The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-10-22
Today
Yes, Much Alike.
The Rats, Their Battles.
No House Seizing.
Pump Versus Sponge.

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York Times spplauds the dis
covery that Article X is like the
Monroe Doctrine.
OF course, it is like the Monroe
Doctrine. That is why America
doesn't want it.
Under the Monroe Doctrine. il
any country attempts to seize
territory on this continent 1t be-
comes the duty Of the United
States to fight. And for that
Doctrine we WANT to fight.
Under Article X, II. the "Ahkoond
Of Swat" tried to bite off q piece
Of the territory of Armenia or
Mesopotamis, or If anybody. any
where in the world, tried to take
anything from the British EN-
pire, we should have to fight,
and that is what this country
DOESN'T intend to do.
To the Monroe Doctrine, COM
pelling US to protect boundaries
on this continent, we say YES.
To Article X, of the League Of
Nations. telling US to police the
whole world, fighting and financ-
ing the wars of Europe, we say
NO.
Rats on the steamship Leviathan
attacked and killed and ate or
drove out the cats. Behold, in
miniature, what sometimes hap
pens in revolution among human
beings.
The huge steamer, Leviathan,
plagued with rats, could not be
cleared by the usual use Of hydro
cyanic acid gas.
It was decided to let the rats
starve to death. All food was
removed. Cats were put in to
make the food embargo more ter
rible. The rats ate the cats.
Then they ate the leather cush-
ions.
Now the weaker rats are begin
ming TO die, the survivors eat
them. In little while the strong
est survivors will kill and eat each
other until at last only one saw
age rat, full Of raw meat, will be
left. Then man will walk in, ac-
companied, perhaps, by rat ter
rier, representing the police force,
and stable government" will be
restored. It takes more than
merely discontented men to make
a nation, and the worst thing that
can happen to a lot Of rats is to
be left to themselves. Rats need
men; men need government.
Vice President Marshall de-
scribes reformers we'll when he
says that they toast their shins
until they find that corruption ex-
lists, complain for a moment, and
then go back to toasting their
shins. "They don't remember that
Mr.. Boss is on the job twenty
four hours day, three hundred
and sixty-five days a year."
The trouble with Americans is
that not one in a hundred takes
any persistent, consistent interest
in Government or knows what is
being done. When they do wake
up for a moment it is usually too
late.
Edward Roche Hardy, jr.,
twelve years old, is the youngest
college man. He is at Columbia
University, knows quite we'll
twelve languages, has studied As
syrian and Babylonian Tablets,
and weighs one hundred and for
ty-three pounds.
The chances are a million to one
that in life's real struggle he will
be passed by hundred boys OF
his age that do not know much
about any language, not even
English, and that. would only use
a Babylonian Tablet to throw at
a cat. 49,. ........
Young Hardy is interesting,
showing, as John Stuart Mill did
lilC SAbi ooI POo
sinilities of development in the
human brain.
However, it isn't how much you
know that counts, but how much
you can do with part Of what you
know. 1t isn't how many
languages you speak, but what
you have to say in one language.
A small pump is more important
than the biggest sponge.
Socialist alderman in New York
suggests seizing fine houses on
Fifth avenue, temporarily unoccu-
pied by owners, to relieve the
housing shortage. That isn't the
way to solve a housing problem.
A few years ago in New York
there were not hundred baths
with running water. 1t wouldn't
have done any good for the in
habitants to seize the tubs, to all
try to bathe in them at once. The
right way was to build more bath
tubs and let everybody have one.
The thing today is to build more
houses and free permanently from
taxation moderate. priced houses
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