The Washington times., 1919-12-11

Another Slow Peace.
Soul $500, Pigs $500.
A Chinese Face.
A Japanese Discovery.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The below zero cold wave is
travelling from West to East with
great rapidity.
Industrial wars are almost as
unwieldly as international wars.
The big war ended year ago,
nominally, but there is no peace
yet Pray the coal miners will
not take 80 long to 'let the old
cat die out"
The Boston American, amazed,
learns that a clergyman in ver-
mont paid only $500 salary, be-
came q veterinary surgeon and
now earns $500 q year.
It II ludicrous that human beings
should pay q man $500 for taking
care OF their souls and six times
a. much for taking care OF cows,
horses and hogs. But they KNOW
the hogs are real.
And you find something as amaz-
ing In the Government Of the
United States, which sends expert
advice and specialist to any fam
i,y worried about the symptoms
Of small pig, calf or lamb and
has only sympathy, and little
Of that, for a worried mother about
her children. Pigs and calves are
worth money.
At least ten million men, women
girls and little boys will see Grif-
6th's picture, Broken Blossoms"
The hero Is yellow Chinese phi
laathropist; the villain and brute a
white, English prize fighter. The
Chinese 10 kind to little girl. The
white father kills her. The Chi
nese kills him
Editors say this spreads false
ideas concerning the two races,
and that idealizing Chinese, an in
direct protest against exclusion. is
mwise.
One fact settles the whole dif-
6culty. The face of the Chinese"
actor IN the picture convinces you
that he really would protect the
child.
But that AChinese" face is the
face of q trhite man. Mr.. Griffith.
with all his genius, could not
show what he wants to show with
anything but q WHITE face.
In all the four hundred millions
Of yellow people that inhabit the
Chinese Empire, Mr.. Griffith could
not have found one face that. put
upon . screen, could by any possi-
bility have expressed the charac-
teristics that he attributes to the
Chinese hero in a picture taken
from the HLimehouse Nights
stories.
0aly . white mans face can ex-
press the qualities wanted in
white mans country.
Our Chinese friends will tell you
that white faces all look much
alike to Chinese eyes, as Chinese
faces look alike to the eyes Of
white men, and that a Chinese
Griffith, making a Broken Bios
soms," would have to select a
Chinese to play the part of the
American hero because no China
man could see anything really good
and pure in an American face.
That, however, is another story.
TIE japanese announce, through
Honorable Zumoto that it is i'm
possible for the Powers of the
world to settle the Russian prob
lem by force.
After a while, perhaps, the
Grand Lama of Tibet, and the
ruling chief of the Zulus will also
announce that in the long run one
hundred and fifty million Russians
will settle their own form of gov
eminent
And. little later, there will
probably come an announcement
that even the highly educated
Government of the United States
has made the same discovery.
A group of business men manip-
ulated by the Milk Trust OF big
city resolve not 70 increase the re-
tail price of milk "becausv it Uould
reduce consumption to the ultimate
injx1y of the PRODUCERS"
Men and women supplying free
lunches to half-starved children in
public schools and difficulty In
teachfRg the children to drink milk.
Th0n aanda of vnlnQ childran In