The Washington times., 1920-03-01

lThe Mikado's Worry.
Don't Dscry Marriage.
A Big Monroe Doctrine.
Truly British Home Rule.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.

A0ohlus fapluiy ONoi the eo'N"s
through the columns OF news
papers. you observe that:
The Mikado dissolyes bis par
Lament, fearing to face the issue
of manhood suffrage for Japan.
What England and America uro
about TO do for women. Japan has
not yet done for men. An ordi-
nary workman there cannot vote.
When all Japan votes. problems
Will arise TO keep Japan busy at
home. The Mikado knows It.
There 10 another notch on the
Mexican gun. This time the
American killed is past eighty. SO
II must have been easy. The Eng
glish show us how simply Mexico
may be made more polite, when
the time comes, about one year
from this spring.
British forces numbering $4,000
have been withdrawn from Meso-
potsmia, the rich region where
cfyilization started on earth. and
where England now rules. Five
hundred flying men with bombs and
searchlights will do the work of
$4,000, oyerawing the natives. Eng
land will make OF Egypt the center
of her flying machine activities. A
nock OF flying machines kept
within reach OF India, Persia, etc.
will give England feet in the air
more important than her feet at
sea. England has statesmen that
know how to do things promptly.
Miss Peggy Marsh, mother. un-
married, OF rich mans son. says:
In few years the necessity OF a
marriage ceremony will be done
away with"
More profound thought will
make the lady realize that II has
taken the human race a thousand
centuries to get marriage fairly
started, and II will take at least
another hundred centuries to make
men Mt for marriage.
II Peggy Marsh could remember
tncarnations In which she lived In
q cave and was hitched to the
piow by her master when a
younger lady appeared, she would
know that marriage means a great
deal to women and has helped to
civilize men.
Servant girls in Italy demand
two weeks yearly, with double
salary, for holiday at the seaside.
They Gemgnd also an allowance of
two cigarettes per day. 1t is the
custom in Europe to supply
servants, men and women, with a
certain amount of beer or wine
daily. One titre, more than full
quart, is the cooks allowance in
Paris. The cigarette idea is new,
but mistresses may blame theni-
selves for that. The maid wants
{ 70 do what tie mistress does. sy
I England is about TO make women
real equals Of men In politics.
Women will vote exactly as men
vote, At present a woman must
be thirty before she can vote.
which is joke considering that
l1aDy girls at fourteen are mora
mature mentally thar their broth
crs of twenty-one.
Lady Astor, contributed by the
United States to the House of
Commons, put it mildly when she
said that woman at eighteen is
"older and wiser" than a man of
twenty-five.
That young woman made a good
reply to someone who spoke Of
her election as circus: "Well, !
can tell them that the lady elected
was not the clown" English
women at the polls will outnumber
the men by half a million, an ex-
cepent thing for Englishmen.
The so-called Owners" of rail-
roads say that the Interstate Com
merce Commission and railroad
labor are ION trial" What about
the -'owners?" How does it hap
pen thai, as the owners" say, the
railroads are "fve years behind in
operating equipment"
The railroads would not be five
years behind if private manage
inent had not stolen, squandered
or divided among themselves
money that should have been spent
on equipment.
And the railroads would not lack
equipment if private management,
by its dishonesty, poor business
methods and collision, had not
helped organized money to finance
the railroads at usurious rates of
interest by ruinous discounts.
As 10 being on trial, that de-
scription would not suit such
private owners Of railroads as have
managed the New Haven, Rock
Island and other roads. II the
Government of this country man
aged the railroads instead of be-
ing managed by the railroads,
those railroad men would have
been tried long ago and would be
in prison today in tead of sailing
around on their yachts.
Foreign prime ministers accept
gracefully President Wilson's em-
phatic statement and orders. They