The Washington times., 1920-10-03
Today
Foreigners!
cred Carpet.
owned.
len Out.
BRISBANE


mg' into anarchy? Don't these
worknsen know they have no
right 10 hold factories belonging
to the ownsryY"
Ana dearly beloved. in one
Americnn city thousands OF people
whose leases and legal rights 10
promises had expired on OCTOBER
first refused TO get out because
thor feared they wouldn't hnd an
other place TO live.
We understand our own troubles
better than the troubles across the
ocean, and disapproying what the
foreigner does. We approve the
same thing when we do IL.
A few days ago the sacred carpet
Travelled from Cairo, Mohammedan
city in Egypt, to Mecca, spot most
holy to Mohammedans on all the
earth. That sacred carpet, black,
heavy woven with the greatest care
by most skillful workers, is made
fresh every year,
II travels by train from Cairo to
Suez, soldiers guarding 1t. 1t
crosses the Red Sea in boat, and
then on camel backs goes over
the Arabian desert to Mecca.
Seven ''holy men" ride on camels
behind 1t, one beating q drum,
others playing on fifes, all very
solemn.
At Mecca, the holy carpet covers
the kaaba, the sacred black stone
from which Mohammed rose to
heaven on the back of his intelIi-
gent horse Alborak. All most
amusing to US, as we refrain from
going under ladders, refuse to sit
down with thirteen at tables,
and indulge in bitter hatreds based
on diverging religious beliefs
not all of which can be perfectly
accurate.
At Stony Point, N. Y, still
stands the house in which Major
Andre met Benedict Arnold to ar
range for the surrender of West
Point to the British. One hun
dred and forty years ago yester-
day they hanged Andre, and Wash
ington refused his last request:
"That l may not die on gibbet."
Washington, although he would
not, by any clemency, encourage
spying, respected the man that his
"six major generals and eight
brigadier generals" condemned td
the rope. A sad death, but a fine,
fortunate death. Andres memory
has lived one hundred and forty
years respected in this country and
IN hiS-6wn, and viii five hundreds
of years more.
He would be dead now, anyhow.
How much better to be hanged
and remembered, than die peace
fully in bed and be forgotten.
If you saw one child drowned
before your eyes, or even help
less mewing kitten thrown into
the water with a stone tied to it,
you would be deeply moved. See
ing it, you would feel it.
You read in today's newspapers
of the typhoon and flood that de-
stroyed thousands of houses and
killed so many in Japan. How
much does it mean to you? If you
are the average man, it means less
than it would mean if your hat
blew off and you had to run a
block to catch it.
When disasters are far away we
are a callous people, and that
proves the Lords wisdom. If we
were made to feel intensely every
thing that happens everywhere, We
should be incapable Of attending
properly to anything happening
close to US.
Tell a man "two giant suns in
space have collided, instantly de-
stroying dozens of planets all in
habited like our own" and he will
answer, 81 sthat so? Isn't it ter
rible about the baseball bribery"
Say to him: "A man around the
corner just broke a child's arm in
sheer cruelty" The reply will be:
"Show him to me and | will kill
him."
Some politicians say, 1T seems
hard to get the women voters out"
1t will not be hard when voting
comes.
Women believe it was a good
idea to make this country inde-
pendent of Europe in 1776. They
will go out to vote against Cox
and the war League of Nations
and keep the country independent
of Europe in 1920.
Women believe that they should
have something TO say about con-
scripting their sons and brothers
for war. Early in November they
will vote against Cox and his war
League of Nations, that would take
from Congress and give to Eu-
ropean council the right to con-
script men in this country to set
tie wars across the ocean.
Women are intelligent, they hate
war, they cannot conceive of stu
pidity so great as to permit other
nations to decide peace or war for
this country. 1t was special
Providence that gave to women