The Washington times., 1920-06-22
Today
Never a Chance.
In Old Nippur.
The God Of Storms.
Some Headlines.

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Some Headlines.
10y ARTHUR Brisbane
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These statements, that no oee
will deny. ought to interest every
man.
"Johnson's election would have
been an absolute certainty, yet
Johnson never had the slightest
chance of nomination before the
Republican convention"
:. IF johnson had come with in
structed delegates from q majority
of the States, the money was
there to make his nomination i'm
possible"
"The citizens Of North Carolina,
IN the primaries, cast five times
rs many votes for johnson as for
any other candidate, and instruct
ed the delegates to vote for John
soI. NOT ONE NORTH CARO-
LIMA DELEGATE VOTED FOR
JOHNSON FROM THE BEGIN
MING TO THE END"
The above quotations are from
Hearst's editorial published on
Sunday.
II you had a business, running
badly. with the "red ink" showing
loss year after year, you might
be puzzled. But suppose some
body said, "A few of your clever
employees have arranged matters
so that they, not you, control the
general manager, and they nun
the business for their interest,
not for yours" You would be
puzzled no longer.
That's how the United States is
run.
A few clever schemers, politi-
clans, leaders, financed by corpora
tons, run the business and select
on both sides the candidate for
general manager.
When the election is over, the
handful of schemers own the gen
eral manager, or President Of the
United States, and the people have
the high cost of living problem,
high income tax, and all the rest
Of it.
However, il a man were weak
enough to allow a handful OF his
employees to take charge of his
business, he would deserve to have
the red line handed to him each
week; and if the people of this
country are weak enough to allow
a handful of politicians to select
their chief manager and their sub
managers, they deserve what they
get. A people have as good q
government as they deserve.
This is An old, old world. Laws
dug up In Nippur prove that.
Wr{tten five thousand years ago,
they prove that to the life of the
human race on this earth a thou
sand years is as a day in the life
of man.
Five thousand years ago some
laws were better than those Of our
day.
For instance, in those ancient
laws, if slave woman had child,
the father being her owner, the
mother and the child were set free.
In magnificent America, in Lin
coins day, thousands of slave chill
dren, with slave owners for faith
ers, were sold in the public mar
Iets.
The history of Nippur, if we
could see it in the days thousands
of years ago, when it was village
of reed huts, built on the mud
washed down by the Euphrates,
and follow it through to this day,
would show us picture OF the
human race.
First, we should see the fires that
burned down the reed houses. tor
nadoes and high water that swept
them away. We should know why
the great god of storms. "En-Lil."
was the chief god Of the place. We
. would see his first little temple,
built of mud, with the reed huts
around 1t; then the city rising
through the ages, higher and higher
from the .marshy level OF the
stream.
We should see the glory OF Baby
lon, with its great cities; the short,
magnificent period Of Alexander
coming from Greece to conquer;
then the gradual downfall and
sinking once more below the mud,
the old Euphrates flowing on un-
conscious of the thousands Of CEN
turies, unconscious of the cities
rising and falling.
The newspaper reader is tremen-
dously interested to read that laws
of Nippur, written f1ve thousand
wears ago on clay tablets, prove
that in Babylonian cities there was
a serious servant girl problem"
and laws were made to manage 1t.
The human race is still writing
laws, and today las in Nippur) the
laws show how slowly we progress.
Just now we are making laws
IN Maryland, for instance, against
low neck and sleeveless evening
gowns for college wear. The other
day N priaat of New OrleapR with