The Washington times., 1920-10-16
Today
II Silver, Why Not Cotton7
More League Of Nations.
II Legs and 4 Legs.
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will probably begin in earnest to-
day, with one million miners idle.
This means loss and suffering In
countries far from England.
England puts an embargo on
coal. That will create additional
foreign demands on our coal sup
ply and scarcity, with higher
prices here. You do not ask what
this Government will do about 1t;
you know. Four years have
taught you the answer.
Only the newspapers Of the
South can check disastrous cotton
burning outbreaks that destroy
values, burn up labor, and injurs
all planters.
But what about the Govern
ment! Could it not help? Re-
Gently il has been buying millions
worth of silver metal, at the
highest prices, coming the silver
and storing it away-a useless
mass of metal.
Thus American money has held
mp the value of the silver accu-
mutations in India and silver pro-
duction throughout the British
empire by withdrawing American
silver from world competition.
That silver has no value. Why
not invest some hundreds of mil
lions in cotton, store that away,
help American growers, and sell
1t at a fair price later, first Civ
ing the South a chance to market
its surplus.
II we are rich enough to keep
up a market for Asiatic silver,
why not also market for United
States cotton? Cotton can be safe
ly stored. 1t will keep for many
years.
What about interest on the
Governments money, do you ask?
Does the Government get any in
terest on the money tied up in
silver dollars, or in gold dollars?
For a convincing analysis of the
League of Nations, an analysis
suited to serious men, write to
Levy Mayer, the able Chicago
lawyer, for q copy of his recent
address before the Bond Mems
Club. Levy Mayer ought to know
about the meaning Of contracts,
being among the ablest fighting
lawyers of the country. He shows
clearly how England could take
power, by making her many sub
sidiary votes into real votes, and
how this country's veto power
could be wiped out by the absence
of our representatives from any
single session of the council.
Mr.. Mayors speech was es-
pecially valuable because of Nem-
phasis on the fact that the writ
ers of the Constitution refused TO
give the President power to make
treaties alone. fearing, as Hamil-
ton suggested, to trust so much
to the vanity, ambition or covet-
BUSINESS of one man.
Levy \ Mayors address also
showed that the moral obliga-
ton" under which the League
would put us is the ONLY obli-
cation that any treaty ever car
ries with it.
Therefore, when Mr.. Wilson
says that Article x would put
this country "under an absolutely
compelling moral obligation" to do
as ordered by a foreign council,
there is no use quibbling about
illegal obligations"
An Arab horse Grabbet, travels
sixty-one miles in eight hours, and
has gone 240 miles in four days.
The world wonders.
For q horse, it is doing well. But
more than once a man has travel
led on his two legs one hundred
miles in a day and kept it up
every day for six days-going
more than six hundred miles in
six successive days, which would
kill any horse before the third
day.
Brain power and will can do
anything, even make two feeble
legs outrun four powerful legs.
For Man O. War, the race horse,
100000 are offered and refused.
Yet the Man o. War is actually
worth less than the well-known
small gasoline runabout.
Men kept hawks and paid high
prices for them long after the gun
had really ended hawking. But
hawks, their news and hoods, are
gone now. Horses will go. Then
unimaginative stupidity will bet
on something else.
In interesting ways the English
language is changed and built up.
Its evolution is as curious as that
of the five-toed horse. For
instance, Georges Carpenter,
French soldier and boxer, is dis
cussed by writer's that manufac-
ture new language for America.
In one short article by Mr.. B.
Baer, highly popular literary
man, Carpenter is described as
"snail 'Eatcr," Carp" Gorge
ous," "Georgette," and most pleas
ing, "Vin Blanc Inhaler"
In an adjoining column Mr..
Damon Runyon describes con-