The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-04
Today
No Women Prsachers2
Think of Anne Lee.
Killing Is Useless.
Poor Distribution.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
tcopyrisht. is3o.)

The Lower House Of Convoca-
tion. regulating religious matters
In England, says women must not
speak or pray out loud In conse-
Grated buildings. St. Paul is the
authority.
Much water has gone over the
mill dam since Paul wrote: LET
your women keep silence In the
churches" and ''it is a shame for
women to speak in the church"
St Paul, perhaps, was express
ing his individual opinion. A
different view might have been
expressed by One greater than
st. Paul.
When He cried, at the last mo-
ment: ELI, Eli, lama sabseh-
thani?" and looked down, He saw
faithful women with Him to the
last, but no disciples. AS often
happens with men, those gentle
men had business elsewhere when
the critical moment came.
And when Joseph laid the
sacred body in his new tomb, cut
cut Of the rock: There was Mary
sMagdalsne and the other Mary
sitting over against the sepul-
chre."
Possibly the Founder OF Chris
tsnity would not agree with the
Lower House of Convocation in
London. or with St. Paul writing
to the Corinthians.
Paul of Tarsus, proud of his
noble lineage, his Roman citizen
ship, Greek studies, etc, might
web take the view of women that
prevailed in his day.
That doesn't prove anything as
to the Christian view.
In modern history women are
more powerful than men In sup
porting young religions, or start
ing new ones.
There is Mrs. Eddy, whose army
of followers increases every day.
And there, only a little more
than one hundred years ago, was
q wonderful Anne Lee, daughter
of blacksmith, who led the
Shakers to this country, where
you may still see their settlements.
The lady was called "Anne the
Word" Once when committee
Of clergymen started to cross-ex-
anime her, she talked to them for
four hours in seventy-two different
languages. For st. Paul to tell
such a woman as that to keep quiet
would seem unreasonable.
! The European nations, or, at
least, the intelligent Lloyd George,
has made up his mind that 1t would
( not be profitable to cause absolute
! destruction of seventy million Ger
mans.
The plan originally was to take
everything from Germany. Now
a wonderful change comes, and
the.f step is to be a big loan OF
actual cash to Germany, that she
may get to work and begin paying
indemnities.
That energy is left in Germany
after the war is indicated in a dis
patch about the Leipzig fair, with
eleven thousand firms exhibiting,
and ninety thousand visitors pres.
emit. ;ncluding fourteen thousand
; foreigners. The world seems to
have passed the stage when, after
victory, some of the population
were made slaves, the rest killed
off. That doesn't work well in this
century.
Two burglars who broke into
a room, gagged the woman and
heat the man, have been sentenced
to fifty-two years in prison. The
iudoe regrets that he could not
!. Sentences them to death, and asks
!, the Legislature to make death the
penalty for burglary in the first
degree.
Such a crime is worse than the
average murder, undoubtedly. But
the question is not What does the
criminal deserve?' but What can
the people do to the criminal with
ont degrading themselves For
many centuries the law author
ized death, with hideous torture,
for crimes less serious than
burglary. That did not cut down
crime, but did brutalize popula-
tions that flocked to see the tor
turing, drawing and quartering and
other amusements.
Not long ago in the United
States very old man. accused OF
wjtchcraft and legally killed by
being pressed to DEATH" enter
tanned the crowd hugely. When
his tongue was pressed out OF his
mouth, authority pushed il back
with a cane. Do you suppose that
improved the moral tone of the
population?
y What this country needs is
economical distribution. Fresh
meat can be bought wholesale at
fifteen TO seventeen and a halt
cents a pound. What do you pay
for Il?
Government has left over from
war thirty-two million pounds ol