The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-02-17
Today
Ls6slng and the Chinaman.
King Georges Salary.
Cheap at the Price.
Burglars Are Timid. r
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
fCouvxt~hs fsrnh

VIE AA&oAAB 10 Wv vsSs&Ss VI ~ss
sufficient information. Paralysis
affected the Presidents left side.
not the right, The right hand and
foot are in good working order.
Mr.. Lansing. at leisure. win read
with interest President Wilson's
story told to Clemencesu and
Lloyd George. A Chinamsn. late
in the evening, hauling water from
deep well, saw the full moon
shining at the bottom Of the well.
Il must get that out" said he, "the
world can't get along with the
moon down = we'll" He made q
terrific effort, jerked up the pail,
and fell over on his back. Look
ing up he saw the moon shining
safely in the sky. THAT was good
work." said he.
Mr.. Lansing, who thought he
saw the moon of Government down
in the bottom of the well and un-
dertook to pull it up with his lit
tie toy Cabinet meetings, is prob
ably happy to see 1t now shining
serenely in the sky.
President Wilson is alleged to
have told England that If she set
ties the Adriatic problem. with
France and Italy, "the United
States will not concern itself
further in the settlement of Euro
pean questions.
This doubtless means that Presi-
dent Wilson will not concern him
self. What the United States will
do is for the United States to
determine from time TO time.
Just at present rs much Of the
United States as understands the
situation would be glad to have
the Adriatic problem settled in the
only honest way, by restoring to
Italy territory stolen from her by
the tricky Napoleon Third and the
Hapsburgs.
Fiume is more Italian than
Strasbourg is French, as the Pres
jtlent would know if he visited
those cities, understanding French,
German and Italian.
The east coast of the Adriatic
has been built, protected, peopled
and controlled by the Italian pc
ninsula for more than two thou
sand years.
And the United States has no
interest in helping half civilized
Balkan people to steal what be-
longs to the ancient civilization Of
Italy. "
Canadians don't want Japanese
in their country. They want q law
forbidding Japanese to own Cana
dian land. England has an offen-
sive and defensive alliance with
Japan. and England knows better
than to interfere with Canada's
wishes. Why should the United
States Government, which has no
Japanese alliance, interfere when
California does what Canada does?
King George has a salary Of two
million, three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year. The Eng
lish consider it cheap, and so it Is.
1t is the price that England pays
for the right to control her own
government and put it out Of
power at any moment by an ad-
verse vote in the Commons. The
King reigns without power, the
Prime Minister and his assistants
govern with the right Of the peo-
pie to put them out. For less than
two and a half millions a year
England gets "the recall" the right
to change the government without
waiting for the end Of four years.
1t is cheap.
;, The King has always had his
crown and sceptre. The Lord
Mayor Of Dublin has had his mace
and sword carried before him in
professions representing his
power. The sword was sharp to
cut. The mace was heavy to break
open heads. Dublin's Lord Mayor
discards both as relics of barba-
rism. Sim Fein would probably
find use for both.
Major McMurtrey, accompanied
by an unarmed friend, attacked
and killed two burglars in a dark
cellar. Both were wounded and
deserve credit. But killing burg
lars is not as dangerous or diff
cult as It sounds. When the burg
lars appear before Judge you see
nearly always an understood crea-
ture, victim Of drugs, alcohol, or
both, with q badly shaped head.
Bill Sykes is rare in burglary.
Men become thieves because
they lack mental and physical
courage to compete in life's
struggle. Such men are not cour-
ageous, and would not be danger
,ous in any ordinary fair fight.
Last year the country had one
of its smallest cotton crops. And
yet the "carry over" which means
the amount Of cotton produced
and not used, Smashed the rec
ord"
And from Augusta, in the