The Washington times., 1919-12-24

Baby Ghosts, Wicked Gents.
Uncle Sans Dead Card.
Anarchists Missing Words.
1t Pays to Complain.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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To whom do ghosts talk when
they come back? That question is
raised in q book recommended by
weil-known elergymen.
Do babies killed at birth by i'm
moral mothers come back to haunt
those mothers, or do they hunt DIP
the wicked gentlemen responsible
and haunt THEM?
A depraved husband hurried off
to London, making his wife go
with him, because he wanted to
meet bad lady in town as soon as
possible.
He changed seats with his wife,
instantly a collision killed him, she
wasn't hurt.
What spirit suggested the
Change Of seats?
Whom will the wicked husbands
ghost haunt, his lucky wife or the
lady in London who sits and won
Gers what became of him?
When spirits warn a man to
leave a ship, and he quits, the ship
sinks and all the others are, killed,
what ghost tells him and why does
he tell HIM? What is the matter
with "the richest and most fash
ionab@e church in the world torn
apart by spiritism and Ouija?"
Now, at the beginning of the
twentieth year Of the twentieth
century, these important questions
should receive solemn attention.
Who. indeed, can doubt that divine
power, guiding this planet and
billions Of other suns and planets
through eternity and infinite space,
arranges little haunting parties by
murdered babies, soaring gentle
men Of bad behavior?
The Government Of the United
States has sent "a serious warn
ing to Carranza" telling him to
stop outrages against Americans
at once. This may have serious
results, if Carranza happens to
have q cracked lip when the mes
sage reaches him.
When our beloved country tied
up with Mr.. Kolchak. represent
ing reaction in Russia, it appears,
in the language of the gamblers,
to have laid its bet ION q dead
eard.s
Mr.. Kolchak is busy evacuating
places. The Japanese, who imag-
med that they were going to
march into Russia and make some
new little Siberian msps, with the
United States to do the dirty work,
are said to be worried.
! London wires that seven hun
red Of Kolchak's miserable fol-
rers are found frozen to death
q hospital near Omsk.
1t must have been about as bad
Vs the British hospital at Scutari,
when Florence Nightingale took it
in hand.
In the way of strong language,
what could you think up that
might satisfactorily and briefly
express the emotion of anarchists
sentenced to deportation and heln
Up in Chicago, the deportation de-
layed. while a Government official
collects income tax from them!
1T is as though the dead could
feel the icy worm around them
steal, and sbudder as the reptiles
creep to revel DER their rotten
sleep"
Even that isn't strong enough.
'India is to have a measure of
self-government-"
And Ireland is to have i meas
pre or l1-goVernment-how big
remains to be seen.
This indicates that it pays to
protest. Ireland gets promises, be-
cause Ireland succeeds in making
England uncomfortable.
India gets her measure" be-
cause her fussing has recently
made it necessary to shoot a lot of
the light brown pe~p'e. The pros
pect of shooting indefinitely into
three hundred millions of Asiatics
is not pleasant - eventually it
might not be safe.
Moral: II you are not getting
what YOU want show that you are
dissatisfied. The meek end the
humble are blessed. but have to
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