The Washington times., 1920-04-24


The Old Guard is worried about
johnson, says the World. Corpora
tions that own the Old Guard are
even more worried.
The Old Guard and their pro-
prietors would be delighted to have
Hoover. II they could use him to
kill off Hiram Johnson.
The surprising thing Is that the
World. long Matching q Hoover
boom, like q faithful, misguided
hen sitting on doorknob, should
publish the facts.
Anything new Is interesting. A
distinguished Roman, ordered to
commit suicide, lacked courage.
His wife stabbed herself, infiicting
mortal wound, saying it didn't
hurt, thus encouraging him.
Ruskin, different queer man,
saw that his wife was in love with
fine bromide artist named Mil
lais. Instead of fighting, he said
politely, "Take her" Millais took
her. It hurt Ruskin's feelings, but
he stood it.
DR.. Clock, Of Ravenswood, Colo
RADIO, fifty-seven years old, mar
ried an eighteen-year-old girl. She
is still at boarding school. The
doctor is dead, shot himself, say
ing he would not interfere with his
young wife's happiness.
Men seem to be growing milder
since the days Of aOthello. He
, choked his lady to death, although
she never did anything, never
thought Of anybody else.
Probably some husky gentle
man reading this will say that
men are becoming effeminate and
no longer know their rights. If it
is feminine to shoot yourself in
stead of choking the lady, then
welcome the effeminate.
In Detroit, Jacob Shevitz raised
rents in his nine-family apartment
house 100 per cent. The Detroit
Board of Assessors raised his
taxes 100 per cent, excellent re-
minder that the people have power
to protect themselves If they will.
England has definitely decided
that women are not old enough
to vote at the age of twenty-one.
A man can vote at twenty-one, a
woman must wait until she is much
older. The English seem not to
have q high opinion of their women
mentally, Physically they are not
so particular, for the British
female, not eft" to vote at twenty
one, is considered fit to go to work
in childhood.
"Mars ignores earth's signals" T"
say scientists, who did their best.
You can hardly blame Mars if that
planet has been watching Europe
for the last five years. You
wouldn't pay much attention to
signals by an inmate of the violent
ward in an insane asylum.
The Dardanelles will be open to
all. The allies announce it. The
allies, however, which means Eng
land, will control the guns and the
navy that control the Dardanelles.
England continues to hold Gil
braltar, western key TO the Medi-
terranean; no one has whispered
any change there. And England,
borrowing lines for which Ger
many has no further use, can
sing, "Fest steht und treu die
Wacht at Gibraltar"
Gibraltar and the British fleet
combined mean control of the
Mediterranean and Suez Canal for
A the British Community of Ma
>tions," as Geddes calls it. All this
leaves us cold, in America, as long
as we are allowed to stay out and
attend to our business. Just what
Jenin and his associates think
about it, up north, with their Black
Sea made into an inland lake, is
another question. We shall hear
from there later.
The Sinclair Oil Company, sub
stantial corporation, pays more
than 16 per cent to borrow money,
part in cash, the rest in stock, a
price unheard Of.
Pennsylvania railroad pays
about 8 per cent. The people, who
pay everything, must add all this
10 the high cost Of living. What
becomes Of the laws against
usury?
A haberdasher sold collars at
profteer prices--he made five
cents too much on a collar--ar-
rested by Federal authorities he
blew his brains out.
The price paid for money by
those compelled to use money
means more TO the high cost OF
living than the price charged for
collars