The Washington times., 1920-07-18
Today
Finger printing Baby.
"What Ne Says, III Do"
A Duke and a Cockroach.
What Is "Freedom7"
BY ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright. isss.)

a new idea would take q nnger-
Print record of all new born
babies. The doctor would file the
hngsr-print with the birth GER
tiHcate. If necessary. do it, but
do not tell the mother at the time.
1t wouldn't do the babys digestion
any good to say to the mother,
Il an Just finger.printing baby so
they can catch him In case he ever
murders anybody"
You may change your clothes.
your name, your position in life,
your ideas, habits, religion, wife,
nationality or politics, but you
never can get away from the ar
rangement of tiny lines on the tips
Of your fingers.
They go into your grave Just as
they come into your cradle. Among
the fifteen hundred million human
creatures now travelling toward
the grave on this earth. no two
have finger prints alike.
Everywhere in the world, Ameri-
ca especially, fine speeches and
promises fill the air.
When will the world see an
other man like Cromwell, whose
speeches and letters were limited
to half dozen words and who
never lost a battle; or a man like
Napoleon, who couldn't write two
lines OF French correctly, but
could tell you the location and size
OF every cannon on his frontier!
When the Greeks we're plan
ming construction of a great build
Ing, two architects appeared, press
ed their claims and outlined their
plans. One would make a fine
political candidate in our day. He
made, q long, snowy, fine speech,
telling Of the wonderful things he
would create. The crowd had
/ about decided to select him, when
the other one made his speech,
LORDS Of Athens, what this man
has said ! will do" They select
I'd the second speaker.
Would this country know enough
TO do the same if such a man
came along? Probably not. We
Ike fine speeches and platforms,
are used to promises without per-
formance.
The Duke De Morny is dead in
Paris. Of itself that is as i'm
povtant as "a cockroach is dead
o., the top story" De Morny did
not work, but his death takes you
to the first Duke De Morny, father
OF the dead man, who did work and
built up the fortune of Napoleon
III, part of which his widow now
leaves. Napoleon III and that first
Duke De Morny were half-broth-
ers, one legitimate, the other ilegit-
innate, son of Hortense De Beau-
hafnais, daughter of Josephine,
empress of the real Napoleon. 1t
is interesting to SEQ the illegitimate
half brother building up fortune
for the legitimate brother on the
throne. You realize that there
must have been energy in the
mother. You realize that still
more when you look at the two
half-brothers that rode side by
side at the battle of Hastings.
One, William the Conqueror, who
came out victorious to rule the
British Islands. The other, a
magnificent, tall Bishop, dressed
all in white, left his body ON the
field. Both were sons of a tan
ner's daughter, whom the Duke Of
Normandy admired and appro-
priated as she was washing clothes
in the brook.
That must have been an able
young woman, to have two such
? sons. Does any reader happen to
know who the Bishops father
was?
La Toilette declines to have any
thing to do with the farmer-labor,
third party, because it's platform
goes too far, shrieks too loud. So
it does. The voice of conservatism
denounces the third platform
statement that the masses of the
people live in slavery and poverty.
This is a foolish way to put it.
The masses, broadly speaking,
have enough to eat and wear. If
they don't like their jobs, they
can change them, there are plenty
of jobs just now. However, it
isn't 50 much what you say as how
you say it.
There are at least ninety mil
lion people in this country that
haven't money enough to keep
them for a year. If that isn't
poverty" it comes close to it.
Those that choose the big candi-
dates and write their platforms
would think so.
There are ninety million people
in this. country that must do every
day what somebody else tells them
to, for instance: Miss Jones,