The Washington times., 1920-09-14
Today
Cheap Sugar, How Long?
Mothers Milk 81 an Ounce.
Two Studying Ghosts.
The Dance Demon.
BY Arthur BRISBANE
Copyright. isie)

good Tor Few weeks. hieei s
the group of sugar profteers that
have been robbing the country
since the war started will own the
new process. And if the present
Administration remains at WASH
ington il will do nothing serious
TO interfere with putting the pnce
: of the new four-cent sugar up 10
twenty cents.
If you want cheap sugar, get r1d
Of the kind Of government that mas
given you the dear sugar. ms Is
not a guaranty, by any means, that
a Republican Administration would
do any better, but it MIGHT, and
YOU know that the Democratic
Administration WON'T.
Many babies too young to talk
would be interested in this news,
if they could be interested in any
thing:
"If the starving Sim Feiners
now in English prisons should be
released, the only way to keep
them alive would be to feed them
at first on mothers milk only, like
new born infants"
Many infants, for lack OF moth
er's milk, are extremely thin, ana
many others, for the same reason,
are In the graveyard. Mothers
milk gets scarcer and scarcer as
~civilization and prosperity IN
crease.
There is a regular agency IN
New York city selling mothers
milk, guaranteed fresh, al u or
more per ounce.
In England mothers milk is
cheaper, more plentiful than in
the United States. But II the milk
cost a million dollars a quart, 1t
would pay the English govern
ment to buy a supply Of 1t and be-
gin now feeding it to her political
prisoners dying of starvation. Let
ting men die of starvation for "po-
litical reasons" is dangerous
game even for a very powerful
empire. 1t may be more expensive
than mothers milk for Sim
Feiners.
Here and there you find efficiency
even in after-the-war "let down.
In Detroit the learned judges
have been granting divorces at
the rate OF one every ninety-six
seconds. An old lady in the court.
watching the mill grinding. con-
Gibuted this enlightening state
ment: Il
Not one OF these husbands and
d. wives would ask for divorce II
they knew how interesting every
man and woman really is. There
is nothing in life, after all, but
studying interesting things. A
man or woman married has a life
long chance to study the most in
teresting thing in the world, which
is a human being, saying exactly
what it thinks and feels. Divorce
is all foolishness, II men and
women only knew it"
Men and women are ghosts, clad
for a moment in solid flesh, dwell
ing far apart. Each should well
come the chance to study some
other ghost at close range, even a
dull or slightly unfaithful ghost.
The unfaithful ghost, queer crea-
ture, is especially worth while.
William Robbins, a young farm
er in Iowa, and his wife lost their
baby, Vivian Constance Robbins,
one year old. 1t was buried. Mr..
and Mrs. Robbins believe in spirit
ualism, and prayed constantly that
the baby might be returned. One
night, they say, they heard a voice
say that their baby was coming
back. There was a bright light in
the room, and there was the baby
in the bed. Whether it had
changed, and had grown one year
older, is not stated. But they rec
ognized it by mark on its leg. All
this is bewildering and beyond our
comprehension. 1t teaches US lit
tle.',F
But now comes a photograph Of
Mr.. Robbins, holding his baby
tight. He has been told by me-
dium that the baby may die Sep
tember Ia, which is today. This
can be avoided only "by strict
obedience to all spirit control"
says the medium. Watch tomor-
rows papers.
Meanwhile, you do learn some
thing here, namely, that it doesn't
take long for the managers of a
new religion or spiritual theory
to arrange matters so that their
orders must be strictly obeyed..
Without this, religion would not
be profitable and it could not en-
dure.
The Rev. DR.. Straton, enemy Of
"mixed dancing" takes virtue seri-
ously, as clergymen should. With
photographs to illustrate his re-
Dukes, he says, pointing to young
man and woman dancing close to-
gether, "No human being could
maintain philosophic calm in the
circumstances Of the dance pic
tured here"
That is true. But, DR.. Straton,
the dance was invented to relieve
human beings of the dreadful mo-
notony OF philosophical calm. Peo-
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