The Washington times., 1920-07-23

M. Harding's Acceptance.
Thomas Hop Scotch.
Mlss MeglIge's Diary.
And Geddes' Request.


the most serious is that Germany
asks the allies permission to mass
troops n the direction Of Russia.
HE Poles are swept before the
RussisAs, and the next cable may
tell Of Russia on German soil.
Thst would be serious for West
ern Europe. Germany declares
her absolute neutrality in all mat
ters between Russia and Poland
and at the same time wants per-
mission to mass troops. She will
meet Bolshevism with a gun in
one hand and an olive branch in
the other.
Mr.. Harding, told about his
nomination, has made his speech.
He wants everybody to be happy,
and sees clearly that nothing
could be more simple. Just elect
the Republican ticket from top to
bottom. He does not quite like
the League of Nations, but could
invent an association of nations
that would be sufficiently like a
league to pacify all. AS much
like a league, let US hope, as Hal
lowe'en pumpkin with a candle
inside is like the real devil.
Mr.. Harding thinks the Mexi-
can situation as simple as treat
ing universal happiness, and it is.
A friendly, neighborly talk, he
thinks, will fix Mexico. It may il
1t is the kind of talk that Hard
ing probably used to have with
his father in the woodshed. So
cialism is paralysis and menaces
the farm, says Mr.. Harding, and
the glory of America is American
womanhood. If that does not suit
you, write your own speech.
A little more concrete, more in
teresting to many, is the official
announcement that manufacturers,
some of them, are cutting down
production, to keep up high prices.
Why waste money on wages and
production, if you can discipline
labor by laying it off and make as
much or more by profiteering in
the name of scarcity? There is
something in that, a good many
millions in it, as the people know
to their cost. Those high prices,
due to scarcity, will be here after
the coming election. The public
might like to hear from Mr.. Hard
ing on that.
"The happiest day of my life,"
cnSd thu xrn~aroh h1a int xxvHA
he won a second race, and needed
but one more to get the cup. Nlne-
ty per cent, at least, hope that he
will have one happier day, and
take the cup with him. A yacht !
race, about as important as
game of hop scotch, means moth
ing. And when an old gentleman
has been playing hop scotch hard
for many years you would like to
see him win a game.
Ring Lardner described the race
fully for Americans when he wrote
that to him it had meant pleas
ant four-hour nap.
Paul Sleide stole, and they sent
him to prison for four or five
years. Ordinarily you would have
heard no more of Paul Sleide, but
in prison he developed sleeping
sickness and Immediately became
interesting. At Rockefeller's In
stitute they show you the sleeping
sickness germ under the micro
scope swimming around in a drop
of human blood. They tested
Sleide's blood, in prison, and found
germs to match the Rockefeller
swimmers. They pulled all Paul
Sleide's teeth, believing the sick
ness was fed by trouble at the
roots, still he slept on. Then the
surgeons tapped his spinal col
umn," so the latest news report
says.
Until the sleeping sickness or
Paul Sleide is destroyed. the
scientist will fight those germs.
Moral: II you hate to be ignored,
and cannot achieve success in the.
usual channels, develop a strange
disease Mr.. Sleide will get some
thing out of sleeping sickness. He
and his disease are advertised; IL
he dies, he will be better off. II
he and the surgeons conquer the
germs, he will doubtless be par
doned as a reward for his contribu-
ton to science, and as compensa-
ton for a missing set of teeth.
For a pitiful condensation Of sor-
row and fear, read the note writ
ten by Angela Scherguisepti,
eleven years old, before she
Jumped from a fourth-story win
dow. "It was no use to get kill
and I throw myself out the win
dow because l need-I was killed
tonight. ANGELA
The note, so poorly and pitifully
written, means, according to the
. police, that the child had been
whipped brutally, killed tonight
as she expressed it, and in fear Of
another beating, tried to kill her
self. Belief in a physical, blazing
hell. with birthstone and fire that
never end, is dying out. But those
that retain the belief will like to
think of a particularly hot spot re-
served for the person that made
Angela write her note.