The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-27
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AZ Cox discovers. the New York
Tim, : applauds the discovery that Ar
ficle X. IS like the Monroe Doctrine.
Of course. il is like the Monroe Doc.
trint That Is why America doesn't
want It,
III der the Monroe Doctrine. II any
eoun ~ attempts to seize territory on
this continent ii becomes the duty of
the United States to fight. And for
that doctrine we WANT to fight.
Ut der Article x. IL the Ahkoond of
Swai tried to bite of a piece of the
terri ory Of Armenia or Mesopotamia.
ar If anybody, anywhere in the world.
tried to take anything from the Brit
ish umpire, we should have to fight.
and hat Is what this country DOES
MT intend to do.
TO the Monroe Doctrine. compelling
us tt protect boundaries on this con-
timer t, We ray YES.
To Article X of the League of Ma
tions telling us to police the whole
worle, lighting and financing the wars
of Ell rope, We say NO.
RAJ on. the steamship Leviathan at
taeke |. killed aud ate or droye out the
cats. Behold, In miniature. what
sone lines happens in revolution
anon human beings.
Tht huge steamer. Leviathan,
plagu ID with rats, could not be cleared
By th usual use OF hydroeyanic acid
gas.
twas decided to let the rats starye
to del tn. All food was removed. Cats
were mt in To make the food embargo
more terrible The rats ate thu cats
The q they ate the leather cushions
Nov the weaker rats are beginning
to die the survivors eat them.
In little while the strongest sur
vivors will kill and eat each other uu-
til at asst only one savage rat, full of
raw eat, will be left. Then man will
walk n, accompanied. perhaps, by a
rat te rrier, representing the police
force. and stable government" will be
restor d. II takes more than merely
discon tented men to make a nation,
and Il e worst thing that can happen
to lit OF rats Is to be left to them
selves Rats need men; men need
goverr ment.
Vice President Marshall describes
reform ers we'll when he says that they
toast heir shins until they find that
corrup ion exists, complain for a mo-
,nent, then go back to toasting their
shins. They don't remember that Mr..
Boss i on the job "a hours a day,
three hundred and sixty-fiv days a
year"
The trouble with Americans is that
not on in hundred takes any per-
sistent consistent interest in govern
ment II knows what is being done.
When hey do wake UP for a moment
1t is u ually too late.
.Edw grd Roche Hardy. Jr.. twelve
years Id, is the youngest college man.
He Is / I Columbia university, knows
quite y ell twelve languages. has stud
led As ;yrian and Babyionian tablets
tllreeI 0ulfis.
Thel :ilances are al million to one
that Ia llifeis real struggle he win be
passed by a hundred boys of his age
that dc not know much about any lam
guage. not even English, and that
would ,nly use a Babylonian tablet tC
tAioW ~ q tat-
Youn Hardy is interesting. show
ing. as John Stuart Mill did before
him. the extraordinary possibilities oi
develop ment Ia the human brain.
How yer, il isn't how much yor
know nat counts, but how much yot
can do with part of what you know
1t ism how many languages yot
speak, nut what you have to say in one
languaie. A small pump is more im-
portant than the biggest sponge
Socia list aldermen in New Yori
suggest seizing fine houses on Fifti
avenue temporarily unoccupied b.
owners to relieve the housing short
age J hat isn't the way to solve
housing problem.
A few years ago in all New forl
there we're not hundred bath tub
with ~ INNING water. 1t wouldn't hay
done any good for the inhabitants I
seize the tubs to all try TO bathe |
them a once. The right way was I
build ore bath tubs and let every
body hi We one.
The thing today is build NOR
houses and free permanently from tax
alton oderate priced houses in whic
men ra fse their families. as you FIRE
frcin axation orphan asylums
churehts