The Washington times., 1919-01-17

Be a Candy Maker.
Soldier Breadlines? Hardly!
A ONE Point Program.
No More Submarines.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Copyright, 19la)

Copyright. 191o)
To make money, get into the
candy business as manufacturer or
Intelligent retailer.
Thirty-six States have voted for
absolute prohibition. The thing is
settled and a "bone-dry" nation it
Is to be for many a year to come.
Total abstainers eat much sugar,
two. three, and four times as much
as those who use alcoholic stimu-
lsnts. Sugar, swallowed, develops
alcohol inside the system, beyond
the reach of high morality and in
ternal revenue collectors.
Prohibition will mean, among
other things, increased value for
sugar-cane land, profit for grow
ers. and a gigantically increased
use OF sugar in candy and other
forms.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation Of Labor,
tells Congress there will be
bread lines in every industrial CEN
ter by May 1. after the men are out
Of the army"
Not a pleasant prediction. 1t
won't come true IL there is any wis
dom In the lawmakers OF the ma
ton.
And it will not come true il
there is wisdom distributed among
the great wealth owners and in
dustrial rulers of the nation.
For the latter have the power, il
they choose through their infiu-
ence on government, to give work
70 the men that are coming out of
the army and navy. They will run
very serious risks with their own
prosperity, their own peace of
mind and future governing powers,
II they allow those bread lines to
form.
A bread line for soldiers, with
crippled men scattered here and
there in the line, would not look
well or end well.
Better free men from the ar~y
and navy now, give them their
thirty dollars a month for six
months at least, and keep it up
longer il necessary, while they
try to find work.
To take a man from his home
and his job when you are in
trouble and say to him, go and
get shot for me-" then take the
same man when your trouble is
over ard say to him, "Go to hell
for all / care" is unwise. Those,
young men have thought and
learned a good deal.
A while ago, the Kaiser ruled,
and Liebknecht, in prison, said:
Let me out and / will settle the
Kaiser"
The Kaiser is settled, and Ger
many wants to get him back and
try him. =
What about Liebknecht I? He
also IS said to be a prisoner, and
the Germans want to try him for
various crimes. There is such a
thing as OVERRIDING autocracy-
ask the former Kaiser. And there
Is such a thing as OVERRIDING
democracy-ask Liebknecht.
1t takes a well-balanced mind
70 walk the tight rope of after
the war" conditions.
II seems that the "open cove
nants, openly reached" suggested
in one Of Mr.. Wilson's fourteen
points are to be made secret cove
nants, secretly reached" behind
closed doors For the French,
Italians, and japanese favor Sc
recy at the peace conclave. And
secrecy it will be undoubtedly, al
though President Wilson protests.
So much for one point; thirteen
are left Who will rswrite On the
fourteen points the childhood
poem about ten little, nine little.
eight little Indians" etc. The ten
little Indians all vanished.
The British Central News Agency
predicts "a renewal of the war"
based on what it calls "unimpeach-
able authority"
The prediction is based on new
terms that Germany will be asked
to accept. She must send five hun
dred millions in gold to some place,
safe from the Bolsheviki, as a
guarantee that she will keep her
promises.
She must destroy 10 submarines
alleged to be secretly building.
She must suffer "retribution"
for the murder and ill-treatment of
allied prisoners.
She must give up four million
tons Of shipping to be used by the
allies.
Our army may be in Europe a
long time, II We are to do our share
in all of the pacifying and policing.
Could not the fourteen points be