The Washington times., 1920-11-21
Today
Woman's Long Job. s
Baklanoff's Idea.
0. P. N. Is the Thing.
Astounding Clergymen.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1890.

"A learned judge in Chicago
kindly explained to women in court
that now voting and sharing mems
privileges. they must share mems
responsibilities. He ordered them
to take off their hats. Two re-
fused and were fined IS each.
One Of the women should have
said to the Judge:
Learned sir, nature, older aud
wiser even than you, does not agree
with your ruling. Some woman,
your mother, carried you around
for nine months before you were
born. Men don't do that. That
nine months job is more than
enough to offset the privilege OF
wearing q hat in your court. II
you had tried the experiment Of
creating and carrying another
human being you would know more
about 'eqaulity Of privilege than
you know now,
The learned judge should hear
Baklanoff sing at the Chicago
opera. Somebody said Baklanoff
was not moral and therefore ought
not to sing. His striking reply
was to the effect that barnyard
roosters are not moral yet are al
lowed to crow. To this the singer
added:
"How many American men are
virtuous? Not 1 per cent"
Baklanoff Is unjust to a GER
tain considerable percentage OF
American men. For many, when
the day is over, are too tired, as
we'll as too conscientious. to be
anything but virtuous. Yet every
Judge knows that law and custom
demand of women and obtain from
women a standard of morality of
which men are absolutely inca
pable. Proud man, so much given
to hanging up his hat in queer
places, might allow woman to do
as she pleases about HER hat, and
still leave the balance of privilege
on mans side of the fence.
Ralph Elsman, thirty-six years
old, who recently bought an i'm
portant lighting monopoly, gives a
short recipe for success in life"
"Borrow 81, 600, 900, use 1t wisely,
and Won are a success"
He adds other things, such as
keep going fast, SO that you can
jump the gaps" and don't go
after money, 90 after ideas" He
even. adds moralizing, which
doesn't count. What does count
is CREDIT or, as Mr.. Joe Day
puts it-"0s r. NJ" alias other
peopIe's .sossev. 4..@
Many profiteers of the world can
testify that 20. P. NJ" is a sue
cess. They got your money, with
which YOU bought Liberty bonds.
Europe can testify that pros
perity and success, without credit,
are impossible, and SO can the
United States. The trouble with
Europe is that her bad money
won't buy here, and we do not help
her with generous credits, as we
should. The trouble with America
is that her customers in Europe
arc bankrupt for lack of credit,
and bankrupt customers don't pay.
Frank Munsey has bought the
Baltimore American and the Bal
timore Star from General Agnus,
who, it is to be hoped, will begin
now to enjoy life as young man
should at eighty-one, after he has
spent sixty years in useful, patri-
otic work.
1t must comfort General Agnus
to know that, in turning his papers
over TO Frank Munsey, they 20
into the hands of an energetic
youngster who combines the quail
ties of Western "boom" town and
an ancient Spartan father. He
can make a paper boom if he finds
it worth while, or he can knock it
on the head and kill it very dead
and write its epitaph himself most
beautifully, if that seems the wise
thing to do.
The Dean of st. Pauls in Lon
don, named "Inge," and called the
gloomy dean," says it is all right
TO cheat the government by snug
Cling liquor, if the government
"exceeds its rights by prohibiting
some harmless act"
Another English divine, Canon
+. w. Barnes, Of Westminster
Abbey itself, says it is unscientific,
mot necessary to Christian the
ology," to believe in the fall of
man. He has evidently been
reading about the Piltdown skull,
the Neanderthal, Cro-magnon,
Grimaldi types, also about pithe-
canthropus erectus, homo sapiens,
and other ancestors, and he thinks
that, far from falling, we have
risen steadily. He skips the
whole Garden Of Eden. This shows
that IL you really mean to be-
lieve a thing and teach it, it is
dangerous to read too much on
the outside.
with Ionc rcverend Enolishman