The Washington times., 1920-11-09
Today

BY ARTHUR BRISBANl
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Prime Minister of Australia
Hughes says Australia will not
submit the question Of white"
Australia to the League Of Nations
or any other power. This means,
briefly, "No Asiatics Need Apply"
That is true also Of this coun-
try, although, luckily, being now
out of the League OF Nations
swamp, we need not consult tnat
interesting body.
Courtesy for Asiatics, Q warm
welcome for travellers, SCIENTISTS
literary men, but no settlements
Of Asiatics on the American CONT
nent-that Is the program.
Canada means 1t, this country
means It, and this country should
make Mexico mean 1t also.
A French association Of learned
men suggest q League OF Brains
!. 70 work in connection with tho
league Of Nations.
Nice suggestion, but you remem-
ber what happened when war be-
1 gan. Scientists of the fighting
countries gave q coed imitation OF
Swift's fshwife in the language
they addressed to each other.
When Napoleon went to Egypt
he took scientists from the French
academies. But when fighting be-
gan, his order was scientists and
donkeys to the rear" That's
where they always 20 in war.
It Is too early for q League OF
Brains. The thinking brain has
existed on earth for perhaps nifty
thousand years; its ancestors, the
fighting animals, for q hundred
million years. Fighting still domi-
mates. Come back in twenty mil
lion years, or even less, and you
will find your League OF Brains
working smoothly.
From Europe comes word that
all nations are competing, as Sc
cretly as possible, for control Of
the air. You will not be surprised
to hear that competent England
leads airship building and plans
to have Britannia rule the air as
we'll as the waves. Give the Eng
lish credit for knowing what is
important and doing it.
Il is safe to tell old England
that, until March 4th, at least,
nothing in the Government Of this
country will interfere with her air
supremacy. Our patriots spent
eleven hundred million dollars on
an aircraft program. and all we
got was the program" no air
craft.
England complains, by the way,
that the saying, America frst, is
selfish and arrogant: worse than
Germany over all"
The English do not understand
that America first" Is nothing
more than a rebuke to American
Anglomaniacs that go spending
their money abroad without hav-
ing seen anything west OF the
Hudson river.
Here comes a Supreme Court de-
cision, interesting to men that
have several houses and one thirst.
If YOU have liquor that you own
legitimately. you may keep it
where you like. You may store 1t
in a warehouse, moving it back
and forth.
Carl Lumboltz, Norwegian nat
uralist, characterizes as gentle,
loving. and affectionate the head
hunters of Borneo and other South
Sea Islands. Lumboltz, looking
for a rare kind of monkey, studied
the natives that collect human
heads.
His praise of them as truthful,
honest, faithful in marriage, etc.,
need not surprise us.
Think what we do to our weak
brothers, the animals. We eat
their young, as veal; drink the
mothers milk, use their bones for
tooth brushes and buttons, and
their insides for sausage con-
tainers. That is worse than head
hunting, yet we consider ourselves
virtuous. Judge not, lest ye be
judged.
A few months ago many Ameri-
cans were going to excess on op-
timism. Everything was going
up, and would keep going up for
ever, they thought. Few of them,
among the workingmen especially,
needed or approved the advice
given in this and other columns
to save some of the "easy money"
1t was a pity not to save some.
for a dollar saved a year ago was
really two dollars saved. One dol
lar now will buy twice as much Of
sugar, for instance, and other
things as it would buy year ago.
Millions of citizens now 90 too
far in the way Of pessimism.
There is much foolish talk of
panic and hard times. This coun-
Il