The Washington times., 1920-07-03
Today
~ Years Ago Tomorrow
Democracy 1920.
Barnes on Wheat.
Big, Beautiful Doll.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright isss.)

oI your natlon.
On July 4, In 1776, this country
decided that it could get along
without the help of England, could
manage its affairs without the
help Of Europe, had right to be
Independent, was willing to fight
for that right, and would RE-
MAIN independent
One hundred and forty-four
years have passed. Now the Dem
ocratic party is trying to con-
vince the people Of the United
States that they made a mistake In
1776, that what they need Is q
, partnership with England, q part
nership in which England would
have six votes and the United
States one vote in deciding world
questions, including questions af-
tecting America.
Nations that won the fight are
meeting at Spa to decide what
they will take from Germany, II
they can get it. That meeting is
important; ''but," says Julius H.
Barnes, president of the United
States Grain Corporation, "a field
of wheat ripening in the sun is
more important to the world, its
peace, prosperity, and happiness,
than any gathering of men,"
Mr.. Barnes said yesterday that
II the wheat prospects in the
United States and Canada con-
tinue through the season as at
present, that crop will change the
outlook Of the whole world.
Nations, as we'll as armies,
"'travel on their bellies" The full
stomach to the nation moving for
ward is like the well-pumped-up
tire to q moving automobile. Look
out for bumps when the tire gets
flat.
Dante, speaking of the worlds
intellectual problems, said: "Give
light, and the people will find their
own road"
OF the worlds material problems
you may say: "Give bread, and
the people will solve their other
problems"
The French appreciate this, and
when you read that the price of
bread has been increased in
France, you will find that it has
been increased, not by any body OF
spectators or profiteers, but by
the chamber of deputies, the con-
gress Of France.
There they Jail men that gamble
in life's necessities.
Mr.. Bryan, from his conven-
ton seat, writes: Zone thing is
Z xapparent. No one can be nomi-
mated without the approval Of the
PRESIDENT"
What, good thing for the
United States If Bryan could
truthfully change that to read,
"No one can be nominated with
out the approval of the PEOPLE"
The people have nothing to say
about it. They will be told for
whom they are to vote and will
vote meekly on one side or the
other, not having chosen the man
on either side.
Bryan also says, referring to
Senator Penrose, "The Republican
convention had to wait for word
from a sick bed in Pennsylvania.
This convention waits for word
from a sick man in Washington"
An accurate picture of "demo-
cratic government in 1920" 1t is
one thing to write Declaration of
Independence, another thing to
make people really self-governing.
In pictures on the cave wall of
Cro-Magnon gentlemen, intelligent
race that died out one hundred
thousand years ago, more or less,
the ladies always were represent
ed as extremely fat.
They were so fat that they were
monstrosities. The Cro-Magnon
husband kept thin fighting bears,
chasing reindeer. The woman
Stayed in the cave, piled on fat,
and he admired it. She was his
fat doll.
The Democratic convention, as
Mr.. Haywood Broun tells you, re-
tains trace of the Cro-Magnon at
'titude toward woman. When a
woman got up to speak the band
played "You Great Big Beautiful
Doll" Cro-Magnon reindeer hunt
ers are dead, but the white men
of today still think that woman
should sit around accumulating
pink cheeks, and "You Beautiful
Doll" seems the tune to play when
women appear.
Woman suffrage will change
that. The latest news shows that
when women vote, not before, men
take them seriously. The news
heading is now "Race for Honor of
Giving Women of Nation Vote"
The Democrats are urging
Democratic State and the Repub-
lcans are urging a Republican
State to hurry up and give the
needed thirty-sixth vote for the
Constitutional amendment.
Republicans think and the Dem
ocrats think, "If we have the hon