The Washington times., 1920-12-02
Today
More War, Says Shaw.
Fine Marketing These Days.
The Princess Weeps.
The Donkey Died.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. issO

The donkey Uie0.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright is'H
George Bernard Shaw believes
war is coming between England
and America. He says:
war between England and
America is, therefore, inevitable.
-Since the war il has been clear
to everyone with any diplomatic
flair that the United States must
gravitate toward an alliance with
Germany-war between an alliance
of the centralized French Repub-
lie with the British Empire against
an alliance of federated republic
ans Of the United States with those
Of Central Europe"
That is an extract from Shaw's
article, to be published in the
Hearst newspapers next Sunday.
With all respect to Shaw, it
ought to be possible for the United
States to avoid war by making the
prospect too dangerous for any at
tacking nation or group Of nations.
The right flock of flying ma
chimes, the right fleets on the
water and under water. would en-
able the United States to mind it's
own business and make other peo-
pie mind theirs without fighting
about it. But it is an unpleasant
fact that the great war that should
have ended wars apparently opens
the way to innmerable future
quarrels.
Fighting is as contagious as the
measles. Every statesman and
bartender knows that.
In these days the big man goes
to market-needs a new safe to
hold new securities. Copper con-
Germs, oil concerns, General Motors
(greatest industrial concern in the
country except one) are among
bargains gathered in.
Occasionally, in old days, some
prophet announced the end of the
world. Then wise men bought real
estate bargains from people that
thought they wouldn't need land
any more. The world did not end;
the real estate buyers were the
gamers.
So with an occasional cataclysm
in the stock market. Fools think
the world is coming to an end and
sell at any price. The wise go
, marketing. =
By and by it will be discovered
that the world of Wall Street is
not going to end. The wise men
will have the stocks, the little
lambs will have the experience.
There is a cry "in the heart" of
some big speculator. He had bor-
rowed ten millions on Sinclair Oil,
which has recently done some
sweet tumbling. The bargain
hunters have also gathered in buy
ers of Chile Copper at the rate of
one hundred and fifty thousand
shares or more a day. Financial
prediction for the next six months:
Bright sunshine for a feW,
stormy weather for the others.
Princess Troubetzkoy concludes,
with tears, that she made a mis-
take in marrying "a commoner"-
otherwise, w. S. Schultz, prosper
Gus citizen of Milwaukee.
The princess, it seems, has an
extra husband living, and Mr..
Schultz is no polyandrist. While
tears glisten, the princess asks:
What does it all matter? l may
not be here long"
1t does seem strange that Dido
rampaged so violently on the beach,
Heloise mourned so hard, Cassan-
dra fused so, ~ opatra had the
snake bite her, sad that women
have gone thrcuph so many con-
niption fits, since we are only
soap bubbles. blown up, broken
and forgotten.
Many things are vague in the
future but the tax proposition is
not vague. 1t has been decided by
those that pay big income taxes
they run the country--that big
income tax is failure and the ma
tion must 60 back to the good old
plan of letting the people carry
the load"
The idea is to make everybody
contribute to the Government one
cent on every dollar spent on the
theory that nobody notices a cent
given to the Government, while the
man who has to pay a million feels
it keenly.
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