The Washington times., 1920-03-27

The President and william
Tell.
''In Adversely, Consider"
Conjugal Millions.
Four Babies in is Months.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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A number of distracted Demo
cratic Alphonses and Gastons arc
waiting on the President in an
aprss vous attitude, wondering
whether he wants the nomination
that they want, hoping he does not
want it. They probably will wait
for some time :.
A gentleman from Mississippi
even asks the President TO come
out plainly against a third term
for himself That is asking a good
deal
In eight years a man becomes
attached to the White House. 1t
grows to be "the old home" Of the
melodrama. Giving it up to please
would-be tenants is not SO easy.
Besides, the President has many
things to consider. "In the day OF
prosperity be joyful, but in the
day of adversity, consider" says
the Bible The Peace League is In
adversity, and it is Mr. Wilson's
heart child. Therefore he is con-
sidering.
There are two fights looming on
the horizon. One is prohibition.
That belongs to Mr.. Bryan. The
other is the Peace League. That
belongs to Mr.. Wilson. No man
can fight for a child as the father
can fight.
william Tell did not put the ap-
pie on his sons head and ask
some one else to shoot it off. Mr..
Wilson sees his Peace League child
standing with the apple above the
golden curls. He is not going to
hand the bow and arrows to any
random shooter Indifferent to the
welfare of the child. 1t is likely
that he will decide to do the shoot.
ing himself. That will be painful
for many candidates who have
been assuring Mr.. Wilson that they
did not want it if he did.
1t will make it easy for Mr..
Bryan, who can say "the real is
sue is prohibition. That's mine.
! invented it; so l will run
The letters that passed between
the President and Mr.. Bryan when
the latter left the Secretary Of
States office may be followed by a
series as entertaining when Mr..
Bryan tells Mr.. Wilson why he
thinks he must take the nomina-
ton from him. God also hath set
the one over against the other"
may serve Mr.. Bryan as text this
time.
This is a nation of more than a
hundred millions of human beings
with real interests in life. Curious
that Government management
should hang on some question ar
fecting people living three thou
sand miles away, or on the Ques-
ton as to what certain individuals
may, or may not, drink.
How fortunate we should be II
we really had no problems more
important than the Article x. or
demon rum problem.
An English duke, Marlborough,
married an American girl, Wander
bilt, and got seven millions Of dol
lars through the able British solic-
itor that accompanied him on his
wooing trip.
The fortune started by a sturdy
person rowing a boat from Staten
Island to Manhattan was used to
fix the plumbing, painting and
furnishing of Blenheim palace,
given to the original Marlborough
by the English nation. Those
familiar with Marlborough history
know that 1t was not the first time
that a lady's money came in
handy" in that family. But the
earlier Marlboroughs earned the
money.
Now the American Duchess sues
for restoration of conjugal rights"
and the court orders those rights
restored. Some things, however,
you cannot restore.
1t would seem more to the point
from our crude American viewpoint
to sue for restoration of the con-
jugal seven millions, but they also
are gone, probably.
Is it reflection on American
young women that they pay Eng
land so much for so little? Not at
all. The reflection is on American
young men and the American So
cial system, that provides no career
for boys with education and money.
The mother of that particular
American girl said to her friends:
81 am not going to give my daugh-
ter to a Newport cocktail drinker.
I'll try. at least, to give her
career"
The cocktail drinker would
probably have been as great
conjugal, failure as the little Eng
lish Duke, with the additional dis
advantages of having no straw
berry leaves or title to bestow.
Even in the dullest, saddest con-
jugal disappointments, there is