The Washington times., 1920-10-01

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meet Chicago, all the cities of the
Great Lakes, with the waters OF
the world by canal via the. Mis-
sissippi, big enough to admit
ocean steamships to the lake docks,
he would be remembered ten thou
sand years from now, just about
nine thousand nine hundred and
seventy-five years after the still
born War League of Nations will
have been forgotten.
Secretary Houston of the Treas
ury, who certainly knows, says the
national debt is being lowered. For
that, thanks.
Farmers and all interested in
crop prosperity were in gloom
when Mr.. Houston left the Agri-
cultural Department, where he
gave to agriculture intelligent and
constructive attention never sur
passed in the history of the de-
partment.
However, Mr.. Houston is dimin-
ishing the debt Of the country, the
first load that needed to be un-
loaded. There is comfort in that.
The Roosevelt road, running
from Chicago to the fine goR links
at Wheaton, is finished. 1t passes
a small, iaeSnesSsneaa, interesting
monument, plain stone mauso-
leum, in the center OF = little
country graveyard, with the WORD
Cary" on the tomb. There will
be the last resting place Of Judge
Gary, head Of the great steel COM
pany. =.
He chose his final abode in the
small town where he acted as To-
cal Judge in his youth. Everybody
interested in constructive industry
will want Judge Gary to- postpone
for at least fifty years taking up
his residence in that. small white
bungalow. Many important men
will travel the road in front of it.
It will remind them that when all
is done and the last screws twisted
in, the only thing that counts is
the good that may have been done
when the brain was alive, the work
done to increase not the fortune,
luxuries, or surplus of a few, but
the comfort and peace of many.
During the war Judge Gary re-
peatedly raised the pay of the
scores Of thousands that work for
his company. He must feel in
clined to raise that pay again,
whenever he thinks of the little
white house that stands waiting
on the left hand side of the road
as you go to the Wheaton Golf
Club.
Many of the ablest baseball
players in the United States have
confessed or are accused OF bribe
taking, throwing the game"
Perhaps the greatest baseball
team in America, one able to beat
any other, could be made up of
confessed or suspected bribe TAX
ers. They might unite in one
team, "The Freebooters," and
challenge the world. But no
body would play with them. no
body would pay admission to
watch them.
II only in the United States it
were possible to get rid of bigger
bribe takers, bribe givers, the as
sorted crooks of high and low fl
nance, rs easily as the country
can deal with dishonest baseball
players!
About twenty-six million five
hundred thousand women will be
able to vote next election. That
should mean close to twenty-six
million female votes against Cox
and the League of Nations. The
women of America demanded the
vote that they might control the
destinies of their sons and have
something to say about sending
them to war.
Women that demand the right to
control conscription of their sons
would hardly vote for a League Of
Nations that would give to for
cign council the power to con-
script the men and money OF the
United States.
ANY woman who reads intclli-
gently Article x Of the League Of
Nations knows that the League Of
Nations would nullify her vote,
nullify the votes Of all American
men and women as regards home
rule for this nation. Intelligent
women will increase the vote
against the League of Nations.