The Washington times., 1920-05-24

Equality Platitudea
U. S. A. Landmark Fkse.
Damages for the unbern.
One In Ten Millions.
By ARTHUR RslsyANE
tcopyskgAs. toAD

races, individuals ETC."
But every nttls while peoples
and indiviAinlh prove that they
need . sreQg haDd TO rule them
and tbs ~ ors centuries from
fines = TU1o tAemselves.
Tho1o1q13 uaoo Is that Of Mexi-
yeana ooo<hi14 m old man, Car
J Drsnxo prou)bing him, safety, then
nurseytn9 Nm, to curry favor
TX Z \. e - who means to rule
SoGh a people needs government
By men with more civilization aid
les Indian blood. And Mexico is
pt % ut that kind of govern
!. tIent.
Y you want a suggestion for
ta4don TO help THIS country,
tina sone way to tax all sums in
exces 81 i've or ten thousand dol
lars spent by Americans in Eu-
While our stores are cutting
prizes and manufacturers are in
doubt about production, the
stores Of Paris and London do a
great business at highest prices,
Amercans being the cheerful
spendsrs. A man may do what he
viii with his own Is a maxim
worn out. The force is taken out
OF It by the fact that the nation
owns everything and may tax its
own as 1t will.
Money earned in America, es-
pecially profiteer money, flowing
2 SO freely into Europe now, should
be especially taxed when spent
as1dy fydw Arre,ica.
The Pieddent has accepted the
Allies inyitation to become "fixer
of the boundaries of Armenia"
This country does not elect a
President 70 fix Armenia's boun-
daries or settle the number of
wives that may be gathered by the
Sultan Of Turkey.
There is, perhaps, no constitu-
tional objection to the President,
from the depths of his knowledge
of Asiatic geography and intrigue,
fixing Armsnia's boundaries. But
it should be understood that the
President is doing his boundary
fixing as an Individual and not
acting with any guarantee of the
United States as to his geographic
cal infallibiiity.
If there q any fighting to be
done, later, about those Armenian
boundaries, those that invited Mr..
Wilson, personally, to fix the
boundaries must invite him PER-
SONALLY to do the fighting. The
young men If this country have
no intention OF going abroad to
fight around the Armenian noun
tains. 49,
"Thou shalt not remove thy
neighbor's landmark" says the
Bible tsee Deuteronomy. xix:1D,
and the same wise book puts a
curse on him that does such NOV
ing.
This country has trouble and
curses enough without going to
Armenia looking for more.
Mrs. Sarah Drobner fell into an
open coal hole Seven days later,
when her baby was born, doctors
said the mother . fall had crippled
the baby. The Judge gave her the
right to sue for $1O,e damages
to the baby.
In a previous case a court had
refused damages to Q child. un-
born, CAUSED by the mothers fall
from a trolley car. The argument
was that the baby had paid nc
fare, the cemT any did not know 1t
lwas carrying such passengef,
but of sight, .hercfore was not
Responsible for Us safety.
What a hieher court will do to
the ten THOUSAND dollar decision
we shall see. Meanwhile, how
much, in your opinion, does civil
zation owe to the millions Of
babies, stunted ard irreparably
damaged before birth by the over
working Of their mothers? What
about the women that used to
haul cars in English coal mines,
crawling on hands and knees.
with a chain running from the
neck, between the legs, and fas-
tened to the coal carr What
chance had their children?
What chance had the children of
women worked from dawn until
dark, in the old days, In New
England mills, where there was
so much abolitionist sympathy for
black slaves, so little for white
women in mills?
How much Of the feebleness of
American LABOR, making II neces-
sary to hire foreigner when you
/ want a man strong enough to lift
q shovel, is d Ie to child labor and
mother labori
American plants, mining and
smelling, in Chihuxhua have been
closed down by tho distinguished
Mexican Villa. and told to remain
closed until the owners pay Villa
$500, 900 in gold. So says q special
to the New York Times.
While Mr.. Wilson Is measuring
out Armenia could we get some
European to cot1e over and meas
ure out the rights of Mexicans on
this continent?