The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-21
Today
The Useful Toddle.
King Fool Shness.
The Food Limit.
Settling Down.
J ARTHUR BRISBANE
(CopyriIht. lss0l.

Settling Down.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE Il
Copyright 1890
The latest dance, according to
exuberant youth from Yale and
Harvard, is "the toddle." The Sc
cret is to move along with heels on
the ground after the fashion OF a
child two years old. This would be
unimportant except that with the
toddle" there goes an important
social change. Corsets are a curse,
except when loose and very short.
1t seems that young dancing boys
refer to women that wear hard cor
sets as "Old Ironsides," and this
has persuaded thousands Of young
women to lay corsets aside.
Public opinion will do what mere
wise criticism can never do. Men
quickly stopped chewing tobacco
in public when they found they
were despised for the unclean
habit. Chinese mothers stopped
binding their daughters feet when
young Chinese men said they
would not marry girls unable to
walk.
Crowds in the streets of Athens.
delirious with joy at the return OF
a king, kissing the harness of his
horses, may teach something TO
Americans that think we should
make ourselves responsible through
a League of Nations for the quar-
1f II,,til nation
gets beyond the stage of kissing
the harness of kings horse, it.
and other nations like it, should
not be taken too seriously by a
country calling itself republic.
The determined fight against i'm
migration to the United States will
shut out hundreds of thousands
that would like to come. They will
60 to South America and to Can
ada. This means that ambitious,
energetic human labor, always
self-supporting, will be diverted
north and south to build up power
full competition on both sides of us.
Those who think that this will be
good thing for the United States
are mistaken.
A literary professor of Johns
Hopkins says the population of
this country will be one hundred
and ninety-seven millions in the
year 2100. He says that will be
the limit-the country will not be
able to feed any more. Such
population would require two hun
dred and sixty trillion calories,
and the country cannot produce so
much, ETC., etc.
All of this is professional guess
work. The population of Japan
now is seventy-seven millions. If
Japan, including Korea, can feed
that number, the United States,
with more than ten times Japan's
territory, can feed seven hundred
millions and more.
It has been said that tho State
of Texas alone, intensively culti-
waited, could feed the present popu-
lation of the globe, about fifteen
hundred millions. That, probably,
is not an cxaggeration.
Workers in the clothing trades
have their pay cut thirty per cent:
Textile workers in New England
have already accepted, subject to
further discussion, a cut of twenty
two per cent.
The world is settling back, and
there is still a great deal of settle
ment to be done. 1t is process
hard on those that are first selected
for the readjustment.
1t may comfort the workers to
know that business men felt the
pinch, many of them were wiped
out entirely, before the workers
turn came. In certain lines OF
business many of the biggest and
ablest leaders find themselves
bankrupt and ruined.
The question that men ask
everywhere is How long will the
rcadjustment last?" 1t will last
until the nations that have spent
$50 BILLIONS on war liquidate
the bill. A lot of Hiding must be
done from the e flnd up.
The important thlng Tor Amer
lea is not to let well-meaning over
enthusiastic Europeans run too
deeply in debt on this side Of the
water. The nations of Europe
owe this Nation fourteen billion
dollars.
Private debts, apart from ma
tions and municipalities, owing to
Americans amount TO four thou
sand million dollars.
There is talk in England and
other European countries of very
spectacular failures. Wise Amer
leans will do their lending chiefly
here at home, or be sorry.
An announcement to interest
worried and suffering thousands
far more than any other news is
the fact that flies, especially bred
with microscopic hereditary tu-
mors," are now used in the fight
against cancer. A woman, DR..
Mary B. Stark, is making investi-
cations, and they may help solve
the most difficult and dreadful Of
medical problems. 1t has been de-