If they sit
down and make a list of the hun
dred and 6fty whose genius ex-
cecded that of Roosevelt, in all
the history of the world.
You would put in the three
greatest writer's, Homer, Dante
and Shakespeare
You would probably include the
three greatest musicians, Bach,
! Beet oven and Wagner.
You would include a dozen
great scientists, beginning with
Archimedes, and include some
whose studies have reached out
into space. far beyond Cuba, for
instance, Newton, Kepler, Calico.
The greatest painter, sculptor
and architect in the world, Michael
Angelo, combining three kinds OF
genius, would have to be IN the
first hundred and fifty.
Some of the philosophers would
have a ehance-Socrates, Ar1s-
totle and Plato in the old days,
Spinoza, Bacon, Kant in COM
parativefy modern times
Then you would include few in
ventors whose names may outlive
that of the hero OF San Juan; for
instance, the inventor OF the steam
. engine. the steamboat, the spinning
1nny, the telephone.
You can spend useful hour with
your children making out list OF
the hundred and fifty greatest
human beings, and you may be sur
prised to discover how difficult 1t
Is to write one hundred and fifty
names well known to all the world
/. and apt to survive for. say ten
thousand years.
Every little while some one tries
to solve the woman question In
old-fashioned style by saying: "If
women want to be mans equal,
they must do the work that men
do
The suggestion Is that women
should be policemen, firemen or
soldiers. longshoremen, or admit
basic inferiority.
lt-1sssr occurs t0-women to say
to men: IF you want to vote and
be my equal, you must learn how
to luzse q baby. or create one"
Women are not so foolish. But
-nonsensical man thinks he has
solved every problem when he
tells a woman that unless she can
swing a sledge hammer she is not
1t to do any thinking on the sub
ject of government
\ learned Frenchman, DR.. Tou-
lcuse, writes book to solve the
vcnlca question and at the same
time supply children lacking now
in Europe. He proposes that every
bodied woman, thirty years
old, shall be conscripted by the
government to work so many
hours every day in a government
workshop, office or military hos
pital, to leave all men free for
military duty in case they are
needed. What an ideal world it
would be, il you could have all
women in the shops manufactur-
ing killing machinery, and all men
out blowing each other to pieces
with il.
The French doctors plan pro-
vides that a woman with three
children shall be free from the
workshop conscription. A woman
with two children shall work only
six months in the shop or hospital.
The woman with one child shall
work for a year. The woman with
no child shall work for two years.
The doctor suggests, and the
French are considering it serious
", that the mother of children
fhorld be considered at least as
important as any other manufac-
turer, and in view of the fact that
she is manufacturing for the state,
she should be paid for her work
and the children created taken care
ef at public expense.
In the old days, the average
mother had to work pretty we'll
all day to take care Of three chill
dren. and when she had more she
had to work all day and part of
the night as we'll.
Modern theories about conscrip-
tion, public workshop, etc, would
at least be no worse than the cold
reality OF old times.
The army sent five thousand
soldiers TO CobleRZ. We are in the
soldier business. We may have to
send more there soon, for (pre-