The Washington times., 1920-05-19

TlONS.
You might spend your life think
Ing about news items.
Thomas Johnson. at Cork, speak
ing for the workers of Ireland
says they have no intention Of
establishing such a republic as that
OF America"
This country isn't free enough
because men and women are SEN
fenced to long terms of imprison-
ment for daring to say that Ameri-
lea is not land Of freedom" You
could think a little about that.
We thought we were perfect.
The Russian army, and Lcnin's
government, neatly and entirely
cxtcrminated in news dispatches
at least once a day, have appeared
In Persia, calmly ordering that
British troops be, withdrawn. If
You think that over, you conclude
that to hate q revolution is easier
than conquering it.
England, possessing statesmen
with brains, will not allow any
thing to interfere with her oil sup
plies. No foreigner can own an
oil we'll in the British empire or
control any British oil supply.
Real intelligence there. More of
it was shown, recently. when
= British concern obtained marketing
control of the gigantic oil proper
ties in Mexico owned by Doheny,
the American.
Think about that, asking how it
happens that with her brand of
statesmen England controls her
oil, and with the American brand
of oil controls America?
The S. P. C. A., baseball players,
and others find interest in the
death of Gallito, a toreador, real
name Gomez, ripped open by a
bull in Madrid. Gallito might be
called the "Babe" Ruth Of Span
ish sport, having saved up fifteen
hundred thousand dollars and only
twenty-three years old. Civilized
men who know the brutality of bull
fighting, with its tortured bulls and
blindfolded horses ripped open,
will send friendly thought across
the water to the bull that buried
its horns in Gallito's stomach and
ended his money-saving career.
The train robber who stole a
hundred thousand dollars, killed
one policeman, fought fifty for
two hours, and then gave up the
ghost, kept a secretary and busi-
ness manager to look after his
train robbing enterprises.
The detail astonishes Chicago,
but why? Everybody connected
with certain management" of
the New Haven or the Rock Island
Railroad had secretary and busi-
ness manager. The train robber
of Missouri, was only a retailer,
but why shouldn't he have a sec
retary like the wholesale railroad
robbers?
Specifically frivolous, funda
mentally serious, is the cable from
Paris about beauty windows" in
women's dresses. These are little
"diamond-shaped holes, two inches
in diameter, let in the backs Of
the ladies' dresses, low down,
as we'll as in women's skirts.
above the knees"
One woman had complete
ring Of windows all around the
waist" The beauty windows, be
it understood, 60 through to the
skin.
This isn't exactly new. Nothing
is. Lycurgus, making laws for
Sparta nearly three thousand
years ago, ordered young women,
unmarried, to wear skirts slit all
the way from the waist down on
both sides, so as to give freedom
in running, and also to make it
worth while to develop straight,
well-shapcd legs.
There was common sense and
purpose in the Spartan dress.
Young men and women ran en-
tirely naked, with no immodesty,
in public races. Everything de-
ponds on the intention. The
Venus Aocroupic in marble, com
pletcly undrcsscd looks as modest
and virtuous as ruy flower. But
II you put on hc- hst with an
ostrich feather and pair Of
stockings, she would also look like
the Paris models with their beauty
windows