The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-08

No Donkey for lenln.
Surprise for Mr.. Anderson.
Which HustIes?
Proof Not Needed.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(copyrisht. is1oJ

Daucio says VIC uiuSt ha'S shS
biggest navy, il the Peace League
does not go through. In that case,
the biggest navy we SHALL have,
for the League is dead as regards
America. England, also. League
or no League, means to have the
biggest navy. And although she
says little about it, she plans the
biggest navy in air, as well as at
sea.
With two countries. greatest
and richest in the world, deter
n mined TO have the biggest navy,
somebody will land in debt
For US the thing is complicated
slightly by England's building
ships with interest and principal
borrowed from America, with pay
ments postponed"
Mr.. Eyre, American observer, is
shocked to find Lenin, boss of
Russia, dashing through the streets
in a grand Rolls Royce motor.
a donkey? Lenin has been acting
on the theory that it was his turn
to sit in the Rolls Royce, and the
people of Russia do not object,
probably knowing that the big car
was taken from some grandduke
or profiteer not highly esteemed
by the Soviet crowd.
The same American is panied to
see poor Russian women dragging
home slender supplies of food on
little hand sleds.
1t is painful, but the same
women pulled sleds under the
Cars, and the pulling was prob
{ ably about as hard.
What in Russia really amazes
travellers used to comfort is the
fact that they can no longer push
a button and get anything they
want. In Russia now, they live as
the Russians live, Russians of av-
erage class. That is unpleasant
and makes the Revolution seem a
failure, but perhaps it is not a
failure.
England, apparently, has decided
that 1t Is not, and soon Russia
barring the surprises of assassina-
tion--will be among the accepted
governments of the world. Plenty
of Soviet gentlemen will have their
Rolls-Royce. intelligence and cum
ming will rise to the top and rule,
as In America and France, after
their revolutions. And Soviet
Russia" will learn that a nation,
topsy-turvy for a while after revo-
luton, always winds up with its
feet on the ground and the head in
the air, the head ruling the feet in
spite Of all plans made by the feet
The Gar went down because he
WAS weak, consulting his cunning
!, monk about RS intelligently rs
eome Americans consult the Ouija
board. Lenin came up because
he happened to be the strongest
thing in Russia The miracle is
that he has lasted so long.
The people of Switzerland will
vote and decide the League Of Ma
tions matter. Switzerland is real
Republic. In this country we are
blessed with superior beings that
know better than the people what
is good for the people.
A lighting person Of extraordi-
nary power Is Mr.. Anderson of the
Anti-Saloon League. An able poll
tician also, and one who, what
ever his enemies may say, has
done great thing in Kidding the
country of the partnership between
Government and whiskey.
But power and success make us
reckless, as when the young bull
waited, head down, for the locomo-
tive to come.
Mr.. Anderson's locomotive is the
powerful Catholic Church, which,
Without presentation of proof, he
accuses OF conspiring with Tam
many to beat prohibition. Mr.. An
derson will find in the encyclopedia
under the heading "Canossa" and
in the history Of Henry III of
England information of value to
him.
The Anti-Saloon League is able
at organization and combined eff
fort, but compared with the ancient
Catholic Church it is as a lisping
infant compared with Mons. Tai
leyrand.
Mr.. Anderson is destined within
a year to know some things that
were not included in his range ten
days ago.
II you were asked the difference
between old Rome and modern
hustling America, you would say,
probably with sweet patriotism,
that, in hustling, America is
centuries ahead.
Rome and America have the
housing problem that afflicts the
whole world after years of no
building.
4. America waits for private en-
terprise, slowly, to do little
building, followed by arch profit
cering.
Senator Appolloni, mayor of
Rome, seizes vacant lots that own
crs fail to improve, pays a nomi-
nal price and orders apartment
ht,.