The Washington times., 1919-11-10


The theory is that man free
from responsibility viii go farther
and faster than a man married
with wife and children to think of.
James Auditore has a different
theory. Five years ago he was
working as longshoreman on the
docxs.
BE married at eighteen, is thirty
now. As you read, he is sailing
for Europe to arrange docking
facilities for the big shipping con-
eern, of which he is the head.
Mr.. Auditore says that marry
ing and having children when he
was handing freight at thirty
cents an hour made it necessary
for him to think. Thinking got
hmm the steamship line. White this
"a your CUT: For every man
noyYsP by marriage q dozen hare
BEEN wade by their tOtves."
Scientists that command respect
now announce that space is NOT
unlimited Lines are curved, and
when you go far enough in a So
called straight line you are on a
eurye and must come back TO the
place whence you started.
II is tine, convincing, theoreti-
> ea1y. But If space Is limited,
what Is there Outside of the
limits. And IL there is nothing
outside how far does that nothing
reach!
johnson said Of mans will, HSir,
We know that the win is free and
that u al there is of it, Ordi-
nary men would say to the scien-
hsts SSirs, We know that space is
infinite, because it MUST be, and
that Is all there Is Of that"
As well talk of limited TIME,
as limited SPACE. If you say
time il limited men ask "How long
. period was there before time
beganf"
We are wiggiing in infinite, UN-
LIMITED time and space and
might as well get used to il. Wal
lace's book, mans Place in the
Universe" woald limit human be-
ings and thought to this little
earthly grim Of sand. II Is not
convincing, but worth reading.
In TIA grand "Americanization"
progf1m that interests many il
might b WsH, to provide aeainss
ANGLICIZING the country in
the name Of characterization.
Thsre ID too much Of John Bull in
stAes esAmericanizing program, too
much tendency to call anything
Irish, French, Italian all wrong
and anything English ALL
RIGHT. This American country
is not an imitation England, but
i is breeding too many imitation
EngIshmen.
Samples Of the imitation will
soon be travelling toward the
Canadian frontier, taking with
them elastic spines to bend low
befc-o a nice, ordinary, and from
the American standpoint, entirely
USELESS little boy called the
Prince of Wales.
Among these imitation English
travellers will he the Secretary
of State Of the United States and
a number of other officials. Is not
that a PLEASING exhibition of the
pure spirit Of democracy?
IL Woodrow Wilson had a son,
can you imagine the Prime Min
lister Of England and a lot OF others
with the pregnant hinges of'their
spines well oiled, travelling hun
dreds Of miles to meet him? You
cannot
You may say that the son Of an
English King is something more
than the son Of an American Presi-
dent, but you ought TO say that in
ENGLAND, not in the UniteI States.
The League of Nations is no
longer a serious issue. This couu-
try will make its reservations, and
three OF the four Powers that
planned TO rule the world-Eng-
land. Japan, France and Italy
will have TO D. X. those reserva-
tons in WRITING before America
goes in az all. That is number
ONE.
Number Two is a reservation.
adopted so TO 30, allowing the
United States whenever it chooses
to get OUT OF the league and max
ing this country sole Judge as to
whether or not the United States
has done its full duty to the league
before getting out.
II seems a good idea to keep for
Ibis country the right to come out
where it goes in, and especially to
reserve for America the right to
judge its own conduct. Under our
laws a citizen cannot sue the Gov
eminent without permission of
Congress. it would be idiocy to
give citizens Of other nations the
right to act as judge and Jury in
matters affecting US.