The Washington times., 1920-07-20
Today
Asia Is Boiling.
What Promises7
A Fire Worshiper.
Heavier BOYS and Girls
By ARTHUR BRISBANI
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SAcitinE news.
The allies announce that they
may order Turkey TO get out Of
Europe" which would mean max
ing of Constantinople, the gate
that shuts Russia out Of the Medi-
terranean, a great neutral city.
England, perhaps, would be too
modest to take the city, and no
body else could be trusted with it.
But while England contem-
plates telling the Turkish rem
nant from Asia to get out Of Eu-
rope" there is in Asia terrific
agitation, boiling hatred against
the allies, religious and race war
flaming up in a hundred places.
Europe may soon have an Asiatic
problem to deal with, more i'm
portant and difficult than driving
the Turk from Constantinople.
1t is said that Lenin and his Boil
shevik assistants are stirring up
the Asiatic trouble, to persuade
the allies that it would be wise to
let Russia alone.
II that be true, Lenin, stirring
Asiatics against Europe, is doing
what the British did a little more
than a hundred years ago, sending
North American Indians against
the white American colonists.
The Sunday talk between Presi-
dent Wilson and Governor Cox,
and their little statements, are, to
Americans, most important news.
or the peace league, Mr.. Cox
says:
"What he (Wilson) promised, 1
shall, II elected, endeayOr with all
my strength to give"
. The people will be more than
ever anxious to know just exactly
WHAT PRESIDENT WILSON
PROMISED. Legally and tech
nically, Of course. he could not
PROMISE anything. He knew
that he had no power to make any
treaty or promise without the Sen
ate's consent and approval.
But these are strange days;
Constitutional limits on executive
authority grow feeble in war.
Zoroaster, head and founder of
the so-called Fire Worshipers,"
was philosopher, a noble man,
lover Of truth and justice. He
might Justly be compared with
Confucius or the best Of the old
Greek philosophers.
In New England, a lady, not yet
caught, has been setting fire to
houses. She writes to the police,
saying she does this because she
is priestess of the Fire Wor-
shippers"
You wonder that it is possible
for Zoroaster's lofty philosophy to
be so lightly perverted. but you
needn't wonder. Setting fire to
houses by follower of Zos0aster,
who despised lawlessness and su-
persttton. Is not worse than wear
ing out children in mines or mills
by one calling himself a follower
of Christ, who said:
"But whose shall offend one of
these little ones which believe in
Me, it were better for him that a
milestone were hanged about his
neck, and that he were drowned in
the depth of the sea."-St. Mat
thew xviii:6.
The Fire Worshiper Lady, in all
probability, is insane. That ex-
cuses her. No such excuse for the
exploiter Of child labor.
When your child comes from
public school after an exciting
basketball game, or your daughter
talks about the beautiful new
folk-dance we are learning" don't
think the children are wasting
their time and ought to be learn
ing to spell "phthisic Thanks
to exercise in public schools and
colleges, we are creating a better,
healthier race of men and women.
College men today are two
inches taller and nine pounds
heavier than they were thirty
years ago. Girls are one inch
taller and ten pounds heavier.
"Kill foxes whenever you can,"
says a special game protector.
Good advice. "The fox, cunning,
vicious, bloodthirsty, kills for the
love Of killing. The warm blood
of victims is it's fountain of
youth"
So far, SO good. The gentleman
goes on: Every fox shot or
caught in a trap means Just so
many more grouse, spheasants, and
rabbits-to say nothing about the
value of the fur. Fewer foxes,
more sport, more game, MORE
FUN"
In other words, truly beloved,
kill the fox in order that you may
have "fun" killing things that the
fox kills.
No wonder human beings kill
each other in war and rage when
they call it "fun" to kill at a safe
distance humble, weak creatures
that have never injured them.
Some men are interested in their
own front and back yards. Some
in their own city. Some in their
own country only. Nearly all limit
their interest to this earth. The
few interested in the outside uni