The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-15
English and the Dumdum
Bullets
And Some Other Things.

whemingy in favor reprisa Ireland" The reprsals
mean that when Irishmen kill soldiers and policemen,
soldiers and policemen kill few ishmen, and are not par
tcular which Irshmen it may happen to be.
One noble lord suggested that the Irish should be
herded wholesale in stockades and food supplies cut off,
This tried time among the Beers. It worked
WELL the whole for there is Boer government now.
The British complain that the Irish in fighting against
police and soldiers used dumdum bullets made with soft
nose Of lead which spreads when 1t strikes and leaves
. horrible wound.
The Irish say they are compelled bullets captured
from the English police and if there are any dumdum
bullets is because the British government supplies them
TO the police for against the Irish
The Irish add which is true that the bullets named
for the village of Dumdum in India, where the English
first made the dumdum bullets for on the natives
Northcliffe who is member of the House of Lords,
has denounced by other because he compe
London Times which he owns to side with the Irish and
against the government in this matter OF reprisal
1t seems hard for a really big corporation to
offend the laws majesty even when it does its best to
The biggest wooden in the United States profit
eered quite shamelessy indicted and somebody you
would have said should have gone jail The law provides
prison for anybody profteerng in clothing Charles E.
Hughes able lawyer persuaded Federal Judge that
that makes cloth has nothing to do with clothing That
settled that.
The big Edison corporation of Brooklyn profteered
sweetly in coal however, and although of its Of
Federal Judge who says that section of the Lever act
does not apply to public corporations.
And that settled THAT. In America the corporation
is king and perfectly good judges will assure you now
in ancient times, that 1.-THE king do wrong"
Once more the flying speed record is broken,
it stands hundred and ninety two miles hour
Every breaking of the record good Men the
way the thousand mile per hour speed which is what
they need to get all the way around with the directly
above hem supplying direct to the machine the power by
which they will fly
You will read that in 1920 people of this
country drank sixteen billion cups of coffee than in
1919 That hundred and sixteen extra cups Of
coffee for every man. and child in the United States
Somebody have drunk too much coffee, but good
formers please don't start coffee prohibition movement
You would be surprised to know how many things the hui
do without dying off, especially if is let
alone to do planning for itself Human beings for
mysterious things that the vrtuous say are
not good for them Coffee and tobacco certainly might be
left to purified world reminders of old times.
Germany curbs gougers and speeds up pro-
We send junketing Congressional committees every
where why not send to Germany to find out how they
do it.
Senator Kenyon says our proassers here "should be
put in jail" Many other things Should be but won't be-
II all those deserving Jail jailed, there would be
vacancies in public office The most guilty of public crim
nails officials that perhaps stole nothing but protected
proeerng thieves to protect themselves from criticism
The campaign being over, Will Hays relaxes
and, asked for an opinion quotes Brownings
Goods in His heaven;
Ais right with the world"
Unless the Administration fortunate in meeting
tho thousand problems that face it, Hays in short
time might feel like modifying that statement Browning
asked by woman the exact meaning Of his lines replied
Madam when that written only two individuals knew
what meant-God and Robert Browning. Now God only
knows"
Hays may be saying something like that later
Women are creatures of wonderful determi.
nation undecided weaklings compared with them