The Washington times., 1920-10-09
Today
Young Man AbsaIom.
Borah's Best.
A Mans job.
When Man Barks.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright issO.
Mr.. Cox says Of Senator Hard
ing: He Is against the League,
and / am for it." Quite 80. and
Harding, therefore. will be elected
President of the United States and
Mr.. Cox win not.
The exact words used by Presi-
dent Wilson, given out by the
Presidents secretary from stsno-
graphic notes, replying to Senator
Knox's question as To the obligA~
tion of the United States under the
League Of Nations to send Amert-
cans abroad to fight the battles OF
other natiops. were those:
sWe should be under N sbee.
lstsly compelling moral oblissdsp
to 10 So"
The President holds that there
would bo no legal obligation to
start more American graveyards
in Europe.
This country will not assume
any absolutely compelling moral
obligation" or any other obliga-
tion TO send Its men to war by or
der Of European council. +"
For, rs Senator Harding said at
Des Moines. il we entered the
League and the council OF the
League should command US to
carry on war under the covenant,
sc'then Congress would be obliged
to send them, OR WE SHOULD BE
GUILTY OF THE GROSSEST DIS
HONESTY"
Some important Democrats, real
fling what their League Of Nations
Is doing for them in this election,
are trying to cut loose from It.
But they cannot cut loose from the
Presidents own statement that II
we went INTO the League this IA
tion and Congress would be "un-
der an absolutely compelling moral
obligation" to send ships, men. and
money to fight abroad IL the League
OF Nations council should order It.
1t is pity to waste so much pa
per saying over and over what
ought to be plain to q child in the
cradle. But repetition is the only
cure in some cases.
Rev. Mr.. Stewart, of st. Luke's
Episcopal Church, near Chicago,
discovered with sorrow that among
two hundred Sunday school chill
dren, one hundred and ninety-nine
knew all about Babe Ruth and only
nine had ever heard of AbsalOm.
Not to know the young gentleman,
hung up by the hair, but not i'm
portAnt otherwise, is sad, but. COM
paratively speaking. unimportant.
How many fathers of the two
hundred boys could havs told the
Rev. Mr.. Stewart much about Spi-
noza, Descaftes, Roger Bacon,
Thales. o. = hoNl keQ' others fnucH
more important TO gro9p men
than Absalom to little bUts7
There is no darkness but ig-
norance." 49,!
But of that darkness there is,
unfortunately, plenty.
The best line in any political
speech 80 far is this by Senator
Borah, at Hartford. Conn:
II don't think any man ought
to be elected President of the
United States who thinks SIX times
rs much of Great Britain rs he
does of the United States"
A neat reference to the six votes
to our one that Brother John Bull
absent-mindedly accumulated.
Somebody suggests the poor lit
tie Prince Of Wales as Irish
Regent" to rule and pacify the
Irish. That would be throwing
the baby to the wolves with a
vengeance. How intelligent and
tactful to suggest to the Irish,
who want no English rule of any
kind, that royal British baby be
sent to rule them. The Irish prob
lem is at least full grown mans
job, and even England ought to
know it by this time.
When a horse shivers, SHES,
runs away at sight of locomo-
tive, never seen before, we pity
its ignorance.
On the public street a middle
aged man stood and barked ex-
actly as barks a dog. Some wo-
men Hrieked and tainted. Some
men ran, others took the barking
man to court.
The same thing would have hap
pened II q dog had talked.
We are frightened as easily as
horses by, things that are new.
The barking man explained to
the Judge that he had trouble
with his chest and found relief
only in barking. To oblige the
Judge with sample he barked
realistically, Advised to consult
q doctor, he replied: 81 can't; /
am a Christian Scientist"